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Venue: Józsefváros Museum (József krt.70., H-1085 Budapest)
Date: April 29, 2026. 14.00-20.00 CET

tranzit.hu, a member of the tranzit.org transnational network of art and cultural organizations across Central and Eastern Europe, has been active for 20 years!

Running in Budapest since 2006, tranzit.hu is a significant actor in the contemporary art scene. It creates platforms for discursive, non-formal educational, research, and publication projects, and initiates collaborations on both international and local levels. Transdisciplinary and critical approaches are features of the initiative; historical, political, and social topics and urgencies were discussed in various formats. Hundreds of events and countless collaborators and participants mark the last 20 years, most of the time in a politically repressive atmosphere.

In connection with this 20 years of activity, several programmes will be organised throughout the year, providing platforms for retrospection, reflection on current issues, and the formulation of future visions, concerning both the local and regional activities of tranzit.hu and the tranzit network.

In the framework of the occasion titled 20 YEARS OF TRANZIT.HU, an international seminar, a performance, a keynote lecture and the book launch of tranzit 20+ will be held. The anniversary event brings together internationally active artists, art practitioners, curators, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe to share their views, projects and research, and to celebrate independent artistic and institutional practices.

The event is free of charge, but registration is required. Please, fill out this form by the 25th of April, 2026.


Detailed programme:

14.00-17.00

Public Space as a Political Field

International Seminar

As tranzit.hu initiates a public art project this year in the neighbourhood where we operate the art and community space the Space of Opportunity, we take this as an opportunity to reflect on current artistic engagements with public space. The programme will examine its uses, conflicts, and ongoing transformations.

Public space today is increasingly contested: shaped by authoritarian politics, privatisation, speculative urban development, and—most dramatically—war. By bringing together experiences from Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, the discussion will examine how artistic and civic initiatives respond to these pressures and how public space can still function as a site of solidarity, imagination, and collective agency.

We invited colleagues from other tranzit initiatives, institutions and freelance cultural practitioners to present projects that critically engage with the politics of public space.