A space for all at the National Gallery Prague
kroužek intersekce offers an equipped space for community events, free all summer long / cz /
Groups, collectives, as well as individuals seeking a temporary space to host events in Prague are invited to use The Tent, which can be found within the 2026 Biennale Matter of Art exhibition in the Great Hall of the National Gallery Prague’s Trade Fair Palace.
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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 /
The fourth edition of the Biennale Matter of Art will take place from June 12 to September 13, 2026, in Prague and Pardubice. 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.
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rip the tea / what's hot? / HELD
Workshop at tranzit sk / HELD collective / sk /
✧ When? June 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
✧ Where? tranzitsk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
✧ Members of the collective: Daniela Drobná, Jaroslava Labudová, Veronika Majerčíková, Michaela Kacsiová, Mária Kižnanská, Hana Ontkocová, Fanny Elisabeth Pekarčíková, Sarah Camilla Pekarčíková, Elena Špirengová, Lenka Štefanková
The number of places is limited. Registration is by e-mail at studyroom.tranzit@gmail.com until June 8, 2026.
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Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional Practices from a Networked Perspective
Workshop and Reading Session with Fabiola Fiocco at tranzit sk / sk /
When? 05. 06. 2026
Where? tranzit sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
This event will be held in English.
The number of places is limited. You can register via email at application.tranzit.sk@gmail.com
by June 3, 2026
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Wayang kardus workshop with Taring Padi
Stop the violence against humanity / cz /
The Indonesian art collective Taring Padi, founded in 1998 by art students and activists in Yogyakarta, will hold a two-day workshop of making life-size cardboard puppets, known as wayang kardus in Indonesian, which are used at protests and demonstrations.
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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: 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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And What Does the Background Say?
Call for applications / ro /
An ecocritical and ecofeminist workshop led by Zsuzsa Selyem and Anna Zilahi
June 18–21
hypha_etc campsite, Câmpu Cetății/Vármező, Mureș county, Romania
Application deadline: June 10, 22:00 EET
Over four days we treat ecocriticism as a way of sensing, thinking, and moving together with a more than human world under capitalism. Language is our main medium, but it is never abstract: we will work with how words have weight, how they mark and police living bodies, and how attention can be trained to stay with the material and political conditions of speaking and writing.
In the middle of a forested landscape, our sessions will be literally situated in the environment rather than just about it. Ecocritical discussions will decenter canonical human protagonists and redirect focus toward the so called background: plants, animals, elements, infrastructures, and terrains that usually only stage the human plot, or are treated as resources, property, or scenery. We will ask what happens to a story when these become agents instead of backdrop, when the setting starts to speak.
Walks and excursions will be spaces for interspecies encounters and experiments in presence that resist touristic consumption of nature. We will listen, touch, taste, and get lost a little, using these experiences as raw material for writing that takes seriously the beings we cross paths with. Transmedial practices – from cyanotypes to sonic experiments – will help us push beyond strictly logocentric, human centered habits and let other forces (silence, noise, movements, emotions, weather, infrastructure) into the work.
The workshop encourages meditative attention, but also plays with deliberate intensity: there will be quiet observational practices, but also moments of being unapologetically loud. Stargazing is non negotiable – both as an exercise in scale and as a reminder that any green we interact with is caught up in wider planetary crises, just as we are.
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Humidum / CENTRALA
Workshop with CENTRALA at tranzit sk / sk /
⚠️ UPDATE: Unfortunately, the upcoming workshop with Centrala will not take place as planned.
We would like to warmly thank Centrala for the collaboration and everyone who followed the project. We hope to create another opportunity for this exchange in the future.
When? 27. - 28. 05. 2026
Where? tranzit sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
This workshop is a part of I Dream of Rain exhibition and will be held in English.
It is possible to register until May 22, 2026, via email at application.tranzit.sk@gmail.com.
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Raising stone walls as windshields
Martin Piaček / ro /
Wednesday, 27 May
11:00 - 18:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intrarea Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS coordinates
The Cultivators of Life programme continues this year with a new series of artist residencies, talks, and workshops. We are delighted to host Martin Piaček in a short residency from 25 May to 31 May, continuing his previous visit to the Station in October 2025.
During his time at the Station, Martin will develop a series of permanent stone installations intended to protect some of the garden’s more fragile plants, including the fig tree, the Japanese willow, and other shrubs. The project extends a practice connected to his orchard in Rajka, a small town in Hungary near Bratislava, where he lives and works. Composed of fig trees, walnuts, and a variety of fruit-bearing species, the orchard functions as a space where cultivation intersects with leisure, utility with beauty, labour with contemplation, and landscape-making with forms of sharing and care. Through this ongoing work, Martin brings into relation ecological processes, interpersonal exchanges, and forms of coexistence between human and more-than-human life.
The ancient practice of stacking stones carries a range of practical, symbolic, and ecological meanings. Beyond their historical role as markers or defensive structures, stone piles may also be understood as forms of small-scale garden architecture: spatial interventions that invite life to gather around them. Through their material presence, they create conditions for biodiversity to emerge, generating microclimates, shelter, and spaces of coexistence.
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Readings from a selection of fictional gardens
Harun Morrison / ro /
Wednesday, 27 May
11:00 - 18:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intrarea Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS coordinates
The Cultivators of Life programme continues this year with a new series of artist residencies, talks, and workshops. We are delighted to host Harun Morrison in a short residency from 20 May to 31 May.
Over the past few years, Harun has been building an evolving archive of fictional gardens in literature. Some of these descriptions have been recorded as audio readings by friends. For this event, participants are invited to select and read a passage describing a fictional garden of their own choosing. Readings may be presented in any language, though Romanian fictional literature is especially encouraged.
During his time in Bucharest and at the Station, Harun will continue developing field notes and writing in dialogue with the Station’s social and material context. His reflections emerge from observing working processes and the infrastructures that sustain events, gatherings, and forms of coexistence between humans and more-than-human life, engaging concepts such as unfinishedness, maintenance, and interminable work.
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Announcement of the winners of the residency program at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026
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Congratulations to the winners of the residency program at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026!
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Announcement of the winners of the residency program at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026
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Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Intensive workshops of between two and three weeks, dealing with topical questions of art production and directed by outstanding artists from all over the world – this is what awaits you at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
Founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the "School of Seeing", in Hohensalzburg Fortress, it is the oldest of its kind in Europe.
Every year, some 300 participants from more than 50 countries attend some 20 courses offered in two fixed locations: Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Untersberg quarry in Fürstenbrunn, as well as in further temporary spaces in the town of Salzburg.
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.
We would like to express our solidarity with Ukraine and the people who have to endure or flee from the ongoing war there. Therefore we open this program to Ukrainian artists as well and dedicate two fellowships to them.
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 course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026.
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Summer School “Ecologies of Emancipation” – 6th Edition: The Golden Age of the Dark Enlightenment?
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / ro /
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Towards other possible artworlds
Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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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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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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ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit:
