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ABOUT
NEWS
WORK IN PROGRESS
(2023 – ongoing)
Imprints
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
Shortlist
The 2025 Book Award, Author Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR)
The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher’s long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven’s home and workplace with the address “Am Burgberg” 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, 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 dialogue 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 was also an attentive observer of her time and the historical and contemporary currents in politics, culture and society.
Book presentations 2025
-> UPCOMING: 07. 10. 2025, 6pm
Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
Julia Gaisbacher in conversation with Christine Frisinghelli
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
Art Fairs
ART BASEL
Hatje Cantz, Foyer Halle 2.0
Date: 17. – 19. 06. 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
The 2025 Book Award, Author Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR)
The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher’s long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven’s home and workplace with the address “Am Burgberg” 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, 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 dialogue 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 was also an attentive observer of her time and the historical and contemporary currents in politics, culture and society.
Book presentations 2025
-> UPCOMING: 07. 10. 2025, 6pm
Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
Julia Gaisbacher in conversation with Christine Frisinghelli
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
Art Fairs
ART BASEL
Hatje Cantz, Foyer Halle 2.0
Date: 17. – 19. 06. 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
Imprints
2023 – ongoingFunded by
Kunstraum Steiermark scholarship, The Province of Styria (AT) The Austrian Federal Chancellery (AT) The City of Graz (AT)
Imprints merges memory, observation, and nostalgia for a place and self left behind.
The project explores how distance transforms identity, revisiting spaces as a way to trace change, recover personal narratives, and map the fluidity of time and self.
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Imprints takes Julia Gaisbacher back to the Terrassenhaussiedlung in Graz – the brutalist housing estate of the 1970s, where she grew up in the 1980s. She weaves a narrative connecting personal memory and architectural history through current photographs, revisited places, and images from her family archive. The project explores how built spaces shape biographies and memory, how temporal and spatial distance alters these memories and the relation to these places. Photography here becomes a means of re-appropriation and re-signification.
The work continues Gaisbacher’s long-time exploration of “dream houses,” investigating the ways personal histories become embedded in architecture and how, in turn, these spaces leave enduring marks on the people who inhabit them.
The project explores how distance transforms identity, revisiting spaces as a way to trace change, recover personal narratives, and map the fluidity of time and self.
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Imprints takes Julia Gaisbacher back to the Terrassenhaussiedlung in Graz – the brutalist housing estate of the 1970s, where she grew up in the 1980s. She weaves a narrative connecting personal memory and architectural history through current photographs, revisited places, and images from her family archive. The project explores how built spaces shape biographies and memory, how temporal and spatial distance alters these memories and the relation to these places. Photography here becomes a means of re-appropriation and re-signification.
The work continues Gaisbacher’s long-time exploration of “dream houses,” investigating the ways personal histories become embedded in architecture and how, in turn, these spaces leave enduring marks on the people who inhabit them.