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Europe, Events
On Solidarity: The State and the Crisis
11 March 2012, 11 am Public Debate There is something strange and disturbing about the current economic and political crisis in Europe. Democratic institutions are more transparent than ever but at the same time less trusted than ever. Democratic elites are more meritocratic than ever but more resented than ever. Our societies are more open [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
Care Crisis
Exhibition opening: 9 March 2012, 6 pm 9 March – 27 May 2012 FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, http://www.futuraproject.cz/ Holečkova 49, 15000 Prague 5 Curated by: Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis Participating artists: Larisa Sittar, Mau Monleón, María Galindo, Gabriela Golder, Ursula Biemann, Gülsün Karamustafa, Elzbieta Jablonska, Mieke Bal, Daniela Ortiz, Andreja Kuluncic, Anetta Mona [...]more -
Culture, Events
Political Design Workshop
Public presentations 25 February 2012, 2-6 pm Trafó Café, Budapest A political design workshop is being organised about the possibilities, resources and methods for the communication of political thinking, held by international designers and theoreticians. The aim of the workshop is to gain the theoretical and practical knowledge which helps to form opinions supporting [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events, Social Development
Franz Karl Prüller elected in the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
On 20 February the Austrian Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger opened the first session of the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry. The body consists of experts who on voluntary basis provide advice to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on issues related to Austrian development cooperation. We are happy to announce that Franz [...]more -
Culture, ERSTE Foundation, Invitation
The Mobile Archive at tranzitdisplay
A project of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon 24.02 – 03.06.2012 Opening: 23.2. 6 p.m. tranzitdisplay: Dittrichova 9/337 120 00, Prague 2 tranzit.cz is, for over three months, the host of an extensive Israeli multimedia archive, which includes most of the important Israeli media artworks. The Mobile Archive, initiated in 2007, is [...]more -
Culture
WHATEVER #3 POST-HOC DRAMATURGY lab reader launched
With the support of ERSTE Foundation, BADco., a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, started to launch a series of contributions as a part of WHATEVER #3 POST-HOC DRAMATURGY: Reflections on poetics of presentation and circulation in performing arts in a form of a lab reader.WHATEVER #3, POST-HOC DRAMATURGY is a reader resulting from [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Solo for Lu
Theatre Performance Premiere 28 and 29 February 2012, 8 pm Archa Theatre Na Poříčí 26, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic The Archa Theatre in Prague has launched in 2011 a project WHERE IS MY HOME? that deals with the topics of xenophobia and migration through a combination of music and theatre. In collaboration with [...]more -
Europe, Events
Debating Europe: Money and Morals – Is Europe’s system of values endangered?
26 February 2012, 11 am Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 2, 1010 Vienna The social market economy has been the dominant system in continental Europe ever since the end of the Second World War. However, since the financial crisis of 2008/09 and the euro crisis, this system has begun to crumble. Social security systems are [...]more -
Culture, Events
Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards
Exhibition Duration: 25 February - 25 May 2012 Opening: 25 February 2012 at 1:30 p.m. Venue: Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City “Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards” is an exhibition project curated by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača in the framework of the long-term project “WEIYTH: Where Everything is Yet to Happen”. This exhibition will present [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Open Call: Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists 2012/2013
The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program offers European journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice. Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey are also eligible to apply. Applicants are asked to relate their proposals to one of the main research fields of the IWM [...]more -
Social Development
“Tu was, dann tut sich was”: winners of the first jury meeting announced
This year’s first jury meeting of the project “Tu was, dann tut sich was” ( Throw the ball to get things rolling) took place in Leoben, Styria. A renowned jury selected the 22 winning projects, among which also the following three outstanding initiatives: Cafe International – international students at Montan University in Leoben will get [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Ivan Angelovski, Serbia
Ivan Angelovski The Sad Truth About Serbian Media A ministry that pays hundreds of Euros to a newspaper for positive coverage; a telecommunications company which spends one third of its marketing budget for press services – the Serbian media is almost completely dependent on the country’s political and business elite, a new critical report has [...]more -
