Nan Hoover - Anneliese Hager - Maria Lassnig

Three Books in a Package (German/English)

Nan Hoover, Anneliese Hager, and Maria Lassnig are artists who expressed themselves in an experimental and innovative manner across various media. They focused on effects of estrangement, body perception, and reflections on time and space. All three engaged with surrealism early on and developed an individual visual language in different ways: the common thread is their exploration of light, space, and body, as well as the existential question of self-perception and one’s place in the world. While the American Hoover was a pioneer of international light, video, and performance art and also produced a surprising early body of work closely related to pop art, Hager, who is considered one of the most interesting photographers of the 20th century, has remained virtually unknown. The Austrian painter Lassnig is now regarded as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, but she only achieved international recognition late in her career, in the 1980s. This publication, three books in a package, allows for a rediscovery or even a new discovery of these three artists.

Nan Hoover (1931–2008), light, video, and performance artist

Anneliese Hager (1904–1997), photographic artist, poet

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), painter, graphic artist

• Art, body, (self-)perception – a focused and concentrated introduction to the work and biography of three 20th-century artists

• Exhibition: November 10, 2023, to February 11, 2024, Kunsthalle Mannheim.