Book launch: Laundry Collective – Píčou ke zdi (Cunt Against the Wall)
Everyone is cordially invited to the launch of the first collaborative book by the Laundry Collective, {i}Píčou ke zdi (Cunt Against the Wall), which will take place on September 10, 2025, at 7 p.m. in Prague at Café Imbus in the UMPRUM building. During the launch, goulash and sandwiches will be served free of charge, there will be a special musical surprise, and electronic organ player Jana Budíková will also perform. You will be able to purchase the book on site, meet the members of the collective, buy their T-shirts, or get a tattoo of motifs from the book.
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Raut: Inside the Magic Circle
Please note that the Raut podcast series is only available in Czech /
Dungeons and Dragons is a collective storytelling game that allows players to collectively imagine a better present, to process emotionally challenging situations such as death or various forms of discrimination in a controlled gaming environment, or to explore ways of breaking away from social norms. Listen to an interview with Orin Rodriguez and anto_nie, who connect board games with artistic practice.
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Support the release of the first publication by the Laundry Collective
The campaign is running on Donio till September 9, 2025 /
Support the release of the book Píčou ke zdi (Cunt Against the Wall), the first collaborative publication by the Laundry Collective. The book contains more than two hundred pages of original illustrations and interviews conducted by members of the collective with each other and other selected individuals. The book also includes photographs from past art projects and selected poems. The book will be published in September 2025 and will feature an embossed cover with imitation black leather designed by graphic designer Lê Thị Hoài.
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Raut: The artistic activism of Jezevky is a collective struggle without intellectual paywall
A ram with the head of Lenin, a duel between the snake Prahad and the knight Pentalot and a pop-up town in front of the parliament. The Jezevky Collective fights the housing crisis, inequality and global warming with playful performances that mobilise people across the political spectrum.
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📢 CALL for APPLICATIONS 2026: Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna
Deadline: 14. 9. 2025 /
The participants are given the opportunity to live and work in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
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Can an 'art space' truly be 'unlimited'?
Let's take a look back at the Art Space Unlimited project /
We are bidding farewell to the project Art Space Unlimited. For the past eighteen months, tranzit.cz and its European partner organizations have been looking for ways in which nonprofit art spaces can become more empathetic and open up their programs to people who, for various reasons, have difficulty accessing art or creative activities.
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Raut: Sex, Art and Late Capitalism
What do working girls desire? And what is the difference between an art collector and a client of a sex service? /
Listen to the third episode of the podcast Raut, where we talk to artists and sex workers Julia Rot and Martina Šikulová, who break stereotypical ideas about people in the sex business through their audiovisual work, which bridges art and sex work.
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Get the new Glossary of Commoning Terms
The glossary comprises contributions by curators and mediators based on hands-on experience with community and participatory projects at the intersection of visual arts, social work and activism /
You can read and download the Glossary of Commoning Terms from www.emotional-labor.eu
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Biennale Matter of Art Announces Curators for the 2026 Edition
Press release /
The biennale will take place in the summer of 2026 in the Czech Republic and will be co-curated by Jaroslava Tomanová, Jakub Gawkowski, and František Fekete.
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Raut: Inconvenient Partisans
Why Aren't Women or Roma People Part of the History of the Anti-fascist Resistance? Interview with Erika Meszárosová and Martin Pfann /
In the second episode of the Raut podcast, we travel to Vysočina for the launch of the Partisan Trail (Partyzánská stezka) – an audio guide to the landscape of Horácko, which tells the story of the Romani partisan Josef Serinek. The art project is introduced by its author, intermedia artist and researcher Martin Pfann. In the second part of the podcast, we talk to artist Erika Meszárosová about women in the Slovak National Uprising, their involvement in the partisan resistance and the ephemeral monuments Erika creates for them.
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The novel Love Me Tender is now available in our online bookstore!
tranzit.cz publishing house releases the first Czech translation of the work of French writer Constance Debré /
Love Me Tender is a relentless and radical work that portrays the search for a new identity through loss and the liberating transformation of life. It is about the rejection of class, family background, and sexuality as well as a rebellion against norms, the status quo, and the social illusions that sustain it.
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Raut: Let Them Eat Cake!
Please note that the episode is only available in Czech. /
What happens when we combine food and art? In the first episode of the new series of the Raut podcast, we talk with artists Barbora Gábová and Františka Malasková about edible installations and design feasts or bread as a sustainable sculptural material. The episode is infused with a seven-course art historical menu prepared by curator Piotr Sikora.
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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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The Raut Podcast Has a New Season
Subscribe to Raut on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud /
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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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