Elke Krystufek (* 1970 in Wien) ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete bildende Künstlerin, Fotografin, Installationskünstlerin und Autorin, die sowohl in Wien als auch in Berlin lebt und arbeitet. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich durch eine innovative und oft provokante Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen, kulturellen und persönlichen Themen

2017 begann das Künstlerkollektiv Triple Candie (Shelly Bancroft und Peter Nesbett) mit der Arbeit an einem vielschichtigen Forschungsprojekt, im Zuge dessen sie die Werke und Methodologien des amerikanischen Künstlers Michael Asher (1943–2012) untersuchten. In diesem performativen Projekt unternahmen sie den Versuch, die verlorenen, experimentellen Potenzialitäten von Ashers situationellen Kunstwerken wiederaufleben zu lassen. Dafür führten die KünstlerInnen profunde

Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.

In this warm and soft book, covered by a blood red fabric, artist Rosana Paulino brings together for the first time the series of drawings that give their title to the publication: Buffalo and Lady of Plants. Both represent female archetypes related to the black psyche, and they go against the dominant European and colonial collective consciousness.

Subduing our bodies, in the sense of controlling our impulses and desires, is an aspiration which is older than Christianity. At that time, the dominant question was: how do you get good control over yourself? Christianity made women the symbol of possible loss of control over our bodies. Achieving our self-control turned into being able to control the woman, to avoid the temptation that she, malevolent, represents.

Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space.

Between December 2022 and March 2023, Vivian Suter shared hundreds of photos, all taken with her mobile phone, with the designer and editor of this book. A selection of these snapshots, condensed, juxtaposed, complementing each other, now forms a kind of photographic journal. It offers insights into

In “Sculptor's Notebook”, originally written in 1985, the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then. Centred largely around themes of adolescence and womanhood, her sculptures had won her the Sixth Triennale Award and the National Award.

Body. Listening. Book. Library. Institution. How can art libraries be generative resources and sites of action for all who identify as queer, as women, as Black, as Indigenous, as people of colour? What does it mean to consider the art library as a collective practice that spans multiple scales?

The book is composed of amateur photographs of women in various degrees of undress, which were enclosed with letters and circulated among couples to convey sexual proclivities and attractiveness, as a way of getting to know each other.

Whip-smart, and with a ripped-from-the-headlines attitude, this book is a call to arms, demonstrating the unique ability of graphic design to speak truth to power.

If the 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of artists books, the 2010s (and 1920s) strike us as the heyday of publishing as (artistic) practice. IDEA POLL collected ideas regarding publishing activities and beyond. IDEA POLL 2020/21 was created through an online query and features about 100 responses from diverse international networks. Historical Note: In 1976, the periodical Art-Rite already conducted and published an IDEA POLL, marking a seminal moment in the state of affairs in the field of art and publishing.

"This book results from my interest in the graphic interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. The 11 possible ways to unfold a cube are laid out on white paper, whereas the seven cuts that make it possible to unfold a cube

Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, Germany, lives and works in Zurich). Her work is populated by liminal beings that combine elements of human and animal, plant, object, and machine, and that pupate and transform.

Osawatomie is a direct allusion to the eponymous battle waged by the abolitionist John Brown of whom Victor Hugo at the time of saving him from hanging says "Yes, let America know and think about it, there is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, it is Washington killing Spartacus".

Fake Star is a story about a plaster copy of a meteorite and its original, about an emerging nation aiming to prove its worth at the Paris World Exposition 1900, about encounter of King Oscar ll of Sweden, and the Russian representative at the pavilion of Finland, Prince Tenisheff.

In With Ease Through Heaviness lotet Robert Pfaller die Grenzlinien zwischen philosophischer Reflexion und künstlerischer Praxis aus.

Ce livre - un projet porté par l’association Atelier d’Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck & Pierre de Wit et Atelier d'Architecture Hart Berteloot -

Dieser Band zeigt eine Auswahl von Fotografien von Dine selbst, von seinen Freunden, Verwandten und von Pinocchio, dem Motiv, das in seinen Werken immer wieder auftaucht.

