Benedict is a versatile artist, who uses different media to create hybrid and complex images and installations that have been defined as “picture in the picture”. After making a name for himself in 2008 with the series Post Card – out-and-out post cards with address, scratched notes and short ironic messages, where small paintings turned into a kind of stamp –, Benedict focuses on various combinations of gouache paintings and cut-out studio portraits, glued and mounted on foam core panels and aluminum frames. Pro Choice (2010), Black Friday (2012) or Bonjour Tourist (2012), are just some examples of his unusual and hardly contextualizable compositions, that represent people, friends and models: they were asked to pose in front of paintings and photographed alone or in couples, seating behind a table or office desk, having dinner, reading the newspaper, smoking, or gazing at each other. For Carnet de miart, the artist transformed his latest effort, “Corruption Feeds” (Bergen Kunsthall, 2014—the largest and most ambitious exhibition by Benedict to date) into a screensaver for the reader to download.

In 2017 steirische herbst, one of the oldest multidisciplinary contemporary art festivals in Europe, will take place for the 50th time. Since its founding in 1968, the festival for performance art, theatre, visual arts, music, architecture, dance, literature, film and theory has been a platform for the lively debate concerning the complex social, political and economic conditions of the present.

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Künstlerbuch. Nummeriert. Farbabbildungen.

Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Werkplaats Typografie, "Wonder Years" is a record of work made by over 50 particioants at this Dutch Master's program from 1998 until 2008.

Published with the support of Gallery Karl Pfefferle and a co-production on artistic level with Paul Schwer.

Comics were Van de Moortel’s first love: his first drawings, his first stories; a dwelling of fantasies and a lack of reality: he devoured them as a child.

Book published on the occasion of the exhibition
Keith Boadwee, 1989—2013 Hacienda Zürich.

Diese Buch kombiniert den Charakter eines Künstlerbuches mit dem einer Monographie. Die eingebundenen, gefalteten Poster basieren auf acht Farbfotografien der Künstlerin. Die beiden Motive auf Vor- und Rückseite korrespondieren miteinander und verleihen dem Buch einen spielerischen Aspekt.

A cross-reference book of information on aesthetic boundaries, consisting of a bibliography into which inserted text, critical essays, art works, and documents, are arranged chronologically and focused on a selection of so-called »greatest hits« and conceptual poetics.

In the series "Desire in Representation" the artist Peggy Buth examines colonialist constructions of meaning and identity. Awarded in »Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2010« der Stiftung Buchkunst.
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Dieses Buch stellt einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Gründungsperiode der modernen Architektur, des Designs und eine Herausforderung für das MAK dar. Es wurde mit dem Österreichischen Staatspreis für das schönste Kunstbuch 2007 ausgezeichnet.

Every object tells a story. And many stories are now told through objects – it’s a zeitgeist that’s been prevalent since artists like Gordon Matta-Clark championed the stories contained in items of garbage. This narrative device is one we now see a lot, made popular by recent radio shows like ‘The History of the World in 100 Objects’ and Edmund de Vaal’s ‘The Hare With the Amber Eyes’.

The new body of work of Belgian collaborative duo Aline Bouvy / John Gillis consists of canvases that mix embroidery with oil painting, found objects and collage. They depict urban scenarios and quotidian figures in a stylised faux-Primitivist manner attentive to social iconography as well as to the magnification of the body. The violence of the subjects collide with the meticulousness of their needlework and the use of precious, colorful textiles.

AN ATLAS OF AGENDA’S is a political, social and economic atlas: informing the public about socio-political power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons.

In this volume, Marion van Wijk and Koos Dalstra, who spent 10 years investigating the unsolved mystery of Bas Jan Ader's death, reproduce the entire police report in facsimile.

A collection of essays (richly illustrated) to understand how the transmission of avant-garde forms of expression throughout the world has been achieved through the prism of body language (essentially in dance and performance), understood here as the vehicle of inalienable cultural and historical signs.

Buch zur Ausstellung Technicolor: a) Feld, b) Fläche im Marburger Kunstverein vom 19. Dezember 2014 – 5. Februar 2015

concept
Ben Laloua, Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven
graphic design
Ben Laloua / Didier Pascal

Club Donny # 5 has been made possible with support of Nederlands Fotomuseum en CBK Rotterdam.

Club Donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment, published bi-annually as a tiny-scale English language magazine.

Conflict Atlas looks at history through the perspective of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas.

Dali & Film investigates, for the first time in depth, the part played by film as a key influence on Dali's art, as well as his extensive involvement in film-based projects. This illuminating volume presents both the major paintings that reflect the artist's famous preoccupation with film and materials related to the key film projects on which he worked.

You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk is the title of a temporary public sculpture and the accompanying exhibition created by Lutz-Rainer Müller and Stian Ådlandsvik in 2010.

The publication has 194 pages, was photocopied in an edition of 600 on the photocopiers of the cneai, Chatou (mostly on a Toshiba e-studio 210c, but also a konica 2223 and a Toshiba e-studio 120), handsorted, and bound in a Parisian copyshop.

Fanzine von Lisa Meixner

How is the militant image to be understood at this moment in this special issue that assembles research from London, Buenos Aires, Paris, New York and Lisbon?

In this new photographic art book Gareth McConnell continues to revisit his photographs of young visitors to Ibiza – a well known series of McConnell’s, which is characterised by a more subtle understanding of his subjects than just the usual ones of sex, drugs and sunny hedonism.

The new issue of TEXT, edited by Andreas van Dühren, presents a discussion on photography, suggesting this medium as a major discipline, including film and video, and trying to figure out an updated definition of the term »image«.

