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. /
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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Ghenadie Popescu: Childhood memories. Siberia 1941– 1960.
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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Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár – Interregnum Here and Now
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 /
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
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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Silent Spring
We build, we repair, we plant, we talk. /
21, 28 March,
4, 25 April 2026
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii 10, Silistea Snagovului village
In 1962, environmentalist Rachel Carson was publishing her book, Silent Spring, which was thoroughly documenting and denouncing the devastating effects of DDT and other chemicals used intensively as pesticides after WWII. The book raised the awareness on how synthetic pesticides kill indiscriminately insects, birds, soil, and eventually people, while only making stronger the pests against which they are designed to work, and became fundamental for the environmental movement in the United States and worldwide.
Since then, some small victories were obtained, in phasing out chemicals such DDT, or in preventing big polluting projects from being implemented, and yet, the losses were much more substantial and we continue to count them, as toxic chemical agents return in force on the agricultural field and to the field of strategic weapons in current wars.
We can still hear the birds at the Station, and in the past five years, we brought back insects unseen anywhere on the nearby lands of monocultures. While they are still there, we invite you to listen to them and to each other, during a series of spring gatherings, with seasonal work, with collective cooking, and with discussions about whichever future we might have left.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2026
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until March 15 /
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg are part of ERSTE Foundation’s educational program and its long-term endeavour to support and strengthen contemporary art especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The fellowship program is realized together with ERSTE Foundation’s long-time cooperation partners from tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection collaborates with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.
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.
Every summer some 300 students from more than 50 countries participate in around 20 classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art.
Participants may choose a one- or two-week course from the Academy’s rich programme, taking place between 20 July and 29 August 2026.
More information about the courses for curators and artists (online from 11 February 2026): https://summeracademy.at/en/courses/.
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Merve Bedir: Scaffolds for the Common
Living Thought series /
Thursday, 29 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 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.
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Reading Seminar: Marxist Takes on Science
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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Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come
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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Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
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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Book launch and debate: 'The Klaus Iohannis Era?'
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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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. /
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