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ABOUT
NEWS
WORK IN PROGRESS
(2023 – ongoing)
Im Zentrum
Of Trees and Cars
BOOKS
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
My Dreamhouse is not a House
One Day You Will Miss Me
COMPLETED
WORKS
(2014 – 2024)
Weikendorf
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg (film)
What Remains!?
Let the Game Begin
Mapping Split 3
A March in the City
Graz-Vienna
We Come Together
My Dreamhouse is not a House
My Dreamhouse is Daydreams (film)
One Day You Will Miss Me
ARCHIVE
(2007 – 2014)
The Party
Public Exercise
Cathrine’s Street
Wandeling
Venice
Acaciapark
Neighbours
Annen Street
Private
Archive Theleman Alley
Untitled
Room Nr. 121-136
Brugse Poort
Darling
Clearing (Archive Kurt Wehlte)
Francis in the Morning
Magritte on a Sunday
CONTACT
Special Edition: Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
2025The Edition includes:
Signed book with 2 pigmentprints on FOMEI Archival Velvet 265g
Each print 15 x 22 cm
Ed 17, signed and numbered
Price: 270,00 EUR
The Special Edition can be purchased at and the editions
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Julia Gaisbacher - Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
Publisher: Dietmar Rübel
Publishing House: Hatje Cantz
Design: Fernando Gallegos, Jonas Kirchner
Text: Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel
Hardcover, 168 x 242 mm, 240 p
Languages: German / English
ISBN 978-3-7757-5922-9
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. The special edition consists of a signed copy of the book and two photographs from the series.
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.
Julia Gaisbacher (*1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied art history at the University of Graz and sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, as well as the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. In her work, she applies methods of artistic research, an approach that focuses on architecture and the urban landscape as human living environments.
Signed book with 2 pigmentprints on FOMEI Archival Velvet 265g
Each print 15 x 22 cm
Ed 17, signed and numbered
Price: 270,00 EUR
The Special Edition can be purchased at and the editions
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Julia Gaisbacher - Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
Publisher: Dietmar Rübel
Publishing House: Hatje Cantz
Design: Fernando Gallegos, Jonas Kirchner
Text: Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel
Hardcover, 168 x 242 mm, 240 p
Languages: German / English
ISBN 978-3-7757-5922-9
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. The special edition consists of a signed copy of the book and two photographs from the series.
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.
Julia Gaisbacher (*1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied art history at the University of Graz and sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, as well as the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. In her work, she applies methods of artistic research, an approach that focuses on architecture and the urban landscape as human living environments.
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
2025Publisher 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
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Please also have a look at the film:
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg, 2023, HD, 43:00min, German with English subtitles
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
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Please also have a look at the film:
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg, 2023, HD, 43:00min, German with English subtitles
Im Zentrum
2023 – 2025Funded by
Kunstraum Steiermark scholarship, The Province of Styria (AT) The Austrian Federal Chancellery (AT) The City of Graz (AT)
I grew up in the 1980s in the brutalist Terrassenhaussiedlung (terraced housing estate) in Graz planned by the architects Werkgruppe Graz. The idea of housing with its many communal areas influenced me as a child and helped shape my artistic interest in urban development and housing.
Im Zentrum (working title) is part of a long-term project and deepens my artistic examination of the housing estate in Graz. I am interested in the question of how the (real) utopian architecture of the 1960s is used today and whether the architects' vision has been realized by the residents.
I will photographically juxtapose my family's personal stories with the changes to the site. The aim of the project is to create an artistic photographic work from current photos and private archive images that can be presented both in exhibitions and in book form.
As part of the long-term project, I am interested in the directions in which similar housing projects in other countries, such as Split 3 in Split, Croatia have developed due to the respective political situation. What are the ways of living and dealing with the buildings today under the different political conditions? Which generation of residents lives in the apartments today and what issues concern them?
Im Zentrum (working title) is part of a long-term project and deepens my artistic examination of the housing estate in Graz. I am interested in the question of how the (real) utopian architecture of the 1960s is used today and whether the architects' vision has been realized by the residents.
I will photographically juxtapose my family's personal stories with the changes to the site. The aim of the project is to create an artistic photographic work from current photos and private archive images that can be presented both in exhibitions and in book form.
As part of the long-term project, I am interested in the directions in which similar housing projects in other countries, such as Split 3 in Split, Croatia have developed due to the respective political situation. What are the ways of living and dealing with the buildings today under the different political conditions? Which generation of residents lives in the apartments today and what issues concern them?
Of Trees and Cars
2021 - 2025Funded by the AIR program from the Province of Styria, in collaboration with Motel Trogir association, 2021 & 2023
Of Trees and Cars deals with the Trstenik district within Split 3, a former Yugoslavian, brutalist residential district, in Split/Croatia and the change of its public and communal spaces over the last decades.
The work focuses on the generously laid out open spaces between the blocks of houses, which were intended as regeneration areas in the original development plan. Due to political changes from 1991 onwards, these formerly nationalised areas were returned to the original owners and are thus no longer part of the adjacent housing blocks. The privatisation resulted in neglected open spaces, new buildings and, above all, car parks that were not intended to be there and destroyed the original structure of the housing estates.
At the centre of the work is a small park that was planted in 2009/2010 by the residents with 55 trees (today there are still 30) to counteract the spread of illegal parking spaces and real estate speculation and to offer the children from the neighbourhood a small green oasis with a clean stream, benches and a swing.
The work is a continuation of the piece
Mapping Split 3
The work focuses on the generously laid out open spaces between the blocks of houses, which were intended as regeneration areas in the original development plan. Due to political changes from 1991 onwards, these formerly nationalised areas were returned to the original owners and are thus no longer part of the adjacent housing blocks. The privatisation resulted in neglected open spaces, new buildings and, above all, car parks that were not intended to be there and destroyed the original structure of the housing estates.
At the centre of the work is a small park that was planted in 2009/2010 by the residents with 55 trees (today there are still 30) to counteract the spread of illegal parking spaces and real estate speculation and to offer the children from the neighbourhood a small green oasis with a clean stream, benches and a swing.
The work is a continuation of the piece
Mapping Split 3