28 December 2019, 1 p.m., The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. Žole contributed terms "Courage and/or Cowardice" for The Glossary of Migrations asking himself: "What did it mean, in the nineties, to be brave, and what did it mean to be cowardly? To head-on to a war one did not know the reason for, or to escape it?"
25 December 2019, The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. Accompanying discussion program of the Museum of Yugoslavia’s exhibition “The Nineties: a Glossary of Migrations”, named “A Safe Country?”, with a topic of anti-Roma policies in Europe, will be held in the building of the May 25 Museum, on Saturday, January 25, at 4.00 p.m. The program will involve Dejan Marković, President of the Forum of Roma Serbia, Saša Barbul, a Roma director, and artists Rena Redle and Vladan Jeremić, with Mira Luković, an associate of the Museum of Yugoslavia, as a moderator.
The 2019 Lazar Trifunović Award was presented to the art historian and curator Simona Ognjanović for her academic text on the occasion of the exhibition “The Nineties: Dictionary of Migration” at the Museum “May 25.”
21 December 2019, The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. International polyphonic program on the occasion of the participation of the Collective E-I-Migrative art at the exhibition. I have to get to the liberated territory. When I get there, and breathe in that thoroughly conscious high altitude air, I shall write my greatest poem, the only really great one worth living for. — Oskar Davičo, The Poem
Th annual award for the promotion of this year’s ICOM theme (Museums as cultural centers – the future of tradition) went to the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition curated by Bojana Piškur and staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova between 7 March and 10 September 2019.
7 December 2019, The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. On topics of gender and visa regimes, each participant will speak from the perspective of their own scientific or artistic work with Maja Korać Sanderson, professor at the University of East London, UK, and the exhibition participant, artist Tanja Ostojić. The program will be moderated by the authors of the exhibition, Ana Panić and Simona Ognjanović.
5 December 2019, The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. The catalogue was published to accompany The Nineties: A Glossary of Migrations exhibition that deals with the mass migrations of the population to and from Serbia over the course of the 1990s. The primary concern of the exhibition is to map the different forms of engagement, from the 1990s to the present, which have, in the field of art, activism and civil society, addressed social, cultural, political and legal issues created in these extremely complex and traumatic migration processes.
5 December 2019 – 1 March 2020, Museum of Yugoslavia. With this project and by organizing an exhibition dealing with the mass migrations of the population to and from Serbia over the course of the 1990s, the Museum of Yugoslavia aims to bring the heritage of the nineties to the forefront of current considerations. In place of documentary-historiography approach(es), which take a secondary position, the primary focus of the exhibition involves mapping the different forms of engagement that have transpired in the period from the nineties to the present, in which matters of legal, political, social and cultural issues that occurred in these extremely complex and traumatic migratory processes, were addressed via the medium of art.
5 December 2019, The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. The grand opening of the renovated building of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the opening of The Nineties: A Glossary of Migrations exhibition.
22 August 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana, 6–8 p.m.. With our friends from +Kantina, we prepared a Culinary Trip to Eritrea, a workshop for families.
8 August 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. A Summer Thursday workshop on the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition.
Saturday, 13 July 2019, at 4 p.m. Meeting-point: 5erHaus, Grünwaldgasse 4, Vienna. ]a[ akademie der bildenden künste wien mit VBKÖ - Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs organises Bus Stop Hopping - a City Walk Margareten by artist Natalie Deewan.
12 July 2019, at 7 p.m., VBKÖ - Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna. How can the existential experience of flight and expulsion be documented? Which forms and strategies of visualisation can be found, when letting loose and a reduction to the essential - the survival - is a central constituent of this story? A notepad, a photo in an album and a letter point to the flight histories of three women, who in the course of Yugoslavia's disintegration in early 1990ties' war found a resort in Vienna. On their flight, the three of them could hardly carry anything of their personal belongings and were only able to get back a fraction after the war.
4 July 2019, at 7 p.m., VBKÖ - Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Maysedergasse 2/28, Vienna. Transcending Fantasy is a curated screening by Rosa Wiesauer and explores subversive, artistic and joyful approaches to dealing with gender and identity construction in Japanese (pop) culture through video art.
1 July 2019, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Do you know what does şemsiye mean? Do you use the word kırbaç for a whip? For around two years, we have been collecting identical words used in both of our languages of Turkish and (vernacular) Palestinian Arabic. A process that can last for good – as long as our friendship lives. We spend time together uttering words that are in common and draw them, whether they carry the same meaning, were slightly different, or were false friends.
28 June – 14 July 2019, temporary Project Space Gumpendorferstrasse 6 on the premises of VBKÖ – Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Vienna. The exhibition setting of "Translocal Manoeuvres" is activated by a series of dialogical guided tours and community-building events. This productive element of the presentation informs the second phase of the project, the "Translocal Archives", which focuses on film and media, urban narratives, mediation, and archives.
