No Problem Cologne New York 19841989

No Problem Cologne New York 19841989 Description

Born in Hamburg in 1957, Diedrich Diederichsen has worked since 2006 as a Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a music editor for the German magazine Spex, and he has written art criticism and essays in renowned art magazines from Artforum to Texte zur Kunst, as well as numerous books including On (Surplus) Value in Art (2008) and, most recently, Über Pop-Musik (On Pop Music) (2014).

A writer and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than eighty exhibitions since 1984. He was Curatorial Advisor at PS1 Contemporary Art Center from 2004 to 2007, where his exhibitions included Lee Lozano: Drawn from Life; William Gedney Christopher Wool: Into the Night; Stephen Shore: American Surfaces; and Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom from the Known. He collaborated with Cady Noland on her installation for Documenta in 1992; contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale; and served on the curatorial teams that organized the 2003 Biennale de Lyon, and Greater New York 2005 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. His books include Live Free or Die: Collected Writings 19851999 (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), Painting Abstraction (2009), and Catalog of the Exhibition (2011). He is one of the authors of Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks (2011). A new collection of his writing, Komp-Laint Dept., is forthcoming in the fall of 2015.