Antonia Dika & Zara Pfeifer – Close to Portonovi
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Culture, Photography
- Publisher: Self-published
- Country: Austria
- Language: English
- Release: 2025
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Perfect
- Size: 14.8 x 21 cm
- Pages: 112
Once a military barracks, now a luxury resort – the book Close to Portonovi explores the transformation of the former Orjenski Bataljon military site in Kumbor into the tourist destination Portonovi Montenegro. Through internet forum posts from former Yugoslav People’s Army conscripts and a photo series by Zara Pfeifer, the book captures the tension between past and present, memory and reinvention.
The book is a follow-up to the work Close to Portonovi, by Pfeifer and Dika, realized within the framework of the FWF-funded research project Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise (by A. Dika and A. Batista). The book project was supported by the University of Art and Design Linz.
Photography: Zara Pfeifer
Text: Antonia Dika
Design: Daily Dialogue
Antonia Dika is a Vienna-based architect, urban planner and researcher. At the University of Art and Design Linz, she heads the FWF-funded research projects “Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism” and “From Army Stories to Community Heritage”. She has taught at several universities and, since 2024, has been working with Büro Superwien for the Vienna Urban Renewal Office.
Zara Pfeifer is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose work is concerned with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. Pfeifer studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. Since 2019 she has taught a photography seminar for architecture students at the Technical University Vienna.
Munich-based Daily Dialogue is a creative studio dedicated to content-driven design and creative direction. Established in 2015, the studio specializes in crafting diverse identities, design solutions, and editorial concepts for clients in architecture, culture, and fashion. Daily Dialogue are Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg und Janis Macke-Schurr.
