Bakerhouse Gallery: Forms of the Objective in Contemporary Art

Book, hardcover, 220 pages, thread-stitched, 130g matt photo print

with biographies and pictures of the artists:

This publication is the result of an extensive project at the Karl-Franzens-University.

The project is entitled " Forms of the Objective in Contemporary Art ", has been running since July 1, 2021 and is being implemented under the direction of Eva Klein in the Research Center for Art History Styria and at the Institute of Art History. Chiara Adelsberger, Isabella Astleitner, Xenia Antonia Aschauer, Christina Bergmann, Felicia Betz, Ella Binder, Miriam Brünner, Elenore Magdalena Guggi, Susanne Hartl, Lejla Husic, Elisabeth Anna Jehn, Viktoria Kalcher, Werner Kehl, Michaela Kienleitner, Viktoria Kostenko, Peter Kranz, Ursula Nesper, Simone Neubauer, Sabine Franziska Oberreither, Viktoria Petritsch, Niklas Putz, Anna Rechenmacher, Esther Thomas and Jasmin Trummer are participating in the project from the Karl Franzens University.

In the spirit of research-based teaching, the following text was written at the Institute of Art History as part of the course “Modern and

Contemporary Art” in the module “Methods and Practice of Art History” in the winter semester 2021/22.

The cooperation between the Karl-Franzens University and the Bakerhouse Gallery enables students to study art history using original works, to have direct contact and exchange with the artists and, as a result, to gain experience in academic work as well as publishing and presenting art historical texts.

The students took the opportunity to independently track down aesthetic and art historical developments and classifications, to locate them in a socio-cultural context and to present them for discussion in the course. To do this, the existing pool of methods in art history was reflected upon and deepened and expanded using an interdisciplinary approach. In addition, the knowledge already acquired in the field of modern and contemporary art was built upon and specific subject areas were newly developed in the group.

The students also worked in small groups on one artist each and conducted interviews with the artists in addition to the usual literature research. The interviews were independently compiled, conducted and transcribed and form the basis for the present texts, which were supplemented with art historical analyses of individual works of art

Editors: Eva Klein, Klaus Billinger, Bakerhouse Gallery

Publication date: 09/2024
Dimensions: 30.5 x 21.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-200-09703-2

Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220