Books by Beatrice von Bismarck

Beatrice von Bismarck is a professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, co-founder of the /D/O/C/K-Projektbereich at the Academy, co-Founder of the Kunstraum der Universitat Luneburg. Andrea Fraser is a New York-based artist whose work has been identified with performance, context art, and institutional critique. Andrea Fraser: Works 1985-2003, a retrospective of her work, was organised by the Kunstverein in Hamburgh in 2003 with a catalogue by DuMont. In 2005, MIT Press released Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, a collection of her essays and performance scripts edited by Alexander Alberro with a foreword by Pierre Bourdieu. Nina Montmann is a curator, lately at NIFCA, Helsinki, critic and writer, based in Hamburg. She is correspondent for Artforum and contributes to Le Monde Diplomatique, Parachute, Paletten, Texte zur Kunst. Latest publications: Kunst als sozialer Raum (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2002); Mapping a City, ed. together with Yilmaz Dziewior (Ostfildern Ruit: Cantz 2004); Die Visualitat der Theorie vs. Die Theorie des Visuellen, ed. together with Dorothee Richter (Frankfurt/Main: Revolver 2004). Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic. He is an Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a Coordinator of the Critical Studies Programme at Malmo Art Academy, Sweden. His writings have appeared in Afterall, AnArchitectur, Printed Project and Springerin. Recent publications: We are All Normal - and we want our freedom (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2001), Knut Asdam (Fine Arts Unternehmen, Zug, Switzeland, 2004) and In the Place of the Public Sphere (b_books, Berlin, 2005). Recent Exhibitions: Circa Berlin, Nikolaj - Copenhagen Contemporary Artcenter, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now), UKS, Oslo, 2005.