Isabelle Graw

 

The Texte Zur Kunst office, Berlin A view of Karl-Marx Allee from the Texte Zur Kunst office, Berlin

Strausberger Platz, Berlin

interview by ALEX GARTENFELD
photography by HEJI SHIN

 

Isabelle Graw is one of the most glamorous and radical international art critics. Some 20 years and 80 issues ago, she launched the art journal Texte Zur Kunst in Cologne, then the center of the German underground scene. Her ambition was clear: to re-establish the power of criticism, in opposition to the art market, which increasingly began to control artistic value. She recently published the English translation of High Price, a book which claims that “art and the market have to escape each other precisely because they are so deeply entangled.”

ALEX GARTENFELD — Your book, High Price: Art Between the Market…