Vit Avranak

Vít Havránek is an organizer and theoretician based in Prague. Since 2002 he has been working as a director of the initiative for contemporary art tranzit.cz. Since 2007 co-founder of tranzitdisplay, resource center for contemporary art, lecturing Contemporary art at the AAAD, Prague. He was a member of tranzit.org, one of the three curatorial teams of Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010).

He has curated and co-curated exhibitions amongst which are : Manifesta 8, The European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Murcia, Cartagena, Spain ; Monument to Transformation, 2007-2010, Centro Monthermoso Vitoria, Spain ; City Gallery Prague, CR ; tranzit workshops, Bratislava, Slovakia ; Le Plateau, Paris and other locations ; tranzit – Auditorium, Stage, Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2006, I, series of exhibitions in three acts, Secession, Vienna, Austria ; Futura, Prague, tranzit workshops Bratislava, 2006 ; Definitions of Everyday Prague Biennale 2 ; 2005 ; Lanterna Magika, Espace Electra Paris, France 2002 ; Jiří Kovanda, DUMB, Brno, CR, 2004 ; Otto Piene, City Gallery Prague, CR, 2002 ; action, word, movement, space, City Gallery Prague, CR, 1999 and others.

He is an Associated Editor of jrp | ringier art publisher (tranzit series : Atlas to Transformation, Jiří Skála, Kateřina Šedá, Jan Mančuška, Jiří Kovanda and others), edited and co-edited books and catalogues Autobiographies, 2006 ; The Need to Document, 2005 ; Lanterna Magika, 2002 ; action, word, movement, space, 1999. He has written for contemporary books, catalogues Manifesta 8, Silvana Editoriale, 2010 ; Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010 ; Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Sternberg Press, CCS Bard, 2009 ; Voids, Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Bern 2009 ; Right About Now, Valiz, 2007 ; Yves Klein, Centre Pompidou, Springer Wien New York, 2007) and art magazines (Umělec, Springerin, Flash Art, Manifest Journal and others).