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Events, General Funding
The Other Chelsea – A Story from Donezk
As part of the Ö1 special programme focus on the Ukraine, the documentary film “The Other Chelsea – Eine Geschichte aus Donezk”, which was awarded the “Max Ophüls Preis 2011”, will have its Austrian premiere on 22 May. Afterwards, the director of the documentary film, Jakob Preuss will take part in the discussion with the [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Ukraine/Ukrajina
On the occasion of EURO 2012 which will take place in Poland and the Ukraine, the association name>it organised, supported by ERSTE Foundation and in cooperation with Der Standard, a thematic week of the Ukraine from 20-25 May. For years the Ukraine has been swinging politically, economically and culturally back and forth between the EU [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Solo For Lu
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 refugees, host communities, students, actors and musicians, a series of new theater pieces, musical works, performances and workshops are being created. [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.at: ‘Sweet Confusion’, Istanbul
Sweet Confusion is a conference project taking place in Istanbul during 17-20 May. The project aims at investigating the artistic and historical processes of two countries that remain in the ‘peripheries’. The conference explores Armenian and Turkish cinematography of the 60s. By doing so, it is attempting to reread the social-political and cultural paradigms of [...]more -
Culture
PATTERNS Lectures: courses for 2012/2013 selected
Out of 58 eligible applications from 17 countries the PATTERNS Lectures advisors selected 13 outstanding courses that will be taught in 9 different countries throughout the academic year 2012/2013. Following courses were selected: Katalin Cseh “Second Publicity” of the Hungarian Avant-Garde. Understanding space-constitutive media and performances in the counter culture of the 1960s and 1970s [...]more -
Social Development
ERSTE Foundation presents its successful initiatives at the WSBI World Conference
From 10 to 11 May 2012, the 23rd World Conference of the World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI) gathered professionals from the financial, economic, social and political scene as well as civil society representatives from all over the world in Marrakech, Marocco. ERSTE Foundation was invited to present its model of cooperation with its [...]more -
Open Calls, Social Development
ERSTE Foundation Fellowship for Social Research – Open call
Labour markets and employment in Central and Eastern Europe Many European societies face various challenges when it comes to employment and labour market. Countries in CEE have some of the lowest labour market participation rates in Europe. What does this mean for the capacity of these countries to tackle future economic, social and demographic changes? [...]more -
Social Development
“Tu was, dann tut sich was” presents “Sozialatlas Lungau”
The outcomes of the initiative Tu was, dann tut sich was are now available as a book: On 6 May 2012, the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Soziale und Ethische Fragen (ifz), and the members of SinnStifter, a joint initiative of six Austrian foundations (ERSTE Stiftung, Essl Stiftung, Turnauer Sitftung, Schweighofer Stiftung, Humer Stiftung und Unruhe Stiftung) [...]more -
Europe
Zeppelin Association nominated at the European Prize for Urban Public Space
Zeppelin Association is one of the twenty finalists of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012. The nominated project is ‘Magic Blocks’ (2010), which focuses on the activation of the areas behind the socialist boulevards in the heart of Bucharest. The entire central area of the city is covered by concrete curtains, dozens of [...]more -
Culture, ERSTE Foundation
Péter Szabó is the Artist-in-Residence in May at MQ Vienna
Péter Szabó is the new Artist-in-Residence, who is spending the month of May in Vienna in one of the studio spaces of quartier21/ MuseumsQuartier. Péter Szabó was born in Tirgu-Mures, Romania, and lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He is founding member of Protokoll Studio from Cluj and of the noise-music bands Alergische Platze and Ovekk Finn. [...]more -
Culture, ERSTE Foundation, Events
Free School for Art Theory and Practice
The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History proposed by Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art – Berlin. Lecturers: Walter Benjamin, Alfred Barr, Gertrude Stein and Jelena Vesić. A project by tranzit.hu. It is obvious that today nobody prays in front of a religious painting in [...]more -
Culture
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive is a continually expanding, temporary performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013, presented on its own or within various exhibition formats and accompanying performances, lectures and workshops. From 5 to 26 May, the archive will be presented in Zagreb, accompanied by discursive programmes that foreground and [...]more -
