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.

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.

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

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.

"The textual whole forms that empty space in which the eyes can both rest and open to see the unexpected."
With Martina Steckholzer painting is documentary, deconstructive and poetic. In large-format room images, she looks at exhibition architecture and

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.

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,

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 by himself” is the intellectual biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Through his innovative approach to painting, sculpture, film and photography, he influenced minimalism, conceptual art and performance art from the late 1960s to the present.

An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties.

“Urban Kitsch”, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalization of the Indian economy. Plastic toys, celebrity mud flaps, and postmodern architecture collide into a new formal category—both celebrated and derided—as Praneet Soi traverses the city on his trusted Yamaha RX 100.

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.

“Where Do You Draw The Line Between Art and Politics?” consists of a series of interviews with individuals who have been active in various capacities at the intersection of art and politics.

In the turbulent square of Martim Moniz, stands a robust building by the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. Invited by TECLA PLAY Cultural Association, artist Leylâ Gediz presents an installation of paintings in the interior gallery of the building,

First publication to document the use and potential of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations in the arts that use blockchain technology and build on NFT innovations. Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their joint ventures using blockchain technology.

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.

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.

This special issue is the cataLog for “Model Behavior,” a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. The exhibition, which ran October 4–November 18, 2022, questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behavior.

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,

arbitrary presents “Delirious Cartographies” (arbitrary13) by composer, improviser and synthesist Richard Scott. Part of the Danish imprint’s Framework editions, this release includes three pieces on 12" vinyl and six printed drawings – as well as a text by Scott – published as a limited edition portfolio folder.

arbitrary presents the third in the “Black Box” series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.

“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

Surreal arrangements of artifacts from skulls and teapots to fried eggs and dirty socks by Théo Mercier. Théo Mercier (born 1984) employs found objects in his photography and sculpture to subvert viewers’ expectations. His inaugural monograph reveals the impressive scope of his oeuvre.

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,

The apparent primary goal of Eric’s treatise is to define something called ‘the Real’, with the help of a patchwork of theoretical materials drawn from contemporary mathematics, mathematical physics, ‘neurophysics’ and continental theory. Other topics in the text,

"In a house you wanted to intrude, searching for a narrative you've detected between a character, images and photographs. I remember bumping against a floor lamp, causing its glow to waver briefly. Trying to ascertain the transmissions while already standing in front of objects that demand to be looked at."

"If it is somehow identifiable as part of a referential system, we immediately understand the meaning of a line on a piece of paper. A horizontal line will be easily read as a minus, an em dash or a way on a map, no matter how sloppily it is written or drawn."

A Female Gaze explores the paintings and drawings of contemporary artist Caroline Walker through the lens of Laura Knight, arguably Nottingham's most famous artist and the first woman to be elected a Royal Academian.

Tabea Blumenschein (1952–2020), Hilka Nordhausen (1949–1993) und Rabe perplexum (1956–1996) waren exzentrische Künstler*innen der achtziger Jahre – sie agierten abweichend von Normen und außerhalb des Zentrums im subkulturellen Milieu.

In the Making: In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After. A Research-Based Practice is about the working method of the artist and exhibition maker Marion von Osten.

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?

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.

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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.