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      • Initiative Island
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      • Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
      • Harbour for Cultures
      • pursuing, advancing
    • 2016 >
      • Design of the Square in Pottenhofen
      • Commons kommen. Ankommen.
      • The Turn
    • 2015 >
      • The Laughter that Gets Caught in Your Throat
      • Je suis arabe
    • 2014 >
      • On the Slim Probability
      • Du bakchich pour Lampedusa
      • 1st World Congress of the Missing Things
      • 2nd World Non-Congress
      • The Dignity of Man
      • Revolution Without Movement
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      • Botendienst Unplugged
    • At the Urban Periphery
    • The Blue Frog Society
    • More Opportunities
    • Listen to the Quiet Voice
    • untitled (what we did not dare to wish)
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    • Andere Urbanitäten
    • Planning Unplanned - Russian
    • New Stakeholders of Urban Change
    • Räume des Ankommens
    • Das Bienvenue - Ein Recht auf Raum für alle
    • Kunstbulletin 9/2016
    • Planning Unplanned
    • Interview by Maia Damianovic
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    • archithese
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    • Urgent Perspectives #2
    • KunstRaumGaragen
    • Waste Value Rising
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OUT NOW:
Barbara Holub. SILENT ACTIVISM
(ed. Basak Senova)

Preface by: Basak Senova

Texts by: Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Enrico Lunghi, Paul O’Neill, Jane Rendell, and Andreas Spiegl

Graphic Design: bueronardin
312 p., German/ English

De Gruyter/ edition Angewandte
ISBN: 9783110790818

More information here


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Internacionalní together-hood
Prague-Suchdol

March 23, 2022 (postponed)
Prague City Gallery/ GHMP
_urban intervention in the frame of "Art for the City"

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NORMAL
Forum Stadtpark Graz

Opening: Aug.31, 2021, 7 pm
Exhibition: Sept.1-15, 2021

artists:
orizzontale
public works with studio Magic
transparadiso
Georg Winter/ TanzPflanzPlan AG

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FAVORIT
- a square-transformer-performer

Opening: May 14, 2021
Events: Maay 17-Sept.15, 2021

The FAVORIT is now open in Vienna/ 10th district for everyday use and events: for program information see:
https://www.kulturhaus-brotfabrik.at/favorit

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NORMAL - direkter Urbanismus x 4
_ein Projekt von transparadiso im Rahmen des Kulturjahrs Graz 2020/2021

Ausstellung | HDA Auslage:
28.01.-24.02.2021

Eröffnung + KünstlerInnengespräch/ online
27.01.2021, 18:00-19:15
Das Event kann per LIVESTREAM verfolgt werden. Hier gehts zum HDA-Channel.

KünstlerInnen: orizzontale, public works (mit Studio Magic), transparadiso, Georg Winter/ TanzPflanzPlan AG

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Collezione d'arte Contemporanea Marino Cettina

Museum of Contemporary Art Istria, Pula (HR)

Opening: June 19, 2020, 8 pm
Exhibition: June 20 – Aug.23, 2020
curated by: Marina Grzinic
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OUT NOW:
Plattform für Streitreden
Barbara Holub/ Christine Hohenbüchler (eds.)
111 p., 2020
Public Art Vienna
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Opening of the Culture Year
GRAZ 2020


Jan. 23, 2020, 7 pm
Location: Congress / Stefaniensaal, Graz/ A
transparadiso will realize "NORMAL - direct urbanism x 4" with international urban practititoners in 4 peri-urban districts in Graz :

Andritz: public works (London, UK)
Waltendorf: transparadiso (Graz, A)
Liebenau: orizzontale (Rome, I)
Wetzelsdorf: Georg Winter (Saarbrücken/ Stuttgart, D)

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CrossSections

Exhibition Laboratory/ KuvA, Helsinki
Opening:Oct.24, 5-8 pm
Exhibition: Oct.24-Nov.11, 2019

Barbara Holub's video-work "Blue Frog Society | A Habitat Without Territory // Speech to the Blue Frog Society in Romanes by Nancy Black" is presented at PUBLICS [Sturenkatu 37-41 4b 00550 Helsinki] within the framework of the CrossSections project

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AUSTRIAN NATIONAL ART AWARD

Award Ceremony: Feb.21, 2019
Federal Chancellary, Vienna

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Barbara Holub and Paul Rajakovics received the Austrian National Art Award for Fine Arts 2018

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TRANS-PARADISO – eine künstlerisch-urbanistische Praxis in Times of Dilemma
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05.11.2018: 6 pm
Talk by Barbara Holub
Kunsthochschule Halle (D)
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The Island is What the Sea Surrounds
Valletta 2018
- European Capital of Culture

Opening of the exhibition:
March 24, 7 pm, Exam Centre,
Valletta/ Malta
Exhibition: March 24–May 27, 2018

