Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. has awarded the ars viva Prize to young artists living in Germany.

In their latest project, done for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the artist collective Gelatin present gigantic sculptures and costumes on the theme of excrement. This book documents the work's development and includes a poster.

The publication accompanying the exhibition testing grounds reflects Katrin Hornek’s artistic approach, which is based on interdisciplinary research and collaboration. This new, immersive installation deals with the measurable global evidence of radioactive radiation as a result of hundreds of above-ground nuclear weapons tests since 1945. Screenshots of chat histories and

Facettenreich und vielstimmig reflektiert die Festschrift für Gabriela Krist, Restauratorin, Kunsthistorikerin und Vorständin

The Dutch photobook is internationally acclaimed for its close collaboration between photographer, printer, and designer. The current photobook boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that predates World War II.

Vor zehn Jahren hat der Schweizer Architekt Hans-Jörg Ruch mit seinem grossformatigen und opulent ausgestatteten Buch Historische Häuser im Engadin grossen internationalen Erfolg erzielt. Nun legt sein Büro in identischer Ausstattung einen Band mit einer repräsentativen Werkauswahl vor. «Close-up – Ruch & Partner Architekten 1994–2018» dokumentiert minutiös und in Nahsicht zwischen 1994 und 2018 entstandene Neubauten, Umbauten und Sanierungen des Büros Ruch & Partner Architekten. Enthalten sind Wohn- und Privathäuser, Hotels, aber auch öffentliche Gebäude (u.a. Museen, Galerie, Bibliothek), Infrastrukturbauten und grössere Wohnsiedlungen.

(Italian – empty: vuòto) An artist’s book with projects by Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers and an ‘editorial’ by Nina Power.
Published for the exhibition Évasion, 2012: “Mirroring the luxury magazine, VUOTO embodied the essence of the show, being both a collection of critical artworks and high-end self-objectification.

“Calls for more Blackness in architecture schools can be simplistic,” writes architect Darell Wayne Fields, guest editor of Log 57. Well-meaning equity and inclusion programs often simply “associate the mere presence of Black bodies with institutional change.” In Log 57, a 208-page thematic issue titled Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . ., 29 authors explore the complexities of Blackness as it relates to aesthetics and architectural pedagogy. As Fields notes, “In calling for more Blackness, I, for one, am calling for more Black methodology. An inherent characteristic of [which] is a measurement of difference.”

"Polaroid Portraits" is published following "Performing Light, a retrospective exhibition of Ulay that was on view from September 9 to October 22, 2000 in De Appel Foundation.

HaFI 018 reprints a document containing the script of Skip Norman’s film On Africa (1970). Norman, born in Baltimore in 1933, had left the U.S. in the early 1960s to study German, theater, and medicine in Göttingen. In 1966 he moved to Berlin to join the newly founded German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). By 1969, he had made the films Riffi (1966), Blues People (1968), Cultural Nationalism (1969) and the graduation film Strange Fruit (1969).

The first book of the online-network Norient discusses contemporary movements and trends within globalised music scenes in Europe, Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the US.

The publication of The Against, the book that documents the process, development and results of the homonymous exhibitions that simultaneously took place last Spring at multiple sites in New York.
The book not only displays the uncontrollable compulsion of graffiti bombing by 21 artists from different parts of the US, Canada and Mexico. This remarkable book focuses on those who are the exceptional graffiti bombers in the last decade.

What does it mean to process field recordings from the Ukrainian war in an electronic music track?

@shouseRCA and @shousetanlin are two publications from their respective Twitter accounts. Each account was one of the two voices of the statementhouse (temporary title) built at the Royal College of Art in London in 2015.

Canada 1: Gastone Monari / Ideato e curato da Conceived and edited by Roberto Canella, Achille Filipponi / Introduzione Preface Aldo Tagliaferri / Progetto grafico Graphic design Federico Antonini (superness.info) / Traduzioni Translations Karen Whittle / Postproduzione Postproduction Chiara Talacci / Ringraziamenti

Here live the near-blind. In their eyes the city dwells like aureoles on suckling lips. Here they apprehend the city with knowledge viscous and immediate. And here they also live uneasily, for tranquillity is found only in pictures they are disinclined to make.
In essays, letters and aphorisms, this book makes near-blindness tangible as one condition of living in. protracted war.
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A discreet, yet unapologetic, feminist reading of the past and present with a particular focus on deconstructing inherited notions of identity and gender. It seeks to examine the impact these have had on contemporary relational modalities in order to find new capacities to dissect the resulting interpersonal dynamics. There is a wish to pause automatisms that suffocate the mind.

Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. "My Queer History " wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

'Queer' is an inclusive term, encompassing the complex experiences of sexuality and gender diversity across history. In the past, 'queer' has been used as a term of derision, but many today have reclaimed the term to capture the complexity of gender and sexuality.

The 208 pages of ERB Issue Two are bursting with essays, reviews, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from all over Europe — and beyond. It is a reading experience unto itself, designed like nothing else. The ERB’s print designer, Patrick Doan, gave the magazine a distinctive, layered form. TURN the pages to read, but CUT the pages — easily done with a finger — to open a second layer, where you’ll find shorter essays, asides, and the occasional language game. Issue Two features resurrected darlings, psychic detectives, lyrical slang, Chinese palindromes and to every reader their own Dichter und Denker. Discover Europe’s new république des lettres.