With a conversation between Andrej Mirčev, Adrijana Gvozdenović and Nataša Jagdhuhn (moderated by Hana Stojić) and the performative cocktail reception “Gastarbeiterka” with artists Adrijana Gvozdenović and Nadežda Kirćanski.

nGbK’s publishing house is pleased to announce Gastarbeiter 2.0: Arbeit Means Rad, a trilingual publication on migration, working conditions, and class between Germany and the former Yugoslavia. The accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name will be presented at Stadtwerkstatt next to nGbK on March 25.

The exhibition Gastarbeiter 2.0 - Arbeit Means Rad was on view at nGbK in the spring of 2024 and at Manifesto Gallery in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the fall of the same year. It showed the works of twelve artists: Kemil Bekteši, Jelena Fužinato, Alma Gačanin, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Nadežda Kirćanski, Siniša Labrović, Nikoleta Marković, Dejan Marković, Mila Panić, Amir Silajdžić, Bojan Stojčić and Jelena Vukmanović.

Texts by Hannah Marquardt and Andrej Mirčev, Gal Kirn, Nataša Jagdhuhn, Hana Ćurak, Nikoleta Marković and Damir Arsenijević, Adna Muslija, Sara Žerić Đulović, and Adrijana Gvozdenović capture the processual and performative nature of the project, documenting the different participatory formats showcased during the exhibition.

Following the exhibition’s and its public program’s multilingual practice, the accompanying volume is published in three languages: German, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin and English. Offering a critical contextualization of the artworks and positions presented in the exhibition, with a particular emphasis on contemporary discourses linking labor, its value, migration, and class inequality, the publication provides interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, museology, cultural anthropology and philosophy.

nGbK work group: Hannah Marquardt, Andrej Mirčev, Adna Muslija, Bojan Stojčić, Jelena Vukmanović

The exhibition Gastarbeiter 2.0 was developed in partnership with Ambasada gUG (Berlin) and Gallery Manifesto (Sarajevo).

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.