Catalogues
Play Sofia
Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer (ed.), springerin, Vienna: 2005, Exhibition catalogue, 32 p., German
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Adieu Parajanov - Contemporary Art from Armenia
The former Soviet republic of Armenia is currently going through a period of social and political turbulence, caught between surging nationalism and liberalisation on the one side, and an economic crisis and increasing emigration on the other. The local art scene, which has formed since the mid-1980s within the atmosphere of tension generated by these developments, exposed both to Eastern and Western cultural influences, is still barely known to a Western audience.
Adieu Parajanov, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name, which was shown in 2003/2004 in Vienna, Tbilisi, Belgrade and Zaragoza, presents selected documents, essays and manifestos that provide insights into the contemporary art scene in Yerevan against this background of social and political upheaval. The works of art featured in the catalogue, which include performative works, photographs and videos, reveal a young art scene that has remained uninfluenced by either the Soviet legacy or the new nationalistic tendencies.
Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer (ed.), springerin, Vienna 2003, Exhibition catalogue, 24 p., English
formate. Bukarest ca. 2004
Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer (ed.), springerin, Vienna: 2004, Exhibition catalogue, 24 p., German
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Postorange - Beispiele ukrainischer Gegenwartskunst
Hedwig Saxenhuber (ed.), springerin, Vienna: 2006, Exhibition catalogue, 32 p., German
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formate. Wien ca. 2004
springerin (ed.), Vienna: 2004, Exhibition catalogue, 87 p., German, Romanian
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Double Bind
Many young and somewhat more established artists in Sofia find themselves in the paradoxical situation of once again being marginalised. The context is defined to a much greater extent than in Western metropolises by the interaction between factors such as economic disadvantage, an institutional wasteland and being given the cold shoulder by cultural policy. But is this interaction also inscribed visibly as a distinguishing feature in individual works?
The Double Bind exhibition project was held in parallel to the 2002 Vienna Days in Sofia and showed contemporary art from the two cities. The works on display contrast the realities of processes of urban modernization and transformation, taking observations of the local culture, places and scenes in each city as their starting points. The exhibition catalogue’s introductory texts by Boris Buden, Ivaylo Ditchev and Klaus Ronneberger shed light on the thematic setting sketched out by various theoretical stances.
springerin, Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia (eds.), Vienna/Sofia:2002, exhibition catalogue, 74 pp., Bulgarian, German, English
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