Angst und Geld Mit Isabelle Graw, Jackie Thomae und Brigitte Weingart

In the organizer's words:

Together with Jackie Thomae and Brigitte Weingart, Isabelle Graw will talk about her recently published book Angst und Geld.

As part of the event program for the exhibition DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG by Rirkrit Tiravanija, the Gropius Bau invites you to a long evening once a month. In addition to the book presentation, the evening will include a screening of a film by Rirkrit Tiravanija and a concert by Casey Spooner.

Fear and Money focuses on individual and social fears of loss and money worries. In the form of an inner monologue, Graw addresses the anxieties and moods that are omnipresent in times of social crisis. Instead of proposing concrete solutions, the book develops a literary and psychoanalytical perspective on these worries and fears.

Isabelle Graw is Professor of Art History and Theory at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Together with Stefan Germer, she founded the magazine Texte zur Kunst in 1990. She is currently researching topics such as judgment and value creation under new forms of capitalism as well as trace and subjectivity in painting.

Jackie Thomae is a writer and journalist based in Berlin. After two non-fiction books, her debut novel Momente der Klarheit (Moments of Clarity) was published in 2015. Her second novel Brüder was shortlisted for the 2019 German Book Prize and was awarded the 2020 Düsseldorf Literature Prize.

Brigitte Weingart is Professor of Media Theory at the Berlin University of the Arts. She focuses on the media conditions of phenomena such as contagion, appropriation and fascination. Since 2022, she has been leading a sub-project on meme cultures at the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts.