Joan Mitchells Malerei bündelt Energie, Erinnerung und räumliche Erfahrung. In dichten Schichtungen und weiten Öffnungen verdichten sich Farbe, Geste und Rhythmus zu eigenständigen Bildräumen.

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

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.

Dr. Olof Tarski, not yet widely known to the public, illustrated the effects of sympathomimetic drugs in his first booklet for Taube. For this cause, he uses slightly manipulated imagery and hidden short poems (in german) for which the reader needs to rub on the pages in order to read them.
Just like sex, indirect sympathomimetics almost cause the same symptoms. A frightening but yet fascinating fact in these days is that every physical symptom may also be produced artificially. The intention behind this work is to show how much drugs and medications are in a position to control our physical sensation.

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

An incomplete guide for life. Each person written about is represented by a letter, and when an object turns into a subject it is marked in bold.

In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting.

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.

"With a multitude of stylistic approaches, the volume is an ideal synopsis of Benning's exceptional career, which itself stands tall as a structuralist representation of the United States of America, and the American landscape in particular. From fellow traveller Sharon Lockhart's

"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.

Why, when we are desperately in love, do we continuously block union with our love object?

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

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

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

Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides’ images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.

Paul Thek in Process. Commentaries on/of an Exhibition publiziert das gesamte Recherchematerial, das in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise in der Ausstellungsreihe Paul Thek in Process öffentlich gemacht wurde.

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.

Der japanische Garten wird in weitere Kontexte gerückt: der Künste, der Wissenschaften, der politischen Geschichte, des kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels, der Religionen.

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.

The Age of Experience: Hong Kong, Vienna: Exhibition Strategy & Reflection : School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in cooperation with AIL Angewandte Innovation Lab, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Herbert Fuchs’ künstlerisches Schaffen ist untrennbar mit dem Medium Buch und dem Text verbunden. Er arbeitet seit den 1980er-Jahren

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

Die Publikation begleitet die gleichnamige Ausstellung, die sich dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Philosophie und zeitgenössischer Kunst widmete. Zitate – aus literarischen, poetischen oder theoretischen Kontexten – bilden den Ausgangspunkt für künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen, in denen Sprache nicht bloß referenziert, sondern transformiert, überformt oder konfrontiert wird.

Anne Speier wurde in Frankfurt am Main geboren und lebt in Wien wo sie an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste unterrichtet.

Christoph Meier im Gespräch mit Luca Lo Pinto 29. Oktober 2014

Dienstag Abend 17. Dezember 2014

Das, seit 2010 von Künstler Ezara Spangl und Rainer Spangl kuratierte Kunstvermittlungsprogramm Artist Lecture Series Vienna, gibt Künstler_innen die Möglichkeit vor Kolleg_innen und anderen interessierten Personen über ihre Arbeit zu sprechen sowie die Gelegenheit zur Präsentation einer Originalarbeit. Eine Auswahl an Transkriptionen der abgehaltenen Lectures werden in Form von Publikationen einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich gemacht.

Judith Eister 19. Oktober 2011

Marina Faust 14. März 2012

Assign & Arrange: Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance aims to map the exchanges and transgressions between art and dance that characterize the manifold variety of relations between art and dance that can be observed today.

To him, a city is like a mountain range, but with one essential difference: there are always new skyscrapers under construction. Known as “the French Spider-Man”, Alain Robert is famous for his free solo climbing, scaling skyscrapers using no equipment except for a small bag of chalk and a pair of climbing shoes.

"'Academy' is an international series of exhibtions and projects initiated by Siemens Art Program and realized in cooperations with teh Kunsteverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, zhe Museum van Hedemdaagse Kunst Antwerpen, MuHKA, and the Van Abbemuseum in Endhoven."

Das, seit 2010 von Künstler Ezara Spangl und Rainer Spangl kuratierte Kunstvermittlungsprogramm Artist Lecture Series Vienna, gibt Künstler_innen die Möglichkeit vor Kolleg_innen und anderen interessierten Personen über ihre Arbeit zu sprechen sowie die Gelegenheit zur Präsentation einer Originalarbeit. Eine Auswahl an Transkriptionen der abgehaltenen Lectures werden in Form von Publikationen einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich gemacht.

Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records.

HER steht für Hermetic Experimental Research. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Raumforschung, die am eigenen Leib oder besser:

Ein Konzeptkünstler, der sich mit Fundstücken aus der Natur beschäftigt. Als Vertreter des Informell und der ZERO-Bewegung lebt der niederländische Künstler seit 1970 in Eschenau (Mittelfranken) und arbeitet praktisch vor der Haustür, in seinem 200 km² großen ›Atelier‹, dem Steigerwald.

Mit seinem Biennale-Beitrag reagiert Heimo Zobernig unmittelbar auf die Ausstellungssituation in dem 1934 nach Plänen von Josef Hoffmann und Robert Kramreiter gebauten Österreichischen Pavillon, der mit klassischen Rundbögen und hoheitsvoll anmutenden Blickachsen einerseits sowie streng rationalen Formen und modernen Baustoffen andererseits zwischen Historizität und Moderne laviert.

The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequently, to rethink the problem of political subjectivity not from the point of view of a Western conception of a liberal citizen but rather from that of the displaced and extraterritorial refugee.

Initiated by Keren Cytter and co-edited by Fiona Bryson and Roger van Voorhees, the quarterly publication focuses on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

The “Poetic Series” brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and coedited with Fiona Bryson, the quarterly publications focus on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

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

Utopia of Sound explores the growing significance of sound as a distinct aesthetic and cultural phenomenon in contemporary art, film, and visual culture.

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?

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

A crossover zine between sex and art.

a crossover zine between sex and art

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

basso magazin is edited by Yusuf Etiman. Yusuf was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin since 1989.

Basso #5 is the fifth issue of the independent art and culture magazine Basso, dedicated to contemporary discourses at the intersection of art, society, and theory.

#6

a crossover zine between sex and art

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates contemporary articulations of postcolonial fashion critique, and

Texts by Art & Language, Colectivo Situaciones, Charles Esche, Ljiljana Filipovi?, Jon Hendricks, Brian Holmes, Ana Longoni, Viktor Misiano, Angelika Nollert, Suely Rolnik, WHAT, HOW & FOR WHOM/WHW and Stephen Wright. Publisher: Kunsthalle Fridericianum (René Block), Siemens Arts Program (Angelika Nollert). Publishing company: Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/Main.

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.

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)

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.

If you do dare to mention beauty, then some well-intentioned idiot says “beauty is subjective”, as if this in- disputable truth (given that beauty is, of course, subjective) would implicitly mean that nothing subjective and shared (or universal, or common, or whatever you’d like to call it) could possibly exist; as if subjects could never agree, or could never admit their shared nature and recognize themselves in what, in the end, is nothing more than this: the sudden appearance of something that we all like, something to which we would all like to surrender ourselves (i.e., the sudden appearance of beauty). So, yes: beauty is subjective. But this is no reason to stop worrying about beauty.