Peter Fischli and David Weiss created this special book to accompany their 1999 exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It consists of forty unbound photographs from their series »Blumen« (Flowers, 1997–98) – richly colored double-exposures of blossoms, leaves, and raucous vegetal life.

Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. (engl.)

If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

Boris Groys hat sich als einer der bedeutendsten Kulturtheoretiker Europas etabliert. Seine Schriften sind gekennzeichnet durch eine ungewöhnliche Themenwahl und eine ebenso ungewöhnliche Betrachtungsweise.

In our cultural imagination, the cosmos is a harmonious, utopian universe, but it is also uncontrollable, even unknown, and the source of a specifically modern fear or uneasiness—one that could be described as “cosmic anxiety.”

Sammlung von verschiedenen Bildern und Texten für die Ausstellung Confessions Evangelisch-Katholisch.

This collection of essays does not aim to illustrate a prefabricated theory of art, but rather follows the impulses given by artworks themselves.

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

How can art and culture contribute to creating new imaginaries of the future within the current political and social discourse marked by misinformation, radicalization, populism, and a general crisis of representative democracy? Shaping Desired Futures draws the map of a changing Europe that can help contextualize today’s burning questions and trace still unknown narratives shared by Eastern and Central Europe. Through a series of interviews, essays, and artistic contributions, it proposes new means through which art can model alternative visions and help shaping different desirable futures.

Universalsystem zur Darstellung von allem ist ein zentrales konzeptuelles Werk von Ilya Kabakov, in dem Ordnung, Klassifikation und Erklärung selbst zum Gegenstand der künstlerischen Arbeit werden.