Networks of Cooperation: Sustainable Structures for Ukrainian Cultural Actors in Europe and Beyond
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International Conference from 15–16 October 2026 at Kunsthaus Graz
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Nils Amadeus Lange – Hildegard von Bingen
Performance / cz /
Lunchmeat Festival, tranzit.cz, the National Gallery Prague, and Prague Art Week present the performance Hildegard of Bingen by Swiss artist Nils Amadeus Lange.
It will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Small Hall of the Trade Fair Palace. Through contemporary queer rituals, medieval chants, scents, and movement, the performance brings to life the work of the medieval mystic, healer, and thinker Hildegard of Bingen, which focused on plants, sexuality, music, and the body.
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Queer Existence as Collective Choreography
Screening of short films and discussion with Michal Durda and Paulína Pinková / cz /
The two independent short films by Michal Durda and Paulina Pinková explore the concept of “queer” through social and collective choreography. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists, moderated by Nela Pietrová. The films address the themes of chemsex and folklore from a queer perspective, incorporating elements of storytelling, dance, and music. These are collective rituals that can be appropriated as methods of everyday rebellion.
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Space for the 99%: Contemporary Slovak and Czech Spatial Practices
Exhibition at tranzit sk / sk /
Opening: 24. 9. 2026, 18:00
༶ Curators and authors of research
Lýdia Grešáková, Zuzana Tabačková (Spolka)
༶ Exhibition design Kristina Roman (Spolka)
༶ Graphic design David Novák (Dacid)
༶ Exhibition artifacts
Architekti bez hranic, Arnika, Artyčok TV, ateliér • tečka, AutoMat, Bedřiška (pře)žije!, COLridor, Cyklokoalícia, Čierne diery, Galerie Hraničář, Jiří Teo Mateja, Kolem hlíny, Les – společenství pro pěstování, teorii a umění, Limity jsme my, MAK / mobilní architektonická kancelář, Nadácia DEDO, Pěstuj prostor, Pěšky městem, Projekt DOM.ov, Punkt, Realistická utópia Veľký Krtíš (RUVK), Re-set: Platforma pro sociálně-ekologickou transformaci, Spolka, Včelí kRaj
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Longing for a Better Past
An exhibition on nostalgia, memory and the ways we restore the past / ro /
Part of the programme hosted by tranzit.ro/ Iași.
11 September 2026 | tranzit.ro/ Iași
17:00 – Round-table discussion |
19:30 – Exhibition opening
On 11 September, at tranzit.ro/ Iasi, WASP Studios opens “Longing for a Better Past / Tânjind după un trecut mai bun”, an exhibition developed within “Living Archives. Memory, identity, and everyday gestures”. Bringing together 11 artists from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the exhibition explores how nostalgia, personal memory, and collective memory participate in reconstructing and reframing the communist past.
The exhibition is curated by Olivia Nițiș and Andreea Căpitănescu, with curatorial concept and text by Olivia Nițiș.
Works by: Matei Bejenaru, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter, Mălina Ionescu, Mălina Moncea, Sarah Muscalu, Delia Popa, Ghenadie Popescu, Marilena Preda Sânc, Carmen Raszovsky, Gheorghe Raszovsky, Renée Renard.
Visual identity: Ciprian Ciuclea.
The programme on 11 September begins at 17:00 with a round-table discussion featuring Matei Bejenaru, Sarah Muscalu, Mălina Moncea, and Delia Popa, moderated by Olivia Nițiș and Andreea Căpitănescu. The discussion will address the nuanced dimensions of political nostalgia, particularly nostalgia for communism, from the perspective of artistic practices, while questioning reductive readings of the communism/post-communism divide.
The exhibition opening will take place at 19:30, and the exhibition will remain on view at tranzit.ro/ Iasi until 29 September 2026.
