Anne-Marie Bonnet - Böcker

Noch nie waren moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst medial so präsent wie heute: Das Wechselverhältnis von Kunst, Markt und Museum beschäftigt vor allem Feuilletons und neue Medien. Doch wer schreibt eigentlich die Kunstgeschichte der Moderne – seit wann und wozu? Diese Fragen ergründet vorliegender Essay. Die Autorin erinnert an die facettenreiche Ideen-, Wissens- und Institutionengeschichte der Kunst sowie an die sich ändernden Bedingungen ihrer Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption. Tradierte Vorstellungen werden infrage gestellt, neue Blicke auf vermeintlich Vertrautes riskiert. Anhand konkreter Fall- und Werkbeispiele gelingt eine Bilanz der gegenwärtigen Verfasstheit der Kunstwelt. Behandelt werden neben einschlägigen Namen wie Gerhard Richter, Marina Abramović, Damien Hirst oder Tino Sehgal viele noch unbekannte und jüngere Künstler*innen, beabsichtigt die Autorin doch auch zu zeigen, dass Relevanz nichts mit Marktwert zu tun hat.

Volume 4.1 of Michael Müller’s catalogue raisonné examines the issue of whether the Holocaust can be depicted, as well as the artistic approach to evil. It is devoted to works commenting on four paintings by Gerhard Richter entitled "Birkenau" attempting to reappraise a cruel historical fact in the Auschwitz II/Birkenau extermination camp in various artistic forms. The critical commentaries on Richter are accompanied by many less conspicuous, quieter, even wounded works by Müller, which were on show in the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg in 2022/23 and in St. Matthäus Kirche in Berlin in 2023. The catalogue in German, English and Chinese documents the most important works of this difficult artistic encounter, which are then contextualised in a detailed essay by art historian Lukas Töpfer. Look inside

Volume 7.1 of Michael Müller’s catalogue raisonné is the first volume highlighting the artist’s activity as a curator. It focuses on the exhibition series Deine Kunst at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, which he curated from 2019-22. This series comprised a novel presentation of the collection, as well as being an artistic intervention. In 2019, Müller had been invited to make a personal selection from the Städtische Galerie’s collection and present the works to the public over the next few years. The artist and curator decided against staging a single exhibition; instead, he elected to present the collection in five successive versions and changing contexts, each focusing on different content and form. The individual versions were somewhat eccentric, and Müller staged them in a way extremely suggestive of an artwork – the curator even gradually transformed the exhibition spaces, down to the smallest detail.

Comprising over 40 volumes with the ambiguous title "Ernstes Spiel" (Serious Play), the planned catalogue raisonné of Michael Müller’s art is a unique undertaking. It will introduce the near inexhaustible oeuvre with close collaboration from the artist himself, providing a comprehensive overview of the painting and graphic art, sculpture, installations and performances. In addition, it will present Müller’s texts, which cover a spectrum of different disciplines the natural sciences, poetry and linguistics, philosophy, and music. The catalogue raisonné, published in German, English and Chinese, is a project spanning several decades and, in addition to detailed documentation, will also offer a classification of Müller’s art by renowned authors. Volume 1.1. presents Müller's painterly work from 1982 to 2016 in full and in detail for the first time. With accompanying essays by Anne-Marie Bonnet and Tobias Vogt and a foreword by Hubertus von Ameluxen. 計劃中的邁克爾·穆勒藝術作品全集多達40餘卷，是一個獨一無二的弘大項目，標題為頗具雙重含義的《認真的遊戲》。在藝術家的密切配合下，作品全集將展示這位藝術家廣泛無窮的作品，旨在全面概述他的繪畫、素描、雕塑、裝置作品和行為藝術，以及他橫跨自然科學、詩歌、語言學、哲學和音樂等不同學科領域的文字作品。這套藝術作品全集以德文、英文和中文出版，將是一個歷時數十年的項目，除了詳細的文獻資料外，還包括知名作者對穆勒藝術的評述。 第1.1卷 1982年至2016年的繪畫作品。附有安娜－瑪麗·伯內特和托比亞斯·福格特的藝術評論文章以及胡貝圖斯·馮·阿枚龍克斯的序言。