RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and curators—the Académie fellows—come from all over the world to be accompanied by faculty members with

The Austrian artist Lois Weinberger, who participated in documenta in 1997 and 2017 and in the Venice Biennale in 2009, realized two large installations for the Kunststiftung NOW Esterhazy Contemporary:

A two-volume artist’s book highlighting the sculptor’s protracted career and stringent works
Designed by American conceptual sculptor Cady Noland (born 1956), The Clip-On Method’s two volumes can be picked up and read in any order: back to front, front to back, or started in the middle. Readers take it upon themselves to weave their way through Noland’s tangled oeuvre.

Raqs Media Collective wurde von der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien eingeladen, eine Ausstellung mit den Werken der kunsthistorischen Sammlung zu kuratieren. Das aus Indien stammende Kollektiv, das seine Arbeitsweise mit dem Begriff des „epistemischen Ungehorsams” umschreibt, hat Werke aus der Sammlung ausgewählt, um sie mit gegenwärtigen Positionen zu konfrontieren:

Die überarbeitete, aktualisierte und um fast 100 Projekte erweiterte Neuausgabe des Katalogs zur «a_schau», der Dauerausstellung über die österreichische Architektur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), ist zu einem eigenständigen Werk geworden, das weit über die Ausstellung hinausweist.

The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas.&;&;Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

The Secession Talks. Exhibitions in Conversation versammelt 46 Ausstellungsgespräche, die von 2011 bis 2022 in der Secession stattfanden.

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

Belgrade collective Škart has been operating within and around existing hierarchies of the art world and everyday life, working in collaboration with marginalized groups, NGOs, and anti-war movements. Škart ‘s understanding of the artwork is fluid and relationship based. No matter the medium —

In 1988, a seminar was held at the Bauhaus Dessau as part of the UN-HABITAT programme that dealt with questions of housing construction in 'developing countries'. A prefabricated building system developed by GDR architects was presented here, which was used for the first time in an education and development center of the African National Congress (ANC) in Dakawa, Tanzania. The educational

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.

1809 fand im Londoner Wirkwarengeschäft seines Bruders die erste und einzige Einzelausstellung des Maler-Dichters William Blake statt. Sie erwies sich als Reinfall. Kaum jemand sah sie. Die Kritiken waren verheerend, mit Ausnahme einer Rezension, die im Januar 1811 in einem patriotischen Hamburger Kulturmagazin erschien.

“Saint Louis in his prison in Damietta”, “A house engulfed in flames ...”, “A snowman, such as children build ...”: The painter and illustrator Henri-Achille Zo (1873–1933) received a total of 59 instructions of this kind in the early 1930s.

This publication summarizes the results of the 40th-Anniversary Symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, which was dedicated to examining current and future perspectives of museum collections. Considering the growing awareness—on an aesthetic as well as an institutional level—of the need to pursue a more inclusive

My Body is a Battlefield bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk der 1988 auf der Krim geborenen ukrainischen Künstlerin Maria Kulikovska. Bereits in frühen Arbeiten setzt sie sich mit patriarchalen Strukturen und der Abwesenheit weiblicher Subjektivität in der ukrainischen Kunst auseinander. Mit der Annexion

Queer Nursing offers an alternative, inclusive way for both performing and supporting nursing. Written as a human manual, it takes the reader through the nursing process from start to finish. Through easy, loving language it supports nursing parents, other parental figure(s) and friends in their journey of emotional and physical milestones as well as offering gentle ways to take care of each other.
The manual includes a new way of nursing by introducing the phasing system, which will aid the family in both starting and ending nursing in a calm, caring way. Queer Nursing is Gorilla Milk’s first release.

The work of the artist takes as its subject the current neoliberal system and its impact on the individual, as measured under Marxist analysis. It particularly approaches issues such as working conditions,

Next Spring is an occasional series of reviews that offers a different approach to the writing of art criticism. Focused on the reading of one film work, each book in the series presents a parallel text on the artwork as both a critical response and literary production. The film selected and the text produced consider ecological issues, environmental concerns, and systematic revisionings. The language of place is given priority and image reproductions used nominally. Paris, May 16, the pilot issue, includes writings by Clara Schulmann, Barbara Sirieix, and Jennifer Teets, as well as a visual essay by Scott Rogers on the invitation of Richard Frater.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Portrait” consists of a glossary of synonyms and an essay by artist and poet Leif Holmstrand.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Non-territorial” consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Black” consists of the A–Z list and an adapted version of the essay by Oscar Guermouche from the book Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black by Sandra Praun, and a part of an interview with Pierre Soulages. Rotolito / Nava Press

Produced in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre, this publication was released on the occasion of the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition

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.

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.

Tagging has rarely been the subject of serious examination. The Tag Conference is a first attempt to conceptually frame contemporary tagging, and to study it alongside its abundant but largely ignored historical antecedents. Informal name writing in public spaces is

Conceived by artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon, this publication is a tribute to a group of innovative sister cinematographas and to the analogue motion picture camera. The book pairs an enquiry into women’s filmmaking practice with a comprehensive survey of experimental analogue technique across generations.

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. ⁣

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.

Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue, guest-edited by Safia Elhillo and produced by an all-Black takeover team, explores the infinitely varied and kaleidoscopic nature of the Black SWANA experience.

