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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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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The Raut Podcast Has a New Season
Subscribe to Raut on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud /
We have launched the second season of the intersectional podcast Raut which discusses contemporary art and culture from perspectives that might at first glance be unrelated to art or are on the margins of social discussion. The podcast is hosted by Ester Grohová and Nela Pietrová. Please note that the podcast is available only in Czech.
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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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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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Art Space Unlimited
Resilient communities at the forefront of contemporary art institutions /
Five European non-profit art organizations have teamed up to learn from each other and find new ways to open up to audiences with limited access to institutionalized culture.
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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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New podcast series: Ke zdrojům!
Where to take, and why give? A podcast about the clash between art and reality /
The six-part podcast series Ke zdrojům! is about physical, inspirational, financial, and human resources in culture. What are the backgrounds, needs, limits, and motivations of those who make, teach, or distribute art? Where and under what conditions – or in spite of what – does art emerge, and what social questions does it raise?
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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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Online Bookshop
Order books published by tranzit.cz at knihy.matterof.art /
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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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Newsletter
Latest information about the Biennale Matter of Art, new books from the tranzit publishing house, and other projects – straight into your mailbox. /
Subscribe via matterof.art now and be among the first who receive latest information about the biennale and our other projects directly into your mailbox. We send the emails on a monthly basis with the exception of the biennale exhibition, when you will be receiving two emails per month. You may opt out at any moment.
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Hoří chemička, něco si přej | book launch with authors Bára Bažantová and Michal Karvay
The book /
In September 2021 the artist and social worker Bára Bažantová together with the anthropologist Lenka Podroužek Polčová moved for one month into the Libuše Community Centre, based in the Janov housing estate in Litvínov. During this time Bažantová kept a diary, which then formed the background for her book
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We Are All Emotional
Festival of performance art curated by tranzit.org and organized by tranzit.cz/Biennale Matter of Art in co-operation with Divadlo X10 /
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Important information about the festival We Are All Emotional
Tickets, reservations, child zone, afterparty & more /
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Jiří Ševčík has died
It is with a heavy heart that we have received the news of the passing of our friend, collaborator, founding member and long-standing Chairman of the Board of tranzit.cz Jiří Ševčík.
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March news
Biennale Matter of Art 2022 will take place from July 21 to October 23; Call for curators for the 2024 extended /
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To build a degrowth society, we need artistic imagination
The fifth episode of the podcast series Raut entitled Degrowth prevents burnout is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud /
The cultural sector faces pressure to perform and is seeking strategies for how to make art more sustainable.
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We Are All Emotional Festival canceled and rescheduled due to COVID-19
Our organization has decided to take this step in response to the worrying development of the epidemiological situation in the Czech Republic and other countries. /
Please read our official statement on the current situation.
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Kyiv Biennial 2021
The interdisciplinary project is is jointly curated by members of the East Europe Biennial Alliance /
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Mycelium Litvínov
Solidary network for sharing time, experience, and resources to which not everyone has equal access: Our new project takes place at the Libuše community center in Litvínov throughout September 2021 /
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We Are All Emotional
Explore the ongoing series of interviews published throughout 2021 prior to the upcoming performance festival We Are All Emotional /
The series aims to introduce the ten artists who will participate in the festival. The event was supposed to take place in November 2020 but had to be cancelled due to the pandemic of COVID-19.
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Biennale Matter of Art Announces Curators For 2022
The newly created curatorial working group consists of Aziza Harmel, Rado Ištok, Renan Laru-an, Piotr Sikora and the tranzit.cz collective.
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Center and Periphery: Cultural Deserts in Eastern Europe
A two-year project organized by tranzit.cz in collaboration with OsloBiennalen as a part of the activities of the Biennale Matter of Art. The project is funded through the EEA and Norway Grants. /
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Open call for Erasmus+ internship for the position of Production and Curatorial Assistant
The offered position is a Production and Curatorial Assistant in a small collective at the non-profit organization tranzit.cz, which is one of the key institutions in Prague's contemporary art scene. The period of the internship is May – October 2021.
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Biennale Matter of Art 2022: call for curators
tranzit.cz announces an open call for the members of the curatorial working group for the next edition of the Biennale Ve věci umění / Matter of Art (VVUMOA).The task of the group will be to develop a conception of the biennale exhibition for 2022
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Pre-Christmas sale on our publications in the ArtMap bookstore
Our entire publishing line is now available in the ArtMap bookstore with 20% discount, special packages are available for 2/3 of original price!