The exhibition by Leonor Antunes at Kunsthalle Basel in 2013, titled the last days in chimalistac, was the first comprehensive presentation of the Portuguese artist in Switzerland.

Madness & Civilization it’s a project started in 2014 by Andrea Anghileri in collaboration with a growing number of artists,musicians, and researchers.

Alex Da Cortes Künstlerbuch umfasst zwei Bände mit einem Gespräch zwischen dem Künstler und dem in Los Angeles lebenden Autor und Kritiker Bruce Hainley und Sorcery, einem Fotocomic des in New York lebenden Kurators und Autors Bob Nickas, der dafür vom Künstler zur Verfügung gestelltes Material verwendet hat.

"Dove viviamo" is the result of the first stage of a long-term project realised by Cesare Fabbri and Silvia Loddo. Young artists are invited to work on photographic campaigns on Ravenna and its suburbs, in order to document the daily life and the transformation of the town.

The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from their first term up to their graduation, creates dynamics, which would not be possible at this scale in a conventional study structure.

PERSONA is the second magazine in a series in response to a series of meetings of female artists entitled "A conversation to know if there is a conversation to be had" held in New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and London in 2010-11.

Noodles is a collection of prints that reproduce Rope’s original ink paintings. The ongoing series started in 2015 when the artist took part in the Little Paper Planes -residency program in San Francisco and continues to date. The first paintings were made on sheets of colored paper stuck together with masking tape to create multi-shaded backgrounds for the ink shapes. The paintings are reproduced in the publication exploring different colour schemes and at the same time respecting the technique of the originals.

Michel Majerus was one of the earliest painters to address how digital technology is changing the visible world, and perhaps the first to employ Photoshop. Initially he transferred his sampled and layered imagery onto canvas by hand, but with these paintings on aluminum he began screen-printing it directly into the composition, a leap that would irrevocably change the course of his work.

Die Farbe im urbanen Raum
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Das Buch analysiert diese Entwicklung im Kontext des allumfassenden Digitalisierungsprozesses und der daraus resultierenden globalen Veränderungen unserer Lebensräume.

"It is in the nature of the secret that it should be shared. In fact, the main function of the secret is to define the codes that regulate how and by whom it can be shared. The distinction between those who have the right to share it and those who don't, the rightfully initiated and illegitimate impostors is built into the logic of the secret.

Artist book by Italian photographer duo The cool couple.

"Whenever Yesim Akdeniz Graf touches social history, gender, Hollywood and architecture in her promiscuous flight of butterflies, she is not up to make everything equal, she doesn't want to dissolve borders.

"In Dialogue" is a new series of interview books presenting Swedish artists in dialgoue with a writer, initiated by IASPIS in 2004.

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In Het Licht (2011-2012), Susanne Kriemann deals with the disappearance of a specific site: the Art Deco building ‘Het Licht’ (The Light), a former newspaper printing workshop in Ghent.

Paesaggio is a collection of landscapes by different artists, in form of texts. Texts/landscapes may assume different forms: artworks in form of a text, documents, notes, dialogues.
The project aims at bearing witness to the way several contemporary artists relate to landscape (intended as genre, subject of research, vision/vista, history...) today, without using images - only words.

The catalog shows the "Lost Highway" drawings – sketches done from the front seat of Lee Ranaldos tour van.

Julia Spínola specially studies the gestures and codes that link one action to another one. The perception of the artist can be approached departing from the physical, mechanical and relational glance from a registering machine of which the line drawings are protected in a closed constellation; because of that, the constellation can be recognized as image, as surface and as layered and open image.

The catalog covers his prints, drawings, animations, and theatrical productions with the Handspring Puppet Company, mainly from 1989 to the present, though his career as an artist began in 1975. Includes biodata and extensive excerpts from writings about the artist.

Lisa Holzer, I sweat, monograph comprising selected works from 2015 - 2017 and selected writings from 2010 - 2017.

Film Implosion is the first and only available publication on Swiss Experimental Film history, spanning from the mid-1950's to today.

COMPLEXITY is collaborative book project between Jorge Louçã and Luís Antunes, from the Institute for Complexity Sciences, and David-Alexandre Guéniot and Patrícia Almeida from Ghost Editions.

Reality Computing is a high-level concept that integrates the digital and physical worlds.

The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from their first term up to their graduation, creates dynamics, which would not be possible at this scale in a conventional study structure.

In this stunning collection of works on paper made between 1997 and 2007, most of which had never before been reproduced, Johns "preempts the tendency of commentators to cite his productions of decades past by doing the job himself," writes Thomas Crow in his essay.

In his Forms in Time solo exhibition developed for the MAK, the artist Kay Walkowiak approaches the question of the timelessness and narrative conceivability of form on the basis of the differing culturehistorical mentalities of East and West.

Artist, writer, and musician Hassan Khan explores the margins at which a vernacular, be it linguistic or formal, attains its stature. Through a series of narrative portraits and accompanying images of his recent sculptures, Khan’s seemingly ubiquitous tales are in fact an attempt to let a story tell itself. (English)

In 1991 the city of Zoetermeer built a tubular bridge across highway A12 in the city colours yellow and blue to connect the centre with new housing estates at the edge of the city. Hundreds of times Jan Dirk van der Burg crossed the bridge, after all it was the shortest way to the only coffeeshop in town. He even developed a knack for taking his bike up the escalator as you had to in order to access the bridge.

In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft festhalten.
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Für insgesamt vier Ausgaben erscheint "South as a State of Mind" in neuer Gestalt als Magazin der documenta 14.

Morten Skrøder Lund is highly aware of his limited possibility to totally dominate the outcome of his work and therefore actively switches between involvement and dissociation in relation to his paintings.