Reading Seminar: Marxist Takes on Science
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24 January 2026, 5 pm
Address: 51 Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu Street, Room H1, Cluj -Napoca
Following the reading seminars on Evald Ilyenkov and Aleksandr Bogdanov, the conveners of those seminars, Siyaves Azeri and Alex Cistelecan, will begin a new series with a first reading seminar on January 24, to be held at 51 Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu Street, Room H1, in Cluj-Napoca. The Reading Seminar: Marxist Takes on Science aims to provoke a discussion around the following questions:
„What distinguishes scientific knowledge-production from other forms of knowledge-production? How are scientific theories—often presented as products of individual cognition—rooted in material practices, social relations, and historically specific problem-situations? How do scientific concepts and explanations relate to real structures and mechanisms in the world? Is scientific knowledge trans-historical, or does it bear the imprint of particular social formations? How do changes in economic organization, labor processes, and technological practices shape the development of scientific knowledge?”
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elsewhereland. Contemporary Ukrainian perspectives from shifting ground
Traveling exhibition 2026–2027 at Austrian diplomatic missions worldwide / at /
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Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come
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Friday, 23 January
17:00 - 19:00
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Sala Noua Galerie)
Entrance from Str. Monetăriei 3
The conversations in the Living Thought series continues througout January to May 2026, part of the programme Cultivators of Life (2025-2026) organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest.
Coordinated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, the conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come.
Drawing on her double background as human rights lawyer and ship captain/skipper, including on refugee search and rescue missions as well as the Sumud Flotila, Morana Miljanović shares her reflections on the daily lived solidarity as a source of political reinvention. Could the ship community be a prefiguration of the possible world to come, beyond the violences of empires and nation-states? What spaces could still host a politics based on promises made by the people to the people, and what projects of organization are able to rely on joy as a political category? What are the current challenges and what was achieved in the counter-pedagogy of the Global Sumud Flotila?
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STRM - The Tissue of the Multitude
Opening space for mutual learning / sk /
THE TISSUE OF THE MULTITUDE
STRM Opening space for mutual learning
January 23, 2026 // 6 p.m. // tranzit sk // Beskydská 12, Bratislava
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Caliban, the Witch, and the Trans Girl: The Launch of Two Books from the tranzit.cz Publishing House
Silvia Federici & hannah baer translated to Czech for the first time / cz /
We cordially invite you to the performative launch of two books newly published by tranzit.cz in Czech translation by Sylva Ficová—Caliban and the Witch by Italian feminist thinker Silvia Federici and trans girl suicide museum by American author and psychologist hannah baer. The event will take place on January 21, 2026 from 7 p.m. in Pluto / Planeta Za in Prague. The evening will feature a performance by Ester Grohová and Sinclair Brazier.
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Stream the Video Recordings from the 2025 Performance Art Festival
Bodies Craving to Believe / cz /
Five performances took place during the third edition of the festival, titled Bodies Craving to Believe, which was held on November 7 at Čistírna1906 in Prague and organized by tranzit.cz in collaboration with Petrohradská kolektiv. The documentation captures performances by Aliza Orlan, Dominik Styk and co., Miriama Kardošová, eva susova, and Alex Franz Zehetbauer. The videos can be streamed on the Matter of Art website, as well as on the websites of iVysílání ČT art, the online fine arts magazine Artalk, and the Slovak online daily Kapitál.
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Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
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tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
21 December 2025, 1-4 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
GPS Coordinates
While we build the infrastructure at the Station, we also reflect on what expressions and moods of art we want to present on the place. We still keep a contact with the artistic scene in Bucharest, an important part of it focused on studio-based practices, and we try to challenge the artists to see what is the potential of their works when taken out from the (comfortable) framework of the city and its gallery spaces. Outside the sphere of Arte Útil, community engaged or socially engaged forms of art, and even with land art only as a far-away reference, in a context where producing objects is still very much the scope of visual artists, how can you make a work of art useful, without instrumentalizing it and without forcing on the artist an exit from their practice in an abrupt way? We proposed to Andrei Arion to imagine a work for the Station, which can function as a lightning protector. Most structures on the place are multi-functional, can we give an art work that possibility too? What the artist responded with is for sure an art work – yet the function of usability is something to be tested, rehearsed.
Andrei Arion (born in 1996) works with sculpture, installations, and drawing. His inspirations range from games to daily observations of surroundings. These influences help create a unique atmosphere and shape his work. He started his artistic practice by converting boxes into wall pieces, distorting familiar objects into unusable ones.
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Raut: Intimate Activism and Militant Gentleness as a Response to Environmental Grief
Interview with Artists Lucie Králíková and Iva Davidová / cz /
Pilgrimages through winter landscapes, caring for abandoned graves, more-than-human interdependence, and guerrilla gardening. The final episode of the Raut podcast explores the spiritual and more-than-human dimensions of artistic practice.
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Press release: Biennale Matter of Art announces dates and venues for 2026 edition
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The international exhibition and public program will be held in three principal locations: The Great Hall of the Trade Fair Palace in Prague, GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice, and Tusculum Prague. The dates for the fourth edition are June 12–September 13, 2026.
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Book launch and debate: 'The Klaus Iohannis Era?'
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Tuesday,16 December – 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On December 16, starting at 6 p.m. tranzit.ro/Cluj in collaboration with Tact Publishing House is organizing a public debate and the launch of the book "The Klaus Iohannis Era?"
However difficult and problematic it may be to choose a historical milestone that marks the beginning of the political crisis that led to the rise of the far right and the 2024 elections, we must admit that the chosen periodization influences the explanation. Given the title of this book, it is clear that in what follows we will focus on the question of whether or not there is a "Klaus Iohannis era." Therefore, we believe that there is a structural link between Iohannis's terms in office and the mismanagement of the multiple crises in Romania between 2014 and 2025. What defines the period in question? What are the effects of the resulting public uncertainty? And how can we think about these transformations beyond the limits of methodological nationalism, so that we can more flexibly frame them within the coordinates of the current international polycrisis?
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Reading Seminar
Alexandr Bogdanov’s Tektology / ro /
Friday,12 December – 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On December 12 from 6 pm. at tranzit.ro/Cluj we are holding a reading seminar on Alexandr Bogdanov’s Tektology. The seminar continues the project started with last year’s Reading Ilyenkov: a critical-philosophical examination of the origins and later developments of Eastern Marxism. A prolific and original thinker, Bogdanov opened multiple paths for critical inquiry—ranging from organizational theory and proto-cybernetics to science-fiction and Proletkult—while grounding his project in a distinctive, idealist rereading of Kant. Today, Bogdanov is experiencing a renewed international interest. The seminar will explore the reasons for this resurgence and critically examine his contributions. The December edition’s topic is the managerial views of Alexandr Bogdanov.
The conveners of the seminars are Siyaveș Azeri and Alex Cistelecan, and events will be held in English.
These seminars are part of the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" (PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022).
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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 15 March 2026
ERSTE Foundation offers fourteen fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine to take part in a two-week course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2026
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until March 15 / ro /
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Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION / ro /
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Towards other possible artworlds
Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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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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ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit:
