An International Networker of East-European Conceptualism. Homage to the Art Historian László Beke (1944 – 2022)
An event at the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin /
László Beke died in Budapest on January 31, 2022. One year after his death, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin commemorates his extraordinary oeuvre with this event. The event is connected to the exhibition Hungarian Neo-avant-garde in the 1960s/1970s (11 November 2022 - 27 January 2023) and is organized in cooperation with tranzit.hu.
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On Parallel Histories and Nonsynchronous Constellations
Panel Discussion /
A panel discussion on contemporary curatorial strategies and archival research into art and exhibition history, inspired by the publication, “1971 – Parallel Nonsynchronism”
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Write or Be Written Off: Publishing as Empowerment in Art and Culture
Online Launch Event /
Issue 10 of Mezosfera online magazine
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Book Presentation: Creativity Exercises. Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and Beyond
Online event /
Date: October 7, 2020 4-6 pm, CET
Please register at the link here to the ZOOM event, which will be streamed at Facebook Live
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Mezosfera Magazine Online Launch
Thematic Issue: Which Past the Present Stands On? Shifting Paradigms of Regional Art History Writing /
Time: August 28, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (CET)
On Zoom and Facebook Live.
Please register for the Zoom event here
Participants of the online launch event: Edit András, Ivana Bago, Mayookh Barua, Shuruq Harb, Dóra Hegyi, Vera Mey, Eszter Szakács, Jelena Vesić
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Trafó and tranzit.hu present: Igor and Ivan Buharov_Eternal Intentionfield Tuning
Performance and Installation /
Date: December 16, 2019, 7-8.30 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], 2nd floor main hall, Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
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Mezosfera Event: Which Past the Present Stands On? Shifting Paradigms of Regional Art History Writing
Public Round Table /
Time: December 14, 2019, 6 pm to 7.30 pm, room 19
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
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Mezosfera Events: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Public Film Screening /
Time: December 13, 2019, 5.30 pm- 8.30 pm
Venue: Premier Kult Café, Budapest, Üllői út 2-4, 1085
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Pathos Management, No.6
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: November 15, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
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Pathos Management, No. 5
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: October 22, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
# 5 Katharina Roters – József Szolnoki, Anamnesis:, video,
8 mins, 2016
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Pathos Management, No. 4.
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: September 24, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
# 4 János Kósa: Offering, 2010, oil, canvas, 190 x 200 cm, Courtesy of the artist
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Pathos Management, No. 3.
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: June 11, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
# 3 Kitti Gosztola: The Depths of Extraction, 2017, steel cast, 70 x 50 cm, Dunaferr-Art Dunaújváros Foundation. Photo by Alex Martin
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Pathos Management, No. 2.
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: May 21, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
#2 Société Réaliste, 19?9, 2010, c-print, 100 x 100 cm, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
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Pathos Management
Conversation series about the past and the present of topoi in Hungarian art /
Time: April 30, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Vasas Szakszervezeti Szövetség Székháza [Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union], Magdolna u. 5-7., Budapest 1086
#1 Péter Hecker, Izraeli drón a Hortobágy felett (Israeli drone over Hortobágy), 2013, acrylic, canvas, 140 × 200 cm, private collection
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Polygon Creative Empire: Sissi Quartier
Exhibition in Bratislava /
The interdisciplinary group Polygon Creative Empire, artists Orsolya Bajusz and Virág Bogyó, the anthropologist Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják and the curator Kinga Lendeczki present their project Sissi Quartier at the Kunsthalle LAB in Bratislava.
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Parallel Nonsynchronism
International Symposium /
{Time: February 1, 2019, 11:00 – 18:00
Venue: Sculpture Hall, Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery, Budapest
The event is the launch of the new issue of the online Mezosfera magazine published in relation to the exhibition 1971 – Parallel Nonsychronism, a collaboration between Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery and tranzit.hu.
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Propositions for a Pan-Peripheric Network
issue launch and temporary reading room - tranzit.hu at the OFF-Biennale Budapest /
The new issue of the international online journal mezosfera.org, published by tranzit .hu, deals with the potentialities of regional collaborations that go beyond geographical positions.
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Király Tamás '80s – book launch / party
Time: September 18, 2017, 7–10 pm
Venue: Hungarian Photography Association, Belgrád rkp. 17, 5th floor
Music: Küss Mich (Splatter & Gördön)
To order the publication, please email us at office@tranzitinfo.hu
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János Sugár: PST book launch and exhibition of œuvre
œuvre is on view until March 18, by appointment at office@tranzitinfo.hu /
Time: March 14, 2017, 7 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
The book is presented by Beáta Hock, cultural historian
œuvre is on view until March 18, by appointment at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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Solidarity Today: Mercy – Solidarity and the Church
Discussion on the institutional possibilities and limits of solidarity /
Time: December 20, 2016, 5 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
tranzit.hu launched a discussion series in September 2016 about potential tools for widening the social base of solidarity and collective acts.
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Solidarity Today – Work, Minimum Subsistence Level, Basic Income
Discussion on the institutional possibilities and limits of solidarity /
Time: November 25, 2016, 5 pm to 7 pm
Venue: Gólya, Bókay János utca 34., Budapest, 1083
tranzit.hu launched a discussion series in September 2016 about potential tools for widening the social base of solidarity and collective acts.
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Solidarity Today - Discussion series
Second event: The Internationality of Solidarity /
tranzit.hu launched a discussion series in September 2016 about potential tools for widening the social base of solidarity and collective acts. At the second event, we will look at how social solidarity connects to participation, and what kind of experiences serve as a base for the various solidarity movements and how they shape each other across borders.
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Solidarity Today
Discussion series /
This fall, tranzit.hu launches a discussion series: once a month, we will look at the theoretical issues around solidarity, and initiate discussions with local activist groups about potential tools for widening the social base of solidarity and collective acts.
