Curatoring / exhibition practices & history / museology / scenography

For many years now, Helke Bayrle has documented the activities of the Portikus. The result is a unique collection of artist portraits. Portikus Under Construction presents the last decade, edited backstage material that the viewer of the finished exhibitions never sees.

In the curator's archives.

Collection catalogue.

Inside the white cube.

A book / magazine to prolong in texts and images a season of exhibitions in 35 French art centers: a guide to apprehend the current art scene and the specificities of its places of exhibition.

With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).

Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.

The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.

Mapping a new sensibility.

Artists invite artists.

Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.

A deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material around the work of four artists who represent Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennial 2007.

Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.

A tribute to the foundator of the famous Marseille Gallery, the ARCA and the Art Dealers fair, with contributions by artists Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall...

Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.

Contemporary art in New Zealand: an imaginary exhibition for the Venice Biennale 2007.

Recapitulative publication about Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble.

Charley 04 (Checkpoint Charley) is born out of the reasearch conducted by the curators of the 4th Berlin biennal for contemporary art (2006) and brought together images of works produced by more than 700 artists.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

A retrospective catalogue of the exhibitions organized by the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, as well as an exhaustive presentation of the collection with reproductions, index, comments and analyses.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.

A retrospective presentation of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works.

Exhibition catalogue (texts by Christophe Cherix, Sarah Lombardi, Olivier Mosset, Caroline Nicod, Bernard Wyder, interviews by John Armleder, Rene Berger, Pierre Keller).

An anthology of texts around issues such as spatial politics of representation and identity, the public and the private, the space of art and culture, the memory of places and the inscription of remembrance, and the relations between utopias, heterotopias and the real.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Also available in English edition.

A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating?

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.

An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.

An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.

Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice, this anthology provides new insight into the analysis of things in a curatorial context.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

A curated collection of essays by art critics, philosophers, curators, designers, researchers and conservators, whose considerations address the transformations in the contemporary landscape of fruition and production of art.

A contemporary narrative, an artist's book, a surprising journey into a place that we thought we knew.

A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.

The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.

A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.

Catalogue of the exhibition-manifesto curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, which takes as its starting point the integration of the notion of Anthropocene in today's artistic scene: the publication proposes an exploration of the output of a new generation of artists who are working on reality, and doing away with the traditional division between the notions of “culture” and “nature.” The catalogue reviews each exhibited work in detail, and offers an enlightening glossary.

This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for refugees.

Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.