Can an 'art space' truly be 'unlimited'?

We are bidding farewell to the project Art Space Unlimited. For the past eighteen months, tranzit.cz and its European partner organizations have been looking for ways in which nonprofit art spaces can become more empathetic and open up their programs to people who, for various reasons, have difficulty accessing art or creative activities. Take a look at our favorite moments from various get-togethers, events, and trips from the project. The documentation archive will be available at www.matterof.art in the Projects section.

The project activities took place from January 2024 to June 2025 in Prague, Budapest, Barcelona, Graz, and Pristina. There were a total of five research trips for dozens of cultural workers as well as five discussion seminars for professionals on topics related to both the accessibility and availability of culture in Europe. The project was co-financed by the European Union and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

A parallel program of community mediations was then held in each city to expand the programs of the partner organizations to include activities at the intersection of education and artistic creation. In Prague the project allowed us to run a week-long summer camp and series of creative workshops for children called The Great Land of Small, which was available free of charge and brought together children from Prague and Ostrava, who formed an editorial team and in record time put together a children’s newspaper called This is not baloney. The mediation for children was collectively prepared by Eva Koťatková, Bára Šimková, Mary C, Magda Stojowska, Tadeáš Polák, the collective TV Páteř, and the tranzit team. The mediation took place as part of the third edition of the Biennale Matter of Art Prague.

In addition to the public events, there were also several activities aimed at strengthening the institutions from within—so-called “capacity building”—thanks to which more than fifty cultural workers from the five partner organizations gained new skills and knowledge.

The project culminated in a collectively prepared handbook for allied cultural organizations, which captures our experiences and insights from the project. The book We Cannot Say That We Have Arrived Somewhere, Yet Neither Can We Say That We Haven’t. This Glossary of Commoning Terms has been published in six languages and is available free of charge online and for DIY printing at www.emotional-labor.eu.

The Art Space Unlimited project brought together five European institutions: Barcelona’s residency center La Escocesa, the contemporary art gallery < rotor > in Graz, Budapest’s committed OFF-Biennale, Kosovo’s interdisciplinary art center Shtatëmbëdhjetë (17), and our organizations tranzit.cz and Biennale Matter of Art.