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CULTIVATORS OF LIFE: Growing Seedbeds of Knowledge
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6 September - 8 November 2026
Presented at MODEM - Center for Modern and Contemporary Art
Organized by tranzit.ro/București and MODEM
Opening on 5 September at 16:30
Curators: Adelina Luft (tranzit.ro/București), Krisztián Gábor Török (MODEM)
Participants
Alex Bodea (Berlin), Annalee Davis (Barbados), Aterraterra(Palermo), Colectivo Suumil Móokt’aan (Yucatán), Fuzzy Earth (Budapest), Harun Morrison (London), Horia Bernea (Bucharest), Kitti Gosztola & Bence Pálinkás (Budapest), Marina Sulima (Groningen/Chișinău), Martin Piaček (Bratislava), Mónica de Miranda (Lisbon/London), de Onkruidenier Collective (Amsterdam), Orsolya Gál (Cluj-Napoca), PARI feat. Anang Saptoto (Yogyakarta), Raluca Popa (Berlin/Bucharest).
Cosmos Garden at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (with contributions from Raluca Voinea, Eduard Constantin, Adelina Ivan, and others), Seed Bank Garden (Adina Moise and works from Codruta Birsan), Uzura Garden (Ana Barbu), Studio-Garden Crețești (Delia Popa), the garden of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Science in Debrecen (documented by Lilla Váczi) alongside research about the kertségek (the garden districts of Debrecen).
Exhibition design: TEREBINTH studio (Budapest)
The group exhibition is presented within the framework of the two-year programme Cultivators of Life, curated and organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest throughout 2025–2026 at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, partner venues across Bucharest, and at MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen. The programme has included artistic residencies, public events in gardens, hands-on workshops, and the Conversations in Living Thought, coordinated by philosopher Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, culminating in this exhibition, organized in partnership with MODEM and co-curated by Adelina Luft (tranzit.ro/Bucharest) and Krisztián Gábor Török (MODEM).
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Dorottya Szonja Koltay
Artist-in-Residence September–October 2026, Hungary /
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📢 CALL for APPLICATIONS 2027: Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna
Deadline: 15. 9. 2026 / sk /
The participants are given the opportunity to live and work in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna.
The residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
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Call for Artist in Residence - MQ residency 2027
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna / hu /
The Artist in Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s long-term endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the fragile situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
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Summer School “Ecologies of Emancipation” – 6th Edition: The Golden Age of the Dark Enlightenment?
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / ro /
10–16 August 2026
Location: hypha_etc, Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County (Romania)
Application deadline closed on 30 June 2026
Rarely has an ideological platform transformed so rapidly from a niche, marginal, and extreme set of public ideas into an objective reality and an uninhibited Zeitgeist. The Dark Enlightenment has accomplished precisely this within barely a decade: from an internet counterculture carrying an explicitly reactionary charge – anti-egalitarian and repressive, obscurantist yet no less technocratic, hierarchical-elitist, and simultaneously populist-demagogic, libertarian and neoliberal while also corporatist-feudal – it has become an assertive and aggressive component of public discourse, both in the centers of the core and in the peripheries and semi-peripheries of the world-system. At the same time, it is also the objective reality of a world surviving beyond its own modern, Enlightenment foundations: on the one hand, the international legal order, now abolished and reconverted into a state of nature through a series of military aggressions conducted under exceptional legal regimes initiated by the world’s hegemonic powers, from the Iraq War to Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the recent war against Iran and Lebanon: on the one hand, the international legal order, now abolished and reverted to a state of nature by a series of military aggressions under exceptional legal regimes initiated by the world’s hegemonies, from the war in Iraq to Ukraine, to the genocide in Gaza and the recent war on Iran and Lebanon; and on the other hand, the welfare-state social compromise of modern states, the package of recognition and redistribution that until recently formed the basis of democratic systems, today deeply eroded by increasingly severe waves of austerity policies and overexploitation, segregation, and exclusion. It seems that the Dark Enlightenment is the most radical and overt theoretical justification for the betrayal of Enlightenment ideals in political practice over the past few decades. The success of this spectacular achievement of the Dark Enlightenment is all the more remarkable in that it did not need to go through the “mass” phase — through the dissemination and adoption of this perspective by the majority of society — but leaped directly from social media channels and the corridors of venture & platform capitalism into the halls and salons of official power and the mainstream media, rebuilding its popularity rather retroactively and from the top down.
