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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Open call: Artist-in-Residence Programme 2025 at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna
Call for applications 2024 is now open until September 15th, 2024 /
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. An additional post is added for an artist or curator from Ukraine for the period of two months.
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Art Space (Un)limited
project seminar and debate /
Where do efforts of inclusion and accessibility within art institutions stand in the Czech language space in 2024, and what can the different initiatives learn or unlearn from each other? As part of the third edition of the Biennale Matter of Art, a public discussion seminar will be held for the general and professional public, which aims to introduce some of these initiatives and, through the format of a lively discussion, critically situate them in the broader European context.
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Biennale Matter of Art 2024
The third edition of the Prague-based international exhibition organised by tranzit.cz /
This year's Biennale Matter of Art will take place from June 14, 2024, to September 29, 2024, in the Grand Hall of the National Gallery Prague and other venues. Curated by Katalin Erdődi and Aleksei Borisionok, the project will also feature a new bilingual publication comprising theoretical texts and artistic contributions. Admission to the biennale as well as the accompanying public program will be free of charge.
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Public program of the Biennale Matter of Art 2024
guided tours, performances, discussions, film screenings, and educational and mediation workshops for adults and children /
The biennale starts with the three-day opening weekend from June 13–15 in the National Gallery Prague and the Lidice Gallery and runs until September 29. Admission to the exhibition as well as most of the public program will be free of charge.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2024
Call for applications now open until April 12! /
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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Art Space Unlimited
Resilient communities at the forefront of contemporary art institutions /
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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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