Report_Issue 1/2009 - Jubiläum/ 20 Jahre Mauerfall

TRANZIT IS A NETWORK WORKING
INDEPENDENTLY IN AUSTRIA, THE
CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY AND
SLOVAKIA SINCE 2002.
The network has a polycentric structure as a collective of autonomous local units
cooperating across various borderlines – between nations, languages, media,
mentalities and histories. Each tranzit works under its own conditions in a variety
of local contexts, using different formats and methods such as critical platforms,
exhibitions and other artistic settings (musical, poetical, literary, performative ...),
lectures, discussions, publications, research, mediation and non-conformist education.
tranzit generates deep experience in the local artistic and intellectual biotopes in
relation with continuity, a re-assessment of contemporary history (arising chiefly
from the artistic catharsis of the 1960s and ‘70s) and in challenging the canons,
geographies and master narratives of postwar European (art) histories. The aim of
tranzit is to act translocally, i.e., in constant dialectics between local and global cultural
narratives. tranzit’s experience with self-organized activities in progressive cultures
dates back to the totalitarian society of the 1970s and ‘80s and has continued through
the hypertransformational period and the comprehensive reform of all strata of society
in the 1990s and up to the present. tranzit is engaged in numerous side projects,
such as Monument to Transformation in Prague, the Július Koller Society in Bratislava
and Vienna and The Free School for Art Theory and Practice in Budapest. tranzit’s
main financial support comes from the Erste Group banks in Austria, Czech Republic,
Hungary and Slovakia.
www.tranzit.org
Vít Havránek is a theoretician and organizer based in
Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2002 he is working as
a project leader of the initiative for contemporary art
tranzit.cz. He worked as a curator for the Municipal Gallery,
Prague and National Gallery in Prague. He lectures
in contemporary art at the Academy of Applied Arts,
Prague. He has curated and co-curated a number of
exhibitions, amongst which are: “A CDEFGHIJK MNOP
STUV Z”, part of Societe Anonyme, Le Plateau, Paris,
2007, tranzit – Auditorium, Stage Backstage, Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2006, I, series of exhibitions
in three acts (Secession Vienna, Futura Prague, tranzit
workshops Bratislava, 2006), project “The Need to Document”
(Basel, Lüneburg, Prague, 2005), “Definitions of
Everyday” (Prague Biennale 2, 2005), “Lanterna Magika”
(Paris, 2002), Jiři Kovanda (Brno, 2004), Otto Piene
(Prague 2002), action, word, movement, space (Prague,
1999). He is editor of the tranzit series published by
jrp | ringier (Jan Mančuška, Jiří Kovanda and others).
Havránek lives and works in Prague.
tranzit.cz
civic association
fričova 11, cz-120 00 prague, czech republic
t: 00420 222562031
office.cz@tranzit.org
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Dóra Hegyi is project leader of tranzit.hu. She is an art
historian and curator based in Budapest and has been
curator at the Ludwig Museum Budapest since 1996,
where she initiated the Project Room in 1999.
Exhibitions (selection): “Project Room”, Ludwig Museum
Budapest (1999), “Budapest Box”, The hidden scene of
the 1990s (2002), “Moszkva tér” (Gravitation, 2003)
und “Tell a Line What a Ball Is” (2004–2005). Periferic
8 Biennale – “Art as Gift” (Iasi Romania 2008). She was
a founding member of the group KMKK (Two Artists, Two
Curators) and founding member of the Curators’ Association
Budapest. Hegyi lives and works in Budapest.
tranzit.hu
civic association
ezredes u. 13, hu-1024 budapest, hungary
office: forint u. 4, hu-1024 budapest, hungary
office@tranzitinfo.hu
Boris Ondreička is an artist, singer and curator. Among
others he has been working with and for Radio Ragtime,
Slovak Television, monthly magazines Eva and Inspire,
Soros centre of contemporary arts, advertisement and
show business in Bratislava and initiatives Projekt Relations
and Zwischenpalastnutzung in Berlin, “documenta
12” in Kassel, Kunstverein München and others. Among
others he has been exhibiting his works at Manifesta
2, Venice Biennale, Gyumri Biennale, PS1 NYC, Kiasma
Helsinki, BAK Utrecht, De Appel Amsterdam, W139
Amsterdam, Fond. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino,
TBA 21 Vienna, Secession Vienna, MUMOK Vienna, M4
Bregenz, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein,
Palast der Republik Berlin, Kunsthalle Loppem and
others. Since 1986 he is the lead singer and lyrics writer
of the lo-fi band Kosa z nosa. Since 2002 he leads the
art initiative tranzit.sk. Since 2008 he is founding member
of the Július Koller Society. Since 2009 he cocurates
“Manifesta 8”. Ondreička lives and works in Bratislava.
tranzit.sk
civic association
šulekova 18, sk-81106 bratislava, slovak republic
t 00421.905.277052
f 00421.2.45993042
office.sk@tranzit.org
Georg Schöllhammer is an editor, author, curator and
editor-in-chief of the magazine “springerin – Hefte für
Gegenwartskunst”, Vienna, which he co-founded in
1995. He is project leader of tranzit.at, founding member
and chair of the Július Koller Society, and he was
editor-in-chief of “documenta 12 magazines”. He was
editor of fine arts for the newspaper “Der Standard”
(1988–94) and from 1992 onwards a visiting professor
for Theory of Contemporary Art at the University for Artistic
and Industrial Design, Linz. He has published widely
on contemporary topics and on issues of urban and
cultural transformation focusing on Central and South
Eastern Europe Western and Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Schöllhammer lives and workes in Vienna.
tranzit.at
verein erste tranzit vienna.
central european contemporary art
c/o springerin, museumsplatz 1, a-1070 vienna,
austria
t 0043.1.52291241951
f 0043.1.5229125
office.at@tranzit.org