The first comprehensive monograph devoted to artist Bea Schlingelhoff.
Conceived on the occasion of Bea Schlingelhoff's solo exhibition No River to Cross at Kunstverein München, this publication extends far beyond this to survey fifteen years of her artistic practice through imagery, ephemera, and various texts. Additionally, the publication brings together five newly commissioned pieces of writing, penned by Catherine Chevalier, Gloria Hasnay, Christina Irrgang, Helene Moll, and Sadie Plant, each focusing on a specific body of Schlingelhoff's work. Each book is one of a kind and bound in different endpapers from the private collection of the artist's father.
Born in 1971 in Waiblingen (Germany), Bea Schlingelhoff lives and works in Zurich. She is a graduate of CalArts (Los Angeles), and studied in Bremen and at the Whitney Program, New York. Both reflective and political, her practice engages with feminist and critical approaches to the history of institutions. Her works strive to remember women's forgotten biographies and to dissolve patriarchal frameworks, as well as tracing the persistence of fascist structures. A central aspect of her work is the intuitive engagement with the history of the exhibition sites where she exhibits, making their socio-political (power) structures, their history and ideology intelligible. The artist, whose oeuvre also includes drawing, sculpture, and typography, discloses these structures through site-specific interventions: additions, changes, and subtractions on architectural as well as structural levels.