Curated by: Maren Richter

Artists: Heba Y Amin (Egypt), Hela Ammar (Tunis), Bettina Hutschek (Germany/Malta), Raphael Vella (Malta), Gilbert Calleja (Malta), Fernando Sanchez Castillo (Spain), Lida Abdul (Afghanistan), Adrian Paci (Albania), Susan Philipsz (Scotland), Aidan Celeste (Malta), Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana), Wael Shawky (Egypt/America), Antoine Cassar (Malta), Aaron Bezzina (Malta), Center for Political Beauty collective (Germany), Embassy for the Displaced/Scan Lab/Stevanos (International), Kristina Borg (Malta), transparadiso (Austria), Tania El Khoury (Lebanon), Fleeting Territories (Austria/Sweden), Manaf Halbouni (Syria/Germany)

Times of Dilemma (transparadiso)
Performances:
March 25, May 27 and July1, 2018

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IUAV - Università di Venezia
Venice

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transparadiso are visiting professors at IUAV:
workshop with transparadiso:
Feb.12-16, 2018
talk by transparadiso: Feb. 14, 4:30 pm

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4th Ural Industrial Biennial
Ekaterinburg/ Russia

International Forum: Culture as an Enterprise
Oct.23-24, 2017

Key speakers: Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Dectot, Barbara Holub, Vitaly Kurennoy, Lukasz Pancewicz, Lyudmila Petrova, Andy Pratt

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Workshop for the "Missing Things":
Barbara Holub and Dmitri Moskvin
Sennaya Square, Ekaterinburg
Oct. 22. 2017, 1-4 pm

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Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City

Symposium
14.9.-15.9.2017, FH Campus Vienna


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Panel discussion: 15.09.2017
"Vienna’s Peripheries – Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in International Comparison "

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HafenCity University Hamburg
a performative walk by Barbara Holub
(guest scientist at HafenCity University)
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A Walk on the Wild Side: Hafencity from Oversea via Osaka to Trieste

Date
: July 3rd, 2017, 6-8 pm
meeting point: U-Bahn HafenCity Universität
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KU Leuven / Belgium
Dept. Urbanism and Strategic Planning

Talk by Barbara Holub:
Direct Urbanism. The Role of Art and Artistic Strategies for Socially Engaged Urban Planning

March 21, 2017

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Art & Function
Kunsthaus Mürz / Mürzzuschlag (A)

opening: Nov.11, 2016: 7 pm
exhibition: Nov.12, 2016 – Jan.15, 2017
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curated by: Sabine Kienzer
artists:
Gerry Ammann, Katrina Daschner, Carla Degenhardt, Ines Doujak, Sylvia Eckermann, Manfred Erjautz, Mathis Esterhazy, Sofia Goscinski, Christine und Irene Hohenbüchler, Ewa Kaja, Mihaela Kavdanska, Brigitte Kowanz, Constantin Luser, Sabine Ott, Werner Reiterer, Hans Schabus, Nita Tandon, Jochen Traar, transparadiso, Markus Wilfling.

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Fear of Life
– The City as a Habitat to All

Social Design Symposium #3

Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna
Oct.7, 2016, 9:30 am - 8 pm

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with: Ruth Wodak, Barbara Holub, Oto Hudec, Ton Matton, Katerina Seda, Angelika Fitz, Antonio Cosme, Andrew Herscher, Pawel Althamer
curated by: Brigitte Felderer

+ Presentation of the Social Design Reader #1:
Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle


http://socialdesign.ac.at/archive/2016/10/7/save-date-social-design-symposium/index.html

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Workshop for Dan Peterman
by transparadiso

in the frame of the exhibition "Waste Value Rising"

Kunsthaus Vienna
Aug.26, 2016, 3-6 pm

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Special guest: Basak Senova
(curator, Istanbul/ Ankara)

The particpants will have the opportunity to expand the "Mobile Models" by Dan Peterman and engage in a discussion on their personal and possible collective "values". We will continue building the growing structure of a "network-cloud" out of wasted bike joints and bamboo freshly harvested in Vienna.

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Book launch: Planning Unplanned

AIL/ Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
Sept.24, 2015, 7 pm

Welcome:
Gerald Bast (president/ University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
Discussion:
Stefan Gruber (architect), Barbara Holub (artist), Maren Richter (curator), Rudolf Scheuvens (dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Vienna University of Technology)
Moderation: 
Elke Krasny (curator)

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Request for the unrequested interlinguality


Date: May 14, 2016, 4-7 pm
Location: Gemeindezentrum Pottenhofen / Lower Austria

www.publicart.at

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A collective bilingual German-Czech Scrabble Game for producing the design of a sculpture for the new square in Pottenhofen | Lower Austria
a project by transparadiso

Opening of the public art project:
July 15, 2016

Nejprve budeme hrát simultánně ve dvou jazycích hru Scrabble: Při hře chceme vytvářet poetická slovní spojení mezi českým a německým jazykem. Ta se promítnou do objektu na sezení
a stolování, který bude slavnostně odhalen 15. července 2016 na náměstí v Pottenhofenu.

