Ex Co-Founder of Slum-TV Alexander Nicolic started a new project in Vienna after giving the responsibility for the Slum-TV project to the local members. Another 5 year project? We, hope SO! Together with two artists friends, he took over a yugoslavian worker's bar in the 16th district. Why, yugoslavian? Well, we have more than 200000 ppl living in this town, and many of them came as yugoslavian workers here. Of course the dramatic events of the last decades did generate a division based on ethnical categories, but one is theory - another thing is the every day live of the working class. Nothing is ideal here, but in every day live, in Vienna, these workers still mingle, regardless where they come from. Is it the common language, the austrian discrimination or something else, which hold's them together?

Next to the bar, they opened a space, which they use as a gallery in a way, as rehearsal venue for public space projects, as cultural center, which intends always to include the locals. To generate a social and political space, where academic discourse can meet working class issues. The first exhibition is as well opened. The Beauty of Work, by Andrej Filev is processual and will be closed on 11th of July, with a huge party.

BOEM - Koppstrasse 26 in Vienna's 16th district. Opening hours: daily (6am - 12pm, except sunday and holidays (9am - 10pm)