Wer war Sabina von Steinbach? Folgt man ihrer Darstellung auf dem Figurenfries im Treppenhaus der Alten Nationalgalerie in Berlin, war sie eine bedeutende mittelalterliche Bildhauerin. Jedoch, wahrscheinlich hat es sie nie gegeben. Warum ist sie dennoch, als einzige Künstlerin überhaupt, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in jenen zentralen Fries berühmter Persönlichkeiten aufgenommen worden?

Im minimalsten Raum zwischen Haut und Kleid lauern essenzielle Fragen.

Die Untersuchung beginnt mit ethnografischen Erkundungen einer Kunsthochschule. Unter diesem Blickwinkel sind die 96 % derer, die freie Kunst studieren, ohne je von ihrem Metier leben zu können, genauso interessant wie die Stars des Kunstbetriebs.

Anna Grath ist Bildhauerin, deren Praxis – häufig sind es Wandarbeiten – vom Verknüpfen und Verbinden geprägt ist. Auch Das Regal ist eine fein konstruierte Montage von 204 einzelnen Buchseiten.

»Die Dinge, die durch den Dunst von gestern so gewaltig erschienen – Eigentum, Klima, Erziehung, persönliche Schönheit und anderes mehr, haben ihre Verhältnisse merkwürdig verändert. Alles, was wir für fest hielten, schwankt u. klappert …«
“The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,—property, climate, breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions. All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles …” Ralph Waldo Emerson (zitiert von / quoted by Robert Musil)

»Wenn alle Documente verloren, genügt ein vollständiges Markenalbum zur Total-Reconstruction der Weltkultur im technischen Zeitalter.« - Aby Warburg
»Ich bin der Ansicht, dass der einzige Fortschritt der Kunst der ist, die ganze Intensität vom Ich auf das Wir zu verlegen. Sozusagen durch ideologische Kleptomanie müssen wir in die bürgerliche Kultur eingreifen, indem der Wert des persönlichen Eigentums, der der künstlerischen Schöpfung innewohnt, gemindert wird.« - KP Brehmer

Books not only describe their own contents but also the eras in which they were created. Conceived as a color inventory, this publication gathers a selection of titles that I have dealt with, exhibited, and produced since the early 2000s.

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.

In 1988, a seminar was held at the Bauhaus Dessau as part of the UN-HABITAT programme that dealt with questions of housing construction in 'developing countries'. A prefabricated building system developed by GDR architects was presented here, which was used for the first time in an education and development center of the African National Congress (ANC) in Dakawa, Tanzania. The educational

Ökologien von Entitäten und Wesen bringt Praktiker, Denker und Künstler aus ganz Eurasien zusammen, um gemeinsam multispezifische Ökologien zu erforschen. Der Band spiegelt anthrozentrische und verkörperte Ansätze zur Zusammenarbeit und Wissensproduktion wider – Prozesse, die immer mit einer Vielzahl von Entitäten und Akteuren verflochten sind.

Belgrade collective Škart has been operating within and around existing hierarchies of the art world and everyday life, working in collaboration with marginalized groups, NGOs, and anti-war movements. Škart ‘s understanding of the artwork is fluid and relationship based. No matter the medium —

'When artefacts become pieces of evidence and artists are transfigured into fictional characters animated by their worship of Western art, culture shrinks into the narrow border of the state nation:" would state Tweetu, the weird curator and main suspect of the plot. Detective Elchmanyahu's auto-da-fe follows

Off-the-grid from commercial galleries – selling visuals – and canonical institutions – there to support the often static national or regional identities– artists instigate grass-roots cultural safe havens in order to deliver the progressive and the experimental.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter closely associated with the human state of happiness.

This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud. Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948).

Weaving as a Metaphor offers the intimate side of the artist's oeuvre. . . . Emulating a gallery setting, the catalog, itself a work of art, presents each weaving on a separate page. Trenchant information as well as thought-provoking essays--by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon and Nina Stritzler-Levine--archival photographs and notebooks round out this wonderful publication.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.

Idol Hands presents a wealth of source and visual references, alongside original drawings from the artist’s unique and expanded narrative of imagery stemming from alternative means of communication such as braille, morse code and sign language.

Developing a new body of work specifically for this publication, Collected Arrangements is the product of a sustained collaboration between the artist Lucas Dupuy and Foolscap Editions. The page is used to frame and contextualise the distinct marks, lines and shapes of the artist’s visual language. Reconfigured compositions explore the space and structure of the page, which offers a testing ground akin to that of the gallery space.

This book, a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Westminster, captures the British mosque at a pivotal moment in its history. There are 1,800 mosques in the UK today – mostly converted from terraced houses, libraries, cinemas and supermarkets. Now, these improvised spaces are beginning to disappear, as Muslim communities replace them with purpose-built structures.