A new book on an artist at the height of his powers, covering the last decade and a half of his extraordinary career and designed by the artist himself Since the early 1990s Wolfgang Tillmans has established himself as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today.

Carlos Bunga is an artist’s book published in connection with the artist’s exhibition at the Vienna Secession.

Christine Sun Kim. Draw a Blank – Blank ziehen is the first monograph on Christine Sun Kim and was published in connection with her exhibition Cues on Point at the Vienna Secession.

The publication accompanies Strafer’s film of the same title and offers insight into its development.

The publication investigates forms of authorship that are unstable, digressive, self-reflexive, and open to interruption. Sterne’s novel is relevant here because it famously turns narration itself into a medium:

Leopold Kessler has revealed new possibilities for art in the public space. He has shown that every activity, even the most mundane and the most banal, can be changed into “doing art.”

The catalogue accompanies a body of work situated between photography, installation, and conceptual practice, reflecting Trauttmansdorff’s interest in urban space, perception, and the structures that shape everyday environments.

Rather than a conventional catalogue, the publication takes the form of an artist’s portfolio: a gathering of loose pattern sheets, a facsimile letter by Chaimowicz, and a booklet with exhibition views and a text by Silvia Eiblmayr.

Rather than treating autobiography as a stable narrative of identity, the publication approaches it as a performative and fragmented form.

The publication reflects Klub Zwei’s collaborative method. Rather than treating representation as a neutral form of visibility, it asks how images, narratives, and public statements shape political understanding.

Michael E. Smith. 2020 was published by the Secession on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition in Vienna. For the project, Smith produced 692 unique cat calendars, each based on a photographic archive originally used for the development of software and algorithms in the field of computer vision.

The artist’s book presents a selection of source images and visual materials that relate to Hila’s painting practice and to his sustained engagement with architecture, public space, and the social transformations of Albania and post-socialist Europe.

Verena Dengler: Die Galeristin und der schöne Antikapitalist auf der Gothic G’stettn was published in connection with the artist’s exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 2020.

František Lesák. Vermutung und Wirklichkeit – ein Selbstversuch is an artist’s book published by the Vienna Secession in 2021 in connection with Lesák’s exhibition of the same name.

The book is connected to Abu Hamdan’s installation Earwitness Inventory, an ongoing work consisting of sourced and custom-designed objects used to reconstruct, describe, or evoke remembered sounds.

Willmann is one of the key figures in Austrian photography. As an artist and as co-founder and long-time editor of Camera Austria, he played an important role in shaping the discourse around contemporary photography in Austria.

Strobl’s practice moves between photography, collage, drawing, text, design, and found visual material. Animals appear throughout her work not as sentimental motifs,

Marioni is associated with Radical Painting, a movement that approached painting not as image, composition, or representation, but as a material and perceptual event.

The publication reflects a scene marked by self-organization, shifting institutional frameworks, and the need to create new spaces for art after political rupture.

Rita McBride’s Secession Tower takes as its point of departure one of the most symbolically charged buildings of Viennese modernism: the Vienna Secession.