"It is very fragile, this discussion about graphic design ..."

Art for All' is the maxim of the celebrated artists Gilbert & George. Tate Media and the Arts Council are therefore delighted to be able to release their iconic feature length film, The World of Gilbert & George to a wider audience for the first time. A major work, written and directed by Gilbert & George, it is an extraordinary journey into the world of this influential and controversial duo.

"As a fanzine of insightful quotes, each publication seeks inspiration from a vividly depressive, deceased, literary genius."

F.R. DAVID focuses on the ‘status’ of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.

F.R. DAVID focuses on the ‘status’ of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual

A CCTV sci-fi fairy-tale

In a society under the reformed 'Real-Time' Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.

Un-Necessary Knowledge is a form of academic research with each issue taking a single theme as a starting point from which to expand across different fields of knowledge.

The work of Nicolás Guagnini and John Kelsey manifests itself in distinctly different forms, yet the two share an affinity for playing with the roles and structures of the art world. The conversation includes discussions of some of their recurring topics and themes: gossip, the jeune-fille, institutional critique, the abject, humor and their participation in collaborative ventures.

Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age.

F.R. DAVID- a journal published twice- yearly by de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam- focuses on the "status" of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.

Die Internet-Arbeit "The Anthology of Art" von Jochen Gerz ist ein irritierendes, sperriges Werk – trotz aller scheinbaren Zugänglichkeit im Netz. Im Verlaufe eines Jahres (2001/02) haben 312 KünstlerInnen und KunsttheoretikerInnen aus der ganzen Welt, fast alle zum innersten Kreis des “Kunstsystems” gehörig, auf unterschiedlichste Weise reagiert auf Gerz’ immer gleiche Frage: “Was ist, im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Ihre Vorstellung einer noch unbekannten Kunst?”.

The publication accompanies the exhibition "Alexander Kluge: Gardens of Cooperation" in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart: a comprehensive solo exhibition by the writer, filmmaker, and theorist Alexander Kluge, based on the show of the same name at the La Virreina Art Center in Barcelona.

1o question found in Athens by Stefan Klein, 10 answers by Thomas Geiger in Johannesburg.

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Published after the posthumous exhibition of Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989) "From this moment on".

Die Amerikanerin Martha Rosler ist eine scharfzüngige Kritikerin und Kommentatorin. Mit ihren engagierten und humorvollen Bestandesaufnahmen zur geopolitischen und soziokulturellen Lage wendet sie sich explizit an eine breite Öffentlichkeit.

After Venusia (2005) and Mercury Station (2009), both published by Semiotext(e), New Dystopia is Mark von Schlegell’s third novel.

(Engl./French)

Dealing with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s, Dziga Vertov's Entuziazm was praised by artists like Charlie Chaplin and the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1960s.
(Russ./Engl.)
(Subtitles Germ./Engl.)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Ben Kinmont – Open by Chance & Appointment”, Cabinet du livre d'artiste, Université Rennes II, France, from March 10 to April 28, 2016

In the context of the international financial crisis in spring 2009 and the resulting rising unemployment rate, the students of the Estonian Academy of Arts came up with the idea of offering recently laid-off employees an opportunity to make art.

In texts by Christian Höller, Klaus Theweleit, Karen van den Berg, and Jan Verwoert the book illuminates the backgrounds of far-flung artistic conspiracy theories and celebrates the aesthetics of paranoia. A primer for the five latest films by Korpys/Löffler.

The Portikus is an exhibitions space that is associated with the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Lieven De Boeck, researcher Fine Art 2002–2003, put together a publication in which housing is considered as storage space for personal belongings, as a kind of camouflage of the inhabitant vis-a-vis his environment, and as a domicile.

French designer Pierre Charpin (b. 1962, lives in Paris) holds a singular position within his field. He became a designer after finishing his Visual Arts studies and started to gain recognition in the mid-1990s. Articulated with a strong and liberated use of colors and materials, his creations—objects, furniture and exhibition designs—deal with the notions of landscape and autonomy, humor and surprise, poetic presence and minimalism.

The work of Hans Schabus, who was born in Watschig in Carinthia in 1970 and who recently finished his studies at the Academy for Fine Arts, is characterised by the mutual interrelationships between interior and exterior, private and public life or furniture and human beings.

From the beginning in 1967 until 2002, Sol LeWitt’s artist books are collected in this volume.

Tommy Støckel's Art of Tomorrow. And Other Fictions. zeichnet eine Retrospektive seines Schaffens ab 2004. Neben Artikeln zu seinen Ausstellungen finden sich zahlreiche schwarzweiß und Farbabbildungen seiner Arbeiten.

Subtext: artists and writing was produced on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented by un Projects, at West Space, Melbourne, 4–19 February 2011.
(Engl.)

