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Publication Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

The publication Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 accompanies the exhibition surveying the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists that worked in an inherently computational way. Published by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Kunsthalle Wien and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, this extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen and the exhibition’s curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes twenty-seven new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.

Editor: Michelle Cotton
Contributors: Laura Amann, Sarah Beaumont, Michelle Cotton, Rhea Dall, Ramona Heinlein, Hannah Marynissen, Astrid Peterle, Carlotta Pierleoni, Andrea Popelka, Clémentine Proby, Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, Jade Saber, Bettina Steinbrügge

Two editions: English and German
Release date: 2024
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 144 colour, 62 black and white
Dimensions: 16,5 x 24 cm
Graphic Design: A Practice For Everyday Life
Publisher: Mudam Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Wien
Co-publisher/distribution: Walther König

ISBN: 978-3-7533-0734-3 (EN)
978-3-7533-0733-6 (DE)

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Publication Diego Marcon. La Gola

On the occasion of Diego Marcon’s first solo exhibition in Austria at Kunsthalle Wien in October 2024, Kunsthalle Wien is publishing a book on Marcon’s film La Gola in collaboration with Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Kunstverein in Hamburg. In addition to a foreword by Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Milan Ther, Director of Kunstverein in Hamburg, and Andrea Bellini, Director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, the publication brings together three essays that illuminate the film from as many angles. Themes such as food, illness and symptoms, language and music are the starting point for the digressions of the contributors, namely the writer and artist Charlie Fox, the art and food lover Gianni Revello and the artist and art writer Sofia Silva.

The volume is supplemented by excerpts from the script and from the scores of the organ music as well as frames from the film and images of the production process therefore enabling the reader a kind of ‘making of-’perspective. There is a translation booklet for the German and Italian text versions, added to the main English book.

The publication is supported by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council programme (2024).

Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy) lives and works in Milan.

Editor: Michelle Cotton

Texts by: Michelle Cotton, Andrea Bellini, Milan Ther, Charlie Fox, Gianni Revello, Sofia Silva

Page count: 104
Format: 20,5 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover with flaps
Number of illustrations: 31
Languages: English/German/Italian (trilingual)
Designer: Julie Peeters
Release date: 3 October 2024

ISBN: 978-3-903412-24-8

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Publication Aleksandra Domanović

On the occasion of Aleksandra Domanović’s comprehensive solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthalle Wien is publishing the first monographic publication on the artist’s work.

The book supplements and deepens the exhibition’s review and overview on the artist’s oeuvre. In addition to comprehensive visual material, it brings together texts by selected experts that analyze and contextualize Domanović’s work to date: in addition to an interview between the artist and Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Wien, the publication contains essays written by Carson Chan, Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the curator and writer Caitlin Jones, the writer and critic Pablo Larios and the film critic and essayist Marcel Štefančič, all of whom have been following Domanovic’s work closely for several years.

Aleksandra Domanović (b. 1981, Novi Sad) lives and works in Berlin.

Editor: Michelle Cotton

Texts by: Carson Chan, Michelle Cotton, Caitlin Jones, Pablo Larios, Marcel Štefančič

Page count: 224
Format: 21.5 x 26 cm
Languages: English/German (bilingual)
Designer: Martha Stutteregger, Wien
Release date: 2024

ISBN: 978-3-903412-23-1

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Erotic Revue

In their first collaborative project, Šejla Kamerić and Aleksandra Vajd revisit the idea of eroticism within a contemporary context by presenting a special issue of a magazine, “Erotic Revue”. The main inspiration and reference for the publication is the magazine “Eroticka Revue”, which was published in Prague in the early 1930s by a Surrealist group. Both artists are particularly interested in using art as a strong communicative mechanism to create powerful political and social statements.

“Erotic Revue” presents two women’s bodies and their intimate bond that goes beyond the usual confines of predefined relationship forms and statuses. The artists challenge norms by asking what happens when the components of relationships – such as emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, sexual intimacy, enduring partnerships, caregiving, collaboration, kinks, social companionship, and the dynamics of power – are mixed. They explore the space of digital intimacy in the context of the erotic, contrast the digital nude with the traditional nude, and create a strong visual language that uses their own mature bodies to rewrite women’s stories.

