Editors' Note

Introduction: Unlearning Westkunst, 1981

Mathilde Arnoux and Maria Bremer

Ungers' Column Grid and a Naked Support: Westkunst’s Mock-Up Architecture as Artefact

Samuel Korn

An Exhibited Historiography of the Present: Historical References and Temporal Constellations of Comparison in the Westkunst Exhibition

Britta Hochkirchen

Fabricating the Universal: The Westkunst Documentaries

Mathilde Arnoux

The Threshold of the West? The Danish Cobra Artists Exhibited at Westkunst and behind the Iron Curtain, 1948–1988

Kristian Handberg

Theatricalizing History: Thomas Schütte’s Westkunst Modelle in Context

Stefan Vervoort

Passiv-Explosiv: Artistic and Curatorial Protest against the Westkunst Exhibition

Friederike Sigler

Peripheralism as a Cultural Privilege? Investigating the 'Ostkunst’ and 'Westkunst’ Discourse before and after 1989

Andrea Bátorová

Documents

• Westkunst Exhibition Guide
• From the heute Section Booklet
• From the Westkunst Exhibition Handbook
• About the Installation Views

Sources