Sabine Breitwiser

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AVANT-GARDE IN THE BLOC
Edited by Gabriela Switek. Text by Alexander Alberro, Sabine Breitwieser, Rachel Haidu.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037640944 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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RECONSTRUCTING SWISS VIDEO ART FROM THE 1970S & 1980S
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037640548 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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EDWARD KRASINSKI: LES MISES EN SCèNE
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865601032 | US $63.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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THAT BODIES SPEAK HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883758022 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 5/2/2004
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OCCUPYING SPACE
Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser.
GENERALI FOUNDATION, VIENNA
ISBN: 9783901107412 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2004
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HANS HAACKE: WE ARE WHO WE ARE
GENERALI FOUNDATION, VIENNA
ISBN: 9783901107344 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 12/2/2001
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GENERALI FOUNDATION EXHIBITIONS 1989-2008
Edited and with text by Sabine Breitwieser. Foreword by Dietrich Kramer.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865604132 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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ALLAN SEKULA: PERFORMANCE UNDER WORKING CONDITIONS
GENERALI FOUNDATION, VIENNA
ISBN: 9783901107405 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2003
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DOUBLE LIFE: IDENTITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883755106 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2002
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RE-PLAY
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883754307 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2000
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Sabine Breitwiser

Avant-Garde in the Bloc

Edited by Gabriela Switek. Text by Alexander Alberro, Sabine Breitwieser, Rachel Haidu.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Polish avant-garde artists Henryk Stazewski (1894-1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925-2004) shared a studio-apartment that they transformed into a kind of live-in laboratory. Avant-Garde in the Bloc is an intimate journey into the worlds and works of these two artists.

Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s & 1980s

Edited by Irene Schubiger. Text by Johannes Gfeller, Joanna Phillips, Irene Schubiger, Sabine Breitwieser.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Surveying some 20 years of Swiss video art, this book includes works by Alexander Hahn, Klara Kuchta, Eric Lanz, Jean Otth, Pipilotti Rist, Alex Silber and Hannes Vogel, it reviews discussion surrounding the exhibiting of video art and the problems associated with long-term conservation.

Generali Foundation Exhibitions 1989-2008

Edited and with text by Sabine Breitwieser. Foreword by Dietrich Kramer.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Over the past 20 years, the Vienna-based Generali Foundation has established itself as an internationally distinguished institution, with countless must-see exhibitions of conceptual and critical intermedia art to its name. The exhibition history tells it all: Valie Export, Harun Farocki, Dan Graham, Sanja Ivekovic, Mary Kelly, Edward Krasinski, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Walter Pichler, Martha Rosler, Adrian Piper and Allan Sekula have all shown there, often for their first solo outing. Generali has also commissioned works by artists such as Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Dorit Margreiter, Mathias Poledna, Marjetica Potrc and Heimo Zobernig. In this power-packed book, numerous installation views and texts provide a review of the foundation's comprehensive program, whose context and genesis are discussed in a conversation between the foundation's long-time Director Sabine Breitwieser and art critic Sabeth Buchmann.

Edward Krasinski: les Mises en Scène

Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Text by Sabine Breitwieser, Dietrich Karner, Pawel Polit, Adam Szymczyk.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Sculptor Edward Krasinski was a key member of Poland's neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s. His work was rooted in Surrealism and Constructivism, but also deftly navigated between Minimalism and Conceptualism. This deeply satisfying and substantial monograph is published on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the artist's work since his death in 2004. It focuses on Krasinski's unique exhibition designs--grandiose settings for his works which completely transformed the original exhibition spaces. It features generous documentary portraits of Krasinski, many of which were created in collaboration with the photographer Eustachy Kossakowski, and many of which are reproduced here for the first time. Special attention is paid to the legendary Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, which Krasinski helped to establish in 1966. Important exhibitions are investigated, including the artist's contribution to the 1970 Tokyo Biennial. Several of Krasinski's key works, whose whereabouts had been unknown for many years, were unearthed while the retrospective was being researched--and they are displayed here at last.