Culture, Events
UNFINISHED MODERNISATIONS: Exhibition
Location: Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, Maribor, Slovenia 10 February 2012 – 22 April 2012 Opening: Friday, 10 February 2012, 7 p.m. The exhibition „Unfinished Modernisations“ will present numerous architectural projects, ranging from tourist experiments on the Adriatic coastline, concepts for new cities and presentation pavilions at international exhibitions, to disreputable public edifices and [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
tranzit.hu: Seminar with The Otolith Group
The guests of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are the London-based artists “The Otolith Group” (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun). Public lecture: 21 February 2012, 6pm Ludwig Museum Budapest (1095 Komor Marcell u. 1.), lecture hall Screening and talk The Otolith Group: Anathema, 2011 With the participation of the [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Open Call: School Network ACES starts new project contest
“Reality Check – How we perceive and construct the world through media” is the theme of this year’s call for cross-border school projects. The competition is organised by the Academy of Central European Schools – aces, one of the largest international school networks in the region. Mass media – and especially digital media – [...]more -
Culture, Events
WITNESSES XXI – Revisiting the past
Exhibition at PLATFORMA (MNAC-Anexa) Calea Mosilor 62-68, etaj 1, Bucuresti 1 – 19 February 2012 Opening on 1 February, 6:00 p.m. WITNESSES XXI – REVISITING THE PAST is a collection of video interviews with artists, art critics and art historians who played a key role on the Romanian art scene before 1989. They answer questions [...]more -
Events, General Funding
€uroXibition
4 – 11 February 2012 Opening 4 February 2012 , 4 pm The National and University Library of Kosovo Trg Hasan Pristina, Pristina Club Alpbach Belgrade and Initiative Group Alpbach Kosovo are warmly welcoming you to the opening of €uroXibition. Groups of young academics, professionals and students, members of Club Alpbach Belgrade (CAB) and Initiative [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Cynthia L. Haven, USA
Cynthia L. Haven Hot New Social Media Maybe Not so New: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Imagine there’s no email, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Internet at all. What would you do? How would you communicate? How would you stay in touch with others? Maybe you would do what people did in [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Applications Open for 2012 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence
Working on an investigation about communities in the Balkans? Don’t miss your chance to scoop a €2,000 journalism bursary, receive travel and research expenses and attend career development seminars in Vienna and Skopje. Experienced journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are invited to apply for the sixth [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
“I know no weekend”. Socially Committed Art in Eastern Europe
Call for Art Students Application Deadline: 31 January 2012 Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986, Germany) is now considered as one of the most influential artists of the 21st Century, though or because his work produced controversial debates about contemporary art and the socio-political commitment of artists in the 1970s and 1980s. Today his approach seems [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Visiting ERSTE Foundation: Rundek Cargo Trio
Rundek Cargo Trio is a sort of Balkan gothic cabaret, worldwide, full of sound and fury, defying any attempt of categorisation. It was funded by Darko Rundek, one of the main exponents of the former Yugoslav New Wave in the early 80´s who left Zagreb to Paris during the civil war and who seems forever [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Vukša Veličković, Serbia
Inside Gaddafi’s Tent: the Colonel’s Yugoslav Connection Vukša Veličković Libyan dictator Muammar al Gaddafi is no more. However, until his very end, he kept close ties with Serbian and Croatian politicians. A Yugoslav connection with tradition. Back in the 1970s, Josip Broz Tito had been a close friend. For the majority of post-Yugoslav states, Gaddafi [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
PATTERNS Lectures – Open Call until 19 March
Call for submission of proposals for university courses PATTERNS Lectures is launching a new call to encourage the development of university courses in the fields of art history, cultural studies and cultural sciences. The call addresses lecturers at public universities in Central and South Eastern Europe who share PATTERNS’ areas of interest and are interested [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators – Open Call
“Traduttore – traditore, so they say. We all do: translate! This is now the law of survival.” (Norman Manea) The Institute for Human Sciences and ERSTE Foundation encourage translators in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies to apply for the prestigious Paul Celan Fellowship. The program aims to overcome deficits and asymmetries in [...]more -
Europe, Events
Debating Europe: Is European unity in danger?
