Transitland EUROPA is a collaborative project organized by InterSpace (Sofia), transmediale (Berlin) and the Ludwig Musuem (Budapest). It aims to create a video archive of 100 works spanning 20 years, starting from the fall of the Berlin wall. Since much of the history of the “new” European countries is being represented from the outside, this is an attempt to present a history from within. The archive of 100 works will include works produced in the period 1989-2008 as well as newly commissioned videos (produced in 2009). The works will be selected by a jury of external experts and co-organizers . The output will include archive jukeboxes and thematic compilations that travel to different venues in Europe, a website, and an online version of the archive for international access,  a print publication and DVD compilation of the commissioned videos, and a combination of screenings and discursive events in Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany and associated partners’ locations.

In 2009 the project will have its launch at the Goethe Insitute in Sofia, 18-19 September 2009, organized by InterSpace Association. The next two transitland events will take place on 6-8 November 2009 at Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin, organized by transmediale festival for digital art and culture and on 10-12 November 2009, Budapest, organized by Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange at Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art. As an addition to the presentations planned for the project, currently the Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art Budapest is planning an exhibition with works from the archive in the beginning of 2010. Dates and further information will be released soon.

http://transitland.eu/

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As it awaits the completion of its new building (currently being designed by Swiss architect Christian Kerez), the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw begins its second year of regular artistic operations at its temporary site, across from the Palace of Culture and Science in the center of Warsaw.
MoMAW's new building is set to open in 2014.

The Museum's current activities are focused on establishing an operating model that takes account of the shifting social, economic, and cultural landscapes in Europe. MoMAW inaugurated its program last spring with a research project and an exhibition entitled "'As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film'": Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the '60s and '70s", which dealt with experimental strategies in the visual arts in the former Yugoslavia.

Presently, MoMAW is presenting the first retrospective of Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu.

New York City, February 2011 (College Art Association Meeting). Participants to be announced.

The ARTMargins Forum on Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Eastern Europe Twenty Year After the Wall addresses the current state of curatorial practice in (or from) Eastern Europe, a region whose art institutions are increasingly positioning themselves within the global art field. At the same time, curatorship in Eastern Europe continues to be affected by the structural weakness of many of the region's art institutions and by numerous economic and social obstacles. As a way of mitigating the effects of these problems, Eastern Europe - like other parts of the world - has seen a proliferation of biennials and other international art shows that have sought to shift the focus from a local to a regional or trans-national perspective. Apart from analyzing the economic, institutional, social, and more generally cultural aspects of these developments, the panel inquires into the way in which curators from Eastern Europe position themselves in the (much) expanded field of what has been called "the Curatorial", a global practice of exhibiting art within the global economic context of 21st-century developed capitalism.