Strobl’s practice moves between photography, collage, drawing, text, design, and found visual material. Animals appear throughout her work not as sentimental motifs,

but as figures through which social relations, consumption, violence, ecological awareness, and cultural habits become visible. Her images often use humour, precision, and apparent lightness to address more uncomfortable questions: how animals are represented, used, consumed, loved, instrumentalized, and transformed into cultural symbols.

Das Tier brings this field of observation into book form. The publication gathers images and textual materials that examine the animal from artistic, cultural, and scientific perspectives. It belongs to Strobl’s broader investigation of everyday visual culture and the ways in which images circulate between art, advertisement, nature, and social critique. As an artist’s book, it is both an exhibition-related publication and an autonomous object within her practice.

Ingeborg Strobl. Das Tier was published by the Vienna Secession in 1992 on the occasion of the exhibition Das Tier, held at the Secession in October 1992. The publication was conceived as an artist’s book rather than a conventional exhibition catalogue and reflects one of the central concerns of Strobl’s work: the animal as image, sign, projection, commodity, and counterpart to human behaviour.

Bibliographic details: Ingeborg Strobl. Das Tier. Published by Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1992. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Das Tier at the Vienna Secession, October 1992. With contributions by Birgit Flos and Friederike Spitzenberger. Approximately 79 pages / 92 pages according to different bibliographic records, with numerous illustrations, some in colour. Format: quarto. ISBN / ISBN-10: 3-900803-53-6.