Die neunziger Jahre. The 1990s

The last volume of the MUSA collection of contemporary art is dedicated to the 1990s. The boundaries and hierarchies between the genres of high and popular art have long disappeared; drawing and painting is tied up with punk; digital photography and computer art – especially video and the recording of the artist’s own performance approaches in parallel to painting or object art – pursue broad communication strategies; video sculptures, conceptual artistic research, and the integration of kitsch and irony display great diversity; artistic strategies are extended to include social issues such as the transgender debate and post-colonial investigations. Essays by well-known authors and numerous illustrations shed light on the artistic trends of this decade.