Public program
Biennale Matter of Art 2024
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Matter of Art Bookshop at Knihex 14½
Book Market
Prague
UMPRUM Mikulandská
Book Launch of Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
Sophia Giovannitti
Czech edition
Safe space Bookstore
tranzit.cz publishing house at the Vitamin Market
Christmas market
Brno
Matter of Art Bookshop at Knihex 14½
Book Market
Prague
UMPRUM Mikulandská
Final day of the exhibition: Trade Fair Palace
last chance to see
Grand Hall
Final day of the exhibition: Lidice Gallery
last chance to see
Afterparty in the Matter of Art
drinks
DJ
Mor Wen
Uprooting Ill Health II. Screening of C-TV (If I Tell You I Like You...) with a discussion
crip
queer
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Performance: Good Night Readers: RED (Cats) – björnsonova & Nik Timková, Zuzana Žabková, Tamara Antonijević, Tanja Šljivar, Cassandra Troyan
reading environment
McKenzie Wark: Raving — Book launch of the Czech translation with a lecture by the author
Lunchmeat Festival collab
Extended opening hours – Trade Fair Palace
till 10 PM
Artalk debate: Art, Unions and Self-organizing
Kuba Szreder
Eliška Mazalánová
Jirka Skála
Aleksei Borisionok
Anežka Bartlová
Demolishing Complicated Histories: Chemapol, Architecture and Agribusiness II. Conversation with Karel Machovec and Kateřina Pazderů, moderated by Tomáš Uhnák
architecture
sustainable farming
Agrofert
Demolishing Complicated Histories: Chemapol, Architecture and Agribusiness I. Excursion and architectural guided tour
architecture
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Reaping Cooperation. Excursion and lectures with Pavel Černý, cosa. cz, Uladzimir Hramovich, and the Tenants’ Initiative at the Museum of Cooperative Movements
Cooperative Association of the Czech Republic
Mediation: The Great Land of Small Workshop #3 — creative program for children aged 9–14
workshops
This is not baloney: Launch of children's newspaper
The Great Land of Small
children's editorial team
city camp
Film screening: Wicked Winds and Invisible Seas – with DAVRA research group, the National Film Archive, and Ponrepo Cinema
Uzbekistan
Saodat Ismailova
Kamil Jarmatov
Carlos Casas
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Workshop: Playroom with Platforma Výkvět for children aged 1.5–5 and adults
ticketed
Educational department of the National Gallery
Workshop: Playroom with Platforma Výkvět for children aged 1.5–5 and adults
ticketed
Educational department of the National Gallery
Flower workshop with Platforma Výkvět for children aged 6+ and adults
ticketed
Educational department of the National Gallery
Workshop for adults with Platforma Výkvět
ticketed
Educational department of the National Gallery
The personal and the public in the age of Instagram. How has politics in art changed? In collaboration with ART ANTIQUES and Prague Art Week
autofiction
activism
political art
Jakub Polách
Milan Mikuláštík
Marie Lukáčová
David Kořínek
Guided tour of the Biennale with Tereza Stejskalová in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
The Spectre of Peasantry: Artist talk and discussion – Vendula Donátová, Radim Kotrba, Jaroslav Pražan, Tomáš Uhnák, Jan Valeška
agroecology
peasantry today
small farmers
Mediation: The Great Land of Small Workshop #2 — creative program for children aged 9–14
workshops
The Great Land of Small — camp for children aged 9–14. The camp is for registered participants only.
summer camp
The Great Land of Small — camp for children aged 9–14. The camp is for registered participants only.
summer camp
The Great Land of Small — camp for children aged 9–14. The camp is for registered participants only.
summer camp
The Great Land of Small — camp for children aged 9–14. The camp is for registered participants only.
