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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
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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, 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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, 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, 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, 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 -
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, 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 -
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 -
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, 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 -
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 -
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, 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 -
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, 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 -
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, 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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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, 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 -
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, 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 -
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 -
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, 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 -
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 -
Events, General Funding
Summa cum Laude: International Youth Music Festival 2011
2 – 5 July 2011 Musikverein, Vienna The Summa cum Laude International Youth Music Festival had a successful start in 2007 and has taken place since then every July in Vienna’s Musikverein. Under the patronage of Nicolaus Harnoncourt, it brings each year groups of talented international young musicians and singers to the city of classical [...]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 -
Events, Social Development
Expert conference: Stepping stone to get off to a better future!
Requirements for a socially sustainable educational system Expert conference hosted by KomenskýFond, ERSTE Foundation and Caritas 4 July 2011, 8:30 am – 6:30 pm Kardinal König Haus, Kardinal-König-Platz 3, 1130 Vienna The conference is intended to give experts, practitioners and interested professionals from the field an opportunity to meet, share experiences and build networks. The conference will focus on [...]more -
Events, Social Development
The winners of the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011!
Yesterday night, on 20 June 2011, over 650 representatives from the civil society and from business and media organisations gathered in Prague’s famous Barrandov Studios to applaud this year’s winners of the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011. 37 social integration projects were selected by an international jury from 132 shortlisted projects, which in turn had been ranked [...]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 -
Events, Social Development
ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011
Award ceremony: 20 June 2011, 7:30 pm Barrandov Studios, Prague There are just a few hours left until the winners of the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011 will be announced! Prague is for two days the centre of social integration, welcoming organisations from 12 CEE countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, [...]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 -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
DER STANDARD Mentoring Circle: "Social Business – Social Responsibility"
Networking event, 15 June 2011, 7 pm Palais Schönborn, MOYA, Museum of Young Art, Renngasse 4, 1010 Vienna At the second last networking event of this mentoring year, the topic for discussion will be, “Social Business – Social Responsibility”. On the panel: Andreas Treichl, CEO Erste Group Bank AG (photo) Petra Jenner, Microsoft Wolfgang Bergmann, [...]more -
Europe, Events
Debating Europe: Is Liberal Democracy at Risk?
26 June 2011, 11 am Akademietheater, Lisztstraße 1, 1030 Vienna We live in times of democracy. While in the 1950s only a quarter of all sovereign states lived under democratic regimes, it is now more than 50% of them, and the number is growing. The appeal of democracy is currently demonstrated impressively by the continuing “Arabian spring”. But while [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Literary festival KROKODIL 2011
16-18 June 2011 Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade Opening: 16 June, 8 pm KROKODIL is a three-day regional literary festival with panel discussions, in which around 15 relevant authors from ex-Yugoslav countries take part. The main topic of the discussions this year is “Wars and Transition 20 Years on”, as 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of [...]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 -
Europe, Events
European Islam and Muslim Neighbours – Fears and Opportunities
ERSTE Stiftung and European Stability Initiative (ESI) invite you to a public debate (in English) on: European Islam and Muslim neighbours – Fears and Opportunities Friday, 10 June 2011, 7 pm, RadioKulturhaus, Vienna Never has Europe’s relationship with Islam been more debated. From Vienna to Stockholm, from Berlin to Madrid, and from Sarajevo to Istanbul Europeans [...]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 -
Events, General Funding
Romale!
Book presentation, 31 May 2011, 6pm Wiener Festwochen – Lounge im Looshaus Michaelerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Introduction: Ursula Glaeser, Astrid Kury Participants: Thomas Busch, Damian James Le Bas Moderation: Peter Zimmermann “With the evolution of a new generation of well-educated and successful Roma, we can notice the birth of a new Roma-consciousness and a condition, in [...]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 -
Europe, Events
Last stop Kakania: 19 May, 7 pm: Juri Andruchowytsch, Ukraine
Last speech of the series: 19 May 2011, 7 pm Vestibül, Im Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 2, 1010 Vienna The speech by the Ukrainian author Juri Andruchowytsch marks the preliminary end of the Kakania series. A printed collection of all speeches will be published by Zsolnay in September. The speech will be in Ukrainian with German [...]more -
Events, General Funding
5th Jewish Film Festival: Women in Holocaust
22–28 May 2011 Europa Cinema, Varsavska 3, Zagreb Opening: 22 May 2011, 7 pm The Jewish Film Festival is a cultural and educational programme that promotes the history and culture of Jewish people, with special emphasis on the historical period of the Holocaust. This year it will celebrate its 5th edition from 22 to 28 [...]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