It displays Alex Solman’s stunning illustrations which have been the visual communication of the “Golden Pudel Club” since 2004. Musicians like Carsten “Erobique” Meyer, Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor praise what can only be described as the coffee tab …

Dieses Buch vereint zwei Künstler und zwei Projekte: Ottersbach befasste sich ausgiebig mit Brohms “Areal”-Werkkomplex über den Wandel urbaner Strukturen, derweil Brohm sich mit Ottersbachs Bildern beschäftigte, die auf der portugiesischen Insel Culatr …

Die Serie Ohio kommt in mehrerer Hinsicht einem Bruch mit Konventionen gleich. William Eggleston schon 1976 entbrannten Kontroverse – noch in weiten Kreisen nur die Schwarzweiß-Fotografie als seriös. Doch das Experiment, das Brohm mit Ohio wagte, geht …

Joachim Brohm’s photographic series Ruhrdocuments the German Ruhr area during its industrial decline from the late 1970s to the mid-80s. With this work Brohm became one of the first to engage with the issues raised by American photography – the landsca …

The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into different forms of media present …

Evelyn Richter’s portrayal of East German life is both critical and empathic, consistently focusing attention on the human actors she observes. She saw her artistic documentary work as a counter to the politically charged images of the time. The book p …

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Some of Walker Evans’ most iconic images of 20th-century American culture are showcased in this book celebrating his 50-year career. Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on everyday life in Am …

In Sunny Spells, Jean-Jacques Sempé explores a wide range of topics, from troubled relationships and existential crises to office politics and doping scandals in the literary world. His cast of characters includes pious churchgoers, amateur painters an …

Mit seinen lakonischen und konzentrierten Bildfindungen zählt Hans-Christian Schink (*1961 in Erfurt, lebt in Berlin) zu den bemerkenswertesten Vertretern der deutschen Gegenwartsfotografie. Der Villa Massimo-Stipendiat zeigte seine großformatigen Arbe …

Im Rahmen der Internationalen Bauausstellung (IBA) Thüringen wurden in über zehn Jahren ressourcenbewusste Projekte mit gemeinwohlorientierten Werten im und für das StadtLand entwickelt: innovativ, praxisorientiert, zum Nachahmen. An den Thüringer Scha …

Es wird Zeit, den Blick zu weiten: Das Land ist nicht mehr die Kolonie der Stadt. Die Publikation ist ein Plädoyer, die urbane Logik zugunsten einer territorialen Logik aufzubrechen. Dafür gibt es wichtige Gründe: Die Konzentration auf die Städte verna …

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Dear reader, here, for you: a gift of 33 letters, bound together through their flavours of disappointment. The feeling of disappointment is not only close to regret, sadness, and dissatisfaction – a feeling of loss, an uncomfortable space (or a painful …

The music of Markus Popp is endlessly curious. Since the early 90s his pioneering albums as Oval have continually excavated new spaces in electronic music, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape. Popp’s playful and singular approach to sound has co …

Featuring: Tal R & Emma Rosenzweig, Pedro Costa, Dayanita Singh, Alexander Calder, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Laura & Deanna Fanning, Misha Kahn, Abdellah Taïa, Lucia Di Luciano & Giovanni Pizzo, Robert Barber, Bas Princen, Seyni Awa Camara, Supriy …

SCIENCE FICTION IS BEING INVOKED. TECHNOLOGY HAS JUST BEEN AN EXTENSION OF OURSELVES BEYOND OUR CURRENT PHYSICAL LIMITS. AS WE GROW, WE UPLOAD OUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE WEB. OUR IDENTITIES ARE ALL ENMESHED. TIME IS DISTORTED BY VIRTUAL FORM. WHEN WE PAS …

Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their impo …

This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their a …

Die Jugendproteste der sechziger Jahre wurden von einem der grössten Pressebooms der Geschichte getragen. Das Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), das 1966 noch ein lockerer Zusammenschluss von fünf Zeitungen war, zählte innerhalb von wenigen Jahren über …

Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Maria Magdalena Koehn mit einem Text von Florian Ebner (dt./ engl.) Broschur, 84 Seiten, 24×30 cm, Auflage 500 Erschienen 02/2010 ISBN 978-3-941601-30-7

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Eine grandiose Hommage an die Kunsthalle in Rotterdam, ein frühes Schlüsselwerk von Rem Koolhaas und OMA

30 Jahre nach 1989 wird mit diesem Band erstmals die Perspektive der bildenden Künste auf Friedliche Revolution, Wende und Umbruch umfassend dargestellt. Das Spektrum reicht von staatlicherseits herausgehobenen Positionen über kritisch-loyale und nonko …

Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.

Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—pho …

Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

The modern capitalist era, with its emphasis on growth and progress and an economic system based on consumption, wastage, and resources being bled dry, has led to the ruthless exploitation of people and nature. As a counter to this, “The Great Repair” …

For decades, the call for equality and equal opportunity has been heard within the hierarchical world of architecture. The number of those actively working for change is growing. Their goal is to turn architecture into an ethically responsible and soci …

Design spielte neben dem Städtebau und der Architektur eine zentrale Rolle für die Gestaltung der sozialistischen Zukunft. Ins besondere die Wohnungsfrage wurde auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs zum Gradmesser für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung der V …

Detailing and analysing approaches that anticipate change – from shifting user needs to fluctuating functions – FRAME’s Agility-themed Spring issue provides a directory for resilient design.

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figur …

Niedliche Kunst? Das galt lange als Widerspruch in sich. Kunst konnte vieles sein – aber gewiss nicht süß. Während durch Readymades, Pop Art oder Appropriation Art andere Motive der Konsum- und Populärkultur selbstverständlich aufgegriffen wurden, blie …

»Chromacolor« is one of those records that immediately feels like home even though it is hard to locate stylistically. Written and recorded by Hanno Leichtmann in Berlin and Madeira between 2020 and 2022, it draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding pr …

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Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design. #31 — An Edition: The Serving Library. Interview with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey by James Langdon Dot Dot Dot magazine has always antagonised factions of the graphic design community. Wh …

You’ve heard it before: “Words, don’t come easy…” So how to write about F.R.DAVID, a journal that takes this very verse as its maxim? This instalment of Faire proposes a non-comprehensive overview of the twenty issues of F.R.DAVID, from the complementa …

Kunst und Kampf im Bruderland – Art and Conflict in Brotherland Transnationales Kunstschaffen ist in unserer globalisierten Welt selbstverständlich geworden. Wie aber sah die migrantische Kunstproduktion in der DDR aus? Der Band beleuchtet u.a. die Kul …

In his first evening-filling artist’s book “Notizen” (Notes), Sebastian Haslauer combines texts with drawings, most of which were created on the road, and which have one thing in common: they are unfinished, processual – and not to forget entertaining, …

Photography, the preferred medium of multimedia artist Maria di Stefano, forms the basis of an installation and urban project, crossing the city of Rome using advertising spaces on tram line 19, going from Centocelle to Prati. These spaces, usually use …

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Fotografie als Motiv / Photography as Motif is an artists’ book, a work of photographic theory, and a practical handbook of photography all in one volume. The publication presents an exemplary conjunction of the practice of taking photographs and artis …

…to find a diamond in the rough, you need to dig a little deeper. These hidden gems, which you may have missed at first glance, man, they really deliver in unexpected ways. Emerging from the most unpredictable places, they can hold glimmers of inspir …

Schnell’s paintings suggesting abstract architecture and landscapes appear as shimmering cascades of color. The artist imbues his paintings with a special luminosity in which the pictorial spaces appear translucent and with this unique luminosity becom …

Neben den Serien LS und S, mit denen Beate Gütschow früh bekannt geworden ist, stellt das Buch zwei neue Serien vor: In der I Serie greift Gütschow Ästhetik und Technik der Reklame- und Produktfotografie auf. Sie zeigt, wie unspektakuläre und gebraucht …

Wolfgang Tillmans: Reader präsentiert erstmals in systematischer Weise die Beiträge des Künstlers als Denker, Autor und Gesprächspartner, der sich in einer großen Vielschichtigkeit kreativer Ausdrucksformen für viele Themen unserer Zeit einsetzt. Von B …