Design-oriented publications

Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029
Fine Companions 1

The book Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029 is the first volume of Fine Companions – a cooperation by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Mark Pezinger Books for design-oriented publications.

Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPUArtaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029, Leon Hösl, Magdalena Stöger, Cathrin Pichler Archiv für Kunst und Wissenschaften (Hg.), Mark Pezinger Books, 2024.

Magdalena Stöger und Leon Hösl invited five artists to interpret, rearrange, situate, and make visible (anew) the near 4,000 archival documents of the Cathrin Pichler Archive with reference to their own artistic-research practice. Over a period of several months, they worked with selected materials and compilations from the archive, they referred to it and to Cathrin Pichler in terms of content, form and structure.

The index of the near 4,000 archival documents of the Cathrin Pichler Archive extends across the entire publication. It conveys the character and diversity of the archived material and becomes the background noise of the publication, in which the artistic contributions and accompanying texts are embedded. Editorial notes, selected and extracted from the archive by graphic designer Astrid Seme, appear on some pages of the book as enigmatic commentaries. In addition to the contributions by the artists and an introduction by the editors, Martina Genetti and Magdalena Stöger have sketched a portrait of the curator and researcher Cathrin Pichler, which draws connections between her projects and research focuses exclusively on the basis of documents from the archive. In her afterword, the head of the archive Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein reflects on Cathrin Pichler, the practice of the “slow archive” and its significance for the publication Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029.

With contributions by: Nika Autor, Patrizia Bach, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Leon Hösl, Martina Genetti, Pille-Riin Jaik, Miriam Stoney, Magdalena Stöger, and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.

Edited by: Leon Hösl, Magdalena Stöger, Cathrin Pichler Archive for Art and Sciences

Graphic design: Astrid Seme, Studio

The publication is available via Mark Pezinger Books, and in the shop of the Academy's Paintings Gallery at Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

Please find more information about the exhibition (7.11.2024-2.2.2025) at our website