This year’s edition of the summer school “Ecologies of Emancipation” seeks to interrogate not only the configuration and spectacular evolution of this ideological platform – both in terms of its ideological content and its material (political-economic) foundations – but also, more broadly and more urgently, the kind of world in which such an ideology, grounded in such a material basis, could become a general metanarrative overnight.Thus, alongside the ideological background of the Dark Enlightenment and its reverberations on the left in various forms of accelerationism, the presentations delivered within the summer school will examine the current crisis of the international legal order and modern constitutionalism, civilizational legitimations, the reactionary echoes of neoliberal thought as well as of new labor and production relations, the cultural and educational policies of the new reaction, the alliance between venture and platform capitalism and the military complex as the material basis of the post-liberal order, as well as the crises, challenges, and possibilities for the reconstitution of emancipatory movements in this context.
This year’s edition of the “Ecologies of Emancipation” summer school aims to examine not only the structure and spectacular evolution of this ideological platform—that is, both its ideological content and its material (political-economic) foundation—but also, more broadly and with greater concern, what kind of world this is in which such an ideology, with such a material basis, could become a general metanarrative overnight. Thus, in addition to the ideological underpinnings of the Dark Enlightenment, as well as its reverberations on the left in various forms of accelerationism, the presentations delivered at the school will examine the current crisis of the international legal order and modern constitutionalism, civilizational legitimations, the reactionary echoes of neoliberal thought as well as of new relations of labor and production, the cultural and educational policies of the new reaction, the alliance between venture & platform capitalism and the military-industrial complex as the material basis of the post-liberal order, as well as the crises, challenges, and opportunities for the reconstitution of emancipation movements in this context.
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The Artist-in-Residence Programme at MQ21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna 2027
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS open until September 15th, 2026 / ro /
The Artist in Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s long-term endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the fragile situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
The residency programme is carried out in close cooperation with ERSTE Foundation's key cultural partners: tranzit.org, Igor Zabel Association, and Kontakt Collection (Kontakt Collection will collaborate with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.) Thus, the residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Taking into consideration the urgencies raised by the ongoing war against Ukraine, we would like to express our solidarity and add a grant of a two-month stay for a participant from Ukraine.
The research character of the residency should make it possible to take a break from strenuous situations, from everyday production pressure, and find time to concentrate on a specific interest. The participants are given the opportunity to live and work in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The apartments offer both living and working space, but do not provide room for large-scale artistic works.
Please note: pets are not permitted at the residency.
During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants.
Each residency grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1.300,– plus a one-time travel grant of EUR 300,– (non-EU: EUR 500,–).
Together with its cooperation partners from tranzit.at, tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija, ERSTE Foundation forms the jury to select the participants.
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CALL for APPLICATIONS 2027 now open until September 15, 2026
The residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Taking into consideration the urgencies raised by the ongoing war against Ukraine, we would like to express our solidarity and add a grant of a two-month stay for a participant from Ukraine.
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Biennale Matter of Art 2026
49 artists and collectives, and dozens of events across three venues in Prague and Pardubice / cz /
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Call for Artist in Residence - MQ residency 2027
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna / hu /
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The Artist-in-Residence Programme at MQ21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna 2027
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS open until September 15th, 2026 / ro /
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Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries
Biennale Matter of Art
The project comprises the international exhibition of contemporary art taking place once every two years as well as the platform’s long-term activities, which engage in critical reflection of the institutional aspects of the biennale format in the / cz /
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The Space of Opportunity is open
Community space under 63 Práter Street / hu /
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Revolting with Care
Research, publishing, workshops, discussion forums / sk /
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