Julia Gaisbacher: Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg

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An open, yellow-covered book laid flat on a grey surface. The left page features a black-and-white photograph of a dated, utilitarian kitchen with tiled walls and a small table. The right page is blank.

A bright yellow hardcover book by Julia Gaisbacher about Hanne Darboven, published by Hatje Cantz, is shown against a plain gray background. The cover features a central black-and-white photograph of a room cluttered with various objects, including a detailed model of the Empire State Building, a clock, and display cabinets.

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Julia Gaisbacher: Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg

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Edited by: Dietmar Rübel

Graphic Design: Fernando Gallegos, Jonas Kirchner

Author: Julia Gaisbacher

Texts by: Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel

German, English

April 2025, 240 Pages, 70 colored photos

Hardcover

168mm x 242mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5922-9

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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The cosmos of Hanne Darboven

The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven's Künstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive insights into Hanne Darboven's studios in the south of Hamburg in Germany. The five houses on the unique estate served as Darboven's living and working space for 40 years. To this day, the ensemble also functions as a treasury for thousands of objects and artworks. Gaisbacher's precisely composed black-and-white photographs of the rooms, whose seemingly chaotic abundance contrasts sharply with the strict order of Darboven's works on paper, create a compelling artistic dialog about time and space between the generations.

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Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) lived and worked in Hamburg and is one of the most prominent conceptual artists of the 20th century. In the 1960s, she was among the earliest proponents of this groundbreaking international movement; she also was an attentive observer of her time and the historical and contemporary currents in politics, culture and society.

Julia Gaisbacher (*1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied art history at the University of Graz and sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, as well as the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. In her work, she applies methods of artistic research, an approach that focuses on architecture and the urban landscape as human living environments.