Zeichen, Texte und Bilder werden von Terrorgruppen als Waffen genutzt. Wie aus Bildern und Buchstaben Waffen werden fragt die Ausstellung “Zeichen als Waffen. Zum Beispiel das Emblem der Roten Armee Fraktion”. Sie wird am 21. Juni eröffnet und ist bis …

Moscow’s first independent galleries and the 1990s art scene. In 1986, the Soviet government created a statute enabling citizens to form associations and clubs for the first time since the 1920s. This gave rise to the first official organizations creat …

A collection of articles on Russian art from Moscow Art Magazine, selected by founder and editor Viktor Misiano. With the launch of Moscow Art Magazine in 1993, curator and critic Viktor Misiano gave readers access to a rich variety of theory, criticis …

2On 9 December 2016 the Architectural Association in London hosted the event “The Bedford Tapes”, which brought together architects and experts from all over Europe. New Commons for Europe captures the vitality and the doubts of a new generation of arc …

Hardcover, 150 mm x 220 mm standing / 6 x 8,5 inches 32 pages / 16 viewing pages leporello alike thing with images of the works and the show plus two smaller 32- page self-cover booklets featuring two texts plus some images, all glued inside. Curator: …

Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. With a highly constructed and at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials, Rødland makes p …

Contributions by Nils van Beek, Marc Bijl, AA Bronson, Beatriz Colomina, Elmgreen & Dragset, Martijn Engelbregt, Fulya Erdemci, Mark Fisher, Margreet Fogteloo, Mika Hannula, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Mari Linnman, Marien van der Meer, Markus Miessen, Mer …

Manege frei für die Welt der AkrobatInnen, der Clowns und der exotischen Tiere. Der Katalog „Parallelwelt Zirkus“ führt über die Werke zeitgenössischer KünstlerInnen in das Universum Zirkus ein und richtet den Blick auf einen wundersamen Ort der Welter …

The Serving Library Annual’ comprises a number of individual “Bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published by ROMA Publications in a yearly format, this inaugural iss …

Hrsg. von Reinhard Braun. Anlässlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Camera Austria, Graz, 10.3. – 29.4.2018. Mit einem Textbeitrag von Reinhard Braun (ger./eng.). Edition Camera Austria, Graz, 2018. 256 Seiten, 15,2 × 23,5 cm, 118 Duoton-Abbildungen. I …

Printed as newspapers and commentators trade comparisons with 1848, 1917, 1979 and 1989, in order to grasp the impact of the democratic upsurge that stretches from the Mahgreb to Iran, this timely visual essay in the form of a newspaper, revisits the b …

THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW (by Owen Hatherley): This wonderful book documents the architectural results of another Soviet anniversary – the celebrations of the centenary of Lenin’s birth in Ulyanovsk, formerly Simbirsk, the small city on the Volga where he was born. Told by the authorities in Moscow that the ‘door would be open’ for them to modernise their mainly wooden, one-storey, Tsarist city for the duration of the celebrations, and that they’d close it immediately when it was over, the local Party rushed to build a Museum, a Library, a Palace of Culture, housing, an Airport and the high-rise Hotel Venets before the tap of money and resources was turned off. In its first year of opening, two Poles, 70 Britons, and more than 3,000 East Germans arrived to stay in the Hotel Venets, and we get to read the inventory of difficult questions they answered (‘can we see how people live in those little wooden houses?’), and find out how hotel staff took it out on the guests.

Combining Polaroid photography and texts in English and Arabic, this book presents creative practices of design that occur on the sidewalk along with the unplanned interventions in the public space that give Cairo its distinctive character. Organized i …

In recent years the Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno has become known around the world for his vision of cloud cities — flying, ostensibly livable structures that people can move around freely in. »Flying Plaza« presents a conceptually important serie …

Die vorliegende Publikation erscheint im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Alexander Kluge. Gärten der Kooperation” im Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart: einer umfassenden Einzelausstellung des Schriftstellers, Filmemachers und Theoretikers Alexander Kluge …

In the Soviet era Victor Tupitsyn had already begun making recordings in Moscow kitchens and studios of conversations with Russian conceptual artists. They were intended for readers who had no access to these artists, as their work ran foul of official …

We now have the technology to reach nearby planets. Even though many long-term technical issues still need to be solved to create the conditions for a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on another planet, imagining humans as a multi-planetary sp …

Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist has made a weekly contribution to “Das Magazin,” the weekend supplement of the Swiss “Tages-Anzeiger” newspaper, offering, in the style of a diary, a survey of contemporary art and cultural affairs. Week after week he reports on the main events and relevant issues of our times through the lens of his extensive curiosity.