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Ars Electronica
Post-City

3.9.-7.9.2015, LInz

http://www.aec.at/postcity/1001modell/

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Die „größte“ Architekturschau Österreichs, gestaltet von ArchitektInnen und Stadtplaner-Innen: Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Ars Electronica sollen ihr Ideenreichtum, ihre Visionskraft und Planungs-kompetenz sichtbar werden und zwar in Form möglichst vieler Architektur-modelle.

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Barbara Holub "Stiller Aktivismus oder die Welt wieder verzaubern"

Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz (A)
Ausstellung: 14.01.-25.02.23
Ausstelliungseröffnung: 13.01.23, 19:00
Einführung: Reinhard Braun (Camera Austria)

Book launch "Stiller Aktivismus/ Silent Activism": 10.02.2023, 19:00

Basak Senova
in conversation with: Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Apolonija Sustersic and Barbara Holub

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Harbour for Cultures Logbook:
2022 (Juliet Editrice)

Book launch
Sept.24, 2022, 7 pm
Studio Tommaseo, Trieste

more information here

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SoAH Research Presents: Direct Urbanism
by transparadiso (Barbara Holub / Paul Rajakovics)

Thursday, 12th of May, 6-8pm
(7-9 CET)
Royal College of Art,
Gorvy Lecture Theatre
London, SW11 4AN


Book here:

This event will be streaming live on thisistomorrow.info

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Direct Urbanism:
Lecture (online) at The Bartlett School of Architecure/ International Lecture Series, London

Feb. 2, 2022, 7 pm (CET)

Link to the Lecture here.

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was sein wird_Von der Zukunft zu den Zukünften
Steiermarkschau

Kunsthaus Graz
Eröffnung: 9.4.2021
Ausstellung:10.04.-31.10.2021

The Blue Frog Society is present!

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Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
MAK Vienna

Opening: May 27, 2021
Exhibition: May 28–Oct.3, 2021

https://www.viennabiennale.org/ausstellungen/detail/climate-care/


transparadiso shows NORMAL.

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HUMANIFESTA
- The Open Academy for an Integrative Society
Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Sept.27, 2020
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Wenn das Eis schmilzt
_NORMAL

Reparatur der Zukunft / Ö1

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OUT NOW: dérive 79
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with a text on NORMAL x 4 - Direct Urbanism / our project for the Culture Year Graz 2020:
"Die Normalität des Unspektakulären an den Rändern der Stadt"

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Public Architecture - Future for Europe

Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

Opening: Jan.30, 2020, 7 pm
Exhibition: Jan.31 - May 10, 2020

NIDUM (Malta) and transparadiso will show their collaborative project "Chalet in Action", exploring visions for public space in Sliema/ Malta as process of public engagement.

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Visionäre Räume | Spaces of Difference

Vortrag von Barbara Holub
07.11.2019, 19:00


Ort: Kunstverein Neuhausen
Rupert-Mayer-Str. 68 B
D-73765 Neuhausen/Fildern

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CALL AGAINST THE BORDER
Festival der Regionen 2019
in cooperation with Public Art Lower Austria

Performances:
June 29, 5-6 pm
Grein promenade - Neustadtl ferry landing

July 5, 6:30-7:30 pm
St.Nikola (OÖ) - Neustadtl beach
There will be a shuttle bus from Vienna to St.Nikola.There will be a temporary ferry by the voluntary fire brigade.

July 7, 4:30-5:30 pm
Mauthausen (OÖ) - bike trail Enns-Pyburg
There is a ferry from Mauthausen to the other riverbank.

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RUF GEGEN DIE GRENZE
Festival der Regionen 2019
in cooperation with Public Art Lower Austria

Workshop: 23.03.2019, 14-17:00
Landesmusikschule Grein
Workshop: 08.04.2019, 19-21:00
St.Nikola/ Gemeindeamt
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TRI/E/S/T/E
Presentation of the catalog by Michael Petrowitsch


Dec.15, 2018: 19:30
trieste contemporanea, Trieste

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The catalog of the exhibition TRI/E/S/T/E. Einige wenige Anmerkungen zu vielen Identitäten einer Stadt (House of Architecture/ HdA,  Graz, July-August 2018) includes a presentation of Harbour for Cultures.

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Antarctica
Kunsthalle Vienna
"Antarctica. A Symposium on Alienation."
05.10.-06.10.2018

Oct.6, 2018: 3-5 pm:
lab by: Claudia Bosse
jeder sollte sich von sich selber entfernen, sonst fällt der schrecken weg, der zum erkennen nötig ist (Bertolt Brecht)
on aesthetic strategies of defamiliarisation.