Time: September 8, 2016, 5 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
The event will be in Hungarian.
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queering socialism / KAROL RADZISZEWSKI: KISIELAND
film screening & artist talk /
Time: July 28, 2016, 6 pm
Venue: FKSE - Studio Gallery. 1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller utca 35.
Related event of the exhibition Our Heart is a Foreign Country — Friendship as an alternative in a normal world.
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Mezosfera — Launch of tranzit. hu’s international magazine on art and culture
A Weird Geography - First thematic issue /
Time: April 29, 2016, 4 pm to 7 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
The event will be in English.
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Family ⇾ Good Family ⇾ Better Family ⇾ Community: The Chosen Family
The fourth, final event of the workshop series with therapist Péter Szil /
In 2015-2016, tranzit.hu investigates in the framework of the long-term program Chosen Family—Private Utopias the models and norms of the family, society’s smallest unit. As part of the program, a workshop series titled Psychological Recycling started with therapist Péter Szil.
Fourth event of the series: April 9, 2016, 10 am to 4 pm
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“See, Here Inside is the Suffering, Out There, Sure Enough, is the Explanation:” Outside Help to Becoming an Adult
Third event of the workshop series with therapist Péter Szil /
In 2015-2016, tranzit.hu investigates in the framework of the long-term program Chosen Family—Private Utopias the models and norms of the family, society’s smallest unit. As part of the program, a workshop series titled Psychological Recycling started with therapist Péter Szil.
Third event of the series: January 30, 2016, 10 am to 4 pm
To participate, please send an email at office@tranzitinfo.hu by January 25. Maximum number of participants: 20.
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Babi Badalov: Poetical Activism - Two-day finissage
Migration and asylum politics (talk, workshop) and Kazinczy Living Library /
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
January 8, 2016, 6 pm to 9 pm
“I Have a Scream”
What will 2016 bring? A new year of migration and asylum politics
Talk and workshop
January 9, 2016, 2 pm to 5 pm
Kazinczy Living Library
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Free bus trip to tranzit.sk’s exhibition in Bratislava
Walking without Footprints, opening /
There are 28 seats available on the bus. To join the bus trip, please send an email at applications@tranzitinfo.hu until December 2, 2015.
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School-Home-Life: Learning Does Not Equal Teaching
Second event of the workshop series with therapist Péter Szil /
In 2015-2016, tranzit.hu investigates in the framework of the long-term program Chosen Family—Private Utopias the models and norms of the family, society’s smallest unit. As part of the program, a workshop series titled Psychological Recycling started with therapist Péter Szil.
Second event of the series: November 7, 2015, 10 am to 4 pm
To participate, please send an email at office@tranzitinfo.hu by November 2. Maximum number of participants: 20.
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CORRECTION CLASS
Miklós Mécs’s Artists at Schools 2014 project presentation /
Time: September 1, 2015, 7 am - 8:30 am
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
Join us for breakfast after the presentation!
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There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?
FORMER WEST Public Editorial Meeting and tranzit.hu Conference /
The program of the conference can be downloaded here
Time: May 13-14, 2015
Venue: FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 1052 Budapest, Petőfi Sándor u. 5.
Registration: office@tranzitinfo.hu
The public editorial meeting and conference in Budapest explores the changing notions of history and memory, advancing the thesis that debates around museums, monuments, memorials, re-enactments, revisionist historiography, and rivalry between such traumas as Trianon and the Holocaust today constitute a major political battleground in Hungary as well as internationally, aiming to control the imagination of the past instead of the future.
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Chosen Family—Psychological Recycling workshop series with therapist Péter Szil
In the framework of a new, long-term, thematic program /
Psychological Recycling, Or Is There an Adulthood That is Not Mean to Children?
First occasion
May 9, 2015, 3 pm to 7 pm
The Original Family: Misfortune or Chance?
In 2015-2016, tranzit.hu investigates in the framework of a long-term program the models and norms of the family, society’s smallest unit.
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IMAGINATION/IDEA. The Beginning of Hungarian Conceptual Art. The László Beke Collection, 1971
tranzit.hu at the OFF-Biennale Budapest – Book launch and discussion /
Time: May 7, 2015, 7 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
Participants of the discussion: László Beke (art historian, curator, Budapest), Klaus Groh (artist, art historian, art educator, Edewecht)
The discussion is moderated by Dóra Hegyi, László Zsuzsa, and Eszter Szakács, editors of the book
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Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmus: Enactment of “Disappearing Music for Face” by Mieko Shiomi (ongoing action)
tranzit.hu at the OFF-Biennale Budapest /
Time:
April 25, 2015, 12-2 pm
April 26, 2015, 4-6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus use enactment as a strategy to produce new immaterial works, the starting points of which are significant artworks or even situations and events that are somehow connected to art history. In response to tranzit.hu’s invitation, the Bucharest-based artists propose a long duration enactment/quotation of Mieko Shiomi’s Fluxus action, Disappearing Music for Face, as part of the OFF-Biennale Budapest.
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TABOO SUBJECT 2
One-night event and roundtable discussion on the contemporary representation of the Holocaust in majority society /
Time: April 9, 2015, 6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
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IMAGINATION/IDEA. The Beginning of Hungarian Conceptual Art. The László Beke Collection, 1971
Book launch and discussion /
Time: April 8, 2015, 7 pm
Venue: Wiener Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Bécs
Participants: Georg Schöllhammer (critic, curator, tranzit. at, Springerin, Vienna), László Beke (art historian, Budapest), and Dóra Hegyi (curator, tranzit.hu, Budapest)
The discussion will be in German.
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Project presentation of the Artists at Schools program / Visual Culture and Environmental Design Working Group
One of the winners of the 2014 Artists at Schools program and call for participation, the Visual Culture and Environmental Design Working Group, presented their project realized within the framework of the program on March 6, 2015.