20 June 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. The partners of New Mappings of Europe project initiated concurrent events for the World Refugee Day to commemorate the journeys of people in exile.
15 June 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. On the Summer Night of the Museums, Games without Frontiers were organized in the museum plaza, where children learned about games called different names in different parts of the world (memory, hopscotch/teley, teley, macala/gebeta) under the mentorship of Markos Teklu, as well as juggling and making paper kites.
10 June 2019, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. The interview “The Non-Aligned Movement and All the Related Exhibitions Helped Foreground Art” was conducted at the occasion of the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition, since Bassin had been actively involved in various fields of Yugoslavia’s international collaborations in culture.
5 June 2019, at 7 p.m., Project Space Gumpendorferstrasse 6, Vienna. Exhibition-review with Andreas Spiegl + A performance by Hyeji Nam + Sound by Marie Willmann & Pato Wiesauer
April 2019, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Presentation of the project / video program on Japanese queer anime by Rosa Wiesauer / Mika Maruyama.
Friday, 31 May 2019 & Friday, 7 June 2019, at 4 p.m., Project Space Gumpendorferstrasse 6, Vienna.
27 & 28 May 2019, Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. The conference will be dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question will tackle the legacy of culture in the spirit of NAM's internationalism and its potentials for the present day.
27 May 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +Kantina MSUM, Ljubljana. Meeting of New Mappings of Europe partners with the participants of the Southern Constellations exhibition, residency and mediation programmes and some representatives of local communities of migrants.
22 May – 8 June 2019, Project Space Gumpendorferstrasse 6, Vienna. The exhibition in two phases presents, develops and picks up strategical inventions and dispositives, that are able to override distances - in a conceptual field, but as well in very concrete forms of translocality as a spacial/temporary dimension.
18 May 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.. A workshop for all generations connecting four museums on Metelkova. The journey was from a museum to a museum and at each station, we created, explored through games, had fun and answered the prize question.
April 2019, Silkscreen Printing Workshop, IKL, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna Collaborative work on Stephanie Misa's project and preparations with Natascha Burger at the Birgit Jürgenssen Estate / Gallery Winter on translocal working processes.
4 April 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. Welcome to the opening of an exhibition by the pupils of Livada elementary school.
5 April 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. The lecture Towards an Aesthetics of Southern Uprisings by a curator and film theorist Olivier Hadouchi accompanies the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition.
7 March – 10 September 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was a transnational political project, a coalition of small and middle-sized states, mostly former colonies and developing countries, from the global south or the Third World. It was formed in 1961 in Yugoslavia at the Belgrade summit. The NAM represented the first major disruption in the Cold World map, a quest for alternative political alliances, for “alternative mondialisation”. The exhibition Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned emphasizes the ideas, ideals and principles of the movement, particularly in close connection with its cultural policies and place them in a contemporary context with the question: Could there be a non-aligned contemporaneity?
7 March 2019, at 11:30 a.m., Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. Artists and curators present works on the exhibition in a guided tour vernissage open for all members of the public. 8 March 2019, at 8 p.m., Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana. Screening of Sven Augustijnen, Spectres.
March 2019, 5erHaus Youth Centre, Vienna Natalie Deewan's writing sessions with young people at the youth centre 5erHaus, using the self-generated font "heterotypia sign Vienna", consisting of collected/digitalised graffitis from the area around 5erHaus font heterotypia sign vienna.
19 February 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. +Kantina MSUM in colllaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova organises a series of thematic discussions moderated by musician, writer, activist Miha Blažič – N’toko. In the third lecture of the Migrations in Time and Space, Božidar Flajšman will speak about the history of Bela krajina that became a border zone.
2 February 2019, Livada Elementary School, Ljubljana. We visited Livada Elementary School and helped them build The Secret of Languages boardgame. Together we made a colourful game board and each child made his/her own figure with wire and plaster.
22 January 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. +Kantina MSUM in colllaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova organises a series of thematic discussions moderated by musician, writer, activist Miha Blažič – N’toko. In the second lecture of the Migrations in Time and Space, Blaž Gselman will speak about Slovene-American writer Louis Adamič, whose 120th anniversary of birth was celebrated this year.
19 January 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. Moderna galerija has a long-term relationship with the Livada elementary school, the school with the highest percent of non-Slovene pupils in the country. The third workshop was focused on creating a stop-motion animated film with mastering the entire process from making movable paper puppets to photographing and rendering images in an open-source computer program. The participants made a world map and all the animals that migrate shorter or longer distances. The materials they used were crayons and paper.
