Soon after completing her studies in Hamburg and embarking upon a two-year sojourn in New York, Darboven created “sketch sheets” on graph paper – early drafts of what would later form a system she would “write herself into” over the course of the ensuing years. In the letters written to her family during this time she goes yet a step farther. More firmly anchored in her own private sphere, they serve as a “lifeline” in her quest for objectivity in her existence through the medium of words and messages: encounters, questions regarding her own identity, her art and her efforts to come to terms with the self reflected in it. These letters from New York, which form both the core and the point of departure for important aspects of Hanne Darboven’s oeuvre, are reproduced in facsimile and in their entirety in this publication.

Numbered and signed with the artist’s initials.

Produced on the occasion of Fareed Armaly: Parts at Kunstverein München, 17 October–23 November, 1997. Edited by Fareed Armaly und Saskia Drechsel.

Interviews with Niels Clausnitzer, Helmut Draxler, Elizabeth Endriss, Zdenek Felix, Rainer Graefe, Martin Gretschmann, Bernd Hartwich, Eberhard Haug, Holger Hiller, Felix Knoth, Jürgen Koppers, Fred Maire, Susanne von Medvey, Michaela Melián, Thomas Meinecke, Pierre Peters-Arnolds, Moritz Reichelt, Dirk Snauwaert, Maria Thaler, Andi Toma, Arnold Walz, Jan St. Werner. Designed by Fareed Armaly.

Produced on the occasion of Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition Arbeit/Freizeit, at the Generali Foundation, 1994–1996. An exhibition of the staff of Generali Regional Office East, Berlin, consisting of 49 exhibits 47 objects (gifts, permanent loans and acquisitions) in cylindrical display case, beech wood, acrylic glass, 228 × ø 161 cm 1 round aquarium, 54.5 × ø 65 cm, with live fish (angelfishes and clown loaches) on plinth, beech wood, 70.5 × ø 67.2 cm Plant (Dracaena maginata).

With a preface by Hans Peer and Winfried Böttcher, texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Maria Eichhorn, John Miller, Annett Gröschner and Helmut Höge.

Produced on the occasion of Christian Philipp Müller’s participation in documenta X in 1997, where he presented A Balancing Act, which took as its point of departure Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks and Walter de Maria’s Vertical Earth Kilometer.

Christian Philipp Müller is a Berlin-based Swiss conceptual artist whose practice examines a range of issues from social and aesthetic concerns to design, national histories, and the institutional framing of culture. His projects are usually collaborative, interdisciplinary, and site-specific.

You can read more on the work (from October Vol. 82 (Autumn, 1997) here.

Produced on the occasion of Mladen Stilinović’s exhibition Bijela odsutnost 1991–1996 at Galerija Josip Račić, Zagreb.

Mladen Stilinović was an artist who frequently employed everyday materials in his work, bringing into focus the interconnection of politics, language, artistic production, and daily life. From 1975–79 he was a member of Zagreb’s Group of Six Artists. His work included drawings, collages, photographs, artist books, paintings, installations, actions, films, and video.

In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents—including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved and by Lippard, who has also provided a new preface for this edition. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period.