COMMISSIONED BY – ART IN RELATION
In 2022, the series Commissioned by – Art in Relation presented essays, statements, and practice-oriented formats such as seminars and workshops. The contributions from art studies and mediation, sociology, anthropology, architecture and urban development, economics and mediation are made available here as an archive of a discursive and practical examination of the New Patrons model. The series was conceived by Anne Kersten and Alexander Koch and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), the Goethe-Institut and the Fondation de France.
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Die Gestaltung der Nähe. Kulturwandel und Konfliktarbeit im Bürgerauftrag
2020, Alexander Koch
Contribution to Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2019/20
Editors: Ulrike Blumenreich, Sabine Dengel, Norbert Sievers, Christine Wingert
8. October 2020, approx. 512 pages
Language: German
Bielefeld: transcript
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4491-3
Courtesy of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e. V. and transcript Verlag
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In Every Project Dwells At Least One Citizen
2020, Alexander Koch
Who decides about the art locally? And what should it show? Who should it represent? The New Patrons program is about fundamental questions in the field of tension between participation and representation, as Alexander Koch explains in the magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) magazine #34
Languages: German and English
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ARCH+ features 104: Initiator of Change: New Patrons
2021
ARCH+ features is a series by ARCH+ that explores the current conditions of the production of space. ARCH+ features is curated by Anh-Linh Ngo and made possible by Siedle as an initiating partner. This special edition is a collaboration between ARCH+ and Gesellschaft der Neuen Auftraggeber and is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
ARCH+ Verlag GmbH
Language: English
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Do You Want a Future? A Protocol for New Cultural Commons
2020, Alexander Koch
Contribution to the publication Navigating the Planetary. A guide to the planetary art world—its past, present, and potentials
Editors: Hildegund Amanshauser, Kimberly Bradley for the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Language: English
Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna
Paperback, approx. 400 pages, 19,5 x 12,5 cm, 100 images in color and b/w
ISBN: 978-3-903320-67-3
Opération – Nouveaux commanditaires
The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.
Published by: François Hers
Authors: François Hers, Alexander Koch, Livio Riboli-Sasco, Claire Ribrault, Didier Debaise, Katrin Solhdju, Xavier Douroux.
Language: French
Year: 2023
Publisher: Les presses du réel
14 x 19 cm (Softcover), 120 pages
ISBN: 978-2-37896-382-8&
Neue Auftraggeber - Kunst im Bürgerauftrag
This book is not an art book in the classical sense. It does not invite the admiration of finished works. It shows the path from the first question to the visionary answer that citizen-commissioned art gives. It is a book full of surprises. It shows unexpected turns. Obstacles. Perplexing solutions. And it's a great story of the joy of invention and the trust that people place in an art that responds to their wants and needs.
It is a book about 17 amazing visions in which forward-looking images of our society emerge.
Published by: Gesellschaft der Neuen Auftraggeber – GNA gGmbH
Authors: Gerrit Gohlke, Alexander Koch, Tina Veihelmann
Languages: German
Year: 2022
Publisher: Spector Books
220 pages, 435 Illustrations in colour and b/w,
Softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-9590-5690-8
Temple of Refuge
A different world is possible. In any case it can be drawn! Sartep is looking for a future in a foreign place. On the way he draws the wishes of the people he meets. But when his pictures suddenly become reality, something incredible happens: the dream of a better world comes within reach. The comic Temple of Refuge is commissioned by Sartep Namiq, a young Kurd who came to Berlin from Iraq, hoping for a better future. Many people have worked together to make his idea come true, and they have all given life to a picture story that makes a better and more beautiful future imaginable - and perhaps even possible.
Authors: Felix Mertikat, Sartep Namiq, Bruce Sterling, Matthias Zuber
Languages: without
Year: 2021
Publisher: Egmont Comic Collection
22,1 x 29,2 cm, 84 pages, bound
ISBN: 978-3-7704-0115-4
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Wir - die Geschichte einer Erfindung
With photographic portraits and city views by Victoria Tomaschko, 13 interviews
and a 30-page chronicle as an entertaining inside view of a ten-year development process
Published by: Kunst Freunde Pritzwalk e.V.
Editing and collaboration Interviews Gerrit Gohlke; photographic portraits and city views Victoria Tomaschko
Languages: German
Year: 2021
Self-published
Hardcover edition, 168 pages
Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy – The New Patrons & Participatory Art
This book brings together the New Patrons and its American cousins: participatory and socially-engaged art. Through articles by preeminent European and Anglo-Saxon thinkers and curators, it explores the artistic and political issues raised by these contemporary practices. It reveals their common aspirations of inventing new ways for art to play a social role, to produce effects, to be part of people's lives—and puts to the test the belief that art can change life.
Authors Dorian Astor, Vinciane Despret, Xavier Douroux, Patricia Falguières, Boris Groys, Émilie Hache, Karin Harrasser, Alistair Hudson, Cameron Cartiere, Helmut Draxler, François Hers, Bruno Latour, Joseph Leo Koerner, Mary Jane Jacob, Frédéric Lordon, Malcolm Miles, Baptiste Morizot, Paul O'Neill, Julia Robinson, Margit Rosen, Isabelle Stengers, Nato Thompson, Estelle Zhong Mengual.
Languages: English
Year: 2017
Publisher: Les presses du réel
15 x 24 cm (hardcover), 432 Pages, Illustrations in colour
ISBN: 978-2-84066-720-9
The Seven Arts of Pritzwalk
In 2014, an artistic adventure occurred in the small town of Pritzwalk in northern Brandenburg. The residents completely decided for themselves on the art and culture they wanted. Invited by Clegg & Guttmann, they developed a wealth of activities in seven vacant storefronts, uncensored and without curatorial guidelines. The book tells the story of this strange venture. Two artists open their art unconditionally, without any filter, to the hopes, the conflicts and the peculiarities of a social community. In times of social media and global networking, they almost defiantly evoke the importance of a self-designed and unadorned image of our community.
Authors: Clegg & Guttmann, Gerrit Gohlke
Languages: German, English
Year: 2016
Publisher: Salon Verlag
28 x 20,5 cm, 176 Pages, Illustrations in colour and b/w. Also 17 previously unpublished portraits by Clegg & Guttmann, softcover with colour dust jacket.
ISBN: 978-3-89770-468-8