From 7 pm on, you are welcome at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier.
Welcome and introduction by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović), Mira Gakjina (Director Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje), and Panche Velkov (Director Museum of the City of Skopje)
Followed by a reading by writer Barbi Marković who will read a segment of her text Back, back to positive things – a deeply personal reflection on her recent research trip to Skopje and her experience of the city in the present day
DJ Noushin Redjaian & drinks!
The admission is free.
Prior to the opening, we invite you to the lecture Skopje: Building the City of Solidarity by Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Jovan Ivanovski & Vladimir Deskov at 6 pm.
Barbi Marković (born 1980, Belgrade) is a writer based in Vienna. She has published various acclaimed novels, such as Going Out in 2009, followed by Superheroines in 2016, for which she received the Alpha Literature Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and the Priessnitz Prize in 2019. The novel was adapted to a stage play in 2018 and performed at the Volkstheater in Vienna. Her most recent work – Die verschissene Zeit – was published by Residenz Verlag in 2021.