Germany

The first installment of FUTURE, an ongoing series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores how our conceptions of the future have changed over the past few decades, how that affects our take on the present and our reactions to changes that lie ahead.

A social fantasy whose bizarre fault lines and conflicts bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the present day.

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

Catalogue / artist's book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse's paintings, as well as several drawings.

A caustic diagnosis of the situation of the current art, by one of its major protagonists.

Reference monograph: a selection of 320 works, 30 texts and interviews, 150 archive photographs.

A posthumous duo LP featuring text and music by Conrad Schnitzler, music by Wolfgang Seidel, and artwork by Matt Howarth.

New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

The essential place of writing in the work of Josef Albers (1888-1976), one of the most important artists, painters and educators of the 20th century.

A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an "inner soundscape", a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn.

Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.

An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.

A poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks.

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.

In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term "value reflection", focusing on the artistic production of three individuals—Francis Ponge, Jack Whitten and Banksy.

Mario Pfeifer's most extensive monograph to date.

Unpublished photographs taken by Josef Albers during his travels to Mexico with Anni in the 1930s and 50s.

A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).

First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

The seventy-three sonnets, unpublished in French, written by Walter Benjamin in memory of his friend Fritz Heinle, a poet who committed suicide at the age of 19, in despair or in protest against the advance of the First World War (bilingual edition).

The first study of all the archives and documents relating to the artist's museum created by Martin Kippenberger.

An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.

Olaf Holzapfel's and Guido Yannitto's textile works.

Jupiter is the monograph of the artist Andreas Sell by the curator Joel Mu and the outcome of their collaboration. It includes a selection of Andreas Sell's work of the last fifteen years, an essay in five parts by Joel Mu, and a poem by Alice Heyward.

"Night Music" unearthes Sven-Åke Johansson's very first recordings from 1964—made with his Tandberg tape recorder in the Kronenburg Bar, a dive bar in the red-light district in Münster/Westfalen (West Germany). There he performed jazz versions of popular songs and standards with Uwe Wegner (piano) and Gerold Flasse (double bass), sometimes joined by Dutch singer Jenny Gordee. Young Udo Lindenberg was a frequent guest at the Kronenburg Bar

A curatorial project about concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

Four decades of incisive writing about contemporary art, fired by enthusiasm and scepticism alike, by the eminent German cultural critic and commentator Walter Grasskamp (essays on Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Jörg Immendorff, Axel Kasseböhmer, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Karin Kneffel, Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Sarkis, Aldo Walker, Ben Willikens).

New monograph / catalogue.

"1 Million Roses for Angela Davis" traces Davis' immense influence and legacy as activist and scholar on contemporary artists today, while simultaneously teasing out the contradictions her presence and agenda posed to the GDR's interpretation and application of Marxism.

A series of drawings revisiting the history, the landscapes and the fantasy of Tyrol in Austria (leporello).

Stefan Römer performs quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler.

The album “Balance” by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree was originally released in 2002 by Mille Plateaux on CD only. The 9 tracks are a perfect example for the aesthetics to arise within the Click & Cuts scene and (ambient-)glitch music movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Conceived as a children's book, Stories of Little and Big Blossoms is a collection of illustrated short stories about Elham, a little Iranian girl exiled in Germany, and her difficulties to fit in this new environment. A poetic work on exile, friendship, courage and open-mindedness, inspired by the childhood of author and illustrator, Shirin Azari.

This book merges memoir and social critique in an original fashion. By combining personal observations with a general systemic analysis, it thereby seeks to propose a new genre of writing.

This collection of texts—with many unpublished—spans over half a century of the conceptual artist's radical engagement with art education and its institutions.

Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.

Double-CD collecting five of Schmicklers key-works composed & recorded between 2006 and 2016: Richters Patterns (2016), Kemp Echoes (2013), E-UROPAS (2006), Fokker Bifurcations (2014), Ata Oto (2016).

A work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009, consisting entirely of three-letter-words (two CDs in fullcolour six-panel DVD-sized digipak, with a biographical text, a chronology of the work and a text by Dorothy Iannone).