Reinhard Seiss

Sunset Kino: Architecture of Remembrance. The Monuments of Bogdan Bogdanović

2 August 2023 / 9–11 pm CEST

Curated by Stanislava Pinchuk

Architect Bogdan Bogdanović has built some of the most extraordinary memorial works of all time: archaic & playful, esoteric & poetic. Wounded in WWII as a Partisan soldier, Bogdanović subsequently devoted his life to commemorating all those who did not survive. “The Architecture of Remembrance” powerfully records Bogdanović’s reflections at the end of his life, exiled from Serbia following his prolific opposition to Milošević’s regime, watching his own monuments fall on the frontlines of the genocidal dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Reinhard Seiss, Architecture of Remembrance. The Monuments of Bogdan Bogdanović, 2010, 51 min 40 sec

Followed by a reading of a previously untranslated excerpt from Bogdanović’s highly unusual diary, written in the time of his exile. After that a Q&A will be held with Stanislava Pinchuk and Maximilian Lehner, associate curator at the Salzburg International Summer Academy.