Gustav Klimt, Tod und Leben (Death and Life), 1911/15 European Alternatives is involved in an artistic/research project which aims to explore the thought-provoking potential of understanding post-national features of the now-called former-Yugoslavian identity. The leading artist Alexander Nikolic introduced a work of collecting information and meeting people, segments of a former-Yugoslavian community, in the numerous places where people from the Balkans, especially from the geographical Serbia meet and gather in Vienna. The workshop consisted of meetings, debates and field exploration in order to understand and conceptualise what the aforementioned spaces are and represent to the people who live there. The city of Vienna is an interesting example of a cosmopolitan space where many Balkan, Southern and Eastern European populations are living together, side by side or aside the dominant Austrian public sphere of exclusion. Endogenous conscious or unconscious racism creates community spaces of gathering and closeness as well as of unwilling closing to the other. Vienna is a symbol of closed cosmopolitanism and a place where creative and dynamic work needs to be done in order to open up its potential for exchange and openness with all the Balkan, Southern and Eastern European bordering countries. Transnational links and bridges can be activated in a more operative and interactive way involving an aware and active participation of a currently sluggish civic society.