The 1980s were a groundbreakign decade for contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates.

In his conceptual sculptures, installations and videos, which are often summarily characterized as “ecopolitical,” Austrian artist Markus Hiesleitner examines the political, social and economic mechanisms of present everyday reality.

„Clemens-Schultz-Straße 43“ lautet der Titel. Die Adresse ist die bürokratisch korrekte Bezeichnung der Privatwohnung des Zeichners und Malers. Wer private, gesteigert noch, eigene Wohnungen beschreibt oder zum Sujet hat, betreibt Seelenarchitekturanalyse.

Was aber passiert, wenn man Traumerinnerungen und Traumprotokolle im Raum Wirklichkeit werden lässt? Wo sind Übersetzungen möglich, wo müssen sie notwendigerweise scheitern? Das Gespräch beschäftigt sich mit den Rändern und Grenzen der Mitteilung.

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Catalogue covering Manders' double solo show "Isolated Rooms" at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (9.13.2003 -1.4.2004).

Ute Vorkoeper (Hg.) für den Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart, und die Generali Foundation, Wien 2007. Texte von Elke Bippus, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Felix Ensslin, Kai-Uwe Hemken, Herbert Hossmann, Hanne Loreck, Anna Oppermann und Ute Vorkoeper.

Published to coincide with Welcome to Iraq, an Iraqi participation in the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2013. Texts by exhibition curator Jonathan Watkins and acclaimed Iraqi writer Tamara Chalabi.

An artist’s book and exhibition catalog at the same time, elegant and precious, designed by the founder of Conceptual Art. It serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of color, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth’s statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.

For "Social Processes" a total of eleven artists and artists' groups have been invited to explore the social, cultural, and sociopolitical facets of Iasi on site. "Social Processes" is made up of three elements: a dialogic situation during the run-up, the exhibition, and a publication conceived of as a sourcebook.

This volume deals with historic or fictive monuments after they have disappeared as a consequence of ideological or political systems that have changed and follows what happens with the accumulation of information that persists in the material carcases of the built forms.

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.

Mitten in den Städten, an abrupten Bruchkanten zwischen Stadt, Landschaft oder Hafen- und Industriearealen liegen aufregende Stadträume: Metrozonen, die wichtigsten Potenziale nachhaltiger Gemeindeentwicklung.

Die Zukunft des Klimas wird sich in den Städten entscheiden. Der weltweite Klimawandel erfordert insbesondere von den Metropolen der Welt schnelle und entschlossene Maßnahmen. Wie aber können sie den Weg in das postfossile und atomenergiefreie Zeitalter beschreiten und dringende Aufgaben lösen?

"The World According To" series seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on 64 blank paper pages.

"The World According To" series seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on 64 blank paper pages.

"The World According To" series seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on 64 blank paper pages.

Die Publikation AGES führt Konzepte zusammen, die sich in unterschiedlicher Weise und im Laufe verschieden langer Zeitabschnitte mit Lebensläufen und der Veränderung des Selbst wie des Gegenübers befassen.

Die Publikation »Amtsgericht Hamburg Mitte/ Archiv« versammelt 12 Bleistiftzeichnungen, die von Dezember 2006 bis April 2007 im Amtsgericht-Mitte vor Ort entstanden sind. Nach Holds Beschäftigung mit dem öffentlichen Raum Hamburgs, wie beispielsweise in den Reihen »Innenstadt« oder »Planten un Blomen«, dem laufenden Stadtmalerprojekt in der Hafencity und anderen Freilandfeldforschungen, ist diese Reihe »Amtsgericht« eine Analyse mit dem Bleistift aus dem Innern des Gebäudes.

Allen Ruppersberg Drawing/and Writing is a two volume publication which explores the complex relationship of drawing and writing in Ruppersberg’s work.

Employing themes of classical and documentary travel photography, Baiker constructs new semiotic connections between historical and contemporary imagery. Cornerstones of Greek culture and history – politics, seafaring, architecture, sculpture and the theatre – become the parameters delineating the imagery of this project.