Eighty faces stare right into the camera. Some seem calm, some slightly frightened or confused, and others bluntly indifferent, if not somewhat ironic.

Curated by Maik Schlüter and featuring Jerry Berndt (USA), Laura Bielau (GER), David Deutsch (USA), Charles Gaines (USA), Caroline Hake (GER), Andreas Schulze (GER), Clare Strand (GB), Amy Patton (USA) and Marco Poloni (CH).

»stop!...reading at this point!«

An der Universitätsbibliothek der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien wird seit 1994 eine Sammlung von Künstlerbüchern aufgebaut, die derzeit beinahe 5000 Werke umfasst. Sammlungs-Kriterium ist die Intention eines Künstlers, einer Künstlerin, das Buch als künstlerisches Werk umzusetzen. In der Ausstellung ist eine Auswahl um die 250 Arbeiten zu sehen, die die Sammlungsschwerpunkte Konzeptkunst, Fluxus, Konkrete Poesie, Appropriation und Minimal Art repräsentieren.

System Sin 1.0 is a sci- time system developed by the artist.

For almost fifty years, Lydia Okumura has explored the realm of geometric abstraction.

Moment’s notice by Kasper Andreasen (researcher Design 2003–2005) is about recording lived space and thinking space, about rooting and routing and finding ‘enspacement’ through writing.

Our relationship with animals is fraught and contradictory: we simultaneously mythologize, venerate, sacrifice, and exploit those who are not of our species.

In 2012, Iosca inherited a trunk filled with gay pornography from a friend of a friend who had died of AIDS nearly a decade earlier.

The Jupiter 08 project is an archaelogical journey to the era when electronic music flourished in the Eastern Bloc and about current domestic producers.

Published and unpublished notes on a dossier opened in 1972 by Carmelo Romeo on the subject of the mere surface in painting translated by Steven Grieco from the original Italian version.

Uneasy times demand uneasy music.
The world is in turmoil. And so are many of us. No matter what perspective we take, what used to be familiar is becoming increasingly alien, oscillating widely between peril and hope, between regression and progress, between standstill and explosive change.

Graphically accompanied short stories. Drawings with 3D effect.

Bookbook is a publication from the Städelschule Frankfurt, developed within Simon Starling’s class. It brings together contributions from

Welcome to D. A magazine dedicated to showcasing the contemporary and historical practice of drawing. (Engl.)

Bruno Gironcoli is one of the most idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth century. He gained public recognition with his late large-scale sculptures, in which archetypes and trivial elements meld to form futuristic conglomerates.

This room is being constructed by its contributions, it is being modeled by the filling of its parameters. The hinges of this construction might be functions within it that become as yet unknown parameters by the very act of reading them. IT IS A STOPOVER. ...The room it offers is circumscribed and structured by the book’s parameters: format, binding, jacket, title page, layout, preface, postface, table of contents, captions, cross headings, intertitles, annotations, editorial notes, appendix, blurb, names and accessories. THIS BOOK IS A CLASSROOM. We invite you to

In this artist book Aglaia Konrad presents photographs taken in the Carrara region in Italy between 2008 and 2010.

Part of the Gargantua Series

- Gargantua is an occasional publishing project by Robin Vanbesien. A series of publications by different artists will be published at irregular intervals.

(English)

The exhibition links the 13th century to the 21st through a modular approach that focuses on five key themes representative of the artistic condition: the formal code;

In the summer of 2001 we spent two weeks in Cala Moraia, Mallorca.

This richly illustrated book takes a look behind the media images we are shown, and in essays, interviews and picture stories, examines the amazing relationships between artistic innovation and commercial use in film, television and computer games.

This artist publication attempts to give shape to a long-lived rumour that has been in circulation for the last hundred years, concerning a copy of the Rijksmuseum building in Amsterdam called the Helix which is located in Maasmechelen, Belgium.
(English)

Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type.
(english)

The English-language publication, designed by Rob van Hoesel, invites the reader to explore the selected projects along different paths. Each project in the book is organised through a set pattern: people, process, product.

Die Installation „Hearing“ (1972) des amerikanischen Künstlers Robert Morris gilt als ein wesentliches Werk der konzeptuellen Kunst.
(Engl.)

Dieses Fotobuch erscheint anlässlich der Austellung ''Paul Albert Leitner. Die Welt sehen.''

The catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Brian Mc Kee: Urbanus.

Yael Bartana (born in 1970 in Moshav Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, lives in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv) has during the last decade earned considerable international attention and acclaim.
(swedish/english)

Tecoh is a sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist Jorge Pardo deep in the Yucatán jungle. (engl.)

Bevor Franz West ein international anerkannter Künstler wurde – und sein immenses Werk ein Objekt des zunehmenden Interesses für Sammler, Galeristen und Museen weltweit –, arbeitete er jahrelang an der Entwicklung seiner Materialien, Techniken und Bildmotive, in schwierigsten wirtschaftlichen Verhältnissen und weitgehend unbeachtet vom Wiener Kunstmilieu der 60er- und 70er-Jahre.

Both the hand-drawn proofing marks and the ink drawings begin with considerations of how Images and texts are read, how meaning is produced, and how this all sits within the movement between analogue and digital activity.

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This Book was published on the occation of the exhibition "Interpretation" in the Kunsthalle Basel 2010.