12 individual sheets with prints of drawings.
12 einzelne Blätter mit Druckgrafiken.
Edition of 100

12 individual sheets with prints of drawings.
12 einzelne Blätter mit Druckgrafiken.
Edition of 100

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.

An early discussion at an Independent Space Index Stammtisch led to a proposal that Vienna’s independent scene could be considered a large and diverse intergenerational institution, presenting hundreds of exhibitions and projects per year, creating a responsive web of international networks.

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,

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault invited the historian Frédéric Prot and the photographer Philippe Chancel to reveal, both in writing and images, this radical work by the architect Jean Dubuisson that he designed during the 1960s, as well as the commitment of his client André Weil to build a domain at Pontpoint.

Forked Apologies gathers twenty-five texts by Michael Van den Abeele, all but two written on invitation by fellow artists and architects in the course of the last ten years. Drawings by Michael Van den Abeele of the concerned works and exhibitions accompany the texts. In fiction or description,

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.

“Modernism/Murderism”, translated by Vasvi Oza, brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of the Gujarati-language periodical “Kumar” between 1959 and 1964.

First monograph devoted to the work of video artist and performer Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976), an artistic figure of the Californian scene in the 1970s, based on extensive research and three international exhibitions.

Dénes Farkas’ personal exhibition focuses on issues of choice, uncertainty, insecurity and preparedness, highlighting the contingency of normality and casting doubt on the production of truth and scientific rationality.

The exhibition comprises

For the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the Lithuanian Space Agency and its founder Julijonas Urbonas present Planet of People, an artistic study into a hypothetical artificial planet made up of human bodies. Along with the exhibition in Venice, the LSA introduces its first annual report.

The book is a compilation and an archive of press cuttings, consisting of more than two hundred articles, commentaries, reports, and advertisements that

Jeder Raum, wo Wesen wie wir leben, ist voll beweglicher Materie. Doch worin liegen die ethischen und politischen Kriterien für unseren Umgang mit dieser Materialität des Kollektiven?

Dangerous Bodies brings together artist Barbara Kapusta’s recent writing. Designed by Sabo Day Font: Silom, Dangerous Bodies

Riso print, 68 pages, no illustrations

After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group’s Scandinavian section.

Dieses Künstlerbuch entstand im Zuge der gleichnamigen Ausstellung „Josef Dabering - Proposal for a New Kunsthaus, not further developed.“, welche von 4. bis 11. Juni 2004 im Grazer Kunstverein stattfand.

With “Markings”, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Spector Books are initiating a series of small-format, polymorph publications. They will be produced together with artists who have exhibited, intervened, or performed at the Kunst-Werke.

Was könnte das sein, ein Leben als Künstlerin oder Künstler zu führen, und wie? Ist das Schlafwandeln oder eine trotzige Selbst-Behauptung? Wie kann man literarische, naturwissenschaftliche und philosophische Überlegungen mit Kunst verbinden?

Dieser Text basiert auf einer Zusammenstellung von bereits veröffentlichtem Material. Für jeden Tag eines imaginären Jahres hat Daniela Comani Vermerke über ein jeweils spezifisches Ereignis aus dem Zeitraum eines Jahrhunderts (1900–1999) zusammengetragen.

Herbert Fuchs verwandelt seinen Künstlerfreund Kippenberger in eine vielschichtige Kunstfigur. In raffinierten Textmontagen –

Herbert Fuchs entwirft in seinen Textmontagen aus Erinnerung, Beobachtung und Fiktion literarische Porträts seiner Weggefährten Geiger, Zobernig und Kippenberger.

This volume is a collection of drawings and captions for “unshowable” photographs taken in Palestine in 1947–50,

Michaela Melián sprach mit Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, Josef Anton Riedl, Hans-Jörg Wicha sowie Knurd Alsleben über die Multimedia-Arbeit VariaVision- Unendliche Fahrt, das Studio für elektronische Musik und die HfG Ulm.

This publication revolves around drawing as an autonomous and unpredictable artistic force.

Im Sommer 2015 durchquerte Hans Schabus auf seinem Fahrrad die USA von West nach Ost. Täglich an high noon fotografierte er was ihn umgab und des Abends sandte er eine Postkarte an sich selbst.

Abweichend von der journalistischen Routine des Interviews, zeigt sich hier der Versuch, aus der unbefangenen Begegnung eine eigenständige Form zu entwickeln, die nicht dem Schema der Prominentenbefragung und dem Gebot des pointierten Statements gehorcht, sondern an der Idee einer souveränen Diskussion orientiert ist.

Film in print. From the celebrated director Owen Land 144-2011, American filmmaker. Irreverent, intellectual, dangerous. Kunsthalle Bern 4.4. - 17.5.2009 Owen Land: "How can you believe anything he says?" KW Berlin - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - Institute for Contemporary Art 22.11.2009 - 24.1.2010

Gülsün Karamustafa’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in social and political realities.

The main exhibition is a solo presentation of the work of artist and critic Ronald Jones (b. 1952,
United States) and is curated by artist Jason Dodge and Krist Gruijthuijsen, director of the Grazer
Kunstverein. Ronald Jones gained prominence in New York during the mid-1980s by using
disparate formal and minimal languages to explore