Tito's Bunker

Inclusion of Amoy Gardens (2003/07) in international group exhibition Tito's Bunker at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, curated by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ. The exhibition reconsiders the socio-political text of a nuclear bunker built between 1953 and 1979 in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, for Josip Broz Tito, former prime minister of Yugoslavia

[Academy Lectures 2015.10.28]

1 h 33 min“For Dorit Margreiter, debate about the preservation of late-modernist architecture provides the occasion for probing larger issues shaping our contemporary socio-cultural context: the legacy of the Modernist Movement; the ways that media representations of the built environment inform our collective imaginary; the consequences of the growing interdependence of architecture and spectacle culture.” (Excerpt from: Lynne Cooke, Description, Madrid 2011) Dorit Margreiter produces installations, photographs, videos and films dealing with aspects of representation in gender, architecture and film. Her lecture will focus on two recent installations – “zentrum” (2004, ongoing) and “Pavilion” (2009)– which were both exhibited in 2011 as part of her solo show “Description” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. In the talk, the exhibition’s title, “Description” – which instead of offering a way into the show’s theme and content in a conventional manner, prefaced the show with an artistic strategy – will itself be reactivated as motif and artistic approach to her own practice. Dorit Margreiter is an artist and, since 2006, professor for video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent exhibitions include “Broken Sequence” at Stampa, Basel (2015), “Selftimer Stories” at MUSAC Léon (2015), “Stage Set Stage” at SBC Gallery Montreal (2014), “Performing Histories” at MoMA New York (2013), “Description” at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid (2011), “Pavilion” at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Austrian Pavilion (2009), “Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia” (with Rebecca Baron) at MAK Vienna (2008), “Analog” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2006). She has received the “Otto Mauer Award” (2002) and the Award of the City of Vienna (2003)

The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist

Hardcover book compiling texts by 28 artists invited to respond to the statement "The next Documenta should be curated by an artist." In his introduction, editor Hoffmann recounts how the idea grew out of a discussion with artist Carsten Höller, and that the project provocatively explores artists' relations to the profession of curating, rather than critiquing previous Documenta exhibitions. The artists' writings are approached from a wide range of perspectives, from critical reflections to fantastical/radical ideas to elaborately conceived proposals. Also includes a selection of texts–including heated debates–contributed by e-mail during an Open Forum between July 2003 and February 2004. 3 bibl. re