Mix & Stir presents new outlooks on contemporary art from global perspectives, in the challenging format of a cookery book. It intends to encourage studying art beyond national constraints, cultural dominances, and hierarchies: a voyage similar to …

Published in conjunction with the exhibition at These Days LA. The Last Survivor is the First Suspect is at once a celebration and a requiem. The project, captured between 2005 and 2009 by photographer Nick Haymes, is a record of a drifting community o …

Jan Mammey and Falk Messerschmidt’s Statues Also Die records the artists criss-crossing Paris and documenting dormant monuments to French colonialism that can be found in the city. They made these traces, and sites, the focus of a six-month residency, …

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 …

What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular autho …

The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world while at the same time to express and convey this personal insight or knowledge through rich, layered, and ultimately meaningf …

We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re …

Our identities used to be shaped by our communities, families, and friends, but in the online era we inhabit today, we are expected to write our own success stories on social media platforms. We design our own identity, create our own image, and presen …

The images in this book are preparative studies for large paintings. The 220×220cm enameled aluminium frames are fixed on motorised axes, which allow the paintings to turn at 90 or 180 degrees. When it flips, the figure reveals its duplicity; elusive l …

Global dramas can lead us to question our own credibility and the significance of our own lives and/or actions. Recent events in Ukraine have led us, the Slanted team, to ask what our work is really for? Can we accelerate the transition to a sustainabl …

The artworks crackle with movement fittingly – Gonzales is a dancer, in the tradition of Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, but on wheels. His teenage years in 1980s Los Angeles were spent traversing the streets, which, by proxy, became his moving canva …

Totally WiredTin Pan AlleyCreemBlenderCrawdaddy!Rolling StoneNMEMelody MakerSoundsQThe FaceMojoWriters such as Charles Shaar Murray, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent, and Tony Parsons not only documented the wild excesses of Led Zeppelin, the Who, and the Clash …

The first comprehensive overview of Vivienne Westwood’s womenswear collections, from her 1981 debut to today, presented through original catwalk photography

Ihre sinnlichen Nanas – üppige, farbenfrohe Frauenfiguren – machten sie weltberühmt und über die Kunstwelt hinaus populär: Niki de Saint Phalle. Neben diesen großformatigen Skulpturen schuf sie ein facettenreiches Werk, das nicht nur Malerei und Zei …

Megalith Zero collects a series of recent paintings by Panayiotis Terzis. Monumental hands in a primordial landscape count down from five to one, as megalithic faces mark this progression with increasing intensity and alarm. Forms inspired by science f …

I have had three great love affairs in my creative life: skateboarding, graffiti and industrial design. I started skateboarding when I was twelve, graffiti at sixteen, and industrial design at nineteen. I saw them as unrelated activities or disparate v …

«What I think we are doing when we find pleasure in sex, drugs, art and religion is we are rehearsing our ability to surrender. So, this brings us, having taken a very long way round, to why I think this is what I would like to see in a church now. If …

Born in Port-au-Prince, which his family had to leave for France when he was three years old, Henry Roy has followed a singular path that has led him to transcend geographical, cultural and social borders. For several decades, he has been building a un …

Zu Beginn der Fotogeschichte war der Himmel grau und das Diktum der künstlerischen Fotografie und des Fotojournalismus lange Zeit schwarzweiß. Obwohl bereits 1935 der erste breit einsetzbare Diapositivfilm auf den Markt kam, blieb die Farbfotografie de …

The photography documents parties, raves, and after-hours through close up and emotional portraits in the first half of the 90s. The images were taken in Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund, New York, Zurich, Paris and Riccione, at clubs such as Omen, Tresor, …

Basel und seine Pharmabranche – ein Geben und Nehmen | Vom Wiederaufbau nach der Sturzflut: Ein Gastwirt kämpft sich durch | Wie katholische Exorzisten die Persönlichkeit einer jungen Frau zerstören | Eine Freitaucherin auf dem Weg zum Weltrekord und z …

Reisen ist eine Grunderfahrung menschlicher Existenz. Dies gilt in einem symbolischen, für den Maler Max Beckmann aber auch in einem sehr persönlichen Sinn. In den 1920er-Jahren bereiste er regelmäßig die noblen Kurorte und Palasthotels an den holländi …

Humans have created many tools in order to make life better and more organized, such as languages, nation states and a lot of different objects. But who ever asked about their opinion? Eventually, everything that the creators have created – everything …

