A collection of drawn proposals presenting an ongoing project between the artist and Tower Hamlets Community Housing. Focusing on our relationship with architecture and the history of ornamentation within public spaces, the drawings highlight the increasingly important role of communal and shared spaces to elicit social interaction. The publication details the artist’s plans for the redevelopment of the communal spaces within a housing estate in East London.

Idol Hands presents a wealth of source and visual references, alongside original drawings from the artist’s unique and expanded narrative of imagery stemming from alternative means of communication such as braille, morse code and sign language.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.

Weaving as a Metaphor offers the intimate side of the artist's oeuvre. . . . Emulating a gallery setting, the catalog, itself a work of art, presents each weaving on a separate page. Trenchant information as well as thought-provoking essays--by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon and Nina Stritzler-Levine--archival photographs and notebooks round out this wonderful publication.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter closely associated with the human state of happiness.

Books not only describe their own contents but also the eras in which they were created. Conceived as a color inventory, this publication gathers a selection of titles that I have dealt with, exhibited, and produced since the early 2000s.

Buch Handlung Welt – in drei Worten − wurde von der Künstlerin Hilka Nordhausen 1976 im Hamburger Karolinenviertel eröffnet.

Im Frühjahr 2019 bereiste ich zum ersten Mal Japan. Ich blieb für zwei Monate. Meine Reisevorbereitungen starteten gewissenhaft: kurz vorher besuchte ich auf Empfehlung einen zweiwöchigen Japanisch-Intensivkurs für Anfänger*innen am Japonikum der Uni Bochum. Trotz ernsthafter Bemühungen gingen meine Sprachlernversuche komplett daneben. Mir fehlte

In 1972, Ulises Carrión produced his first artist’s book SONNET(S) which consists on 44 variations of a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

Inside this box is a book that holds thirteen letters written between 2019 and 2022 by the artist Yamine Elmelegy to the sculptor and industrialist Fathy Mahmoud (1918-1982). Yasmine never met Fathy Mahmoud but started writing

The volume is an epistolary narrative produced via text message with a community of anonymous correspondents.

A multifaceted play with language and meaning can be grasped in their work and exhibition titles. In their practice, they have been working against the grain of some of the art world’s conventions, from medium specificity to questions of branding and commodification.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint eine Publikation mit einem Essay von Stephen Ellcock, in dem er die spirituellen und mythologischen Bezüge in Delaine Le Bas’ Werk und insbesondere in der für die Secession konzipierten Installation exemplarisch anhand von Referenzen aus der griechischen Mythologie und altägyptischen Totenkulten darlegt.

Alfredo Jaar
Weltanschauung, 1998
Offset color print (folded)
27-1/2” x 39-1/2” / 69.9 cm x 100.3 cm
Edition of 200 signed by Alfredo Jaar

Artist’s book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse’s paintings, as well as several drawings. The book includes a prose poem by Jan Koslowski, and an essay by Fid. Fischer which situates Kirmse’s work within contemporary painting.

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.

The images in Ed Templeton: 87 Drawings cover a span of over thirty years, from 1990 to 2021, and deliver a remarkable retrospective of the artist’s intimate drawing style. Templeton examines the studied ennui of adolescents and young adults, capturing his subjects’ specific personalities while documenting the visual identity born of

In 2018, the Museum Villa Stuck presented a comprehensive retrospective with works by the goldsmith and silversmith Rudolf Bott. The book accompanying the exhibition is a 672-page monumental work. Far from a usual catalog with colorful illustrations, it is "thought in black and white" like the entire exhibition. With a 340-page photo report by Jörg Koopmann and Lene Harbo Pedersen, who photographed the objects across Europe at the lenders and in Bott's studio.

Die großen, grotesken Fotoserien von Anna und Bernhard Blume sind heute wohlbekannt. In ihnen inszenieren die Künstler im dokumentarischen Gestus paranormale Situationen, die sich im Inneren einer „kleinbürgerlichen“ Welt oder in symbolisch besetzten Regionen deutscher Kunst (wie dem Schwarzwald) abspielen.

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new meaning, they can be looked at for their mathematical value, pondered over how they change in translation or seen as hiding messages within them.

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

The notebook of James William Lacelot Lowther brings together drawings, sketches, dreams, watercolours, and paintings that document the artistic work of the artist. William, who passed away at the age of 21, was a talented, passionate, and empathetic young artist.

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Pollution Diaries is a collectively written text, based on a small corpus of authentic recordings from the WhatsApp group of the same name, intended to share daily experiences of life in one of the most polluted cities in the world - Delhi.

Sarah Dobai’s The Donkey Field weaves a link between a racist attack in on a young boy and the story of the persecution of Marie and Balthazar in the acclaimed film Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966).

The Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto-illumination, the participant’s body generating an intense light from within.

Philatelic Items documents 220 works produced over the last ten years by Lolly Batty. It includes an index showing the envelopes followed by a selection printed at actual-size. ⁣

C21ST RECENT HISTORY: Handmade in an edition of 100, B&W digital and four-colour riso plates on Munken Pure smooth 120gsm paper, Stardream Metallic SILVER 120gsm, Xerox Bright White coated 170gsm with matt black foil debossed Fedrigoni Ultra Black 185gsm boards; pearl Plastikoils binding;

Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh is an ode to the infinite courage and resilience of the women of Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, who sat in protest for a 100 days and nights. A book of photographs, drawings, songs, letters and other material gathered as a record of the iconic protest, marks an extraordinary moment in the political and contemporary history of India.