22 January 2012, 11 am Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 2, 1010 Vienna The crisis surrounding the euro has created deep disparities. Germany and France are leading the way, while the other states feel pushed to the brink. Not all member states see it as their responsibility to pay for the financial problems of other [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Oleksiy Radynski, Poland/Ukraine
We are all Russians now Oleksiy Radynski “Putin Out,” protesters are chanting in the streets of Moscow. Thousands of Russians are defying the bitter cold to hold the biggest anti-government rallies since the fall of the Soviet Union. Are we now witnessing an Orange Revolution in Russia? As the arrests of hundreds of protesters show, [...]more -
Culture, Events
CLEAR HISTORY: Moldova’s unknown past
16th, 17th and 23rd of January 2012, 8 PM spalatorie-theatre, Chisinau, Moldova With Veaceslav Sambriş, Doriana Talmazan and Irina Vacarciuc Author of the project: Nicoleta Esinencu http://spalatorie.md/ In Moldova some consider Marshall Antonescu, a former Romanian military leader, a hero who has ordered the soldiers to cross the Prut River and defend Moldova; for a [...]more -
Europe
Tracing down a forgotten conflict: Sebastian Wedl is the "Reporter’12-Ost"
In cooperation with ERSTE Foundation, the initiative Reporter’12-Ost of the Austrian daily “Die Presse” is supporting young people with journalistic ambitions and giving them the chance to investigate on interesting stories from Southeastern Europe with the support of professional journalists. This year’s winner, 25-year-old Sebastian Wedl, was selected in December 2011 by an expert jury after [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
Georg Winckler elected as president of the association
In its last general assembly the association “DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung” elected Georg Winckler, former rector of the University of Vienna, as its new president. Georg Winckler takes over from Karl Korinek, who has resigned due to health reasons. Georg Winckler’s first representative in the association will be Johanna Rachinger, director of the Austrian National [...]more -
Culture
Catalyst Award 2011 Winners
The Catalyst Award Handed Out For the Second Time The Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit.hu in 2010, awarded for the second time the cultural impact of contemporary art projects in two categories. The awardee in the “Motor” category is Kretakor, while the one in the “Novelty” category is the “Napidij” project of Nemzeti Muveszetert Alapitvany. [...]more -
Culture
THE NEED TO HISTORIZE
Symposium 14-18 December 2011 tranzitdisplay Dittrichova 9, Prague organised by tranzit.cz and SWEET 60s (tranzit.at) Over the last decade a number of artistic, theoretical and inter-disciplinary initiatives and activities have appeared in the artistic community, resuscitating the relatively classical topos of the “archive”. It is precisely this geographical and epistemological variety of archive interests that [...]more -
Europe, Events
Juliana Koleva wins 2011 Balkan Fellowship
The top prize for this year’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence has been won by Juliana Koleva for her article Bulgarian Asylum Policy Pushes Migrants West. Koleva, an editor and reporter for national Bulgarian daily Dnevnik, won 4,000 euros in prize money. Second place, and a 3,000 euro award, went to Jelena Kulidžan from Montenegro [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
Romanian Dance History III (Social Dance)
9 December 2011, 7:30 pm Tanzquartier, Vienna (free admission) Lecture: Speranta Radulescu, Anca Giurchescu, Manuel Pelmus “A proposed academic course at the Bucharest National Conservatory to discuss a recent form of music and dance generally known as Manele ended with an official complaint for “national treachery” against two professors. Earlier this year I have invited [...]more -
Events, General Funding
WELL.COME – Ten years connecting people
Book presentation, readings and discussions 6 December 2011, 6 pm Venue: ÖBV Atrium, Grillparzerstraße 14, 1010 Vienna Admission is free. In 2001, asylkoordination österreich started “connecting people”, a project that provides underage refugees with helpful mentors from Austria. Since then, a great number of the thousands of unaccompanied young people running from war, violence and [...]more -
General Funding
FILM MUTATIONS: The Fifth Festival of Invisible Cinema
Zagreb, 1 – 4 December 2011 Kino Tuškanac Muzej suvremene umjetnosti / The Museum of Contemporary Art Akademija dramskih umjetnosti / The Academy of Dramatic Art Rijeka, 5 – 6 December 2011 Art-kino Croatia Ljubljana, 12 – 13 December 2011 Slovenska kinoteka / The Slovenian Cinematheque Under the title The Ethic Point of Film. [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.ro is launched in Romania
tranzit.ro to become fully active in the beginning of 2012 in Bucharest, Iasi and Cluj tranzit.ro is a non-governmental organisation based in Romania, initiated and funded by ERSTE Foundation, with the mission to identify and discuss the context, attitudes and methods of contemporary art, especially in Romania and East-Europe. tranzit.ro becomes thus the fifth member [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Remembering Maly Trostinec
27 – 29 November 2011 International Conference Wien Museum Karlsplatz, 1010 Wien Maly Trostinec is a place near Minsk in Belarus, where more than 10.000 Austrians were deported and fell victim to to the Nazi regime. Despite this high number, the horrible events are quite unknown in Austria. Thus, on 28 November 2011, exactly 70 [...]more -
