More than 20 years of tranzit.org with Paul B. Preciado and Doris Uhlich in Venice
More than 20 years—tranzit.org celebrates with Doris Uhlich and Paul B. Preciado on the opening weekend of the 2026 Venice Biennale. / ro /
More than twenty years—tranzit.org celebrates with Doris Uhlich and Paul B. Preciado on the opening weekend of the 2026 Venice Biennale
Taking place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, in the iconic In Paradiso Restaurant in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Italy, the daytime event will feature a performance by acclaimed Austrian artist Doris Uhlich and a discussion between philosopher and author Paul B. Preciado, the head of tranzit.at Georg Schöllhammer, and Tereza Stejskalová, the director of tranzit.cz. The event celebrates the publication of the anthology tranzit 20+, which chronicles the first two decades of the tranzit.org network of initiatives in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cluj, Iași, Bucharest, and Bratislava. Admission to the event is free of charge, and capacity is limited.
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More than 20 years of tranzit.org with Paul B. Preciado and Doris Uhlich in Venice
More than 20 years—tranzit.org celebrates with Doris Uhlich and Paul B. Preciado on the opening weekend of the 2026 Venice Biennale. / sk /
Taking place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, in the iconic In Paradiso Restaurant in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Italy, the daytime event features a performance by acclaimed Austrian artist Doris Uhlich and a discussion between philosopher and author Paul B. Preciado, the head of tranzit.at Georg Schöllhammer, and Tereza Stejskalová, the director of tranzit.cz. The event celebrates the publication of the anthology tranzit 20+, which chronicles the first two decades of the tranzit.org network of initiatives in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cluj, Iași, Bucharest, and Bratislava. Admission to the event is free of charge, and capacity is limited.
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Ghenadie Popescu: Childhood memories. Siberia 1941– 1960.
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Opening: 2 May 2026, 7 p.m.
On view: 2 May – 2 June 2026
@tranzitiasi, Sf. Atanasie 25, Iași
We are very happy to welcome Ghenadie Popescu to Iași for his solo exhibition Childhood memories. Siberia 1941–1960, opening at tranzit.ro/ Iași on 2 May 2026.
For more than a decade, Popescu has been gathering testimonies of those deported from Bessarabia (Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) to Siberia in the 40’s and 50’s and returned near 1960. This practice has produced a growing archive of interviews, a series of animated films, and a body of built objects used as props. Childhood memories. Siberia 1941– arr.1960 brings three of these components together, shown in this configuration for the first time.
The stop motion documentary animations - a moving image medium that was historically used even before cinema - are central to the project. Four have been completed so far - each one assembled from the voices and remembered details of those deported. The archive holds over one hundred interviews recorded with survivors and their descendants, among them the five testimonies that informed the four animations. Each of the animations was, in turn, built around a different physical model - a constructed movie set fabricated by the artist and animated frame by frame. The one travelling to Iași is a miniature model of a house where the story of the twin sisters Elena and Nina Cazacu unfolds.
The different elements of this project have been seen separately until now. In Iași, the animations are presented alongside the archive of recorded interviews and one of the four miniature models. Bringing them together in one space makes the whole arc legible: a single memory carried from voice to object and moving image.
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Call for texts: Druhá : směna and Biennale Matter of Art seeks proposals from emerging authors
Pitch a text on queer migration and diasporas in an open call by Monday, May 11th, 2026 / cz /
The project's goal is to subject this year's Biennale Matter of Art theme to broader critical reflection and expand opportunities for emerging writers.
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Liliana Basarab / Kvet Nguyễn
Artists-in-Residence May–June 2026, Romania / Slovakia /
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20 YEARS OF TRANZIT.HU
Event day / hu /
International seminar, performance, keynote lecture, book launch
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Open Call: After the Winter
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Ukrainian Artists are invited to submit work to an open call focused on winter as an immersive and conceptual framework. Proposals may engage with notions of darkness, environmental conditions, and perceptual shifts. The submission deadline is May 10, 2026.
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Revolting with Care! Bookclub 📚
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🗓️ When? We will meet on April 20, 6pm
📍 Where? In Spolka studio - Továrenská 3 (Stroj)
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I Dream of Rain
Exhibition at tranzit sk / sk /
Artists: Areej Ashhab, Celestína Minichová, CENTRALA, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Dan Vezentan, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi
Curated by: Adelina Luft
Opening: 17.04.2026, 6 pm
Opening programme:
6:00 - 6:30 pm
Exhibition tour with curator Adelina Luft, artists Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Dan Vezentan
Venue: tranzit.sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
Open: Tuesday – Friday: 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
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Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár – Interregnum Here and Now
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16–18 April 2026
Event locations in Cluj -Napoca:
- Babeș-Bolyai Faculty of European Studies, no. 1, Emmanuel de Martonne Street
- Babeș-Bolyai Main Building, no.1, Mihail Kogălniceanu Street
- French Institute, no. 22, Ion I. C. Brătianu Street
The second Historical Materialism conference will take place in Cluj-Napoca between 16–18 April 2026, with more than 180 participants having applied, from all around Europe and even beyond. The main venue of the conference will be the building of the Faculty of European Studies, BBU (Emmanuel de Martonne street, nr. 1), with sessions also taking place at the main building of Babeș-Bolyai University (Mihail Kogălniceanu street, nr. 1) and the French Institute (Ion I. C. Brătianu street, nr. 22).
The draft program of the conference can be reached here.
Further information will be communicated through the official event page.
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Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION / ro /
Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
April 16–18, 2026, Cluj- Napoca
Deadline for applications: February 8, 2026
Following the 2024 „Polycrisis across Divides” conference, the next edition of the Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár conference has released its call for participation.
„Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve” will take place in Cluj-Napoca between April 16–18, 2026.
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Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries
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April 2026 – 15 November 2026
@tranzitiasi and @unuplusunu,
Sf. Atanasie 25, Iași
We are pleased to introduce Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries — a year-long programme of exhibitions, residencies, online seminars, and an international gathering in Iași and Chișinău, unfolding between April and November 2026 at tranzit.ro/Iași and 1+1.
The programme brings together artists, curators, and theorists to exchange practices and perspectives on how artistic organisations face the new challenges raised by the transformative impact of artistic research.
The practice and discourse of contemporary art have undergone profound changes with the emergence of artistic research, one of the most important factors that has shaped established practice in the field. Furthermore, artistic research has presented an entire set of new challenges and pressures on the institutional forms through which both state and non-state actors support artistic development. This has not been a uniform development, but one that has different characteristics across various political geographies. While in the former East, these changes overlapped with the major geopolitical shifts of the 1990s, in the former West, the rise of artistic research was strongly driven by the internal discourses and practices of universities and arts academies. It is now clear that, in both geopolitical contexts, the new demands on institutional structures arising from the need for change generated by the specific challenges of artistic research have not been fully resolved.
The programme is anchored by two key actions in its opening weeks. From 26 April to 6 May, theorist and curator Maria Hlavajova is in residence at 1+1 and tranzit.ro/ Iași under the question What kind of art institutions do we need, and why don't we have them? On 2 May, the first exhibition of the programme opens - Ghenadie Popescu's Childhood memories. Siberia 1941–1960 - gathering, for the first time, three components of his decade-long work on the testimonies of those deported from Bessarabia to Siberia.
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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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