Publikation anlässlich einer Ausstellung in der Neuen Galerie Graz 2011.( english/german)

Alexander Egger is digging deeper into the realms of art graphic design illustration.
(Engl.)

Hazardous household
The kitchen boiler is out of shape. It's the unit above the sink with a tap attached to it. The boiler is so old and rusty that every time I put on the hot water it starts reeking of gas odor (Quelle: Buch)

An Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Multiples from the Permanent Collection of Art Metropole.

Otobong Nkanga’s first monograph, Luster and Lucre, charts an intensely productive period from 2013 to 2016, which includes exhibitions at the 8th Berlin Biennale; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; KADIST, Paris; and M HKA, Antwerp.

Die Publikation bietet eine große Auswahl an Fotografien, die den Künstler Cezary Bodzianowski in Aktion zeigen.

“The African Twintowers” by Christoph Schlingensief is the conclusion of a trilogy on the theme of “Slum” that Neue Galerie Graz started in autumn 2006.

This is a history of discotheques, told in a subjective, partial way, but always with a clear purpose in mind: the analysis of space.

Following her exhibition Wild Wood (Secession 2013), Susi Jirkuff takes up and extends the critical question as to how present-day social conditions continue to affect self-determined living, participation in society and personal advancement in her artist book for which she has made a new series of drawings.

Ioana Nemeș is recognised as one of the most remarkable figures of the new generation of Romanian contemporary artists. This publication offers an initial overview of the long-term projects and singular exhibitions that Nemeș produced during her brief but extraordinary career.

Dieses 50 Auflagen starke Heft versammelt Bilder aus 26 verschiedenen Filmen.

Capetillo works with sculptures, photography, video and text, and in recent years he has turned his work in more abstract and formal ways, investigating common existential balances and conflicts. Conflicts grounded in defining ’the real’ as part of our attempt to experience and understand life the best we can.

Publication related to the artwork on the occasion of the exhibition "looks familiar"

Codex Spero is at once a radical manifesto and an artistic testament.

Learning from …
Las Vegas and Venice, water and desert. Two cities that are as different as the landscapes from which they emerged. They tell a story, about both the prudent use of the landscape and about arrogant destruction, about sustainable as well as failed strategies of urban development.

The publication Dazzling Debt documents two complementary exhibitions, How the Mind Makes Forever at the Galerie der Stadt Backnang and Currency Galore at Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf.

The “DNA Semantics” is a book about an interpretation of DNA/RNA as visual structures with specific formal properties and relationships.

Art World is a new bi-monthly contemporary art magazine.

Denmark-based photographer, Stefanie Moshammer’s newest project Vegas and She is the result of a two-month stay in Las Vegas aka Sin City.

»Visible World« compiles nearly three thousand photographs taken by Peter Fischli and David Weiss over the course of fifteen years. Depicting almost every corner of the globe, from deserts and mountains to cities and jungles, the collection is as quixotic as it is encyclopedic.

In 1988, the city of Chicago declared three acres of public land along Lake Michigan the future home of DuSable Park—a green refuge dedicated to Chicago's first settler, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss created this special book to accompany their 1999 exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It consists of forty unbound photographs from their series »Blumen« (Flowers, 1997–98) – richly colored double-exposures of blossoms, leaves, and raucous vegetal life.

Fine Arts continues Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys’s playful and dystopic approach to depicting the human condition.

Hani Rashid, Mitbegründer des visionären New Yorker Architekturbüros Asymptote, leitet seit 2011 das Studio Hani Rashid in Wien.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint eine Publikation mit Texten von Liam Gillick und Vanessa Joan Müller sowie einer umfangreichen, von Walter Pamminger konzipierten Bildstrecke. Letztere überträgt das Ausstellungskonzept mit der Wand als einem Prinzip, das mit Vorder- und Rückseite den Raum ebenso wie die Wahrnehmung der einzelnen Elemente organisiert, auf das Medium Buch.

In this book Gabriel Lester’s prolific adventures and art practice are illustrated through an alphabetical assortment of his most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.

This exhibition catalogue accompanied Megerle’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Lingen in the fall of 2010.
Birgit Megerle’s figurative and abstract paintings are characterized by an artificial, rigid, and stage-like atmosphere.
(Germ./Engl.)

This book is published in collaboration with Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf at the occasion of the exhibition David Lamelas - A New Refutation of Time, organized by the Kunstverein München and Witte de With, centre for contemporary art, Rotterdam; and the exhibition David Lamelas - House/People organized by Encore Bruxelles, Brussels

“Queer Zines”, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe,

Im Herbst 2006 wurde der Hof der Neuen Galerie Graz für drei Wochen zum Schauplatz einer monumentalen Installation: Einhundert Skulpturen in menschlicher Gestalt, aus Abfällen gepresst, beschwörten als stumme Mahner das Szenario des globalen Wirtschafts- und Umweltkollapses. Vorher standen die „Slum People“ des deutschen Aktionskünstlers HA Schult vor La Grande Arche in Paris, auf dem Roten Platz in Moskau, auf der Chinesischen Mauer bei Jin Shan Ling und zu Füßen der ägyptischen Pyramiden in Gizeh bei Kairo, nun waren sie in Graz gelandet, weitere Stationen in Rom, Köln, Barcelona u.a. folgten.

“Laves” was shot in a public park in London. The video shows a meadow surrounded by trees as its theatrical protagonist.