Culture
Visions & Projections
8 December 2011, 6:00–8:00 pm MIT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, USA Lecture: Márton Orosz, Curator and György Kepes Fellow for Advanced Studies and Transdisciplinary Research in Art, Culture and Technology Screening and round table discussion: Centerbeam, Directed by Richard Leacock and Jon Rubin. CAVS 1978, 16 mm, color, 13 min. An [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
Catalyst Award 2011
This year, for the second time, the Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit. hu, will be handed out. The award is given to individuals, projects, and initiatives which, directly or indirectly, have an impact on the contemporary art scene – they contribute to the presentation, discussion and mediation of art with their progressive approach of form [...]more -
Events, Social Development
SOMARO
29 November 2011 Satu Mare SOMARO is an acronym which stands for Social Market Romania. It’s aim is to sell donated everyday household essentials at symbolic prices to low-income customers. It was established to provide help and support to those inhabitants of Satu Mare who are threatened by poverty. The concept of a supermarket that [...]more -
Europe, Events
Book presentation of “Kakanien – New Republic of the Poets”
22 November 2011 8 p.m. Venue: Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 2, 1010 Vienna www.burgtheater.at Admission is free, tickets are available at the box office at Burgtheater. In the past two years, numerous important writers – Péter Nádas, Andrzej Stasiuk, Biljana Srbljanović, Michal Hvorecký, Serhiy Zhadan, Dubravka Ugresic, Doron Rabinovici, Josef Winkler, Jachym Topol, Terézia [...]more -
Events, Social Development
Steirische Eisenstraße is the "Tu was"-region 2012
17 November 2011 Opening This year the Austrian Social Festival “Tu was, dann tut sich was” takes place in the region of Steirische Eisenstraße/ Styrian Irion Trail. The festival starts with a kick-off conference on 17 November with following participants: Clemens Sedmak, Professor at the Kings’s College London and the University of Salzbug, chairman [...]more -
Events, General Funding, Invitation
AKCENT – International Festival of Theatre with Social Outreach
15-20 November 2011 Archa Theatre Na Poříčí 26, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic AKCENT, the International Festival of Theatre with Social Outreach, was born from the urgent need to create a platform for art that breaks the barriers between artistic creation, social problems and politics in the Czech Republic. It is an integral part [...]more -
Events, General Funding
INTERFACE +89
Contemporary art festival 15-19 November 2011 Košice, Slovak Republic INTERFACE +89 is a contemporary art festival with the focus on enlivening among young Slovak people the message and values of November 1989 events that caused the Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia. The festival brings more than 35 various events – concerts, theatre performances, discussions, film [...]more -
Culture
Is this all there is?
18 November – 15 December 2011 Exhibition Opening: 17 November, 19.00 pm Location: Open Space, Open Systems Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte – Lassingleithnerplatz 2, A- 1020 Vienna Project curators: Gülsen Bal and Alenka Gregorič Participating artists: Guy Ben-Ner, Ibro Hasanović, IRWIN, Milica Tomić Round table discussion: No(W)Here by Nermin Saybaşılı 19 November, 17.00 Location: Open Space, [...]more -
General Funding
Central European Forum 2011
16-18 November 2011 “The End of the Future” Astorka Theatre Bratislava From 16 to 18 November Bratislava will host for the third time the Central European Forum, a platform for high-profile debates on current issues regarding Central and Eastern Europe. At its start in 2009, under the patronage of the former president of the Czech [...]more -
Events, General Funding
TEMPS D'IMAGES: interdisciplinary arts festival
11-20 November 2011 The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania For the 4th time this year, the festival TEMPS D’IMAGES will unite theatre, dance and video art in interdisciplinary artistic forms, where the image plays a dramaturgical role. Initiated in 2002, the festival has taken place in various European cities; since 2008, it has been organised in Romania by colectivA Association [...]more -
Events, General Funding
CIMAM 2011 Annual Conference "Museums and the City"
14-16 November 2011 in Ljubljana and Zagreb Followed by a tour to Sarajevo on 17 November 2011 CIMAM – the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – will hold its 2011 annual conference in Ljubljana and Zagreb. The conference will be followed by a tour to Sarajevo. The conference is one [...]more -
Invitation, Social Development
Global Social Business Summit 2011
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and NASA astronaut Ron Garan to give a public speech at the Congress Centre Vienna 10 November 2011, 8:00 pm Fifty years after John F. Kennedy announced the Apollo-Program – creating the bold vision to put a man on the moon – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad [...]more -
Events, General Funding, Invitation
People and Places – Memory and Identity
Invitation to a public event celebrating the opening of the Mahnmal Turnertempel (Turner temple memorial) on 9 November 2011, 7 pm Brick 5, Herklotzgasse 21, 1150 Vienna A week of events from 7- 11 November in and around Herklotzgasse 21 The original Turnertempel (Turner temple) was built in 1871-72 as Vienna’s third synagogue in Turnergasse 22 (hence the name of [...]more -
Social Development
Tu was, dann tut sich was.
