#43 Spring 2015

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Everyone has to be an artist. What does this mean for the artist? When the myth of creativity and self-determination permeates all spheres, what is the artist to do? Can the individual work still produce difference, when formerly stable ideas of the public and of history are no longer in place? When the work dissolves, does artistic work flow into the design of being?

Including a roundtable with Simon Denny, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Alexander Koch; an interview with Heimo Zobernig; and portraits of Henri Matisse, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Weronika Ławniczak. Martin Herbert portrays fictional artists from Duchamp to the present and sees them as a mirror for radical changes within the art world. Kolja Reichert and Christian Kobald ask what has become of an art world that integrates everything. John Menick on today’s cinematic heroes: goal-fixated self-optimizers on drugs, as opposed to neurotic Hamlets. Cara Delevigny in the 3M Paparazzi Blocker Anorak, as seen by Jon Leon. Simon Fujiwara presents his Artist’s Favourites. Artist Contributions by Andro Wekua, Keren Cytter, Misha Stroj, and Nicole Eisenman.

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Than Hussein Clark at David Roberts Art Foundation in London; Charles Atlas at Luhring Augustine in New York; Trisha Donnelly at Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf; An interview with Olaf Metzel about his exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck; Dorothy Iannone at Peres Projects in Berlin, Ramin Haerizadeh/Rokni Haerizadeh/Hesam Rahmanian at Kunsthalle Zürich; Wesley Willis at Delmes & Zander in Berlin
Seduction
or the things we like: By Andrew Berardini, Christine König, Kolja Reichert, Toke Lykkeberg, Martha Kirszenbaum
Q/A Amy Sillman
What do you teach young artists?
Postcard from London
The era of artists fighting back against the sell-off of the city is over. In London, fewer and fewer can afford to pay the rent. While the gallery spaces keep getting larger, artists are leaving the city behind. Oliver Basciano is still there, and is moving house – again.
The fictional artist
Rrose Sélavy, Vern Blosum, John Dogg: Why do artists create alter egos or hide as collectives behind made-up characters? Martin Herbert traces the figure of the fictional artist over the last hundred years and discovers a reflection of the art world’s changing face. Sometimes one identity just isn’t enough.
Q/A Jan Ritsema
Is there a way out of self-exploitation?
Q/A Nik Kosmas

Why did you decide to end your career as a young and successful visual artist?

Portrait Weronika Ławniczak
The photographs of the young Polish artist reflect the conditions of selfhood in the era of the Instagram. Within a spectrum of mistakes, she discovers the tender, vulnerable body.
Portrait Henri Matisse
Matisse explained that his art was meant to offer solace, like a good arm­ chair after a hard day’s work. What is behind the periodic interest in the “pleasing” aspects of his work?
Portrait Korakrit Arunanondchai
With his denim installations, colourful body paintings, and dreamy videos, Korakrit Arunanondchai has achieved a quick and controversial success on the art world's stage. By Harry Burke.
Portrait Heimo Zobernig
The endless talk about context is eating up art. While preparing for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Zobernig speaks with Daniel Baumann about his career and the ideal artist.
Essay: After Work
Martin Kippenberger’s idea of an art that reflects its social conditions has evolved into an art world that integrates everything. What happens when the work dissolves into its context and the form of the work becomes a form of life?
Q/A Gustav
Wherein lies the happiness of wage labour?
Artists' Contributions

By Andro Wekua, Keren Cytter, Misha Stroj, Nicole Eisenman

Venue: 1877 in Oslo
1857 is an artist-run space in Oslo tackling the genres and conventions of exhibition making head on. Founders Stian Eide Kluge and Steffen Håndlykken talk with Esperanza Rosales about placeholders, ugly bastards, and steering ship.
Curator's Key
Roger Buergel, director des Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich, on "A Season in Shell" by Daisy Bisenieks and Royce Ng (2013)
Artist's Favourites by Simon Fujiwara
Can One Make Works of Art Which Are Not of Art?

It has become an all too common cliché that everyone from brokers to Uber drivers is employed under the model of the artist. Over and over, you hear that the boundaries between art, pop, and creative industries are blurring. What sets the artist apart from the non-artist? What sets the art object apart from other objects? A discussion with artists Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Simon Denny, and exhibition maker and gallerist Alexander Koch, moderated by Kolja Reichert.

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