Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp

The Association Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp (KMD) was founded in 2009 in the aim of organizing a symposium and an international event devoted to Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall. The KMD was also built for this occasion, and a book edition was initiated in collaboration with the Verlag für moderne Kunst in Nuremberg (since 2015 in Vienna).
The KMD is a homage to Marcel Duchamp's Box in a Valise. It is situated on the shore of lake Geneva, not far from the Forestay Waterfall, which the artist photographed in 1946 as the starting point of his last masterpiece Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage.
The KMD is the world's “smallest” museum and shows “great” exhibitions of internationally renowned and emerging artists. KMD edition publishes hard-cover books (art theory, monographs, artists' books, and exhibition catalogues) not only in its meanwhile famous miniature format but also in standard, larger formats.
Tthe KMD is an artistic project by Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz.

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24 titles

Stefan Banz
Morton L. Schamberg: God ebook

2020

English edition

A study attempting to put the authorship of God back into perspective with the help of new sources and to explain why this is actually a work by Morton L. Schamberg.

$Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt\'s Fountain$

Stefan Banz
Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt's Fountain ebook

2020

English edition

Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.

$Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt\'s Fountain$

Stefan Banz
Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt's Fountain

2019

English edition

$Michael R. Taylor - Percy Rainford - Duchamp\'s “Invisible” Photographer$

Michael R. Taylor
Percy Rainford – Duchamp's “Invisible” Photographer

2018

English edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous

First publication dedicated to Jamaican-born American photographer Percy Rainford, a longtime collaborator of both Marcel Duchamp and architect Frederick Kiesler. Drawing from extensive archival research and interviews, author Michael R. Taylor showcases the work of this remarkable avant-garde photographer, while also shedding new light on his collaborations with Duchamp and Kiesler.

Louis Michel Eilshemius
Six Musical Moods (+ CD)

2018

bilingual edition (English / German)

Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous

The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.

Stefan Banz
One Rock Upon Another – Marcel Duchamp, Jules Verne, Max Bill, Joseph Beuys, Fischli | Weiss, Ai Weiwei

2018

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous

Six essays dealing with still rarely discussed aspects of the work of Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Fischli | Weiss and Ai Weiwei, but also Jules Verne, in their relationship with the various artistic concepts of Marcel Duchamp.

Helen Molesworth
Duchamp – By Hand, Even / À la main, même / Mit der Hand, sogar

2017

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous

In her brilliant essay, Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in Duchamp's artistic oeuvre of his later years and, at the same time, and for the very first time, makes this fundamental paradigmatic change the focal point of academic debate.

Stefan Banz
Aldo Walker – Logotyp – En gardant un œil sur Marcel Duchamp et William Copley

2016

French edition

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs

An analysis of the work of an unheralded artist both profound and captivating written by his friend, artist and curator Stefan Banz.

Didier Semin
Duchamp – The Paradigm of the Cartoon

2015

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

Stefan Banz
Louis Michel Eilshemius – Peer of Poet-Painters

2015

English edition

This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.

Stefan Banz
Jeff Wall – With the Eye of the Mind

2014

English edition

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

$Besides, it\'s always the others who die$

Besides, it's always the others who die

2014

English edition

Taking as its starting point a pilgrimage that takes place in Italy during the day of the dead, this publication is part of a collective and multidisciplinary project which aims to reflect upon death, to more deeply celebrate life.

Stefan Banz
Jeff Wall – Mit dem Auge des Geistes

2014

German edition

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

Stefan Banz
Marcel Duchamp – Pharmacie

2014

bilingual edition (English / German)

currently out of stock

First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.

Jeff Wall
Marcel Duchamp – Étant donnés

2013

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

La broyeuse de chocolat

2013

bilingual edition (English / German)

First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.

$Harald Harzheim - The Kings of the B\'s - Jean-Luc Godard & Roger Corman$

Harald Harzheim
The Kings of the B's – Jean-Luc Godard & Roger Corman

2013

bilingual edition (German / French)

Godard and Corman have worked concurrently on the same themes and subjects, using similar stylistic devices and production techniques. The fact that this affinity has so far remained undiscovered has its explanation in hard-set opinions and judgment criteria. Harald Harzheim has now succeeded in breaking this mindset, enabling us see the work of these radical independent filmmakers in a completely new perspective.

John Cage, Thomas Wulffen
Rrose to the occasion – A conversation

2012

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

In 1984, John Cage gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Thomas Wulffen seized the opportunity to talk to him about his work, about Berlin, and about Germany. The hitherto unpublished interview shows this major avant-garde artist in a relaxed mood, perfectly at his ease, though not without a light touch of irony. An historical document.

Cildo Meireles, Antoni Muntadas
Salt & Sugar – No Sugar, No Salt

2012

bilingual edition (English / Spanish)

Catalogue documenting a unique installation born from the colllaboration of two major artists of the twentieth century.

Friedrich Kittler
Platz der Luftbrücke – Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz

2011

German edition

The extended new edition of the out-of-print publication of the same name, from the year 1996, appears on the occasion of the death of Friedrich Kittler. Along with an introduction, it contains an extensive and unabridged interview with Stefan Banz and Kittler's unusual text Skiagraphia, die Schattenschrift (the shadowed text) from 2005.

Jean-Christophe Ammann
Das Wespennest ist eine Kathedrale – Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz

2011

German edition

An interview with Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Stefan Banz - Tenderness and Temperature

Stefan Banz, Caroline Bachmann
Tenderness and Temperature

2011

English edition

Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have designed a photographic and pictorial artist's book which focuses on Berlin cemeteries. In a combination of photography and painting they consider the uniqueness of the park-like cemeteries in Berlin, which are used as leisure and recreational areas. Bachmann and Banz turn these places of melancholy and calm into an aesthetic experience by “making emotions visible”.

Norbert Bisky
A Retrospective – Ten years of painting

2011

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

Celebrating ten years of artistic career, this catalogue reproduces a series of miniature replicas of mostly huge-format paintings by Norbert Bisky, repainted by the artist himself.

Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall

2010

English edition

A Duchampian discovery.