Ein Buch über 1971 und die Zeit davor, Freiheit als Bild, die Materialität eines Übergangs, Musik, Sexualität und was ein aus Italien kommender, in Kairo geborener crooner in Berlin verliert: Ricky Shayne

Die antikolonialen und antirassistischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts gingen mit künstlerischen und theoretischen Gegenentwürfen zur Exklusivität der westlichen Moderne einher.

QUEER TIME — ASYMPTOPES OF ARTICULATION is about moving through queer time and language, modular and folding, communities, communal, traces, memories, collapsing and building.

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.

In art around 1990, an entire series of work forms indicates the existence of a broad spectrum of strategic shifts into other professional roles that are taken up on a fictional level by artists.

Dear world you have made the persons slow uses the World Health Organization's collected 2020 press statements about COVID-19 as its source material. Composed using blackout poetry, the project casts light on the ongoing and mostly unconscious consumption of online information.

Featuring contributions by Tristan Duke, Christian Egger, Milano Chow, Miriam Jung, R.M. ­Erdahl, Jutta Koether, Mariam Akubardia & Guram ­Sakvarelidze, Christian Kosmas Mayer & GPT-3, Rosa Aiello, Matthias Meyer, Loji ­Höskuldsson, Oli Surel, Mathias Kessler & ­Chiara ­Juriatti, Krasimira ­Stikar & an ­Interview with Monika Rinck.

El artista del Accionismo Vienés, Otto Muehl, fundó en 1970 una comuna con la intención de fusionar arte y vida. El proyecto tuvo un desarrollo excepcional, llegó a contar con más de quinientos integrantes convirtiéndose en una de las mayores comunidades contraculturales de la Europa del siglo XX.

“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.

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.

The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas — an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” — to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective.

Over the last fifteen years, Istanbul has emerged as one of the principal megacities at the outset of the twenty-first century. The picturesque has given way to an unexpected boom of new, profit-driven urban development including high-rise, sterile gated communities and satellite cities to house a vastly expanding population — all at the expense of long-time residents and under the mantle of a self-confident and arbitrary government.

Black Ecologies proposes the concept of Black Ecologies as a “resistance to extractive ecologies across the colonial-capitalist world.” Recognizing our world is at a crossroads, Black Ecologies is a multigenerational, multidimensional dialogue and a reminder that Black resistance is always already tending to other ecologies of being(s).

Independent art spaces on the African continent have flourished, particularly over the past twenty years in tandem with a youthful population in fast-urbanising cities.

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.

Begun on Instagram in 2017 as part of Bader’s exhibition at Museo Madre in Naples, @rt_rhyme is a series of photographs that pair artworks (identified by artist (sur)name) with various rhyming objects or actions: spoons in front of a Koons, cobble held next to a Schnabel, Sherman matched with some German and a crawl below a Saul.

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.

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".

The term ‘ricochet’ is a means to discuss unintended consequences, rapidly delivered information and viral outbreaks, but it is also used to describe the way in which sound echoes or reverberates against objects in space.

Vrach is Renaud Regnery's collection of all the sketches made for the painting of the same name: Vrach, 2019, plaster, acrylic paint and alkyd lacquer on wallpaper on canvas, 200 x 135 cm.

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?

A digest of magazines around the world edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin, Permanent Food is a cannibal magazine. Bound together in each issue of this periodical of pilfering from Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasé selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.

Sandra Peters: Leporello [Spatial Thinking] is a compact artist’s book that explores the sculptural practice of Sandra Peters through the format of a folded leporello.

Jenisch-Feu – Third Variation is a publication documenting a series of paintings by artists Thomas Koenig and Vianney Fivel.

The fruit of a lengthy research, this book shows for the first time a significant selection of René Heyvaert's mail art. The latter is linked to the Belgian artist’s multiform oeuvre—which retains, given that René Heyvaert (1928–1984) was originally an architect, an overt material and spatial relation to its environment—as well as to his personal life: his gradually deteriorating health, and the loneliness that fed his epistolary vocation.

The Henry Rox Revue combines artistic masterpieces between acrobatics, music and dance with the bizarre things of everyday life - the impossible is captured here in unique photographs. Henry Rox`s photographic world of images is a crazy revue with subtle humor and witty charm. She plays with dressing up and parodying and lives from simple and equally imaginative arrangements and productions in which he casts various roles with various fruits and vegetables as the main actor.

