From 1998 to 2005, photographer Ivan Sigal worked, lived and travelled in Central Asia, traversing Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. He roamed with a dual identity: on the one hand designing media projects with local communities; on the other, an itinerant documentarian. The images from his multi-year odyssey reveal

Author, art entrepreneur and art advisor, Christoph Noe, is back with his next round of advice on maintaining positivity in the art world with “How To Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness – Volume 2.” This latest collection of guidelines is a follow-up to Noe’s bestseller, continuing the conversation of how to stay sane, engaged and even enthralled working in the art world. “

"This guidebook is my contribution to look at the positive side of the art world and give first-hand advice, tips and food for thought for a fresh perspective," explains Noe.

Franz Graf is now playing his characteristic game with emptiness and abundance, black-and-white contrasts, letters and words, small, delicate details and large iconic, archaic, and modern elements at the 21er Haus.

Headdresses and head coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, subculture, gender, ethnicity, religion, and profession. Yet cultural identity is also continuously evolving. “Hybrid Heads” is a project by Daniela Dossi and the open collective studio Manoeuvre,

Weiner's later work expanded into wall installations, video, film, books, sound art, sculpture, performance art, installation art, and graphic art, maintaining his focus on language as a sculptural element.

Landscape Logic is an essay on the need for a landscape-based approach to designing sustainable urban environments.
Urbanization is one of the biggest challenges of this century.

Scratching the Surface examines graffiti and street art from multiple perspectives.

Reuse to Reduce shows the future of architecture through the process of building the new BioPartner 5 laboratory.

Kramer’s work is in the fields of sculpture and installation. She combines familiar and unfamiliar objects in unorthodox ways that lead to completely contrary and sometimes even usable objects. While her works are highly distinctive in form and figuration, all the interventions comment on cultural and political phenomena within societies.

Visual artist Diana Scherer (1971, DE) is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology.

The Thinking Foot is a study of history and associations. In method and form it claims to be no more (nor less) than an illustrated essay on the architectural expression of surface. It concentrates on the Earth on which we walk: not the Earth in depth (the underground world) nor the geological Earth, but simply the Earth as visible crust, as surface.

A poignant news photograph, a striking headline or a major international event: for more than forty years Kees de Goede (1954) has been responding very tangibly to the news. For his series of Astral drawings he uses newspapers as subject matter and as the image support.

The richly illustrated book Without and within: essays on territory and the interior contains a series of essays that trace a thread of ideas,

With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

Another Country offers a vital rethinking of British documentary photography over the last seven decades. This collection includes a diverse range of photographers working in an exciting array of photographic and artistic modes, encompassing images from iconic reportage to photo-text pieces, from self-portraits to political photo-collages.

In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book, Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musee imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers,

Matthias Wermke is teaching a seminar (Zweckfreie Räume - Intervention und Performance) with four students at ETH Zurich (Department of Architecture and Art, Prof. Karin Sander) on the topic of "appropriation and theft in art". Later, this very technical title is changed to "Absenz – das Abwesendsein von einem Ort" (absence - being absent from a place ).

Do you really want to remember your dreams? I often wish to forget mine, probably because I sometimes remember them to the point that