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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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Culture
Cosmin Costinas new executive director of Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
The writer, critic and member of ERSTE Foundation’s PATTERNS advisory board has been named new executive director/curator of the Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong’s leading non-profit organisation dedicated to contemporary visual art exhibitions. Costinas is Asia’s first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art. His appointment is effective immediately. “I believe we will consolidate Para/Site as an internationally [...]more -
Culture, Events
Joska Skalník: dreams – situations – games
tranzit.sk Exhibition Opening: 25 June 2011, 6 pm With music by DJ Lucas Hulan Duration of the exhibition: 26 June - 31 July 2011 tranzit workshops Studenâ 12, Bratislava, Slovakia Curated by Laco Teren in collaboration with Jano Kukučka. Joska Skalník was one of the leading personalities in the unofficial Czechoslovak culture movement in the 1970s-1980s. [...]more -
Culture, Events
ROY G. BIV – Active Art project against any form of discrimination
20-21 June 2011, 8 pm A document-performance on the intolerance expressed publicly, openly, without any control or responsibility, shamelessly by the political leaders and public figures of the Republic of Moldova in 2011. With: Emilian Crețu, Veaceslav Sambris, Ina Surdu, Doriana Talmazan, Irina Vacarciuc Producers: Nicoleta Esinencu and Nora Dorogan Author of the project: Bogdan [...]more -
Culture, Events
Reality Check: Contextualising Higher Education in Central and South Eastern Europe
A PATTERNS_Lectures conference on 27 June 2011, 5 pm Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (AAAD), Prague During this two-day conference, higher education experts from 11 countries will address the following key questions in keynotes, panel discussions and presentations: What is the current situation of universities in CEE? What trends can be identified in the educational [...]more -
Culture, Events
Caminul Cultural
Press conference: 9 June 2011, 1 pm, subRahova, Bucharest Followed by 2 days of conferences, interventions and public presentations Where Art does take place in the End Times? on 10 and 11 June 2011 Caminul Cultural is a project initiated and conceived by the artists Brynjar Bandlien, Farid Fairuz and Manuel Pelmus. The project is administrated [...]more -
Culture, Events
Rabih Mroué: Will the Spring Visit Us?
Exhibition, 10 June – 31 July 2011 Opening: Thursday, 9 June, 6 pm tranzitdisplay, Dittrichova 9/337, 120 00 Praha 2 Curated by: Cosmin Costinaş, Romania Rabih Mroué (born 1967 in Beirut) is an actor, director and playwright. In 1990 he began creating his own plays, performances, and videos. Continuously searching for new and contemporary relations among all [...]more -
Culture, Europe, Events
Balkanology in Podgorica
«BALKANOLOGY» New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe Exhibition, 26 May – 9 June 2011 Opening: 26 May, 8 pm Paviljon Udruzenje Likovnih Umjetnika Crne Gore (ULUCG) ul. Marka Miljanova br. 2, 8100 Podgorica, Montenegro In the western Balkans, the collapse of the socialist regimes in Yugoslavia and Albania has given rise to an [...]more -
Culture, Events
Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions
Exhibition, 18 May – 4 June 2011 Opening: 17 May, 6:30 pm Riga City Art Space, Intro Hall, Kungu street 3, Old Town, Riga, Latvia The exhibition investigates exhibitions as a cultural phenomenon and a genre in its own right, focusing on the period determined by the state socialisms of the Eastern European region. The exhibition will [...]more -
Culture, Events
Meeting "Sweet 60s"
Panel discussions 13 May 2011, 1 pm Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna The event brings together key personalities involved in the project Sweet 60s, a long-term experimental curatorial, scientific and educational research project that investigates hidden territories of the revolutionary period of the 1960s regarded from contemporary artistic and theoretical perspectives. The curatorial and artistic focus [...]more -
Culture, Events
Zbyněk Baladrán: What I Do Not See
Exhibition opening, drinks & barbecue: 12 May 2011, 7 pm 13 May - 15 June 2011: tranzit workshops Studená 12, Bratislava Zbyněk Baladrán (*1973) lives in Prague as an artist and curator. He was co-curator of the long-term project Monument to Transformation and together with the tranzit.org team curated the biennial Manifesta 8 in Murcia and Cartagena, [...]more -
Culture
Rethinking Socialism: Twenty Years Later
6 – 8 May 2011, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade 6 & 7 May: Conference and film programme 8 May: Film programme Rethinking Socialism: Twenty Years Later is the third in the series of conferences of the international research project UNFINISHED MODERNISATIONS – BETWEEN UTOPIA AND PRAGMATISM: Architecture and Urban Planning in Former Yugoslavia and Its Successor States. After [...]more -
Culture, Events
CODE:RED