Eine der hauptsächlichen künstlerischen Ausdrucksweisen von Viktoria Tremmel ist die Zeichnung, die sie als ein Medium betrachtet, das die Entäußerung unmittelbarer Erfahrungen ermöglicht. In einigen Fällen entstehen daraus auch Objekte.

Alle Bildzyklen dieser Publikation wurden von Attersee 1997-1998 gefertigt. Das gleiche gilt für die in diesem Album abgedruckten Texte und Gedichte.

Mit «Gespräche» legt Till Velten einen umfangreichen Sammelband seiner Gespräche vor. Der Band gibt mit neununddreissig ausgewählten Gesprächen einen repräsentativen Einblick in die Methoden und Interessen des Künstlers. «Gespräche» erscheint zur grossen Einzelpräsentation Till Veltens im Helmhaus Zürich.

Die Publikation «Birdwatching» von Alex Hanimann erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung in der Neuen Kunsthalle St.Gallen, die in Zusammenarbeit mit dem

almost a poet’s manual, with quite many examples.

mit Beiträgen von Lise Autogena ,Yona Friedman, Marko Lulic, Ioana Nemes , Maria Pask , Marjetica Potrc, Oliver Resslerc, Jun Yang.

Die Publikation INDUSTRIAL on Tour dokumentiert ein vom Hartware MedienKunstVerein organisiertes Filmprogramm zum Thema ‘Industrial’, das vom 27. Sept. - 9. Okt. 2011 durch fünf polnische Städte tourte (Gdańsk, Tarnów, Kraków, Bytom and Łódź).

“You Asshole” is an essay that explores artistic personalities that fall outside the pattern of the art world.

The context is Russian. Topical. The country on everyone’s lips!
Steinbrecher had gone to the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, and littered the place with his ‘embassy’ of red socks.

Publicatie bij de kunstopdracht van Gijs Assmann bij de J.C. Pleysierschool. Thomas Verbogt heeft voor deze publicatie verhalen geschreven die geïnspireerd zijn op dit project.

Der Luzerner Künstler Stefan Davi hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren als Maler einen Namen gemacht.

Fiammetta, Luca's domestic everlasting oracle, lives in a small town just out of Milan, completely ignoring her fantastic mental condition. According to the Italian Government, she's 100% disabled.

Yael Bartana (born in 1970 in Israel) makes work largely about her conflicted homeland. She has an exceptionally sensitive eye for public ritual and ceremony, both organized and spontaneous.

Between 2008 and 2010 London based photographer Sipke Visser sent 500 handwritten letters to random addresses all over the United Kingdom.

Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was first published in 1986 after she had shot and nearly killed Andy Warhol. The text used here is the very slightly altered version issued later.

Der Berliner Schriftsteller und Pataphysiker Klaus Ferentschik erstellte die weltweit erste „Kabelenzyklopädie“.

In einer kompromisslosen Umsetzung von "doppelt genäht hält besser" haben Droste und Badock eine essentiell auf Doppelpässen beruhende, performative Malerei mit einem hintersinnigen konzeptkünstlerischen Ansatz verquickt.

Sie heißen „Olga“, „Ida“ oder „Rupert“ und offenbaren in den Werken des österreichischen Bildhauers Roland Reiter ihr Innerstes. Zwei Füchse tanzen in sich verzahnt „Ringe-Ringe-Reier“. Oft genügen Reiter kleinste Nuancen in der Gestaltung, um das Klassische ins Zeitgenössische zu übertragen.

Publikation anlässlich der Marcus Geiger-Personale "Vergiss Venedig" im Büro Weltausstellung/Kunstraum Schauplatz, Wien (06.-31.10.2013).

FASSADE PARADE ist eine von Tobias Faisst zusammengestellte Sammlung verlorener Seelen der modernen Ästhetik, die im starken Gegensatz zu pixelperfekten Designs und High-End-Fotografie stehen.

Eva Weinmayr presents a collection of newsstand posters - capitalized handwritten legends that condense complex realities into three or four-line news splashes. Charged with meaning these headlines give no information; rather they are teasers with no context, telling more about what could happen than what really has happened.

