POSITION

David Komary, Galerie Stadtpark (ed.)

English, 240 pages, 25 x 20 cm, numerous color illustrations, hardcover, 2020

SCHLEBRUGGE.EDITOR, ISBN 978-3-903172-61-6
https://www.schlebruegge.com/de/content/position

Artists
Josef Dabernig, Hamish Fulton, Helen Grogan, Isabella Hollauf, Sebastián Diaz Morales, Richard Nonas, Deborah Stratman, Josef Achrer / Doris Piwonka, Alessandro Biggio / Lucía Simón Medina, Gary Kuehn / Werner Feiersinger

Texts by David Komary, Richard Nonas, Kerstin Parth/Michael Omasta, Christian Teckert, and a conversation between Michael Höpfner and Hamish Fulton

The publication POSITION presents a representative constellation of solo and duo exhibitions at Galerie Stadtpark from 2017 through 2020. The curatorial orientation has shifted from context art and a critique of representation and media toward individual artistic positions. Individual aesthetic practice has replaced reflections on the conditions of meaning production in art; artistic practice can now be read beyond context and framing. The result is forms of presentation and representation that unequivocally understand and convey art as a position, and artworks as individual “ways of worldmaking” (Nelson Goodman).

Galerie Stadtpark is an exceptional format within the Austrian exhibition scene both in institutional and architectural terms. The pavilion’s compactness and clear modernist style make for extremely condensed exhibitions focused on the artistic work itself. The curatorial concept aims to give the exhibition’s viewer and “reader” a focused experience of art—via a deliberately limited number of exhibited works or the realization of three-dimensional pieces (Hamish Fulton, Richard Nonas) that understand and use the building as an aesthetic and sculptural unit.

German edition also available: ISBN 978-3-903172-60-9

RECIPROCITY

David Komary, Galerie Stadtpark (ed.)

German/English, 240 pages, 20 x 25 cm, numerous color images, softcover, 2017

SCHLEBRUGGE.EDITOR, ISBN 978-3-903172-05-0
https://www.schlebruegge.com/de/content/reciprocity

Artists
Priscila Fernandes, Francesco Gennari, David Hanvald, Manuel Knapp, Maria Lai, Dóra Maurer, François Morellet, Michal Skoda, Jessica Stockholder, Gerold Tagwerker, Peter Tscherkassky, Dorota Walentynowicz

With texts by Dieter Bogner, Silvia Eiblmayr, Lorenzo Giusti and David Komary

Two exhibitions at Galerie Stadtpark with François Morellet and Manuel Knapp and with Jessica Stockholder, David Hanvald, and Priscila Fernandes continue the line of the earlier program of curatorial juxtapositions of current, contemporary positions with establishes ones (earlier iterations included Fred Sandback, Franz Erhard Walther, and Bill Bollinger). The novelty of this catalog and the exhibitions from 2014 to 2017 that it presents is that it includes the solo exhibitions of contemporary, already canonized artists such as Dóra Maurer and Maria Lai, which deliberately exclusively focus on early works in the spirit of a snapshot in time. The clearly outlined concept of Reciprocity - and this renders the title programmatic - endows these works with a certain measure of contextuality and rigor, qualities that were often sorely missed in this year’s exhibitions in Kassel and Venice.

CONTRAPOSTIVE

David Komary (ed.)

German/English, 144 pages, 19 x 23,5 cm, numerous color illustrations, softcover
2014

SCHLEBRUGGE.EDITOR, ISBN 978-3-902833-63-1
https://www.schlebruegge.com/de/content/contrapositive

Artists
Bill Bollinger, Mary Ellen Carroll, Alice Cattaneo, Harun Farocki, Thomas Locher, Daria Martin, Navid Nuur, Fred Sandback, Hans Schabus, Franz Erhard Walther, Katarina Zdjelar

with contributions by David Komary

The publication CONTRAPOSITIVE takes seven exhibitions shown at the Galerie Stadtpark between 2012 and 2014 into account. CONTRAPOSITIVE is to be considered a sequel but also a counterpart of the 2011 published catalogue COPRIME. While in COPRIME the concept was still composed of the constellation of two artistic positions, single positions have been taken into account since 2012. The format of solo exhibitions is caused by the visual and auditive immersion of running-frame-based artwork, which excludes the display of two installations at the same time. CONTRAPOSITIVE operates as a superordinate pubilcation, that not only documents particular installiations but questions the connections and interferences between these exhibitions on a level besides the exhibited dispositives. Through this the meta-structures of the tripartite program-thread are made evident. A novelty in the exhibition strategy of the Galerie Stadtpark but also a specific of CONTRAPOSITIVE is the confrontation of established, historic positions and current, contemporary artwork. This form of comparism first gained attention thourgh the exhibitions and in between (Thomas Locher and Katarina Zdjelar), followed by contrapositive (Fred Sandback and Alice Cattaneo), short term stability (Navid Nuur and Franz Erhard Walther) and concrete deviation (Bill Bollinger and Mary Ellen Carroll).

COPRIME

David Komary (ed.)

German/English, 120 pages, 18 x 18 cm, numerous illustrations in color, softcover
2011

SCHLEBRUGGE.EDITOR, ISBN 978-3-85160-198-5
https://www.schlebruegge.com/de/content/coprime

Artists
Gregor Eldarb, Judith Fegerl, Barnaby Hosking, Andreas Heller, Katarina Matiasek, Haroon Mirza, Yudi Noor, Peter Sandbichler, Martina Steckholzer, Richard Sides, Gerold Tagwerker, Amy Yoes

The catalog COPRIME presents a selection of the exhibition projects shown since 2008 at the Galerie Stadtpark in Krems under the direction of David Komary. The new program, which began in autumn of 2008, comprises curated exhibitions that in most cases juxtapose two different artistic positions. The catalog COPRIME, as a comprehensive publication of a curatorial concept, intends to make visible those correspondences between the exhibitions and the metastructure – the program’s organization, the themes running through it, and the guiding artistic concepts behind it.