Sternberg Press - Les presses du réel

2017

English edition

The Contour Biennale offers a platform to curators and artists working with different forms of moving image, from film and video to installation. This reader accompanies the 8th edition of the biennale, dedicated to the notions of evidence and testimony. It includes texts and illustrated contributions by international artists, writers, poets, anthropologists, and filmmakers.

I am built inside you

2017

English edition

Since 2013, the art magazine Contemporary And (C&) has called attention to exhibitions, artists, and curators from diverse African perspectives while boosting new areas of debate. I am built inside you, C&'s first book, is a compilation of eighteen pieces published since the magazine was launched.

$Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d\'Uterpan) - Uchronia - duplicate > do not create, infiltrate > do not exhibit, exceed > do not belong, appear > do not claim, delegate > do not restrict$

Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan)
Uchronia – duplicate > do not create, infiltrate > do not exhibit, exceed > do not belong, appear > do not claim, delegate > do not restrict

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

Companion book to a project by the artists Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan), which emanates from the analysis of individual or collective attitudes and behaviors produced in the public space of a given city.

Simryn Gill, Michael Taussig
Becoming Palm

2017

English edition

currently out of stock

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities of palm oil and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Taussig) in two disparate geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America.

$Pierre Bismuth - Things I Remember I Have Done, But Don\'t Remember Why I Did Them - Towards a Catalogue Raisonné$

Pierre Bismuth
Things I Remember I Have Done, But Don't Remember Why I Did Them – Towards a Catalogue Raisonné

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Two-volume publication gathering a booklet accompanying Pierre Bismuth's 2015 solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, and a catalogue raisonné indexing his typically serial and often humorous work of the last three decades.

Jesse Jones
The Other North

2017

English edition (texts in English and in Korean)

The catalogue of the Irish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennal presents a video project by Jones in which Korean actors reenact a 1970s documentrary of a “conflict resolution therapy session” with individuals who experienced the conflict in Northern Ireland.

These are the tools of the present – Beirut – Cairo

2017

English edition

This publication comprises a series of interviews with contemporary artists, musicians, and writers who are in dialogue with Beirut and Cairo.

Andrew Herscher
Displacements – Architecture and Refugee – Critical Spatial Practice 09

2017

English edition

currently out of stock

An examination of intersections of mass-population displacement and architecture through the twentieth century and into the present (with visual contribution by Omer Fast).

Sven Lütticken
Cultural Revolution – Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy

2017

English edition

An examination of various forms of aesthetic practice seen through the lens of the neoliberal cultural revolution.

Martin Beck
An Organized System of Instructions

2017

English edition

This publication both documents and extends Martin Beck's cycle of exhibition and residency at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Harvard. This two-year long project focused on the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the Carpenter Center, built in 1963 by Le Corbusier.

Merlin Carpenter
Midcareer Paintings

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Merlin Carpenter investigates the status of the midcareer artist with a conceptual project involving the exhibition of transit blankets. The publication documents these works and related gallery shows, in addition with texts by Kunsthalle Bern director Valérie Knoll and artist Sam Lewitt.

Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin
Aru Kuxipa – Sacred Secret

2017

English edition

currently out of stock

This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.

Mario García Torres
An Arrival Tale

2017

English edition

Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return, in a series of works that reflect on the European migrant crisis.

Olaf Holzapfel, Nahum Tevet
The Rough Law of Gardens

2017

English edition

The Rough Law of Gardens documents Olaf Holzapfel and Nahum Tevet's eponymous joint exhibition and explores the intergenerational differences between two unique artists. Both artists' work rejects the global logic of growth and traverses the bounds of sculpture and painting: each of their practices involves ideas to do with materiality, learning, and memory.

Dave Hullfish Bailey, Sam Watson
CityCat Project – 2006-2016

2017

English edition

This publication traces the extraordinary collaboration between American artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and senior Aboriginal writer and activist Sam Watson. structured around their highly political work Maiwar Performance, this book also covers their activities both before and throughout their work together.

Edgar Leciejewski
Tones

2017

English edition

Documenting a six-month residence at Fogo Island Arts, Tones highlights the diversity of Leciejewski's practice—with works including collages, photographs, and found-objects sculptures—while bringing to the fore the artist's views on nature.

Cecilia Vicuña
Read Thread – The Story of the Red Thread

2017

English edition

This catalogue discusses the symbolic of the red thread in the work of the Chilean artist and poet. The publication includes a special documentation on quipus—large-scale immersive installations of thread, wool, and yarn—poetic texts and narratives by Vicuña, and two essays that shed light on a ritualistic symbolism relating to the function of textile, language, and menstrual blood.

