Book Presentation and Conversation
with Julia Gaisbacher and Christine Frisinghelli
Infos
Tue, 7.10.2025, 6 p.m.
Exhibition space Camera Austria
In German language
Free admission
Julia Gaisbacher: Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
Ed. by Dietmar Rübel.
With text contributions by Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel (ger./eng.).
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2025.
240 pages, 16.8 × 24.2 cm, 70 b/w illustrations..
€ 48.– / ISBN 978-3-7757-5922-9
Julia Gaisbacher, Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg, 2024. Copyright: Bildrecht, Vienna, 2025.
Intro
In 2022 and 2023, Julia Gaisbacher visited Hanne Darboven’s studio buildings, took hundreds of photographs, and shot a film about this ensemble of buildings in the Hamburg neighborhood of Rönneburg, located in the Harburg district. The two-part group of works Hanne Darboven: Am Burgberg will be presented at Camera Austria during this evening event and discussed in a talk with the Camera Austria cofounder Christine Frisinghelli.
The volume, published by Hatje Cantz, marks the conclusion of Julia Gaisbacher’s long-standing artistic exploration of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven’s residence for women artists. At the same time, it is a continuation of Gaisbacher’s own works of art on “dream houses.” The photographs offer sensitive insights into Darboven’s studios situated in the southern part of Hamburg. Over a period of forty years, the five buildings served as a refuge for dwelling and working. Moreover, the unique ensemble of buildings functions still today as a treasure trove for thousands of objects and artworks. Through the precisely composed black-and-white photographs of the rooms—diametrically contrasting their seemingly disordered abundance with the strict structure of Darboven’s works—an artistic dialogue arises between the generations that defies time and space.
Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) lived and worked in Hamburg (DE). She counts among the outstanding international artists of the twentieth century. Together with fellow artists of the 1960s, she helped bring Conceptual Art to life and was an attentive observer of her era, also training her eye on the history and development of politics, culture, and society.
Julia Gaisbacher (b. 1983) lives and works in Vienna (AT). She studied art history at the University of Graz (AT), followed by studies in sculpture at Dresden University of Fine Arts (DE) and at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels (BE). Her working approach places artistic research center stage, a method that focuses on architecture and urban landscape as human lifeworlds.