Which artistic works can and should we preserve for the future?
What structural conditions are needed to ensure the scope for both preserving the old and enabling the new?
With the sheer amount of art constantly increasing while space becomes ever scarcer, Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft faces major challenges when it comes to preserving the artistic works in and around its properties. An interdisciplinary conference, organised by BIG in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, served to bring together experts from a variety of fields and to illuminate the issue of the preservation and archiving of art in public spaces from different perspectives.

This book is published as a review and extension of the conference Archiving the Present. Caring for Public Art in the Future.

With contributions by
Agentur für Unabkömmlichkeitsbegründungen, Klaus-Jürgen Bauer, Clegg & Guttmann, Jakob Helmut Deibl, Uta Hassler, Georgia Holz, Department Site-Specific Art, Gabriela Krist, Cathrine Mellander Backman, Linus Neumann, Cornelia Offergeld, Henrik Orrje, Jeanette Pacher, Katrina Petter, Hans Ulrich Reck, Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Hans-Peter Weiss

Available at Verlag für modern Kunst
German/English
15 x 23,5 cm, 324 pages, softcover

Editor: Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H.
Concept: Cornelia Offergeld, BIG ART advisory board
Copyediting: Eva Guttmann, Elisabeth Kaplan
Translations: Elisabeth Kaplan, Robert Gisshammer
Grafic design: Katarina Schildgen & Paul Gasser
Typographic design for the cover: BAUERund
Printed and produced by: Gerin Druck GmbH
Published by: VfmK Verlag für modern Kunst GmbH
ISBN 978-3-99153-059-6