In Autumn, we will present a solo show by Nika Autor, Meine Chance, Eine Chance, Keine Chance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.
Newsreel 80 – Metka, Meki (Meki Slovenia, 78’, 2021) will also be a part of the exhibition at the +MSUM.
Premier, on Tuesday, 15 June 2021, at 21:30, at the Kinodvor cinema.
1968 forever marked more than half a million Yugoslav men and women when Germany and Yugoslavia signed a bilateral agreement that enabled workforce migration within the so-called Gastarbeiterprogramm. Through various cooking chapters, Newsreel 80 records the particular story of an 80-year-old Metka, who at the age of 28 left for Germany to temporarily work there as a Gastarbeiter, but then stayed permanently. The experience of being a Gastarbeiter has marked her, which is why she generously, hospitably and above all very heartily understands the situation of today’s travellers.
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Nika Autor undertook her BA and MA studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and obtained her PhD in Practice at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her practice is primarily based on experimental videos and documentary films, film essays, photography, collages, drawings and spatial video installations. The focus of her work is research into invisibilities/ inaudibilities in relation to concealed topics of the forgotten past and the silenced present. She is part of the collective Newsreel Front (Obzorniška Fronta), an informal collective of workers hailing from film theory and art practice fields. Web: autor.si.
