Renate Bertlmann : Discordo Ergo Sum

This year the renowned artist Renate Bertlmann, a pioneer and role model of early feminist performance art, is exhibiting in the Austrian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2019 in Venice. By selecting Renate Bertlmann, curator Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein opted for an artist whose work not only holds a significant position in the history of female performance in Austria, but who also is highly esteemed among the international feminist avant-garde. In presenting Renate Bertlmann, the Austrian Pavilion is dedicated to a female solo exhibition for the first time in its decades-long history. The book under consideration is more than an exhibition catalog; it is an extension of the exhibitions in book form, as the texts by Hélène Cixous, Catherine Wood, Beatriz Colomina, and Lina Streeruwitz offer in-depth discussions, analyses, and discursive explorations of Renate Bertlmann's works. Readers are invited to continue their excursion through Renate Bertlmann's thought and practice in the so-called sourcebook, which offers insights into the artist's virtually inexhaustible archive. Notes, sketches, and other finds from countless diaries and sketchbooks, analytical material such as charts, associa