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Publication Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object

This fully illustrated monograph marks the occasion of the first European survey of Nicola L. (1932–2018). Often discussed in the context of Pop Art, activism, feminism, and design, this is the first in-depth exploration of the multi-layered and expansive nature of her extraordinary practice, which also encompassed cosmology, environmental concerns, spirituality, political protest, and sexuality.

With new scholarly essays translated into English, French, Italian, and German, and supplementary texts on major bodies of work, Nicola L. I Am The Last Woman Object offers novel perspectives on the artist’s practice from some of the exhibitions’ curators: Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Géraldine Gourbe, and Leonie Radine. Together, they reflect on her life in Paris, Ibiza, Beirut, and New York, situating her within the politics and the social movements of her time. They also bring her work fully into the present by placing it in the context of the social, political, and ecological challenges facing the world today, thus enabling the resonance of her extraordinary practice to continue more than half a century after she began working. Taken together, the texts reveal Nicola L.’s remarkable and lifelong commitment to art, creativity, and radical subversion, presenting a long overdue appraisal of a practice that straddled many movements and styles in twentieth-century art but resolutely defied categorisation.

Editors: Gina Buenfeld-Murley and Martin Clark

Texts by: Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Leonie Radine, Géraldine Gourbe, Arese Uwuoruya

Page count: 240
Format: 20.4 x 26 cm
Languages: English, French, Italian, and German (quadrilingual)
Designer: Sara De Bondt
Release date: 2025

Published by: Lenz; Camden Art Centre; Frac Bretagne; Kunsthalle Wien – Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bozen/Bolzano

ISBN: 979-12-80579-67-6

Price: € 40

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Thomas Sandri – Restaurierung von VALIE EXPORTs Concrete Computer DisPlay

The htl-donaustadt Electronics Museum and Thomas Sandri, techniques for artworks, have restored VALIE EXPORT’s installation Concrete Computer DisPlay (1988/1990) especially for the exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991. It is being presented for the first time since the 1990s. In the video, Thomas Sandri talks about the restoration.

Guided tour in Austrian Sign Language of Diego Marcon. La Gola, photo: Kunsthalle Wien

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Tour in Austrian Sign Language

Sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art educator Martin Walkner guide you through the exhibition Diego Marcon. La Gola, which shows the film by the same name. Marcon playfully combines graphic accounts of cuisine and disease in an elaborate production with hyperrealistic mannequins.

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Publication Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024

The 2024 edition of the Kunsthalle Wien Preis exhibition is accompanied by a new book published in German and English by Kunsthalle Wien.

The Kunsthalle Wien Preis seeks to support emerging artists living and working in Vienna via an annual collaboration between Kunsthalle Wien, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

For this edition, Rawan Almukhtar and Ida Kammerloch were selected by a jury of curators and artists including representatives from all three institutions. Each received a monetary award in addition to a joint solo exhibition and publication organised by Kunsthalle Wien.

Rawan Almukhtar studied Fine Art (Art and Intervention | Concept) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The paintings and drawings take inspiration from Almukhtar’s experiences as a refugee and activist. Through the practice, Almukhtar seeks to create a collective moment of witnessing the stories of those who have been overlooked in the West, while also questioning the ways in which such people should be considered.

Ida Kammerloch studied TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her recent video essays draw upon her grandfather’s archive of homemade videos. Recorded in post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s, they document a time of significant political and social change. Kammerloch likewise contrasts the uncanny difference between state-constructed Russian identity and the lived realities of its citizens today, using her personal family narrative to anchor such storytelling.

The book contains a foreword by Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Johan F. Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Petra Schaper Rinkel, former Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Interviews between the artists and the exhibition curator Hannah Marynissen, as well as specially-commissioned essays by Alicja Melzacka and Rijin Sahakian, further illustrate the practices of the artists.

The Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024 is realized with the kind and generous support of Kunsttrans and smc Steirer Mika & Comp.

Rawan Almukhtar (b. 1991, Baghdad, Iraq) lives and works in Vienna.

Ida Kammerloch (b. 1991, Izhevsk, Russia) lives and works in Vienna.

Editor: Hannah Marynissen

Texts by: Michelle Cotton, Johan F. Hartle, Hannah Marynissen, Alicja Melzacka, Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rijin Sahakian

Page count: 172
Format: 11 x 18 cm
Binding: Softcover
Number of illustrations: 58
Languages: English/German
Graphic Design: Theresa Hattinger
Release date: 22 January 2025

ISBN: 978-3-903412-25-5

Price: € 12

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Diego Marcon – La Gola

Diego Marcon talks about his film La Gola, in which he explores the cinematic genre of melodrama. Two hyperrealistic dolls alternately write letters to each other talking about gastronomic delights and disease.

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Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Diego Marcon & Team

Discover the inspirations, techniques and behind-the-scenes stories from Diego Marcon and his team of the film La Gola.

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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 – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Kunsthalle Wien and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

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

Price: € 38

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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

Price: € 25

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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 Jr., 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 Jr.

Page count: 224
Format: 21.5 x 26 cm
Languages: English/German (bilingual)
Designer: Martha Stutteregger, Wien
Release date: 2025
Published by: DISTANZ Verlag and Kunsthalle Wien

ISBN: 978-3-95476-733-5

Price: € 38

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Installation view: Genossin Sonne, Kunsthalle Wien 2024, photo: www.kunst-dokumentation.com

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Marina Pinsky – Genossin Sonne

Marina Pinsky examines the ways in which images can be read as material, spatial, and ideological models of the world. Her work July 15th, 2015 presented in the exhibition Genossin Sonne, can be interpreted as an embodiment of time.