Events, Invitation, Social Development
Outsider Music Fest 2012 at Diakonie Sf. Gheorghe
International Music Festival For People with Disabilities, by People with Disabilities Every year, Diakonie’s Iris House organises public events to promote its activities in Sfantu Gheorghe. This year a music festival takes place on 28 April, with inclusive music bands: Tordasi Rainbow Band, Krizbai Teca, Iris House Dancers and Singers, Iris House Action Group and [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
Extra-territory at tranzitdisplay
An invitation to the opening of the Curator´s Choice in the frame of Mobile Archive Exhibition. <<We can view the Middle East as a strange territory. Is it a land that’s remote, incomprehensible and foreign or is it, in this media age, in this age of a globalising world and in factoring in all historical contexts, [...]more -
Culture
‘Rejected Heritage’ e-publication
‘Rejected Heritage’ is the first e-publication featuring a collection of texts which attempt to describe a new landscape of 1980s’ Polish art, in order to include the so far neglected aspects and characters who did not fit within the framework outlined in any previous publication. The black-and-white rhetoric, typical to the attitude of the1980s’ opposition [...]more -
Europe, Events
Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence 2012 kicks off in Vienna
During the seven month fellowship programme, starting now in Vienna, the ten selected journalists will examine the topic Communities from different angles, focusing on different groupings – political, economic, national, gender, generational – and the relationship between them, external influences and the development of entirely new groups or factions. The Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence gives [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
A symbol comes to life: ERSTE Foundation has now its own beehive
A hive of 15,000 bees from the Alpine foothills in Lower Austria moved to the “ERSTE Foundation beehive” on Tuesday, 17 April 2012. Even though environmental issues are not in fact part of ERSTE Foundation’s programme, the foundation has been using the bee in its logo since its inception. The bees’ new home is the roof [...]more -
Culture, Events
NOarchive
The “NOarchive: 10 reasons for an open digital archive of conceptual and neo-avangarde art” exhibition presents a selection of artworks from the project Digitizing Ideas: Archives of Conceptual and Neo-Avantgarde Art Practices. The core of the exhibition consists of various collections and documents from the partner institutions of the project: Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, [...]more -
Europe, Events, Social Development
SHARE 2 Conference
The second SHARE conference takes place on 26-28 April 2012, when Belgrade will once again become the epicenter of exchange of progressive ideas and knowledge in the field of society, technology, Internet, music and new media. The event will be accompanied by intensive music program, which will be simultaneously organised in several well-selected clubs and [...]more -
General Funding, Invitation
€uroXibition comes to Belgrade
After successful opening of €uroXibition in February in Pristina, Club Alpbach Belgrade and Initiative Group Alpbach Kosovo are warmly welcoming us to the opening in Belgrade. The exhibition focuses on showing willingness and ways of cooperation between youth from Kosovo and youth from Serbia through cultural exchange. Ten photographers (five from Belgrade and five [...]more -
Events, General Funding, Invitation
Gob Squad / Campo: Before Your Very Eyes
How do today’s children see their world? A projection of the future by seven child performers and the last part of a trilogy by the Campo production house from Holland as a part of the Archa Theatre’s programme. For the first time in their 17 year history, Gob Squad do not appear onstage themselves, instead [...]more -
Events, General Funding, Invitation, Social Development
‘Take Five’ Concerto – by ((superar))
((superar)) team is welcoming us all to the ‘Take Five’ Concerto, taking place in the Viennese Konzerthaus, on Monday 23 April 2012, at 6pm. Art is essential for the development of one’s identity and personality. In return, only individuals who have the chance to develop a personality are able to have a peaceful, joyful and responsible [...]more -
Culture, Events
Exhibition Dedicated to TOMISLAV GOTOVAC
‘It all started on the Rio Grande, where I Was a Male War Bride and saw the Tragic Hunt on the Battle Ground and heard The Glenn Miller Story’ is an exhibition dedicated to one of the most interesting artists from formerYugoslavia, Tomislav Gotovac. Tomislav Gotovac (1937-2010) was not only a charismatic and exuberant [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Social Development
