According to the cliché, California is the place where anything goes and everyone does their own thing. Maybe that’s because everyone knows that in California there’s no terra firma: earthquakes, mudslides, fires, and the occasional civil uprising caus …

Oscar Murillo’s practice is closely connected to a notion of community stemming from his cross-cultural ties to diverse cities and places in which he travels and works, and Colombia, where he was born in 1986. He addresses the conditions of display in …

Maurice Göldner (hrsg.), Studierende der Hochschule Augsburg LAB M 3.11b, 2020

Edited by Slavs and Tatars and M. Constantine Texts by Hamja Ahsan, Emily Apter, M. Constantine, David Crowley, Arthur Fournier & Raphael König, Augustin Maurs, Metahaven, Alenka Pirman & KULA, Mohammad Salemy, Vid Simoniti, Slavs and Tatars, Goran Voj …

Even though his expertise in the field was self-taught, the teacher Dr Wilhelm Ganss is regarded as a pioneer of botany in Liechtenstein. In 1954 he published the essay “The Orchids of Liechtenstein”, in which he described the native orchids of his ado …

In Deutschland beenden jedes Jahr ungefähr Zehntausend Menschen ihr Leben – das entspricht der Bevölkerungszahl einer deutschen Großstadt. In den Monaten März und Mai sind die Suizide am häufigsten. Es ist wichtig, über Suizide zu berichten und vor all …

In 1926 El Lissitzky created an unconventional exhibition space in Dresden. His Room for Constructive Art connected the notion that space and the viewer are constitutive elements of an artwork and that the reception of art can be activated through the …

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Zur Geschichte eines gesichtslosen Gebiets genannt Parkstadt Schwabing 14 Straßen, die alle nach Persönlichkeiten des Bauhaus benannt sind – in der bodenständigen Gestaltung Münchner Straßenschilder gefasst – vor dem Hintergrund generischer Büro- und W …

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by chimurenga. Published by Afterall Books and Chimurenga in association with Asia Art Archive, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College & RAW Material Company. Contrib. by Allioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, …

‘Having worked with Le Corbusier on Villa Shodhan and Villa Sarabhai, the images of their flowing spaces, quality of naturally reflected light, varied volumes, and their connection to nature passed through my mind. I remembered Le Corbusier’s words: “F …

While researching in the university archive of Burg Giebichenstein (Halle, Saale, DE) for his master studies, the designer Markus Lange came across the typo- graphic poster artwork of Karl- Heinz Drescher, a graphic artist, who studied from 1955 to 196 …

Academic literary institutes are among the most important institutions in the contemporary world of literature. Now that the oldest writing schools have been training authors for around twenty years, the “prose institute” and its originators have made …

ow can a magic trick help us understand an artwork? The spectator of a magic trick wonders what happened in the ineffable moment when a magician disappears and reappears at the other side of the stage, in the same way a museum visitor might wonder what …

When making things without prior knowledge of “the material,” how should such naive and potentially brutal behavior be interpreted, and what does it represent and generate? The temporary master Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD) investigated thi …

24 x 33 cm, 32 p, ills colour, stapled ISBN 9789493146471 edition of 750 February 2020

‘Twist’ is an overview of Camille Vivier’s work. It is a meeting of worlds. An encounter between curved, nude female bodies with avant-garde, anthropomorphic sculptures. Their shape refers back to the bodies. Vivier confronts roughness with sensuality. …

The Museum Is Not Enough is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigation …

‘Our Interference Times: a visual record’ è il secondo di una serie di libri che presentano la poliedrica personalità artistica di Michael Stipe. In questo volume Stipe, insieme allo scrittore ed artista Douglas Coupland, si interroga su come la cultur …

Konzipiert und gestaltet von Wolfgang Tillmans, erscheint “Today Is The First Day” in Verbindung mit den Einzelausstellungen “Rebuilding the Future” im IMMA, Dublin und “Today Is The First Day” bei WIELS, Brüssel. Das reichhaltig bebilderte Künstlerbuc …

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the material? Since the 2008 financial crisis, lists of well-being in …

To celebrate 10 years of Big Ears, the art and music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, AC Entertainment, Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials, Southern Documentary Fund, and Hat & Beard Press worked closely with artist Kate Joyce—who ph …

Plants feel the pressures, constraints, and violence of the world around them. Our irresponsible behaviour towards plants only increases the trauma they suffer. Being rooted and deeply sedentary beings, plants have no choice but to endure and adapt. Th …

‘Natural Enemies of Books’ is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication ‘Bookmaking on the Distaff Side’, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers, and typesetters, highlighting the print indus …

Karl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history of design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important works: in four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days …

Four years after ‘Statement and Counter-Statement’ (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, ‘Full Scale False Scale’ focuses on a singl …