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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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Biennale Matter of Art announces new date
The first edition of the new showcase for contemporary art will be open from 21 July 2020 /
The programme has been rescheduled due to the measures introduced by the Czech government in response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak earlier this year. Despite these difficulties the exhibition will be postponed by only one month, will run until October 2020 and admission will be free throughout the event.
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Strike for climate
tranzit.cz strikes for climate /
On September 20, 2019, the team of tranzit.cz strikes for climate.
tranzit.cz changes - board and executive director
new members of team /
After the conclusion of several years of fruitful co-operation on the tranzitdisplay project (2018), tranzit.cz is continuing with changes in its internal structure, functioning and content of activity.
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An Intervention: Lẩu Nghệ Thuật (Art Hotpot)
Nha San Collective /
In a lot of Asian cultures, hotpot is considered a communal eating experience where people would alternately put a variation of ingredients into a heated steamboat placed at the center of the table and eat from it. It is a tradition of family members and friends gathering around the table to share stories with each other. Based on the idea of this comforting cuisine experience, our project is an attempt to intervene into a space of a different artistic landscape, as well as trying to weave a connection between art and cultural activities of Vietnamese in Czech Republic with the community of art practitioners here in order to generate an alternative space for dialogues and exchanges.
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The Kyiv International – ’68 NOW
The Kyiv International edition of May 2018 will explore the political and cultural heritage of the revolt and struggle of 1968, considering the antinomies of this moment for the West and East of Europe fifty years onward. The legacy of May 1968 remains a symbol of liberation and rebellion against entrenched power structures, and a cultural and artistic benchmark for Western Europe. The commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring and Soviet military invasion of Czechoslovakia – most immediate in Eastern Europe – continue to define political and cultural divides across the continent. By overlapping the contrasting dimensions of this event, which is the starting point of contemporaneity, The Kyiv International – ’68 NOW contributes to the development of a united European subjectivity grounded in democratic internationalism, based on the principles of solidarity and inclusivity.
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Pre-Christmas book bazaar
Come to catch your book! At the pre-Christmas book bazaar we will have the publications for a favorable prize from tranzit.cz, Fra, Artmap, CD / LP from the Rekomando distribution, posters and postcards and a lot of other books focused on art and art theory, among others from the JRP Ringier publishing house.
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Institution in Residence
Residential program tranzit.cz /
tranzit.cz have chosen participants of program Institution in Residence. In this project we will experiment with forms and programs of institutions and alternative arrangements of functional and power relations in (art) organisations will be challenged.
Visual Culture Research Center
Purusha Research Cooperatives
Ateliér bez vedoucího
Riksa Afiaty
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Romafuturismo Library
tranzit office
Dittrichova 13
120 00 Prague, CZ
Romafuturismo is a library of Roma literature aimed at the emancipation of ethnicities and cultures experiencing discrimination. The collection of works by Roma writers arose gradually thanks to the initiative of Ladislava Gažiová.
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Institutional Diary
tranzit.cz blog /
We started in May 2016 a public blog called “Institutional Diary” where all issues related with the current and future program are discussed.
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SERIES OF MULTIPLES
tranzit.cz - Series of Multiples
In cooperation with the artists and authors whom we publish we are preparing exhibitions, performances and other activities – tranzit.cz produces a series of multiples.
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(OD...DO) BOOKSTORE
tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337
Praha 2, CZ
The refurbished premises of the bookstore will focus on contemporary art books (including artists’ books) and the history of art after 1945 in countries of the former Eastern Europe.
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TRANZITDISPLAY
cooperation /
tranzitdisplay - a resource centrum for contemporary art - is a project based on a collaboration between two partners - the tranzit initiative and the Display project.
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Synonyma
exhibition - screening - residency /
Kajsa Dahlberg, Harun Farocki, Fritz Quasthoff, Monument to Transformation, Adrian Piper, Katerina Seda,
Tomas Vanek, Vangelis Vlahos
In early 2007 tranzit.cz and the Index Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation created a collaborative programme for the exchange of ideas, projects and productions. three spring exhibitions will take place in Stockholm; Kajsa Dahlberg, who recently exhibited at Index, has been in Prague working on a new work commissioned by tranzit.cz and Index. Two screenings will be arranged by Index at the Svetozor Cinema in Prague.
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MONUMENT TO TRANSFORMATION
cooperation /
is a series of exhibitions, projections, publications, debates and lectures going on for more than three years
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