Hans Hansen’s Analog Project, which the artist has been engaged with since the 1990s, comprises a more or less complete document of all the equipment, utensils, and materials that he has needed and accumulated over his many years as a photographer maki …

The publication titled Mapping the Moving Image. Media, Agents, and Sites in the Czech Context is dedicated to a critical assessment of the practice of the moving image in the Czech art world from the 1970s to the present day. Its central theme is the …

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

David Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the P …

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, th …

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut. 1972 sollte sie ihr Potenzial als emanzipatorische und gestalterische Kraft im Gesamtkunstwerk der Spiele der XX. Olympiade in München nachhaltig entfalten. Das war die große Vision de …

Trance has been the flagship for electronic music across the globe during the nineties and early zeroes. The sound’s trademark optimistic and euphoric aspects has brought some of the most compelling musical pieces of its time, and undoubtedly had a sig …

Annette Schröter schneidet ihre Bilder, sie arbeitet mit dem Cutter, mit Papieren, Sprays, farbigem Acrylglas und Tapetenresten. Annette Schröter, ursprünglich Malerin, ist seit knapp 20 Jahren aktiv im Medium Papierschnitt. Ihre Bilder werden geschnit …

In der DDR entstanden und zirkulierten autonome Künstlerfilme auf Schmalfilm (8 mm) in einer Grauzone am Rande des offiziellen Kunstbetriebs. Diese teils tolerierte, teils staatlich verfolgte »Underground-Szene« stellt die vorliegende Publikation erstm …

An overview of John Akomfrah’s work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden. John Akomfrah creates thoughtful video works of haunting audiovisual intensity. He tel …

The right-wing popularity is irritating. This polyphonic and detailed book is on the trail of this irritating present. How can the current conjunctures of right-wing mobilization be understood in their popular cultural, affective, media and everyday wo …

Das neue Standardwerk zur Videokunst in Deutschland – mit Ausschnitten der wichtigsten Arbeiten auf DVD. Die Videokunst ist zu einem der einflussreichsten Genres der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts avanciert. 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis …

Over the last few decades the term “bootlegging” has become understood as a creative act. The debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world are now being held in the sphere of corporate branding, social media, and the …

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand’s renowned practice of constructing, photographing, and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures minor, everyday moments base …

»Wenn jemand ›Rot‹ sagt (als Bezeichnung einer Farbe) und wenn 50 Personen zuhören, darf man erwarten, dass 50 verschiedene Rot in ihrem Bewusstsein auftauchen. Man darf sicher sein, dass all diese Rot verschieden sind.« Bereits an diesen beiden ersten …

VIVIAN SUTER – WIEN, SECESSION – Katalog. Wien 2023. Beitr. von Lorenzo Giusti, Dieter Roelstraete, Jeanette Pacher (Gespräch mit Vivian Suter). Katalog. Wien 2023. 17 x 24 cm. 168 S. mit 100 farb. ganz- bzw. doppelseit. Abb., broschiert – Text in dt. …

Mit neuen Arbeiten führt Cindy Sherman ihr Interesse am Genre der Portraitphotographie fort, das auf ihre frühen Arbeiten der 1970er Jahre zurückgeht. In sechsunddreißig Photographien collagiert die Künstlerin Teile ihres eigenen Gesichts, um die Ident …

Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from the inside out. Curating Capitalism implies new ways of …

The twenty year jubilee edition, expanded with yet again 18 new series, of the numerous identities that Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek systematically documented, inspired by interest in the striking dress codes …

The late 1960s saw the publication of underground magazines almost everywhere in Germany. They were part of a broad cultural tendency that was seen as revolutionary—a “great social happening” (Rolf Lindner) that originated in the USA and encompassed fi …

Now available in paperback, this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pion …

Visual artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) is one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. Steyerl’s works are critical reflections on the digital and contemporary age and focus on the pervasive role of technology and the circ …

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 …

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 …

Katalog zur Ausstellung im Kunstverein „Freunde Aktueller Kunst e.V.“, Zwickau vom 16. September bis 15. Dezember 2022. Mit einem Vorwort von Klaus Fischer und einem Interview von Ulrike Pennewitz

