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 …

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

usa, 2023

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 …

fragments of a street

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 …

papier für neue texte

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 …

Nathalie Du Pasquier (born 1957), a Milan-based artist and designer, was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group for which she created decorated surfaces, patterns, textiles, furniture and objects. She has dedicated herself to painting since …

The first multilayer colour film was developed in 1936 at the Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen; the factory, now operating as ORWO Filmfabrik (ORiginal WOlfen), became the most important producer of colour film in East Germany. Today, all that is left at the sit …

This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Jonas Mekas. Images Are Real curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and realized at Mattatoio, Roma in collaboration with the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Embassy of the Republic of Lith …

Boxcar ist ein Foto-Magazin über Graffiti auf Güterzügen.

Boxcar ist ein Foto-Magazin über Graffiti auf Güterzügen.

In 1929, ten years after the Bauhaus was founded, Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau launched the exhibition “New Typography.” László Moholy-Nagy, who had left Dessau the previous year and had earned a reputation as a designer in Berlin, was invited to exhibi …

Als Reaktion auf den ersten Corona-Lockdown im Frühjahr 2020 begann der Fotograf Ingmar Björn Nolting (*1995) einen Roadtrip durch Deutschland. Dieser führte ihn unter strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen über die Zeitspanne von einem Jahr rund 25.000 Kilo …

Taking as her inspiration Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ), which has divided the peninsula since the end of the Second World War and is today one of the world’s most heavily militarized borders, the South Korean-born poet and translator Don Mee Choi h …

The Slanted team went to Amsterdam to check out the design scene and fell for the charm of the city’s century-old “bruine kroegen” (brown cafes). Seeking refuge after bike rides to design studios, they were quickly won over by the cozy ambiance, dark w …

Das gewöhnliche Design (The ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of German design history, something the vinyl era would have called a B-side hit. As early as 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of A …

Buch Handlung Welt – in drei Worten − wurde von der Künstlerin Hilka Nordhausen 1976 im Hamburger Karolinenviertel eröffnet. Ein Laden, der Unmengen an Drucken, Heften, Broschüren, Taschenbüchern, Publikationen aus dem Underground, aus Übersee, de …

For a change, no photos from my own archive: For my farewell from teaching at the university in July 2021, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) organized a festive programme with contributions from artists, colleagues, friends, students and graduates …

„In 1995 I bought a second-hand Maserati. I didn’t want to believe the somewhat dubious reputation of the brand, as the ambience and the engine promised me cultivated travelling without boredom. In the following years, I therefore sat at the wooden ste …

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) ist eine der Schlüsselfiguren der europäischen Avantgardekunst in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit ihrer künstlerischen Praxis revolutioniert sie die Sprache der abstrakten Bildhauerei. Besonders ihre organischen, abstra …

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition of Platform chronicles the 2015–2016 ac …

A Cat-Tree for the Arts is the name of the sculpture that provided low-threshold and free access to art in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz from 2019-2022.

Katalog mit 55 Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Studio Cabrio mit Texten von Nina Heller (dt.) Broschur, 88 Seiten, 17×24 cm, Auflage 150 Erschienen 04/2023 ISBN 978-3-945111-92-5