THE WORLD ACCORDING TO…: Olaf Nicolai

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO…: Olaf Nicolai

Artist's magazin

published by The Office, Berlin 2010

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on paper. On 64 blank pages, he creates a special project by collecting images, texts, graphs, and/or by inviting artists, friends, family-members to generate content and to contribute to it.

Olaf Nicolai’s (*1962) works are conceptually invested and often marked with (socio-)cultural references. The artists’ magazine was published on the occasion of the exhibition Warum Frauen gerne Stoffe kaufen, die sich gut anfühlen in the “Arbeiterkammer”, Vienna. The magazine comprises extensive references and an apparatus without actually printing the original (imaginary) text.