Tu was year in the Lungau region ends in December 2011 66 projects have been realized Next region: Steirische Eisenstraße, Styria Tu was, dann tut sich was is a joint initiative of 6 foundations (ERSTE Stiftung, Essl Stiftung, Turnauer Sitftung, Schweighofer Stiftung, Humer Stiftung und Unruhe Stiftung; the so called SinnStifter, ”sense makers”) in cooperation [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
reporter'12 Ost: Call for applications
Competition for young journalists Apply until 7 November 2011! For the second time, ERSTE Foundation supports the competition for young journalists Reporter’12 Ost of the Austrian daily Die Presse. Young people with journalistic ambitions are invited to send their proposals for interesting stories from Southeastern Europe until 7 November. The candidates and their proposals are presented [...]more -
Europe, Events
Balkanology to be shown in Sofia
Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe Exhibition, 4 November – 4 December 2011 Str. Gurko 4, telefona palata, Sofia, Bulgaria Opening: 4 November, 6 pm The exhibition Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe puts the rapid process of urban transformation and the architecture in the former-socialist republics [...]more -
General Funding
Where is my home?
A music and theatre project dealing with migration and xenophobia October – December 2011 Czech Republic, Slovak Republic The Archa Theatre in Prague has launched a project that deals with the topics of xenophobia and migration through a combination of music and theatre. In collaboration with refugees, host communities, students, actors and musicians, a series of new theater pieces, musical [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Home: A Century of Change
Дім: Століття змін Exhibition, 2 November 2011 – 10 May 2012 Lviv, Ukraine On 2nd November 2011, the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe opens a major new exhibition: “Home: A Century of Change.” This exhibition explores the history of dwelling in its cultural and social dimensions, as well as in its political and [...]more -
Europe, Events
Festival Zeppelin
Conferences, debates, exhibitions, guided tours on City, Money, Architecture 1 November – 20 December 2011, Bucharest Conferences and debate: About city, money, architecture, public-private partnerships, European money, financial strategies and urban vision Guests: Leo van der Berg, Ole Bouman, Anca GinAvar, Damo Holt, Ellen van der Lei, Eugen Panescu, Joep de Roo, Nicolae Taralunga, Serban [...]more -
Europe, Events
Has transition failed in the Balkans?
Social crisis, record unemployment, youth without hope. What can be done? Panel discussion on 27 October 2011, 7 pm RadioKulturhaus, Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Vienna The Western Balkans, marred in war and ethnic cleansing during the 1990s, have changed beyond recognition. The peninsula has been peaceful for a decade. The nationalist war-time projects have been discredited. People’s [...]more -
Europe, Events
How Does Leaking Change the World?
ERSTE Foundation and European Forum Alpbach invite you to a public panel discussion on Friday, 28 October 2011, at 7 pm. Haus der Musik, Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Vienna With: Patrick McCurdy, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada Anthony Mills, Press Freedom & Communications Manager, International Press Institute, Austria Chair: Fiona Spruill, Editor, Emerging [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Travelling Vinča Festival, Belgrade
Learning from our Neolithic ancestors Belgrade, Serbia: 24 October 2011 Muzej grada, Belgrade at 7 pm After taking place in Timişoara, Romania on October 1st and in Paks, Hungary in the City Museum on 7 October, the last event will be held in Belgrade, Serbia on 24th October 2011. Opening words: Marija Grujić, project manager [...]more -
Europe, Events
The ESFALP Academy kicks off for the 4th time
European Schools for a Living Planet 22-27 October 2011, Burgenland From Saturday to Wednesday, the student-teacher teams will engage in lots of workshops and outdoor activities in the area surrounding Illmitz, Burgenland. Eco-pedagogues and environmental experts will train them on the topics “The Danube”, “Ecological Footprint” and “Active Citizenship”. After the end of the Academy, the teachers and [...]more -
Culture, Events
IPUT International Parallel Union of Telecommunication
(Superintendent: Tamás St. Turba) SUBSISTENCE LEVEL STANDARD PROJECT 1984 W or: This is what became of the unicellars Exhibition, 3 November 2011 – 15 January 2012 Opening: 2 November 2011, 6 pm This is the first Czech solo exhibition of the important Hungarian artist Tamás St. Auby. Curated by Dora Hegyi, tranzit.hu Held in cooperation with [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
AiR quartier21: Call for Applications 2012
Artists-in-Residence programme of tranzit and ERSTE Foundation at quartier21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna tranzit is a network of four independent non-profit organisations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic. Since 2002 tranzit has been developing artistic and cultural activities with a critical approach, fostering a permanent dialectic between local and global culture. The [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Kontakt Sofia… Works from the Kontakt Art Collection
Exhibition, 22 October – 27 November 2011 Opening: 21 October, 6 pm Sofia City Art Gallery, 1 Gurko Str., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria Opening remarks by Christine Böhler, Walter Seidl & Maria Vassileva Curators: Maria Vassileva, Walter Seidl The exhibition at the Sofia City Gallery presents a large part of the Kontakt Art Collection, which aims [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
Doraja Eberle new member of ERSTE Foundation's Managing Board
The advisory board of DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung has appointed Doraja Eberle as member of the Managing Board of ERSTE Foundation. Doraja Eberle holds a diploma as a social worker and was previously member of the provincial government of Salzburg. In 1992, she founded an association called “Bauern helfen Bauern”, which helps victims of the Balkan [...]more -
Europe, Events
Children's University in Bosnia and Hercegovina