At a moment when the world is facing the world’s largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and political plight …

Frederick Kiesler (1890 – 1965, geb. in Östereich-Ungarn als Friedrich Kiesler) gilt als einer der wichtigsten Avantgarde-Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Wurzeln in Europa und den USA, eng verbunden mit Schlüsselfiguren des De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism …

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Die Publikation verfolgt die Genese des Multiformat-Projekts “Moving Off the Land” der Künstlerin Joan Jonas. Es handelt sich um Jonas’ jüngstes Werk. Drei Jahre recherchierte sie über die Bedeutung des Ozeans im Laufe der Geschichte als totemistische, …

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Ke …

Alex Prager is a photographer and filmmaker whose elaborate sets and complex staging draw on a rich cultural heritage of cinematic style, informed by street photography, to produce work that is unerringly memorable. At once temporal and timeless, brigh …

The analysis of sanitary spaces and places dedicated to personal care, as in a privacy observatory, helps with the in-depth assessment of social changes, allowing us to determine how the lives of users can be improved, how conflicts of use in public pl …

What do Carlo’s photographs say in this limited selection edited by his son Federico, who decided to celebrate his father with the elegant booklet you are holding in your hands? The title itself – Trees – already hints the love and attention that Carlo …

Das Düsseldorfer Museum Kunstpalast widmet dem Werk von Christo und Jeanne-Claude eine umfangreiche, retrospektiv angelegte Ausstellung. Vorgestellt werden sämtliche Großprojekte des Künstlerpaares, angefangen bei der Wrapped Coast 1969 bis zur spektak …

This unique photo book places the work of contemporary female photographers in the spotlight.   Collage showcases the recent work on the theme of sustainability of 64 outstanding female presenting photographers who have been shortlisted or nominat …

The Many Lives of Erik Kessels presents the highly anticipated first illustrated survey of this pioneering and influential curator, editor, and artist whose varied experiments with photography and photographic archives have allowed us to reconsider the …

Sam Chermayeff: Beasts presents the latest furniture collection by the Berlin- based architect and designer, following his previous project-turned-book, Creatures (Apartamento Publishing, 2020). These ‘beasts’ actively merge typologies: a chair becomes …

Riffs, revisions, knockoffs, and homages: artists pay tribute to Ed Ruscha’s famous photo-conceptual small books. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist’s books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, …

Richmond’s elegiac, sombre ode to a coastal stretch of the Bristol Channel poetically weaves together lives hit by decades of austerity and isolation. Along this twenty-mile stretch of one of the world’s longest coastal mudflats, Richmond’s Love Bites  …

Das Antiduo der französischen Nachkriegszeit (1945–1975): Claude Parent und Paul Virilio entwarfen eine schräge Architektur, die im Gehen bezwungen werden muss.

Ralf Bock. Fotografien von Philippe Ruault 1. Auflage , 2022 Gebunden 488 Seiten, 696 farbige und 192 sw Abbildungen und Pläne 24 x 30 cm ISBN 978-3-03860-289-7

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Matter is a constant. It was there from the beginning and it will remain long into the future. The word matter is derived from mater, the Latin word for mother: matter refers to the substance from which all things are made. In English, the word can als …

Ikonar is a nickname given to Josef Koudelka by a group of Roma he encountered. It refers to him as a “maker of icons”, because they used his famous photographs of Roma communities as quasi-religious icons in their place of prayer. However, Koudelka is …

Seit 2009 haben Slavs and Tatars mehr als zwölf Bücher zu Themen von der uigurischen Literaturkultur bis zur Satire im Kaukasus veröffentlicht. Außerdem haben sie zahlreiche Poster und Editionen sowie Interventionen und Ephemera für angesehene Institut …

Tagging wurde bisher selten ernsthaft untersucht. Die Tag Conference ist ein erster Versuch, das zeitgenössische Tagging begrifflich zu fassen und es neben seinen zahlreichen, aber weitgehend ignorierten historischen Vorläufern zu untersuchen. Das info …

Auf der Pirsch im ehemaligen Tagebau erscheint Kat Dogtok in einer dunklen Wildtierunterführung ein mit schmaler Mine angebrachtes Zickzack-Symbol. Die darauf folgenden unheimlichen Begegnungen, die zeitlichen und räumlichen Reize, die das Zeichen auss …