The cosmos of Hanne Darboven

The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's longtime exploration of Hanne Darboven's Künstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on “dream houses.” The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive insights into Hanne Darboven's studios in the south of Hamburg. To this day, the ensemble also functions as a treasury for thousands of objects and artworks. Gaisbacher's precisely composed black-and-white photographs of the rooms, whose seemingly chaotic abundance is also diametrically opposed to the strict order of Darboven's own works on paper, are brought together with color reproductions of the latter's annual art calendars. As such, the book offers an artistic dialog about time and space between the generations.

Text by: Petra Lange-Berndt