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- "What does performance mean to you?", (translation of the interview with Philippe du Vignal published in Art Press,Paris,nb.30, july 1979) German Video Performance, a space, Toronto 1980

- "A talk on photography and pathos", given by Jochen Gerz at the annual meeting of the German Photographic Society, Mainz, 1982

- "Behind the eyes", essay by Georg Jappe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986

- "Jochen Gerz's visual poetry", text by Doris von Drathen, Contemporanea, sept.1989

- "Jochen Gerz: la photographie, mon fil d'Ariane", interview with Régis Durand, Art Press Spécial Photo, 1990

- "On being the prey oneself", text by Doris von Drathen,Kultur-Chronik, Bonn, 2/1991

- "Duel with repression, Jochen Gerz's 'Memorial against Racism'", text by Barbara von Jhering, Kultur-Chronik, Bonn, 4/1992

- "Life after humanism", text by Bojana Pejic, Artforum, march 1992

- "That obscure object of desire. Reflections on loss, erasure and the politics of commemoration", text by Irit Rogoff,University of California at Davis, 1993

- "It was easy 1988-1992", catalogue of the exhibition, 1993, Bronfman Centre, Montreal/Musée Bossuet, Meaux

- "A report from the lab", interview with Judith Mastai,1993 (published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1994)

- "Jochen Gerz, Invisible Monument", inteview by Jacqueline Lichtenstein and Gérard Wajeman, Art Press, Paris, nb.179, 1993

- "The Harburg Monument against Fascism", Hatje, Hamburg, 1994

- "A visual artist as well as", text by James D. Campbell, C Magazine, Fall 1994

- "Gerz:art coming out of a japanese toolbox", The Vancouver Sun, sept.15, 1994

- "An off-the-wall marriage of words, pictures", text by Chris Dafoe, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver, sept.24, 1994

- "Jochen Gerz: a hopeless inadequacy", text by Robin Laurence, The Weekend Sun, Vancouver, oct.15, 1994

- "Jochen Gerz's art of language", text by Paula Gustafson,?, nov.1994

- "Expatriation, Homelessness and Modernity", text by Michèle Cone, New Observations, New York, 1995

- "Jochen Gerz: an intriguing mix of words and images", text by William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, jan.14, 1995

- "Sins of the fathers, alienation of the son", text by Devorah Knaff, The Orange County Register, jan.20, 1995

- "Vision & textuality", "The aesthetics of post-History text, by Irit Rogoff, MacMillan, 1995

- "This man’s most celebrated piece of art is buried underground… so what are his plans for Coventry?" by Fiona Scott, in The evening Telegraph, oct.23, 2001

Simon Baker, Interview with Jochen Gerz, in: Oxford Art Journal, vol. 24 n° 2 2001, p 27-39

Matt Price, Jochen Gerz, in: Fused Magazine, n° 15, 2003, p 14

Jeremy Hunt, Jochen Gerz: Collaborations with the public, in: Art & Architecture, no. 59, 2003, London, p 27-30

Stephen Wright, Jochen Gerz: Toward Public Authorship, in: Third Text, no. 71, 2004, p 649-656

Sarah Wilson, Jochen Gerz: A Stranger with a Secret, in: Phoenix, London 2004, p 84-94

Jeremy Hunt, Jochen Gerz: No flight zone for birds, in: Art & Architecture, no. 64, 2005/06, London, p 9-13

Jochen Gerz: Creating a cultural City, in: Third Text, 2007

Eleanor Heartney, "Anti-Memorials and the Ragged Ends of History" in Valor - Filipino World War II Veterans Memorial, Midmarch Art Press, New York, 2007, p.38-41

Philippe Mesnard, “Art of the memorable (White Ghost)" in Jochen Gerz White Ghost, Vancouver Artgallery, 2008, p. 28-29