(English Version below)Sarajevo Diary 10.-18. April 201918. April 2019: »[...] It is
avantgarde architecture a mixture of Swiss Brutalism of the eighties and playful brick
decoration. I immediately like it and catch sight of the huge apartment complex that has been
build for the athletes of the 1984 Winter Olym-pics. Reach Out that Moroder tune written for
the Olympics starts playing in my head while I sud-denly realize that the parking lot I am
looking down at is that very one I had seen days ago in a photo- graph at the Historical
Museum. The cars had the typical color of the late 1980s. And they were all wrecks smashed up
by grenades.«(Peter Bialobrzeski)Über die City DiariesDie Stadt zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
ist das große Thema der City Diaries von Peter Bialobrzeski. In dem bisher 19 Bände umfassenden
Projekt untersucht er seit 2013 ob der Entwurf des Bildes einer Stadt gespeist aus
Vorurteilen Vorgefundenem und medial Vermitteltem in ein spezifisches Bild überführt werden
kann. Ob Wuhan oder Wolfsburg - ihn interessieren die von der Globalisierung zunehmend
kaschierten kulturellen Unterschiede die er mittels einer scheinbar objektivierenden
Bildsprachesichtbar macht. Dabei schlagen sich auch aktuelle politische und soziale
Entwicklungen in Bialobrzeskis Bildern und Tagebucheinträgen nieder. Format und Umfang aller
Titel sind identisch. Diese Systematik erlaubt einen vergleichenden Blick auf verschiedenste
urbane Situationen. Weitere Bände erscheinen in loser Reihenfolge.About the City DiariesThe
city at the beginning of the 21st century is the major theme of Peter Bialobrzeski's City
Diaries. In the project started in 2013 and so far comprising of 19 volumes he has been
investigating whether the pre-conception of a city a product of prejudices personal
observations and what is conveyed by the media can be transformed into a specific image.
Whether Wuhan or Wolfsburg - Bialobrzeski is interested in the cultural differences
increasingly concealed by globalization which he makes visible by means of a seemingly
objectifying aesthetic. Current political and social developments are also reflected in
Bialobrzeski's images and diary entries. The format and page count of all titles are identical.
This systematic approach allows for a comparative view of a wide array of different urban
situations. Further volumes will be published intermittently.