12-14 October 2011 The first Children’s University in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) gathers children around science and research-based topics in order to promote higher education cooperation between primary schools and universities in BiH, as well as to build a common future. ERSTE Foundation and WUS Austria encourage participation of all children without boundaries. The [...]more -
Culture, Events
Drifting Identity Station
Exhibition, 12 October – 5 November 2011 Opening: 11 October, 7 pm Open Space, Open Systems – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna The Drifting Identity Station uses a model of the former Soviet polar stations, which were used in the 1950s to explore the arctic environment. The Drifting Identity Station operates in the harsh climate associated [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Fatal Strategies
Multimedia Art Event 11 October 2011 National complex “Expocenter of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine Curator: Kostyantyn Doroshenko Fatal Strategies is a text by Jean Baudrillard, a rich source of observations and critique of the so-called Western culture and society. In the wake of its translation into Ukrainian, a major multimedia art event based on Baudrillard’s book will [...]more -
Culture, Events
Spaces of Unfinished Modernisations: Actions and Reactions
Conference and 2 exhibitions 7-8 October 2011, Split, Croatia The conference Spaces of Unfinished Modernisations: Actions and Reactions is the fourth in a series of conferences that are a part of the two-year (2010-2012) international research project Unfinished Modernisations: Between Utopia and Pragmatism – Architecture and Urbanism in the Former Yugoslavia and the Successor [...]more -
Culture, Events
The Postcolonial 21st Century: Central Europe and Beyond
A seminar with David Chioni Moore and Vít Havránek free school for art theory and practice 14-15 October 2011, Budapest Preparatory reading seminar: 6 October 2011, 5 pm, Labor, Képíró utca 6. The fall seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice is based on the dialogue of literary theorist and university professor David Chioni Moore [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events, Social Development
Happy Birthday, Zweite Sparkasse!
Die Zweite Sparkasse celebrates its 5th anniversary 7 branches, 430 voluntary staff members, 7,500 customers 200 customers transferred to a “normal” bank account in 2011 “We are happy about the drain of customers!” The “bank for the unbankable” was founded on 4 October 2006 as an initiative and with the capital of ERSTE Foundation. The concept is [...]more -
Events, Social Development
Between Myth and Reality: Encounters with Roma
Exhibition opening: 3 October 2011, with guests from the local community Duration of the exhibition: one week Museum of Art, Sf Gheorghe, Covasna County, Romania With an estimated number of 10 million, the Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic group without a state territory. Be it in Eastern Europe or in Austria, the Roma are still disadvantaged, marginalized, and [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Slavenka Drakulic, Croatia
Who created Ratko Mladic? What remains after a war criminal has been sent to The Hague Slavenka Drakulic When Ratko Mladic faces the International Tribunal in the Hague, he is likely to use the defence of superior orders. But when he asks who it was who voted for Milosevic he has a point, comments Slavenka Drakulic. [...]more -
Events, General Funding
The Young Visual Artists Awards
International exhibition and symposium Exhibition: 4 October 2011 – 26 February 2012 Symposium: 4 October 2011 Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava The Young Visual Artists Awards programme is an international award programme for young visual artists in Central and Southeastern Europe with a residency programme in the US. This initiative was established with President Vaclav Havel [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Patriotic Hypermarket
Theatre play within the scope of the project “View from my Window“ Premiere: 3 October 2011, 8 pm Bitef Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia The performance is part of the multidisciplinary project “View from my Window”, which started in 2010 with the aim to enable Kosovars and Serbs to tell their life stories from their individual perspectives. [...]more -
Europe, Events
aces: Kick-off in Sarajevo for 103 schools
Kick-off for the aces cycle 2011/2012 More than 200 students and teachers from 103 schools and 15 countries 25-29 September 2011, Sarajevo For the first time, the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo will be the venue for the kick-off meeting of aces, the Academy of Central European Schools, which is one of the largest international school networks involving [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Travelling Vinča Festival
Learning from our Neolithic ancestors Timişoara, Romania: 1 October 2011, 7 pm Paks, Hungary: 7 October 2011, 6 pm Belgrade, Serbia: 24 October 2011 The festival Travelling Vinča aims to promote the cultural heritage of the Vinča, one of Europe’s oldest civilisations, and to raise public awareness about the importance of its activation, preservation, popularisation and promotion. The festival will [...]more -
Culture
Continuing Dialogue
“The idea that art can seriously change the world has become questionable, utopian or even impossible. Art is powerless when faced by concrete and urgent social issues, while it remains an effective part of the systems of power and dominance.” — Igor Zabel ERSTE Foundation established the biennial Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Oleksiy Radynski, Poland/Ukraine
Not a Single Word About Football Oleksiy Radynski Spectacular sports events are said to provide a great stimulus to the economies of the countries in which they are held. Yet, as is often the case in sports, promises are bigger than the final results. Oleksiy Radynski takes a look into the preparations for the upcoming [...]more -
Culture, Events
LOOP by Roman Ondák
Book Presentation 29 September 2011, 6:00 pm SNG, Esterházy Palace Atrium, Nám. Ľ. Štúra 4, Bratislava This publication presents Roman Ondák’s project LOOP, which was implemented at the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia in the pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2009. It is a collection of drawings, notes and photographs by Roman Ondák as well as [...]more -
Culture, Events
Everything that is public is a proclamation, if you will.
