Isabelle Graw, Helmut Draxler, André Rottmann

Erste Wahl (First Choice)
20 Jahre »Texte zur Kunst« (20 Years of Texte zur Kunst)
VOLUME 200

Germany’s Most Loved and Hated Forum for Art Criticism

The magazine Texte zur Kunst is the most important and internationally renowned German-language forum for art theory, despite or perhaps precisely because of the enduring love-hate relationship that binds some artists and art professionals to it. Founded in 1990 by Isabelle Graw and Stefan Germer, the magazine modeled itself on the US journal October and has contributed significantly to the importing of international, especially US-American, art-historical and theoretical debates. Texte zur Kunst gave German art criticism a fresh start and helped it finally catch up with the international theory landscape. To this day, the magazine continues to bridge the gap between art and society.

This volume presents a selection of essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions published between 1990 and 2010. In addition to texts on contemporary art that are as foundational as they are contentious, the two-part anthology (Vol. II, FUNDUS 201) by Isabelle Graw, editor-in-chief André Rottmann, and long-standing advisory board member Helmut Draxler brings together a selection of original contributions on the reception of French theory in German-speaking countries, social art history, gender studies, and cultural politics by leading figures in the fields of art criticism, art history, and philosophy, as well as essays and statements by contemporary artists. It is a document of its time offering reflections on the most recent contemporary art, its scenes, and themes, which continue to be relevant to this day.

Including:

Judith Butler, Merlin Carpenter, Douglas Crimp, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Helmut Draxler, Stefan Germer, Isabelle Graw, Renée Green, Tom Holert, Jutta Koether, Rosalind E. Krauss, John Miller, Josephine Pryde, Juliane Rebentisch, among others

Isabelle Graw (b. 1962 in Hamburg; lives and works in Berlin) is an art critic, the publisher of Texte zur Kunst, and teaches art theory and art history at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main.

Helmut Draxler (b. 1956) was director of Kunstverein München from 1992 to 1995 and organized exhibitions by Andrea Fraser, Imi Giese, Christian Philipp Müller, Adrian Piper, and Christopher Williams, among others, in addition to numerous thematic shows. From 1999 to 2012, he was Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the Merz Akademie. Draxler is currently Professor of Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

André Rottmann (b. 1977) was editor-in-chief of Texte zur Kunst and has published in Artforum, among others. He is Junior Professor for Theories of Art and Media at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).