Art That Has No Boundaries
Artists’ Magazines

The 1950s and 1960s, the artist Bernadette Mayer recalled, were a time when “we learned a lot—like how to make art that had no boundaries.” From 1967 until 1969 Mayer and Vito Acconci edited the magazine 0 to 9 which exploded the medium’s formal and textual limitations.

To this day, artists launch magazines to establish platforms for their own work, build independent alternatives to the commercial art press, and set up experimental spaces for collaboration, debate, and artistic production. The exhibition showcased these vast possibilities of the medium with a selection of six periodicals from the library collections of the Generali Foundation and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.

Magazines: Control (since 1965), Aspen (1965–1971), 0 to 9 (1967–1969), Schastrommel (1969–1974), Drossel (1975–1977), LTTR (2002–2006), ztscrpt (since 2002)