Mathieu Copeland editions

Curator and publisher, Mathieu Copeland (born 1977) lives and works in London. Graduate from the London Goldsmiths College, he curated, among others, the exhibitions Voids (with Laurent Le Bon, John Armleder, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret and Clive Phillpot) at Centre Pompidou and Kunsthalle Bern in 2009, Soundtrack for an Exhibition and Alan Vega at Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Expart-Art Centre / EAC (with Brian Eno, Pierre Huyghe, Ben Kinmont, Claude Lévêque, Didier Marcel, Olivier Mosset, Shimabuku, Dan Walsh, and Ian Wilson) at ICA, London, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Museum Sztuki Lodz, CAC Vilnius, Kunstihoone Tallinn, and Bizart Shanghai, Meanwhile… Across Town (with Cerith Wyn Evans) at Centre Point Building, London. He participated at the 9th Lyon Biennal. In 2002, Mathieu Copeland has launched Anna Sanders Films World Tour (a program of films by Charles de Meaux, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe et Philippe Parreno). He is the editor of the book Anna Sanders Films – The In-Between, published by Les presses du réel.

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13 titles

Stefan Brüggemann
Hyper-Palimpsest

2019

English edition

This publication reflects upon the exhibition of Stefan Brüggemann's nihilist statements read, sung, and screamed by Punk icon Iggy Pop, sculpting aurally the spaces of a seemingly empty gallery covered in densely painted black paneling paintings.

The Exhibition of a Film

2015

bilingual edition (English / French)

What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).

Choreographing Exhibitions

2013

bilingual edition (English / French)

Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous

An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).

Gustav Metzger
Auto-creative Art

2013

bilingual edition (English / French)

The most monumental auto-creative work ever made by Gustav Metzger (catalogue of the exhibition at MAC Lyon, with numerous archive documents, newly commissioned texts and a conversation with the artist).

Procuration subordonnée à une condition suspensive

2013

bilingual edition (English / French)

An extension on paper of the activities of Darse, the art space in Geneva.

On Kawara
One Million Years (Box set) #69-70

2010

This edition of 4 audio CDs in a wooden case comprises the reading of On Kawara's One Million Years [Past and Future], with Gemma Saunders as the female voice reading all even numbers and Leo Chadburn as the male voice reading all odd numbers, covering 969 611 BC to 967 811 BC & 33 411 AD to 34 450 AD.

Amy Granat
The Saints (DVD)

2008

6 films by Amy Granat with Fia Backström, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Angel Turner.

Mai-Thu Perret
An Evening of the Book – 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret (DVD)

2008

3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.

Soundtrack for an Exhibition (+ audio DVD)

2006

bilingual edition (English / French)

A full colour, hardback publication documenting the major time-based project that confounds traditional expectations of an exhibition, including essays and discussions with participating artists and guest contributors, the entire score of the soundtrack, film stills, installation images and an audio DVD of excerpts from the soundtrack.

Perfect Magazine

2003

bilingual edition (English / French)

A magazine printed with white ink on white paper (with Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Liam Gillick, Martin Creed, Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Niele Toroni, Art & Language, Steven Parrino, Maurizio Cattelan, Tom Morton, Swetlana Heger, Didier Marcel, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Buren...).

Alan Vega
Infinite Mercy

2010

English edition

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Misceallenous

sold out

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure, a pioneer of minimalist electronic rock as the co-founder of the cult band Suicide.

Alan Vega
Infinite Mercy

2010

French edition

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Misceallenous

sold out

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure.

White Column

2024

English edition

forthcoming

A survey of Leeds School of Arts Fine Art Student Gallery activities, an experimental and open site caring for the art it stages.