Thomas Feuerstein hat die Räume der Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck in ein zusammenhängendes Ensemble aus Gewächshaus, Laborküche, Kühlraum und Fabrik verwandelt. Schläuche mäandern durch die Ausstellung, sie verbinden Apparaturen und Objekte, aus Algen und Pilzen wird

The title, which is read phonetically as Kollabierende Herde (Collapsing Herd), reveals the subtle humour of the Austrian artist that always accompanies his works.

Die Grenzen der Medien überwindet Ashley Hans Scheirl so mühelos wie die Beschränkungen durch geschlechtliche und kulturelle Normen. Die als Angela Scheirl geborene Künstler*in erlangte Ende der 1980er-Jahre durch ihre experimentellen Film- und

Als Oswald Wiener und seine Frau Ingrid 1984 nach Kanada zogen, war das nicht nur ein Akt der Erkenntnissuche, sondern auch ein bewusster Schritt des Schriftstellers, die Kunst hinter sich zu lassen. Interesse an den Extremen der Natur am Polarkreis, an außergewöhnlichen gesellschaftlichen Umständen machte Dawson City in der arktischen

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Arbeit ist ein zentrales Thema der Künstlerin Katharina Gruzei. In der Serie Bodies of Work befasst sie sich mit Österreichs letzter Donau-Schiffswerft. Dort sind hochtechnologische maschinelle Fertigung und industrielle Handarbeit eng miteinander verzahnt.

Anna Jermolaewa ist Preisträgerin des Otto-Breicha-Preises für Fotokunst 2021. Die Konzeptkünstlerin bezeichnet sich selbst als »Realistin« und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Wirklichkeit ist ebenso kritisch wie abgründig humorvoll.

This book, a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Westminster, captures the British mosque at a pivotal moment in its history. There are 1,800 mosques in the UK today – mostly converted from terraced houses, libraries, cinemas and supermarkets. Now, these improvised spaces are beginning to disappear, as Muslim communities replace them with purpose-built structures.

Developing a new body of work specifically for this publication, Collected Arrangements is the product of a sustained collaboration between the artist Lucas Dupuy and Foolscap Editions. The page is used to frame and contextualise the distinct marks, lines and shapes of the artist’s visual language. Reconfigured compositions explore the space and structure of the page, which offers a testing ground akin to that of the gallery space.

»Die Dinge, die durch den Dunst von gestern so gewaltig erschienen – Eigentum, Klima, Erziehung, persönliche Schönheit und anderes mehr, haben ihre Verhältnisse merkwürdig verändert. Alles, was wir für fest hielten, schwankt u. klappert …«
“The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,—property, climate, breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions. All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles …” Ralph Waldo Emerson (zitiert von / quoted by Robert Musil)

Gehfotografen, literally “walking photographers”, were active on the streets of cities and tourist destinations across Europe between 1927 and 1935. This type of profession became increasingly popular with the Great Depression, when the 1929 collapse of the New York stock exchange led to an economic crisis throughout Europe. Unemployment and poverty eventually led to a civil war in 1934.

For the exhibition Making Something from Some Things, the living room on the 3rd floor of the Badischer Kunstverein will become an exhibition space. This room is usually made available to artists as a temporary living and working space during their production residency in Karlsruhe. The opening of the space offers the public a

Ernesto de Sousa (1921–1988) was a major and multifaceted figure from the Portuguese avant-garde—artist, poet, critic, essayist, curator, editor, filmmaker, and a promoter of experimental ideas and artistic expressions. Reflecting questions of hierarchy, authorship, and the complexity of framing or dividing within the multiple and complementary practices of

How does clothing 'work' socially? Combines images and notes by the artist with sources of inspiration from film, art, literature and philosophy

Mai Ling’s first monograph is published on occasion of their exhibition NOT YOUR ORNAMENT at the Secession, September 15–November 12, 2023. It includes a conversation between

The book to be released in conjunction with the exhibition includes an essay by Daniel Muzyczuk that explores the context of Ridnyi’s new film The District and his interest in the Polish artist Władysław Strzemiński’s (1893–1952) Theory of Vision.

Seit Beginn ihrer künstlerischen Laufbahn thematisiert Christina Zurfluh die abstrakte Malerei. Ihre Abstraktionen gründen dabei nicht auf der Reduktion von Gegenständlichkeit, sondern entstehen in einer Symbiose aus Kalkül und Intuition.

Timo Huber, Gründungsmitglied der Architekturgruppen Zünd-Up und Salz der Erde, ist vom Verführungspotential und der Irritationskraft alltäglicher Bildwelten fasziniert;

"Healing The Museum" is a mid-career monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years, which encompasses performance, film, social actions, painting, publications, textile work, and collection research.

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.

This new study critically assesses the work of one of the art world's most creative and controversial duos. It includes a rare specially commissioned interview with Jake Chapman and features essays from leading international art scholars and commentators. Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman enrage some with their art and reduce others to hysterics, but no one is neutral about two of Britain's most outstanding artistic provocateurs.

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.

Drawing became fashionable in the 18th century when it left the confines of the artist’s studio to enter a broader

The volume presents a mid-career survey of the work of the artists' collective Slavs and Tatars (founded 2006). The group explores issues of identity, language and belief in the region "east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China."

The exhibition-dossier is conceived as a methodological dispositif—a mediation space drawn on the narratives of art and artists—, used to explore the spiritual, theoretical and poetical undertakings in art and art practices grounded in the local terrain, in order to complement the existing research and to expand the circle of inquiries.

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.

Der Kurator Harald Szeemann (1933–2005) war eine Schlüsselfigur der Kunstszene des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anarchisch, hellsichtig, traumwandlerisch und Grenzen sprengend leitete er sowohl Institutionen wie die Kunsthalle Bern (1961–1969), wie er auch freie Ausstellungen zusammenstellte und die Rolle des Kurators neu erfand.

