Sabeth Buchmann: In the shadow of the pictures

Klaus Scherübel, Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 40, 2023 © Klaus Scherübel, photo: Amélie van Hoboken

Insofar as the image stage often serves the (self-)representation of artists as a reflection medium of the economies within which they act as trading partners, the lecture aims at cross-historical resonances between individuation and market processes. The focus will be on Klaus Scherübel's self-positioning as a researcher and mediator, which he includes in the scenic deconstruction of Cranach's personification and abstraction of (pre-)modern trade.

Lecture in German

Sabeth Buchmann is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is co-editor of PoLYpen – a series on art criticism and political theory (b_books, Berlin); board member of Texte zur Kunst and Zeszyty Artystyczne, The European Kunsthalle and the Documenta Institut, Kassel. Her recently published books include: Kunst als Infrastruktur (2022) und Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022, co-ed.).