ETOM 2025 pilot Festival
Decentralized Festival by the ETOM NEB Lab
The „ETOM2025pilot Festival & Conference“ is the pilot edition for the „ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism“, a decentralized triennial festival on the diverse heritage and future of Modernism, based on an international network and ecosystem for trans-European collaboration projects, focusing on Central Europe, and involving more than 40 partners in 15 countries. It is associated with the „TDM – Triennial of Modernism“, a supra-regional festival on the „Baukultur“ and ideas of Modernism in Berlin, Dessau, and Weimar.
25 Nov – 14 Dec 2025 in Berlin:
Exhibition Woman in Macedonian Architecture: Rebuilding Skopje
The exhibition concludes the BHROX program focus on „modern Emancipation“ in 2025, which was started with the „WIA2025-Festival“ in June. The exhibition at BHROX bauhaus reuse was conceived in collaboration with Contineo and is also part of the program at the Triennale der Moderne. The finissage
20 Nov 2025 in Berlin:
Film Screening Czechoslovak Architecture 1958–1989
Part #4 from the series archint at BHROX: Film Screening – together with the Berlin Chamber of Architects, the new documentary Czechoslovak Architecture 1958–1989 [Architektura ČSSR 58–89], directed by Jan Zajíček. The film offers a layered and visually striking exploration of Czechoslovak post-war modernist architecture.
11 Nov – 20 Dec 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece:
Conference and Exhibition Series The Future as a Project
Over six decades after the 1963 Skopje earthquake, The Future as a Project – Doxiadis in Skopje revisits the visionary role of architect Constantinos A. Doxiadis in the city’s remarkable reconstruction. The exhibition reveals how Skopje became a symbol of global solidarity and modernist ambition, reaffirming the enduring potential – and responsibility – of architecture as a force for social progress.
30 Oct 2025 – Feb 2026 in Berlin:
Exhibition Plantstory!
A Story of Architecture, Nature, and National Socialist Colonialism. The exhibition is shown at the Pilecki Institute Berlin, Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin. It explores the history of a residential district in the Polish city of Ciechanów, built during the German occupation in the Second World War. It also tributes the Exercising Modernity program in its sixth year.
24 Oct – 21 Nov 2025 in Berlin:
Exhibition program Who’s Afraid of Modernism?
The exhibition focuses on The School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (1928–1939) and is part of the project Who’s Afraid of Modernism? – Art and Design Schools in Central Europe, which consists of an exhibition and a series of lectures, in cooperation with the Slovak Design Centre (SDC) and BHROX bauhaus reuse. The exhibition is part of the Triennale of Modernism.
14 October 20025 in Berlin:
Lectures related to the Exhibition
Who is afraid of Modernism?
Part #4 from the series archint at BHROX: Afternoon expert workshop How to avoid Demolition – Czechia and Germany in comparison
Admission free, registration via Eventbrite required.
Language: English
28 Sep – 19 Oct in Budapest, Hungary:
KÉK Modern Walks of postwar modernist heritage
Architectural urban walks of postwar modernist heritage in Budapest – Socialist Modernism! Brutalism! Postwar Architecture! Ugly? Is it even heritage? Walking tours organised by KÉK during the ETOM Festival help to explore the meaning behind the era’s architecture with expert guides, off-the-beaten-path itineraries, and the interpretation of contested heritage of Budapest.
17 Sep 2025 – 2 Jan 2026 in Gdynia, Poland:
Singapore. Krystyn Olszewski: City, Urban Planning, Future
From September 17, 2025, the Emigration Museum in Gdynia will host an exhibition devoted to the spatial planning concepts of Singapore by Polish architect and urban planner Krystyn Olszewski. The exhibition is curated by Piotr Woliński for NIAiU, Poland.
9 Apr – 20 Nov 2025 in Berlin:
Event Series ARCHINT at BHROX 2025: In Between
The „archint at BHROX“ series is an initiative of BHROX bauhause reuse and the Czech Center Berlin. The aim is to promote dialog on building culture, architecture, urban development and art in public spaces between Germany and the Czech Republic. The series is realized in cooperation and with the support of the Berlin Chamber of Architects (AKB), the Czech Chamber of Architects (ČKA), the National Gallery Prague (NGP) and other partners.
Synergy of Formats
These pilot events are conceived by members of the European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM) network. This was created as a transnational offshoot of the Triennale der Moderne (TDM), an already established supraregional German festival with some program in Dessau and Weimar and an extensive program in Berlin from 25 Sep to 14 Dec 2025.
Introducing ETOM
Partners of the ETOM-Initiative:
In Germany
Initiated by
• zukunftsgeraeusche GbR (zkg), Berlin
• buschfeld.com; Ben Buschfeld (BB), Berlin
In Cooperation with
• Goethe-Institut (GI), Munich
• Bauhaus-Kooperation (BHK)
• Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (LDA)
• Kunstbibliothek Berlin (KUBI)
European Partners
(by nation in alphabetical order)
Czech Republic
• National Gallery in Prague (NGP), Prague
• Forum for Architecture and Media (4 AM), Brno
• Prague 7 District Municipality (UMC7)
Hungary
• Hungarian Museum of Architecture
(MEM-MDK), Budapest
• The Hungarian Contemporary
Architecture Centre (KÉK), Budapest
• Budapest 13th District – city municipality (B13D)
Estonia
• Estonian Academy of Arts – Institute of
Art History and Visual Culture (EAA–EKA), Tallinn
• Estonian Museum of Architecture (EMA), Tallinn
• Tallinna linn (COT), Tallinn City
France
• ICOMOS International Secretariat, Paris
Latvia
• Museum of Decorative
Arts and Design (LNMM), Riga
• Latvian Design Centre (FOLD), Riga
• Latvian Ministry of Culture (LMOC)
Lithuania
• Kaunas 2022 (K2022),
Kaunas European Capital of Culture
• Nematerialaus Turto Fondas (NTF)
• Kaunas City Municipal Administration (KCMA)
• Architects Association of Lithuania, Vilnius (LAS)
Netherlands
• DOCOMOMO international
North Macedonia
• Contineo 2020 (CONTINEO), Skopje
• University American College Skopje – Privatna Ustanova – Department of Architecture (UACS)
Poland
• National Institute of Architecture and
Urban Planning (NIAiU), Warsaw
• Institut of Architecture Foundation (FIA), Cracow
• International Cultural Centre (ICC), Cracow
• Gmina Miejska Kraków – Urząd Miasta Krakowa (CCK), Cracow
Romania
• Asociația Română pentru Cultură,
Educație și Normalitate (ARCEN), Bucharest
• SG Studio – zeppelin magazine (SGS-ZEP), Bucharest
• Second District Hall of Bucharest (SDHB)
Serbia
• Belgrade International Architecture Week (ABA-BINA), Belgrade
• ZAVOD – Zavod za zastitu spomenika kulture grada Beograda (Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade)
• Gradska opstina Novi Beograd, City Municipality (MNB), Belgrade
Slovakia
• Slovak Design Center (SDC), Bratislava
Ukraine
• Lviv Centre for Urban History, Lwiw (LCUH), Lviv
• Urban Forms Center (UFC), Kharkiv