Book presentation, 10 May 2011, 7 pm Open Space, Open Systems – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna We are pleased to announce the publication of the book CODE:RED. The book includes theoretical essays and previously unpublished documentary material relating to the long-term collaborative art project CODE:RED, which was initiated in 1999/2000 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute. At the [...]more -
Culture, Europe, Events
Balkanology comes to Belgrade
Balkanology. New Architecture and urban phenomena in South Eastern Europe Exhibition, 6 – 19 May 2011, Belgrade Heritage House Opening: 5 May 2011, 8:30 pm 7 May 2011, 12 noon: Guided tour with curator Kai Vöckler An exhibition organised in the framework of the 6th Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA) 2011. Opening speeches by: Nicolaus Keller, director [...]more -
Culture, Events
The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens
10 years Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for Young Visual Artists Exhibition, 27 April – 12 May 2011 Opening: 27 April, 8 pm, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad Participants: Dušica Dražić, Siniša Ilić, Vladimir Nikolić, Ivan Petrović, Milena Putnik, Milica Ružičić, Ivana Smiljanić and Katarina Zdjelar Curator: Radmila Joksimović The exhibition marks the 10th [...]more -
Culture
Atlas of Transformation an award-winning publication!
Atlas of Transformation has been awarded 2 international awards: Gold Medal: The Best Book Design from all over the World of the year 2010 from The Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig Unique of its kind in the world, this competition has been held in Leipzig since 1963 on an annual basis. The international competition assesses books which [...]more -
Culture
ERSTE Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Curators – Call for Applications
ERSTE Foundation offers three fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to take part in the curatorial course at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg between 25 July and 06 August 2011. The principal aim of the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts is a wide variety of artistic [...]more -
Culture, Events
tranzitdisplay shows: galería parásito/… Luis Camnitzer
Exhibition, 12 April – 22 May 2011 Opening: 11 April, 6 pm tranzitdisplay, Prague tranzitdisplay, in collaboration with galería parásito/…, presents the first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic of the Uruguayan conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer. Luis Camnitzer was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1937. At one year of age, his family left for Uruguay, where he was raised. He studied in Montevideo, and after [...]more -
Culture
Learning from Modernisations
Conference, 1-2 April 2011 Cultural Informative Centre (Salon 19/19) Skopje, Macedonia The conference Learning from Modernisations, organised by the Coalition for Sustainable Development, forms part of the two-year collaboration project Unfinished Modernisations: Between Utopia and Pragmantism, designed to systematically document and interpret modern archictecture, built environments, and social landscapes of the former Yugoslav countries within [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.sk invites: "Once a Quiet Place" curated by LACO TEREN
Opening: Saturday, 2 April 2011, 6 pm With FRANK WINTER and LA STAMPA live ANDREW HILLARD (photographer) aka FRANK WINTER (songwriter) “I have spent the last two years building this project. The idea was to work using the city as a character, as though I was photographing locations for a film. One photograph of one [...]more -
Culture
Artist-in-Residence programme of quartier21 curated by tranzit.org
Presentation by Martin Vongrej – VDMV Friday, 1 April 2011, 6 pm Raum D, quartier21, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Martin Vongrej, a young artist living and working in Bratislava, will present his work developed in February-March during the AiR programme of tranzit.org in MuseumsQuartier Vienna. Besides participating in several group and solo shows, he also took [...]more -
Culture
Apply now for the Artist-in-residence programme at MuseumsQuartier
Offered by tranzit.cz September – November 2011 MuseumsQuartier, quartier21, Vienna The residences are designed for artists, curators, theoreticians and other professionals working in the contemporary art scene in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and in Hungary. Residents have their own studio space in MuseumsQuartier, including all necessary facilities. More information is available here. One resident [...]more -
Culture
Manifesta 8 lecture in Budapest, by curatorial team tranzit.org
1 March 2011, 6 pm Ludwig Museum, Budapest One of the curatorial teams of Manifesta 8, tranzit.org – represented by Vit Havranek, Dora Hegyi, Boris Ondreicka and Georg Schollhammer – shares its experiences about the possibility to democratically „constitute” the rules of a group exhibition organized in Murcia, Spain in 2010. Given the motto [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.cz publishes first Czech translation of a book by John Cage: "Silence"
