"Under Construction. Perspectives on Institutional Practice"
booklaunch at bookstore Walther König, Cologne on 09/02/2006 

The publication „Under Construction. On Institutional Practice“ documents an event series of the same name produced by the European Kunsthalle. Essays, lectures, discussions, and images focus on current issues such as the politics of urban marketing and the different ways of financing culture, as well as contemporary art movements and their presentation in various spaces. Looking beyond the boundaries of Cologne, these questions examine possible paths of action institutions might take today. The book unites different academic and curatorial discourses, and conveys the spectrum of fundamental issues that must be considered when establishing a new contemporary art institution.

Olav Nicolai, Vanessa Joan Müller

Lothar Lemper, Kasper König

Julia Moritz, Julia Höner, Florian Lambl


Marcel Odenbach

Wiebke Kayser, Stephan Walderdorff

Christian Posthofen

Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen (Ed.): Under Construction. Perspectivs on Institutional Perspectives, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2006.

978-3-86560-119-3 (englisch), ISBN 978-3-86560-118-6 (german)

250 pages, 36 coloured images, € 18.00

Authors: Franz Ackermann, David Adjaye, Bart De Baere, Beatrice von Bismarck, Monica Bonvicini, Anthony Davies, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Charles Esche, Harald Falckenberg, Liam Gillick, Heiner Goebbels, Adrienne Goehler, Matthias Görlich, Ulrike Groos, Jörg Heiser, Karin Heyl, Nikolaus Hirsch, Max Hollein, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Maria Lind, Dirk Luckow, Gerald Matt, Markus Miessen, Phil Misselwitz, Vanessa Joan Müller, Olaf Nicolai, Ingo Niermann, Philipp Oswalt, Irit Rogoff, Sebastian Preuss, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Elisabeth Schweeger, Werner Sewing, Simon Sheikh, Andreas Spiegl, Barbara Steiner, Thomas Wagner, Florian Waldvogel, Ursula Zeller, Franciska Zólyom