Contributing authors and artists: Larissa Agel, Karin Akai, Judit Angel, Zbyněk Baladrán, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Florin Bobu, Aleksei Borisionok, Anetta Mona Chişa, Eduard Constantin, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Max Dvořák, ex-artists collective (Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt), František Fekete, Maja Fowkes & Reuben Fowkes, Flóra Gadó, Ines Gebetsroither, Michaela Geboltsberger, Dóra Hegyi, Hollow (Gyula Muskovics, Tamás Páll, Viktor Szeri), Oto Hudec, József Mélyi, Jana Kapelová, Július Koller, Iva Kovač, Isabella Kresse, Júlia Laki, Renan Laru-an, Zsuzsa László, Paula Malinowska, Ina Mertens, Helena Mustakallio, OMARA (Mara Oláh), Livia Pancu, Mirjam Paninski, Lia Perjovschi, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nela Pietrová, Marlies Pillhofer, Raluca Popa, Emília Rigová, Ivana Rumanová, Georg Schöllhammer, Olga Shparaga, Renata Šikoronja, Save As Team, Borbála Soós, Tereza Stejskalová, The School of Dissolving – Expanding – Reconnecting Imagination (Tereza Čajková, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Eva Koťátková), Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Attila Tordai-S., Raluca Voinea, Aleksandrina Yordanova

The publication »tranzit 20+: past, present, future« marks the twentieth anniversary of the tranzit.org network, which brings together initiatives for contemporary art in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Each of these platforms operates under distinct local conditions, creating spaces for artistic, theoretical, and activist engagement with socially relevant issues.

The book takes stock of two decades of collaborative work and positions itself as both a reflection on and a continuation of key debates. It is structured into five thematic chapters addressing central concerns: institutional critique, radical approaches to education, ecological perspectives, the legacy of the neo-avant-garde, and visions of the future. These themes have been shaped over the years by the individual tranzit initiatives and are critically re-examined in this publication.

The contributions consist of both previously published texts and newly commissioned works, as well as revised and updated essays. A range of formats—from academic writing and interviews to letters, diagrams, drawings, photographs, and film stills—opens up multifaceted and dynamic spaces for thought and exchange.

Accompanying the publication, a series of book presentations will take place in 2026: Budapest (29 April), Prague (12 June), Cluj, Bucharest (date to be confirmed), and Iași (July), Bratislava (16 October), as well as Vienna (4 December).

Overall, the publication is conceived not only as a retrospective, but as a dynamic platform for reflecting on the role of contemporary art in processes of social transformation—past, present, and future.