Switzerland

The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

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

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

A photographic journey of rediscovery of the native country of the Swiss photographer of Burmese origin, in search of the familiar in the "exotic".

A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.

Erik Steinbrecher's pictures of the moon (artist's book).

An artist's book by Raphaël Julliard built around his meeting with post-minimalist artist Richard Tuttle.

John Armleder & Fluxus.

Reference monograph / first comprehensive critical tool dedicated to the work of Swiss abstract painter.

Swiss clubbing.

The Looping Papaye Bar was an eccentric hangout initiated and steered by Mauro Paolozzi, Rafael Koch and Dimitri Broquard. This publication brings together the A4 sized invitations drawn with pencil by Dimitri Broquard for the events that took place at the ephemeral bar in 2012. Broquard took inspiration from ancient reproduction techniques such as etching, or from classical themes seen in art history and the decorative arts.

Recent video works by the Swiss artists duo: a deconstruction of the cinematic codes within our visual culture.

Artist's book.

An overview of current research in the broader field of human sciences in Switzerland.

Retrospective monograph: the first complete publication dedicated to Pierrette Bloch' practice from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Reference monograph.

First monograph.

New monograph.

A visual anthology (with John Armleder, Andrew Blake, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Dan Graham, Harmony Korine, Malcolm Mclaren, John Miller, Bob Nickas, Walter Pfeiffer, Haim Steinbach, Lawrence Weiner...).

The Alpine symposium on art and architecture (with Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Rahm, Tobias Rehberger, Lawrence Weiner...).

A literary tribute to Sarah Lucas, at once an adroit art-historical study and a poetic travelogue.

A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.

Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).

New monograph / artist's book with which Latifa Echakhch proposes an immersion into her visual world, around a series of exhibition views and personal notes and comments.

First monograph.

A summer of art.

Artist's book.

Artist's book.

Disturbing public space.

The 3rd drawing novel in Ingo Giezendanner's travelling book trilogy.

Comprehensive monograph.

Artist's book (a series of drawings on paper, on aluminium, as well as some wall drawings, dealing with spoliation of artworks in France under the German occupation).

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.

A series of texts that serve as literary variations on Jean-Luc Godard's Numéro deux / a film on DVD which can be described as upending the ideas propounded in Godard's film, featuring artists' works as part of a mise en abyme and dialogue.

A modern reinterpretation of the subject of the Holy Grail (artist's book).

Chronicles, articles and essays on contemporary art, cinema, and pop culture.

First monograph: an annotated chronology of Laurent Faulon's residencies, exhibitions and public commissions, with an essay by Pascal Beausse.

An anthology of seminal videos by Thomas Hirschhorn.

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

A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).

The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book.

Artist's book: a glimpse into the archive of status assessment photos that David Küenzi took for the city of Zurich over a period of several years.

Artist's book: Max Küng's collection of pensive racing drivers portraits.

A study of contemporary art's actors.

Focusing on the conceptual, visual, and economic intersections implicit in design today, this publication dedicated to the work of the Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kye expands collaborative form from a pragmatic structure of working together to the joint development of content.

First monograph.

First monograph.