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Free School for Art Theory and Practice —Interviews
website launch /
Time: December 5, 2014, 6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
The theme of the discussion at the launch will be the genre of the interview within artistic and curatorial practice, in relation to the concept and history of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice.
Participants of the discussion are artist Lilla Khoór, writer, journalist Gergely Nagy, as well as curators Dóra Hegyi and Eszter Szakács.
The discussion is moderated by curators Eszter Lázár and Zsuzsa László.
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Creativity Exercises
exhibition /
Time: October 18, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Venue: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 9-11.
How people learn, what they know and how it influences their personality, their behavior and their position in society, is examined from various different perspectives. With a focus on Eastern Europe, Creativity Exercises presents historical and contemporary artistic projects that experiment with alternative forms of learning.
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Open Doors: Király Tamás '80s
exhibition /
Time: October 10, 2014 – November 28, 2014
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
Finissage: November 28, 2014, 6 pm
Tamás Király (1952 – 2013) emerged in the beginning of the 1980s with his cutting-edge fashion performances in the underground art scene of Budapest. By 1988 he had presented his collection in Berlin alongside the seven most noted avant-garde fashion designers, including Vivienne Westwood and Claudia Skoda, and his creations were featured in such prominent fashion magazines as Vogue and i-D. The exhibition by tranzit.hu focuses on the first decade of Király’s work and, thus, opens up new interpretations about his oeuvre that has not been researched so far.
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Christoph Schlingensief: Foreigners out
Screenings and Discussions /
Time: April 25, 2014, 5 pm to 11 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu
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Presentation of the 2013 Artists at Schools Project: Non-Private Theatre: Scandal in a Good Family
Forum theatre performance and professional consultation (in world cafe format) /
Non-Private Theatre: Scandal in a Good Family
Forum theatre performance and professional consultation (in world cafe format)
Time: April 4, 2014, 6:00-10:00 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
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Presentation of the 2013 Artists at Schools Project: About Us to You / Photography and Activism
Campaign presentation forum and exhibition /
About Us to You / Photography and Activism
Campaign presentation forum and exhibition
Time: March 27, 2014, 5:00-8:00 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, tranzit.hu open office, Király u. 102, 1/1, 1068 Budapest
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tranzit.hu action day - March
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: March 17, 2014, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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Book launch of Good Opinion by Igor and Ivan Buharov
Book launch and film screening with life music /
Time: March 6, 2014, 7-9 pm
Venue: Gólya Community Center and Cooperative Café 1083 Budapest Bókay János u. 34.
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tranzit.hu action day - February
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: February 24, 2014, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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tranzit.hu action day - January
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: January 27, 2014, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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tranzit.hu action day - December
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: December 19, 2013, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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Curatotial Dictionary: An Exhibition
Project Launch /
Project website of the Curatorial Dictionary
Time: December 6, 2013, 7 pm
Venue: Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102, 1st floor
The exhibition is on view until December 7, 2013, 7 pm.
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tranzit. hu at the Quarter6Quarter7 Festival: Culture in Socialism—Beyond Retro and Terror?
Book presentations—Beáta Hock and Ferenc Hammer /
Time: November 30, 2013, 4 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
The two volumes of studies, published in 2013, explore the cultural significance of the socialist period. The books are presented in English, keeping in mind the interest of foreigners living in Hungary in the topic.
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tranzit.hu action day - November
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: November 18, 2013, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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tranzit.hu action day - October
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: October 7, 2013, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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Convened Communities
Discussions on Current Cultural Events /
Time: September 20, 2013, 5 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest Király utca 102, 1st floor
tranzit. hu, besides its action day series—initiated in reaction to the current cultural-political situation in Hungary—organizes in the fall of 2013 two professional-communal events. During the first event, three projects will be discussed whose common denominator is that the organizers of the respective projects envisioned the participants to build a community.
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tranzit.hu action day - September
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: September 9, 2013, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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tranzit.hu action day - July
Forum on the Prospects of Contemporary Art’s Institutional Structure in Hungary, in Closer and Larger Cultural Contexts /
Time: July 31, 2013, 6 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art.
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tranzit. hu hosts:
From Cairo to Budapest: The Choir Project by Salam Yousry (Egypt) /
Public lecture by Salam Yousry at tranzit. hu’s open office on July 1, 2013, 7 pm
A 6-day workshop at MÜSZI between July 3 and 10, 2013 during the evening hours.
The outcomes of the workshop will be presented on July 10 with a march through the 8th district.
Public presentation of the workshop on July 10, with a march through the 8th District in Budapest.
Please send a short letter of interest to Zsuzsa Berecz by June 30, 2013 at the following email address: info@pneumaszov.org
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do it (party)
Presentation of do it, a project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist /
Time: June 11, 2013, 7 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest Király utca 102., 1st floor
tranzit.hu and Independent Curators International (ICI) announce do it (party), the first presentation in Hungary of do it, a project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. The program is realized in conjunction with an open lecture on ICI and its exhibition program by ICI director-at-large Kate Fowle, in the framework of tranzit.hu Free School for Art Theory and Practice on 16 May.
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tranzit. hu action day - April: What to do?
Forum on the prospects of contemporary art’s institutional structure in Hungary, in closer and larger cultural contexts /
Time: April 19, 2013, 6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Kiraly utca 102.
As a reaction to the current situation of cultural policy in Hungary, we are organizing a forum, engaging also organizations outside of contemporary visual art. During the forum we are focusing on one issue: What to do? The “what” and “how” are the objects of the discussion
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Where Has Communism Gone? Performance: March 1, 2013
The Budapest adaptation of the play by artist group Chto Delat? /
Artist group Chto Delat? from St. Petersburg has been invited by tranzit. hu to Budapest to realize a stage event, employing the Learning Play method of Bertolt Brecht, based on the participants’ own experiences.
