Networks of Cooperation: Sustainable Structures for Ukrainian Cultural Actors in Europe and Beyond
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International Conference from 15–16 October 2026 at Kunsthaus Graz
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The summer school DIAGRAMS OF WATER
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Alternator, the interdisciplinary working platform developed around topics related to the Danube–Black Sea Canal and waterborne transport infrastructures both globally and in the South-East Europe region, in partnership with tranzit.ro/București organises
The summer school DIAGRAMS OF WATER, in the period 27—31 July. The workshops, presentations, and film screenings will be split between the Experimental Research Station for Art and Life and 24 Arcului Street.
The summer school offers an interdisciplinary program dedicated to exploring water as a biological, ecological, and social matter, viewed through the infrastructures that make it possible, distribute it, and control it. In the context of the climate crisis and geopolitical changes, water is becoming increasingly visible not only as a resource, but also as a space of tension, negotiation, and imagination. From pipelines and dams to bodies and ecosystems, from access and distribution to crisis and resistance, the Diagrams of Water summer school proposes an investigation of water as both material and imagined infrastructure.
The Summer School programme adopts an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together artists, theorists, and practitioners from a range of fields. Over the course of one week, participants will explore topics through a series of workshops, including water at the intersection of theory and literature, the ethics of artists' moving image, monumental art, illustration, and curatorial approaches related to the programme's theme. The workshop series concludes with a session dedicated to practices of political and food autonomy.
More details on the facebook and instagram pages or alternator website.
Emigrant Melodies: Leaf Whistling
Kitti Gosztola and Bence György Pálinkás / ro /
Saturday, 18 July
15:00 – 19:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS CoordInates
For their workshop at the Experimental Station, Kitti Gosztola and Bence György Pálinkás will explore the traditional folk technique of leaf whistling together with the participants.
Gosztola and Pálinkás have long been interested in the role and symbol of plants in folk culture and folk music. Culture, often perceived as national, is shaped by a constant exchange of its building blocks. Melodies and lyrics travel across linguistic and cultural borders. Plants also move with humans. The artists’ projects try to look at culture not as something that needs to be conserved in an imagined pure form, but as something that needs to be in constant motion.
The leaf whistle can only sound while the plant still holds enough moisture and flexibility, so the sound remains ephemeral and closely tied to the living material. They will experiment with the different sounds of different so-called native and alien species. And they will try to sound together with this archaic technique which is especially good for expressing feelings.
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Romania's Ways of Opening to the World: A Conversation with Bogdan Iacob
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Saturday, 18 July
15:00 – 19:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS CoordInates
The former socialist states of the Eastern Bloc have the distinct and rare epistemic advantage of going in recent history through the living experience of two very different paradigms that have determined to a significant extent both the internal social order and the external political positioning and presence. However, the width of this epistemic difference has been all but erased in the exclusively Western orientation of East European working bodies and minds after the “opening” of the Iron Curtain, which ironically has reduced the local sense of the world. But how did the travelers, the workers and the professional classes – doctors, architects, artists – traverse this difference, then and now? What lessons could be learned and what remains valid and useful for reopening our sense of the world today, towards a world of solidarity and plurality, hope and reinvention?
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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After the Winter
Exhibition in the Window Gallery at ERSTE Foundation / at /
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The Smell of Rain: A Dream Workshop / Daniel Godínez Nivón
Workshop with Daniel Godínez Nivón at tranzitsk / sk /
How does rain arrive in a dream? How are currents of wind shaped within the sleeping imagination? Can dreams remember rivers, lakes, and seas that are no longer there?
When? 16. 07. 2026 / 16:00
Where? tranzit sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
Please register by email at application.tranzit.sk@gmail.com by 15 July 2026.
This event is a part ofI Dream of Rain exhibition and will be held in English.
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Urban Camp 5 – I Heard a Rumor
Summer Art Camp at the Space of Opportunity / hu /
“I speak and speak,« Marco says, »but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. […] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities*
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More Than 20 Years of tranzit.org. Launch of the book tranzit 20+
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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.
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The Civic Café: Visibility as a premise of equality!!!
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4th of July,
@tranzitiasi, in the frame of Iasi Pride 2026 events
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, 700115, Iași
Program:
13:00 - 13:30 Book launch and performative reading / Launch of the book
tranzit 20+
13:30 - 15:00 Public presentation by Florin Buhuceanu:
Queer visual histories. Visibility as a premise of equality
We are proud to invite you for a joint event between Rise Out and tranzit ro/Iași within the frame of Iasi Pride that will take place on the 4th of July @tranzitiasi space.
Together, we start by performing a reading with excerpts from tranzit 20+ publication, applying a methodology proposed by its two editors: Flóra Gadó and Borbála Soós.
The reading will be followed by Florin Buhuceanu’s presentation: Queer visual histories. Visibility as a premise of equality, where, starting from the premise that 20th-century media visibility of queerness was a discourse about (not by) queer people, the author traces how queer self-representation nonetheless persisted.
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rip the tea: from gossip to debate / HELD
Discussion at tranzit.sk / sk /
✧ When? 03. 07. 2026, 18:00
✧ Where? tranzitsk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
✧ Moderated by Michaela Kacsiová
✧ Discussants: Ivana Rumanová, Eva Priečková, Marína Abramovič Po Sebe Neupratuje /Kasha Potrohosh, Gabriela Halás, Martin Toldy/
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Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries
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Iași (Romania) and Chișinău (Republic of Moldova)
July 22–27, 2026
This six-day international gathering, July 22–27, 2026 in Iași and Chișinău brings artists, curators and theorists together 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.
Participation is free, however, in person places are limited, book here by 10th of July.
We provide the bus transport from Chișinău to Iași for the first 25 bookings. All other costs are borne by the participants.
Contributors:
Clara Abdullah & Elena Russu (RO/MD/PMR), Bojana Piskur (SI), Dan Acostioaei (RO), Victor Ciobanu (MD), Charles Esche (NL), Djordje Balmajović (SI), Andrei Morari (PMR/MD), Minna Henriksson & Sezgin Boynik (FI/RKS), Vitalie Sprînceană (MD), Cătălin Gheorghe (RO), Cristina David (RO), Mick Wilson (IRL/SE), Olja Triaška Stefanović (SK), Ioana Florea (RO), Maria Hlavajova (NL), Ghenadie Popescu (MD), Baran Caginli (TR/FI), Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu (RO), Matei Bejenaru (RO), Vladimir Us (MD), Alexandru Țîrdea (RO), Maxim Polyakov (PMR/MD), Rusanda Alexandru (MD) and others.
Full program and other details you can find here. Participation free.Booking required until the 10th of July.
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Emigrant Melodies: Leaf Whistling
Kitti Gosztola and Bence György Pálinkás / ro /
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Imagined Organisations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries
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:
