Anfang der 1980er Jahre wurde Taaffe als wichtiger Vertreter der Appropriation Art international bekannt. Sein Interesse an Ornamenten unterschiedlicher Kulturen und historische Naturdarstellungen, die er als Fragmente in leuchtenden Farben auf die Leinwand bringt, prägen seine Bilder.

Ausstellungskatalog zu Lawrence Weiner X Y & Z, Bawag Foundation 17. März - 27 Mai 2006 (deutsch/englisch)

"Der tschechische Künstler und Trickfilmmacher Jan Švankmajer erzählt aberwitzige, traumartige Geschichten, die sich außerhalb von Zeit und Raum zu entfalten scheinen. Er, der Filmemacher wie Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Henry Selick und Darran Aronofsky maßgeblich beeinflusste, gilt unter Cineasten als Legende.

Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows.

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)

Primary Information-Reprint of George F. Maciunas text for issue nr. 3 of the Swedish magazine Kalejdoskop, released in 1979.

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”. (Engl.)

An attempt to rethink, analyse, debate, but most of all, celebrate Christoph Schlingensief´s work.

“Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters,” a touring exhibition organized by Para Site, Hong Kong, began as a series of questions: How did Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong all end up in New York in the heady 1980s?

Mit dieser Publikation wird das außergewöhnlich poetische wie konzeptuelle Werk der koreanisch-amerikanischen Künstlerin Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) erstmals in Europa vorgestellt. In nur einer Dekade entstand ein bahnbrechendes Werk, dessen Relevanz erst in den vergangenen Jahren entdeckt wurde.

The issue with the client is that the reasons why clients should pay for architecture (i.e., the reasons why rich or powerful individuals could become clients) seem to be disappearing.

Keep Moving ist ein Künstlerbuch von Hamish Fulton, dem britischen "walking artist", das er für das MUSEION Bozen konzipiert hat.

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective.

Seit den frühen 1950er Jahren gehört das Werk Marc Adrians zu den innovativsten Positionen der österreichischen Kunstentwicklung nach 1945. Wissenschaftliche Recherche und methodisches Vorgehen bestimmten seine künstlerische Praxis. (German / English)

Within the last decades, art from Turkey and artists with a Turkish (migrational) background have become highly visible in the contemporary art scene. This book offers an insight to this production with texts by

In his work, Terence Koh mobilizes seduction, lust and desire. These moments exemplify a strategy that integrates a queer, polymorphously perverse approach into art production. The meaning produced by his objects is tightly interwoven with both private narration and a wide range of subcultural fields of association. Koh frequently employs trivial materials, which are then transformed in the artistic process and transposed into an almost classical aesthetic. Terence Koh generiert in seinen Arbeiten Momente der Versuchung, der Lust und des Begehrens. Sie stehen exemplarisch für die Strategie, queere, polymorph perverse Zugänge in die künstlerische Produktion einfließen zu lassen. Die Signifikanz seiner Objekte ist angebunden an private Narration und ein weites Spektrum subkultureller Assoziationsfelder. Dabei verwendet Koh oft triviale Materialien, die durch seinen transformativen Umgang einer nahezu klassischen Ästhetik wieder eingeschrieben werden.

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.

San Rocco is interested in gathering together the widest possible variety of contributions. San Rocco believes that architecture is a collective knowledge, and that collective knowledge is the product of a multitude.

Anthroprogramming (8 pages newspaper format catalogue)

Die eindrucksvolle, in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Sugimoto von Martina Goldner gestaltete Publikation enthält Texte von Thomas Kellein, Eckhard Schneider und Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Das Buch erscheint zur Ausstellung in der Secession, Wien, 12. April - 16. Juni 2019.

Wirklich berühmt wurde Angelo Soliman (1721-1796) erst nach seinem Tod: als ausgestopfter ""Wilder"", der in der kaiserlichen Naturaliensammlung ausgestellt war. Dabei ist seine Lebensgeschichte an sich faszinierend - es handelt sich um das geglückte Leben eines Migranten, der im Wien des 18. Jahrhunderts Karriere machte.