Concept by Dmitry Vilensky, Olga Egorova (Tsaplya)
Directed by Olga Egorova (Tsaplya)
Choreographed by Nina Gasteva
Performed by the participants of the Free School
Venue: Juranyi Art Incubator House, 1027 Budapest, Juranyi utca 1-3.
Time: March 1, 2013, 8 pm
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tranzit.hu presents: Art in Eastern Europe from 1945-1989; Limits of Official and Unofficial
Public lecture of Tomáš Pospiszyl in the framework of Patterns Lectures /
Time: February 11, 2013 6 pm
Venue Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu (1068 Budapest, Király u 102.)
Within the framework of the Patterns Lecture The Inheritance and Transformation of Socialist Realist Forms of Expression in Hungarian Contemporary Art – A Comparative-critical Survey The course is led by Edina Nagy.
Tomáš Pospiszyl is a Czech critic, curator and art historian
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tranzit.hu presents: Architecture-Related Art in the GDR and the Concept of Art and Living
Public lecture of Anja Jackes in the framework of Patterns Lectures /
Time: November 26, 2012, 6 pm
Venue Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu (1068 Budapest, Király u 102.)
Within the framework of the Patterns Lecture The Inheritance and Transformation of Socialist Realist Forms of Expression in Hungarian Contemporary Art – A Comparative-critical Survey The course is led by Edina Nagy.
Anja Jackes currently works as a curator of exhibitions at the Chair of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage ( UNESCO), University of Paderborn, presents the first lecture of the series.
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Paul O’Neill: The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
Public Discussion and Book Launch /
Time: November 16, 2012, 7 pm
Venue: Studio Gallery (1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35.)
Public discussion with curator, artist, writer Paul O’Neill on how the emergence of independent curating has transformed our perception and experience of art, in conversation with Eszter Szakács (curator, tranzit.hu).
This event also launches the book The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) in Budapest, published by The MIT Press.
After the discussion: DJ set by Paul O’Neill (disco-techno)
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The Art of Mediation
International symposium on the relation of critical pedagogy and contemporary art /
Date: October 26-27, 2012
On October 26-27, 2012, as a conclusion to the Artists at Schools project tranzit. hu presents an international symposium entitled The Art of Mediation, which looks at the relationship between art and education.
For the two-day symposium registration is necessary in the form of a short letter of introduction. Registration is open until October 15, 2012 at office@tranzitinfo.hu. The participation fee of HUF 500 includes a lunch (on October 26) and coffee /tea on both days of the symposium.
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János Sugár - Persian Walk (1985)
Screening in the framework of tranzit .hu’s event-series Regime Change – Incomplete Project /
Date: 14th September 2012. Friday 18:00
Location: MAYAKOVSZKY 102, Budapest, Király u. 102. 1st floor
The film is screened using the original 16mm roll after János Sugár’s introduction. The screening is followed by a talk, documents of the film and the exhibition featured in it can be viewed during the evening.
The theme of the series is the political transition of 1989, the role of intellectuals and artistic thinking in the dissident or alternative social movements from the crisis perspective of the 2010s. Persian Walk recorded the economic -scientific news and prognoses, as well as the cityscape of Budapest in the years preceding the political transition from a projected future point of view, which are still unfulfilled the same way as the hopes and expectations of the 1980s are recurrently restated.
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The people want the fall of the regime
A presentation by artist Roza El-Hassan and Syrian activist Shadi at the open office of tranzit. hu, Mayakovski 102. /
Date: 10 July 2012,
Discussion with Roza El-Hassan, artist, Tamás Szenderák, sociologist and Arabist and Dóra Hegyi, curator : 6 p.m.,
Exhibition opening: 8 p.m.
Place: Mayakovski 102, 1068 Bp. Király u. 102. 1/1. - tranzit.hu
El-Hassan follows the events of the Syrian revolution with large concern. Since 2011, over fifteen thousand civilians have lost their lives in Syria.
Keeping close contact to civil activists she is trying to explore the possibilities of artistic and political activism.
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Regime Change - An Incomplete Project
talk series /
Second event: MAYAKOVSKY 102
Time: June 1, 2012, 18:00-21:00
Venue: tranzit .hu, Budapest 1068, Király St. 102., 1st floor
Invited speakers: Zsolt K. Horváth, social researcher, György Vári, literary critic
In conversation with: Zsuzsa László Emese Süvecz (tranzit .hu),
Visuals : AMPBA (Association of Mouth and Brain Painters of the World)
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Democratic table tennis
Meeting Jerry Mintz, an international representative of the democratic and alternative educational movement
Date: May 26, 2012, 9-11 am
Venue: KIRALY 102, 1068 Budapest, Király u 102, 1st floor 1. (tranzit. hu)
Jerry Mintz for 30 years, has been dedicated to the alternatives of the regular schoolsystem, he himself founded several alternative schools as well as the Alternative Education Resource Organisation (AERO) . Mintz emphasizes among others, the importance of involving the participants in the educational process. In the schools he founded, student governments have a real function – which cannot be compared to ordinary students organisations –, these syndicates have students majority and a tangible role in the decisions making processes concerning the educational program.
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tranzit. hu presents: Hajnal Németh – False Testimony (a Version of the Version), 2012 performance video (Full HD, stereo, sound, 20')
Filmscreening /
Date: 18 May 2012, Friday, 7 pm
Venue: KIRÁLY 102, 1068 Budapest, Király u. 102, 1st floor
Following an introduction by Hajnal Németh, the film will be screened several times during the evening.