To mark the occasion of Alexander Kluge’s eighty-fifth birthday, the Museum Folkwang is organizing a comprehensive show of the work of the film-maker, writer, philosopher, and artist. The exhibition is an introduction to Kluge’s artistic “pluriverse” and sets out to illustrate his main methods, themes, and conceptual approaches, with the central focus on his filmic collages. The accompanying book picks up on the themes addressed in the exhibition and concentrates on the principle of work collaboration, which is of key importance for Kluge: the process of “thinking together” with academics and artists, such as Thomas Demand, Georg Baselitz, and Ben Lerner. Both the book and the exhibition are being produced in close collaboration with Alexander Kluge. “Alexander Kluge: Pluriverse” is at the Museum Folkwang Essen from 15 September 2017 to 7 January 2018 and at the 21er Haus in Vienna from February to April 2018. With texts by Leslie A. Adelson, Christoph Streckhardt, Richard Langston, Ben Lerner, Alexander Kluge, Anna Fricke, a.o. 24.00 €

Stéphane Déplan, a Grenoble citizen exiled in Brussels for several years now, regroups his activities under the name of Life as Art as Attitude. He practices a way of making art, through protocol and accumulation. His everyday actions and projects are …

Interview realized between 2016 and 1976. Originally from South Richmond, Virginia, Sissy Hankshaw was born in the Eisenhower Years and now lives in the Dakotas. Sissy has remarkably large thumbs – symbol of emancipation and non-conformity. Thanks to t …

Little Warsaw: Rebels In the heady days following the fall of communism in Hungary, students at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts decided to take action. The student rebellion illustrates, in miniature, all the conflicts that abounded during this peri …

Das Bild zeigt eine grausame Szenerie: Weiße Männer posieren in Sonntagsstaat für die Kamera. Zwei von ihnen mit Siegerminen jeweils eine Hand an den Knöcheln eines Afroamerikaners, den sie offenbar gerade an einem Baum gehängt haben. Der Titel des Bil …

Künstlerbuch im Zeitungsformat mit schwarz-weißen Abbildungen im Rollenoffsetdruck, gestaltet von Kay Bachmann mit Texten von Dietmar Dath und Britt Schlehahn (dt.) Zeitung, 32 Seiten, 40×57 cm, Auflage 5000 Erschienen 10/2017 ISBN 978-3-945111-42-0

Sep 2017 352 Seiten, in deutscher Sprache, 140 x 225 mm, Softcover mit Umschlag. Language: german

In collaboration with the Berlin-Budapest-Leipzig based art collective and publishing project Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U), Philip Widmann and visual artist Márk Fridvalszki have created a booklet that consists of processed visual material fro …

Diese Publikation versammelt Texte des Graphikers, Plakatmachers und Bühnenbildners Helmut Brade aus den Jahren 1965 bis 2017. Es sind Äußerungen zu Kunst und Künstlern, aber auch zum Graphik-Design, zum Kunststudium, zur Kunst des Plakatmachens, zur Theaterarbeit und zu Fragen von Stadt und Gesellschaft. Unverkennbar verwurzelt in Halle, sind es seine kosmopolitische Haltung, sein kritischer, analytischer, aber auch einfühlender Blick auf die Künstler und auf die Gesellschaft, die den Texten über das Konkrete der Aussagen hinaus Gewicht verleiht. Und es ist fesselnd zu verfolgen, wie diese Aussagen über die Zeiten hinweg ihre Gültigkeit bewahren. (Gerhard Wünscher) Helmut Brade feiert am 16. November 2017 seinen 80. Geburtstag. Helmut Brade (*1937 Halle/Saale) Bühnenbildner, Plakatgestalter und Grafikdesigner, er lebt in Halle/Saale. Er ist Mitglied in der AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). Gerhard Wünscher (*1947 Großbraunshain) ist Physiker; als Liebhaber von Kunst, Literatur und Theater langjähriger Beobachter und Begleiter dessen was von Helmut Brade geschaffen wurde.

Hardcover: 764 pages Publisher: Fondazione Prada; Box Har/Ps edition (June 27, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 8887029709 ISBN-13: 978-8887029703 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.6 x 6.9 inches

Sam Thorne’s School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education is a chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000. Comprising a series of twenty conversations conducted by Thorne with the …

Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny, or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order” Treatise Contributions by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), Robert Breer, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicolas Chardon, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, …

Der Raum für Visuelle Forschung arbeitet seit 2013 als Labor für experimentelle Forschung an neuen grafischen, abstrakten und visuellen Welten im Kontext der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er ist Werkstätte und Denkraum zugleich und unterstützt die Notwen …

OLAFUR ELIASSON: REALITY MACHINES – STOCKHOLM, MODERNA MUSEET – Catalogue ed. by Matilda Olof-Ors. Stockholm 2015/16. Vorw. von Daniel Birnbaum, Ann-Sofi Noring & Kerstin Brunnberg. Einl. von Matilda Olof-Ors.Text von Daniel Birnbaum, Timothy Morton & …

For more than twenty years, Armin Linke has been photographing the effects of globalization, the wholesale transformation of infrastructures, and the networking of the post-industrial society via digital information and communication technologies. His …