summer camp
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Guided tour in Czech with Miloslav Vorlíček – Lidice Gallery
Lidice Art Collection intervention
Nikita Kadan
Mediation: The Great Land of Small Workshop #1 — creative program for children aged 9–14
workshops
Guided tour of the exhibition at the Trade Fair Palace for children aged 6-14
Art Space Unlimited
The Great Land of Small
Mediation
Art Space (Un)limited: Seminar and debate on accessibility in art
Creative Europe
La Escocesa
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English – Trade Fair Palace
EN
Grand Hall
Katalin Erdődi
Aleksei Borisionok
Guided tour of the Biennale in Czech – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
CZ
Performance: Peter Kolárčik & a friend
concert
Institute of Anxiety
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat – Talk by Hannah Proctor
lecture
Institute of Anxiety
Farmers in Depression: A conversation about farmers' mental health with Apolena Rychlíková and Tomáš Uhnák
mental health
climate change
Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice
Institute of Anxiety
Uprooting Ill Health I: Talks on burnout and the mental health of farmers, with the Institute of Anxiety
Institute of Anxiety
Burnout
Plunging Hands into the Earth: Gardening with the Institute of Anxiety
gardening
grounding
weeding
mulching
watering
Guided tour in Czech with Tereza Stejskalová – Trade Fair Palace
Talking to the Sun: Artist-led trip and midsummer celebration
screenings
workshops
songwriting
performance
solstice celebration
Excavating Solidarity: Artist talks — Nikita Kadan, Dana Kavelina, Kateryna Lysovenko, Marta Popivoda, and Miloslav Vorlíček
Lidice Memorial
antifascist resistance
limits of solidarity
The Lemberg Machine: Screening of a film by Dana Kavelina
stop-motion animation
Artist-led guided tour with Nikita Kadan: Lidice Gallery
curatorial intervention
Lidice Art Collection
Opening Weekend – Day 3 – Lidice Gallery
Lidice Gallery
Guided tour
Screening
Opening ceremony: Lidice Gallery
Nikita Kadan
speech
Gestures of Unrest: Guided tour with artists and curators
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Uladzimir Hramovich
Kateryna Lysovenko
Tomáš Uhnák
Pınar Öğrenci
Marta Popivoda
Elske Rosenfeld
Performance: Olia Sosnovskaya & Elske Rosenfeld — Archive of Gestures: Becoming In/visible
Performance
Opening
Performance: Kateryna Aliinyk — The inability to share grief is not as bad as the inability to share beauty
collective reading
war in Ukraine
Vernaculars of Resistance: Guided tour with artists and curators
Judita Levitnerová
björnsonova
Anjte Schiffers
Alicja Rogalska
DAVRA
stopgenocidevgaze
Nik Timková
Zuzana Žabková
Nikita Kadan
Pınar Öğrenci
Randomroutines (Tamás Kaszás & Krisztián Kristóf
Dominika Trapp
Opening Weekend – Day 2 – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague
Performance
Guided tour
Artist talk
Performance: björnsonova & Nik Timková, Zuzana Žabková — Just a Few Moments Ago We Were Waiting For Ages
speculative
eco-feminism
fate
Antje Schiffers – Myvillages’ International Schnaps Bar
performance
Opening party: AXT
DJ set
party
Performance: Peasants in Atmosphere & Lada Choir
Biennale Opening
Concert
b2b
Performance: The Rodina – Seeding Letters, Growing Worlds
visual identity
design
Do You Think All Those Olive Trees Are In Paradise? Solidary intervention by the stopgenocidevgaze collective
Solidarity
Gaza
Palestine
Opening Weekend – Day 1 – Trade Fair Palace
National Gallery Prague
Performance
Party
Speeches
The Biennale Opening Ceremony: Trade Fair Palace
Tereza Stejskalová
Aleksei Borisionok
Katalin Erdődi
Alicja Knast
Monika Čejková
Art Space Unlimited
Creative Europe
Community
Accessibility
DAVRA research group at MAKE VOICES HEARD symposium
Artist talk
Research
Hope Recycling Station
Grafting Resilience: Alicja Rogalska, Platforma Výkvět, Saša Uhlová, Katalin Erdődi
Discussion
Screening
Performance
Biennale 2024
Galerie Hraničář
To Leave Is to Return Another Way
Festival
Performance Art
Ankali & Planeta Za
Ke zdrojům! podcast launch
podcast
tranzit.cz
Tereza Havlínková
Seminar of Accidental Wisdom: Sowing Unrest: Lecture by Katalin Erdődi and Aleksei Borisionok
Lecture
FAMU
photofamu
Excavating Solidarity: Z. Baladrán, M. Popivoda, N. Kadan
Lidice
Screening
Feminist storytelling
Discussion
Artist talk
Performative walk
Abolish the Family: Book Launch and Workshop with Druhá : směna
book launch
workshop
Shaking Up The Museum: Workshop with Kateryna Lysovenko
workshop
artist-in-residency
Screening and live discussion with Éric Baudelaire
AVU
Artist talk
Screening
Final curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Discussion „The War in Ukraine: A Feminist Perspective”
Discussion
Online
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Discussion "Documenta, Prague, Venice. Signalling a new path or a dead end?"
