Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), Elena Vogman (ed.)
The Cube and the Face
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
Noch einmal anders
Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)
Ausstellen
I Hate the Avant-Garde. When an artist as self-ironic and self-reflective as Yuri Albert makes such a statement about art, then skepticism is called for. Like his overall series Elitist-Democratic Art, the title deliberately plays with simple affirmations and negations, and at the same time exhibits the inherent receptive dilemma of the series: a (large) part of the artistically trained viewers see these shorthand works as abstract forms, without understanding the text, and only the few who can read (Russian) shorthand perceive a text, which for them doesn’t necessarily have to be art. I Hate the Avant-Garde was created in 2017, after a sketch made in 1987 in reaction to a changed situation in the reception of nonconformist art. With the beginning of perestroika, unofficial art that had hitherto been excluded from the state-run art scene—that is, from the official infrastructure of museums and exhibition spaces, and from art scholarship...