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Abdullah Al Saadi - Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Accompanying Abdullah Al Saadi's eponymous solo exhibition at the National Pavilion UAE at the 60th International Venice Biennale, this publication invites an immersion into the artist's singularly subjective universe.
Abdullah Al Saadi - Sometimes you have to go a long way to come back a short distance
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
A comprehensive overview of the Emirati artist's practice, with numerous archive documents.
Lantian Xie - Mass Traffic
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A kino-political theory of the 21st century.
Farah Al Qasimi - Star Machine
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.
In Plain Sight - Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes
2023
English edition
Kaph Books
What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).
On Foraging - Food knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE\'s landscape
2023
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Transformative solutions for food insecurity in the UAE over the past 50 years.
Histoires de Papiers
2022
French edition
Kaph Books
"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim - Between Sunrise and Sunset - Works 1986-2022
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
Published on the occasion of the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2022, this retrospective monograph is the official catalog of the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates, which has chosen the Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim to represent them.
Dix mille ans de luxe
2020
French edition
Kaph Books
(last copies available!)
What is, and what was luxury? This publication celebrates a world history of the lavish and the luxurious, through 350 extraordinary objects—fashion, jewellery, art, furniture, design and more. Discover how different cultures have defined luxury and the impact of such excess on the evolution of society, as a way to undermine or underline the status quo. Consider the the prominent role of women in defining luxury and wih it, the ebb and flow between excess and moderation.
Rendezvous in Paris - Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939)
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Rendez-vous à Paris - Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Cie (1900-1939)
2019
French edition
Kaph Books
Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Ouvrir l\'album du monde - Photographies 1842-1896
2019
French edition
Kaph Books
The development of photography in its first years of existence: an history of the dissemination of photography as a form of documentation and an instrument of discovering and understanding the world and its people, through a wide selection of historic images taken in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, between 1842 and 1896.
An Early Album of the World - Photographs 1842-1896
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
The development of photography in its first years of existence: an history of the dissemination of photography as a form of documentation and an instrument of discovering and understanding the world and its people, through a wide selection of historic images taken in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, between 1842 and 1896.
Routes d\'Arabie - Trésors archéologiques de l\'Arabie Saoudite
2019
French edition
Kaph Books
A panorama of the different cultures that have succeeded each other on the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistory to the edge of the modern world.
Basile Mookherjee - Fully Fueled
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.
Syntax and Society - The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian - Her Majesty?
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.
Ingo Niermann - Solution 186-195 - Dubai Democracy
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.
Stories of Paper
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.
10000 Years of Luxury
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
What is, and what was luxury? This publication celebrates a world history of the lavish and the luxurious, through 350 extraordinary objects—fashion, jewellery, art, furniture, design and more. Discover how different cultures have defined luxury and the impact of such excess on the evolution of society, as a way to undermine or underline the status quo. Consider the the prominent role of women in defining luxury and wih it, the ebb and flow between excess and moderation.
Japanese Connections - The Birth of Modern Décor
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
Affinités japonaises - Vers le décor moderne
2018
French edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian - Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Hesam Rahmanian
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First monograph.
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