1–12 oct 2025, Timișoara
The SIMULTAN Festival celebrates its twentieth anniversary this fall, and the anniversary edition, held under the theme RE:MEDIATE, opens on Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00 pm, with five intense days of exhibitions, live performances, and video projections in four venues in Timișoara: Comenduirea Garnizoanei, Cinema Studio, Csiky Gergely Hungarian Theater, and the C4C hall.
RE:MEDIATE proposes a reflection on a process described by Bolter and Grusin, in which new media technologies transform previous forms and generate new structures of perception. The theme runs through the entire program, which brings together local and international artists and curatorial formulas that create a dialogue between sound, image, memory, and urban space.
The Garrison Command hosts a series of exhibitions, sound installations, and transdisciplinary projects that offer critical perspectives on the ecology, technology, and memory of the city.
The venue will be open to the public between 2-7 pm and extended between 2-10 pm during the NAG (October 3–5).
EXHIBITIONS: SIMULTAN 20: Listening Room / Nature after Nature / Coding Drops / Hush Glitches / Acousmignon 41-T (1–5 Oct.) / Timișoara Echoes / SEMI SILENT – Listening
The line-up for this edition brings together artists from Romania, Italy, France, Egypt, Switzerland, Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia in a series of live performances that reconfigure listening as a form of critical and poetic reflection at the Garrison Command, the C4C hall, the Cinema Studio terrace, and the Csiky Gergely Hungarian Theater.
Guest artists: Andrei Raicu x Iulia Ripan, Sébastien Robert & Mark IJzerman, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT (Aya Metwalli, Emma Souharce, Beatrice Beispiel), Nicola Di Croce & Marta Magini, Vittoria Assembri, Katarina Gryvul, Makunouchi Bento x Selfmademusic x Ștefan Tiron, Sillyconductor, Anthony Pateras, Marie Delprat.
Between October 3- 5th, the Cinema Studio will host three screenings dedicated to video art and experimental film, featuring 36 works, selected following the SIMULTAN 2025 open call, followed by discussions with special guests.
SIMULTAN XX – program 1–5 Oct.
1 oct.
/ Garrison Command
19:00 — Opening of exhibitions
20:00 — Andrei Raicu x Iulia Ripan – Live A/V performance
2 oct.
/ Garrison Command
14:00–19:00 — Exhibitions
19:00 — Sébastien Robert & Mark IJzerman — [Another Deep] Live A/V performance
20:00 — EMOTIONAL SUPPORT Aya Metwalli x Emma Souharce x Beatrice Beispiel — Live performance
3 oct.
/ Garrison Command
14:00–22:00 — Exhibitions
/ Cinema Studio (sala mică)
18:00–20:00 — Proiecții video: RE:MEDIATE + talk Cristian Eduard Drăgan
/ Hala C4C
21:00 — Nicola Di Croce & Marta Magini — Richiamo – performance/concert
4 oct.
/ Garrison Command
14:00–22:00 — Exhibitions
/ Cinema Studio
16:00 — Screening: Emergence of AI + talk Raluca Oancea Nestor
/ Garrison Command
19:00 — Vittoria Assembri – Live performance
20:00 — Katarina Gryvul – Live performance
21:00 — Makunouchi Bento x Selfmademusic x Ștefan Tiron – Live performance
5 oct.
/ Garrison Command
14:00–22:00 — Exhibitions
/ Cinema Studio
16:00 — Screening: Shaping Scapes and Environments +discussion with the team & jury
/ Hungarian Theatre
19:00 — Sillyconductor – Live performance
20:00 — Anthony Pateras – Live performance
21:00 — Marie Delprat – Live performance
Organised by SIMULTAN.org
Funded by Municipality of Timișoara through the Center for Projects
With the support of: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest, Creative Australia, Mondriaan Fund
Organized in partnership with Municipality of Timișoara through the Center for Projects
Institutional Partners Timiș County Directorate for Culture, Cinema Studio, Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre
Cultural Partners: Qolony, Marginal, Obsolete, Semi Silent, Slow-Sync PH, Image and Sound, C4Company, Concentric Projects
Media Partners: Black Rhino Radio, Revista ARTA, Scena9, Revista Zeppelin, IQads, Propagarta, România Pozitivă, Zile și Nopți, Visit Timișoara, Feeder, White Night of Galleries (NAG).