Edition Patrick Frey

Active since 1986, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs. The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists, mainly Swiss but also international, an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but EPF has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 20 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.
 
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Veronika Minder - Alfred Jonathan Steffen - Art Décor
2018
German edition
brings back to life the forgotten art of window-dressing, through an artistic and intimate portrtait of window-dresser Bob Steffen.
Beni Bischof - Texte 3
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Texte 3 is another pictureless book by Beni Bischof, printed in standard pocket size. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.
Giorgio di Noto - The Iceberg
2017
English edition
An extraordinary publication gathering a selection of stock images and original photographs drawn from the myriad ads for drug sales on the dark web designed to catch the consumer's eye. These photographs are invisible under normal light: printed in invisible ink, they can only be viewed under ultraviolet light (the publication includes a mini flashlight).
 Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier - Years later...
2017
English edition
For three years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier have been taking candid photographs of people from all walks of life and of every age in public and semi-public urban spaces: on streets and city squares, in cafés and bars, train stations and airports, stores and shopping centers. Combined with genuine words taken from the internet or heard in the street, this photographic series is a comédie humaine of the present day and age.
David & Tania Willen - Appetite for the Magnificent
2017
English edition
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Francisca Silva - 25 Memoranden
2017
English edition
First artist's book: 25 poetic notes on love written on a memorandum.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Early Retirement
2017
no text
Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.
Stéphan Landry - Tout va bien
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.
Josef Maria Schröder -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom
2017
English edition
Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.
Mélanie Veuillet - Tools of Disobedience
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.
Jean Willi - Steingesichter
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).
Claudia Comte - 40 x 40
2017
English edition
(last copies available!)
This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - Continental Drift
2017
English edition
(last copies available!)
Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
Judith Bernstein - Dicks of Death
2016
English edition
Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.
Daniela Comani - Sunsets
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.
Alan Reid - Warm Equations
2016
English edition
Monograph offering a collective literary and poetic rendering of Alan Reid's works.
Basile Mookherjee - Fully Fueled
2016
no text
Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.
Arno Brandlhuber - Legislating Architecture Schweiz
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
Klaus Pichler - Golden days before they end
2016
English edition
A swan song for Vienna's drinking dens.
Andreas Tschersich - Peripher
2016
no text
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
 Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei) - 11 mantras
2016
English edition
Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Female Chic
2016
English edition
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
Fabian Marti - Bilder 2005-2016
2016
English edition
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
Billy Sullivan - Still, Looking - Works 1969-2016
2016
English edition
The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.
Bad Bonn Songbook
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, artists performing at the Café Bad Bonn in Fribourg were asked to put their songs on paper. The results proved as diverse as their musical styles and personalities, including everything from sheet music and lyrics with guitar tabs to photos and drawings (with Arto Lindsay, Will Oldham, Wire, Maja Ratkje, Timber Timbre, Thurston Moore, Herman Dune, Panda Bear, Flaming Lips, Suzanne Vega...).
 Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport - Maximilian Stejskal - Folklig idrott
2016
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.
 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian - Her Majesty?
2016
English edition
The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.
Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Barbara Davatz - As Time Goes By - Portraits 1982, 1988, 1997, 2014
2016
English edition
In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.
 Prill Vieceli Cremers - Money
2016
English edition
An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.
Greetings from Auschwitz
2015
English edition
Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947—only two years after the liberation of the camp.
Thomas Müllenbach - Originale
2015
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Thomas Müllenbach's series Halboriginale (“Semi-originals”), which he worked on from 2005-2013, constitutes an artistic appropriation of art-related documentation found in his mailbox over the years. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by the artist.
Claudio Cambon - Shipbreak
2015
English edition
A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.
Salon Moderne
2015
no text
The art of hair salon window-dressing in Switzerland.
Luciano Rigolini - Mask
2015
no text
An artist's book presenting an extensive series of grilles from American cars built between 1955 and 1962. A book allowing multiple readings and meanings, in a balance between conceptual rigor and visual sensuality.
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