Monika Grabuschnigg
Symptoms of a Joy Imbalance
Softcover, with numerous color illustrations
Language: English
Editor: Monika Grabuschnigg
Text: Analisa Giacinti, Martin Jackson, Sam McBean, Emily McDermott, Luisa Seipp, Lauren Oyler;
Book Design: Ju Aichinger
Pages: 228 pp.
Size: 29.7 x 21 cm
Printed in Germany, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-904157-06-3
About Monika Grabuschnigg
Monika Grabuschnigg (*1987) lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic practice engages with longing, grief, melancholy, and the emotional lives of objects. Through casting, molding, and material translation, she transforms domesticated and commodified things such as home appliances, clothing, plants, and everyday containers into sculptures, reliefs, and installations. These objects often carry different forms of time: symbolic time embedded in cultural images and rituals, natural time marked by preservation and decay, and contextual time shaped by spaces of transition, including the home, the hotel room, or the temporary interior. In this way, Grabuschnigg examines how objects hold desire, memory, and belief, and how their repetition or transformation can shift the understanding of our being.