This publication is the result of the close collaboration between individuals and institutions from several European countries, with different historical, political as well as professional backgrounds but with common interests in the critical debate about the modernist heritage and its interpretation in the post-modern times, in different social and political systems.

This issue comprises various outlooks on “perspective.” This might be taken to mean something as specific as a particular opinion or as general as an axonometric projection; in short, different ways and means of looking at the world.

Simona Koch spürt in »Organisms« den Strömen und Verbindungen des Lebendigen als Teil des großen Weltorganismus, des Weltganzen nach. Sie erforscht wissenschaftliche Fragen mit künstlerischen Strategien und kann – frei von den Zwängen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens – Perspektiven erarbeiten, die das Spiel des Lebendigen in seinen immer wieder neuen Facetten und Verflechtungen zeigen.

In der Sprachwissenschaft bedeutet Idiom Sprechweise, Spracheigentümlichkeit oder besondere Ausdrucksweise.

„Identitätspolitiken“ waren einmal ein wichtiges Instrument für die Kritik von Strukturen der Exklusion.

In der Sprachwissenschaft bedeutet Idiom Sprechweise, Spracheigentümlichkeit oder besondere Ausdrucksweise.

The book "Furniture Music" is an instrument for research. The included essays and interviews investigate the sphere of cultural production in domestic space throughout a series of subjects: the relationship between art and domesticity, the modalities of contemporary inhabitation, the cultural and political status of furniture and design.

The book is a very intimate conversation where the two artists discuss various unexpected topics such as their respective views on art and life, as well as the memories of their coomon time in jail.

Biscotti di Vento is a research project by artist Vittoria Soddu in collaboration with authors Manlio Brigalia, Bianca Pitzorno and Celestino Tabasso. Their contributions to Biscotti di Vento have been inspired by conversations filmed by Soddu in 2010 with Antonella Baralla and Salvatorica Manca around the origins and secrets of a contended biscuit.
(english/italien)

'Everyday Is Like Sunday' is a novel about a young English student from the small Yorkshire market town of Thirsk.

The work of visual artist, photographer and film artist Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Bunswick, N.J.) has had a major impact on the perception of art. The varied work of the artist-ranging from sculpture and books to photography, video, and film-maintains a complex relationship with architecture and typography, while also drawing on the achievements of the early avant-garde (Bauhaus, De Stijl) and Minimal Art.

Hrsg. von Szacsva y Pál anlässlich der ersten Ausstellung "Empire in Different Colors" im Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2004, und "Another Finger Exercise" ein 7 Minuten langes Video, ausgeführt von Szacsva y Pál, 2005, mit Texten von Timothy Brennan, Szacsva y Pál (englisch/ungarisch)

By creating a series of eight Images that reveal Progression in time (six photos of the Moments Prior to shaving to fully shaven, and two photos of the Instruments used: shaving brush, razors, and scissors)

"A Brief History of Meteorite Falls" is a collection of 100 fragmentary accounts of meteorite impacts and fireball sightings.

Amar Kanwar's The Torn First Pages is an ode to the thousands engaged in the struggle for democracy in Burma. It is published in honor of the bookshop owner Ko Than Htay, who was imprisoned for removing the first pages of all books and journals that contained ideological propaganda from the military regime.

Der Katalog gibt Einblick in die Zusammenarbeit der beiden Künstler und dokumentiert die Konzeption und Umsetzung ihrer Arbeiten für die Düsseldorfer Ausstellung.

When does a concrete act, endlessly repeated, acquire an inconceivable dimension, one that escapes our grasp and ultimately becomes abstract?

Art book by Maximilian Rossner, printed by Cosima Pitz in a limited, hand numbered edition of 300 in 2016.

With the American artist Avery Singer, the Secession presents a young painter who integrates references to art history and contemporaneity into her work as well as the media conditions and mechanisms of the digital.

3 Communiqués is a documentary fiction charting a journey through the marginal histories of communalism, self-presentation and collective agency. It forges a subjunctive archaeology that renegotiates utopian propositions as a way of both making art and as a tool for progressive thinking.

Three Views on Salto del Agua is a book of three insightful essays on the architecturally based film, Salto del Agua, a collaborative project by conceptual artist Anton Vidokle and sound engineer Cristian Manzutto. The 10-minute Super 8 film focuses its lens on the facade of an unremarkable building in Mexico City; a public transportation station that would otherwise go unnoticed in the urban sprawl.

Polder Cup is a sports and arts event organized by Maider Lopez, the Spanish artist who has established an international reputation with her unusual projects.

In parallel to BAK's acclaimed series of Critical Readers in Contemporary Art, the series Critical Readers in Artists' Practice examines the practice and body of work of artists who we believe manage to shift the understanding and the potential of art in the changing world of today, and of tomorrow.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition design is a state of mind ath he Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, in collaboration with Museion, Bolzano, Italy and Pinacoteca Giocanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy.

On the occasion of the exhibition "BABY. Picturing the ideal human, 1840-now", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (22 March - 1 June 2008)

On the occasion of the exhibition "BABY. Picturing the ideal human, 1840-now", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (22 March - 1 June 2008)

With contributions by Ross Birrell, Boris Buden, Jordan Crandall, Bregje van Eekelen, Boris Groys, Viktor Misiano, Irit Rogoff, Martha Rosler, Sean Snyder and Hito Steyerl.

Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction is an anthology of new texts by artists, curators, art historians and writers who are self-confessed science fiction fans.

In mines and ports across the world, human labor sustains our industrial and globalized economies. Allan Sekula imagined and set out to realize an artwork, The Dockers' Museum, which makes the struggles of miners, dockworkers, and seafarers visible through networks of metonymic objects that embody these workers' imaginaries.

The latest publication in BAK's Critical Reader Series - explores the theoretical notion of the horizon and the linkage between contemporary art and political imagination.

Between 2010 and 2013 ArtReview magazine published twenty-six columns of Brown’s Dictionary, an A-Z of art and the art world. Brown’s approach was to engage with contemporary art according to its own specifications: to be somewhat deranged, certainly excessive, and – very occasionally – meaningful.

Livret de service is a compilation of texts Eric Philippoz wrote between September 2009 and March 2010, while executing social work in Brazil. Autobiographical, sometimes intimate, these writings attest to a process, a transition.

Source: Dutch Art Institute

This publication is part of The Subduer by Maha MaamounBy

Poesie von Anna Arov, illustriert von Léon M. Dekker

Art book by Lorenz Straßl, printed by Cosima Pitz in a limited, hand numbered edition of 300 in 2016.

Art book by Maximilan Rossner, printed by Cosima Pitz in a limited, hand numbered edition of 300 in 2016.

For anyone who missed the keynote address given by Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija at the 2008 New York Contemporary Artists' Book Conference, this pocket-sized text provides a complete transcription, beautifully printed

Manuel da Landa is a mexican artist, academic and writer.

Das Buch enthält neben Bildern auch erotische Dialoge.

Mark Simmonds is a graphic designer based in Liverpool whose
work spans editing, writing and publishing. A former participant of
Dutch Masters programme Werkplaats Typografie, he recently
founded piecemeal publishing inprint Alma Matters.

It's not beautiful, but strange.
Giorgio Camuffo

This book presents 70 previously unpublished and unexhibited, unique vintage black and white photographic prints, that Warhol originally selected for his book Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979).

This publication forms part of an ongoing group of work projects and developing ideas. It is an attempt to define research potential that may emerge from analysis of some aspects of an archive, namely the Charles Nypels Archive.
The archive resides at the JvE Academie, documentation center.

Charles Nypels (1895 – 1952) from Maastricht [NL] was a typographer, publisher, printer, author and book artist.

If Newton lived in these dark days he would probably reformulate his laws following the formula of accelerationism.

At the same movement reflection distilled to the essences and exercise of style—brief and forceful—this text accomplish a double function: on the one hand speculates on the form of the manifesto and on the other actually takes form as a Manifesto.

Alphabetical order, old as words, implies a redefinition experience, not in terms of the practice, but from an order imposed by the alphabet.

The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration: that the lover’s discourse is today of an extreme solitude. (Doris Sommer)

Start with a exclamation sign assumes that on the other side there is an exit: Untitled Manifesto puts this into question: how decomposition is made?

Fara Fara means face-to-face in Lingala and is a musical phenomenon deeply rooted in Congolese culture. Two groups play at the same time at adjacent locations, and the ones who play longest win.

Diana Al-Hadid's sculptures, drawings, and panels merge figuration and abstraction. Her art involves a wide range of materials?from steel and fiberglass to gold leaf and pigment?

This book is not a catalogue raisonné, it instead takes a look at the library of an amateur, an excuse to apprehend this aspect of Richard Prince's work which encompasses books and the question of the collection and its incompleteness, revealed here by the “ghost” of the missing books.

No lover of books can be indifferent to the pleasures of books; many will suffer from some degree of bibliophilia.

A lost and found diary, with stories, facts and visions about the three and half years of the gallery's life. A diary, a book, about a gallery (the One Work Gallery), a town (Vienna), a world (the art world) and an artist (Salvatore Viviano).

Hannah quit her job as a catastrophic risk analyst when corruption in the industry became too much to bear, and her rempestous romance with her colleague Juliana didn't help.

This book is published on the occasion og the exhibition Speech Objects, a three-part exhibition, curated by Etienne Bernard and A Constructed World at the Ecole d'art de Blois-Agglopolys & Musee de l'Objet, May 28 - November 13, 2011.

Die Publikation erscheint als Band 7 in der Reihe Kunst und Theorie der Künstlerhäuser Worpswede

An accordion postcard booklet made to accompany a work of Horvitz's that was in Art Basel, 2013. On the reverse is an interview with Horvitz by David Senior. This publication and the piece is premised upon the artist's discovery that "in early February, the California sunset coincides with the Maldives sunrise...."

Seit den späten 1990ern hat Egill Sæbjörnsson (*1973) in seinen Arbeiten eine nahezu einzigartige Herangehungsweise hinsichtlich der Verwendung von Material, Stil und Sujet entwickelt.

A series of exhibitions based on the Kontakt Art Collection dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
sixth episode
11/04 – 06/05/2017

,,Weltschmerz" is a Facebook page which survived for a few months between 2013 and 2014, before facing multiple bans for explicit content.