That Bodies Speak Has Been Known For A Long Time

Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann. Essays by Dietrich Kamer, Ursula Biemann, Sigrid Adorf, Giorgio Agamben, Anja Streither and Jutta Koether.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Taking its title from Deleuze, this exhibition and catalogue consider the body linguistically. In what sense do bodies produce language, how are they themselves grasped and defined by it, and what spaces for action are opened up by this understanding? With art by John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Mary Kelly, Francesca Woodman and others.

Occupying Space

Generali Foundation Collection

Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser.
Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna

Some art is dismissed as “difficult”--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow for process-oriented engagement. The Generali Foundation in Vienna has devoted much of its collection, exhibition energy, and research focus to this “difficult” type of artwork. Though many of the artists that form its collection are part of the canon of recent art history, they are mostly underrepresented in institutions--but not the Generali Foundation. Occupying Space presents a dense, comprehensive selection of projects from its collection by such artists as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Mary Kelly, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel and Franz West, together with brief, articulate texts on their work.

Allan Sekula: Performance Under Working Conditions

Introduction by Sabine Breitwiesser. Foreward by Karner Dietrich. Interview by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna

Allan Sekula has devoted his artistic and documentary oeuvre to researching and recording the world of labor and its transformation in the face of the global economy. From early performances enacted as part of the California anti-war movement to his latest work, Black Tide, which documents the Prestige oil tanker disaster on the Gallic coast of Spain, this volume presents a comprehensive overview of Sekula's visual work and texts. In addition to a retrospective look at his artistic and documentary projects, Performance Under Working Conditions will collect Sekula's important theoretical writings on photography, including texts from Photography Against the Grain, now out of print.

Double Life: Identity And Transformation In Contemporary Art

Artwork by Valie Export, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Ion Grigorescu, Lynn Hershman, Elke Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka, Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, Zoe Leonard, Adrian Piper. Photographs by Cindy Sherman. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Pierre Huyghe. Text by Ruth Noack, Yvonne Volkart, Dietrich Karner.
Published by Walther König, Köln

To be able to take one's self off like a jacket and put on another self--who hasn't occasionally wished it were possible? Identity and transformation are among the central issues for contemporary art making, and Double Life pulls together a diverse selection of artists whose work embraces the possibilities of personality and appearance, racial and sexual stereotype, role-playing and reality. The artists in Double Life--from Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, and Andy Warhol to Ion Grigorescu, Eleanor Antin, Pierre Huyghe and Cindy Sherman--have all employed various strategies in their desire to assume different roles. Whether ironic, eccentric, utopian or critical, their methods have ranged from the subtle to the extreme. Zoe Leonard's pin-up calendar is filled with sexy portraits of her bearded self. Early black-and-white photographs by Cindy Sherman show the artist casually dressed as a random sampling of everyday people. Pierre Huyghe's Ann Lee is an anime extra, a digital character completely lacking any discernible identity. But artist Lynn Hershman perhaps best articulates the issue when she writes, "I always told the truth for the person who I was, but the person kept fluctuating."

Hans Haacke: We Are Who We Are

Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Essays by Hans Haacke, Christian Kravagna, Heidemarie Uhl. Foreword by Dietrich Karner.
Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna

Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into museum contexts, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria's emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on "the culture of memory" weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke's, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist's own writings, available here for the first time.

Re-Play

Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria

Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Essays by Marie-Luise Angerer, Reinhard Braun, Timothy Druckrey, Heidi Grundmann, Gene Youngblood, Artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Marie-Luise Angerer, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Valie Export, General Ide
Published by Walther König, Köln

Re-Play: Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria is a comprehensive exploration of the beginnings of art and electronic media in Austria, focusing on internationally renowned artists who have influenced the Austrian scene as well as Austrian innovators themselves. Austria had a very active multimedia art world during the seminal 1960s and 70s--the metropolises of Vienna, Graz, and Innsbruck developed into important nerve centers, presenting important exhibitions and symposia featuring prominent artists from numerous countries, particularly the United States. At the same time, Austrian artists were invited with increasing frequency to major international events abroad. Re-Play documents more than 400 early videotape and audio works from Acconci to Wilke in illustrated and annotated work lists--an exciting and historically essential matrix of conceptual, media-critical and media-reflexive works.