Meet New Residents: Aliza Orlan & David Apakidze
They will create commissioned artworks for the Biennale Matter of Art 2026 /
Preparations for the Biennale Matter of Art 2026 have already started! Throughout March 2025, tranzit.cz has been hosting two residencies in cooperation with the A-i-R MeetFactory program. You can catch a sneak peek of their upcoming work during the open studios event Soiré in MeetFactory on March 25, 2025 from 6 p.m.
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Sráč Sam: I Promise
The exhibition opening will take place in Prague's Art Space SVĚTOVA 1 on March 14, 2025 /
I Promise is an art project conceived by Sráč Sam and curated by Tereza Stejskalová and František Fekete in the gallery SVĚTOVA 1. The exhibition is organized by the tranzit.cz initiative in the gallery SVĚTOVA 1. The public opening of the exhibition will take place on March 14, 2025, and the exhibition will run until May 10, 2025. Admission is free of charge.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until April 6 /
Every summer some 300 students from more than 50 countries participate in around 20 classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art. The participants can choose from various courses taking place at Salzburg Summer Academy between July 21– August 30, 2025.
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2025 Editorial Plan
See what's coming out this year in the tranzit.cz publishing house! /
In recent years, the main mission of tranzit.cz publishing house has been to publish translations of important texts of feminist thought, theory and prose, which are published in the navigation edition. tranzit also publishes books by artists and collectives, theoretical and artistic manifestos, and anthologies of texts.
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Decentralized art as a weapon against overtourism?
The tranzit team made a research trip to Barcelona /
In the last week of November 2024, the tranzit.cz team went to Barcelona, where the fifteenth edition of the nomadic art festival Manifesta was taking place. It also visited the partner institution La Escocesa and other contemporary art institutions.
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Book launch of the Czech translation of Working Girl
On Selling Art and Selling Sex /
We cordially invite you to the launch of the Czech translation of Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by New York-based writer, artist and sex worker Sophia Giovannitti. The book launch will take place on December 4, 2024, from 6pm at the Safe space bookstore. With its compelling combination of personal stories, critical (auto)theory, and excursions into the history of art and sex work, Working Girl can be considered a groundbreaking work of contemporary feminist art theory.
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Matter of Art Bookshop at the Vitamin Market
Winter market in Brno /
The tranzit.cz publishing house will be part of the Vitamin Market on Sunday, December 1, from 10 a.m. in Brno. You will be able to buy books from our Matter of Art Online Bookshop in person with a 20% discount.
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It’s Christmas for Book Lovers in the Matter of Art Online Bookshop
Now shipping across the EU, 20% Off Everything till the end of the year /
Christmas has arrived in the Matter of Art online bookshop, where you can find new bargain bundles of books on feminist theory and prose, postcolonial thought, and art theory as well as newly stocked artistic publications from the 2000s and 2010s. We are also offering a 20% discount on all orders placed before the end of 2024.
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Dogs, Mountains, Mythology
Mapping the Georgian Art Scene /
In October 2024, the tranzit.cz team embarked on a curatorial research trip to Tbilisi, Georgia. The aim was to map the local scene and establish connections with both local artists and independent institutions—galleries, educational platforms, and publishing houses. The mobility was funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
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Power Lies in Togetherness
Statement by tranzit.org /
tranzit.org stands by the cultural workers and citizens of Slovakia in their efforts to safeguard the independence of culture and democratic values! We believe in the power of solidarity and acting together for a more sustainable and just world! We hereby launch a call for international solidarity with Slovak Culture and cultural workers!
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The tranzit.cz publishing house presents four new titles
McKenzie Wark, Sophia Giovannitti, Biennale reader, and children's newspaper /
During the fall of 2024, the tranzit.cz initiative for contemporary art will publish two new translations that present unique and intimate perspectives on life in New York City. tranzit.cz also published the artistic and theoretical anthology Sowing Unrest, which develops the political and theoretical context of the Prague Biennale Matter of Art, and the children's newspaper Tohle nejsou blbosti (This Is Not Baloney), whose content was created by a collective of dozens of children from Prague and Ostrava.
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What's in store for the last month of the Biennale Matter of Art?
Overview of the September accompanying program /
The Biennale Matter of Art 2024 will culminate in a series of performances, excursions, guided tours, and discursive events held throughout September. The program is mainly concentrated in the Biennale centre in the National Gallery Prague at the Trade Fair Palace and reflects the themes of the exhibition – labor and rural change, the mental health of the working class, and sustainable approaches to agriculture.
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Art Space Unlimited
Resilient communities at the forefront of contemporary art institutions /
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2025 Editorial Plan
See what's coming out this year in the tranzit.cz publishing house! /
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Newsletter
Latest information about the Biennale Matter of Art, new books from the tranzit publishing house, and other projects – straight into your mailbox. /
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Online Bookshop
Order books published by tranzit.cz at knihy.matterof.art /
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Biennale Matter of Art
The project comprises the international exhibition of contemporary art taking place once every two years as well as the platform’s long-term activities, which engage in critical reflection of the institutional aspects of the biennale format in the /
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