The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In obs …

Texts by Marco Poloni and Nadia Veronese, English, 24 × 32 cm, 128 pages, 102 color and black & white plates, softcover with printed mylar jacket with flaps Kodoji Press, Baden 2021, ISBN 978-3-03747-098-5

some birds a bus a woman and spidernets places a crew. Steidl 2004. Englisch. 128 Seiten, 80 Abb. (davon 80 farbig). 21 x 26,8 cm.

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a …

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then twenty-year-old Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. Now, thirty years later, what began as a print magazine has gone on to provoke a chang …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding.

Bench Players is a series of failed, rejected, or unused animals from Rop van Mierlo’s archive; the reserve bench animals.
 Rop van Mierlo works with various mediums but starts his process mostly with drawings or paintings. Control – or the absence of …

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic sty …

Trotz Egoismus und Empathielosigkeit ist und bleibt der Mensch ein soziales Wesen. Vielleicht braucht es einfach neue Ideen für unser Miteinander. Die könnten ja in einem Umfeld entstehen, das im Englischen „solitude” genannt wird. Ein Zustand, der nic …

The publication ‘Buildings, Dingbats’ presents two series of ceramic works by the Berlin-based artist Sebastian Haslauer. Known for his paintings and collage work, the two-part publication for the first time showcases Haslauer’s unseen sculptural ceram …

Natural phenomenons are a well used tool to illustrate and explain financial circumstances. The economy could face tsunamis and earthquakes, it could end up in deep valleys and reach high peaks, and it could be standing in front of the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff illustrates an abrupt and uncontrolled economic collapse, and the imagery of state leaders falling down cliffs is one of satire drawings’ best known archetypes. The metaphor is strengthened by the cliff’s many cultural appearances, and it has become a cultural icon itself due to films as Thelma & Louise, Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006. In the publication Fiscal Cliff, the topographic metaphor is used as a starting point for a visual game with symbols and characters that somehow has to deal with the fiscal fall. There might be multiple reasons why the fiscal cliff occurs, but once it’s here it will affect us all. Erlend Peder Kvam (1994) is an artist and illustrator based in Oslo. As an illustrator he has been working with clients as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medium Editorial, BENEE and Pom Poko. He was formerly associated with the performative design collective Narves1biblioteket, and in 2020 he co-founded the zine label Foot Books.

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan is a book by Andi Schmied, showcasing the views of twenty-five of Manhattan’s most luxurious private residential skyscrapers, which she documented while posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionai …

Author Vítezslav Nezval (1900 – 1958) is considered one of the most important figures in the Czech avantgarde. Barbara Bausch and Eva Dymáková have now produced the first complete German version of Akrobat, the cycle of poems Nezval published in 1927. …

As a literary theorist, Sergei Tretyakov is one of the leading lights in the left-wing art avant-garde. Few people know that he was also one of the most active literary cartographers of the early Soviet Union and its Asian and European neighbours. On t …

Not only was Moisei Ginzburg (1892 – 1946) one of the most important architects of the Soviet avant-garde but his theoretical work was also the pioneering force in constructivism. Rhythm in Architecture (1923) provides an insight into Ginzburg’s early …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

Seit 20 Jahren prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Zu seinem Jubiläum sind der Verein und seine Mitglieder sowie Grafiker:innen weltweit mit existenziellen Fragen ko …

Helmut Jahn, amerikanischer Stararchitekt deutscher Herkunft (geb. 1940), setzt seit den 70er Jahren in den Metropolen der Welt spektakuläre Zeichen: Von Chicago bis Singapur und Shanghai, von Frankfurt, München, Berlin und Brüssel bis Las Vegas und To …

The book celebrates some of the best work from the magazine’s archive, accompanied by new essays by Sarah Mower, Vince Aletti and Robin Muir written especially for this lavishly produced 568 page edition. Acne Paper was a biannual magazine that had a b …

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and …

Alfred H. Barr Jr., Gründer des Museum of Modern Art in New York, und Philip Johnson, angesehener Architekt, brachten Anfang der 1930er-Jahre die Prinzipien des Bauhauses nach Amerika – noch bevor Exilanten aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland d …

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweit …

Der schwedische Künstler Karl Holmqvist realisierte im Treppenhaus des Fridericianum prozessual das ortsspezifische Kunstwerk Existential Staircase / Existenzielles Treppenhaus. So finden sich in den Treppenaufund -abgängen die mit schwarzem Stift aufg …

