Antje Majewski became best known through her series of photorealistic, figurative paintings, which grapple with existential questions like friendship, love, masquerade, and death. Her topics also revolve around the psychology of individuals in relation to society, history, and social norms. This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of her work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre. The art critic Dominic Eichler highlights the most important thematic threads in Majewski's oeuvre and shows “that in terms of thinking about the fantasy figures, performance, roles and costumes …, the theoretical backdrop is informed by a progressive form of feminism. In particular, Judith Butler's thesis about the importance of performance and performativity in the construction of gender should be taken into account.” The author Ingo Niermann claims that “whether (she) paints people in their everyday appearance or a staged one, she subordinates herself. Whatever can be seen stays with the people. They are the actual images whose real presentation is only a fleeting one.” Curator Sebastian Cichocki contributes a fierce foray into the supernatural world of a psychic, while Majewski's conversation with art historian Tanja Widmann reveals some of the personal and philosophical concerns underlying her practice. Published on the occasion of Majewski's same-titled exhibition at the Salzburger Kunstverein, September 25 – November 30, 2008. Contributors Sebastian Cichocki, Dominic Eichler, Ingo Niermann Conversation with Tanja Widmann

Book, DVD and postcards published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, October 1, 2011 - January 15, 2012.

This book is the result of intellectual and physical journeys that artists, scholars, teachers, and students from China and Germany have undertaken together, in order to gain a better understanding of the connections between old Chinese philosophy (with an emphasis on Daoist writings), traditional Chinese painting, and contemporary art practices. The texts collected here give an introduction into concepts that are more than 2000 years old, yet still raise relevant questions about our current relationship to nature--both to nature in the sense of environment and ecology, and to our inner nature and its connection to the world we live in. The answers each of us gives to these questions also inform our way of life, the way we act in society or politics, and of course our art. They are important to anyone trying to find a position in a world that is about to shift from a cosmos that was "naturally so" (ziran ) to an increasingly manmade world, controlled and designed for the sole benefit of human beings. Copublished with Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Raum der Publikation Contributors Tania Becker von Falkenstein, Christiane Kruse, Lothar Ledderose, Bangyao Li, Antje Majewski, Angelika C. Messner, Xu Tan, Chen Tong, Vangjush Vellahu, Huang Xiaopeng, Chen Zhiwei