Artists: Claudia Bosse, Abdalla Daif, Barbara Holub, Anne Juren, Sophie Klimis, Lucie Strecker, Yosi Wanunu
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TRIE/S/T/E
HdA/ House of Architecture Graz

Opening: July 25, 7 pm
Exhibition: 26.07.-05.08.2018

Curated by: Michael Petrowitsch

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Artists/ architects:
Stefano Graziani, Emanuela Marassi, Davide Skerlj, transparadiso (Barbara Holub/Paul Rajakovics), Martin Behr, Otmar Lichtenwörther, Hannes Gellner, Team H/C (Giuliana Carbi, Barbara Holub, Elisabetta Porro, Paul Rajakovics)

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Die politische Dimension der Kunst

Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
Symposium: 20.- 21.04.2018

Speakers:
Jochen Becker, Alice Creischer, Helmut Draxler, Barbara Holub, Holger Kube Ventura, Annette Kulenkampff, Marc Lee, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Hermann Pfütze, Nasan Tur, Wolfgang Ullrich, Georg Winter

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Times of Dilemma
Valletta 2018
March 25, 2018

First performance at St.Roche's Chapel and on Manoel Island
in the frame of "The Island is What the Sea Surrounds" (curated by Maren Richter)
Next performances:
May 27, July 1, 2018

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CrossSections.Potentials

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Opening: Jan.10, 2018, 7 pm
Exhibition: Jan.11-20, 2018

Presentation of the Blue Frog Society by Barbara Holub: Jan.12, 5 pm

Curated by: Basak Senova

Artists: Heba Y. Amin (EG/DE), Yane Calovski (MT), Ramesch Daha (AT), Ricarda Denzer (DE/AT), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Barbara Holub (AT), Otto Karvonen (FI), Bronwyn Lace (ZA), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Isa Rosenberger (AT), Lina Selander (SE), Tamsin Snow (IE/UK)

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URGENT PERSPECTIVES #1

Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (A)

Opening: Nov.9, 7 pm
Artists conversation: Nov.11, 2017,
2 pm
Exhibition: Nov.10.-11,.2017

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Artists: Dalila Gonçalves (AIR/Portugal), Vida Guzmić (AIR/Croatia), Nika Kupyrova (A), Gabriele Sturm (A)

curated by Barbara Holub for Kulturkontakt Austria

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SINOPALE - 6th Sinop Biennial
“Transposition / Aktarım”

1th August – 17th September 2017, Sinop, Turkey
http://sinopale.org/

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Sinopale Forum: Aug.20, 2017
Speakers: Nike Baetzner, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Melih Görgün, Barbara Holub, Mahir Namur, Işın Önol.

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HARBOUR FOR CULTURES

8th CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 2017

Symposium: Friday, May 12, 2017, 14.00 – 19.00
Location: Venice, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930

curated by: Giuliana Carbi, Barbara Holub, Elisabetta Porro, Paul Rajakovics


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SPEAKERS
Iara Boubnova (ICA, Sofia), Maja Ćirić (independent curator, Belgrade), Călin Dan (general director National Museum of Contemporary Art,  Bucharest), Shamina de Gonzaga (executive director World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, USA), Beral Madra (BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul), Maren Richter (Valletta European Capital of Culture 2018, Malta), Mick Wilson (head of Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg).
The complete list of speakers and contributors is available here

The full program of the event

There is no fee for participation but you have to register online


Curated by: Giuliana Carbi (trieste contemporanea), Elisabetta Porro, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics
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OUT NOW:
Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle
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Social Design Arts as Urban Innovation (editor), 2016
116 pages, color and b/w images
German/ English
Graphic Design: Schienerl A/D

ISBN-10: 3741272450
ISBN-13: 978-3741272455

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Request for the unrequested
voluntary inter
linguisticality

Design of the Square in Pottenhofen/ Lower Austria
by transparadiso

Opening: July 15, 2016, 5 pm

www.publicart.at

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Konferenz: Wir sind nie urban gewesen

7.10.-9.10.2015, Wien

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie | Universität Wien, Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien

middletownurbanities.com

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Konferenz: Social Urban Art
12.11.-13.11.2015
HCU, Hamburg

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https://www.hcu-hamburg.de/universitaet/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltungen-der-hcu/vorschau/

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KAPITAL HEIMAT
Artistic strategies and urban
interventions
Opening: March 10, 2016, 7 pm
Exhibition: March 11–May 13,2016



Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes
, Berlin


Curated by: Christina Paetsch
Artists:
Winfried Baumann | Stefan Fahrnländer | Pia Lanzinger | Christina Paetsch | transparadiso – Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics


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Open Studio Day Tour //
Vienna Art Week:
Atelier transparadiso
Sa, 21.11.2015, 13:00

Treffpunkt:
Atelier transparadiso
Große Mohrengasse 34/3,
1020 Wien

Tour 2.Bezirk mit Nika Koupyrova: Atelier Ronald Kodritsch, tat ort (Berlinger, Fiel), Atelier Konrad Strutz

http://viennaartweek.at/de/program/176

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Book Launch:
"Planning Unplanned - Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society"

