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.
- "Silent
activism" – a portrait of Barbara Holub’s transdisciplinary artistic work
- New perspectives for the practice of participatory
art
- With contributions by Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Enrico Lunghi, Paul O’Neill, Jane Rendell, and Andreas Spiegl
Başak Şenova, designer and curator, visiting professor at the Department of Art and Communication
Practices, Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism was presented on February 12, 2023 at Galerie Marenzi,
Leibnitz, on June 15, 2024 at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and on October 12, 2024, at Belvedere 21, Vienna.