THE DAILY EXHAUSTION is a small newspaper, which contains 23 self-portraits of an obsessed workaholic artist, who has reached the sweaty emotional state of exhaustion. (English)

Im Sommer des Jahres 1896 verließ eine Gruppe von Frauen, Kindern und Männern das Dorf Nås in Schweden, um in Jerusalem die Wiederkunft Christi zu erwarten.

Printed Cinema #1 - Broadcasting from Home, containing night shots of a city taken from a high-rise building, appeared in October 2004 as a free supplement to the season’s first issue of the Austrian art magazine Springerin.

Using actual dialogue from interviewswith art professionals who knew Art in Ruins, Eva Weinmayr constructs a hypothetical play as an anti-documentary or anti-biography.

A FIVE DAY WALK ON DARTMOOR WITH BETSY AND TAMSIN JULY 1986.
800 copies of this calendar have been privately printed at Christmas 1986 for the friends of Anne and anthony d'Offay

“All work and no play” is a "phantom-literature book". This project by Nicolas Giraud unfolds beyond fiction, between writing and serial abstraction.

Lush green grass springing through an ancient carpet in a ruined castle, bullfrogs croaking in a darkened gallery basement and ducklings nestled in an artist's studio are some of the images presented in the first book-length survey of Martin Roth's work.

First book dedicated to the English artist and musician (*1955). The artistic career of Linder Sterling stretches over three decades and numerous areas of cultural production. This publication brings together for the first time material ranging from her drawings from the 1970s to her most recent works, her punk designs to her musical performances.

Issue 50 (Spring 2012), titled "The Best Fifty Filmmakers Under Fifty ", of the Canadian cinematic magazine "Cinema Scope".

The publication presents selected works from two pioneers of Concrete Art and Poetry, Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973) from Brazil and Franz Mon (1926) from Germany.

Adbusters is a not-for-profit magazine fighting back against the hostile takeover of our psychological, physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.

Issue 56 (Fall 2013), titled "The Beauty of Horror and the Horror of Beauty", of the Canadian cinematic magazine "Cinema Scope".

How To: Untitled Runway Show is an artist’s book that presents K8 Hardy’s performance Untitled Runway Show, created for the 2012 Whitney Biennal. For this work, Hardy orchestrated a live fashion show performance on the fourth floor of the Breuer building that rivaled the presentations made during a Paris or New York fashion week.

zwei spektakuläre neue Bildbände «Scent of desire» – einer farbig und einer schwarzweiss – zeigen das aktuelle Schaffen des Künstlers in Verbindung mit älteren Schwarzweiss-Arbeiten, in denen Körper und Landschaft zentrale Themen sind. Burkhards Bilder von Blüten und Pflanzen wecken mit ihrer Sinnlichkeit sogar den Duft der Farben und überschreiten damit die Grenze der optischen Wirkung.

Great Robert Smithson catalogue edited by Robert Hobbs and published for the United States Pavilion on the occasion of the 40th Venice Biennale of 1982.

Die Publikation konzentriert sich auf das Entstehen diverser Vorstellungen von »Mexicanidad« innerhalb aller Kunstformen der Moderne und Gegenwart in Los Angeles.

PERFORMING THE COMMON documents an artistic research project about public spaces, private networks and the art of organizing collective meaning.

Die dänische Künstlerin Kirstine Roepstorff verwendet das Medium der Collage und Skulpturen um eindrucksvolle visuelle Bildwelten in einem Prozess des Kopierens, Ausschneidens und Arrangierens zu kreieren.

Madame Bovary, in älteren Übersetzungen auch Frau Bovary, ist ein Roman von Gustave Flaubert. Er gilt als eines der großen Werke der Weltliteratur aufgrund der seinerzeit neuartigen realitätsnahen Erzählweise.

After the explosion of the Neo-avant-garde in the ’60s, primarily heralded in Slovenia by the OHO group, the ’90s brought a second explosion of artistic production, which was, in its own way, a continuation of the radical art practices from the ’60s and ’70s. The exhibitions in Ljubljana showcase a segment of artistic production that we might label as ‘art after post-modernism’.

Contemporary Art

This autumn Tate St Ives stages a group exhibition called The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now. It includes work by Mary Heilmann, who calls it a ‘huge conversation’ with some of her favourite artists. ‘This is the way I love to engage with art,’ she says.

What is the role of the artist? And how does one challenge existing perceptions of what an artist is? Simple questions perhaps, but ones that Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) took seriously, as will be explored in Tate Modern’s forthcoming retrospective.

The heart of filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller is constituted by portraiture - whether she captures friends, acquaintances, family members, filmmakers, artists or simply clients, each for the most part gazing directly into the camera.

This catalogue accompanies Joel Shapiro’s expansive installation in the skylit main hall of Museum Ludwig, where fifteen vividly painted wooden beams are suspended in space.

In the special issue authors address a range of intersections between trans- (implying exceeding, moving towards, changing; going across, over or beyond) and the performative (saying as doing, or that which performs something while articulating it).

Das Buch ANDREAS FOGARASI: INFORMATION ist ein Werkkatalog, der nicht auf Vollständigkeit angelegt ist, sondern Einblick in die bis dato wichtigsten Entwicklungslinien des Künstlers bietet.

“Hands have no tears to flow” appears as an independent thought and show book accompanying the exhibition in the Austrian Pavilion at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice.

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Chantal Akerman
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Buckminster Fuller