Organismo: Artwork in Utilized Essential Ecologies / January–June 2026
TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza announce the brand new version of Organismo, an experimental utilized analysis program that calls on artists, researchers, and practitioners from throughout totally different disciplines to think about and prototype collective methods for fairer and regenerative futures.
About Organismo
Organismo: Artwork in Utilized Essential Ecologies isn’t just a program, it’s an experimental ecosystem the place artwork, collective analysis, and infrastructural activism converge. Every version unfolds by way of utilized case research developed with cultural, educational, and civic companions, testing how interdisciplinary methodologies and new types of alliances can activate tangible processes of ecological transformation.
For 2026, Organismo can be structured round 5 case research, from navigating reality within the age of disinformation to rethinking tourism, local weather imaginaries, ecologies of storage, and communal governance for territorial reparation. These thematic constellations function gateways into vital territories of our time, every supported by a community of establishments already rooted within the contexts at stake.
I: The tip of the actual
Theme: Constructing instruments to navigate actuality within the absence of a standard reality. This case examine explores how technological methods manufacture contested truths, proposing “actuality forensics” as a collective toolkit to uncover the aesthetic infrastructures of persuasion and navigate environments the place notion is weaponized and actuality itself has turn out to be a panorama of battle.
Facilitated by Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza / With Observatorio Complutense de la Desinformación y Retina / Led by Home Information Streamers.
II: Planetary Theatre of Tourism
Theme: Past the performative regimes of unproductivity. This case examine examines tourism as a planetary efficiency sustained by extractive infrastructures, taking Mallorca as a stage to reveal its hidden logics and to prototype post-touristic paradigms of radical unproductivity, ecological restore, and different types of hospitality.
Facilitated by Casa Planas and Casa de la Arquitectura / With College of the Balearic Islands, by way of CRIGUST (Essential Geographies of Urbanization, Sustainability, and Touristification) / Led by Grandeza Studio.
III: Final resorts
Theme: How local weather imaginaries come to matter. This case examine investigates how local weather imaginaries form the politics of preparedness, tracing how forecasts, dangers, and insurance coverage schemes within the Iberian Peninsula flip speculative futures into current financial realities whereas questioning whose futures are being secured and whose are left behind.
Facilitated by Basque Centre for Local weather Change (BC3) / With Oficina Nacional de Prospectiva y Estrategia / Led by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Jacob Bolton.
IV: Premium stuff
Theme: Storage ecologies and the chronologistics of conservation. This case examine examines storage as a spatio-political equipment of accumulation and management, utilizing artwork collections to reveal the hidden logics of conservation regimes whereas prototyping different archiving, circulating and value-making practices that resist extractive logics.
Facilitated by TBA21 / Led by Andrea Muniáin.
V: Florestania
Theme: Communal governance methods for territorial reparation. This case examine attracts on the Amazonian notion of Florestania—forest citizenship—to discover communal governance methods in Galicia, the place collective land practices and ecological data converge to restore extractive legacies and reimagine new territorial entanglements of coexistence and care.
Facilitated by Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jové / With Fundación RIA y Fundación Montescola / Led by Paulo Tavares.
Methodology: working cells
On the coronary heart of Organismo are the Working Cells: small, dynamic collectives of as much as eight members, guided by a creative lead and related to an expanded community of establishments and visitor consultants. Over six months, these teams mix weekly on-line periods with three quick residencies in Spain, partaking immediately with native contexts whereas remaining related to a worldwide group of friends. Due to their reference to establishments already engaged within the points and territories at stake, the cells generate and apply their collective data to prototype experimental proposals geared toward potential implementation. All members are acknowledged as co-authors, and outcomes are shared underneath Inventive Commons, making certain that collective intelligence stays on the core.
Why Organismo now
The crises of local weather, disinformation, extractivism, and displacement demand new infrastructures of thought and motion. Organismo proposes that creative analysis can catalyze systemic change by forging alliances between establishments, communities, and ecologies. It’s an invite to take dangers, to collaborate, and to intervene materially within the circumstances that form our shared world.
Enrollment & scholarships
Organismo provides two modalities: Full enrollment: participation in one of many 5 working cells, on-site residencies, the transversal examine program and co-authorship of the prototypes. Studio enrollment: entry to the transversal examine module with out residencies.
As much as 30 p.c of locations can be supported by scholarships, overlaying enrollment charges and, for full enrollment members, journey and lodging.
Tips on how to apply
Functions are open till November 9, 2025, 11:59pm CET. Entry the net kind by way of the apply button right here and reply to the questions akin to the modality you wish to apply to. If making use of for a scholarship, reply to the particular query with this intention. Non-obligatory supplies embody a brief video (max. two minutes) or a visible file (as much as 5 pages).
Organismo 2026 invitations these able to unsettle consolation, weave throughout disciplines, and co-create ecological prototypes for the futures to return.