A book about the attempt to write an instruction as exact as possible. The steps for getting imprisoned are explained by images and texts.

Valentinaden, Slapstickstücke, hat der 1928 geborene Arnulf Rainer die Arbeiten genannt, die ab 1972 in Zusammenarbeit mit Dieter Roth (1930-1998) entstanden sind.

TAKITAK box contains many elements
Inner book open
Dress which shinning in the night (printed with special ink)

"What's That For?" is one of several exercises the czech Artist Katerian Seda to try to pull her 76 year-old grandmother, Jana, out of her total withdrawal from life.

The second book in Marcopoulos' portraits book series takes a look at the musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor Adam Keefe Horovitz (South Orange, NJ, 1966) also known as Ad Rock, one of the members of the pioneering hip-hop group, the Beastie Boys, together with Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch and dj Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz.

Ob Rebus, ob Drudel, David Shrigley liebt es, Rätsel aufzugeben. In einem knappen, geistreichen Stil, scheinbar beiläufig hat er Minidramen, Monster, Gestalten aus Comic und Alptraum aufs Blatt gefetzt.

Edited by Adam Budak, Peter Pakesch
With texts by Adam Budak, Clémentine Deliss, Antje Majewski, Ingo Niermann, Peter Pakesch, Xu Shuxian, Marcus Steinweg; transcripts of interviews with Issa Samb, El Hadji Sy, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Thomas and Helke Bayrle; and reprints by Jorges Luis Borges, Friedrich Hölderlin, Chuang Tzu, John Joseph Mathews

(English)

In den Jahren 1968-78 entstand aus Texten, Wortspenden und dem "Raumalphabet" das »Volksbuch«. Darauf aufbauend soll nun das »ABC des RAUMES« als Erweiterung und Ergänzung zum »Volksbuch« erscheinen

In ROT / WEISS / HOCKEN / HEIM, Bea Meyer thematizes two quite divergent areas of social life, which are closely interwoven with prejudices and clichéd concepts: Formula One Motor Racing and breastfeeding.
(Germ./Engl.)

Nach "A Conversion Act" nimmt Nadja Bournonville in ihrem neuen Künstlerbuch "Intercepted" („abgefangen“) die Spur zu einer Spionagegeschichte auf, die sich zur Zeit des ersten Weltkrieges in ihrer Familie zutragen hatte.

Salome Schmuki’s collaborative publication Jetmaster is an experimental extension of her core research into dyslexia. In this book Schmuki intends to research strategies of visual asymmetry at a layout level, in a so-called Schaubuch, to find out whether Sullivan’s opinion – form follows function – is true.

This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham, presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images,

Der zweite Teil der Comicbuch-Serie "Kreuz" von Jasmin Rehrmbacher, veröffentlicht auf der Comic-Lounge Vienna 2016.

"Sabotage does not mean destroying economical or political goods, but to disturb and manipulate human activities and incite reaction. These ideas are developed out of observations and studies on behaviour. Many ideas are developed through dialogue with scientists,physicians, researchers and shamans some of whom stay in contact with certain projects for many years."

This book is a monument to a rare period of uncertainty, inspired by shame and shamelessness, by dept and guilt, by the tragedy behind statistics.

«Der Mann hat nicht nur ein Brett vorm Kopf, er klebt diesen sogar daran fest: ‹Glue your brain to the board›, fordert der Wiener Künstler Erwin Wurm […] Ein Künstlerbuch bringt diese ungewöhnliche Position vielfältig nahe.»

Die Publikation "Inhalt und Form (ID 5 bis 28)" ist Werkkatalog und Künstlerheft in einem. Auf verschiedenen Ebenen wird das Heft formal und inhaltlich selber zum Werk.

"The World According To" series seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on 64 blank paper pages.

Ulrike Lienbacher
Geboren 1963 in Oberndorf (A), lebt in Wien und Salzburg.

(D/Engl.)

"The Presence of Absence: New Installations" is the exhibition catalalouge to the eponymous travelling exhibition and was followingly written by the show's curator Nina Felshin.