Henri Chopin, a pioneer of sound poetry and radical typography, brings his unique voice to the artist’s book The Conference of Yalta.

Stemming from Matt Mullican's (born 1951) acclaimed retrospective held at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, in summer 2018, this publication follows Rubbings Catalogue 1984–2016 (2016).

Lawrence Weiner (New York, the United States, 1942) is one of the representatives of Conceptual and post-Minimalism art whose work can be placed next to American artists from the same generation such as Joseph Kosuth and Robert Barry.

The Big Picture is the first major monograph dedicated to Arthur Elgort, one of the most influential fashion photographers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Ingeborg Strobl (1949 – 2017) vereinte Grafik, Aquarell, Fotografie, Collage, Objekt und Text zu dichten Bild‑Gefügen, in denen Fundstücke aus Natur und Alltag ein neues poetisches Eigenleben erhielten.

In the search for new ways of experiencing sound, this book describes a path from music to the visual arts.

Work list of Per Kirkby's etching band III (1998-2015) Foreword by Museum Director Jacob Thage. Texts by German Kirkeby expert Christiane Lukatis & museum inspector Lucas Haberkorn. With biography, exhibition list & literature listing

Workbooks present an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024. Below, writer David Chandler reflects on Shafran's Workbooks:

Eine der ältesten Formen chinesischen Volksglaubens erweist sich als lebendiger Brauch, der überall in der Kultur Chinas praktiziert wird:

„Austrian-born photographer Leo Kandl worked for twelve years on this project. He began with a Nikon F camera and later switched to a Rolleiflex. He developed and printed all the images himself. After fruitlessly searching for a publisher for fifteen years, his work was introduced to swiss publisher Stemmle by author and curator Peter Weiermair. Stemmle published the book in 1999.“

An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family

Erwin Bohatsch's work is characterized by constant oscillation between representationalism and abstraction, between color and non-color, between line and surface.

From 1998 to 2005, photographer Ivan Sigal worked, lived and travelled in Central Asia, traversing Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. He roamed with a dual identity: on the one hand designing media projects with local communities; on the other, an itinerant documentarian. The images from his multi-year odyssey reveal

„Hier liegt ein Werk vor, das auf großartige Weise ein Grundmotiv allen Bauens zu erschließen versteht.“ (Horst Bredekamp)Kragkuppelbauten sind einfache, aber faszinierende Bauformen, die aus ganz praktischen Gründen entstanden: Die Steine, die in vielen Gegenden so zahlreich herumliegen, schichtete man in Trockenbauweise zu nützlichen Strukturen auf – vor allem zu Hütten.

Nordic Iron Age Art has survived in the precious metals gold, silver and bronze in the form of jewellery, brooches, weapon accessories and other utility objects. In the first centuries of our time, art was dominated by the inspiration from Roman and Classical art,

The Norwegian archaeologist Bente Magnus describes the historical and social conditions of myths and art: ornaments and animals with masks and human representations, plants as jewelry, weapons, utensils made of gold, silver and bronze. The tradition continues in Nordic art right up to the stave churches.

Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of “Free Jazz Communism“, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.

C21ST RECENT HISTORY: Handmade in an edition of 100, B&W digital and four-colour riso plates on Munken Pure smooth 120gsm paper, Stardream Metallic SILVER 120gsm, Xerox Bright White coated 170gsm with matt black foil debossed Fedrigoni Ultra Black 185gsm boards; pearl Plastikoils binding;

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.

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.

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,

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,

Die Fotografien, die Annette Kelm innerhalb einer großen Bandbreite von Erscheinungsformen im Laufe der letzten fünfzehn Jahre geschaffen hat, gehören zu den faszinierendsten und bedeutendsten Beiträgen der jüngsten zeitgenössischen Kunst.

'The spirit of Gemini is best captured by the word 'collaboration.' It's about artists and printers working hand in hand to create works of art. This same spirit prevails when I take photos. There's a trust extended by the artists, allowing me to share so many special moments with them.' -Sidney Felsen

In Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black graphic designer Sandra Praun takes on the color black and the language that charges it with a variety of characteristics. The book consists of three parts:

On the occasion of the exhibition Die fünfte Säule [The fifth column], curated by Moritz Küng, Joëlle Tuerlinckx presents the lecture-performance Les moments d?espace ? lecture for YouTube in 591 panels (version 17.11.11) and the publication Moments d?espace.
On 591 PowerPoint pages the artist describes her subjective and partially autobiographical thoughts concerning the paradox of space in the form of ?textimages? in French with English subtitles. While these are projected uncommented, Tuerlinckx improvises a musicalpiece on a first-generation Casio synthesizer.

Dedicated to his friend and mentor Peter Hujar, Salters Cottages is an artist’s book of stills from a short film Schneider made in 1981 at Salters Cottages, a summer seaside cottage community on Long Island, New York.

This small publication is an edited reprint of the essay ‘The Book in Intermediary Form’ written by Kasper Andreasen. It was originally published in 2011 by Wintertuin, Nijmegen as part of a compilation about the future of the book. The essay argues for a possible scenario leading up to a hypothesis about an audio­visual book. How can artists’ books be audio­visual objects?