tranzit.hu Book launch & Talk, 26 September 2011, 6 pm Artists’ Texts from Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, 1947-2009 Art Always Has Its Consequences Vízraktér, Fő utca 84., Budapest 1027 Why do artists write texts? When and why this genre was developed and what significance it gained in Eastern Europe in the last sixty years. Talk [...]more -
Culture, Events
Second World
An exhibition by WHW in the frame of Steirischer Herbst 23 September – 16 October 2011 Exhibition opening: Friday, 23 September 2011, 5 pm Parallel worlds, possible worlds, impossible worlds, ideal worlds. Worlds apart, worlds connected. The programme invokes the unrealised possibilities haunting our present day, as well as the realistic dangers that could wipe out [...]more -
Culture, Events
Igor and Ivan Buharov: The Decorative Use of Pain
tranzit workshops, Bratislava Exhibition opening: 1 October 2011, 6 pm Live music: The Pastorz Until 31 October 2011 Curated by Dora Hegyi The artists Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi, working under the pseudonym Igor and Ivan Buharov since 1995, have been producing their films mostly with super 8 technique and combining the elements of experimental [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Merlijn Schoonenboom, Berlin
Merlijn Schoonenboom From Nymph to Playboy Bunny How is European ancient culture being brought into the 21st century? This was the question Merlijn Schoonenboom attempted to answer during his stay in Vienna. The answer, however, was not to be found in the museums of the city but in a cheap art store around the corner. [...]more -
Culture
tranzit – The Space in Between
tranzit is a network in contemporary art that is working independently in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovak Republic since 2002. Each tranzit unit works under its own conditions in a variety of local contexts, using different formats and methods such as critical platforms, exhibitions and other artistic settings (musical, poetical, literary, performative), lectures, discussions, publications, [...]more -
Events
Theatre in the Dark
Dialog im Dunkeln celebrates its second birthday and presents: Das Phantom vom Fischmarkt (The Phantom of the Fish Market) A crime play after the novel by Anke Cibach 24 & 25 September 2011 Dialog im Dunkeln Schottenstift, Freyung 6, 1010 Vienna Imagine sitting in the middle of a crime scene – without seeing anything. In pitch-black, [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Mykola Riabchuk, Ukraine, on 9/11
Dichtung und Wahrheit Mykola Riabchuk Where were you on September 11 ten years ago? Most of us were sitting in front of a TV watching the unbelievable: two airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center in New York. Ukrainian writer Mykola Riabchuk, who was a Milena Jesenská Fellow at the IWM at that time, recalls [...]more -
Europe, Events
Schengen – Dream or Nightmare in a Populist Age?
