This publication documents and negotiates the two-year exhibition project Utopia and Monument at steirischer herbst 2009 and 2010. The focus was set on two special themes: the privatization of public space in 2009 and virtuosity and public space in 2010. In this exhibition for the public space, two concepts that had largely disappeared from the debate on the public sphere were provocatively put up for discussion: utopia as a space of possibility and the monument as a space of memory.
With works by
Lara Almarcegui, Kader Attia, Nairy Baghramian, Ayse Erkmen, Ângela Ferreira, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, John Knight, Jutta Koether, Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik (Jesko Fezer, Anita Kaspar, Andreas Müller), David Maljkovic, Heather und Ivan Morison, Nils Norman, Paulina Olowska, Michael Schuster, Andreas Siekmann, Ruby Sircar mit Studierenden des IZK/TU Graz, sozYAH (Sabine Haring & Anja Eder), Armando Andrade Tudela, Michael Zinganel, Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan
Photo © Werner Kaligofsky, Bildrecht Wien 2024
Edited by
Sabine Breitwieser and
steirischer herbst, Graz, 2010
Essays by
Sabine Breitwieser, Simone Hain, and a conversation of Diederich Diederichsen, Christine Frisinghelli and Breitwieser
Further texts by Jürgen Bock, Reinhard Braun, Juli Carson, Alice Creischer/Andreas Siekmann/Werner Rügemer, David Crowley, T.J. Demos, Claire Doherty, Silvia Eiblmayr, Andrea Fraser, Martin Fritz, Emiliano Gandolfi, Sören Grammel, David Joselit, Doreen Mende, André Rottmann, Ruby Sircar, Beate Söntgen, Michael Zinganel
Graphic design by Susanne Klocker
27 × 22.5 cm, 223 pages, numerous illustrations, includes two artists booklets
Hardcover, separate English and German editions
Wien-New York: Springer Verlag, 2010
German ISBN 978-3-7091-0807-9
English ISBN 978-3-7091-0772-0