We Are Who We Are

Hans Haacke, We Are Who We Are

Hans Haacke, We Are Who We Are
Softcover, 192 pp., offset 4/1, 195 x 250 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9783901107344
Published by Generali Foundation

$39.00 ·

Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into museum contexts, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria’s emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on “the culture of memory” weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke’s, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist’s own writings, available here for the first time.