For the release of the publication Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art (MIT Press, 2025), a conversation will take place between Thomas Hirschhorn and art historian Lisa Lee. They will discuss the origins of Hirschhorn’s work. 

Thomas Hirschhorn affirms his commitment to a non-exclusive audience in each of his exhibitions, as evidenced by his numerous projects carried out in public spaces. Lisa Lee is an associate professor of art history at Emory University. She specializes in sculpture, collage, and assemblage practices in European and American contexts.

"Lisa Lee captured the true nature of my Parisian experience after my arrival in 1983. Determined to pursue graphic design, but confronted with the challenges of time, the world, and reality, I realized that I had to reverse my thinking: art became the mission to accomplish, far beyond graphic design. [...] She ingeniously structured her book into three significant chapters: The Leaf, The Wall, The Street, showing how my decision to place my work within the field of art history takes a stand, summarizing the false question of “being an artist or not,” and definitively opening up the only question that matters: what to do—today—in the field of art? Lisa Lee's research on my early work and its culmination in a form that is unique to me led me to my current work: “My Atlas,” which is the story of my journey in art, drawn precisely from my own history, without any text."—Thomas Hirschhorn, 2025.

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