A Tribute to Igor Zabel. The Slovenian curator, art critic, writer, and theorist Igor Zabel 1958-2005 was largely responsible for promoting the visibility of the Slovenian art scene in the international arena back in the 1990s. As Senior Curator of the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana he was engaged in establishing links between Eastern and Western Europe without loosing a critical perspective on ...

Collection 1978 2008. The origins of the collection of the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst date from the late 1950s. Initiated by the migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, the Museum in the late 1970s began focusing on collecting international contemporary art. This publication offers a wide overview focusing on the core pieces of the collection, which consists of around 400 artworks by ...

A Film by Hila Peleg. A Crime Against Art is a film based on the trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007. Inspired by the mock trials organised by Andre Breton in the 1920s and 30s, it playfully raised a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the new bourgeoisie, instrumentalisation of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic

Aktiengesellschaft. This publication presents documentation surrounding the public-limited-company-as-artwork, Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft, which was a star of the 2002 Documenta XI and won that years Arnold Bode Prize. In addition to texts establishing the political, economic, judicial and theoretical context of the work, this volume contains revealing tax and contractual documents. ...

Presents an array of critical, theoretical, and historical responses that pertain to the arrival of the moving image in contemporary art: its cause, its motivation, and its aesthetic, social, and political significance. This collection also includes seminal historical articles, as well as criticism, including translated and commissioned essays.