(eds.) Christine Hohenbüchler/ Barbara Holub

Thu, Sept.24, 2015, 7pm, AIL / Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna http://www.ailab.at
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3,
1010 Wien
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Stadt der Zukunft, Zukunft der Stadt/ München:

Di, 8.11.2022, 19:30

Podiumsdiskussion mit:
Friedrich von Börries, Barbara Holub, Tatjana Schneider
Moderation: Kia Vahland

Ort: Hochschule für Philosophie,
Kaulbachstraße 31a, 80539 München, Aula

more information here

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ONE BELT. MANY ROADS
April 30, 2:00 CET
online event:

Please join us live here (link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1794986984040664/?ref=newsfeed text: facebook):

One Belt. Many Roads (OBMR) is a collaboration between Agung Kurniawan/INDONESIA. Almagul Menlibayeva/KAZAKHSTAN. Behzad Khosravi Noori/IRAN, PAKISTAN. Berhanu Ashagrie/ETHIOPIA, Hatem Bourial/TUNISIA. Yara Mekawei/EGYPT. transparadiso (Paul Rajakovics, Barbara Holub)/ITALY, and Grammar of Urgencies (Maren Richter, Klaus Schafler with Niels Plotard)/AUSTRIA.

On April 30th 2022 at 2pm CET we will present the first stage of the research online:

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Habiter les grands ensembles - Biennale Venice/ French Pavilion

Roundtables: Sept.12. 2021, 1-5 pm
Sale d'Armi, Arsenale

more information here

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Inside Out. Museum In-/Outreach
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Symposium/ online:
Aug.19-20, 2021

Information on the program here.

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OUT NOW
NORMAL x 4
- Direkter Urbanismus in Graz

Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics

132 p., German/ English, 2020
with b/w and color images

ISBN 978-3-200-06960-2

With contributions by: public works, transparadiso, orizzontale, Georg Winter, Beate Engelhorn

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PUBLIC ART - City, Politics, Memory

Symposium organized by Public Art Munich

Date:Jan.31-Feb.1, 2020
Location: Literaturhaus Munich

information in english

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BONE Performance Art Festival Bern

NEWSBODY
27.11.-01.12.2019
Schlachthaus Theater Bern

Artists: Crritic!, Marina Belobrovaja, Blond & Gilles, Christoph Draeger, Thomas Geiger, Christine Hohenbüchler und Barbara Holub, Dustin Kenel, Max Küng, Marc Lee, Vreni Spieser, u.a.

Curated by: Sibylle Omlin und San Keller

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OPEN STUDIO DAYS
VIENNA ART WEEK
Nov.16 + 17, 2019, 3-6 pm

Große Mohrengasse 34/3
1020 Wien

Our studio is part of the district tour: 
Nov.16 +17, 3pm
starting point:
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Bildhauerateliers
Kurzbauergasse 9, 1020 Wien

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ankommen - wo: ankommen - wie
Landesweite Architektinnentagung
Freiburg, 18.10.2019

ETAGE - Solar-Info-Center
Emmy-Noether-Straße 2
D-79110 Freiburg

Vortrag von Barbara Holub
zu "Direktem Urbanismus" und Workshop "Times of Dilemma: Wir dürfen fordern!

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CrossSections

Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design
Opening: Oct. 2, 6-8 pm
Exhibition: 02.10.-15.10.2019
Curated by: Basak Senova

Artists: Heba Y. Amin, Nisrine Boukhari, Benji Boyadgian, Yane Calovski, Ramesch Daha, Ricarda Denzer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Inma Herrera, Barbara Holub, Otto Karvonen, Ebru Kurbak, Bronwyn Lace, Marcus Neustetter, Behzad Khosravi Noori, Egle Oddo, Isa Rosenberger, Lina Selander, Tamsin Snow and Timo Tuhkanen.

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The Coming Community: New Towns, Art And Place

Symposium:
May 24, 2019, 10- 8 pm
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (GB)
with Jes Fernie, Assemble, Nicholas Serota, Barbara Holub etc.

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URGENT PERSPECTIVES #3
Aa Collections Gallery, Vienna
Opening: April 25, 2019, 7 pm
Exhibition: April 26 – May 04, 2019
Finissage: May 04, 6 pm: with a performance by Jianan Qu and Viltė Švarplytė
 
Artists
Elena Anosova* (RUS), Carla Cabanas* (PT), Jianan Qu (China/ A)
 
Curated by: Barbara Holub
in the frame of the artists-in-residence-program of KulturKontakt Austria

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Planning 2052
conference
curated by: Cecilie Sachs Olsen

Fri, Jan.25, 2019: 9:30-6:30 pm
Rich MIx Arts Centre, London

The conference takes place in the frame of the Oslo Architecture Triennale

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UNSTABLE GROUNDS. Taking Action: Künstlerisch-Urbane Praktiken

