Material Marion von Osten 1: MoneyNations

Please join us at e-flux on Friday, May 3 at 7pm for a screening and presentation of archival material by editor Jonas von Lenthe in celebration of the launch of Material Marion von Osten 1: MoneyNations (Wirklichkeit Books, 2024), followed by a discussion between Jonas von Lenthe and e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood.

MoneyNations was an exhibition, a webzine, a radio, a conference, a video archive, a printed publication, an infrastructure, a counterpublic, an ongoing discussion, a transnational network of friends. Initiated by Marion von Osten (1963-2020) as curator at the Shedhalle Zurich, the project evolved from an urgency to act against the hegemonic forces of “the West” within the radically changing condition of post-Cold War Europe. MoneyNations addressed—and intervened in—the interrelatedness between racist border policies and media representations, exploitative economic relations, and identity-forming processes. The applied methods of critique and organizing, transversing between art, theory, and activism, are made accessible in this volume through images, correspondences, and other ephemera, revealing their political potential for the present.

The publication is edited by Lucie Kolb, Jonas von Lenthe, and Max Stocklosa. It includes a conversation between Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press), Ferdiansyah Thajib (KUNCI Study Forum & Collective), Eleanor Ivory Weber and Camilla Wills (Divided Publishing), and the editors.

MoneyNations is the first title from Material Marion von Osten, a series that periodically publishes selected archival documents from Marion von Osten‘s projects and contextualizes them with new contributions. 

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility 
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue. 
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space. 
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.