Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2023
Texts: Thomas
Heyden, Antje-Britt Mählmann, Eugénie Shinkle Elina Brotherus, Sarah
Lampe and Interviews with René Block, Elina Brotherus, Emil Schult
Design: Tobias Jacob and Torsten Illner
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 256 pages, Hardcover
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-96900-148-6
In her analysis of Beuys, Elina Brotherus changes perspectives and plays with the female gaze on the iconic German artist. The well-known Finnish photo and video artist Elina Brotherus (b. 1972) deals with iconic motifs from art history as well as with the reinterpretation of Fluxus actions and event scores, the recordings of performances. In this context, the artist has also restaged Joseph Beuys’s action Kartoffelernte (Potato Harvest), which originally took place in 1977 in front of the gallery of René Block, an important champion of FLUXUS and Beuys.