publications

Public in Private, founded in Berlin in 2008, is the frame for our artistic work. The year 2020 marks 12 years of Public in Private. When planning this publication, we couldn't have imagined how pivotal this year would be for society. The corona pandemic has had and continues to have a huge impact on our lives, bringing about many negative but also positive and necessary changes to the way we live and work. The time of slowed-down activities that the pandemic incurred capacitated us to reflect on our artistic past and to look towards the future and to what this future may hold. This document brings together and makes visible our two different artistic universes, which we have been developing over the past 12 years. As collaboration lies at the core of Public in Private, we decided to construct this publication in a co- llaborative spirit. Our works are not only presented here through our own words, but also through the views of our collaborators, offered singularly or in dialogue.

This booklet offers an insight into the year-long Klimata project of the Berlin-based interdisciplinary event series Montag Modus in 2019. Klimata, composed of five events, was initiated to give a thematic compass for participating artists and curators under the broad thematic umbrella term of ‘climates’. The booklet aims at both documenting and guiding you through the events, representing all the projects in the series and giving an insight into the background mechanisms of Montag Modus. Montag Modus Klimata was organized by the MMpraxis curatorial platform in collaboration with Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. Editors: Léna Szirmay-Kalos, Jasna Layes Vinovrški, Dániel Kovács editor