For thirty years Barbara Holub’s socially and politically
engaged art has linked urban development, social issues, and artistic interventions. As an accumulative process of participatory
action, Holub’s projects question the role of art in society, whether in the context of art itself, in urban public space,
or in relation to corporations.
This monograph offers a detailed view of Barbara Holub’s extensive
body of work as well as her projects with transparadiso at the interface of art, architecture, and urbanism, for which she
coined the term “silent activism.” Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations
for dialogic action with the aim of questioning norms and crossing boundaries.
With contributions by Jonatan Habib
Engqvist, Enrico Lunghi, Paul O’Neill, Jane Rendell, and Andreas Spiegl
Barbara Holub, artist
and professor at the Department of Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Başak
Şenova, designer and curator, visiting professor at the Department of Art and Communication Practices, University
of Applied Arts Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATION / ARTIST TALK
Thursday, December 11, 2025 – 6 p.m.
Brno Book Open
House of Arts Brno
Malinovského nám. 2
602 00 Brno
Program
Barbara Holub, artist,
in conversation with Viktória Citráková
Barbara Holub will talk about her book Silent Activism, a monograph that
provides an in-depth look at her extensive artistic body of work, with a particular focus on her socially and politically
engaged projects, including projects created with Paul Rajakovics as their collective transparadiso. She will also briefly
touch on the upcoming Art of Activism exhibition,
which will take place at the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) at the beginning of next year.
Barbara Holub –
Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism
Başak Şenova (ed.)
De Gruyter, Edition Angewandte, 2023
ISBN:
978-3-11-079081-8
e-ISBN: 978-3-11-079082-5
To
the book
