Published by Drama Books, Paris, edited by Anaïs Horn and designed by Boah Kim High Expectations will bring together the texts, materials and works from Anaïs Horn's solo exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, April–May 2026.
 
Release Date: September/October 2026
 
Texts by:  Ea von Allesch, Alexandra Bondi de Antoni, Vicki Baum, Anna Gien, Mela Hartwig, Joe Lederer, Katharina Manojlovic, Avital Ronell, Alice Schalek, Wendy Vogel, Verena Walzl. 
 
Selection of historical texts curated by Katharina Manojlovic
(Literature Museum Vienna)
 
Conceived as a site-specific installation in the Frederic Morton Library, High Expectations unfolds as a layered, immersive environment of textile, sound, image, and text. At the core of the installation is the 1931 fabric design Kokain (Cocaine) by Erika von Trauschenfels (Backhausen, Vienna), translated into a large padded floor piece that reconfigures the space as an intimate, physical environment. The installation brings together a polyphonic sound work (in collaboration with Eilert Asmervik), interweaving texts by Austrian women writers of the interwar period — with contemporary responses by Avital Ronell and Wendy Vogel, as well as German-speaking writers Anna Gien and Alexandra Bondi de Antoni a.o.; alongside two new series of mixed-media works.
The exhibition reflects on the cultural and political transformations of the interwar period while opening a space where female voices resonate and insist, in dialogue with the present. 
 
More information: 
https://acfny.org/exhibition/high-expectations/