Eau De Cologne

Eau De Cologne was a short-lived but influential art magazine project associated with the Cologne contemporary art scene of the 1980s.

Conceived as a hybrid platform between magazine, artist publication and critical forum, it combined interviews, essays, visual contributions and experimental editorial formats that reflected the discursive climate of post-conceptual art at the time.

An early issue includes excerpts from an interview with Ingrid Sischy conducted by Monika Sprüth in New York in September 1985. The conversation situates contemporary artistic production within broader questions of media visibility, institutional critique and the changing relationship between artists, galleries and international art discourse.

Issue no. 2 (1987), featuring a cover by Barbara Kruger, underscores the magazine’s engagement with politically charged image strategies and text-based visual culture. Overall, Eau De Cologne functioned less as a conventional periodical than as a curatorial publishing experiment, linking artistic practice, critical writing and graphic design within the emerging transnational art networks of the late twentieth century.

The present copy is an unauthorized reproduction (pirated edition). It was acquired in Switzerland specifically for archival purposes. The acquisition is for documentation and research purposes, not for commercial distribution.