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Where Are We Now? Retrospective Views, Presentiments & Departures into the Unknown, steirischer herbst 2017, various venues, Graz

“They (the Nazis) were back. And they went as far as they were allowed to go. Within a couple of years, they had infiltrated parts of public life. In secret. Or, better: semi-publicly. My grandfather, the architect Fritz Haas, was one of the key characters of the veteran Nazi scene in Graz.”1 This was part …
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My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could also Be Otherwise), various venues, Zagreb

What could it mean to think about an art collection and connect it to reality—its past, its present, and its future? How to understand a collection that proposes to also be a body of knowledge on a period and place in time—but that currently witnesses how “alternative realities” have entered politics and shift towards a …
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Crisis as Ideology?, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien

Various crises in late-capitalist Europe overlay each other: the financial crisis of 2008 was followed by multiple crises in a number of European states that continue to exacerbate the ongoing refugee crisis and terror threat posed by ISIS – to name but a few. “Today crisis has become an instrument of rule. It serves to …
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Regine Petersen. Find a Fallen Star, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2015

2014 erschien im Textem Verlag das kleine Büchlein A Brief History of Meteorite Falls, in dem Regine Petersen auf rund 200 Seiten Dokumente anordnete, die von stellaren Ereignissen kosmischen Ursprungs wie Feuerbällen, Meteoritenfällen oder Sternschnuppen zeugen. Seit Aufzeichnungen über solche Vorfälle existieren, gaben sie Anlass zu Spekulation, führten zur Bildung von Legenden oder Erstellung von …
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David Malković. New Reproductions, Mousse Publishing, Mailand 2013

Mit diesem Künstlerbuch führt David Maljković einmal mehr seine Virtuosität im Umgang mit Display-Strategien vor: Mit dem Buch als »Schaukasten« für seine künstlerische Arbeit spannt er einen Referenzbogen zwischen Inhalt und Form(at) auf, der sein künstlerisches Schaffen in den Medien Film, Fotografie, Malerei/ Zeichnung, Sound, (Display-) Skulpturen fasst und nun um das Format Buch erweitert. …
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