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Huda Takriti – In the promise of the rising sun

Huda Takriti presents a work at Brunnenpassage as part of the exhibition Genossin Sonne. The new commission highlights the importance of women who fight against oppressive regimes in their struggle for freedom for themselves and society.

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The exhibition as a learning space x Genossin Sonne

Download Eine Ausstellung als Lernort

Inspired by the themes of the exhibition Genossin Sonne [Comrade Sun], students from the Institute for Education in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna developed teaching units as part of the course “An exhibition as a place of learning”. Over several weeks, they taught pupils from the Aspern Modular Middle School (MMS) in project lessons. As a result of the collaboration, the pupils’ work was presented at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier in June 2024.

The booklet documents the workshops and provides ideas for art teachers and adults who want to realise artistic activities together with (their) children. The starting points for the individual workshops were both artistic techniques and selected artistic positions from the exhibition.

In cooperation with The Academy Goes to School.

You can download the booklet for free in German and get it at the exhibition Genossin Sonne, which – like all our exhibitions – is free of charge for children and young people under the age of 19. The art education team offers free programmes for schools for all exhibitions.

The exhibition Genossin Sonne is a collaboration between Kunsthalle Wien, Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien and Klimabiennale Wien and is on view at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier until 1 September 2024.

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Oscar Murillo – JAZZ.

In the exhibition JAZZ., Oscar Murillo’s large-scale black canvases are suspended from the ceiling to create an almost labyrinthine structure, they carefully shape the space, allowing for intimate encounters with his abstract paintings.

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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

Price: € 25

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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

Price: € 21,95

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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.

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

Price: € 24

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Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling

In this episode, we talk to the exhibition designers of Genossin Sonne. Marlene Oeken and Martha Schwindling describe the challenges of designing an exhibition with many video works and answer the question of how to create a space for visitors to enjoy spending time in and immersing themselves in the artworks.

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Rene Matić – JAZZ.

Rene Matić’s contributions to the exhibition JAZZ. take Vienna’s reaction and “outrage” to Josephine Baker’s appearance in the city in 1928 as a starting point.

Claudia Lomoschitz, photo: Kunsthalle Wien

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Claudia Lomoschitz – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

Claudia Lomoschitz combines video, archival images, performance, and text to explore queer-feminist and collective practices. For the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, she developed the video work LACTANS, which deals with art-historical representations of breastfeeding.

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Dorottya Vékony – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

In the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, Dorottya Vékony presents a collage of bodies and addresses socially undesirable and deliberately ignored aspects such as infertility, miscarriages, and abortion.

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Curator’s tour with Andrea Popelka

Curator Andrea Popelka guides through the exhibition Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. It is centered around a film dealing with the European colonial relation to the Earth in the history of neoliberalism.

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Curator’s tour with Laura Amann

Curator Laura Amann guides you through the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat. The group show questions why we are still so obsessed, offended, and scandalized by the view of naked breasts and deals with different depictions of breasts in art history, but also with related current topics.

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Tour in Austrian Sign Language

Sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art educator Martin Walkner guide through the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.

Mariya Vasilyeva, photo: Kunsthalle Wien

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Mariya Vasilyeva – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

Mariya Vasilyeva questions identity patterns and gendered power dynamics in her digital collages, video installations and performances. She often uses her own body as a site of digital manipulation, e.g. in her video installation ALTAR 2.0 shown at the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.

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Toni Schmale – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

Toni Schmale‘s sculptures made of steel, concrete or rubber are often reminiscent of training or fitness equipment – as are the two works in the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat. However, they are non-functional and can be understood as a critique of the existing power structures in bodybuilding and ideas of the perfect body.

Marianne Vlaschits, photo: Kunsthalle Wien

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Marianne Vlaschits – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

In her works, Marianne Vlaschits blurs the boundaries between the human and the cosmic, raising urgent questions about our relationship with the environment and our role in overcoming the ecological crises of our time. In the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat she shows a painting of an imaginary, distant world.

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Maja Smrekar – Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat

Artist Maja Smrekar challenges established notions of social structures, domesticity, anthropocentrism, family and motherhood while speculating about possibilities for cohabitation between humans and nonhumans. For our exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat she created a site-specific installation

Installation view No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection: Iman Issa, I, the Artwork, 2023, Kunsthalle Wien 2023, photo: www.kunst-dokumentation.com

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Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Iman Issa

In this episode, we interview the artist Iman Issa about her contribution to the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. Iman Issa deals with the power of displays in relation to cultural and academic institutions. She destabilizes preconceived notions about artworks by recontextualizing and recombining objects and texts that suggest other narratives and visions of what we think we know.

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DIK Fagazine #14

DIK Fagazine is the first arts publication from Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on homosexuality and masculinity. Founded in 2005 by artist Karol Radziszewski, the magazine combines queer archival research with contemporary art contributions.

Issue 14 focuses on the city of Vienna throughout the past 150 years, and its specific geography as a gate between East and West. While previous issues have often been monographs dedicated to particular countries like Ukraine, Romania or Belarus, this issue brings together queer histories and figures from several countries including Austria, Hungary, Albania, Poland, and Serbia.

The journal is based in Poland, published in English and distributed worldwide.

2023, co-produced by Kunsthalle Wien

Editor-in-chief: Karol Radziszewski
Guest Editor: Fanny Hauser
Design: Martin Falck
Proofreading: Nancy Chapple
Photo Editor: Krzysiek Krzysztofiak

In cooperation with Queer Archives Institute

Price: € 22

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Mira Gakjina – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection

Mira Gakjina is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Skopje, which was founded through a great act of international solidarity. In 1963, Skopje was massively destroyed by an earthquake, many artists donated works and the Skopje Solidarity Collection grew quickly.