Texte Zur Kunst: On Art Historiography and the Silence of the Archives
Included in Texte Zur Kunst, #128, (bilingual) Berlin 2022: Art history Beate Söntgen’s essay “Clio also writes Poetry…” addresses the silence of the archives, alternative art-history writing, contextualization of colonial art-historic practices and experimental writings of art criticism by describing literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's and Iris Haeusller's artistic practice of creating and interweaving fictional art into art-history and also reviews her recent show at the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2022) pages 30-39.