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.

The Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu creates complex sculptures, installations, and performances that fuse the animal kingdom with humankind,

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

At the center of Dancing Inside Out—Steven Cohen’s live performance for the opening of the exhibition at Project Space Karlsplatz, followed by nine additional days—is a confrontation with the persecution of Jews under National Socialism.

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.

Englisch

The third exhibition to take place in the Brotkunsthalle is devoted to the neighbouring countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

As one aspect of the EVN Group`s communication, the evn collection, offers the opportunity to become involved with contemporary visual art.

Handarbeit (Paperback, 1999) is an artist book by Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

This booklet printed in black and white with a blank library card slid into the front cover contains the full catalogue of the books in The Piracy Collection received by November 25.11.2011.

A conversation about 12 artist's books.

PREIS AUF ANFRAGE

George Saia, one third of General Idea, and better known as Jorge Zontal, was a compulsive doodler. He employed a curvilinear style compounded with obsessive repetition and elaboration. The Shoe Journal explores the shape of the stilleto shoe, later to become a General Idea motif.

II II V is a book about concrete, rabbits, abstraction, riddles, chicken mesh, bathrobes, lampshades, angels, salt, time, satellite dishes...

A three-volume set of 'totembooks,' individually slipcased, designed by Koch during a Nexus Press artist book residency (Atlanta 1993), presenting three examples of the artist's large-scale photo-assemblages in book form.

Kathy Slade is an artist who lives and works in Vancouver. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Nowadays, the notion of Heritage is besieged by multiple perspectives. Thoughts, materials, architectures and cities are all parts of heritage, a claim that stirs reactions, as well as creates expectations of the materials themselves.

Publication of the artist Stanley Brouwn.

Artist Book by Mladen Stilinovic

For over twenty years, Lewis Koch has been exploring themes of political and personal mythology in his large-scale photographic assemblages and installations.

There is an area between Venezia and Venice, between the reality and the logo, between the city and its brand.

Curated by Sohrab Kashani

British artist Jonathan Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means.

In “A sense of disquietude concerning the existing order of things,”[1] Georg Kargl Fine Arts shows for the first time an exhibition that emerged as a collaboration between Belgian artist Koenraad Dedobbeleer (born in 1975) and the Austrian artist Herbert Hinteregger (born in 1970).

For Alexander Reznikov, the Russian real-estate developer, the passion to collect art began with purchases of works by the second Russian avant-garde.

One of the key images/objects that is repetitively used by Sara Rahbar and which forms “the main” body of her work has been an object that has been around for the last 4.000 years.