Ceija Stojka : making visible / edited by Lynne Cooke, with Ethel Brooks, Noëlig Le Roux, Ulrike Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stojka, Ceija, artist.

Contributor:

Cooke, Lynne, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Brooks, Ethel, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Le Roux, Noelig, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Müller, Ulrike, 1971- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Drawing papers ; 161.

Drawing papers ; 161

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stojka, Ceija--Exhibitions.

Stojka, Ceija.

Artists, Romani--Austria--Exhibitions.

Artists, Romani.

Painting, Romani--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Romani.

Physical Description:

215 pages : colour illustrations, 23 cm

Other Title:

Making visible

Place of Publication:

[New York] : The Drawing Center, [2026]

Summary:

"Ceija Stojka: Making Visible features the work of Roma artist, activist, writer, lyricist, and singer Ceija Stojka (1933-2013). Comprising more than sixty artworks, as well as a selection of sketchbooks, archival material, and documentary films made during Stojka's lifetime, Making Visible explores the fullness of Stojka's production as a visual artist, centered in her Roma life and heritage. Spurred by the resurgence of extreme right nationalism in Austria and abroad, and by her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, Stojka created works of profound beauty and horror that resonate today in strikingly contemporary terms. On the cusp of the 1990s, when she was in her late fifties, Stojka began making art. Over the next two decades, she produced hundreds of paintings and graphic works based on her early life experiences. Born into an itinerant family of horse traders in Austria, her traditional Roma childhood was brutally disrupted by the German invasion in 1938, after which she and her family were deported to a succession of concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen. Though Stojka, her mother, and four of her siblings survived, the remainder of her extended family perished, together with some 500,000 Roma and Sinti." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Ceija Stojka: Contemporary artist / Lynne Cooke

For them to know what happened: Ceija Stokja's art of storytelling / Ulrike Müller

Becoming visible: Reception and recognition of Ceija Stokja's art / Noëlig Le Roux

'Auschwitz is my overcoat': Ceija Stojka as a political activist and artist / Ethel Brooks

Plates

List of works

Chronology.

Notes:

Catalog published to accompany the exhibition held February 20-June 7, 2026 at The Drawing Center, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (page 212-213)

OCLC:

1586874081