Postmodern architecture was characterized by four dominant beliefs: that architecture was distinct from the materiality of things; that history had an operative role to play in the present; that the emergence of a culture dominated by images enabled ar …

The catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective on the work of photographer Christian Borchert (1942–2000). Borchert was born in Dresden and did most of his work there and in Berlin. His most important groups of pho …

Bauhaus-Fotografien im Fokus: Ein Studienprojekt Ein Blick zurück und ein Blick nach vorn: Das Projekt des Kunstmuseums Magdeburg zeigt Einflüsse, Bezugnahmen und Interpretationen in der fotografischen Bildsprache über 100 Jahre bis heute. Den Bezug zu …

Fotografie ist das Medium, das neben Architektur und Design bis heute am stärksten mit dem Bauhaus verknüpft ist. 100 Jahre nach der Gründung der Schule in Weimar wird sichtbar, wie innovativ sich die Fotografie nach László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, H …

he work of the late Swiss artist “Xanti” (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904–1979) was until recently almost inaccessible. In his lifetime, Schawinsky was mainly known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. In the 1930s, while teaching at Blac …

Der Katalog wurde im engen Austausch mit dem Künstler entwickelt. Er beleuchtet Atkins’ Praxis im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst, Literatur und digitaler Darstellung und erforscht, wie der Künstler die Verschiebung von Sprache und Skript sowie Musik, S …

Peter Berlin was a self-created icon. With his trademark pageboy haircut and his skin-tight costumes that put every detail of his anatomy on display (designed and tailored by Berlin himself to accentuate his already naturally defined physique), he beca …

»Defining Borders Grenzen Ziehen« ist ein gemeinsames Projekt der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig und der Glasgow School of Art. Die Publikaton fügt die Ereignisse und Ergebnisse der gemeinsam verbrachten Zeit zusammen.

Vivier met Sophie through a casting agent around four years ago. “I was looking for a very athletic woman for a photoshoot,” she recounts. “When I met Sophie, I was not only fascinated by her powerful, sculptural body but I was also drawn to her face w …

Barry McGee is an artist who takes uncertainty and unpredictability as his guiding principles. Every exhibition is different. His installations have featured everything from robotic graffiti writers to entire shipping containers and automobiles. Publis …

Seit 2008 nennen Peter Weigand und Lukasz Lendzinski ihr Stuttgarter Architekturstudio „umschichten“. Denn sie bauen prinzipiell „umschichtend“, entwickeln künstlerische und gestalterische Praktiken zur Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von städtischer Id …

The International Poster competition launched in 2014 and has received 22,000+ poster entries from 100+ Countries (x5 competitions 2014-2018). Over 37,000 people have attended International Poster Exhibitions (x5 exhibitions 2014-2018). 5x Internationa …

50 Meter, so lang ist die Betonbrüstung in der Eingangshalle des Fachbereichs Architektur an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Für die Ausstellung Max Bächer. 50 Meter Archiv wurde der Handlauf der Treppenbrüstung mit Archivfunden überbaut. Bächer …

Das Thema des urbanen öffentlichen Raums wird im 21. Jahrhundert neu verhandelt. Überall in Europa gibt es Forderungen nach autofreien, klimagerechten, vielfältig nutzbaren und ästhetisch ansprechenden Aufenthaltsorten. Plätze spielen dabei eine heraus …

German photographer and filmmaker Tobias Zielony’s (born 1973) latest series documents the gay techno scene of Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare evoking images of gas masks and hooded soldiers, while the photogr …

Texte renommierter Gestalter und Autoren über den tatsächlichen und gefühlten Einfluss des Designs auf unser heutiges und künftiges Leben.

Between 1942 and 1980, Max Huber (1919-92) earned an international reputation as one of the most innovative, distinctive and significant designers of his generation. After an Arts and Crafts education and a later graphic apprenticeship in Switzerland, …

Der austro-amerikanische Architekt, Designer, Bühnenbildner, Künstler und Theoretiker Friedrich Kiesler ist ein wahrer Visionär des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Berlin, Wien und Paris schuf er in den 1920er-Jahren elektromechanische Bühnenbilder, spiralförmige …

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TO THINK is a magazine that explores thoughts and conversation on visual culture. Each issue of TO THINK asks just one question and aims to see what happens when we place deep thinkers together by raising debate around questions we are constantly faced …

Die Stuttgarter Wohnhochhäuser «Romeo und Julia» von Hans Scharoun, entstanden in den Jahren 1954 bis 1959, bilden einen seiner eigenwilligsten und weitreichendsten Versuche, den «Wohnvorgang» neu zu entwerfen. Hans Scharoun hat sich für seine Grundris …