The musical performance entitled False Testimony, which has been recorded on video, is based on an actual historical event and a dialogue of a film, Version, treating this event. The “Tiszaeszlár Affair,” which took place in Hungary between 1882 and 1883, gained infamy in Europe as an anti-Semitic blood libel and show trial. The subject of the case was the accusation of the Jews of Tiszaeszlár of ritually murdering a Christian girl. The trial was described in a book by Károly Eötvös, liberal member of parliament who, as the counsel for the defense, managed to get his clients acquitted.
The film Version (1981) by Miklós Erdély focuses on a specific detail of the trial. It portrays, with great sensitivity, the moment when 14-year-old crown witness Móric Scharf is taught by the gendarme his false testimony. The lyrics for the songs in Németh’s music performance are based on rephrased fragments of the film’s dialogues. The structure of the performance follows the method of teaching and learning; the forced memorization of the lie, which is later articulated as the false testimony. The performance shows the stages of this process: the learning, acceptance and psychological attainment of the false testimony, its development into a conviction and ultimate, fatal proclamation.
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Public lecture and exhibition opening in the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in the new space of tranzit.hu, KIRÁLY 102
Date:
May 11, 2012, 6 p.m.
Place:
KIRÁLY 102, 1068 Budapest, Király u 102, 1st floor 1.
Lecture by Walter Benjamin: The Unmaking of Art
The Unmaking of Art is a story told by Walter Benjamin about the birth of art and art institutions. It tells us where why and how certain ideas of art (museums, galleries, exhibitions, artist and artwork)
originated, and how they have developed in the last five centuries. In this story the notion of art is not a universal category or something that is characteristic for all cultures, but a specific concept that appeared in the Western world during the period called the Enlightenment
Goran Djordjevic: Against Art Reconstruction of the 1980 exhibition in the Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
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Regime Change - An Incomplete Project
talk series /
First event:
Time: 12th March 2012, 18:00-21:00
Venue: tranzit .hu, Budapest 1068, Király St. 102., 1st floor
Invited speakers: Ágnes Gagyi, social researcher and János Sugár, artist
Moderators: Zsuzsa László (tranzit .hu), Kristóf Nagy (TEK), Bálint Németh (TEK)
Visuals : AMBPA (Association of Mouth and Brain Painters of the World)
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The Otolith Group: Anathema, 2011
screening and talk with the participation of the artists /
The guests of the tranzit. hu Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun). Within the framework of the Free School, a public event will take pace about the works of The Otolith Group, with the participation of the artists.
Time: February 21, 6.p.m.
Venue: Ludwig Museum Budapest (1095 Komor Marcell u 1), lecture hall
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Public Presentation of visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy
Screening and performance lecture /
November 26, 7 p.m.
Kiraly 102
(1067 Király u 102, 1st floor)
Public Presentation of visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy (Cairo)
Presentation of the outcome of the workshop An attempt to use alternative geography to explore narratives and space
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A public lecture with David Chioni Moore and Vít Havránek
lecture /
In the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice, the public lecture of cultural theorist David Chioni Moore(International Studies, English, and African Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) and theorist, curator Vít Havránek (tranzit.cz,Prague, Czech Republic)
October 14, 2011, 7 pm
Central European University
Auditorium
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9.
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The Exhibition as an Emergent, Co-productive Medium - a lecture by Paul O'Neill
lecture /
In the framework of the June seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice Paul O'Neill's lecture The Exhibition as an Emergent, Co-productive Medium and Three Principal Categories of Organisation: the Background, the Middle-ground and the Foreground will take place.
Date: June 16. 6 p.m., 2011
Location: Palace of Arts, 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1., Ludwig Museum Contemporary Art Museum, 2nd floor
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Presentation by Cristina David
lecture /
Presentation of Cristina David, artist (Bucharest), in Labor (Budapest, V. kerulet, Kepiro u.6.). Cristina David, whose works were recently exhibited in Shedhalle in Zurich and participated in the tranzit.org section of Manifesta 8, will present her recent projects and films.
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tranzitblog offline
public event and exhibition /
tranzitblog offline – an event where the bloggers of tranzitblog of year 2011 and their topics will be introduced.
The background for the event will be the spatial presentation of the significant moments and discourses that appeared on the blog, based on the concept of Lilla Khoór and Emese Süvecz.
The background exhibition will be on view till 18th March, between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily.
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Manifesta 8 - lecture of the tranzit.org curatorial team
lecture /
The lecture of the tranzit.org curatorial team (Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička and Georg Schöllhamer) about Manifesta 8. The screening of the film Rudderless by the Hungarian participants Igor and Ivan Buharov.
March 1, 2011 6 p.m., Ludwig Museum
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B.L.A.N.K. presents!
presentation /
We kindly invite you to the presentation of the B.L.A.N.K. collective (Johan Gustavsson (SE), Laut Rosenbaum (NL)& Twien Wits (NL).
During the night there will be showing the results of Guest space artist in residency at Labor.
Date: 13 August 2010 7-10 p.m.
Place: Labor (1054 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
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Marina Noronha, Eduardo Guerra: Every man (...)
presentation /
Location: Labor (1053 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
Date: 27/07/2010, 6 p.m.
Agents & Provocateurs & before & after
presentation of Bea Hock /
guest: Katalin Tímár
Location: Labor, Képíró street 6., district V., 1053 Budapest
Date: 08/06/2010, 7.30 pm
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We Are Not Ducks on a Pond, but Ships at Sea
book launch /
Location: Labor, Képíró street 6., district V., 1053 Budapest
Date: 01/06/2010, 20 pm
All are welcome at the book launch party of
We Are Not Ducks on a Pond, but Ships at Sea – independent art initiatives, Budapest 1989-2009
edited by Impex Contemporary Art Provider.
Péter György discusses the structure of the book, the criteria for topic selection, as well as the editing process and other matters with editors Rita Kálmán and Katarina Sevic.
The event will also be attended by other Impex members and the authors of the book.
Music will be provided by DJ Káosz.
