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ERSTE Stiftung Books

9 Publications in this category

  • Continuing Dialogues. A Tribute To Igor Zabel

    The Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958–2005) was largely responsible for putting Slovenian art on the map of the international art scene. As senior curator of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, he was engaged in establishing [...]

  • Power Struggle

    Few words have altered their meaning in the light of economic change as much as energy. Once a term that defined the physical or spiritual power of human beings, since the Industrial Revolution it has come to denote forms of power that mankind [...]

  • IDENTITY

    Identity: The Search for Belonging in a Changing Europe is the product of original research of ten jounalists selected from South East Europe to participate in the 2009 programme of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence. This programme [...]

  • Moving On

    The Balkan region is witnessing an ever-growing number of barriers to the movement of people, goods and ideas, both among the countries of the region and vis-à-vis the European Union. This development is leading to frustration, sluggish regional cooperation [...]

  • Reclaiming Democracy

    Postcommunism, with its daunting power of the economy, politics, law enforcement, justice and media, from a present view, can be considered as replaying the period of communism. The patience of the inhabitants in Central and Southeastern Europe has [...]

  • Utopian Visions

    Utopian Vision is the first of the European Stability initiatives (ESI) studies titled New Economic Geography. It broaches the issue and the concerning conflicts [...]

  • A future for Prishtina's past

    The photo brochure A Future for Prishtina’s Past was distributed to Prishtina’s inhabitants in the three local languages of the city (Albanian, Serbian and Turkish). It contains brief descriptions of all the 21 protected monuments of [...]

  • Arbeite, Sammle, Vermehre (Work, Save, Accumulate)

    This book describes the history of the “Erste Österreichische Spar-Casse” from its foundation in Vienna in 1819 to the major financial institute of today featuring numerous examples of art and pop culture. The section covers not only the history [...]

  • The cost of non-Europe

    The third part of the researching New Economic Geography is a story about the economic decline and social crisis of a formerly proud textile town in a country well-placed on the edge of the largest market for clothes and textiles in the world (the [...]