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

Ulay - Life-Sized He describes himself self-deprecatingly as the “most famous unknown artist”: Frank Uwe Laysiepen aka Ulay. With his concept of transformation, he constantly

The words on the cover of Aslan Gaisumov’s first monograph are names of places no longer inhabited.

Florian Hecker works with synthetic sound, which is made by processes of digital and electroacoustic signal processing.

Artist Magazine

Großzügig präsentierte Aufnahmen der Landschaftsinstallation und Abbildungen früherer Werke des Künstlers begleiten die Essays von Eckhard Schneider, Martin Seel und Beat Wyss. (D/Engl.)

EP is the first critically underpinned series of publications that fluidly move between art, design, and architecture. The series creates a discursive platform between popular magazines (“single play”) and academic journals (“long play”) by introducing the notion of the “extended play” into publishing: with thematically edited pocket books as median. (engl.)

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

FUKT Magazine, one of the world’s leading, engaging and inspiring drawing magazine returns for its 20th edition. This new anniversary release looks at the art of portraits in drawing.

With texts by Denis Hollier, Mark Wigley, Rosalind Krauss, Sabeth Buchmann, Sebastian Egenhofer, Helmut Draxler, Manuel DeLanda, and Johannes Porsch. This books offers an insight to the exhibition Transitory Objects, (July 3 - October 31, 2009) at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.

“The African Twintowers” by Christoph Schlingensief is the conclusion of a trilogy on the theme of “Slum” that Neue Galerie Graz started in autumn 2006. “The African Twintowers”; this hybrid of theatrical installation and cinema, is a powerful investigation of the African poverty crisis. The countries high daily mortality rate, resulting either from the cruel civil wars, hunger, or AIDS, can still be traced back to the aftermath of Western colonial policy.

Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age. Exploring how today’s myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

This catalogue is an extension of an ongoing research and exhibition project that TBA21 has supported since its inception in 2006. The Sovereign Forest renders visible and collects evidence of what has hitherto been hidden and suppressed within the site of a “modern war,”

The symposium reflects on historical and actual models of art institutions and organisations that deal with production and circulation of art and ideas in an experimental and flexible way.

To accompany his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, this book presents the work of the Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kyes. In collaboration with the curator, Barbara Steiner, the exhibition and publication bring together a range of works by Kyes, as well as works by a host of collaborators that includes architects, artists, writers, curators, editors, and graphic designers, presenting contemporary graphic design as a practice that mediates, and is mediated by, its allied disciplines.

The artist’s book Ki-da Rilke evolved in relation to the exhibition “Line Wall” by Sung Hwan Kim.

The Walk Book collects and preserves some of the words and dialogues that are part of Janet Cardiff’s walks, transposing them into a literary form and yet dissolving all possible determinations and codifications.

Created in Berlin around 15 years ago, this large-format collage book by Isa Genzken is both a personal diary and artistic manifesto. In it are portraits of the artist and her friends;

“I wanted a newspaper, the picture in my head was of someone slapping a fat stack of paper on the table in front of you, in your face, saying: Right, now it’s happened.” (Siggi Hofer) The versatility that distinguishes Siggi Hofer’s exhibitions is also evident in a publication accompanying his current

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.

San Rocco is a magazine about architecture. It does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine. It is neither serious nor friendly.

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FUKT Magazine is a Berlin-based magazine for contemporary drawing, beautifully designed with a focus on the visual.

Peep-Hole Sheet is a project designed to host artists’ thoughts, theories and stories. For this first issue Liam Gillick presents "Stories," a text that was originally intended as a speech at a conference about the roles of galleries and critics held at the Hôtel des Arts, Fondation Nationale des Arts, in Paris in September 1992.

This two-volume set documents American-born, Berlin-based sculptor Jason Dodge's (born 1969) 2013 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.

Dieses Buch beinhaltet die Bilder von Dike Blair, die im Frühjahr 2016 in der Secession ausgestellt wurden.

This anthology gathers writings on art and gender in Eastern Europe, contributing almost neglected historical and contemporary aspects to present debates, thereby shedding new light on the field as a whole.

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.

Eine Mappe mit Siebdrucken und Fotos aus der Ausstellung "Pour finir encore" von Olaf Nicolai in der "Padiglione d'Are Contemporanea", Ferrara.