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Tranzitblog offline - round-table talks about Pécs
discussion /
Host: Emese Süvecz
18/05/2010 18.00
Labor (1053 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
The discussion with Levente Polyák and Nóra Somlyódi is part of tranzitblog off-line series. The conversation is based on the publications of Levente Polyák and also on the book of Nóra Somlyódi, to be published in September 2010, which examines the circumstances of the realization of Pécs as Cultural Capital of Europe in the year 2010.
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Observation Cases
discussion /
Observation Cases - joint event of the anthropological critical periodical AnBlokk , Balázs Beöthy, Lilla Khoór and Plagium 2000.
Location: Labor, Képíró street 6., district V., 1053 Budapest
Date: 29/04/2010, 19.00
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Könyvtér (Bookspace) – Private Libraries
discussion /
Guest: Mária Ambrus
Host: Emese Süvecz
Location: Labor, Képíró street 6., district V., 1053 Budapest
Date: 30/03/2010, 18.00-20.00
Mária Ambrus is a stage designer and architect designs scenery for theatre director Sándor Zsótér, since 1991. As our guest at the first session of Private Library-series, she speaks about the art books, she has been reading recently.
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Tranzitblog off-line open editorial session
discussion /
16/03/2010 Tuesday, LABOR, 18 pm - 20 pm
1053 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.
An open editorial session will take place in Labor with the participation of the current editors of tranzitblog (Eszter Götz, Sándor Hornyik, József Mélyi, Levente Polyák). Besides the screening of a film, the editors will introduce their proposals for further topics. The editors are open to questions and suggestions about their work.
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Tamás Szentjóby’s Kentaur
premiere /
Screening times: Thursday, 12 November 2009, at 8 pm and 9 pm
Location: Toldi Cinema, large hall (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38, Budapest V)
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Invisible history of exhibitions - international symposium
art always has its consequences /
tranzit. hu organizes an exhibition and symposium with the title Invisible History of Exhibitions, which aims at the formation of a shared knowledge and discourse on Eastern European art exhibitions from the 1960s till now.
Invisible History of Exhibitions
international symposium
Location: Krétakör Bázis (IX. Budapest, Gönczy Pál u. 2.)
Date: May 21 - 22, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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In the desert of modernity - lecture by Marion von Osten
free school for art theory and practice /
In the framework of the April seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit. hu
Marion von Osten, artist, curator
In the desert of modernity - Colonial Planning and After
Date: 3rd April, 2009 6 p.m.
Location: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Art History lecture room (6th district, Budapest Andrássy str. 69-71.)
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The 80s - Public conversation between László Beke and Georg Schöllhammer
public conversation /
What was the art scene like in 1980s in Hungary, when serious conceptual art gave over its place to light, new painting? How did the official and the second publicity relate to each other? Have the artists’ activities foreshadowed the political transition of 1989?
The preceding event was a conversation between László Beke and Georg Schöllhammer in March 2008 in the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice.
Date: January 19, 2009 - 6 p.m.
Location: Labor (Budapest, Képíró u.6.)
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Lecture by Ute Meta Bauer
free school for art theory and practice /
In the framework of the January seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit. hu
Ute Meta Bauer, curator, director of the MIT Visual Arts Program
Architectures of Discourse –
the exhibition as communicative space
Date of the lecture: 9th January, 2009 6 p.m.
Location: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Art History lecture room (6th district, Budapest Andrássy str. 69-71.)
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Eszter Lázár in dialogue with Jeremy Millar
curators´ talk /
The Curators´ Talk series, initiated by tranzit. hu and the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London, aims to present internationally working contemporary art curators from Hungary. Acting in various art institutions and representing different approaches and interests the invited curators presents selected projects. At each event a Britain-based art professional is in discussion with the Hungarian colleague.
3/2008
Eszter Lázár curator in dialogue with Jeremy Millar artist
Eszter Lázár and Jeremy Millar will talk about their recent curatorial and art projects which share some concerns about place, history and identity and also about the making of exhibitions.
Date: 11 December 2008, 7 pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 1, Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
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Thinking about Editing Artists Writings - lecture by Kristine Stiles
art always has its consequences /
Date: December 4, 6 p.m.
Location: LABOR (V., Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
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Periferic Biennial - presentation and screening
free school for art theory and practice /
In the framework of the May seminar of Free School for Art Theory and Practice and supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute:
Peiferic Biennial - Presentation and press conference
Matei Bejenaru, Iasi-based artist, artistic director of Periferic Biennial
Dóra Hegyi, curator of Periferic 8, taking place in October 2008
The presentation will be followed by a screening.
Date: May 30, 2008, 17:00
Place: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1146 Budapest, Izsó u. 5.
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Katalin Timár in dialogue with Sophie Hope
curators´ talk /
The Curators´ Talk series, initiated by tranzit. hu and the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London, aims to present internationally working contemporary art curators from Hungary. Acting in various art institutions and representing different approaches and interests the invited curators presents selected projects. At each event a London art professional is in discussion with the Hungarian colleague.
2008/1
Katalin Timár, curator and theorist, Budapest - Kultur und Freizeit: The Anatomy of a Project
Katalin Timár in dialogue with Sophie Hope, curator.
Date: 27 May 2008, 7:30 pm
Location: Hungarian Cultural Centre London, 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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The Politics of Collecting
conference /
International Conference organised by tranzit.hu and ICA-D
Invited speakers:
Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Bart De Baere, Director, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Sabine Breitwieser, Independent Curator, Secretary of CIMAM, Vienna
Bartomeu Marí, Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona
Barbara Steiner, Director, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
János Szoboszlai, Co-Owner, Gallerist, acb Gallery, Budapest
The panel discussion The politics of collecting accompanying the exhibition reflects to recent developments and growing ambitions concerning public and private collections the conference presents and analyzes current policies and models of collecting contemporary art.
