Nika Autor
Nika Autor is a visual artist and filmmaker engaged in visual storytelling through contemporary documentary practices – working across film, photography, video installations, and archival-based projects. Her research-based art practice is rooted in environmental and feminist perspectives, with a focus on themes such as migration and belonging, gender politics, histories of resistance, oral histories, and underrepresented or misrepresented spaces.
Her projects have been regularly presented at international film festivals – including the Viennale, Crossing Europe, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Jeonju International Film Festival, and Short Film Festival Oberhausen – and featured in exhibitions at institutions such as the Austrian Film Museum (2025), MoMA and Anthology Film Archives in New York (2024), Kunsthaus Graz (2023), The Mosaic Rooms, London (2022), the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome (2022), MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome (2021), Künstlerhaus Vienna (2020), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2019), MIMA, UK (2018), the Auditorium of the Louvre, Paris (2018), Garage Museum, Moscow (2015), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2014), and Ars Electronica at the Lentos Museum, Linz (2010). Autor represented Slovenia with a solo exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017).
Works by Nika Autor
Newsreel 242 – Sunny Railways
2023, 16mm, digital video
30 min
Youth work actions were an integral part of Socialist Yugoslavia. Through voluntary labor, thousands of young brigadiers contributed to the development of the country and actively participated in major infrastructure projects. One such project was the Šamac–Sarajevo railway, built in 1947 with the support of thousands of young leftists from Italy, Britain, Greece, France, Denmark, Sweden, Palestine, and other countries. The railway was damaged during the war in the 1990s, and the last train from Šamac to Sarajevo ran in 2011. Today, it is often used as a path to a promised future for people on the move.
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