14.11.2018: 6:15-7:45 pm
Talk with Kathrin Wildner and Barbara Holub
Moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst/ Universität Zürich
Unstable Grounds
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URGENT PERSPECTIVES #2
PARALLEL Vienna

Lassallestraße 1, 1020 Wien
Raum 1.03, 1.Stock

Opening: 25.09.2018, 17-22:00
Exhibition: 26.09.-30.09.2018, 12:00-19:00
 
Artists:
Maurits Boettger (D), Manaf Halbouni (D/ SYR), Marlene Hausegger (A), Katrin Hornek (A), Valerie Wolf Gang (SLO)
 
Curated by: Barbara Holub
A project by KulturKontakt Austria/ Bundeskanzleramt

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25 Jahre Az W
Az W/ Architecture Center Vienna

Event and discussion:
Sept.19, 2018, 7 pm

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Az W new pieces of the collection will be exhibited (including one by transparadiso).

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Times of Dilemma

Exhibition at CrossSections HUB
Leopoldgasse 2a, Vienna/ A

Opening: April 24, 7 pm

Exhibition: 25.04. – 07.06.2018
talk by transparadiso: 02.05.2018, 18.00 / 6 pm

Curated by: Basak Senova
in the frame of CrossSections

/ in collaboration with Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
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Bodied Spaces - Discursos cruzados entre corpo e espeaço

Cadernos do Rivoli 06

Editorial coordinator: Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro
Launch of publication: Jan 20, 2018,
Café Rivli, Porto (PT)

Published by:
Teatro Municipal do Porto
Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
2018
184 p, Portugiese/ English

Texts/ contributions by:
Ana Mira, Ana Rita Teodoro, Barbara Holub, Boris Charmatz, Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Juao Fiadeiro, Juao Mendes Ribeiro, Jorge Andrade + José Capela, Teresa Fradique, Tiago Guedes

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The Bartlett School of Architecture/ London

Talk by Barbara Holub
Nov.23, 2017, 6:30 pm

lecture series "constructing realities"
at Here East/ Situated Practice

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Public Art Thinking: Symposium and Publication Launch

Eastside Projects
Birmingham

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
1 – 5.30 pm

Panel discussion with:
Andy Reeve, Barbara Holub, Gavin Wade, Mel Jordan, Robert Garnett, Rosalie Schweiker, Vanessa Boni
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OUT NOW:
New Stakeholders of Urban Change: A Question of Culture and Attitude?
Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 4
Hilke Marit Berger / Gesa Ziemer (eds.)
Jovis, 2017

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Times of Dilemma
Valletta 2018/
European Capital of Culture, Malta


a public art project by transparadiso
for "The Island is What the Sea Surrounds" (curated by Maren Richter)

Workshops:
for producing issues for a collective għana (traditional Maltese folk music) dialogue addressing current conflicts in urban and societal developments in Malta, which will be performed in a dialogical installation between land and sea, from March-June 2018.

Dates:
July 19, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm
July 20, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm

Location:
St Elmo Examination Centre,
St Elmo Place, Valletta / Malta

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TU Braunschweig (D)

Talk by Barbara Holub
23.05.2017

Barbara Holub stellt die Methode des direkten Urbanismus und künstlerisch-urbanistische Strategien anhand von exemplarischen Projekten, sowie ihre Forschung zu “Planning Unplanned”
und die neue, transdisziplinäre und über die fluide Rolle des „urban practitioners“, vor.

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/arch

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transcript - Urban Studies, 2016 240 Seiten, kart., zahlr. Abb.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3448-8

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Waste Value Rising/
Abfallwert steigend

Opening: July 13, 2016, 7 pm
with workshop by Dan Peterman:



July 14, 3–6 pm

Exhibition: July 14-Oct.30, 2016
Kunsthaus Wien/ Garage

Artists: Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser (D), Dan Peterman (USA), RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co,
F/ CH), transparadiso (A)

Curated by: Barbara Holub

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Bodied Spaces
Discursos cruzados entre corpo e
espaço | Crossed discourses between body and space
| Festival Dias da Dança | Porto

Faculdade de Belas Artes | Aula Magna
April 28, 2016, 4 pm

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Espaço público e performatividade |
Public Space and Performativity


Talk by Barbara Holub
and discussion with:

Ana Rita Teodoro and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro

Coordination and Moderation:
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro

video of the talk

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THE TURN
Art in Post-Spring Societies

Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien

Opening: March 17, 7 pm
Exhibition: March 18–May 14, 2016

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curated by: Christine Bruckbauer   
and Patricia K.Triki
Artists:
Omar Abusaada, Noutayel Belkadhi,     Mohamed Allam, Irena Eden, Stijn Lernout, Moufida Fedhila, Reem Gibriel, Inkman, Helmut Kandl, Johanna Kandl, Halim Karabibene, Huda Lutfi, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi, Hamdy Reda, Faten Rouissi, Arslane Bestaoui, transparadiso
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Creating Common Good
Kunsthaus Wien
Opening: Nov.16, 6 pm
Exhibition: Nov.17, 2015-Jan.10, 2016

www.kunsthauswien.com
Vienna Art Week
Curated by: Ursula Maria Probst and Robert Punkenhofer

Artists: Akram Al Halabi, Atelier Van Lieshout, Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Cella, Ramesch Daha, Democracia, Ines Doujak, Teresa Estapé, Peter Friedl, Leon Golub, Tamara Grcic, Gruppe Uno Wien, Markus Hiesleitner, Heidrun Holzfeind, Anna Jermolaewa, Folke Köbberling, Ernst Logar, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Lisl Ponger, Pedro Reyes, Martha Rosler, Isa Rosenberger, Tim Sharp, Santiago Sierra und Jorge Galindo, Axel Stockburger, tat ort, Johanna Tinzl, transparadiso, Patricia K. Triki, Nasan Tur, Anna Witt, Ina Wudtke, Sislej Xhafa
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WE PARAPOM!
artist talks and discussion


July 2, 2022, 14:00-17:00
Location: former EDEKA, Chemnitz

talks by:
Zbyněk Baladrán (artist, Prague) 
Amica Dall/Assemble (designer, London/Barcelona)  
Paul Rajakovics/ transparadiso (urbanist and artist, Vienna)  
Apolonija Šušteršič (artist and architect, Oslo/Ljubljana)

Followed by a discussion: moderated by Kathrin Wildner (metroZones, Berlin)

For the detailed program and more information see here:.

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Gestures of Emancipation
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

Symposium:
Nov.8-11, 2021

Talks by:
Swetlana Heger, SUI, Zurich, University of the Arts ZHdK (CH)
Nicole Six / Paul Petritsch, Vienna (AT)
Jonas Dahlberg (SWE)
Barbara Holub/Paul Rajakovics (transparadiso), Vienna (AT)
and others

For the program see here

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CURRENT
Symposium Stuttgart
16.9.-17.9.2021

for the program see here

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3rd World Congress of the Missing Things

Dates: July 31-Aug.1, 2021
Location: Parish St.Paul, Waltendorf/ Graz

_a project for NORMAL/ Graz Culture Year 2020

For more Information see here

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FLUSSFLUSS_Castaway on the Mur
by orizzontale (I)

Opening: June 11, 2021, 5 pm
Location: New beach "Am Grünanger"/Liebenau Graz

_a project for NORMAL (transparadiso)
Graz Culture Year 2020

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FAVORIT - SquareTransformerPerformer

We are happy to announce that our project FAVORIT was selected by SHIFT/ Vienna to be realized in 2021.

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OUT NOW:
transparadiso "Call against the border"
Public Art Lower Austria (ed.),
with a text by Maren Richter
German/ English, 40 p., 2020

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UTOPIA or OBLIVION
Visionen der Medienkunst 8

Medienwerkstatt Wien
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Opening: Oct.5, 2019, 7 pm
12 hour lecture performance by transparadiso:
Oct.5, 8 pm- Oct.6, 8 am
Exhibition: Oct.5-19, 2019

Artists:
Michael Zinganel /Theresa Hattinger
transparadiso (Barbara Holub / Paul Rajakovics)

Curated by: alien productions / Gerda Lampalzer in cooperation with FLUSS - NÖ Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst

The exhibition "Visions of Media Art 8 - Utopia or Oblivion" is inspired by the multidisciplinary visionary Buckminster Fuller. His projects have shaped generations and until today are programmatically propagating the utopia of a better life for all.

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PLATFORM FOR ARGUMENTS /
PLATTFORM FÜR STREITREDEN

in cooperation with Public Art Vienna

Opening: 16.05.2019, 17-19:00
Location: Karlsplatz,entrance of the Vienna University of Technology
Curated by: Christine Hohenbüchler and Barbara Holub


Project: May 16 – June 16, 2019

On the occasion of "100 years of women study at the Vienna University of Technology" the Platform for Arguments will present manifold speeches and performances.
Platform for Arguments is realized by students of the Institute of Art and Design 1/ Vienna University of Technlogy.

For the detailled program see:
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nstitute of Art and Design 1

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SILENT ACTIVISM: FOR AN ACTIVE ROLE OF ART IN SOCIETY AND IN THE PUBLIC REALM

Nov. 20, 2018: 5 pm
Talk by Barbara Holub
PUBLICS, Helsinki

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CrossSections_Intervals
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Curated by: Basak Senova
Opening: Sept.19, 2018, 7 pm
Exhibition: Sept.20-Oct.20, 2018
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Performances: Sept.19, 2018, 8 pm:
Nancy Black (Vienna): speech in Romanes on the occasion of the state visit to the Blue Frog Society.