Dieser Katalog erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung OPEN zur Eröffnung des Museums der Heidi Horten Collection, Wien, vom 3. Juni bis 2. Oktober 2022.
This catalogue is published for the OPEN exhibition, the opening of the Museum of the Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, from June 3rd to October 2nd, 2022.

„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.

The celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement — the riotous form of

In over 1,300 pages, The Commissions Book engages in depth with more than one-hundred works of art. The publication organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations, along with close examinations of different works of art and an archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in the foundation’s work, and that of TBA21–Academy, an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans, are stories of making new connections across

The oceans are rising. On the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activities: sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and the depletion of fish communities and marine life. The loss of abundance and diversity has devastating effects on the services the oceans render to the earth, exhausting their unrecognized labor of

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history

Ein Ausnahmekünstler gibt sich die Ehre: Der großartige Jannis Kounellis stellt aus, und der Rahmen könnte angemessener nicht sein. In der Monnaie de Paris, der alten Börse von Paris, ist in einem furiosen Streich ein begehbares Gesamtkunstwerk in situ' entstanden, das den Pionier der Arte povera angemessen würdigt.

Walter Obholzer: 7.12.2000 – 21.1.2001 documents the exhibition of works by the Austrian artist Walter Obholzer during the period from December 7, 2000 to January 21, 2001.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the Austrian pavilion of the 45th Biennale of Venice held in 1993 featuring Andrea Fraser, Christian Philipp Müller and Gerwald Rockenschaub. Texts by Helmut Draxler, Chantal Mouffe, Albert Müller, Michael Müller, Felicia Riess, Otto E. Rössler, Peter Weibel and Slavoj Žižek. Includes biographies and a checklist of the exhibition. Text in English, German and Italian.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

a large presentation of works by Marcin Maciejowski (born 1974) – a painter and draughtsman, one of the most fascinating and renowned artists of the younger generation...

Curated by Kris Lemsalu and Sarah Lucas at MEYER KAINER Vienna October 2020

Peter Friedl is a conceptual artist whose practice is characterized by a critical examination of social, political, and cultural narratives. Working across various media such as photography, video, drawing, installation, and text, Friedl challenges established power structures, historical representations, and systems of perception by creating alternative perspectives and narrative strategies.

German multimedia artist Michaela Meiser's first monograph, Ding und Körper focuses on two groups of work

Spätestens mit ihren Auftritten auf der 50. Biennale Venedig und der Manifesta 5 hat sich die deutsche Künstlerin Amelie von Wulffen auf dem internationalen Kunstparkett einen Namen gemacht. In ihren Collagen, Zeichnungen und fotografischen Überblendungen beschäftigt sie sich mit biografischen Recherchen und Rekonstruktionen.

Standing on top of a building: film 2008-2019 is liam gillick's first publication dedicated to his video-film production. eight works, created from 2008 to today, together with a selection of the artist's sculptural production, on display at the mother museum in Naples curated by alberto salvadori and andrea viliani: the most 'intimate' elements of his artistic research - film for the most conceived in his home-studio in New York where inspiration takes concrete form - original scripts with notes and images, as well as site specific installation views. Since the early 1990s, Gillick has been creating installations, sculptures, films, digital animations and sound works, stitched together from an intense critical and theoretical production, between the political-social dimension and the personal sphere. questions the parameters of the fruition of art and the interdependence between the economy, art and institutions, inviting the viewer to participate in the generation of meaning. to highlight how the critical potential and utopian ambitions of avant-garde movements risk being absorbed and neutralized by the structures of contemporary entertainment, communication, urban furniture and corporate culture.

The starting point here is the relation between writing and time, object and text, hence the title “Schreibtischuhr” (writing desk clock).

With contributions by Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Stanley Brown, Jenny Holzer, On Kawara, Sherrie Levine, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Rosemarie Trockel and Andy Warhol which were shown in this context once again made it overly clear how radically the definition of the concept 'picture' has changed in this century. Erschienen anlässlich der Ausstellung - Das Bild nach dem letzten Bild in der Galerie Metropol, Wien. Mit Beiträgen folgender Künstler / innen: Jean Christophe Ammann, Hubert Damisch, Jenny Holzer, On Kawarar, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel und Andy Warhol u.a. Texte in Deutsch und Englisch.

Der Medienkünstler, Schauspieler, Theoretiker, Musiker und Museumsleiter Peter Weibel der in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren zu den österreichischen „Rebellen“ zählte, wurde in diesem Jahr für sein künstlerisches Gesamtwerk mit dem Oskar-Kokoschka-Preis 2014 ausgezeichnet.

Es gibt Themen, die Horn in vielen ihrer Arbeiten verhandelt. Dazu gehören vor allem die Frage nach der Wandlungsfähigkeit und Vielfältigkeit von Identität sowie das Aufzeigen von Abweichungen zwischen dem Wesen der Dinge und deren visueller Erscheinung mit künstlerischen Mitteln.

Yves Klein (1928–62) first traveled to Japan as a young man in 1952, motivated primarily by his interest in judo. During his 15 months abroad, Klein had numerous important creative and philosophical revelations that culminated in the launch of his artistic career upon his return to Paris.

Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art.

In “Playing with Ludwig”, artist Nikolaus Gansterer and philosopher Klaus Speidel adress fundamental questions of sense making in language and visual forms. In a playful dialogue with the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, they tackle subjects like pain and pictures,

The work of a pioneering artist, whose explorations of mass culture, consumerism, and politics remain highly relevant today.

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts’s painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions.

A groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and design and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art,

The catalogue is published on occasion of the exhibition ‘The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines’ at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.