grazerkunstverein

(Publication)

Suzon: Selected Writings by Raimundas Malašauskas

Raimundas Malašauskas, Tom Engels, Yana Foqué, Krist Gruijthuijsen

2024

Suzon — both a reprint of Raimundas Malašauskas sold-out book Paper Exhibitions from 2012 and a new collection of writings by the author that have happened since — offers a window onto Malasauskas’ worldview, based on collective improvisation, congregation and continuous drift. It includes essays, exhibition guides, personal letters, song lyrics, an opening speech and a cocktail recipe offering a glimpse of what perhaps in a few years we will look back upon as L’esprit du temps.

The publication Suzon is printed on the reverse of the revised edition of Paper Exhibition, which was originally published in 2012 by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Publishing, Sandberg Institute, and the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt (Baltish Arts Magazine).

Editors: Tom Engels, Yana Foqué & Krist Gruijthuijsen
Design: Goda Budvytytė
Copy-editor: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
Printer: Graphius, Ghent
Publishers: KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), Kunstverein Publishing (Amsterdam), Baltish Arts Magazine (Vilnius) and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (Köln).
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0767-1

€ 22,00

About RAIMUNDAS MALAŠAUSKAS: When growing up in Vilnius, then capital of Soviet Lithuania, Raimundas Malašauskas wanted to become a chef on a trans-oceanic ship but ended up studying art history and theory at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He was particularly drawn to the period of Mannerism in the sixteenth century but ended up writing a study of art criticism of the 1970s and ’80s.

Following a period as a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius from 1995—2006, he has worked itinerantly ever since, driven by what he describes as ‘intellectual wanderlust’ with extended periods of time spent in Bangkok, Cairo, Brussels, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mexico, Paris, and San Francisco, among other places. Writing has been a constant companion during these journeys — a means of both curating exhibitions and experiencing daily life.