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.

Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'" -Lucy R. Lippard,

Künstler_innen : Diana Barbosa Gil, Cho Beom-Seok, Jojo Gronostay, Ani Gurashvili, Lukas Kaufmann, Nora Severios, Anna Spanlang (mit Textilskulpturen von Sunny Pfalzer), Chin Tsao Display von Julia Hohenwarter

of cities and private living rooms is a semi-fictional multi-media installation that is composed of a two-channel film installation and a photo slide projection. The work questions the hidden biography of the artist’s great-grandmother.

Bezeichnet der Begriff „Speicher“ ursprünglich einen Aufbewahrungsort für Getreide und Vorräte bildet
Nadim Vardags Künstlerbuch Erkenntnisprozesse nicht nur zu Etymologie und Semantik, sondern
insbesondere zur Ästhetik von

In our daily lives, folds, creases, and wrinkles belong to the realm of aging processes or are the unwanted result of carelessly handled pieces of fabric or paper.

130 Propagandabilder, Werbe- und künstlerische Plakate von den 40er- bis Ende der 80er-J.

This book is not a proper catalogue raisonné, but rather an invitation to browse the library of an amateur. It allows us to consider an important aspect of Richard Prince’s work,

Natasza Niedziółka’s fascinating works move along the interface between painting, drawing, and textile art. The canvas constitutes the carrier for her abstract, haptic embroideries.

Der österreichische Konzeptkünstler und Jurist Guido Kucsko fokussiert in seiner künstlerischen Arbeit grundsätzliche Fragen des Denkens, Fühlens und des kreativen Schaffens.

In 2020 the composer, concept and media artist Hofstetter Kurt was awarded the Austrian Art Prize—Media Art (State Prize of the Republic of Austria) for his internationally recognized oeuvre.

The year of lockdown was an occasion for Markus Redl to undertake a journey in the smallest radius and to deal with the objects that surrounded him.

In her artistic works, Franziska von den Driesch works with analogue and digital photography, video, and also photographic procedures that do not involve a camera.

The first English translation of Karel Teige’s “The Marketplace of Art“ in two volumes includes a critical introduction, inquiries, and extensive commentaries. Originally published in the Czech language in 1936, “The Marketplace of Art“ is the summation of Teige’s artistic, political, and theoretical work.

El artista del Accionismo Vienés, Otto Muehl, fundó en 1970 una comuna con la intención de fusionar arte y vida.

Das plastische Werk von Ursula Burghardt (1928–2008) ist von einer fortwährenden Auseinandersetzung mit dem Alltäglichen geprägt. Mit unterschiedlichsten Materialien und Techniken formte, modifizierte und transformierte sie alltägliche Gegenstände zu überraschenden, die Sehgewohnheiten unterlaufenden Werken.

Das Operndorf Afrika ist zehn Jahre alt geworden. Was ist aus Schlingensiefs Vision, ein Operndorf im westafrikanischen Burkina Faso zu gründen, geworden? Werden dreißig Kilometer außerhalb der burkinischen Hauptstadt Ouagadougou nun Wagner-Opern inszeniert?

Als Blinky Palermo im Alter von 33 Jahren auf den Malediven starb, studierte Förg noch an der Münchner Akademie. Die beiden sind sich nie begegnet. Kann man trotzdem von einer Freundschaft der beiden sprechen? Nein, kann man nicht. Man muss!
When Blinky Palermo died unexpectedly in February 1977 while on a trip to the Maldives, he was 33 years old and Günther Förg studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. So, Förg and Palermo never met.

An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work. “Dengler's oeuvre is also about trauma, both personal and collective, and although it offers no consolation whatsoever, another place where it investigates the meanderings of the human psyche is the shrink's—pop or not—sofa.

This book is dedicated to the work of Roberto Sironi, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. The activity of the Italian designer unfolds through highly symbolic projects, based on his personal interest in anthropology and ethnology.

This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. Beside testing new channels of preferential relationship between art and science as well as between artisanal and industrial manufacturing processes, the Polish designer is known for having contributed

The book is published in relation to the exhibition 1971 – Parallel Nonsychronism, a joint exhibition of Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery and tranzit.hu, which examined the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary, during the so-called Kádár era (1957–1989)

“Attached” is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts,

Guy Mees’s (1935–2003) photographs, videos, and above all his fragile works on paper are characterized by a formal rigor combined with sensitivity and delicacy. The uniqueness of his oeuvre lies precisely in its avoidance of conventional aesthetics and discursive classifications.

This publication documents the 2016 exhibition “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand,” which took place at Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz.

Bianca Baldis Publikation Play-White ist zwischen ihrer jüngsten gleichnamigen Videoarbeit und einer neu in Auftrag gegebenen Serie von Textilarbeiten angesiedelt, und vereint Ideen rund um den komplizierten Akt des „Passing".

Diese Publikation erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung we sat rigzd except for the parts
of our bodies that were needed for production von Sandra Lahire und Celeste Burlina.

prefaces to appendage ist in Verbindung mit der Ausstellung appendage von Iris Touliatou erschienen. Es versammelt eine Reihe von Vorworten zur Ausstellung, geschrieben von

R, C ist ein visueller und textlicher Streifzug durch das Leben und Schaffen in der Landschaft von Nikosia. Es kombiniert Künstlerstatement, Fotografie und Rap. R, C lässt drei Stimmen zu Wort kommen.

Verena Dengler ist eine Meisterin pointierter Anspielungen. Sie fügt Bilder, Skulpturen, Textilien und Fundmaterialien zu einem poetischen Kosmos zusammen:

This publication explores how Heimo Zobernig (Mauthen, Austria, 1958) has become one of the most relevant artists in the current European landscape.

“Dengler’s oeuvre is also about trauma, both personal and collective, and although it offers no consolation whatsoever, another place where it investigates the meanderings of the human psyche is the shrink’s—pop or not—sofa.

Eine umfassende Monografie über Amelie von Wulffen, mit eine Vielzahl neuer Bilder und Skulpturen. Sie beschäftigen sich vor allem mit emotionalen und auch psychoanalytischen Fragestellungen. Dabei interessiert die Künstlerin das Verhältnis von Unbewusstem und Bewusstem, das Mittragen von Traumata oder Schuld, wie auch versteckte Sehnsüchte, Fantasien und die Offenlegung von Scham.