Festival
Transart is a multidisciplinary festival, which involves its audience in the exciting exploration of new contemporary frontiers, through a multiplicity of expressive languages and their innovations: from classical to electronic music, from figurative arts to performance, and from cinema to new digital technologies.
The festival
Transart festival has been making waves in the Trentino-Alto Adige area for more than twenty years.
Starting in Bolzano, the nerve center of the festival, events take place across the region, from north to south, creating a contemporary, inter-regional, and cross-border platform.
Over the years, the festival has also collaborated with many local organisations and with important international festivals, such as MUTEK Montreal, Club To Club, Maerz Musik Berlin, Klangspuren Schwaz, and Elevate Festival.
In past editions, Transart has had the pleasure of hosting hundreds of artists spanning the international scene. Notable guests have included: Marina Abramovic (2002), Laurie Anderson (2003, 2011), Blixa Bargeld (2013), Matthew Barney (2005), Nils Frahm (2014), Beat Furrer (2004, 2011, 2013, 2015), Jon Hopkins (2013), Matthew Jonson (2017), Jannis Kounellis (2004), Klangforum Wien (2005, 2010, 2015, 2020), Tomoko Mukaiyama (2016, 2018), Moataz Nasr (2013), Ninos Du Brasil (2017), Quiet Ensemble (2015), Sonic Youth (2008), Patti Smith (2010), Omar Souleyman (2016), Teho Teardo (2013), Tokyo Contemporary Dance (2002), Roman Signer (2014, 2017, 2020), Peaches (2021), Attila Csihar (2022), Pussy Riot (2023), Florentina Holzinger (2023), Madame Nielsen (2023), Thomas Bangalter (2023) and Patha du Prince (2023) and many more.
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
History
When Transart was founded in 2001, it was still just an experiment. We wanted to bring the contemporary to Bolzano in a completely new guise, to demonstrate how it is possible to overcome borders, such as those that exist between the artistic and physical languages of the places that traditionally host culture.
Since the very first edition, Transart events have been held in a broad variety of locations, reinvigorating industrial spaces, former barracks, factories, commercial properties, stations, parking lots, parks, fields, and mountain huts.
After this first experience, Transart continued to grow and evolve, exploring new places and new ways of involving the public. The key to the festival’s success is its experimental character, which leads to surprising and unprecedented results in every edition, a unique alchemy deriving from the combination of locations and the encounters between artists and citizens.
Core team
Peter Paul Kainrath
Director
info@transart.it
Martina Kreuzer
Managing director
kreuzer@transart.it
Dania Hussein
Head of Communication
hussein@transart.it
Anna Bernard
Head of Production
bernard@transart.it
Christian Wieser
Technical director
wieser@transart.it
Lucia Rose Buffa
Online marketing
buffa@transart.it
Matthias Vieider
Production
vieider@transart.it
Mirijam Obwexer
Production Assistant & Logistics
obwexer@transart.it
Anna Zuenelli
Intern
zuenelli@transart.it
Sabine Funk
Press office
funk@transart.it
Simone Gelmini
Press office
simone.gelm@gmail.com
Elisa Tessaro
Press office
Cinzia D'Emidio
Art direction, print design
demidio.cinzia@gmail.com
Alex Piacentini
Digital design, web development
piacentini.alex@gmail.com
Erwin Canderle
Technical / production team
Valentina Cavion
Technical / production team
Heinrich Pan
Technical / production team
Melissa Pircali
Technical / production team
Thomas Senoner
Technical / production team
Leonardo Varner
Technical Assistant
Denis Barbiso
Technical Assistant
Yasmin Hildegard Khlifi
OASIE Manager
Vittorio Lauri
Production Assistant/Runner
Daniele Alessi
Driver
Leonardo Cuccia
Driver
Chiara Cunoci
Ticketing
Tiberio Sorvillo
Photographer
Samira Mosca
Photographer
Marina Baldo
Videomaker
Bar
Tobias Planer
Catering
Emily Guerra
Transart association
President
Tanja Pichler
Vice-president
Daniela Niederstätter
Board of directors
Manuela Bertagnolli
Arianna Giudiceandrea
Ruth Oberrauch
Contact
Transart Festival
Dantestr. 28 Via Dante
Bozen BZ 39100
C.F. 02280130218
SDI code W7YVJK9
T: 0039 0471 665369
E: info@transart.it