DAVRA research group at MAKE VOICES HEARD symposium
Taming Waters and Women in Soviet Central Asia /
The artist talk by DAVRA research group (Madina Joldybek, Zumrad Mirzalieva, Saodat Ismailova) will be part of the MAKE VOICES HEARD symposium organized by Hope Recycling Station in Prague.
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Grafting Resilience
With Alicja Rogalska, Platforma Výkvět, Saša Uhlová, Katalin Erdődi /
As part of the upcoming Biennale Matter of Art 2024 and in cooperation with the Hraničář Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, tranzit.cz invites you to an encounter with Berlin-based Polish visual artist Alicja Rogalska, journalist Saša Uhlová, and Platforma Výkvět, a self-organized network of ecological flower farmers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia with whom Rogalska is collaborating for her new work for the biennale.
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To Leave Is to Return Another Way
Festival of performance /
To Leave Is to Return Another Way is the second edition of the festival of performance art curated by tranzit.cz. The event will take place on 13 December 2023 from 7PM to 2AM at Ankali & Planeta Za in Prague.
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Seminar of Accidental Wisdom: Sowing Unrest
Lecture by Katalin Erdődi and Alekseie Borisionok at FAMU /
Aleksei Borisionok and Katalin Erdődi, curators of the upcoming Matter of Art Biennale in Prague (2024) will share work experiences and research interests in a seminar of accidental wisdom. Grafting two curatorial lines into one project, the curators will look at how historical struggles in rural and urban contexts resonate with the contemporary moment and enable us to think about more emancipatory possible futures.
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Excavating Solidarity
How do we read history through perspectives of feminist storytelling and solidarity? /
Encounter with artists Marta Popivoda, Nikita Kadan, and Zbyněk Baladrán as well as Miloslav Vorlíček, the curator of the Lidice Memorial Art Collection, and Aleksei Borisionok, co-curator of the Biennale Matter of Art 2024
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Artist in Residence: Nikita Kadan
Biennale Matter of Art news /
From November 30 till December 29, tranzit.cz in collaboration with Lidice Memorial and Lidice Art Collection will host Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan. The residency is part of the upcoming Biennale Matter of Art 2024 and will result in the making of a new commissioned artwork.
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Kyiv 23' Biennial
The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial will be international and will take place in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin.
In view of the brutal Russian attack on Ukraine, a comprehensive biennial project in Kyiv long seemed deeply uncertain, if not impossible. But, with a cascade of openings – starting in Kyiv and Vienna in October 2023, finishing in Berlin in 2024 – the fifth Kyiv Biennial will take place. This Biennial edition is conceived as a European event, with dispersed exhibitions and public programs in a number of Ukrainian and EU cities, and realized in partnership with leading European institutions in the field of contemporary art.
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Online Bookshop
Order books published by tranzit.cz at knihy.matterof.art /
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Abolish the Family: Book Launch and Workshop with Druhá : směna
tranzit.cz is publishing the first czech translation of Sophie Lewis's radical book /
On the evening of Wednesday 27 September 2023 the premises of the Petrohradská kolektiv will host the launch of the book Abolish the Family, featuring a thematic workshop headed by Maja Vusilović and Eliška Koldová from Druhá : směna. During the course of the evening the book shall be on sale at a special discount. Admission to the event is free of charge, but the capacity of the workshop is limited, so please register if you wish to take part in the latter.
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Open call: Artist-in-Residence Programme 2024 at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna
Call for applications 2024 is now open until September 13th, 2023 /
The residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Taking into consideration the urgencies raised by the ongoing war against Ukraine, we would like to express our solidarity and add a grant of a two-month stay for a participant from Ukraine.
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Shaking Up The Museum
Workshop with Kateryna Lysovenko /
Workshop for preschool children from Ukraine led by Ukrainian painter Kateryna Lysovenko. The children will be creatively processing the experience of living in a different country and a new environment. Lysovenko is in Prague in July and August 2023 for an artist residency as part of the In the Matter of Art 2023 Biennial. The workshop capacity is currently full.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2023
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 10 April /
ERSTE Foundation offers fourteen fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2023.
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Residencies and mobility 2023
In 2023, tranzit maintained a dense schedule of curatorial and artistic residencies and research trips to various European countries supported in the framework of NextGenerationEU. /
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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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