Discussion
Artalk
GHMP
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Solidarity Screening: Ukrainian video art in times of war
Screening
Ukraine
Soft Spots book launch
Book launch
Hospital
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
[CANCELED] Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Workshop for children with artists Bára Šimková and Johana Novotná
Workshop
GHMP
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in Czech
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
GHMP
Kolektiv Prádelna: What we want so that the gallery is for all people, without exception
Meeting
GHMP
Biennale
Florin Flueras: Unexperiences
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Performance
Florin Flueras: Undreaming
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Performance
✨ Biennale opening #3 – Šaloun
Biennale
2022
Šaloun
Florin Flueras: Undreaming
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Performance
Nolan Oswald Dennis & Zeynab Gueye: Guide Songs for Mud
Biennale
Performance
2022
CAMP
Greetings from the Debris: Conversations with Artists
Biennale
2022
CAMP
Debate
Curatorial guided tour of the Biennale in English
Biennale
2022
Guided tour
Hospital
✨ Biennale Opening #2 – Hospital
Biennale
2022
Hospital
[Canceled] Linh Valerie Pham: A Game of Good Citizen
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Game
Florin Flueras: Unexperiences
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Performance
Biennale Opening Party
Biennale
2022
Bike Jesus
Party
✨ Biennale Opening #1 – GHMP
Biennale
2022
GHMP
Florin Flueras: Unexperiences
GHMP
Biennale
2022
Performance
Afterparty: lizwiz
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Laundry Collective: Expressing the Desire for the Impossible
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Doris Uhlich: Gootopia
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Anetta Mona Chișa and Lucia Tkáčová – The Second Sense
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Larisa David: A Watched Pot Never Boils
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Laundry Collective: Expressing the Desire for the Impossible
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Ovid Pop: Sunsets
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Afterparty: mor wen
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Hajnal Németh – Dream exchanges – The Casting
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: F5. José Maria Sicre Chess Tournament, 2017/2021
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Zorka Wollny: Midnight Mixtapes
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Helena Eribenne: Shadow of the Imago
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
Maja Štefančíková: Close Encounters
We Are All Emotional
Festival
tranzit.org
We Are All Emotional
tranzit.org
performance festival
Matter of Art Talks #4: Alina Kleytman & Marie Lukáčová in discussion with Piotr Sikora
Biennale
Residency
Discussion
Live
Matter of Art Talks #3: Bára Šimková in conversation with Tereza Stejskalová
Biennale
Residency
Discussion
Live
Matter of Art Talks #2: Sina Seifee in conversation with Renan Laru-an
Biennale
Residency
Discussion
Live
Matter of Art Talks #1: Hera Büyüktaşcıyan in conversation with Rado Ištok
Biennale
Residency
Discussion
Live
Labour and the Moderns: The Realist Portrayal of Work and Contemporary Art
Online
Kyiv Biennial
Discussion
Opening: Michal Karvay – Dyk more
EEA Grants
tranzit.cz
Litvínov
Mycelium
Public space
Mycelium Litvínov
Litvínov
Workshop
Residency
EEA Grants
East Europe Biennial Alliance: East to East
OFF-Biennále Budapest
Live discussion
Center and Periphery: Cultural Deserts in Eastern Europe
2021
2022
2023
EEA Grants