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.

Close to Portonovi is a collaborative work between Antonia Dika and Zara Pfeifer.

Review by Der Greif
Available through Softcover

The book is the result of a research trip by Pfeifer and Dika to Montenegro in 2022, as part of the FWF-funded research project Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise. The book is published by the Kunstuniversität Linz Verlag.

Close to Portonovi, 2024
Photography: Zara Pfeifer
Text: Antonia Dika
Design: Daily Dialogue
112 pages
53 color images
21×14,8 cm
Edition of 100
Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-901112-99-7