The first volume of the series 'Schriften der Forschungsstelle Informelle Kunst' (Publications of the Research Center for Informal Art) documents the results of the first 'Research Colloquium Informal Art'. The contributions of young academics cover a broad spectrum of relevant topics of contemporary research. These include discussions of individual artists and artist groups and their national and international connections, (interdisciplinary) questions from the fields of visual studies, exhibition, reception and impact history, as well as transnational comparative and cultural-political perspectives. - First Volume of the Publications of the Research Center for Informal Art Informal Art, History of concepts & reception Young academics

Christoph Zuschlag is academic lead and Anne-Kathrin Hinz research assistant of the Research Center for Informal Art.