My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise)

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On the legacy of the Eastern European neo-avantgarde and the work of artist Mladen Stilinović.

“My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise),” a series of exhibition episodes based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović, unfolded in Zagreb and London in 2016–2017. This publication, conceived as a “post-episode” of the project, presents extensive visual documentation of the exhibitions alongside newly commissioned texts by theorists and writers Branislav Dimitrijević, Miguel A. López, Oxana Timofeeva, and Marina Vishmidt, as well as a conversation on exhibition making with curators Ekaterina Degot, Ana Janevski, Emily Pethick, and Marion von Osten. Drawing on the legacy of the Eastern European neo-avantgarde and the work of Stilinović in particular, these contributions grapple with urgent questions about the value of art and exhibition making.

Contributors
Jonathan Burrows, Ekaterina Degot, Branislav Dimitrijević, Oliver Frljić, Ana Janevski, Miguel A. López, Marion von Osten, Emily Pethick, Kathrin Rhomberg, Oxana Timofeeva, What, How & for Whom / WHW, Marina Vishmidt

Copublished with KontaktEmily Pethick has been the director of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam since 2018. Her writings have appeared in magazines such as Artforum, Afterall, The Exhibitionist, and Frieze, and she has (co-)edited numerous books, including Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools, Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s monograph Amateur (2016), and Cluster: Dialectionary. Pethick lives and works in Amsterdam.

Kathrin Rhomberg is a curator based in Vienna. Since 2014 she has been chairwoman and artistic director of the Kontakt Collection, Vienna. She has co-curated, among other exhibitions: “Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation,” “Projekt Migration,” and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana.

What, How & for Whom/WHW (established in Zagreb in 1999) is a curatorial collective based in Berlin, Vienna, and Zagreb, whose members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović, along with designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. Since 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb. In 2018 it launched an international study program for emerging artists called WHW Akademija, based in Zagreb.

Jill Winder is a writer and editor with a background in political theory and curatorial studies whose editorial practice is concerned with publishing contemporary art spanning the fields of print and online. Winder lives and works in Berlin.AT

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