Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris- and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus Graz from May–August 2010.

This book includes essays on eighty artists from fourteen countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, the former GDR, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia.

Das Werk ist das Ergebnis der Erforschung unterschiedlicher Wege des Experimentierens mit Biologie und Architektur auf dem neuen Feld der "lebenden Architektur". Es untersucht architektonische Visionen selbstwachsender Häuser mit Blick auf Wachstumsmuster und Dynamiken in der Natur, um sie auf Zukunftsszenarien anzuwenden.

Casco Issues #9 is devoted to Past Imperfect, an ongoing research project by Bik Van der Pol, which started in Casco in November 2003. Past Imperfect examines the extent to which radical choices and events influence the course of (art) history and through that, our forms of perception.(English)

Brice Dellsperger's Body Double is the first monograph ever published on the artist's already cult film productions, with a long essay by art historian Marie Canet that addresses filmic remake, but also issues of models, gender politics, and representational chaos.
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Unter dem Titel “Side by Side” realisieren Studierende, Absolvent_innen und Lehrende der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in Kooperation mit der Caritas zahlreiche Projekte zur Unterstützung des Social-Business-Hotels magdas.

Now in its sixth year, This is the Same Ocean returns to present new work from some of the world’s most intriguing contemporary photographers.

The book contains different artists' mostly photographic works concerning the theme adolescence.

Ways of Working is a book series published by Wysing Arts Centre and Escalator Visual Arts in collaboration with Publish and Be Damned and Unrealised Projects.

Ecke Bonk in collaboration with Owen Griffith, presented two installations, which he named Models, at the Neue Galerie during the 2005 steirisches Herbstfestival.

From 1979 to 2012, Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss created a remarkable body of photographs, films, sculptures, and multimedia installations, offering a sustained and deceptively casual meditation on how we perceive everyday life.

Drawn from a critical period of Tony Smith's career, when the artist lived in Germany from 1953-55, the Louisenberg series is named after a German geological site. Containing paintings and drawings based on an abstract grid composed of circles--some self-contained, others fused into peanut-shaped groups of two or more--the work's modular approach reflects Smith's architectural ideas and prefigures his familiar sculptural methods.

What if electronics emerged from knitting, weaving, crochet, and embroidery? Stitching Worlds blends the territories of textiles and electronics by investigating textile techniques as controversial means for manufacturing electronic objects.

Nought to sixty is a programme of exhibitions and events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
It will present sixty projects by emerging artists based in Britian and Ireland, and is being held over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008.

Nought to sixty is a programme of exhibitions and events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
It will present sixty projects by emerging artists based in Britain and Ireland, and is being held over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008.

Nought to sixty is a programme of exhibitions and events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

It will present sixty projects by emerging artists based in Britain and Ireland, and is being held over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008.

Girls Like Us magazine was founded by Jessica Gysel and Kathrin Hero in 2005.
In 2009 Vela Arbutina stepped in as new art director and co-editor. The magazine is made in Amsterdam, published in New York and available in the bigger cities worldwide.

I Wait Here For You Forever as Long as It Takes is Stefan Marx' (Schwalmstadt, 1979) first major book and his third appearance in the Nieves catalogue. The book content is a selection from the personal drawing diaries, on which Stefan worked over the last two years, combining some of the finest paper paintings and drawings with book drawings and written notes. The intimacy of the subject matter portrayed in the book is also reflected in the title, chosen for its moody romantic inner meaning, which sums up Stefan working style “going through life writing and drawing down the lowlights.”

Paper Monument is a semi-annual print journal of contemporary art published in association with n+1.

Christine Birkle von Hut up in Berlin schuf ein außergewöhnliches Modelabel.
Leichte und feinste Kleidungsstücke hergestellt in einer eigens entwickelten Filztechnik,
kombiniert mit Seide, Satin und feinster Merinowolle ohne Naht stellt in der Modewelt eine
Ausnahmeerscheinung dar.

This publication appears on the occasion of Claudia Wieser's exhibition FURNITURE in KIOSK (6 October - 18 November 2012).

«Der Mann hat nicht nur ein Brett vorm Kopf, er klebt diesen sogar daran fest: ‹Glue your brain to the board›, fordert der Wiener Künstler Erwin Wurm […] Ein Künstlerbuch bringt diese ungewöhnliche Position vielfältig nahe.»

Continuing its documentation of daily life in the hutong, WEAR number two intertwines HomeShop's series of exercises in cultural exchange with commentary, imagery and special projects on the topic by contributors such as Carol Yinghua LU, RAQS Media Collective, Meiya LIN and Michael EDDY.

Der Katalog zeigt den Beginn der Karriere von Keith Haring, der heute als Wegbereiter der Street Art und einer der ein- flussreichsten und populärsten Künstler der Welt gefeiert wird.

Some Riddles. (English)

Reproduction of 'A telephone conversation with Mary Sue Ader' (Los Angeles, May 28th, 1976). Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp speak to Bas Jan Ader's widow about his piece 'In Search of the Miraculous'.

In 2010 Laia Estruch spent some time in New York studying Visual Arts at the Cooper Union. One day, shortly before starting classes at the university, she went into a bookshop in Brooklyn, chose a book from the shelves that had caught her eye, and when she was about to pay for it the bookseller gave it to her.

