Bettina Steinbrügge Livres

The existence of social classes has never ceased to shape how we live together. At the outset of the 21st century however, it has become neglected in public discourse and politics. Contemporary societies are witnessing their effects in growing economic and ?nancial inequalities, fears of social and economic decline, rising populism, political radicalization, and trends towards authoritarianism. This book aims to contribute to the overdue discussion of class in the ?eld of contemporary art, exploring their dynamic interplay with society, perception, and politics from artistic, curatorial, theoretical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives.00Artists: Monica Bonvicini, Sigmar Polke, Tobias Zielony, Neïl Beloufa, Benedikte Bjerre, Jan Peter Hammer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sven Johne, Los Capinteros, Henrike Naumann, Driss Ouadahi, Joe Scanlan, Andrzej Steinbach, Anna Witt, Ariel Reichman, Katie Holten, Harun Farocki / Antje Ehmann und Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle Huillet00Exhibition: Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (27.10.2018 - 27.01.2019).

The latest painterly adventures in riotous color and proliferating ornamentation from Christine Streuli Berlin-based Swiss painter Christine Streuli (born 1975) paints vivid abstractions and geometric patterns on monumental canvases. This book documents paintings exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Thun where the patterns, symbols and motifs in her works extend onto the gallery’s walls.

Diese Publikation erscheint anläßlich der Ausstellung ANDREA BOWERS. THE WEIGHT OF RELEVANCE in der Secession

First monograph on Liz Craft, born in 1970 in Los Angeles. * * The image of California is characterized by the myth of the hippie, the lonely cowboy, and the easy rider, by lascivious sexiness and speed, by sun, fun, and wild creative experiments. It seems to be the place where the greatest ideas and dreams are born, that then spread across the world. A Californian dream of sun, love, and peace, as sweet as the music of Fleetwood Mac or Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but with a dose of critical awareness. Liz Craft's sculptures appear to be where they are by accident, as if they were borrowed from another age or stemmed from the effects of intoxicating drugs taken the evening before. Craft confronts the everyday with fantastic energies and myths, thus initiating a discourse that is ambiguous and fictitious, situated somewhere between truth and lies, creating spaces without a direct political content, open to our projections. Open-ended, with no solution. * * Published with the Halle für Neue Kunst, Lüneburg.