The good.bee Idea
In the Central and South Eastern European countries, around 35 million people do not even have a simple current bank account. There is a clear need for small-scale sensible loans and additional support for enterprising individuals and communities. A combination of Micro-Banking and Social Enterprise Finance can play a real part in renewing the region, [...]more -
Culture
Szilvia Nagy is the Artist-in-Residence in April at MQ Vienna
Szilvia Nagy, Hungary, is the new Artist-in-Residence, who is spending the month of April in Vienna in one of the studio spaces of quartier21/ MuseumsQuartier. Szilvia is an anthropologist and curator, living and working in Budapest. She established the Miskolc Institute of Contemporary Art (M.ICA), and was leading it between 2008 – 2012. “My research looks [...]more -
Culture, Events
Unfinished Modernisations
Between Utopia and Pragmatism 12 -14 April 2012 Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana The conference Unfinished Modernisations is the last one 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, Open Calls
Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy
Call for applications 2012 open until 30 April 2012 ERSTE Foundation offers four fellowships for young artists and four fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2012. In 2012, the participants [...]more -
Culture, Events
tranzitdisplay shows “Horizontal”
Horizontal, shown at tranzitdisplay, is Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s first exhibition in Prague. As one of the former colonial powers, the Netherlands is subjected here to an artistic analysis. The artist describes in specific instances the unexpected connections of colonial hegemony’s historical relations that appear in misconceptions and contradictions. Against a backdrop of technical innovation and [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.hu: Artists at Schools
tranzit.hu announces the launch of the project ‘Artists at Schools‘, developed in cooperation with Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga. The goal of the ‘Artists at schools’ project is to relate art and critical pedagogy, as well as to rethink and apply the notion of democracy, its working [...]more -
Culture, Events
UN-EDUCATION. A series of workshops, presentations and lectures
UN-EDUCATION. Reflections on the future of artistic education - a series of workshops, presentations and lectures - is a theoretical and practical inquiry into the current problems and possible models that the specific strand of artistic higher education creates. The project responds to a lack of awareness, both within the public discourse and at the level [...]more -
Culture, Events
3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part 1
The two-part 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress will focus on rearticulating the concept of Contemporary Art under the condition of “former West” and speculating about art’s possibility in this radically transformative time. If we imagine Contemporary Art to be a historical period that emerged from 1989 in parallel to other hegemonic formations such as global [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
We are moving to our Facebook page
20 March 2012 We wish to inform all our friends and partners that our ERSTE Stiftung Facebook profile will be officially closed in three weeks starting from today. Therefore, this profile will no longer be updated with new information, activities or collaborations. Within this three weeks period we will be gradually shifting all communications to [...]more -
Culture, Events
“i know no weekend”: Artistic interventions in Public Space
Date: 20 – 25 March 2012 Venue: Pécs, Hungary What is the role, the impact and what are the responsibilities of artists in today’s society? Based on the artistic works and concepts of German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986) young artists were called upon to deal with current sociopolitical issues, and how they interrelate. [...]more -
Culture
Romanian choreographer Manuel Pelmus awarded “Berlin Art Prize 2012”
18 March 2012, Academy of Arts Berlin Romanian choreographer Manuel Pelmus receives “Berlin Art Prize 2012 – Performing Arts” offered by the Academy of Arts Berlin and the City of Berlin. The Berlin Art Prize was founded in 1948 by the State of Berlin to commemorate those who died in the social unrest in March [...]more -
Culture, Events
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive in Gdansk
23 March 2012, 6 pm, Opening The Wyspa Institute of Art and cross links e.V., Gdansk, Poland re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive is a continually expanding temporary and living performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. In its current version it presents performance art by 142 artists and artist collectives [...]more -
Europe, Events
Senec welcomes the aces Academy
