The Morning Line is both ruin and monument, the blackened frame of a cathedral-like structure; a drawing in and of space; an ‘anti-pavilion’.

This monograph is a comprehensive survey of Los Carpinteros’ work since 2003, their most critically acclaimed period. Since their first collaborations, which focused on the traditions of craftsmanship and the colonial architecture of Cuba, as well as the subversion

With contributions by Peio Aguirre, Vincente Álvarez Areces, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Francesca von Habsburg, Alanna Heiss, Pau Waelder, Benjamin Weil and Daniela Zyman

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Doug Aitken, Haluk Akakçe, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Florian Hecker, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Los Carpinteros, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Paul Pfeiffer, Sergio Prego, Pipilotti Rist, Monika Sosnowska, Cerith Wyn Evans.
(English/ Spanish)

A catalogue as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.

With essays and contributions by Cerith Wyn Evans, Florian Hecker, Liam Gillick, Carsten Höller, Robin Mackay, Jeannie Moser, Molly Nesbit, Olaf Nicolai, Martin Prinzhorn, Maria Spiropulu, Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman.

I will talk a bit here about stories. This is a new story; it is called Aru Kuxipa. It is new, but it is old. Aru Kuxipa to me means our people, the old ones, living together with nature, in balance with our tradition. Aru means secret, sacred. Kuxipa means like a god. – Txana Bane

Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age. Exploring how today’s myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

The Walk Book collects and preserves some of the words and dialogues that are part of Janet Cardiff’s walks, transposing them into a literary form and yet dissolving all possible determinations and codifications.

„To be a poet is to be a visitor on a distant shore until one dies.“ Halldór Laxness

Within the last decades, art from Turkey and artists with a Turkish (migrational) background have become highly visible in the contemporary art scene. This book offers an insight to this production with texts by

An attempt to rethink, analyse, debate, but most of all, celebrate Christoph Schlingensief´s work.

With texts by Denis Hollier, Mark Wigley, Rosalind Krauss, Sabeth Buchmann, Sebastian Egenhofer, Helmut Draxler, Manuel DeLanda, and Johannes Porsch. This books offers an insight to the exhibition Transitory Objects, (July 3 - October 31, 2009) at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.

With texts on The Visitors, Stars Exploding, and The Man, an Interview with Edek Bartz and Ragnar Kjartansson, a Who is Who of the Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson, and much more.

An insight to the work of Jorge Otero-Pailos for the 53rd Venice Biennale. With texts by Thordis Arrhenius, Daniel A. Barber, Daniel Birnbaum, Valeria Burgio, Dorota Chudzicka, Lorenzo Fusi, David Gissen, Francesca von Habsburg, Caroline A. Jones, Adam Phillips, and Raqs Media Collective; as well as a conversation between Francesca von Habsburg, Albert Heta, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Dinko Peračić, François Roche, Andreas Ruby, and Mark Wigley.

The challenge was to make a temporary museum, which integrates into its surrounding site, adding value to it. Embedded in Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and preserved nature, Your black horizon Art Pavilion reveals new meanings of the landscape.

With texts by Benjamin Aranda, Bryce Dessner, Francesca von Habsburg, Florian Hecker, Caroline A. Jones, Chris Lasch, Tony Myatt, Matthew Ritchie, Mark Wasiuta, Peter Weibel. Photography by Todd Eberle.

With sound extracts by Alexei Borisov, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen, Christian Fennesz, Carsten Nicolai, Zsolt Olejnik, Finnbogi Pétursson, Terre Thaemlitz, Zavoloka, and Franz Pomassl.
Compiled by Franz Pomassl.

Die Monografie Los Carpinteros: Hand Work Constructing the World präsentiert einen umfassenden Überblick über das Werk des kubanischen Künstlerduos und fokussiert dabei auf die Arbeiten seit 2003.

Features interviews with forty residents of the Istanbul shanty-town known as Kuba. Not located on any official map, this locale is home to impoverished Turks and Kurds, religious fundamentalists, political dissidents and other disparate individuals who are bound in solidarity by their outsider status.

This catalogue is an extension of an ongoing research and exhibition project that TBA21 has supported since its inception in 2006. The Sovereign Forest renders visible and collects evidence of what has hitherto been hidden and suppressed within the site of a “modern war,”

"The Way Things Are..." explores the question of artistic representation of today´s ever more precarious work and social spheres within advanced economies.

Green light is an act of welcoming, addressed both to those who have fled hardship and instability in their home countries and to the residents of the cities receiving them. Working together in a playful creative process, participants build a modular light and construct a communal environment in which difference is not only accepted but embraced.
– Olafur Eliasson

OKEANOS includes a series of essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers, interspersed with a selection from Allan Sekula’s immense oeuvre of seminal texts, as well as parts of his private notebooks, which include critical and humorous personal notes, as well as sketches made and written across the decades and mostly focusing on the maritime space and the material, economic, and ecologic implications of globalization.

Appropriation, storytelling, reenactment, and reportage are some of the strategies that the Mexican artist Mario García Torres deploys to uncover (hidden) histories, narratives, and strategies embedded in sites and places and thereby to highlight the limitations of factual evidence and the agency of historical records and objects.

Box set containing 2 booklets, a fold-out poster, and a postcard.

Woodcut, handprinted. Edition of 50. Signed, dated and numbered.

Katalog zur Ausstellung im Mai 2007 im KW Institute for Contemporary Art

mit Beiträgen von Cerith Wyn Evans, Florian Hecker, Liam Gillick, Carsten Höller, Robin Mackay, Jeannie Moser, Molly Nesbit, Olaf Nicolai, Martin Prinzhorn, Maria Spiropulu, Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman (Englisch)

Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty charts the career of twenty-four-year-old rock singer Neil Sky, who is elected President of the United States after instigating teenage riots to change the voting age to fourteen and putting LSD in the drinking water of the Congress. But once President Sky retires the over-thirty population in LSD re-conditioning camps, he faces his own unique demise. 

An investigation of the themes of identity and tradition, the title Shooting Back thus refers to the act of choosing to narrate one’s own history, the deployment of distinctive tools and methods of representation, and the reassertion of ownership over tradition and heritage. The expression is

With contributions by David Adjaye, Daniel Birnbaum, Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Francesca von Habsburg, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jude Kelly, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ilka & Andreas Ruby, Andreas Spiegl

Soft Cover full color, english

This artist book spectacularly documents John Bock's action MALTREATED FRIGATE, which represents the height as well as the culmination of his performative work. His vision comes to life In a multitude of colored illustrations.

Published in 2009 as the first comprehensive compilation of the collection and commissions of Thyssen-Bornemsiza Art Contemporary, this book tells the story of the Vienna based art institution. Founded in 2002 by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, TBA21 is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and is actively engaged in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects that defy traditional disciplinary categorizations.