A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature. The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume …

“Many artists have felt the lure of juxtaposing photographs and text, but few have succeeded as well as Teju Cole. He approaches this problem with an understanding of the limitations and glories of each medium.” Stephen Shore In the period leading up t …

The Handbook for Social, Ecological and Existential Utopia is published on occasion of the exhibition Life on Planet Orsimanirana. It understands itself as a ”collidoscope“ of a decentralised, non-hierarchical and generative process of world building b …

Umfassende Publikation zu den außergewöhnlichen politischen Arbeiten des Künstlers. Raymond Pettibon (*1957 in Tucson), Pionier von Subkultur und kulturellem Untergrund in Südkalifornien, löst seit den späten 1970er-Jahren die Grenzen zwischen Hochkult …

All I look forward to is the weekends, and sometimes they suck just as bad as the week does. God it’s so god damn boring!! When I wake up in the morning I feel like I’m 99 years old!! I’m so tired and lazy and unhappy. I’m only 15 years old, what’s wro …

In Prospector – A Casting Eye on Haus-Rucker-Co and Post-Haus-Rucker Zamp Kelp, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectur …

Published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work at Belgium museum M Leuven in October 2020, this book focuses on Demand’s relationship to architecture and his engagement with architects over almost fifteen years. The starti …

Titel: Engel quellen aus Gebäuden. Text von Eva Gräberdinger, Bildern und Gestaltung von Edgar Daniel. 26 Seiten Publikation, Siebdruck auf Zeitungspapier 45gr. 42x30cm. 35 Exemplare. Jahr: 2021

Katalog mit 18 einfarbigen Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Franziska Holstein und Jakob Kirch Broschur, 36 Seiten, 17×23,5 cm, Auflage 300 (nummeriert und signiert) Erschienen 06/2021 ISBN 978-3-945111-65-9

Not a comicbook, but literally illustrated text, “Street Cop,” written by Robert Coover and inhabited by Art Spiegelman. It’s a book you’ve been waiting for. Its inventiveness never ceases, and it reaches beyond the page: what more do you need? A marve …

“Before every beginning, many other beginnings will lie. The word ‘ark’, as in Noah’s Ark, derives from the Latin word for box, arca. And this box was also some kind of archive structure. A heritage backup. The concept of reproduction is crucial for No …

1957 brachte die Sowjetunion einen Satelliten in die Erdumlaufbahn und gewann so die erste Etappe im „Wettlauf ins All“. Der Westen reagierte auf den „Sputnik-Schock“ mit einer nie dagewesenen Bildungsoffensive, die bald die gesellschaftliche Debatte b …

In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist’s most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form …

In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist’s most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form …

Denken die Projekte dein Leben? Kriecht die Kraft in deinen Kopf oder dein Herz? Träumst du die gleichen Träume wie in deiner Jugend? Bist du da? 104 Fragen wie diese stellen die Frauenfiguren in Katja Schwalenbergs neuem Buch sich selbst, einander und …

Das Haus der Kultur (HdK), heute Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KuK), ist für Gera seit 40 Jahren stadtbildprägend. Das Gebäude verdeutlicht das kulturelle Selbstbewusstsein der während der DDR rasant wachsenden Bezirkshauptstadt Gera. Seine multifunktio …

Claudia Skoda ist mit ihrer Mode eine Schlüsselfigur und Ikone der Berliner Undergroundszene der siebziger und achtziger Jahre. Mit ihren innovativen, körpernahen Kreationen aus hauchdünnen Garnen revolutionierte sie das Verständnis von Strickmode. Ihr …

Laura Bielau’s photo book Arbeit (Work) is about the actual space of her work as a photographer and artist: the studio in which she operates. One aspect of the work centres on what she finds in this space, the resources she has at her disposal there, a …

Who produces what, and how? What tools and technologies, what values and intentions are fed into the process? What part do power and control play in the context of semiautonomous technologies that will shape our future world? The book’s conversations, …

Who produces what, and how? What tools and technologies, what values and intentions are fed into the process? What part do power and control play in the context of semiautonomous technologies that will shape our future world? The book’s conversations, …

Notes on discourse in deconstructed/intellectual contemporary fashion