History and Other Objects brings together a substantial selection of works by Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, ranging across media such as installation, object, photography, and archival engagements.

The publication examines how historical narratives, material objects, and forms of memory intersect, are appropriated, and are reframed within contemporary cultural and artistic practices.

Shapiro-Obermair’s work often involves critical engagement with historical contexts—especially those shaped by post-Soviet experience, memory cultures, and collective remembrance. In this volume, different works across the past decade are juxtaposed to reveal recurring concerns with historiography, ideology, and the status of objects as carriers of narrative and affect. Through essays, visual documentation, and archival materials, the book situates Shapiro-Obermair’s practice at the intersection of art, research, and cultural critique.

The publication equally serves as both a visual anthology and critical text, offering insight into the artist’s conceptual strategies and thematic preoccupations. It highlights how form, history, and objecthood interact, and how art can function as a medium of interpretation and reinterpretation of complex pasts.