Central / Eastern Europe

A “man” tells his fabulous past as an ape, from his capture to his adaptation to the world of men, to the members of an Academy of Sciences. This edition of A Report to an Academy, a short story by the great Kafka, is accompanied by a musical piece especially written by Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Quentin Rollet, and It could be Worse).

This publication covers the discursive outcome of the project “Black Hyperbox”—a frame for performance and text based on the alienation between practice and conceptualization.

Catalogue dedicated to the Polish painter and conceptual artist, featuring his most recent works, an essay by Maria Brewińska, and an interview. The publication reviews some of Bujnowski's key concepts, such as painting as a physical object and its concomitant deconstruction, the centrality of time and the question of futurology, and the randomness of existence.

Rite of the End is composed of six musical pieces by Polish composer, producer and violinist Stefan Wesołowski. Between romanticism and modernism, going from Richard Wagner to Ben Frost, this celestial pastoral work resembles the soundtrack of our civilization and the witness of our mutation.

Rite of the End is composed of six musical pieces by Polish composer, producer and violinist Stefan Wesołowski. Between romanticism and modernism, going from Richard Wagner to Ben Frost, this celestial pastoral work resembles the soundtrack of our civilization and the witness of our mutation.

A collective survey on the current conditions of art and culture in Central and Eastern Europe.

First monographic catalogue dedicated to the works of multidisciplinary artist Darja Bajagić who culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web.

Following the experimental format of the Maljković's eponymous exhibition, A Retrospective by Appointment deconstructs the traditional format of a retrospective catalogue. Adopting a nonhierarchical presentation, the publication introduces the artist's key concerns, methods, and works, and proves to be a relevant critic of Zagreb's institutional landscape.

Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.

Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.

Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.

Tekla Aslanishvili's research for an artistic project in the public space.

With this collage book Polish artist Olga Lewicka draws an illuminating parallel between the visual and cultural history of clouds and the historical development and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.

Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.

Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.

Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.

Catalogue analyzing the oeuvre of Kosovan artist Petrit Halilaj from multiple perspectives, through a selection of essays by Andrea Bagnato, Leonardo Bigazzi, Adrian Paci, and Roberta Tenconi.

An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.

New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.

An analysis of the posthumous interpretations of Brancusi's life and work, and of the political use of the Romanian sculptor as a nationalist figure.

This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.

This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.

The first monograph ever published on the work of Roman Stańczak: an incredible opportunity to discover the work of this influential and yet under-known artist. The publication includes an interview with Stańczak conducted by Zuzanna Hadrys & Michał Lasota and essays by Jan Verwoert, Zofia Krawiec, Łukasz Ronduda in addition to an extensive portfolio of images.

Richly illustrated publication recounting the life of French sculptor Étienne Hajdu.

A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).

Celebrating the first-ever united Baltic Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Baltic Atlas intends to explore the built environment of the Baltic States as a shared space of ideas.

This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.

Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).

The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.

Slide Shows is a three-volume box set, with over 1.500 original drawings and texts in which Friedman gives his own personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking the world through a series of “cartoons.”

Eva Kot'átková's most ambitious publication to date, divided in two volumes, reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.

Zbigniew Karkowski's last recording, in Sweden, November 2013—a few weeks before his death—accompanied by musicians Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund.

The family archives of Július Koller's collaborator and loving partner Květa Fulierová (artist's book).

A panorama of Albania's contemporary art scene.

A collection of essays and interviews on the issue of curatorship in contemporary art with Pierre Restany, Zoran Kržišnik, Harald Szeemann, Daniel Buren, Charles Esche and Walter Benjamin.

Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.

Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.

The Laban system of Kinetography: a handbook (first volume).

The Laban system of Kinetography: a handbook (second volume).

The Laban system of Kinetography: a handbook (third volume).

Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.

This trilingual publication dedicated to the Polish artist and theorist deceased in 2014 emphasize his essential contribution to action art by gathering previously unpublished articles from his friends and colleagues in the contemporary art world. The authors recount his ideas, career and influence. Photos, reproductions of the artist's original articles and a DVD all serve to enrich this publication.

Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.

This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Comprehensive monograph: this first retrospective publication gathers together Mančuška's work, which combined different media—literature, film, theater, installations, video, and text—was exhibited widely, from the second half of the 1990s to his last unrealized projects from 2011.

An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.

A lively improvisation lead by a quartet of instrumentalists blending drone and chamber music.

Reissue of the first album recorded by the Polish composer in 2008 at the age of 21: a work composed to breviary prayers and hymns for two voices (vocalist Maja Sieminska and Wesołowski himself), string quartet and electronics.

Reissue of the first album recorded by the Polish composer in 2008 at the age of 21: a work composed to breviary prayers and hymns for two voices (vocalist Maja Sieminska and Wesołowski himself), string quartet and electronics.

A large survey of Monika Sosnowska's sculptural work.