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With a preface by Marius Babias, a text by Hedwig Saxenhuber, and an interview with Raluca Voinea

In his young international career, Ciprian Mureşan has already created an oeuvre that is spread across various media, including drawing, animation film, video installations, and sculpture. This comprehensive publication offers a survey of his artistic work, including his contributions to the Venice Biennial Auto-da-Fe and Dog Luv (2009), which translate literary models into images, and in so doing achieve a unique interpretation of the present. Mureşan’s very young oeuvre is systematically catalogued and set in relation to overviews of research on post-Communist societies, globalization theory, and their overlaps with aesthetic debates. Extensive illustrations, which also include previously unpublished material, provide a broad insight into the artist’s work.

With a preface by Marius Babias and Stella Rollig, as well as a text by Stella Rollig

This publication emerged in cooperation with Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and provides a comprehensive overview of Asta Gröting’s oeuvre from 1981 to today. In an essay by Stella Rollig, continuities and breaks in Grötting’s sculptural and film work are sketched out. Her sculptures have received international recognition ever since the 1980s. As of the 1990s, her work expanded in terms of media by way of video and performance. In the block of film works The Inner Voice (1993–2004), Grötting developed a series of videos with ventriloquists around the world. At the foreground of this study are everyday psychosocial actions as artistic material, in contrast to the materiality of the sculptures. To that extent, Gröting’s sculptures possess a social dimension by engaging with their physicality in an expanded debate about developments that take place in the field of tension between self and the community.

With a preface by Marius Babias and Katrin Klingan, an introduction by Gaby Hartl und Frank Kaspar, and including texts by Everett Frost, Michael Glasmeier, and Petra Maria Meyer, a historical archive and audio CD

During the emergence of the historical avant-garde, the arts formed a mutually fertile synthesis, until a separation and specialization into individual disciplines took place in the 1930s. Despite the dominance of the dialog-centered radio play, radio is a place where this interaction of the arts is explored anew over and over. The exhibition project Sounds: Radio, Art, New Music made it possible to experience radio as an artistic medium. Five radio works that emerged in the framework of the German-Czech radio art project Rádio D-CZ in 2009 formed the core of the exhibition and are included in the publication as an audio CD. Writers, artists, audio play dramaturges, noise collectors, and musicians engaged with the German-Czech lifeworld for Rádio D-CZ. In the archive part of the book, they are complemented with descriptions of historical and contemporary reference pieces. An interview recalls the history of the experimental studio in Bratislava in the 1960s to the 1980s, until the boom of “postcommunist sounds” in the 1990s. Select writers complement the tracks with discussions on the history and present of the medium radio in relationship to fine art and new music, interspersed with the original artistic score of Rolf Julius. This project is a joint collaboration of Zipp – deutsch-tschechische Kulturprojekte and Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

With a preface by Marius Babias and texts by T. J. Demos, Bert Rebhandl

In recent years, the artist Hito Steyerl has gained great international recognition for her work at the intersection between film and fine art. Her films combine elements of experimental film, auteur cinema, documentary film, and video art. This is the first monograph to examine Steyerl’s oeuvre in several facets, with contributions from film, art, and cultural historians. Numerous illustrations show the stylistically honed visual language in Steyerl’s work, which is schooled in discourse analysis. Using the means of montage, she uses elements from popular culture and politics, Hollywood and independent cinema, interviews and off-commentary to assemble provocative film analyses of the present.

With texts by Marius Babias, Eugen Blume, and an interview by Clemens Krümmel

Based on the historicity of the site, the artist Thomas Kilpper develops his interventionist works in buildings usually destined for demotion or sale. They form the “artistic material” into which he inscribes himself. In his “floor cuttings,” Kilpper works on the floor of the building for months, primarily cutting images of historical figures into it. In the condensation of figures and the course of events, new perspectives on historical facts are freed and the social position of the artist is also reflected. Prints are made of the floor cuts, which stand in the tradition of the wood cut and from an independent artistic work. The book documents Kilpper’s intervention State of Control (2009) at the former Ministry for State Security of the GDR and shows works from the solo show at n.b.k. (2009).

With texts by Marius Babias, Sophie Goltz and audio artguide (CD) with René Block, Katja Jedermann, Wolf Kahlen, Jörn Merkert, Olaf Metzel, Barbara Straka, Christian Wagner, etc.

In 1969, Neue Berliner Kunstverein was founded as a private initiative of Berlin residents. The exhibition and outreach project Kunst und Öffentlichkeit: 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein looked over the past four decades by showing perspectives of art outreach in today’s Berlin’s art world and beyond that emerge from a re-definition of the relationship between art and publicity and the questions faced by such an institution faces: the importance of fine art for society, civil participation, and the activation of publicity. Divided into thematic chapters, the book documents a cartography of Berlin that links the history of the institution with artistic and cultural developments in both divided and united Berlin. Explored are the founding of the association, the emergence of the two collections Artothek and Video-Forum, as well as select historical exhibitions such as Aktionen der Avantagrade (1973/74) and Skupturenboulevard (1987).

With texts by Marius Babias, Anetta Mona Chişa, Lucia Tkáčová, and Raluca Voinea.

The artists Anetta Mona Chişa (Prague) and Lucia Tkáčová (Bratislava) have been collaborating since 2000 while also pursuing their individual careers. They have participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennales. In their collaborative works, they address gender relations as well as their role as Eastern European artists in an art world dominated by the West. Their video works and installations break with comsumerist expectations and initiate processes of reflection. This publication is the first monograph on Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová.

With texts by Marius Babias, Brigitte Franzen, Hagen Kopp, Silke Wagner, Florian Waldvogel et al.

The artist Silke Wagner is considered one of the most substantial representatives of her generation; her work is highly influential. Wagner’s artistic interventions move beyond traditional artistic media and fields of action. With her works, she mobilizes publicity and creates potential for communication and new spaces for action. Collaborations with “kein Mensch ist Illegal” or anti-racist groups involve the artist in social movements and confront her with socially relevant issues such as the construction of the Other in the course of Europeanization. This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Wagner.

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