More Than 20 Years of tranzit.org. Launch of the book tranzit 20+
4th of July, tranzit ro/ Iasi, in the frame of Iasi Pride 2026 events
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, 700115, Iași
22nd of July, Feredeului Building, in the frame of Imagined Organisations events.
Strada Feredeului 4, MD-2005, Chișinău
18:30-19:30
To mark the occasion of more than twenty years of the tranzit.org network, the book launch for tranzit 20+ will be held in both Iasi (RO) on the 4th of July and Chișinău (MD) on the 22nd of July. The book summarizes the work of the tranzit.org network, which includes tranzit.at (Austria), tranzit.cz (Czech Republic), tranzit.hu (Hungary), tranzit.ro in Iași, Bucharest, and Cluj (Romania), and tranzit.sk (Slovakia). It looks at the network’s history, its current work, and its future plans. The publication shows the experiments, partnerships, methods, and shared support that have kept independent art alive through different political times over the last twenty years.
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 book will be shortly introduced by Livia Pancu and Florin Bobu, followed by a performative reading of excerpts from the publication, based on a methodology proposed by the editors: Flóra Gadó and Borbála Soós.
Participants: representatives of tranzit.org, group gathered around Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries project in Chisinau, group gathered around Iasi Pride 2026, tranzit 20 +
Editors: Flóra Gadó & Borbála Soós @floragado @boriborbalasoos
Design: Andreas Wesle @andreaswesle
576 pages
Published by Archive Books, Berlin, Dakar, Milan, 2026
Photo: Jan Kolský, Tibor Nagy
This publication was made possible with the generous support of ERSTE Foundation.
