Andrea Fraser

This catalogue was developed to accompany an extensive exhibition of works by US-American artist Andrea Fraser at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (21 March–5 July 2015). It serves as a valuable resource and fosters a fresh appraisal of Andrea Fraser’s contribution to the field. Conceived to accompany a mid-career retrospective covering three decades of work, this comprehensive book captures both the long-development and current stage of Andrea Fraser’s continually evolving approach. In close collaboration with the artist, Fraser’s extensive and project-based work over the last three decades have been grouped into different but interrelating thematic areas. In addition to a new interview and new essays by Shannon Jackson and Sven Lütticken, the catalogue includes a selection of important essays and short texts on individual works written by the artist, important essays, and a comprehensive collection of her performance and audio scripts, some of which are published here for the first time.

“Her work is inventive, poignant and brazen as well as humorous. She’s an artist who takes no prisoners—even when she works in the belly of the beast. Her performative critiques are meticulously researched portraits of institutions, revealingly appropriated from original sources, yet they’re often, they’re often also tantalizingly ambiguous. And she’s also successfully explored innovative models for artistic practice that would liberate artists from the strictures of traditional object production.”
Andrea Fraser, Official Welcome (2001)