About TRANSEUROPA

Transeuropa is the result of a participative process taking place throughout Europe, involving hundreds of activists, politicians, philosophers and artists mobilised in order to achieve a truly translocal festival.

TRANSEUROPA is a transnational artistic, cultural and political festival organised by European Alternatives since 2007. In the past decade, TRANSEUROPA has attracted thousands of attendees and active participants through a decentralised event structure in over a dozen European cities and a high profile moment in one city. For the 2024 edition, the main city for TRANSEUROPA is Venice and it will take place from 6-10 November 2024.

Undercurrents

The new edition of Transeuropa takes place in Venice and presents a rich schedule of events prepared in cooperation with local partners in the city. The programme will consist of performances, exhibitions, open assemblies, screenings, debates, workshops and community events.

THE THEME

Despite flows of anxiety around the political, economic and environmental state of our societies and the backlash against progressive perceptions of the inter-humans and inter-species relationships, TRANSEUROPA Festival reveals and reinforces the undercurrents of contestations, ideas and power that are finding – via meanders and affluents – ways to continue building change and renew these relationships in the long run.

A labyrinth of canals, where the ebb and flow of tides are the pulse of the city, and where the delicate as well as conflictual relationship between urban and natural reminds us of our interconnectedness, Venice will be TRANSEUROPA Festival’s next home.

TRANSEUROPA is a transnational artistic, cultural and political festival organised by European Alternatives since 2007. In the past decade, TRANSEUROPA has attracted thousands of attendees in over a dozen European cities. The festival is a space of translocal activism, solidarity, and future-thinking imaginaries. Intellectuals & activists such as Tania Bruguera, Jonas Staal, Franco (BIFO) Berardi, Rosi Braidotti, Margarita Tsomou, Shaista Aziz, Shalini Randeria, Hans Ulrich Obrist, participated in past editions of the Festival.

TRANSEUROPA 24 invites participants to explore, imagine and create with joy the multiple and growing undercurrents of change of today and tomorrow. Building on Ecofeminist and Decolonial theory, the festival will investigate and celebrate prospects of a world geared towards new relationships among humans, species and natural elements. To push against a seeming apocalyptic tide, the Festival joins activists, artists, intellectuals and citizens to reinforce common strategies to go towards better futures.

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What others say about us…

“I felt like an orphan going around the world speaking about how art can influence politics and other forms of collaboration and suddenly finding European Alternatives and Transeuropa was like discovering a twin I hadn’t met before”

Tania BrugueraCuban Artist and instalator

“For me Transeuropa was a wonderful way of connecting with people I would never otherwise have met, and feeling part of a wider European culture”

Marina LewyckaNovelist, United Kingdom

“The Transeuropa symbolises and expresses all that is radically creative about European Alternatives and the networks they have been able to cultivate through European citizens from Sofia and Cluj to Belgrade and Bologna. If you want to experience the future of Europe now, look no further than Transeuropa Festival.”

Engin EsinProfessor of Citizenship, Open University

“People often are amazed how diverse and colourful is their city, region, or country. It is Transeuropa Festival which helps them discover it. Transeuropa invites us to discuss fundamental issues and encourages us to be active citizens of our communities. I am proud to work with European Alternatives building better Europe!”

Robert BiedronMayor of Słupsk and LGBT activist, Poland

Previous editions

European Alternatives organised the first edition of Transeuropa in London in March 2007 and it hosted philosophers, political theorists, artists and curators who engaged a public audience in discussion of the multiplicity of European questions. Zygmunt Bauman launched Transeuropa with his lecture “Making the planet hospitable to Europe” and opened a Festival that sought to open up public spaces in which discussion of European issues could take place.

Decolonise, Decarbonize, Democratize. 2022 edition of Transeuropa in Porto

The last edition of Transeuropa took place in Porto and it was organised in cooperation with DEMOS forum and the University of Porto. The programme consised of events, exhibitions, meetings and music and will involve a large number of historical spaces of the city.

Convergent Spaces. 2017 edition of Transeuropa in Madrid

Convergent Spaces was the 2017 edition of Transeuropa. It was the result of a participative process taking place throughout the year across Europe, involving more than 200 activists and volunteers, spread over 13 cities in 12 European countries.