27 – 30 March 2012 aces Academy, Senec “Volunteering” was the theme of the aces-cycle 2011/2012 that is going to end with an international meeting, the so called aces Academy: From 27 to 30 March around 350 people from 15 different countries come together in Senec, Slovak Republic. The aces Academy will be attended by [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Social Development
Hilfswerk Austria Conference in Chisinau
29 March 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova Hilfswerk Austria organises the final conference of the project “Network of Day Care Centres for Children with Disability in the Republic of Moldova” supported by ERSTE Foundation. The network of day care centres has been strengthening its capacities and becoming more innovative in its integrative approaches throughout the [...]more -
Culture, Events
AT YOUR SERVICE – ART AND LABOUR
An exhibition of Technisches Museum Wien and ERSTE Foundation 23 March 2012 – 3 March 2013 Opening: 22 March 2012, 6.30 pm Location: Technisches Museum Wien, Mariahilfer Straße 212, 1140 Wienmore -
Culture, Events
First event of new talk series “Regime Change – An Incomplete Project”
12 March 2012, 18:00-21:00 Location: tranzit.hu, Budapest 1068, Kiraly St. 102., 1st floor Invited speakers: Agnes Gagyi (social researcher), Janos Sugar (artist) Moderators: Zsuzsa Laszlo (tranzit.hu), Kristof Nagy & Balint Nemeth (TEK) Visuals: AMBPA (Association of Mouth and Brain Painters of the World) tranzit .hu launches a series of talks in its new space, KIRALY102. By [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder appointed for “Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012″
At an award ceremony at Leipziger Gewandhaus, taking place on 14 March 2012 during Leipzig Book Fair 2012, Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder will be honoured with the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012. The British historian and author Ian Kershaw is best know for his extensive and profound biography on Adolf Hitler and [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Europe, Events
Kakanien – New Homelands Kicks Off
29 March 2012, 8 pm, Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz Am Schwarzenbergplatz 1, 1010 Vienna with Joachim Meyerhoff & Miljenko Jergović Joachim Meyerhoff kicks off the series Kakanien – New Homelands (Kakanien: Neue Heimaten) by adding a very personal touch to the evening: The German author and actor, who is a member of Vienna’s Burgtheater ensemble, [...]more -
Events, Social Development
“Our House”, Esztergom: 10 Year Anniversary
10 March 2012, starting at 4 pm Location: Mindszenty József Katolikus Általános Iskola – 2500 Esztergom, Kiss János altábornagy út. 1, Hungary The community centre Our House, part of KomenskýFond network, celebrates its 10th anniversary on 10 March 2012. Since 2002, the center has been supporting the development and education of Roma children and young adults from Esztergom. [...]more -
Europe, Events
The Hungarian and Slovak Authorities and the Catholic Church
15 – 16 March 2012 Conference: “The Hungarian and Slovak Catholic Church and the Cooperation with Austria and the Vatican” Since autumn 2011, the Institute for Contemporary History in Vienna is conducting a research on the historical archive of the state-run secret service agencies in Budapest and Bratislava. In focus of the research is the [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.hu has a new space: KIRÁLY 102
ERSTE Foundation is happy to announce that tranzit.hu has recently opened a new space, KIRÁLY 102, in Budapest. tranzit.hu is active since fall 2005 and aims to inform all those who are active in the international art world about the developments of the contemporary art scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The new space not [...]more -
Europe, Events
ThinkYoung present: Sustainable Kosovo
How to develop the youth potential? – Conference 5 March 2012, 1.30 pm, rue De La Science 14b, Brussels The problem of Kosovo is part of ongoing international and European debates. The history of this region is highly controversial. Kosovo’s current status is the result of the turmoil of the breakup of Yugoslavia, particularly [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Open Calls, Social Development
Push the button, change the world!
Are you a student from Austria, Czech Republic or Romania? Do you have entrepreneurial spirit and ideas and you would like to make a contribution to the society? Now you have the chance to be part of a group of motivated young people with the same interests, to further build up your business and managerial [...]more -
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: Mieke Bal (NL), Ursula Biemann (CH), María Galindo (BO), Gabriela Golder (AR), Elżbieta Jabłońska (PL), Gülsün Karamustafa (TR), Andreja Kulunčić (HR), Mau [...]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 2011 – December 2012 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, [...]more