12 June 2026, Bastion 3, Timișoara
Opening: Friday, 6:00 PM
What does organized disobedience look like today? Is it the refusal to accept unjust social norms, to tolerate extremist rhetoric, or perhaps the simple act of refusing to look away and pretend that everything is fine?
On Friday, June 12, at 6:00 PM, we’re opening Exercising Disobedience, an exhibition by Vladan Jeremić and Rena Rädle, curated by Teodora Talhoș.
Working together since 2002 between Belgrade and Berlin, Rena Rädle and Vladan Jeremić bring drawing, photography, installation, publishing and interventions in public space into a practice shaped by questions of solidarity, conflict and collective resistance. Their work looks closely at social and cultural realities, as well as at the structures and working conditions of the contemporary art world.
Exercising Disobedience asks how solidarity is built, where its limits lie and what role art can play in supporting common causes without becoming merely illustrative or losing its political meaning. At a time when solidarity can easily turn into an empty word, the exhibition looks at both the possibilities and the difficulties of collective action.
Bringing together installations, video works and publications produced in recent years, the exhibition traces a historical line between the Paris Commune—considered one of the earliest examples of artistic and social organisation based on democratic principles—and the ArtLeaks project. The exhibition will also include a collective installation developed together with artists from Timișoara.
The weekend continues on Saturday, June 13, at 11:30 AM, with a new Artist Stalk featuring Rena Rädle and Vladan Jeremić. Rather than focusing directly on the exhibition, the conversation will move through the things that currently hold their attention: books, artists, researchers, recent experiences and ideas that quietly shape the way they see and work.
See you at the opening!
The exhibition is part of the Power Station programme, a legacy component of the “Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture” National Cultural Programme, dedicated to strengthening the capacity of the cultural sector and implemented by the Timișoara Project Centre.
Events at Bastion 3 are organised in partnership with the Municipality of Timișoara through the Timișoara Project Centre.