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’ i …

On 4 May 1968, a few hours after angry student protesters in Paris had caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein. Conceived by Herbert Bayer, Ludwig Grote, Hans Maria Wingler and Di …

The publication homes in on a feature of the work of media artist Nam June Paik that has been largely overlooked: live moments, a consistent element running all through his artistic career. The immediate experience of the audience and their active invo …

The publication homes in on a feature of the work of media artist Nam June Paik that has been largely overlooked: live moments, a consistent element running all through his artistic career. The immediate experience of the audience and their active invo …

Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning cry over catastrophic destruction in the Amazon rainforest. Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to compre …

Bertjan Pot’s most well known product is probably the Random Light (1999) but the Masks he makes out of colourful rope have also drawn quite some attention. Both the Random light and Masks started as a material research, which is basically the starting …

Auf analogem Bildmaterial entdeckte ich eine vom Aussterben bedrohte Art, ich nenne sie Kreatur. Bislang wird behauptet, sie sei nicht mehr als Staub, Kratzer, Flecken. Fehler, die das reine Bild zerstören und daher seit jeher wegretuschiert werden. Se …

Nachdem sich Sebastian Ringel bereits den verloren gegangenen Häusern der Leipziger Innenstadt gewidmet hat, befasst er sich in seinem neuen Buch mit der Entwicklung der historischen Leipziger Vorstädte. Gemeint ist damit das Gebiet zwischen der Innens …

Eventuell mag der Titel des Buches etwas irritieren, denn Leipzig besitzt ja eine attraktive und gut funktionierende Innenstadt und auch eine, in der noch eine Reihe von Altbauten zu finden sind. Richtig alt sind aber nur die wenigsten. Warum das so is …

Six Black Hole jazz dubs by Cosmic Threat, coming together in one truely epic album straight from the astral echo chamber. Jammed over various sessions in an empty Leipzig club during lockdown, Kiki Hitomi, disrupt and bass clarinet black belt Volker H …

HécatombeTV réuni plus de 600 photos de téléviseurs cathodiques collectées et prises par Emma Le Doyen et Samuel Rixon sur plus de 10 ans. Cet ouvrage tend à documenter la fin d’une époque, celle de la télévision à tube cathodique. Cet objet, aujourd’h …

The Nest is a book, conceived and designed by Scott Massey, about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. The Nest is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, …

Sabrina Zeltner’s artistic practice is situated in the interplay between video, installation, audio-visual live performances, graphic design, as well as subculture and club culture. She nearly always works in collaboration, making the mutual exchange a …

In ihrer Arbeit konzentriert sich die Leipziger Künstlerin Anna Schimkat auf die Untersuchung verschiedener natürlicher, sozialer und kultureller Realitäten. Ein Hauptaugenmerk gilt der Beschäftigung mit dem Ereignis von Raum; ein anderes dem Klang im …

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 …

Herausgeberin: Ricarda Löser Gestaltung: Ricarda Löser 144 Seiten 3 Abbildungen 13,5 x 20,5 cm, Hardcover 978-3-944903-87-3 (deutsch) 500 Exemplare Sein Leben beginnt ausgerechnet mit dem Satz „er atmet“ – eine künstlerische Textcollage. Dieser Text be …

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. As instigator and director of festivals like the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, he shaped dance history. Artistically, he forged clos …

Mit Texten von  Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Sven Bergelt, Denise Blickhan, Dieter Daniels, D.I.Y. Church, GERÄUSCHKULISSE, Maximilian Glass, Maria Karpushina, Tina Klatte, Kotombola, Alexander Körner, Felix Kubin, Benjamin Kunath, Liquid Penguin Ensemble, Michae …

Martin Maleschka Mit weiteren Beiträgen von Thomas Topfstedt, Peer Pasternack und Luise Rellensmann Zur kulturellen Hinterlassenschaft der DDR gehört eine bemerkenswert große Anzahl an Kunstwerken im ­öffentlichen Raum. Diese Arbeiten waren ein integra …