Weh dem, der sich vor Geistern fürchtet [Woe Betide Anyone Who Is Afraid of Ghosts]

TRADUKI at Buch Wien x Kunsthalle Wien

With: Ivet Ćurlin (What, How & for Whom / WHW), artistic director of Kunsthalle Wien • Mascha Dabić, translator and lecturer • Cornelia Köndgen, actress • Annemarie Türk, curator

The artist‘s book Weh dem, der sich vor Geistern fürchtet [Woe Betide Anyone Who is Afraid of Ghosts] consists of around 50 poems written by Nera Šafarić-Iveković, mother of Sanja Iveković, as well as excerpts from her diary, facsimiles of letters she sent and received during her incarceration in Auschwitz, and numerous photographs from Sanja Iveković’s personal archive. Šafarić-Iveković was arrested as a member of the Communist resistance during the Second World War and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The presentation of the artist's book takes place within the framework of Buch Wien.