The Beauty of Work. Lepota Rada. Die Schönheit der Arbeit. Event

THE BEAUTY OF WORK. LEPOTA RADA. DIE SCHÖNHEIT DER ARBEIT

ANDREJ FILEV

born 1973 in Bel­grade, although edu­cated as an aca­d­e­mic painter, his medium is pho­tog­ra­phy. Inspired by peo­ple and sit­u­a­tions within the urban pub­lic space, he mainly oper­ates with snap­shot aestet­ics and merges ana­log and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. His work is inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised, awarded and was exhib­ited all over the planet. Filev is as well one of the edi­tors of the largest street­photo inter­net forum Hard­core Street Pho­tog­ra­phy and one of the ini­tia­tors of the Bel­grade Raw photo collective.

Visit his photo blog at www.flickr.com/andrej_filev

OPENING – VERNISSAGE: 3rd of June 2010.
DISCUSSIONS – PERFORMANCES.
FINISSAGE: 11th of July 2010.
‘Lep­ota Rada’, The Beauty of Work or in ger­man lan­guage ‘Die Schön­heit der Arbeit’

is the first exhi­bi­tion in our new founded Gallery. The space which will con­tain our Gallery/Cultural Cen­ter is in a quite bad con­di­tion and was used as stor­age space for a con­struc­tion com­pany. Next to the Gallery, there is our small Cafe. Both the Cafe and the stor­age space were estab­lished and run by work­ers migrants from for­mer Yugoslavia in the last decade. The Cafe was and is a fre­quent meet­ing place for mainly work­ers, as it opens every day at 06:00 in the morn­ing, where they meet for their first cof­fee before going to work, and return in the eve for the last beer before going to sleep.

Many of that migrant work­ers, have been forced, due to the eco­nomic cri­sis and influ­enced by rigid res­i­dence or migra­tion reg­u­la­tions to rein­vent them­selves as one-man com­pa­nies. Often they have to col­lab­o­rate to receive an order, which later is exe­cuted as a result of long last­ing net­works and exchange of knowl­edge, a.e. where to get the cheap­est mate­ri­als for reconstruction.

Andrej Filev, who is an inter­na­tion­ally awarded pho­tog­ra­pher, as well sur­vived the dif­fi­cult years in Bel­grade, by work­ing on dif­fer­ent con­struc­tion sites. Lep­ota Rada is an process ori­en­tated exhi­bi­tion, which tends to include the migrant work­ing class guests into the recon­struc­tion of the venue, share and exchange knowl­edge and expe­ri­ences, doc­u­ment the process, and gen­er­ates a space where ques­tions of every day life are included within the fields of fine art and culture.