Time: 7 May 2008, Wednesday, between 10 AM and 3 PM
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújváros
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Screening of the films of Tirdad Zolghadr
free school for art theory and practice /
In the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit.hu the screening of two films by Tirdad Zolghadr, a Berlin-based curator, artist will take place.
Date: April 18. 6.p.m., 2008
Location: Studio of Young Artists, VII.district, Rottenbiller u.35.
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Mapping art criticism - lecture by Georg Schöllhammer
free school for art theory and practice /
Experiences of the documenta 12 magazine project
In the framework of the March seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice, launched by tranzit.hu a public lecture by Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna-based art critic, head of the documenta 12 magazine project and the project leader of tranzit.at will take place.
Date of the lecture: March 7, 2008 from 6 p.m.
Location: Fészek Artists’ Club (1073 Bp., Kertész u. 36.)
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YouTube lessons
Studio Forum /
How does the visual knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange function, when using web-archives everyone can share their amateur, artistic or documentary videos, which - even by accidental discovery - can appear in very various contexts?
YouTube as a common knowledge archive will serve as the starting point of this evening.
Date: February 22, 2008 19:00
Location: Studio of Young Artist, Budapest 1077 Rottenbiller u. 35 (entrance at the corner of Damjanich and Rottenbiller strs.)
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Lecture by Chus Martínez and Dora García
free school for art theory and practise /
How can an art institution be constructed through curatorial/artistic practices?
Date of the lecture: December 14, 8 p.m.
Location: Impex, 1086 Budapest, Futó u.46.
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The situation of the Russian contemporary art, the potentials of art activism – a lecture by Chto delat? / What is to be done? group and screening in the Stúdió
free school for art theory and practice /
As a joint program of the November seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice lecture of the Chto delat? / What is to be done? group and the screening of the film ‘Protest Match’ will take place on November 2, from 7 p.m. in Stúdió Galéria. (1077 Bp. Rottenbiller u.35.)
Lecturers: Dmitry Vilensky – artist, David Riff – critic, artist
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The Theory of Work – screening of a film by Zbynek Baladrán (Prague)
exhibition series at tranzit.hu office /
As part of the tranzit. hu office exhibition series the screening of the film by Zbynek Baladrán will take place on October 30, 2007 from 6 p.m. in tranzit. hu office. (1024 Bp. Forint u 4.)
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roundtable discussion on documenta 12
October 19, 2007 7 p.m.
roundtable discussion on documenta 12
Organized by tranzit. hu és az ACAX – Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
Young Artists Studio Association, 1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35
moderator: Hedvig Turai
participants: Balázs Beöthy, Zsuzsa László, Pál Szacsva y, Erzsébet Tatai
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Nemes Csaba: Remake
unrealized artworks 2007 /
October 18, 2007, 5 p.m.
Opening of the exhibition Remake by Csaba Nemes
Fővárosi Képtár Kiscelli Museum (Sculpture Hall)
1037 Budapest Kiscelli u 108.
The exhibition is on view until 13 January 2008.
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Miriam Bäckström and Anders Kreuger
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
Miriam Bäckström, artist and Anders Kreuger, curator
An Exercise in Speculation
September 21-23, 2007
We have collaborated, often rather intensely, for the last four or five years. Our collaboration has ranged from the rather conventional division of labour between an artist and a curator to the joint preparation of texts based on in-depth conversations and the complex entanglement of mutual consultation and inspiration.
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Screening and Discussion with Miriam Bäckström
As a joint program of the September seminar of the Free School of Art Theory and Practice the screening of two films by Miriam Bäckström will take place in the 2B Gallery on the 21st of September from 1800 hrs.
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Lecture by Lars Bang Larsen and Soren Andreasen
lecture and discussion /
In the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice
Populism, Synthetic Behaviour and The Echo Show
Lars Bang Larsen and Soren Andreasen present and discuss their curatorial and artistic practices
Date: May 18, 2007 7 p.m.
Place: KÉK_Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre - Budapest, VII. Nefelejcs u.26.
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Public conversation between artist Ulay and curator Maria Hlavajova
lecture & discussion /
Why in Art?
Negotiating Social and Political Urgencies in the Field of Artistic Practice
20 April 2007 7 p.m.
Átrium Restaurant at the ING Office Building
Budapest, XIV. Dózsa György út 54/c
Focus of the Free School for Art Theory and Practic in 2007: cooperation and dialogue
20 April 2007: Closed Seminar with artist Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) and Maria Hlavajova
21–22 April 2007: Closed Seminar with Maria Hlavajova
Place: Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects Office
Budapest, XIV. Dózsa György út 54/c 5th floor
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Jan Verwoert: Ways to Inaugurate the Pleasurdome
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
8.3.-11.3.2007
FKSE- Assocation of Studio of Young Artists VII. Budapest, Rottenbiller u.35.
The Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit.hu continues in 2007. The school functions in the form of regular weekend seminars, held by invited curators, theoreticians and artists, allowing for the specificities of the contemporary Hungarian art scene and local discourses.
Seminar with Jan Verwoert, critic and editor, based in Berlin
Application deadline: February 28, 2007
Send applications to: tranzit@enternet.hu
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Anders Kreuger: Art of the Possible. A Case Study of Curatorial Practice
lecture & discussion /
21.02.2007, 6 p.m.
IMPEX - Contemporary Art Provider www.impex-info.org VIII. Budapest Futó u 8. (In the building of West Balkan)
The lecture of Anders Kreuger, curator (Sweden, Lithuania), takes place in the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice.
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Jens Hoffmann: Creativ Curating
lecture & discussion /
7 p.m.
Collegium Budapest I. Budapest Szentháromság u 2.
Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in London where he is the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and a faculty member of the Curatorial Studies Program of Goldsmiths College, University of London. From 2007 he is director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts San Francisco. Since 1998 he has curated over three-dozen exhibitions internationally and written over 100 articles on visual art and curatorial practice for art magazines and museum publications
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Branislav Dimitrijevic, Belgrade: Towards the Kunsthistorisches Mausoleum: Work-of-art as an Artefact
lecture & discussion /
7 p.m.
IMPEX, Budapest VIII. Futó 48
The neighbourhood around Brace Radovanovica street in Belgrade consists of old and dilapidated brick-laid small family houses from the 1920s or 1930s pre-socialist and pre-urbanized Belgrade, and, equally dilapidated and grey 1950s apartment building from a period when the socialist administration attempted to provide more modern housing in a wrecked capital with a significantly enlarged population. In such a building, in the cat-piss smelling basement, there is an ordinary white door with a small paper label on which, in typewritten letters, one reads: Kunsthistorisches Mausoleum.
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Prof. John C. Welchman
lecture & discussion /
25.10./26.10.2006
John C. Welchman is Professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego. He will give three lectures:
Actions Against the State: Paul McCarthy’s Pirate Project
October 25 2006, 10 a.m.
University of Fine Arts (Magyar Kepzomuveszeti Egyetem), 1063 Andrassy ut 69-70, Vetitoterem / Lecture Room
Orshi Drozdik: Passion After Appropriation
October 25, 2006, 6 p.m.
Art in Southern California Now AND Institutional Critique and After
October 26, 2006, 6 p.m.
Organized by the Painting Department of the University of Fine Arts Budapest and tranzit.hu
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What, How and for Whom/WHW, Zagreb: To be put up for a public debate
lecture & discussion /
19.10.-22.10.2006
6 p.m.
Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem / Eötvös Lóránd University Művészettörténeti Intézet / Art History Institute 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 6-8. I em. 112 /I. floor, room 112.
What, How and for Whom/WHW is an independent team (its members are curatorial collective Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Natasa Ilić, Sabina Sabolović and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić) formed in 1999, that organizes different production, exhibition and publishing projects. Since 2003 WHW has been directing the non-profit gallery called Galerija Nova in Zagreb, Croatia.
WHW will give an overview of curatorial approaches and strategies in Zagreb, starting with the "What, How and for Whom, on the ocasion of 152nd anniversary of Communist manifesto" which was the project from which the group later took its name.
In the frame of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice
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The Aesthetics of Resistance
lecture & discussion /
29.9./30.9.2006
Műcsarnok, XIV. Hősök tere Budapest
On the occasion of Róza El-Hassan’s Retrospective in the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest (27 July – 1 October 2006)
Participants:
Róza El-Hassan Budapest, Éva Fodor Budapest, Dieter Lesage Brussels-Berlin, Arab Lotfy Cairo, Beral Madra, Istanbul, Gerald Raunig Vienna, Pál Szacsvay, Budapest, Emese Süvecz, Budapest, Milica Tomic- Branimir Stojanovic, Belgrade.
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Barbara Steiner: On the project
lecture & discussion /
6 p.m.
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem - Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Budapest, VI. Andrássy út 69-71
Barbara Steiner is curator and director of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.
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C’est arrivé près de chez vous / Man bites dog
screening /
7 p.m.
Gödör Klub, Erzsébet tér, Budapest
tranzit. hu starts a monthly video / film screening series in 2006. Each program will be selected by invited artists, curators, theoreticians.
C’est arrivé près de chez vous / Man bites dog (1992, 89 min., directed by: André Bonzel, Rémy Belvaux, Benoît Poelvoorde) is selected by Pál Szacsva y, artist.
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Who Writes the History of Art?
lecture & discussion /
6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Collegium Budapest, 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u. 2.
Discussion about the art of the 1960s in Hungary – in connection with the Portable Intelligence Increase Museum.
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Roger M. Buergel: Curatorial subjects and methods. From The Government to documenta 12
lecture and discussion /
6 - 9 p.m.
OSA Archívum / OSA Archive (Goldberger Ház / Goldberger House) 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32
Roger M. Buergel, artistic director of documenta 12 comes to Budapest at the invitation of the Curators´ Association Budapest and tranzit. hu.
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Johan Grimonprez: D. I. A. L. History
screening /
7 p.m.
Gödör Klub, Erzsébet tér, Budapest
tranzit. hu starts a monthly video/film screening series in 2006. Each program will be selected by invited artists, curators, theoreticians.
Johan Grimonprez: D. I. A. L. History (1997, 68 min, DVD) is presented by Ádám Kokesch, artist.
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It is Hard to Touch the Real - Documentaries by Visual Artists
screening /
6.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.
Örökmozgó Filmmúzeum 1073 Budapest Erzsébet krt. 39.
Between 19 October and 5 November, a self-service video corner will be in operation in the "Irok Boltja" bookstore, where 100 films by 40 international visual artists will be on display. In recent years the documentarist representation of reality, meaning personal, public, political and social reality, has acquired a crucially important role in the work of fine artists. Bearing this observation in mind, Maria Lind and Søren Grammel, as curators of the Kunstverein München between 2002-2004, have made a collection of films by international fine artists who apply documentarist methods in their largely video productions. In an attempt to address the question of the extent to which this tendency is decisive in Hungary and what traditions it has, the international material has been expanded by the inclusion of films by Hungarian visual artists.
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tranzit/hu presents itself
news /
1 p.m.
Fészek Művészklub, Kupola Terem/Room II. emelet/2nd floor Cím/Address: 1073 Budapest, Kertész u. 36
Participants:
Boris Marte, Erste Bank Group
Linda Szabo Head of PR Department, Erste Bank Hungary Rt.
Vit Havranek, tranzit/cz
Boris Ondreicka, tranzit/sk
Georg Schöllhammer, tranzit/at
Dora Hegyi tranzit/hu
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