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Klara Liden

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Kunsthalle Zürich, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and MoMA PS1, New York

Appropriated—Displaced—Put on Display

Klara Liden’s (b. Stockholm, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) creative vocabulary ranges from architectural interventions to performative and often contrarian actions and videos that interrogate the urban public sphere’s social warp and weft. Another central component of Liden’s practice is the material appropriation of the urban fabric: reprising the tradition of the readymade and minimal art, she pilfers objects from the city’s inventory and transplants them into the exhibition space. Emptied of their original meaning, her works look like bodies or protagonists with whom she confronts the audience. Their existence, however, never ties in only with the public space of the city, but can always also be read with a view to institutional structures and boundaries. 

With essays and literary contributions by Kirsty Bell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Emma Enderby, Hendrik Folkerts, Fanny Hauser, Calla Henkel, Ruba Katrib, John Kelsey, and others, the comprehensive monograph provides extensive insight into Klara Liden’s practice, closing a gap in the publicly accessible documentation of the artist’s multifaceted oeuvre.