The magazine was presented as an installation in the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.

2024, published by Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH / Kunsthalle Wien

Editors: Šejla Kamerić and Aleksandra Vajd

Design: Adéla Svobodová

Supporting role: Marko Mandić

Set photography: Tadej Vaukman, Karoliná Matušková

22 × 30 cm, 170 pages, color illustrations, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-903412-14-9

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Publication The White West

The White West. Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity is the result of a series of conferences. The third conference, Automating Apartheid, took place in 2020 at Kunsthalle Wien by invitation of the artistic directors What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović).

Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality – after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies.

The White West contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writing by leading historians, theorists, and scholars is an attempt to engage the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.

Contributions by Norman Ajari • Ramon Amaro • Sladja Blazan • Larne Abse Gogarty • Donna V. Jones • Nitzan Lebovic • Olivier Marboeuf • A. Dirk Moses • Rijin Sahakian • Denise Ferreira da Silva • Nikhil Pal Singh • Kerstin Stakemeier • Felix Stalder

2023, published by Sternberg Press

Editors: Kader Attia • Anselm Franke • Ana Teixeira Pinto

Design: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey 

English
14 × 21 cm, 248 pages, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-95679-533-6

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Publication Ines Doujak. Twisted Language

In the context of Ines Doujak’s exhibition Geistervölker, Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press publish a book that looks deeply into the artist’s practice. In the exhibition, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW, the artist traced, in fragments, the origins of pandemics throughout history and linked them to a global economy that is based on logics of extraction facilitated by colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism.

These subjects have always been present in Doujak’s works. Therefore, it felt crucial to have a book that allows several writers, theoreticians, and poets from different geographies to reflect on the political and aesthetic strategies that Doujak has been using during these past thirty years. The book is not a monograph nor a catalogue but rather a mosaic of texts in dialogue with Ines Doujak’s Oeuvre, which engage with burning and urgent topics such as how we relate to the world around us and to each other.

Texts by John Barker • Maria Berrios • Alice Creischer • T. J. Demos • Danny Hayward • Patricia Highsmith • Matthew Hyland • Ernst Jandl • Pablo Lafuente • Pedro G. Romero • Grace Samboh • Klaus Speidel • Markus Wörgötter

Foreword by What, How & for Whom / WHW

2024, published by Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press

Editor: Ines Doujak

Design: martin faiss, marie gruber, &c.

English
16 × 24 cm, 240 pages, 5 color & 26 b/w ill. + 41 loose inserts, softcover
ISBN: 978-1-915609-32-8

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Publication Katrina Daschner. BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!

BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! was published in the context of the solo exhibition by Katrina Daschner at Kunsthalle Wien 2022.

BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! at Kunsthalle Wien was the most comprehensive exhibition of Vienna-based artist and filmmaker Katrina Daschner’s work to date. It encompassed works from the 1990s to the present, ranging from sculptures, textiles, music, performance, community-based work, and, most prominently, film, which sits at the heart of Daschner’s practice.

Addressing and performing the ways of being and nonbeing, Daschner’s multimedia, all-encompassing, powerful work is about becoming, making one feel less alone.
Hana Ostan Ožbolt

Glamorous Lesbians, Badass Queers, Flirtatious Sensual Plants and Swamps; it’s like having your abstract desires turn into images you can touch.
Denice Bourbon

The possibilities of queer form and life feel endless in Daschner’s work. Surfaces – of skin, jellyfish, water, hair, glitter, wool, bark – flow in and out of each other, assembling a body of work that simply leaves you in awe and always wanting more.
Hendrik Folkerts

Contributions by: Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu • Rike Frank • Amelia Groom • Tim Stüttgen

2023, published by Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press

Editor: Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu

Design: Daniela Bily / be the rhythm studio

English
21 × 26 cm, 272 pages, 174 color illustrations, hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-915609-31-1

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Publication Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński. H(a)untings / Heim-Suchungen

H(a)untings / Heim-Suchungen was published in the context of the solo exhibition by Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński at Kunsthalle Wien in 2021/2022.