“(Curating) From A to Z” offers a summary of the development of curatorial practice over the last two decades seen through the eyes of curator Jens Hoffmann. In this publication each letter of the alphabet evokes a particular word related to the world of exhibition making: From A (as in Artist) and B (as in Biennial) to R (as in Retrospective) and W (as in White Cube). Employing a diarist style, the curator presents his personal curatorial alphabet with a similar transparency and the same idiosyncratic character revealed in many of his exhibitions. The entries are not only stimulating and intellectually rigorous, but also emotionally engaging. Jens Hoffmann (b. 1974 in San José, Costa Rica) is a writer, exhibition maker, and educator. He currently is Deputy Director of The Jewish Museum, New York. He has published widely in journals and museum publications and has written over 200 texts on art and exhibition making over the last 15 years. His most recent books include “The Studio” (2012), as well as “Show Time: A History of Exhibitions” (2014). He is the founder and editor of “The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making.” Most recently he co-curated the 9th Shanghai Biennial (2012/13) and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).

In the mid-1960s, there was widespread dissatisfaction in German architecture faculties: in the eyes of students and teaching assistants, the training of so-called artist-architects no longer seemed in keeping with the times. In protest, they independently organized their own interdisciplinary seminars and examinations. They committed themselves to the scientification of the architectural plan. During the period of student unrest, they debated the social uses of architecture and planning and tested participative models in practical contexts. Students printed flyers, campaigned in various political groups, and set up magazines. On the basis of interviews with contemporary observers of the scene, archival research, and contributions from authors, the book presents a detailed overview of these now almost “forgotten schools”. The editors were inspired not only by reviewing the historical events but also by the relevance they have for current debates on the professional profile of planners and architects and their sociopolitical responsibilities. Text: Matthias Burke, Beatrice Colomina, Hisar Ersöz, Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich, Nina Gribat, Eleonore Harmel, Julia Hartmann, Tanja Herdt, Leon Jank, Philipp Misselwitz, Ines Weizman Eyewitness: Harald Bodenschatz, Klaus Brake, Peter Conradi, Rolf Czeskleba–Dupont, Peter Dietze, Uwe Drepper, Gisbert Dreyer, Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig, Rainer W. Ernst, Helga Fassbinder, Dieter Frick, Anette Gangler, Sigmar Gude, Lothar Götz, Sybille Heeg, Peter Herrle, Peter Hübner, Frank Huster, Declan Kennedy, François Kerschkamp, Bärbel Kirschner, Ingrid Krau, Reinhard Kuchenmüller, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Arno Lederer, Wolfgang Linsenhoff, Ingrid Lübke, Jörg Pampe, Sybille Plesch-Kinzler, Wolf Reuter, Hans-Joachim Rieseberg, Winfried Schwantes, Wolfgang Schwinge, Thomas Sieverts, Viktoria Waltz, Manfred Walz, Klaus Zillich

Entangling the seemingly contradictory, THIS IS BADLAND takes its Balkan roots to mine cross-cultural connections and initiate new dialogues. Based out of Berlin the magazine is driven by a desire to veer away from any homogenous understanding of reali …

The manifold entanglements of African and Western culture are a central motif in the oeuvre of the Algerian-French artist Kader Attia. The influence of traditional African architecture on European modernism forms the background for his voluminous spati …

Images are just as much in motion as people. In a globalized world they can move faster and more freely than humans. When artist Armin Linke was invited more than seven years ago to participate in a photographic project on the island of Lampedusa, he l …

Der britische Architekt Cedric Price (1934–2003) setzte sich zeitlebens mit der Technisierung der Gesellschaft auseinander und suchte zu Beginn der Informations- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre nach einer neuen Sprache der …

Vor dem Hintergrund veränderter Bedingungen für künstlerische Produktion und Erwerbsarbeit, für Prozesse der Individualisierung und Kollektivierung, für immaterielle und kognitive Arbeit und für andere Netzwerk(infra)strukturen veröffentlicht die Künst …

To mark the occasion of Alexander Kluge’s eighty-fifth birthday, the Museum Folkwang is organizing a comprehensive show of the work of the film-maker, writer, philosopher, and artist. The exhibition is an introduction to Kluge’s artistic “pluriverse” a …

Das Gebiet “östlich der ehemaligen Berliner Mauer und westlich der Chinesischen Mauer” hat das Künstlerkollektiv Slavs & Tatars in das Zentrum seiner Arbeit gerückt. Immer wieder aufs Neue kreolisiert, schafft und setzt es politische und imaginierte Ge …

168 pages 21cm × 30cm Format: Paperback 2017

Declaration ‘Improve your surrounding with a small gesture, achievable in a day’ Proof ‘Take a photograph of the improvement’ Concept ‘The declaration and its documentation are the material for a poster. Write a brief for the poster. Aim for a result t …

Michel Foucault Letters documents artist Kevin Immanuel’s ongoing project archiving the supposed correspondence between the famous philosopher and a number of galleries and art institutions throughout Europe, North America, and China. The letters were, …

Being at once a school and at the same time not a school, a workspace, the WT tends to want to comment on its own distinctive form of academic pursuit ( by way of, amongst other outlets, these School Journals). And during this sometimes faltering, some …