Public Debate Thursday, 15 September 2011, 7 pm RadioKulturhaus, Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Vienna Schengen has turned Europe into a different place. 14 years ago, each and every Austrian border was manned by border guards. With Switzerland acceding to Schengen, the last “hard” borders of Austria have disappeared. Residents of Schengen countries can now travel from the [...]more -
Events, General Funding
International Symposium, 12-13 September, Belgrade
MEMORY OF THE CITY Policies and Practices of Memory Preservation and Integration in City Development Cultural Centre of Belgrade, the ARTGET Gallery The symposium is based on the premise that a critical approach to examining the past is a necessary condition for the development of a community. The main aim of the symposium is to stress the importance [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Cynthia L. Haven, USA
Cynthia L. Haven “Invisible You Reign Over the Visible”: Julia Hartwig’s Reality Mysticism Ryszard Kapuściński once called her “one of the foremost poets of the twentieth century”, and the writer Czesław Miłosz spoke of her as “the grande dame of Polish poetry.” Julia Hartwig turned ninety on August 14 this year. She has been writing for eight [...]more -
Events, Social Development
Talalinipe le Romenca
Between Myth and Reality: Encounters with Roma Exhibition, 6-9 September 2011, Vienna Opening: Monday, 5 September, 7 pm Finissage & Sale of the art works: Thursday, 8 September, 4 pm With an estimated number of 10 million, the Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic group without a state territory. Be it in Eastern Europe or in Austria, the Roma [...]more -
Culture, Events
The Waste Land
Exhibition, 2 September – 16 October 2011 Opening: Thursday, 1 September, 6 pm Performance by Sue Tompkins: Thursday, 1 September, 7 pm Reading by Jiří Valoch: Tuesday, 11 October, 7 pm Curated by Lenka Vítková Artists: Rashid Johnson, Zbigniew Libera, Jan Nálevka, Jiří Thýn, Sue Tompkins The Waste Land exhibition offers a few examples of [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Ashley Ahearn, USA
Ashley Ahearn Military Zones Mean Boom for Biodiversity Throughout history people and nations have felt the need to divide “us” from “them”. And so we build walls. We build walls for protection. We build walls out of insecurity and fear – from the Great Wall of China, stretching thousands of miles, to the barbed wire [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Vukša Veličković, Serbia
Vukša Veličković Serbia’s Guilty Pleasures: Who’s Afraid of Turbo? The notorious music genre that became synonymous with Serbia’s nationalist regime of the 1990s has anything but disappeared. Turbo-folk continues to play the role both of hero and villain – as Serbia’s best known “brand” and as skeleton in its closet. After several years of investigation, [...]more -
Events, Social Development
The World Ageing & Generations Congress
WDA World Demographic and Aging Forum University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 29 August – 2 September 2011 Demographic developments and intergenerational relationships are key topics today and will continue to be in the coming decades. Hence, both global and national initiatives to improve the intergenerational relations, as well as to address issues of ageing societies, [...]more -
Europe
Now online: Blogging Jesenská. Zsuzsa Balazs, Budapest, makes the start
An American journalist visits the former border between Eastern and Western Europe and finds the Iron Curtain turned into a Green Belt. A Dutch correspondent who wants to know how European ancient culture is brought into the 21st century gets the answer in a cheap art store in Vienna. A Serbian reporter explores the music [...]more -
Social Development
Steirische Eisenstraße "Tu was" region 2012
An initiative that encourages self-initiative Citizens develop ideas for their region The name of the initiative, which means something like “Do something to make it happen” or “Take action to make a change”, is already half of the explanation what the initiative is about: Citizens are encouraged to develop ideas for the development of their region. “Many people have bright [...]more -
Europe, Events
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting
21-27 August 2011, Opatija, Croatia The 2nd BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting features a superb line-up of journalists and trainers, who will cover various aspects and techniques of investigative reporting with practical knowledge, examples and case studies from their fields of expertise. Interviewing techniques, computer-assisted reporting (CAR), following a paper trail, writing a story, [...]more -
General Funding
Symposium "Memory of the City", Exhibition "Blue Print"
17 August – 1 September 2011 The Cultural Centre of Belgrade Opening: Wednesday, 17 August, 8pm The project explores the memory and the cultural heritage of the City of Belgrade, striving to identify different ways to activate the memory in urban regeneration and city identity formation, ranging from those which are in the domain of [...]more -
Culture, Events
tranzit.hu at Lake Bánk Festival
4-6 August 2011, Bánk, Hungary Opening: 5 August 2011, 6-7 pm 2 exhibitions of Tímea Oravecz, Lilla Khoór in collaboration with Will Potter, organised by Marom Hungary and tranzit.hu Lake Bánk Summer Camp was a private summer camp which was held by the liberal pedagogue Eszter Leveleki from the 1930ies throughout the late 1970ies in Bánk, a multilingual countryside village near the [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Festival Sinestezija
Multi-location contemporary art platform and work-in-progress exhibition 5-12 August 2011, Herceg-Novi, Montenegro The multi-disciplinary Festival Sinestezija, which is taking place for the first time this summer in the beautiful town of Herceg-Novi, was initiated to give local and regional contemporary artists a platform of expression. Sculptors, mural painters, street artists, performers, illustrators and designers are [...]more