Berlin


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04 n.b.k. Berlin
Time Piece
Videokunst 1963 bis heute

Edited by Marius Babias, Kathrin Becker and Sophie Goltz

488 pages, with color illustrations, soft cover, German/English, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012,
ISBN 978-3-86335-074-1


Founded in 1971 as an artists' and cultural producers' initiative, the Video-Forum, with over 1400 international works, is the oldest collection of video art in Germany. Focal points of the collection are Fluxus, feminist video, historical and contemporary video art from Berlin as well as media-reflective approaches. Key works from the early period of video art are equally well represented as current productions. This book documents the complete contents of the collection and includes illustrations, forming a comprehensive compendium of international video art for artists, curators and teachers.


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03 n.b.k. Berlin
Ute Meta Bauer
Kuratorische Praxis.
Interviews und Gespräche

Edited by Marius Babias

148 pages, with color illustrations, soft cover, German, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012,
ISBN 978-3-86560-892-5


The present volume is a collection of conversations and interviews from 1991 to 2011 by and with Ute Meta Bauer, gathered from more than 25 years of practice as an artist, professor and head of international art institutions. Following such guiding themes as “display,” “institution,” “art education,” “feminism,” and “curatorial practice,” Bauer’s career is reflected from being the artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (1990-1994) as far as becoming Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art, London (as from autumn 2012). Most recently, she has been professor and director of the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (Cambridge, USA). As an independent curator Ute Meta Bauer works at the interfaces of contemporary art, film, video and sound. She was co-curator of Documenta11 in Kassel (2002) and artistic director of the 3rd Berlin Bienniale for Contemporary Art (2004) and curated among others the Mobile_Transborder Archive within the project InSite05 in Tijuana/San Diego (2005)


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01 n.b.k. Berlin
Marlene Streeruwitz
Bildgirl. Collagen

Edited by Marius Babias

80 pages, with color illustrations, soft cover, German/English, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009
ISBN 978-3-86560-573-3
In German language only


Bildgirl. Collagen began as an artist contribution for the exhibition “German Angst” at the Neuer Berliner Kunsterverein (2008). Presented as a mural in the exhibition, the work now appears as a book. In an introductory essay and in the image-text collages, Streeruwitz analyzes the politics of the nudity in the “Bild-Zeitung” from a feminist perspective. She focuses on the ways in which the “Bildgirl” constructs the woman as a sexualized object for male consumption. Showing naked women in the media is, despite protests from the women’s rights movement of the 1968 sexual revolution, still posed as a question of free speech. Sexual freedom is reserved for men. Streeruwitz describes how the “Bildgirl” reaffirms threatened male German heterosexuality.


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