POSING AS A CATALOGUE, ACTING LIKE AN ARTISTS’ BOOK: KÜNSTLERINNEN INTERNATIONAL 1877–1977

Autor/innen

  • Marie van Bömmel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57871/fkw7720261770

Abstract

ABSTRACT______The 1970s were a heyday for artists’ publications. While artists’ books were regarded as allowing for a more democratic and dynamic circulation of art, the traditional medium of art communication, the exhibition catalogue, also took on new forms.
In 1977 Berlin, a group of artists and activists collaborated at the intersection of both: on the occasion of a major exhibition on artist- women, they created a publication that at first sight complied with the codes of a catalogue but upon closer examination mobilized it for feminist purposes. Through the self-reflexive articulation of its production process and the aesthetic disruption of its content, the catalogue makers pointed to the social and cultural fabrication of art histories. Künstlerinnen international, posing as a catalogue and acting as an artists’ book, was able to attract and educate people from various backgrounds — thus realizing the subversive impetus of the latter by building on the popularity of the former.

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2026-07-29