Egle Oddo "The Splitter"
Marcus Neustetter "Encounters"

Artists: Heba Y. Amin (EG/DE), Nisrine Boukhari (SY/SE), Benji Boyadgian (FI/PS), Yane Calovski (MT), Ramesch Daha (AT), Ricarda Denzer (DE/AT), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Inma Herrera (ES/FI), Barbara Holub (DE/AT), Otto Karvonen (FI), Ebru Kurbak (TR/AT), Bronwyn Lace (ZA), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Behzad Khosravi Noori (IR/SE), Egle Oddo (IT/FI), Isa Rosenberger (AT), Lina Selander (SE), Tamsin Snow (IE/UK), and Timo Tuhkanen (FI)

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Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces

exhibition by transparadiso
trieste contemporanea, Trieste

Opening: Nov.25, 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: Nov.28 - Dec.29, 2017
curated by: Giuliana Carbi

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Harbour for Cultures
Trieste (I), Oct.28, 2017

13:00-15:00: H/C workshop by transparadiso: Production of desires for a Harbour for Cultures: Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
meeting point: in front of the Hydrodynamic Power Station, Porto Vecchio
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15:30-19:00: EIGHTH CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS FROM CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE. Trieste session.
HARBOUR FOR CULTURES. Continental Breakfast 2017.
Location: Magazzino delle Idee

19:00: H/C opening of the exhibition
exhibition: October 29 - December 13, 2017

Studio Tommaseo

For more information please see: www.triestecontemporanea.it

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Barbara Holub / solo show

Pursuing, advancing
Nachgehen, vorgehen

Peithner-Lichtenfels Gallery, Vienna
Opening: June 8, 2017, 7 pm

Artist Talk: June 21, 7 pm
with Barbara Holub and Lucas Gehrmann (curator, Kunsthalle Wien)

Exhibition: June 9-July 7, 2017

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Barbara Holub presents selected projects she conceived for various urban contexts during the past years, in which she addresses the vital issue,
what possibilities art has for establishing new social and communal values. The projects are connected by the essential questions: What kind of
visions do we have? And how do we take initiative to pursue them?


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PICTURE Budapest – Østfold

Symposium: Feb.15-16, 2017
Location: Csepeli Munkásotthon (Csepel Workers’ House),
1215 Budapest Árpád u. 1.

curated by: PLACCC Festival/ Budapest
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PLACCC Festival, in cooperation with its partner from Norway, Scenekunst Østfold and with the support of EEA Grants will realise the project PICTURE Budapest – Østfold focusing on the possible roles art can play in the redefinition of urban spaces.

Further info and program:
PLACCC Festival

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Filmfestival "This human world"
Vienna, Dec.1-11, 2016

screening by transparadiso:
date: Dec.3, 2016, 3:30 pm
location: Top Kino, Vienna

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transparadiso will screen three videos on recent urban interventions dealing with migration, corruption and risk – for the first time as "trilogy":

Du bakchich pour Lampedusa (Sousse, Tunesien, 2014), 4'56"
Je suis arabe - a right to poetics (Salzburg Museum, 2015), 12'40"
The laughter that gets caught in your throat (Performing Public Art Festival/ Vienna Biennale, 2015), 4'49"

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East Centric Architecture Triennale Bucharest 2016
Agora Experiments

Oct.8, 2016, 10 am:
One direction versus many:
Public debate with Barbara Holub
Moderated by: Andreea-Livia Ivanovici

Oct.8, 2016, 4 pm:
Keynote by Barbara Holub

Bucharest National Theatre
bucharest-triennale.eu/events/schedule/barbara-holub

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Theorie im Keller #14
Planning Unplanned

AFO Linz
March 15, 2016, 7 pm

Discussion with:
Barbara Holub and Peter Arlt
Concept and moderation:
Tobias Hagleitner and Franz Koppelstätter

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KunstRaumGarage
Votivpark-Garage, Vienna

March 16, 2016, 4-10 pm
Performances and installations
in a parking garage

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Curated by: Barbara Holub

Artists/ students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna:
Joanna Zabielska, Lisa Puchner, Hana Krizanova, Oliver Alunovic, Kollektiv OutSight, Matilde Igual, Feng Lei, Sarina Scheidegger, Marie Huth

www.wipark.at
www.angewandte.at


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"Performing Public Art"
Book Launch@urbanize
4.10.2015, 10:30-12:30

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Gerald Bast, Peter Weibel, Herwig Steiner (Hg.)
De Gruyter Verlag | Erscheint in der Buchreihe „Edition Angewandte“ der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

with contributions by: Erdem Gündüz,
transparadiso/Barbara Holub & Paul Rajakovics, Johan Lorbeer, Barbis Ruder, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Amy Spiers & Catherine Ryan, Artur Żmijewski and Wiener Beschwerdechor

urbanize.at/2015/event/performing-public-art
angewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart


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