Balkanology

Balkanology - New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in Southeast Europe
Exhibition

Date: Oct 22 to Feb 1, daily 10 am-7 pm
Venue: Az W, Old hall
Curator: Kai Vöckler
Tickets: € 5,- / € 3,50

Opening: Wed, Oct 21, 7 pm
Speakers at the opening:
Dietmar Steiner (Director of the Az W)
Kai Vöckler (Exhibition Curator)
Christine Böhler (Director of the ERSTE Stiftung Culture Programme)
Erhard Busek (Hhead of the Board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe)

Ostklub goes Az W
Date: Wed, Oct 21, around 10 pm
Venue: ost klub (1040, Schwarzenbergpl. 10)
Party, following the opening of the exhibition, with South-Balkan beats by DJ Sid Data and the ost-collective.
Admission free!

With the dissolution of the socialist economic system in former Yugoslavia and Albania informal building is emerging in the western Balkans that represents an entirely new form of urbanisation. This poses the question as to the extent to which the pattern of these urban remodellings indicates a future development of the European town. The exhibition presents approaches taken by architects, urbanists and activists to these rapid processes of urban transformation, exemplified by projects in Belgrade, Zagreb, Kotor, Prishtina, Tirana, Sofia and Bukarest. The exceptional but little known buildings of modern socialist Yugoslavia are positioned in a dialogue with these rapid processes of urban transformation.

The exhibition Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in Southeast Europe opens up a new arena, casting light on the little known architecture of post-socialism along with the result of unregulated, uncontrolled urban development in the states of southeast Europe. The focus of the exhibition is on the most recent socio-political changes and their impact on architecture and urban development.

An exhibition in cooperation with the S AM - Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel

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