For thirty years Barbara Holub’s socially and politically engaged art has linked
urban development, social issues, and artistic interventions. As an accumulative process of participatory action, Holub’s
projects question the role of art in society, whether in the context of art itself, in urban public space, or in relation
to corporations.
This monograph offers a detailed view of Barbara Holub’s extensive body of work
as well as her projects with transparadiso at the interface of art, architecture, and urbanism, for which she coined the term
“silent activism.” Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic
action with the aim of questioning norms and crossing boundaries.
With contributions by Jonatan Habib Engqvist,
Enrico Lunghi, Paul O’Neill, Jane Rendell, and Andreas Spiegl
Barbara Holub, artist and professor
at the Department of Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Başak Şenova,
designer and curator, visiting professor at the Department of Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts
Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATION / ARTIST TALK
Thursday,
December 11, 2025 – 6 p.m.
Brno Book Open
House of Arts Brno
Malinovského nám. 2
602 00 Brno
Program
Barbara Holub, artist,
in conversation
with Viktória Citráková
Barbara Holub will talk about her book Silent Activism, a monograph that provides an in-depth
look at her extensive artistic body of work, with a particular focus on her socially and politically engaged projects, including
projects created with Paul Rajakovics as their collective transparadiso. She will also briefly touch on the upcoming Art of Activism exhibition, which will take place
at the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) at the beginning of next year.
Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus /
Silent Activism
Başak Şenova (ed.)
De Gruyter, Edition Angewandte, 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-079081-8
e-ISBN: 978-3-11-079082-5
To
the book
