tranzit 20+
past, present, future
tranzit.org is a network of autonomous initiatives for contemporary art based in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Each tranzit operates under its own conditions and in its own local sociocultural contexts, using different formats and methods to contextualize, generate, or host theoretical, artistic, and activist debates around urgent topics.
tranzit.org turned twenty years old in 2022. The aim of this publication is to take stock and reflect on both this history and ongoing conversations. The five main chapters are centered around key concerns—institutional critique, radical education, ecology, the legacies of neo-avant-garde art, and the future—that each tranzit has addressed extensively over the years, while also offering a critical rethinking of these shared topics’ relevance going forward.
Accordingly, the chapters unfold not only through existing texts but also through newly commissioned contributions and updated/re-edited essays. Through a variety of formats ranging from academic writing to interviews, letters, diagrams, drawings, photographs, and film stills, they create generative, open-ended conversations. The book opens with an interview the editors conducted with the current tranzit leaders and concludes with a timeline of each tranzit in their own chosen format.
Notes
Editors
Flóra Gadó
Borbála Soós
tranzit leaders
Judit Angel
Dóra Hegyi
Livia Pancu
Georg Schöllhammer
Tereza Stejskalová
Attila Tordai-S.
Raluca Voinea
Additional tranzit editorial team
Larissa Agel
Esther Brandl
Translations
Phil Jones, Paul McCullough, Ian Mikyska, Dániel Sipos, Andrea Szekeres, Jennifer Taylor
Copy editing and proofreading
Megan Bedell, Jennifer Taylor, Brian D. Vondrak
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
Graphic design
Andreas Wesle
Lithography
Pixelstorm, Vienna
This publication was made possible with the generous support
of ERSTE Foundation
Publisher
Archive Books
www.archivebooks.org
Reinickendorfer Straße 17
13347 Berlin, Germany
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop,
Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal
Via Arquà 15
20131 Milano, Italy
ISBN 978-3-912226-12-6
(c) 2026 tranzit.org, Archive Books, the artists, the authors
Price: 30€