The Flood of Rights

2017

English edition

How technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent years transformed the very terms of human rights.

Armen Avanessian
Overwrite – Ethics of Knowledge – Poetics of Existence

2017

English edition

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A critical essay on the state of the academic world, and a call for the development of an autonomous knowledge production.

Eberhard Havekost
Inhalt

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

An overview of the German artist's work, through a selection of paintings from 2006 to 2016.

Minouk Lim
United Paradox

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

This monographic catalogue presents a series of works by artist Minouk Lim which draws on the tragic events of the 1950 Korean war and their aftermaths. Based on installations, sculptures, videos, and performance pieces, Lim's visual language mirrors a nation's refusal to face up with its history and initiates a reflective process to come to terms with the past.

Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction – 1992-2016

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Helke Bayrle has—on her own initiative—filmed the installations of exhibitions that have been held at Portikus since the end of 1992. This catalogue features more than 1,000 film stills, a full index of the recorded exhibitions, as well as texts by curators and deans who worked at Städelschule and Portikus over the years.

Goldin+Senneby
The Exquisite Corpse of August Nordenskiöld

2017

English edition

A collection of multidisciplinary essays assembled as cadavres exquis and inspired by the magical-financial theories of Finnish-Swedish alchemist August Nordenskiöld (a project by Swedish artists' duo Goldin+Senneby).

Marcus Verhagen
Flows and Counterflows – Globalisation in Contemporary Art

2017

English edition

~~20.00~~ 10.00 €

An historical survey of globalization in contemporary art.

Sara van der Heide
The German Library Pyongyang

2017

quadrilingual edition (English / German / Korean / Chinese)

Artist Sara van der Heide converted the German Library in Guangzhou, China, into a restaging of the Goethe-Institut's German Library and Information Centre of Pyongyang, which operated from 2004 to 2009. The publication features the original multilingual booklets, a documentation on the exhibition and a critical reader.

Seepage/ritual – The 2017 Abraaj Group Art Prize

2017

bilingual edition (English / Arabic)

Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features "seepage/ritual," an exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia.

CATPC – Congolese Plantation Workers Art League

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

This book offers a first report on the activities of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), an association for the development of an independent thought on postcolonial power relations within the global art world.

Across & Beyond – A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions

2017

English edition

Published to celebrates the 30-year anniversary of transmediale, this reader aims to use the critical and artistic knowledge gained at the festival over the years to reframe the question of the role of media today. In a world where technology increasingly operates independently of humans, where does the power to act and mediate lie?

Beyond the Globe – 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3

2017

English edition

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Catalogue dedicated to the artistic exploration of the cosmic space (in the framework of the 8th edition of the Triennial of Contemporary Art U3 in Ljubljana).

Black Diamond Dust

2017

English edition

A multidisciplinary investigation dedicated to the cultural representations of coal mining, gathering contemporary artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images.

Darja Bajagić
Unlimited Hate

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

First monographic catalogue dedicated to the works of multidisciplinary artist Darja Bajagić who culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web.

Bulletins of The Serving Library #12

2017

English edition

This issue discusses the various outlooks of the term “perspective”—from a particular opinion to an axonometric projection.

SouthEastAsia – Spaces of the Curatorial – Räume des Kuratorischen – Jahresring #63

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

The 63rd edition of the Jahresring series—one of the longest continually published annual journals for contemporary art in Germany—focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building.

Chus Martínez
Club Univers

2017

English edition

A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.

Gordon Bennett
Be Polite

2017

English edition

Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.

Margit Busch
If–Then–Else – Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.

Andrej Polukord
The Sarcophagus – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.

Hannah Rickards
Grey light – Left and right back, high up, two small windows

2017

English edition

Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.

Monica Ross
Ethical Actions – A Critical Fine Art Practice

2017

English edition

British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.

Future Imperfect – Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East

2017

English edition

Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.

Hubs and Fictions – On Current Art and Imported Remoteness

2017

English edition

Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.

Nicholas Mangan
Limits to Growth

2017

English edition

Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.

Lydia Okumura
Situations

2017

English edition

Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction

Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund
The Contemporary Condition – Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art

2017

English edition

Introductory book to the “Contemporary Condition” series, which brings out some of the key issues relating to contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present—and vows to rethink the deep structures of temporalization as we know it.

Jussi Parikka
The Contemporary Condition – A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture

2017

English edition

Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.

Terry Smith
The Contemporary Condition – The Contemporary Composition

2017

English edition

A visionary essay on the notion of artistic composition in a world spinning into a confused chaos.