Published by:
Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
Land Niedersachsen
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV
Kunstverein Hildesheim

Authors:
Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Jan Van Woensel

Der Versuch, durch das Nachstellen von Ereignissen bestimmte historische, kulturelle oder politische Situationen emphatisch zu begreifen, bildet die Folie zahlreicher Arbeiten von Bettina Cohnen. In Fotografien und Filmen werden Ereignisse und Phänomene verdoppelt und durch die Überlagerung von Vor-Bild und Wiederholung als fragwürdig dargestellt. So setzt sie sich beispielsweise in Selbstporträts, die das fotografische Auge berühmter Fotografen und Fotografinnen imitieren, ironisch in Szene, dekliniert in Selbstinszenierungen die Bandbreite weiblicher Stereotype oder dokumentiert ihre Partizipation an Traditionen, die in New Yorker Vereinen praktiziert werden. Anhand dieser Reenanctments, die immerzu zwischen offensichtlicher Inszenierung und vermeintlicher Authentizität oszillieren, zeigt Cohnen stark klischierte Rollenbilder und Identitäten, um gleichzeitig ihre jeweiligen Konstruktionen offen zu legen.

Publication on occasion of the exhibitions Bettina Cohnen »FAKE«
(September 5­ - Oktober 18, 2009)
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV as well as Bettina Cohnen »FICTION«
(September 26 - November 22, 2009) Kunstverein Hildesheim

Edition:
German / English
2009
ISBN 978-3-86678-330-0
Softcover, 23,5 x 29 cm
68 pages, 14 b/w and 47 coloured illustrations
18,00 / 15,00 EUR

Editors:
Eva Birkenstock
Stefanie Böttcher
Hannes Loichinger
Britta Peters
Tim Voss
Janneke de Vries

Authors:
Roger Behrens
Eva Birkenstock
Stefanie Böttcher
Philip Gaißer
Hannes Loichinger
Britta Peters
Kerstin Stakemeier
Tim Voss
Janneke de Vries

Appropriation and loss of space, spatial deviations and social space are the four perspectives from which the cooperation project Space Revised # 1-4 looked at current positioning of recent artistic debates on space. In exhibitions initiated by GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg und Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof space was not presented as an abstract container, but as a tangible phenomenon – a multilevel landscape, full of hills and valleys.

Artists: Guillaume Bijl, Cezary Bodzianowski, Bob Braine & Leslie C. Reed, Wolfgang Breuer, Trisha Brown, Yan Duyvendak, FLOSS/VHDG, Christian Haake, Elín Hansdóttir, Graham Hudson, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Kapielski, Guillaume Leblon, Daniel Maier-Reimer, Benoît Maire, Katrin Mayer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Erik Olofson, Peles Empire, Robert Pfaller, Falke Pisano, Kai Schiemenz, Guido van der Werve, John Wood & Paul Harrison and others.

This book is published on the occasion of the cooperation project by Halle für Kunst with GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof May –­ August, 2009 at argobooks, Berlin.

Edition:
German/English
2009
ISBN 978-3-941560-37-6
Softcover, 14 x 21 cm
216 pages, 103 coloured illustrations
22/18 EUR

Recorded Accounts of EL AL FLIGHT 1862

A Project by Dani Gal

Editors:
Eva Birkenstock
Hannes Loichinger

On 4th October 1992, shortly after its take-off from Schiphol Airport, a freight plane owned by Israeli airplane company El Al crashed into a residential complex in Bijlmermeer on the outskirts of Amsterdam smashing the building into two. Based on comprehensive research in Amsterdam, oriented by the atmospheres and worlds of subjective memories and experiences in Chanting Down Babylon, Recorded Accounts of EL AL FLIGHT 1862, various occurences and stories are woven into a complex weave of abstract and formal connections.

For the exhibition in Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2009) and the subsequent publication project, Dani Gal visited the occupants of the Bijlmermeer district and journalist Vincent Dekker for the purpose of entering into a dialogue with them on the plane crash and the reassembled everyday life in the reconstructed building complex.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition »Dani Gal – Chanting Down Babylon« at Halle für Kunst e.V.
(March 29-May 5, 2009)

German / English
2009
ISBN: 978-3-941560-23-9
Softcover, 158 x 238 mm
176 pages
b/w and coloured illustrations
24,80 / 20,00 EUR (members)

Cross critique – towards a subjective university

Editors:
Halle für Kunst eV
Head Genève
Critical Curatorial Cybermedia
Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale

Authors:
Alejandra Ballón,
Marie-Avril Berthet,
Diego Castro,
Sylvain Froidevaux,
Ulrike Gerhardt,
Katrin Glinka,
Julia Hahn & Benjamin Seibel,
Sascha Kagan,
Adrien Laubscher,
Dieter Lesage,
Geert Lovink und Ned Rossiter,
Luz Muñoz R,
Daniel Orthey,
Nathalia Rodriguez,
Gigi Roggero,
Stephanie Seidel,
Jan Sieber,
Bettina Steinbrügge,
Tilo Steireif

In the context of the exhibition and lecture series "Crosskick", initiated by the Working Group of German Arts Societies (ADKV), students from the postgraduate study program CCC "Critical Curatorial Cybermedia" of the Geneva University of Art and Design were invited by the Halle für Kunst e.V. in Lüneburg to work together with local students of Applied Cultural Sciences of Lüneburg University. Given both art departments' institution-critical teaching tradition it seemed appropriate to put the concept of institutional criticism on the agenda once more. Reflecting on their own conditions of production, the students decided to investigate the ongoing reforms of the educational system and the Bologna process, which led to questions of the economisation of universities and how the access to knowledge has and will change.

»CROSSKICK – Critiques Croisées« included an exhibition at Halle für Kunst eV (18 January – 4 March 2007), a workshop, diverse events and this publication addressed critical thinking in the frame of art practices.

Edition:
Deutsch/Englisch
2009
Softcover, 145 x 200 mm
229 Seiten
free / shipping costs

Figures and Demonstrations

Editors:
Martin Beck
Eva Birkenstock
Joerg Franzbecker
Max Hinderer
Heiko Karn
Hannes Loichinger
Katrin Mayer
Eske Schlüters

Authors:
Hans-Christian Dany
Dirck Möllmann

This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition „TO SHOW IS TO PRESERVE – figures and demonstrations“ at Halle für Kunst eV
(September 27th – November 18th, 2008)

Edition:
German
2009
ISBN: 978-3-938801-82-6
Booklet, 148 x 210 mm
42 pages, b/w illustrations
8,00 / 6,00 EUR