Official book launch: 24 February 2011, 6 pm tranzitdisplay, Dittrichova 9, Prague 2 Silence is a seminal compilation of writings by American avant-garde composer, poet and artist John Cage. Despite the fact that this pioneer of experimental and electronic music visited Czechoslovakia as far back as 1964, and despite his considerable fame and the fact [...]more -
Culture
Atlas of Transformation to be shown in Zurich
Performance & Lecture: Atlas of Transformation 20 January 2011, 7 pm, Zurich, Switzerland Zbyn?k Baladrán and Vit Havaranek will present in a temporary installation and a performative lecture the English edition of their publication Atlas of Transformation, which was published at the end of 2010 by JRP Ringier. The book deals with the transformation of [...]more -
Culture
Catalyst Award 2010 by tranzit.hu
Catalyst award is a contemporary art award that was founded by tranzit.hu with the aim to foster a greater collective appreciation of initiatives that are inspiring for the local intellectual community. The prize is awarded to individuals, projects and initiatives that directly or indirectly have an impact on the contemporary art scene and [...]more -
Culture
Leipziger Buchpreis 2011 awarded to Austrian writer Martin Pollack
Congratulations from ERSTE Foundation! Martin Pollack, Austrian writer, translator and jury member of ERSTE Foundation and IWM’s Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators programme, has been awarded the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2011 (Leipzig book prize on European understanding) for his memorable and influential uvre. The jury emphasised that Pollack’s empathic historical reports, which he builds on the fine line between the genres of [...]more -
Culture
Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators 2011/2012: Call for applications open until 11 February 2011
Translators in Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies: Be part of the IWM community! The Paul Celan Fellowship Program of IWM and ERSTE Foundation aims to help overcome deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and reception of scholarly literature which result from the division of Europe in the 20th century. Therefore, the Paul Celan [...]more -
Culture
Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2010: Award ceremony and public conference
10 December 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona 4 pm 7:30 pm · Conference: Writing art history. Dialogues in the present continuous The conference takes place on the occasion of the 2010 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory ceremony. It aims to broaden the geographical sphere of the prize by linking the [...]more -
Culture, Social Development
Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen_RELOADED: Award-winning forum theatre on tour in Austria
2010 is the Year of Fighting Poverty Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen_RELOADED on 9 and 29 November 2010 in Vienna Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen neuer Armut entgegenwirken (Working against the new poverty) is the name of a legislative forum theatre project that was awarded the SozialMarie 2010, the first prize for innovative social projects in Austria. The project aims [...]more -
Culture
Gender Check: A Reader – Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Book Launch, Talk, Symposium
Book Launch & Talk: Gender Check: A Reader Art and Theory in Eastern Europe Friday, 19 November 2010, 7 pm MUMOK, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Editor’s statement: Bojana Peji? Comments and discussion: Angela Dimitrakaki, Johanna Schaffer This anthology is the first representative collection of essays investigating gender issues in social, cultural, and artistic contexts in [...]more -
Culture
Good Luck! Migration Today. Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Istanbul
Initiative Minderheiten, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, zeitschrift juridicum and ERSTE Foundation cordially invite you to the following events: Exhibition: Living Across. Spaces of Migration Opening: 4 November 2010, 7 pm Duration of the exhibition: 5 November – 5 December 2010 Place: xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 2nd [...]more -
Culture
Book presentation: The Renaming Machine
23 October 2010, 5 pm Open Space, Vienna This reader comprises various theoretical texts, art works and research projects, commissioned comprehensive cross-disciplinary research files, and a thesaurus of news and curiosities dealing with the complex historical, socio-political, cultural and visual implications of the renaming phenomenon. The concept renaming machine was coined to underscore the arbitrary and [...]more -
Culture
Not Where from but Where to…
Exhibition, 20 October – 7 November 2010, Vienna Opening: 19 October, 7 pm Artistic contributions: Nika Autor: Postcards, experimental film, PAL DVD, 2010. Report on the state of the asylum policy in the Republic of Slovenia from January 2008 to August 2009, documentary film, PAL DVD, 2010 Nemanja Cvijanovi?: Mount Triglav on The Adriatic Sea, series of 3 [...]more -
Culture, Europe
Balkanology comes to Bucharest