Tricks brings together a new selection of works from the early 2000s through 2017 by Dutch photographer Bart Julius Peters.

It is the first museum exhibition to present Piranesi's full range and influence as a designer, by means of etchings, original drawings, and an impressive selection of objects. For well over a century, Piranesi studies have been largely dominated by the artist's undoubted reputation as a major graphic artist.

The exhibition Optik Schröder II shows a representative cross-section of Alexander Schröder's collection. With important works by Kai Althoff, Tom Burr, Bernadette Corporation, Claire Fontaine, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Anne Imhof, Sergei Jensen, Pierre Klossowski, Manfred Pernice, Martha Rosler or Reena Spaulings she is one of the most prominent German private collections for contemporary art.

In 2002 Hans Ulrich Obrist began his conversation with a diverse and influential group of Mexican pioneers during an exhibition at Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City.

The Museum of Failure is the first major retrospective publication on the artist's work, looking at each of her major projects and bodies of work of the past 20 years.

Terrain vague Persistent images gathers works by Céline Condorelli and Uriel Orlow in a multi-voice artist book conceived by Sophie Demay and Lola Halifa-Legrand.

Born in 1968 in Tel Aviv Gil Marco Shani lives and works in Israel. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1995 and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1994.

Fredrik Værslev’s work navigates between different painterly traditions, and demonstrates the possibilities and relevance of the medium today.

Dennis Gun (*1956 in Istanbul) studierte Malerei und Kunstphilosophie an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien sowie parallel dazu auch Astrophysik. Die Monografie zeigt Werke des Künstlers aus den Jahren 2008 bis 2010.

Blendung Eblouissement a catalogue byJohannes Steidl
This is the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition that took place at ARTBORETUM gallery in ARGENTON SUR CREUSE, FRANCE publisher: ARTBORETUM éditeur

Merike Estna’s artist’s book is based on her installation “Blue Lagoon”, for the first time shown at Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn, Estonia) as part of the exhibition “Merike Estna and I’m a Painting” (27.06–02.11.2014).

What Good is the Moon? zeichnet die Projekte der Fondazione Nicola Trussardi nach, die an wechselnden Orten in Mailand – in vergessenen Palazzi, historischen Denkmalen und an anderen ungewöhnlichen Plätzen – anspruchsvolle Ausstellungen inszeniert.

The play for two actors and a choir, entitled I Was Not Able to Visit the Entire Show, was created with the intention of being staged within the environment of gallery institutions.

Conceived through a close and extensive dialogue with graphic designer Frédéric Teschner, Helbling presents the last four years of Leblon’s sculptural, installation and drawing work, and describes the newest developments in his practice.

The 11th issue takes a spirited look at “Photography Here and Now”, and questions the creative force and place of the artistic medium in today’s culture in the age of Instagram, where everyone is a photographer and any cliché a photograph.

Seine Installationen, Skulpturen, Filme, Videos und Performances geben sich als Inszenierungen einer visuellen Kultur zu erkennen, in der er Kunst und naturwissenschaftliche Exponate in enge Verbindung setzt, den Blickwinkel eines Archäologen, Paläontologen, Zoologen oder Botanikers einnimmt.

Salt prints are the very first photographs on paper that still exist today. Made in the first twenty years of photography, they are the results of esoteric knowledge and skill.

Geigers latest publication tells us a story about two children talking about trees.

(Englisch)

Im Jänner 2012 erschien der Catalogue Raisonné "Cindy Sherman. Das Frühwerk 1975-1977" im Hatje Cantz Verlag. Seit mehr als 35 Jahren visualisiert Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) eine Vielfalt von Rollenbildern und weiblichen Identitäten (engl.).

Die Schau "Schlafende Schönheit" erschließt eine in Österreich bislang weitgehend unbekannte Bildwelt der beginnenden Moderne und ermöglicht einen visuellen Streifzug durch das Kunstschaffen des Englands in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Das eigens für diese Ausstellung konzipierte Projekt "44 galleries", eröffnet durch eine infographische Analyse neue Perspektiven auf den Kunstmarkt. Ein Team von Designern, Künstlern und Kuratoren sammelte Materialien von vierundvierzig in Berlin ansässigen Galerien, um öffentlich zugängliche Informationen, verborgenes Wissen und Bewertungen von Experten mit einem ästhetischen Ansatz sichtbar zu machen und miteinander zu verflechten.

Tielemans presents painted panels as decor: full of colour, hanging on the wall, lying on the floor or hanging free in space. Together this decor forms an abstract landscape through which the viewer can walk.

In den 1950er Jahren richtete die Fachwelt ihren Blick nach Indien, wo Le Corbusier die Gestaltung einer modernen Idealstadt übertragen wurde.

The legendary independent London bookstore Better Books on the Charing Cross Road was the hub for Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, John Latham, Jeff Nuttall, Bob Cobbing, Barry Miles, Gustav Metzger, and countless others, for their ideas and approaches to art, film, literature, and activism.

Lavishly documenting in music manuscripts and texts the historic May 15, 1958 concert at New York's Town Hall. Includes Cage's essays "The Future of Music: Credo" (1937) and "Experimental Music" (1957). Original second edition printing.

Merlin Carpenter’s 2015 exhibition “MIDCAREER PAINTINGS” filled the Kunsthalle Bern’s seven rooms with twenty-two transit blankets hung on the wall, pulled like canvas around identically scaled stretcher frames.