Biennale Matter of Art 2026
International exhibition organized by tranzit.cz /
The fourth edition of the Biennale Matter of Art will take place from June 12 to September 13, 2026, in Prague and Pardubice. The international exhibition and public program will be held in three principal locations: The Great Hall of the Trade Fair Palace in Prague, GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice, and Tusculum Prague.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2026
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until March 15 /
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. Participants may choose a one-week or two-week course from the Academy’s rich programme, taking place between 20 July and 29 August 2026.
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy
are designed for
• artists and curators at the beginning of their career
• address candidates from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine
• cover the course fee for up to two weeks,
include travel & daily allowance and accommodation
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Caliban, the Witch, and the Trans Girl: The Launch of Two Books from the tranzit.cz Publishing House
Silvia Federici & hannah baer translated to Czech for the first time /
We cordially invite you to the performative launch of two books newly published by tranzit.cz in Czech translation by Sylva Ficová—Caliban and the Witch by Italian feminist thinker Silvia Federici and trans girl suicide museum by American author and psychologist hannah baer. The event will take place on January 21, 2026 from 7 p.m. in Pluto / Planeta Za in Prague. The evening will feature a performance by Ester Grohová and Sinclair Brazier.
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Stream the Video Recordings from the 2025 Performance Art Festival
Bodies Craving to Believe /
Five performances took place during the third edition of the festival, titled Bodies Craving to Believe, which was held on November 7 at Čistírna1906 in Prague and organized by tranzit.cz in collaboration with Petrohradská kolektiv. The documentation captures performances by Aliza Orlan, Dominik Styk and co., Miriama Kardošová, eva susova, and Alex Franz Zehetbauer. The videos can be streamed on the Matter of Art website, as well as on the websites of iVysílání ČT art, the online fine arts magazine Artalk, and the Slovak online daily Kapitál.
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Raut: Intimate Activism and Militant Gentleness as a Response to Environmental Grief
Interview with Artists Lucie Králíková and Iva Davidová /
Pilgrimages through winter landscapes, caring for abandoned graves, more-than-human interdependence, and guerrilla gardening. The final episode of the Raut podcast explores the spiritual and more-than-human dimensions of artistic practice.
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Press release: Biennale Matter of Art announces dates and venues for 2026 edition
The international exhibition and public program will be held in three principal locations: The Great Hall of the Trade Fair Palace in Prague, GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice, and Tusculum Prague. The dates for the fourth edition are June 12–September 13, 2026.
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Raut: hannah baer's Memoir is a Ketamine Travelogue Through Transition
Interview with Paula Gogola, Richard L. Kramár, and Eva Kozáková about the book trans girl suicide museum /
The publishing house tranzit.cz has just released a Czech translation of the memoir by New York author and psychologist hannah baer, trans girl suicide museum. In the ninth episode of the Raut podcast, we talk to painter Paula Gogola, whose work appears on the book cover, and to the author of the afterword, poet, director, and librettist Richard L. Kramár. We discuss the metaphor of the museum, identity politics, even queer opera. The book addresses the use of ketamine, a dissociative psychoactive substance popular among trans people, which is why we invited Dr. Eva Kozáková, who works as a therapist at the Psyon psychedelic clinic, specializing in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
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This December tranzit will release radical texts by Silvia Federici and hannah baer
Pre-order now via Donio – campaign runs until December 14! /
A groundbreaking feminist critique of the dawn of capitalism, Caliban and the Witch, and hannah baer's debut trans girl suicide museum will finally be published in Czech. Only until the end of the week can you purchase these two new books in advance via Donio at an exceptionally low price.
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Christmas Discounts ❄ 15% off on the Matter of Art Online Bookstore
Visit knihy.matterof.art /
It’s Christmastime with the tranzit.cz publishing house! On the Matter of Art online bookstore, you can get all books published by tranzit.cz at a 15% discount and bundles of three or more books at a third off! Most of the books are in Czech, but there are a handful of titles available in English too!
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New Book by the Laundry Collective: Píčou ke zdi (Cunt Against the Wall)
Available in our online bookstore on knihy.matterof.art /
The contemporary art initiative tranzit.cz has published a book by the Laundry Collective, which consists of women with experience of living on the streets and exhibiting in Prague galleries. The publication was preceded by a successful crowdfunding campaign, and a limited edition of the book is available for purchase at the online bookstore knihy.matterof.art.
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Raut: Without the Witch and Caliban, Capitalism Would Not Exist
With artist Alex Sihelsk* and philosopher Ľubica Kobová on Silvia Federici’s groundbreaking book /
“The figure of the witch reappears periodically whenever there is a need to resist patriarchy,” says educator and philosopher Ľubica Kobová, who focuses on labor theory and, together with artist and magic practitioner Alex Sihelsk*, is a guest of the 8th episode of the Raut podcast. When Karl Marx formulated the theory of primitive accumulation that accompanied the rise of capitalism, he failed to mention the massacre of hundreds of thousands of women, the takeover of their bodies, and the consolidation of patriarchal power.
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Performance Art Festival 2025: Bodies Craving to Believe
The third edition of an international showcase of contemporary Performance Art /
The 2025 Performance Art Festival – Bodies Craving to Believe will take place on Friday, November 7, from 7:00 p.m. in the unique industrial space of the Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (Čistírna1906). The program features six original performances exploring corporeality as a medium of emotional expression, hope, and queer self-determination, presented by artists Miriama Kardošová, Dominik Styk, eva susová, Aliza Orlan, CTM & Skjold Rambow, and Alex Franz Zehetbauer.
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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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