ARTMargins will release its first issue in February 2012 (MIT Press). The print publication joins the well-known ARTMargins website, which was started in 1999. ARTMargins will publish articles, essays, reviews, and interviews that critically reflect on Eastern European contemporary art and curatorship in an expanded context comprising Eurasia, North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Central Asia.

Catalyst Award Handed Out for the Second Time 

The Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit. hu, awarded for the second time the cultural impact of contemporary art projects in two categories. The awardee in the Motor category is Kretakor 1 and the Napidij project of Nemzeti Muveszetert Alapitvany. 2 The awardees received the Golden Golem Award of artist Tamas Komroczky and an exclusive song by the music band of women artists, called Strassz, along with a HUF500 000 prize for each category.

The Catalyst Award, founded in 2010, is given to individuals, projects, and initiatives which, directly or indirectly, have an impact on the contemporary art scene–they contribute to the presentation, discussion and mediation of art with their progressive approach of form or substance. What "progressiveness" actually stands for is not predefined, as this fundamental issue—in accordance with the intentions of tranzit. hu—is the focus of a continuous professional debate.

The jury of the Catalyst Award aspired this year to award projects which, besides raising relevant issues, also markedly take a position vis-a-vis the current social context of contemporary art in Hungary. The jury also examined whether the projects have impact in their narrower and wider contexts. Those nominations were favored which are based on collaboration.

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.