The photographs that are included in this book form part of the archive of the photographer Alberto Flores Varela. The majority were taken

I don’t care (about football) is a participatory artistic project involving the players of the Marangoni 105 football team, created in 2011 as part of one of the rehabilitation residences of the Udine Mental Health Department managed by the Duemilauno Agenzia Sociale Cooperative. The title, inspired by the words of a girl from the community, suggests how the game is not an end in itself but rather a practice of social inclusion and integration.

In the book “I used to be a lovely boy but turned out queer,” the author Jovan Josifovski,

The Olympics – with their sense of historical urgency and unconditional trust in the future and nationalism,

The publication is developed as a reflection on books as archives of touch. Visiting our local public library, the Philipp Schaeffer Bibliothek in Berlin, we checked out a selection of books that caught our attention. Bringing them home, we took photographs of handling and reading the books, which we then printed out and inserted back into the books. Following this, we returned books to the library with these hidden pages added.

Handmade is an ecstatic archive of synthetic handmade Artist’s books. Sequenced in no particular order, the project searches for meaning in the future tense through time, text, and touch.

Based on intuition, humor and affection, Jeremy Deller (London, 1966) has explored the ethos of the popular in English culture, that is, the manifestations of social imagination within the framework of a post-industrial capitalist society. .

Florian Pumhösl processes the tropes of art, architecture and graphics of the modernist avant-garde to create new aesthetic systems through painting, film and installation.

Noa the Boa is a slave to fashion with the heart of an actor and an obsession with celebrity. He becomes luxurious leather accessories for illustrious clients - from Grace Kelly\ s pillow to the codpieces at the Folies Bergere.&Uumlber den Autor.

„Ich weiß nicht, ob du dich gerade für einen Mann oder eine Frau hältst, aber der Krieg ist aus.“ Der Gedichtband ‚In Frauenkleidung‘ verfolgt den Lebensweg intersexueller Sportlerinnen zu Beginn der 30er-Jahre.

With 2 to 3 issues a year, the members of the team publish their magazine around their personal encounters and artistic interests. Each issue present around fifteen contributions, in both texts and images. Artists, writers, scientists and specialists in all kind of fields are invited to contribute and intervene in a sober and efficient layout already acknowledged by the London Design Museum in its exhibition Best European Design 2005.

The H-block, or Høyblokka as it is called in Norwegian, was the Government Quarter’s main building. The was building was completed in 1958. Architect Erling Viksjø was inspired by the French modernist Le Corbusier, and set out to create an elegant, monumental but sober functionalism.

SCHÖN VERMÄHLT is an artist’s book by Kamilla Bischof accompanying the most comprehensive solo exhibition of her work to date at KM - Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz.

Herbert Fuchs macht aus seinen Künstlerfreunden Geiger, Zobernig und Kippenberger Kunstfiguren, die in seinen Textmontagen aus facts und fiction, aus Erinnerungen an gemeinsam verbrachte Tage und Nächte,

World Trade Center, New York, USA, "And then the surgical intervention in the World Trade Center in New York City. Everything top secret and illegal of course. In days of conspiratorial work, somewhere on the 148th floor and

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.

“Erasure is a visual depiction of the modernist erasure of graffiti. It is authored by X, the artist, and I merely the conceptual constructor of what X had innocently, non-artistically performed.” – Eldon Garnet

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?

"For my artist's book for the Secession, I reproduced my diary calendar from 1986, the year I was eighteen. The calendar is full of dense handwritten entries that obsessively revolve around questions of my identity. Finding myself was what it was about.
"Als Künstlerbuch für die Secession reproduziere ich meinen Tagebuchkalender von 1986, aus dem Jahr, in dem ich 18 war. Der Kalender ist eng handschriftlich beschrieben und verhandelt Fragen zu meiner Identität im Dauerloop.


Which man? Daniel, Olli, Arnd? My math teacher? No one? Passages that now strike me as too private were blacked out in the process. Today's digital trace masks the analogue trace from decades ago. The censorship becomes a graphical addition, a drawing that pulls together the two different periods of time, separated by thirty-three years." (Alexandra Bircken)
Die Suche war das Thema. Welcher Mann? Daniel, Olli, Arnd? Mein Mathelehrer? Keiner? Subjektiv als zu privat empfundene Passagen wurden im Prozess nachträglich geschwärzt. Die digitale Spur von heute legt sich über die analoge von damals. Die Zensur wird zu einem zeichenhaften Zusatz, einer Zeichnung, der die beiden Zeitebenen, die 33 Jahre auseinander liegen, zusammenzurrt." (Alexandra Bircken)
Berlin 2019, 216 pages, 11 x 15,5 cm, Flexocover, English

We see women looking at art, everything an exhibition has to offer: paintings, sculptures, installations. If we’re women, then one could say they’re women looking at women looking at art.

“Casa Azul” (Blue House) is part of a socio-visual developed with the sociologist research Chloé Constant, about the life histories of five trans women imprisoned in a male penitentiary in Mexico City. Nr. 302/460, Nr. 277/460

Created in Berlin around 15 years ago, this large-format collage book by Isa Genzken is both a personal diary and artistic manifesto. In it are portraits of the artist and her friends;

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.

Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.

Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting a scientifically detailed, in-depth analysis of an urban feature seen in every city: the concave corner.

die publikation zeigt neue werkgruppen von g. b. in den love seats sitzen wir auf einem möbelobjekt & blicken aneinander vorbei. textilbilder & stickereien zeigen kisses in form von lippen ohne person.

Amanda is an artist's book by Olga Micińska made in the framework of The Building Institute, an experimental organisation aiming to strengthen the position of femmes builders in the domain of technical construction work.

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.