This year Austria celebrates the 50th anniversary of the contract of 4 April 1966 between the Republic of Austria and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia establishing a basis for the legal and voluntary migration of labor, and so creating the guestworker phenomenon. Article 9 of this historically significant contract specifically endorsed the promotion of this mobile workforce’s own cultural and social life, and led to the founding of over 100 workers social clubs. Following the international success of his project ?FACELESS?, artist and curator Bogomir Doringer returns to the MuseumsQuartier Wien with a new exhibition.
?AJNHAJTCLUB? explores the history of this community as reflected in these clubs, which were not only regarded as spaces for maintaining and bolstering cultural identity and for providing a sense of participation, but also provided a vent for nostalgia towards the old homeland.
At Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 Bogomir Doringer will talk about his project.
?AJNHAJTCLUB? opening reception is on Tuesday 5 July, at 7 pm at MuseumsQuartier Wien, at freiraum 21.
Einer Einladung vom Ministerium für Migration und dem Museumsquartier folgend, kuratiert Bogomir Doringer 2016 eine Ausstellung zum Thema “Gastarbeit”.
In der “Schleifmühlgasse 12-14” stellt der Künstler und Kurator sein Projekt vor und spricht über Vergangenheit und Zukunft von Migration.
Bogomir Doringer wuchs im ehemaligen Jugoslawien auf. Er wurde direkter Zeuge des Zerfalls, dessen Spuren und Eindrücke seine künstlerische Laufbahn prägten.
Im Rahmen von “position! öffnen!”
In Kooperation mit der Grünen Bildungswerstatt Wien