if walls could tell would not have been possible without the commitment of the partner institutions and their representatives. Herewith, we would like to extend our gratitude to the partner institutions and their teams: Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo (Senka Ibrišimbegović, Sead Smajlović, Izela Kešmer-Wigemark); The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest (Virgil Ștefan Nițulescu, Adrian Petrechescu, Dan Turcu, Iuliana Bălan); Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (Vladimir Janchevski, Ljupcho Iljovski, Blagoja Varoshanec); Center for Contemporary Art Chișinău KSA:K (Lilia Dragneva) with Galeria Plai, Chișinău (Dumitru Carbuni); MGML – Match Gallery, Ljubljana (Blaž Peršin, Jani Pirnat); RIZOM [K] – Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica (Lina Franko, Andi Slawinski); Art Gallery “Nadežda Petrović”, Čačak (Branko Ćalović, Predrag Živković, Vladimir Zorić, Stefan Pantelić); and WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf (Janine Bloess, Nora Faust, Martha Martens, Wolfgang Schäfer).

We are grateful to all contributors whose texts, reflections, and critical voices make up this issue: Horea Avram, Branka Benčić, Sanja Bojanić, Benjamin Čengić, Jasmina Čubrilo, Eda Čufer, Mariela Cvetić, Călin Dan, Ruxandra Demetrescu, Bojan Đorđev, Lilia Dragneva, Zoran Erić, Igor Eškinja, Lina Franko and Andi Slawinski, Sofia Grigoriadou, Elma Hašimbegović, Senka Ibrišimbegović, Vladimir Janchevski, Dorothee Mosters, Lilia Nenescu, Damir Nikšić, Virgil Ștefan Nițulescu, Mojca Puncer, Ştefan Rusu, Alina Șerban, Mirsad Sijarić, Slobodanka Stevceska, Apolonija Šušteršič, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Blanca de la Torre, Vladimir Us, Nebojša Vilić, Simone Voigt, and Predrag Živković.

The transnational scope of this project was made possible by the sustained engagement of the Goethe-Institut network. We thank Johannes Ebert (Munich); Simone Voigt, Ajla Eljšani-Arnautlija, and Ayla Korajac (Sarajevo); Joachim Umlauf, Markus Huber, and Oana Lapadatu (Bucharest); Katrin Ostwald-Richter and Marija Chorbeva Penovska (Skopje); Corina Gîrla (Chișinău); Alix Landgrebe and Urban Srimpf (Ljubljana); Arpad Sölter and
Petra Vidović (Zagreb); and Christoph Veldhues and Sunčica Šido (Belgrade).

The project was generously supported by Kunststiftung NRW (Andrea Firmenich, Jasmina Merz, Dorothee Mosters) and by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Anna Kaitinnis, Linda Kelch). The production of the work in Sarajevo was kindly supported by Knauf d.o.o. Sarajevo.

Press and communications were handled by Ann-Charlotte Günzel and by KomunikArt Serbia (Monika Husar Tokin, Nikola Marković).

Finally, we thank Mischa Kuball’s Studio team, without whose dedication this project could not have traveled so far or taken such unexpected forms: Christina Brikmann, Ahmed Shukur, and Michèle Kuball.