15 – 19 December 2018 in Vienna, Middlesbrough, Belgrade and Ljubljana. The partners of New Mappings of Europe project have initiated concurrent events for the International Migrants' Day to celebrate, accept and make visible our rich histories of migrations. In recent years, discussions about migrations have been marked by the so-called refugee crisis as the media have dubbed the more numerous than usual border crossings. The word migration thus conjures up images of endless caravans of people from the Middle East, the militarised responses of the EU states, social polarisation and the rise of hate groups. The point of view that presents the mass migrations as an extraordinary natural disaster that states must control deflects from a true understanding of this multilayered process. Mass migrations of people from one region to another have a complex history and are inextricably entwined with global economic processes that equally affect the local populations and the migrants.
15 December 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. Moderna galerija has a long-term relationship with the Livada elementary school, the school with the highest percent of non-Slovene pupils in the country. The second workshop was focused on the creation of a gigantic puzzle, consisted of individual pieces, made by participants, who created spaces of their imagination. The materials they used were paint and textile.
24 November 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. Moderna galerija has a long-term relationship with the Livada elementary school, the school with the highest percent of non-Slovene pupils in the country. First of four workshops with the Livada elementary school pupils and their teacher. First social game concentrated on the European cities where the participants would like to live. They chose their favourite buildings and made models. The game will be focused on who will reach her favourite building first.
October 2018, Phraseology from The Migrating Museum PROJECT, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. A workshop by Irene Lucas, in collaboration with Ruby Sircar.
1 – 5 October 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana. Artist in residency, Ibro Hasanović will work with a group of migrants from Syria, Iran, Afganistan, and Eritrea, who live in Slovenia for more than a year. They will approach the method of "storytelling" through different activities (story writing, video-making, clay molding) in order to materialise their experiences and memories in a creative way.
26 September 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). In partnership with local group LIKE Boro, we bid farewell to the exhibition This Is Water with a tour of the show, and a mapping session. This is an opportunity to feedback and reflect on its content and to help MIMA to think about the next phase of a conversation around representations of migration and diversity. Those attending will share a meal and a playlist of music that represents multiple identities suggested by our publics throughout the project will be played.
September 2018, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Collecting material for the Translocal Archives. A work on mapping the life of a migrant by Amila Širbegović from the exhibition "Fluchtpunkt Wien": A Photo Album and A Blue Box plus Vida Bakondy in preparational of the exhibition "Geteilte Geschichte. Viyana - Bec - Wien" at the Wienmuseum.
6 September to 11 October 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Cultural Conversations, part of MIMA’s weekly Community Day, is a creative and discursive session for those who are learning English. Working with the Middlesbrough Collection and the town’s heritage, we support improved speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
21 June to 13 September 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). The Community Day Lunch is an opportunity for different people to meet and share ideas over a communal meal. Catering is provided by The Other Perspective, a Community Interest Company that employs people from refugee backgrounds.
July to November 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Join conversations with a member of our team to share your relationships with the area as part of our project This Is Water, which looks at the long histories of migration in the Tees Valley.
July to November 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). We create a new oral history archive for the Tees Valley in collaboration with residents, researchers, and activists. This draws together the experiences of migrants from the widest spectrum of backgrounds. This activity maps alternative routes of migration, labour, relationships and affects through personal narratives in the largely unheard, often undocumented, voices of local people.
July to November 2019, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). MIMA puts art into action. Together with partners, we work through art and creative programmes to contribute to the artistic, cultural, economic, educational, environmental and social life of our area. Art in Action is a space that reflects to voices, stories and experiences of the extraordinary people we work with. These individuals and organisations inspire us, fuel our work and help ensure that MIMA continues to our community.
July to October 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Jasleen Kaur will be artist in residence at MIMA as part of New Mappings of Europe. Kaur’s work asks us to think about the malleable nature of culture. In Middlesbrough, she works with local women to make a space for conversations about place, relationships and knowledge.
16 June 2018 – 07 October 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). Talks and tours of exhibitions, music and poetry (including I’m a Boro Immigrant reading) with artists Seth Pimlott and Lucy Bridger, part of This Is Water in conversation with Senior Curator Elinor Morgan.
16 June 2018 – 07 October 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). This exhibition looks at the long histories of migration that have forged the current shape of the UK. It is about the rich languages, cultures and identities that are formed by many ethnicities and nationalities coming together. It highlights the dominance that some groups of people hold over others and the damage that racism continues to have.
October 2017. Since last Autumn the Moderna galerija Ljubljana (SI), the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) (UK), the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna AT) and the Museum of Yugoslavia (SR) started a two-year collaborative project founded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
3 February 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). At this partnership event with the Boro LIKE project, people were invited to talk about how they, their family and relatives came to settle in Middlesbrough and make the town home.