To challenge hegemonic archives, and with them the representations of Blackness inhabiting these very spaces, is to struggle for connection, voice, language, not least for images. Even more so in a time and space in which the stickiness of a colonial past is dismissed. Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria’s colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński – visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021 – sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze. Introducing readers to a multiplicity of voices – artists, thinkers, and scholars with whom she is in conversation and communion – the artist’s catalog opens a space for Black diasporan artistic practices. Here, the reverberating echoes and residues of a past ongoing become visible as effects in what we have come to call “the present”.

Contributions by: Sammy Baloji and Fiston Mwanza Mujila • Jeannette Ehlers • Anne Faucheret • Sasha Huber • Onyeka Igwe • Kapwani Kiwanga • Nicola Lauré al-Samarai • Christian Nyampeta • Christina Sharpe • the Unbound Collective

2023, published by Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press

Editor: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

Design: Renate Höllwart

English
17 × 22 cm, 160 pages, 96 color and 2 black/white illustrations, hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-915609-12-0

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Publication And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?

The publication And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession was published in the context of the group exhibition of the same name presented by Kunsthalle Wien in 2021 together with Wiener Festwochen. The publication was edited by the curator of the exhibition, Miguel A. López.

The written contributions reflect – like the exhibited works – on the rationale of exploitation, the fast-paced mining of raw materials, and environmental destruction as a colonial legacy. They deconstruct Western patriarchal models and enduring colonial and racist discourses, tell the story of Indigenous survival in the face of ancestral genocide, and celebrate encounters defined by solidarity in their resistance to misogyny, imperialist violence, and state oppression.

With a foreword by What, How & for Whom / WHW and Christophe Slagmuylder.

Texts by: Marisol de la Cadena • Quishile Charan • Manuel Chavajay • Annalee Davis • Chto Delat • Jim Denomie • Denise Ferreira da Silva • Miguel A. López • Daniela Ortiz • Prabhakar Pachpute • Amanda Piña • Elizabeth A. Povinelli • Mia Eve Rollow (Zapantera Negra) • Naomi Rincón Gallardo • Victoria Santa Cruz • Olinda Silvano / Reshinjabe • Cecilia Vicuña

2022, published by Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press

Editing: Miguel A. López

Design: Dejan Kršić 

English
17 x 24 cm, 265 pages, color illustrations, one poster as insert
ISBN: 978-3-95679-6371-1

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(Don’t) Drive yourself crazy!
Download Publication Mach dich (nicht) verrückt!

The project Mach dich (nicht) verrückt! [(Don’t) Drive yourself crazy!] took place as a cooperation between OeAD – Agency for Education and Internationalisation, Basis.Kultur.Wien – GO.FOR.CULTURE and Kunsthalle Wien and was carried out as part of the series K3-PROJEKTE. Cultural education with apprentices between December 2021 and June 2022. Twenty students from the Viennese vocational school Handel@Administration took part.

A related series of workshops was developed by Kunsthalle Wien’s education team in cooperation with the comic artist Viktoria Strehn, who also conceptualized and conducted the workshops, together with art educators Wolfgang Brunner and Michael Simku.

Starting from the exhibition Do Nothing, Feel Everything, which was on view at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz from November 2021 until April 2022, we looked at madness as an issue and also tried to talk about forms of consciousness, systems of thought, and ways of producing meaning.

Based on the artistic positions of the exhibition, the focus of our education project was on the question of how far madness could also be understood as a form of knowledge or how it is possible for us to make our inner exposures productive. The apprentices were instructed to draw avatars who then appeared in comics and told their story(ies). This also enabled the students to distance themselves from overly personal statements. All the stories were collected in the publication Mach dich (nicht) verrückt! [(Don’t) Drive yourself crazy!]. The project of the same name was conceived as a workshop series and consisted of three three-hour-long workshops and an exhibition visit. It concluded with a presentation of the publication at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz.

The publication Mach dich (nicht) verrückt! [(Don’t) Drive yourself crazy!]  is available at Kunsthalle Wien or can be downloaded here.