An Invitation to Curate

Provisional
Architectures


Twelve exhibitions. Twelve curators.
Palazzo Vimana
Bucharest/NYC — 2026
Founding Invitation

 The Platform Palazzo Vimana is an international contemporary art platform, nomadic by constitution, rigorous by discipline, accountable only to the work. Rooted in Bucharest and New York through its founding members, the platform builds itself to operate through sustained curatorial propositions and encounters. The work it presents is held against a set of philosophical commitments, the nature of relation, the conditions of form, rather than against the demands of the market or the calendar of institutional cycles.

A significant strand of the platform's founding identity is the defence of formalism, not as doctrine, but as discipline. The conviction that a work of art makes its primary claim through what it is rather than what it represents; that attention to surface, structure, material, and composition is not an evasion of meaning but its most exacting form. Art that insists on being itself before it consents to be anything else. 


The Programme Provisional Architectures is the inaugural programme. It proceeds from a single premise: that exhibition-making is itself a form of building, temporary, load-bearing, subject to the conditions it meets. Each exhibition within the programme is organized around one of twelve curatorial directions found in The Blueprint of Palazzo Vimana. These are not themes. They are sites. They invite construction, not illustration. The programme as a whole holds the formalist question open as a live one.

Over the course of 2026-2027, twelve curators are invited, each to organize one online exhibition within the programme. The format is direct: an open call to artists internationally, a curatorial text, and a presented selection. The platform provides editorial and design support. The curator retains full autonomy over direction and selection.

 Curatorial Directions
 Provisional Architectures

The Blueprint of Palazzo Vimana: I—The Threshold   
II—The Encounter   
III—Frameworks   
IV—The Interface   
V—Resonant Chamber   
VI—Constellation   
VII—Autonomy Within Relation   
VIII—Selective Permeability   
IX—Curatorship as Orchestration   
X—The Viewer as Participant   
XI—Recursion   
XII—The Vector
The Proposition
Palazzo Vimana was formed, in the first instance, by a close attention to the work itself, to what painting, sculpture, and image do before they are asked to account for themselves. That formation is present in the programme, in the questions it tends to return to. The roster is forming primarily around curators working from explicitly formalist positions, practitioners for whom the aesthetic object retains its own authority and for whom close looking is both method and argument. A smaller number of curators whose primary orientation is social practice or transnational inquiry might be included not as counterweight but as pressure: formalism is only a serious proposition when it is tested against practices that have every reason to refuse it.

Each invited curator is offered one direction within the programme, selected in dialogue. The open call runs under their name and editorial position. The platform's curatorial framework — the Blueprint — provides a philosophical ground without prescribing outcomes. The result belongs to the curator.
Structure of Engagement
Format   —  Online exhibition, open call, curated selection with curatorial text
Duration   —  Twelve exhibitions across 2026–2027
Autonomy   —  Full curatorial independence, direction, selection, and editorial voice
Support   —  Editorial review, design, international distribution, archival documentation
Direction   —  Assigned in conversation based on one of twelve positions within Palazzo Vimana’s Blueprint 
Residency   —  Not required  If this proposition interests you, we are glad to speak further. 

Thank you,
Eugen Berlo
palazzovimana.com