Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg

2025

Publisher Hatje Cantz

Editor Dietmar Rübel
Author Julia Gaisbacher
Book design, photography editor Fernando Gallegos
Graphic design Jonas Kirchner
Text Petra Lange-Berndt & Dietmar Rübel

German, English
16,2 x 23.5 cm, 240 pages, Hardcover

Funded by
Liebelt Foundation Hamburg
The Austrian Federal Chancellery
Bildrecht Wien
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher’s long-time 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 in Germany. The five houses on the unique estate served as Darboven’s living and working space for 40 years. 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 contrasts sharply with the strict order of Darboven’s works on paper, create a compelling artistic dialog about time and space between the generations.

Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) lived and worked in Hamburg and is one of the most prominent conceptual artists of the 20th century. In the 1960s, she was among the earliest proponents of this groundbreaking international movement; she also was an attentive observer of her time and the historical and contemporary currents in politics, culture and society.


Book presentations 2025

21. 05. 2025
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Vienna (AT), Julia Gaisbacher in conversation with Felix Hoffmann

07. 05. 2025
Lenbachhaus, Munich (DE), Julia Gaisbacher, Samira Yildirim, Dietmar Rübel

30. 04. 2025
Warburg Haus, Hamburg (DE), Julia Gaisbacher, Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel


Radio Feature 

Ö1 Leporello
Hanne Darboven: Kunst und Konzept
from Anna Soucek
20. 05 2025

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Please also have a look at the film: 
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg, 2023, HD, 43:00min, German with English subtitles