Riso print, 68 pages, no illustrations

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

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.

Focusing on Rudofsky’s encounters with Japan in the 1950s—he described postwar Japan as a “rear-view mirror” of the American way of life—architectural historian Felicity D. Scott revisits the architect’s readings of the vernacular both in the United States and Japan,

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.

Vierzehn internationale Künstler – u. a. Hilton Als, Ida Ekblad, Glenn Ligon und Thomas Hirschhorn – schlüpfen in Rollen aus Film, TV, Literatur und Kunst, um William Blake (1757–1827) neu zu befragen.

Knowledge of tools and materials is essential for artists. Approaching the image in your mind by making an actual, tangible object using materials and tools, is an important stage of work for every creator.

Mit dieser Frage greift das Kulturforum Dessau, das informelle Netzwerk vom Theater über die Evangelische Kirsche bis zum Umweltbundesamt, in eine erodierende kultur- und stadtpolitische Situation ein.

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?

The publication accompanies the exhibition "Alexander Kluge: Gardens of Cooperation" in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart: a comprehensive solo exhibition by the writer, filmmaker, and theorist Alexander Kluge, based on the show of the same name at the La Virreina Art Center in Barcelona.

Wir berichten vom Anfangen. Von Ritualen und Methoden des Anfangens, von zufälligen Fängen. Von Beginnlosigkeit. Vom Stellenwert des Anfangs und von möglichen Definitionen.

Erstmals wird das farbenfrohe Dante-Universum nun in einer reich illustrierten Monografie erkundet: mit bisher unveröffentlichten Bilddokumenten, Essays von Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Christoph Huber, Gabe Klinger, Violeta Kovacsics, Bill Krohn, Dušan Rebolj, John Sayles und Mark Cotta Vaz – und einem großen Interview mit Joe Dante selbst, das seine gesamte Laufbahn abdeckt.

Eine facettenreiche, üppig illustrierte Anthologie von Texten und Dokumenten zur Geschichte des Österreichischen Filmmuseums: fünfzig Jahre intensiver Ausstellungstätigkeit und lebendiger Auseinandersetzung mit Film, begleitet von einer Chronik der Programme und Gäste des Hauses seit 1964.

In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brought to life his youthful memories of Vienna at the turn of the last century.
(Germ./Engl.)

Das von Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath und Michael Loebenstein herausgegebene Buch Film Curatorship offeriert eine grundsätzliche Diskussion über das Medium Film und seine Vermittlung im Kontext von Museen und Cinémathèquen.

Following the 2015 exhibition “Florian Hecker/John McCracken” at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien Graz, this publication probes the experimental capacity of the white-cube space of the gallery.

Der Band versammelt Positionen, die aus

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,

A crossover zine between sex and art.

In Danh Vos's installation arrangements of objects, photographs, documents, artifacts and souvenirs, the private meets the public, his own biography on political history, original on copy. This book accompanying Danh Vo’s solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz pays homage to the artist’s father, Phung Vo, and his contributions to his son’s projects. Together with “Dahn Vo 2004-2012,” this volume constitutes a Danh Vo catalogue raisonne.

This book is the result of intellectual and physical journeys that artists, scholars, teachers, and students from China and Germany have undertaken together, in order to gain a better understanding of the connections between old Chinese philosophy (with an emphasis on Daoist writings), traditional Chinese painting, and contemporary art practices.

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.

How can the housing question (Wohnungsfrage) be appropriately reformulated in an age in which the work / life distinction is becoming increasingly blurred?

»Fairlady Z« ist die Bezeichnung für einen japanischen Sportwagen der Marke Nissan, der seinen Ursprung – wie die Künstlerin – in den 1960er Jahren hat.

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.

A series of short essays by Payam Sharifi exploring the clash of civilizations between the US and Iran across such cultural phenomena as the monobrow, soft drugs, and men’s ties. Excerpts from a forthcoming book.

The Making of PAPA is a photo book. It contains 250 photographs taken by 35 photographers from 6 countries.

This publication brings together six thematic approaches to contemporary photographic practice, developed by artists, theorists, and curators. Central to the discussion are fundamental questions about the role, meaning, and materiality of photographic images in the digital age.

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.

In this book Barbara Holub explores the significance of artistic practices counteracting the investororiented (urban) planning and examines what options are offered by the new, transdisciplinary role of urban practitioner.

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