In diesem Ausstellungskatalog werden zum ersten Mal die drei Künstlerpositionen Wade Guyton, Guyton\Walker und Kelley Walker gemeinsam vorgestellt. Die Präsentation erlaubt die parallele Betrachtung und Auseinandersetzung mit beiden Einzelpositionen sowie mit dem 2004 gegründeten Künstlerduo.

mit Beiträgen von Cerith Wyn Evans, Florian Hecker, Liam Gillick, Carsten Höller, Robin Mackay, Jeannie Moser, Molly Nesbit, Olaf Nicolai, Martin Prinzhorn, Maria Spiropulu, Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman (Englisch)

Marcel Duchamps druckgrafische Arbeiten sind ein bedeutendes Instrument seiner konzeptuellen Praxis und reflektieren seine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Originalität, Autorschaft und Reproduzierbarkeit.

Negotium ist ein Künstlerbuch und gleichzeitig ein "Verkaufskatalog" von drei Werken von Franz West, Nummer 23, 47 und 48.

Der Katalog vermittelt einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk des großen Minimalisten Carl Andre.

Gespräch zwischen Jutta Koether und Diedrich Diederichsen.

San Rocco was the product of the collaboration of two young architects. San Rocco did not contribute to the later fame of its two designers. It is neither “standard Grassi” nor “standard Rossi”.
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The publication includes a series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period, along with a collection of secondary and parallel material produced in collaboration with each artist.

A “politics of listening” is an intervention into and a reorganization of forms that listening takes rather than a call for free speech or for a platform for voices to be heard.

Jochen Lempert macht sich einen Spaß mit dem menschlichen Hang, die Phänomene der Welt als Zeichen zu deuten.

Alcohol Makes You Invincible by dddddddumar Fukunovo takes place where many twenty-first century death cult stories take place, the post-apocalyptic now.

"After the Act" basiert auf der gleichnamigen Vortragsreihe und Ausstellung im MUMOK Wien 2005. After the Act setzt sich mit der Beziehung der Performancekunst zu ihren Dokumentationsformen und ihrer Rezeptionsgeschichte vom einmaligen Ereignis zur 'cultural commodity' (kulturellen Ware) auseinander.

This publication is a record of Klütterkammer - An exhibition by John Bock at the Institute of contemporary Arts, London.

If it was once God who pervaded and determined every last corner of human existence, it is now porn, the sibling of sex.

Ulay is one of the pioneers of performance art. His practice is not about human alienation, but rather the kind of alienation that captures art and then forms its own identity.

In Joan Jonas's 1976 video work I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) the artist investigates a geography of displacement and irrefutable desires.

Fragt man nach einem verlässlichen Seismografen und obsessiven Forensiker unserer tiefsten menschlichen Abgründe, so führt an Gottfried Helnwein kein Weg vorbei. Wie kein Zweiter führt er uns in seinen Bildern seit mittlerweile fünf Jahrzehnten medienwirksam die Auswüchse menschlicher Gewalt vor Augen und konfrontiert uns mit unseren Trieben und Ängsten.

Martin Herbert’s The Uncertainty Principle is a collection of essays that reveals layers of unknowing and open-endedness within a diversity of contemporary art practices since the 1970s.

Mit Beiträgen von Nora M. Alter, Michel Chion, Christoph Cox, Diedrich Diederichsen, Caryl Flinn, Barbara Flückiger, Tom Holert, Brandon LaBelle, Christian Petzold, Constanze Ruhm, Christian Scheib, Holger Schulze, Axel Stockburger, Terre Thaemlitz, Hildegard Westerkamp

Contemporary art museums are building. In recent decades art museums and public galleries have extensively renovated, rebuilt and added structures to their premises. New museums have been commissioned and erected by private collectors and companies; existing public museums and art institutions have expanded through the opening of new ‘branches’ and franchises. But what should take place within these new premises?

The inaugural issue of Basso Magazine delves into the intricate interplay between art, identity, and corporeality.

There is plenty of bad architecture all over the place. Stupid, wrong architecture. Architecture that failed, and failed miserably. Architecture that is full of mistakes. (English)

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This is a phosphorescently brilliant exploration of the birth and life of video. In the times when electronic media meant the flow of televisual signals, video became a uniquely glimmering force of idiosyncratic memory and the ordination of time.

Post-Partum Dokument von Mary Kelly ist eines der bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten künstlerischen Statements zum Thema Identität in diesem Jahrhundert und vollzieht eine elementare Verschmelzung von Feminismus und minimalistischer Performanz.

Franz Graf is now playing his characteristic game with emptiness and abundance, black-and-white contrasts, letters and words, small, delicate details and large iconic, archaic, and modern elements at the 21er Haus. For this he is not only meshing the many aspects of his oeuvre with a new series, but also juxtaposing this with works by international

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.

This issue of the Fama & Fortune Bulletin presents a haunting photographic series by Christopher Wool, created in response to a fire that destroyed his studio on 9th Street in New York in 1996.

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production.