Toronto based Artist Chrysanne Stathacos meditates in this work on the fictional journal of her alter ego, a french artist living in paris in the 19th century.

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The main topic of Christoph Oraeger's film trilogy is the turbulent period of the late 1960's. My Generation (2007), Blow Up, Stroll On (2006) and Hippie Movie (2007) were based on three carefully chosen paradigmatic 'scenes' that symbolize the rise and fall of the Hippie era. Born in 1965, Oraeger chose to relive these moments in order to enjoy and ironically simulate events that he could not have been an active part of.

Der Amerikanerin Carolee Schneemann wurde in den frühen 1960er-Jahren die Leinwand zu eng. Sie begann die Malerei in den Raum auszudehen und ihren Körper als Material einzusetzen.

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities of palm oil and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Taussig) in two disparate geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America.

Rollo-Press and 4478ZINE have joined forces again and present ‘O. Niemeyer’, the latest artist book by Erik van der Weijde.

These books collect the papers that were presented at ‘The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One’ conference in Los Angeles in November 2012.

A Collection of Otso Harju's Photographs.

In this precious book, Sallas shares his folding wisdom, which Charlotte Birnbaum contextualizes in two essays on the history of napkin folding. The texts are accompanied by an illustrated catalogue of folding techniques.

Survival with this book in a summer of memories, feelings, and dreams.

The pictures of each Manga or Japanese comics and print cartoons have been removed. In general, we tend to look at the images and read words from the Manga.

This catalogue is published to accompany the process-based installation "Salon für Kunstbuch" by Bernhard Cella on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the 21er Haus.

Was könnte das sein, ein Leben als Künstlerin oder Künstler zu führen, und wie? Ist das Schlafwandeln oder eine trotzige Selbst-Behauptung? Wie kann man literarische, naturwissenschaftliche und philosophische Überlegungen mit Kunst verbinden?

Alcohol Makes You Invincible by dddddddumar Fukunovo takes place where many twenty-first century death cult stories take place, the post-apocalyptic now.

In 1975 cars were made from metal, glass, some chrome and a bit of plastic. The majority had front and rear bumpers. Base models were sold without radios. GPS, which seems so crucial today, hadn’t yet been invented.

This book contains a poem by Johanna Adriana Ader- Appels.

This book of interviews tracks the work of curators in the field of new media art in order to consider the massive changes and developments over a relatively short period of time.
(Engl.)

“Anthem for the people´s tomorrow” is a collection of photographs, texts, visual essays, and thoughts brought together by Ellen Blumenstein, the Master of Fine Art graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute 2011 and th alternative art space JUNG + WENIG.

Catalogs and books published by Israeli artists in the 70s and 80s.

Art Always Has Its Consequences: Artists’ Texts is a collection of manifestos, critical texts, and writings addressing public issues written by artists and artist groups from Eastern Europe between 1947 and 2009.
(Engl.)

Art Always Has Its Consequences: Artists’ Texts is a collection of manifestos, critical texts, and writings addressing public issues written by artists and artist groups from Eastern Europe between 1947 and 2009.

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum – das kann weit mehr sein als die Aufwertung von Straßen und Plätzen durch Plastiken und Skulpturen. ARTocracy stellt eine autonome Welt der Kunst vor, die – zielgerichtet im Dialog mit den Künstlern – ebenso die Geschichte wie die gegenwärtige Gesellschaft und den Alltag der Menschen einbezieht.

Spiral bound photocopy art book by David Macke, published by Printed Matter in 2017.

“The idea behind Donnerstag was to insist on the difference between good art and bad art. I am aware of how anachronistic that sounds and how quickly it evokes the image of an old critic-pontiff wagging his authoritarian pointer finger.”

Besides being one of science fiction's top subjects, immortality is one of humanity's most debated issues. "They Cannot Die" by Catalan artist Oriol Vilanova is a possible portrait of how the 20th century dealt with history and fame.

Jenseits immer neuer Enthüllungen über die Massenüberwachung der Geheimdienste bestimmt „Big Data“ die öffentliche Diskussion über das zunehmend gläserne Konsum-Individuum.

In "The Reporters of the BBC Website, Nick Crowe provides a visual investigation of the medial strategies that were first applied to the BBC News website in 2002.
(Engl.)

Written by video artist, Andrew J. Paterson, and designed and illustrated by Bruce Mau.

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.
(Engl.)

In his Pictorial Journal 2003–2005, Rob Krier describes how his twin passion for fine art and architecture emerged.

“You Asshole” is an essay that explores artistic personalities that fall outside the pattern of the art world.

It is 2015. Art is almost completely instrumentalised regardless of whether its financing is private or public.