There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerg …

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 …

Klub books, 2023

From the development of human settlements on the Moon to the mining of asteroids for rare minerals and metals – the wild imaginaries of extraction-driven growth have, quite literally, transcended the boundaries of Earth. This shifting of resource explo …

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, …

No Words of Warmth / Keine wärmende Worte is a multifaceted and hybrid art book—combining text, sound, and images—that provides a glimpse of a young Jewish woman’s life as an artist in Germany. Associations relating to the roles of sister, daughter, mo …

HANS HOLLEIN PHOTOGRAPHED BY AGLAIA KONRAD AND ARMIN LINKE – MÖNCHENGLADBACH, MUSEUM ABTEIBERG – Catalogue ed. by Wilfried Kühn, Susanne Titz, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein & Marlies Wirth. Mönchengladbach 2014. Vorw. von Christoph Thun-Hohenstein. Ein …

In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary desi …

An occupied metropolitan theatre and a cruise ship on the Mediterranean: these are the two colossal, heavily laden vehicles on board which Jakko — an autodidact who likes to keep records, a Simplicissimus hooked into the internet — moves through the da …

Fashion photography reflects not only the desires and fantasies of the consumer, but also the changing face of cultural values in society as a whole. A stunning object in its own right, Fashion Photography – The Story in 180 Pictures charts the evoluti …

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 …

„Bis zum heutigen Tag stellt die Commune den einzigen Versuch eines revolutionären Urbanismus dar“, schreibt Henri Lefebvre, während sich um ihn herum, an den Universitäten von Strasbourg und Nanterre, die Ereignisse von 1968 zusammenbrauen. In Auseina …

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 …

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect’s ideas. In order to convey architecture and to build it, drawing …

During the pandemic, globally acclaimed Keiichi Tanaami found himself on the brink of utter boredom. What got him out of his funk was Picasso. Keiichi Tanaami is known for his monstrous, contemporary, downright psychedelic, and kaleidoscopic pieces. A …

The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into different forms of media present …

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 …

Die vorliegende Publikation würdigt das Frühwerk eines der Hauptvertreter der klassischen Moderne und präsentiert neben historischen Quellen neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Dokumentationen der Häuser und ihrer ersten Bewohner.

Immer wieder verständigen wir uns in der Gesellschaft darüber, was wir als wahr anerkennen und was nicht. Dass die Erde eine Kugel ist, werden die meisten unterschreiben, dass Corona lebensgefährlich war, schon weniger. Und ist Helene Fischer eine Frau …

This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their a …

Nasser Road, Kampala: nicknamed Uganda’s Silicon Valley. This street is a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud. From fake identity cards to university degrees, anything can be made and bought here. This publication draws …

This book encapsulates a journey throughout the life of twelve buildings, from construction to inhabitation, by architect Wiel Arets, as experienced by artist Bas Princen. The acclaimed architect Wiel Arets (*1955 in Heerlen) is also known as a designe …

Die Jugendproteste der sechziger Jahre wurden von einem der grössten Pressebooms der Geschichte getragen. Das Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), das 1966 noch ein lockerer Zusammenschluss von fünf Zeitungen war, zählte innerhalb von wenigen Jahren über …

Tape for ‘transfer’, 2023 m,using by lowtec (workshop)

Zine for ‘transSIT’, 2023

It displays Alex Solman’s stunning illustrations which have been the visual communication of the “Golden Pudel Club” since 2004. Musicians like Carsten “Erobique” Meyer, Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor praise what can only be described as the coffee tab …

The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into different forms of media present …

Evelyn Richter’s portrayal of East German life is both critical and empathic, consistently focusing attention on the human actors she observes. She saw her artistic documentary work as a counter to the politically charged images of the time. The book p …

In Sunny Spells, Jean-Jacques Sempé explores a wide range of topics, from troubled relationships and existential crises to office politics and doping scandals in the literary world. His cast of characters includes pious churchgoers, amateur painters an …

Mit seinen lakonischen und konzentrierten Bildfindungen zählt Hans-Christian Schink (*1961 in Erfurt, lebt in Berlin) zu den bemerkenswertesten Vertretern der deutschen Gegenwartsfotografie. Der Villa Massimo-Stipendiat zeigte seine großformatigen Arbe …

Im Rahmen der Internationalen Bauausstellung (IBA) Thüringen wurden in über zehn Jahren ressourcenbewusste Projekte mit gemeinwohlorientierten Werten im und für das StadtLand entwickelt: innovativ, praxisorientiert, zum Nachahmen. An den Thüringer Scha …

Es wird Zeit, den Blick zu weiten: Das Land ist nicht mehr die Kolonie der Stadt. Die Publikation ist ein Plädoyer, die urbane Logik zugunsten einer territorialen Logik aufzubrechen. Dafür gibt es wichtige Gründe: Die Konzentration auf die Städte verna …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …