Barbara Vienna

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Barbara Vienna (2020)

Barbara Wien (born November 29, 1953 in Munich ) is a German gallery owner , editor and publisher of artist books .

Life

Barbara Wien studied German and history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Free University of Berlin . From 1978 to 1985 she worked as an art critic and editor in Berlin. She has published texts and interviews on Bernhard Joh. Blume , Günter Brus , Ludwig Gosewitz , Dorothy Iannone , Shigeko Kubota , Hermann Nitsch , Nam June Paik , Dieter Roth , Rainer Ruthenbeck, André Thomkins and Arthur Lehning . From 1985 to 1987 she worked with Dieter Roth in Basel and founded Roth's publishing office in Berlin (Savignyplatz). I.a. she edited the magazine for Alles No. 8, 9, 10A & B and worked on the exhibition Dieter Roth - Published and Unpublished , which took place in 1987 as the opening exhibition in the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main at the invitation of Kasper König . For this exhibition, she also put together the catalog 3 preliminary lists .

In 1988 Barbara Wien opened a gallery and a bookstore at Goethestrasse 73 in Berlin. She developed the gallery and edition program with artists from different generations, including a. with Jimmie Durham , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Gundi Feyrer , Nanne Meyer , Dieter Roth and Tomas Schmit . In addition, she developed exhibitions, book and film presentations on Jean Dubuffet and Per Kirkeby with the Swiss publisher Johannes Gachnang and the Berlin gallery owner Rudolf Springer .

Parallel to the publishing projects for the gallery's artists, Barbara Wien published the previously unpublished texts by Arthur Köpcke in 1994. In 2002 she published the book "Gesammelte Interviews" by Dieter Roth and in 2019 its English translation "Collected Interviews" in Edition Hansjörg Mayer in London.

Barbara Wien has developed her gallery program into an internationally active platform for conceptual art since the 1990s. Since 1995 Barbara Wien has taken part in international art fairs with her gallery. a. Art Basel in Basel, Miami & Hong Kong, Frieze Art Fair London & New York, Arco Madrid , FIAC Paris.

Barbara Wien manages the estate of the artist Tomas Schmit and the tomas schmit archive , Berlin (founded in 2008).

Gallery artist

Georges Adéagbo , Eric Baudelaire, Nina Canell , Mariana Castillo Deball , Jimmie Durham , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Robert Filliou , Ester Fleckner, Luca Frei, Ludwig Gosewitz , Ian Kiaer, Kim Yong-Ik, Dave McKenzie, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Peter Piller , Eva von Platen , Vaclav Pozarek, Michael Rakowitz , Dieter Roth , Tomas Schmit , Shimabuku, Ingrid Wiener, Haegue Yang

Publications (selection)

  • Dieter Roth, 3 preliminary lists , Volume 3 of the Library of the Beginning, (compiled by Barbara Wien), Roth's Verlag, Basel 1987
  • Arthur Köpcke: experience understanding - collected texts , ed. by Barbara Wien, London, Cologne, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-9802287-9-7
  • Dieter Roth, Collected Interviews , ed. by Barbara Wien, London 2002. ISBN 978-3-9802287-9-4
  • Tomas Schmit, Thirteen Monday Talks , ed. by Barbara Wien and Wilma Lukatsch, Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-9811288-1-9
  • how to write I – VII , with partly unpublished texts by George Brecht, Jimmie Durham, Dieter Roth, Tomas Schmit and Haegue Yang, ed. by Barbara Wien and Wilma Lukatsch, Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2013–2015
  • Dieter Roth, Collected Interviews , ed. by Barbara Wien, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London 2019. ISBN 978-0-500-97096-6

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Schuller: "Berlin art bookstores: Do you have bags?" In: Der Tagesspiegel . Berlin January 6, 2001 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  2. ↑ Thea Herold: "Alone with Mach-Lust". In: www.zeit.de. The time, accessed March 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ tomas schmit archive. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vienna, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, bookseller, gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich