Brief Biography

Born 1980 in Dearborn/USA. Vida Bakondy studied History and a combined studies programme of Social and Cultural Anthropology, International Development and Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. In her award-winning PhD thesis Montagen der Vergangenheit. Flucht, Exil und Holocaust in den Fotoalben der Wiener Hakoah-Schwimmerin Fritzi Löwy - published by Wallstein in 2017 - she developed theoretical and methodological approaches in visual culture studies and photography, as well as in connection with the analysis of private legacies from a historical and cultural studies perspective. Participation in numerous projects dealing with the history of labour migration from Yugoslavia and Turkey, e.g. project researcher in the exhibition project Gastarbajteri. 40 Jahre Arbeitsmigration (2004, Wien Museum), project researcher (2012-2015) in the FWF-funded project Deprovincializing Contemporary Austrian History. Migration and the transnational challenges to national historiographies(approx. 1960 to today), 2015-2016 head of the project Migration Sammeln. She curated the exhibitions Geteilte Geschichte. Viyana – Beč – Wien ( Wien Museum, 10.2017-02.2018) together with Gerhard Milchram and Nach der Flucht – Aus Ex-Jugoslawien nach Wien (Hauptbücherei am Gürtel 09.2020-11.2020) together with Amila Širbegović. In 2016 Bakondy was awarded the Prize for Popular Education by the City of Vienna for her projects at the intersection between science and art/culture.

Research Interests

Migration and exile, visual studies (focus:photography), the post-Nazi era, biographical research.

Selected Publications

• 2024: On the Margins. Jovan Ritopečki’s Photographs of Migrant Housing in 1970s Vienna, in: Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung, 4 (2024), 1-37, https://doi.org/10.48439/zmf.244, Online First, veröffentlicht: 3.7.2024
• 2024: An Album for Tito. Belonging, Transnational Unity, and Social Critique in a Photo Album by the Yugoslav worker’s club Jedinstvo Vienna, in: Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 11(2024) 2 [= Visual Studies in and on Southeast Europe: Representation, Power, Memory and Gender in Photography and Film / Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 24], 14-34, DOI 10.25364/02.11:2024.2.2.
• 2022: Fotoalben als Quellen der Zeitgeschichte, zeitgeschichte, 49 (2022) 2, V&R unipress [gem. mit Lukas Meissel, Adina Seeger, Eva Tropper]
• 2022: Fotoalben beforschen. Voraussetzungen, Impulse, Methoden eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes, in: zeitgeschichte, 49 (2022) 2, 137-154 [gem. mit Eva Tropper].  
• 2022: Flüchten, Ankommen, Erinnern: Eine Ausstellung als Erinnerungsort Ex-Jugoslawisch-Wiener Gegenwart, in: Miranda Jakiša, Katharina Tyran (Hg.): Südslawisches Wien. Zur Sichtbarkeit und Präsenz südslawischer Sprachen und Kulturen im Wien der Gegenwart, Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 205-226 [gem. mit Amila Širbegović].
• 2018: Minderheiten, in: Monika Sommer, Heidemarie Uhl, Klaus Zeyringer (Hg.): 100 x Österreich. Neue Essays aus Literatur und Wissenschaft (im Auftrag des Hauses der Geschichte), Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau, 236-238.
• 2017: Montagen der Vergangenheit. Flucht, Exil und Holocaust in den Fotoalben der Wiener Hakoah-Schwimmerin Fritzi Löwy, Göttingen: Wallstein.
• 2017: „Austria Attractive for Guest Workers?“ Recruitment of Immigrant Labor in Austria in the 1960s and 1970s, in: Günter Bischof, Dirk Rupnow (Hg.): Migration in Austria. Contemporary Austrian Studies Bd. 26, New Orleans: UNO Press/ innsbruck university press, 113-138.

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