"After walking the Chinese Wall, I realized that for the first time I had been doing a performance where the audience was not physically present. In order to transmit thisexperience to them I built a series of transitory objects with the idea that the audience could actively take part.

Mario Pfeifer’s book »A Formal Film...« is a critical reader that is part of his film project of the same name—an innovative expansion of the genre.

Five years later, the authors of the project met up with international architects in Oaxaca to discuss the relationship between aesthetics, resource awareness, and energy design in architecture at the “Sustainability versus Aesthetics” conference.

This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham, presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images,

The artists’ journal Pist Protta and the circle behind it have always been good at celebrating themselves. In fact, marking their anniversaries has become an important part of the brand – rather like Danish stalwarts such as the Linie 3 comedy trio and supermarket chains Bilka and Netto. In the case of Pist Protta’s repeat anniversaries there is, however, a strong mitigating circumstance: like the journal itself, they always come in entirely new formats, versions and editions. Also, the simple fact is that there is truly something to celebrate.

Organized by curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, the experimental architectural program “Project Phalanstère” consisted of a series of site-specific artworks in the Parisian suburbs. Taking place from 2003 to 2014, these projects developed a creative space extended in time.

In almost 400 pages the third issue of Rab-Rab departs from Karl Marx' essay on the law on the forest theft.

Die Hunterklasse - Praxistipps für Reiter, Trainer und Veranstalter grew out of Megan Sullivan's research project at the Jan van Eyck Academie, which explored the delineation of artistic practise and performative identity.

Ines Lechleitner's Pièce de Cinéma comprises images, sound and text which follow Isabelle Oglivie, a young mentally handicapped woman who is engaged in making a film. Lechleitner, as Isabelle's assistant as well as her chronicler, accompanies Isabelle as she discusses her film project with filmmakers, artists and philosophers, and documents her approaches to image-making and language.

The three texts that comprise this book were written between 2005 and 2007, coinciding with the three year life-span of Orchard.

A crafty master craftsman with the heart of a conceptualist, Roy McMakin makes furniture that pokes fun at itself and renovates historic houses to challenge archetypes.

"Sabotage does not mean destroying economical or political goods, but to disturb and manipulate human activities and incite reaction. These ideas are developed out of observations and studies on behaviour. Many ideas are developed through dialogue with scientists,physicians, researchers and shamans some of whom stay in contact with certain projects for many years."

This book is the first overall presentation of Silberkuppe. Since it’s founding in May 2008, Silberkuppe has become one of Berlin’s most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art.

Wrapping a wide part of the artist body of work from the last few years, this new zine by Ryan Foerster features and melts found images, solar eruptions, Germs art cover, poetry and diary photography.

teardrops etc. is a one-off magazine dedicated entirely to the theme of the tear –

The monograph focuses on a series of the communism works that Yoshinori Niwa has produced in Romania, Russia, and Japan since 2010, around 20 years after the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The monograph focuses on a series of the communism works that Yoshinori Niwa has produced in Romania, Russia, and Japan since 2010, around 20 years after the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

'This is easily the best introduction to Turner that I have read . The Turner that emerges is entirely congenial and transfixing'
- Professor Kathleen Nicholson, author of Turner's Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning

This monograph on the artist Marie Lund comprises a two-sided reflection – the first mute, iconographic; the second speculative, text-based

Spring 2010 Leo Castelli, Christo, David Raymond Conroy, Urs Fisher, Meschac Gaba, Thomas Houseago, Volker Hueller, Ian Kiaer, Matthieu Laurette, Bob Law, Robert Motherwell, Olaf Nicolai, Jim Shaw, Gedi Sibony and Erik and Harald Thys.
AGMA is a quarterly publication dedicated to exhibition making.
AGMA communicates with images, rather than words.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Vamoose, all cacti jut torrid nites" Julia Rometti and Victor Costales. 19.06.-24.08.2014 at Kunsthalle Basel.

public
clothing collection
kids
a party for losers
grandpa Wang playing ball
streetside Wii
Beijing hutong
the "100 most common" names

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism? reflects upon the aspirations of these curatorial strategies and assesses their critical efficacy today within the landscape of contemporary art and globalized culture.

Rockets, guns, body fragments, collages, stencils, spray paints and crazy colours are the characteristic elements that populate Kiki

Published in relation to the exhibition “Stray Warmings” at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, this new monograph brings together writing and reproductions that extend beyond this particular context.

This book is a monument to a rare period of uncertainty, inspired by shame and shamelessness, by dept and guilt, by the tragedy behind statistics.

Co-organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno as a group exhibition that would occupy time rather than space, “Il Tempo del Postino” usurped the durational dimension of theater by presenting time-based art on the stage of the Manchester Opera House (July 12–14, 2007).

Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s.

Paul McCarthy’s videos from 1970 to 1997 constitute a central field of his artistic practice. Situated between performance, body, language, and media staging,

Henning Bohl’s Cornet of Horse explores the intersection of painting, sculpture, and spatial construction. Known for his use of everyday materials such as wood battens, canvas, or gypsum board, Bohl transforms these into self-referential sculptural elements.

What does it mean to publish today? In the face of a changing media landscape, institutional upheavals, and discursive shifts in the legal, artistic, and political fields, concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility, and publicity are being renegotiated.

Light Out is a series of limited edition Artis´s Colouring Books that celebrate the theme of darkness and femininity. The title of the series knowingly alludes to the erotic.

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production.