15 October – 15 November 2010 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Curator: Kai Vöckler An exhibition in the frame of Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2010 Balkanology opens a new field of architectural discourse in Romania the little-known architecture of the post-Socialist period and the result of unregulated, uncontrolled urban planning in the neighbouring countries [...]more -
Culture
tranzit goes Manifesta 8
9 October 2010 - 9 January 2011 Preview days: 7 and 8 October 2010 Official opening: 9 October 2010 Symposium: 10 October 2010 Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) and the tranzit collective is one of the curatorial teams responsible for the artistic content. tranzit.org is a [...]more -
Culture
International Symposium on Curatorial Practice
1-2 October 2010, Ljubljana Exhibition as Artistic Medium, Curator of Contemporary Art as the Artist. The Changing Statuses of the Exhibition and the Curator in the Field of Contemporary Art. We are yet to find the answer as to whether and how is an exhibition a form of art and the curator an artist, however, [...]more -
Culture
The Renaming Machine
Book presentation: 23 September 2010, 6:30 pm at Jakopi? Gallery, Ljubljana Speakers: Suzana Milevska, Aldo Milohni?, Lana Zdravkovi?, Tadej Poga?ar and on 23 October 2010, 5 pm at Open Space, Vienna The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute from Ljubljana, Slovenia, announces the launch of the source book The Renaming Machine – The Book, 2010, edited by Suzana Milevska, curator and visual [...]more -
Culture
RE-DESIGNING THE EAST. Political Design in Asia and Europe
Exhibiton: 25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Opening: 24 September 2010, 7 pm The exhibition Re-Designing the East: Political Design in Asia and Europe highlights critical and resistive design practices in (Eastern) Europe and (South/Eastern) Asia from the nineteen-eighties through the present. Of particular focus is the role of both design [...]more -
Culture
Monument to Transformation goes Paris
Exhibition: The Watchmen, the Liars, the Dreamers 16 September – 14 November 2010, Le Plateau Gallery, Paris Opening: Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 6-9 pm The Watchmen, the Liars, the Dreamers is the third part of the Concrete Erudition programme devised by curator Guillaume Désanges, who has been invited to come up with a cycle of [...]more -
Culture
Sketches of Migration. Postcolonial Enmeshments, Antiracist Construction Work
A collective (book) project on migration, gender and politics 17 June 2010, 6:30 pm: Project/book presentation & discussion Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna with Agnes Achola, Carla Bobadilla, Petja Dimitrova, Nilbar Güre?, Stefania Del Sordo, Ljubomir Brati?, Johanna Schaffer, Vlatka Frketi? (moderation) This publication embodies both the results of a collective process and its realization as [...]more -
Culture
Salto Mortale
Event on 17 June 2010, 6 pm MuseumsQuartier, Vienna In the frame of the Artist-in-Residence programme at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, ERSTE Foundation’s project partner tranzit regularly sends artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to Vienna. Currently, Anabela igová from Slovakia lives and works at MuseumsQuartier. Her video documentary examines “the legacy of silence” and the dilemma of today’s [...]more -
Culture
Gender Check's finale in Warsaw
Panel discussions: Friday, 11 June 2010, 12 noon, 6 pm Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, 13 June 2010 The exhibition Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw will end on Sunday, 13 June 2010. To mark the occasion, panel discussions with curator Bojana [...]more -
Culture
Encounters in Relational Geography – Dust, Ashes, Residua
Exhibition: 2 June 2 July 2010 Opening: 1 June 2010, 7 pm, Vienna Artists: Ranko Bon, Dumitru Budrala, Marina Grzini? und Aina mid, Isa Rosenberger, Sao Sedla?ek, Vlad Nanc?, Zbyn?k Baladrán Curator: Richard Appignanesi The awkward question: Is Eastern Europe really accounted as European added value? Or is our currently extended Europe fatally schizothymic? Do [...]more -
Culture
Art Always Has Its Consequences
Final exhibition: 8 May – 2 June 2010 Opening: Saturday, 8 May, 12 pm The exhibition Art Always Has Its Consequences opens on 8 May, on the Day of the Liberation of Zagreb in 1945. Today, at a time of epoch-making realignment in relation to the Second World War and the tendency of equating Nazism [...]more -
Culture
Eclipsed Voices
Exhibition 10 March – 2 April 2010, Vienna The exhibition presents two works whose subject matters alter diverse issues of social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of our daily life. Each work, in its own way, has the restrained intention of trying to understand the local realities that surround us and shape our identity. The works [...]more -
Culture
Monument to Transformation in Spain and Croatia
The exhibition presents the outcome of more than two years of researching “social transformation”. It is conceived as an imaginative and analytical space that – with a certain distance – enables the visitor to see and reflect the processes of change that started by the fall of the Iron Curtain and have to an extent [...]more