Katrin Bucher Trantow Bücher

Two conceptual artists of different generations, united in their subversive multimedia installations and their post-human worldviews Spanning generations, this exhibition catalog brings together two Austrian artists with complementary conceptual approaches: Ingrid Wiener (born 1942) and Martin Roth (1977-2019). Working across tapestries, installations, film and drawing, they each share distinct visions of a post-human worldview.

Water is an essential component of human life, a strategic resource on earth and an important factor in many political conflicts. The project 100 Spectres by the artist Sarah Bildstein deals with the context of the water crisis, and reflects on the causes and effects of climate change. In collaboration with scientists from the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, 100 water samples from all over the world were analysed in a laboratory and transformed through the use of chromatography. They appear as coagulated, but at the same time flowing spectres on paper. The variety of colours in the 100 images in this series can be traced back to a color scheme that the artist developed based on measured water values, and those obtained through the use of a pendulum. The index shows the individual origins and lists the water components and parameters for each of the 100 water samples, which informed the amount and concentration of ink used in each painting. In this process, a part always remains unpredictable and open. The individual artworks are like results that could not have been foreseen during the process of creation, much like a landscape is unknown to a traveller who is crossing it for the very first time.

Das Buch der Neuen Galerie Graz gibt einen ersten umfassenden Einblick in das Schaffen des österreichischen Bild-hauers, Zeichners und Performers Norbert Nestler (1942-2014). Sein Werk setzt sich mit Raumutopien auseinander und steht in enger Verbindung mit den Entwicklungen der Materialien und Medien seit den 1960-er Jahren. Dem Visionären räumte Nestler dabei einen besonderen Stellenwert ein. Seine dynamischen Untersuchungen des Sehens von zwei- und dreidimensionalem Raum haben das Kunstgeschehen in Graz und Österreich seit mehreren Jahrzehnten begleitet und maßgeblich mitgeformt. Die Zusammenschau von Nestlers OEuvre mit zahlreichen Werkabbildungen und Ausstellungsansichten enthält auch Texte des Künstlers, die er noch selbst für diese Retrospektive vorbereiten konnte. Weitere Beiträge stammen unter anderem von der Kuratorin Katrin Bucher Trantow, die Nestlers zeichnerischem Interesse nachgeht. Günther Holler-Schuster betrachtet den Kontext des Pneumatischen bei Nestler, während Elisabeth Fiedler den "Stadtgestalter" und Künstler für den öffentlichen Raum untersucht.

The source and accompanying book to the exhibition Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown invites visitors to take part in different approaches and perspectives around the theme of dizziness and is aimed at a wide audience. As an experiment in the diversity of voices, excerpts from the artistic research project in the form of quotes, the text Curating Dizziness by the curators and the education text Navigating the Unknown? are juxtaposed. This deliberately leads to shifts in emphasis and perspectives, so that the readers can participate in a variety of approaches. For the second station of the exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (from September 2017), this approach will be further expanded. The artistic research project into dizziness will continue with another edition of this book together with findings from our exhibition and the accompanying symposium. A reader comprising scientific texts about the artistic research project Dizziness – A Resource by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond is planned for 2018, and will be published by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Post Studio is the name of the now legendary university department, initiated by the artist John Baldessari in 1970 at the then newly established California Institute of the Arts, or CalArts, for short. Post Studio advocated a concept that shifted artistic production from the studio into everyday life. In its early years, CalArts became known for its progressive pedagogical concepts and feminist artistic practices which influenced an entire generation of artists. To this day, many of the tested ideas and approaches, e.g. institutional critique, image criticism and feminism, remain relevant artistic topoi. In this respect, CalArts and especially Post Studio marked a watershed moment when an artistic change of paradigm became institutionalised. In an exhibition, symposium and extensive research project, the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover together with the Freie Universität Berlin and other international partners has conducted a historical assessment of Post Studio for the first time. The exhibition has presented individual artistic principles which influenced the teaching activities, as well as some of the school?s innovative teaching methods. It was the first exhibition to combine the teaching content and the resulting works produced during those formative CalArts years. The exhibition featured interviews with contemporary witnesses as documents of oral history.0The exhibition emphasised the relevance of the methods developed by Post Studio, especially with regard to digitalisation. It asked to what extent the approaches of artistic detachment from location and material are relevant and helpful to us today when digitalisation has made placelessness and virtuality far more prevalent? and not only in the area of the fine arts.00Exhibition: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (30.09. - 10.11.2019) / Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (13.03. - 07.06.2020).