Contemporary art

Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.

Ireland-Palestine united against apartheid; "dark romances": the problematic new publishing business; the breakdown of French cultural diplomacy in the Sahel; infiltration into armed survivalism; reportage in the dormitory town of Kiev; Alice Rohrwacher; Carolina Bianchi; Ben Rivers ; Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Hugo Pernet...

The best of 2023: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.

Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.

A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.

An investigation of the multiple in art, through the works of some thirty artists.

On the melancholy and morality of digital ecosystems.

A hybrid publication, between an artist book, a monograph and a field report on a lost work.

An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).

First monograph.

The first monograph of the artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Fatal Attraction covers over a decade of work spanning collage, video, installation, and sculpture.

Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible.

Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.

First monograph.

A collective reflection on the landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources (contributions by T. J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz...)

A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.

The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.

Eric N. Mack & Kiko Kostadinov; Hannah Black; Mike Kelley in conversation with Larry Clark and John Waters; Elle Pérez; Farah Al Qasimi; Lotus L. Kang; focus on Tokyo by Chus Martínez; Yuko Hasegawa; Scott Cameron Weaver; Bouchra Khalili...

Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.

Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.

Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.

This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.

A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.

Bridget Mullen's "Birthday" series of intimate-sized paintings expressing emotions through abstracted figures and features, with a conversation between the artist and Lucas Blalock.

The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.

Remedios Varo, Fereydoun Ave, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Sam Gilliam...

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph (also available in English edition).

Reference monograph (also available in English edition).

Louise Bourgeois' flowers series, painted in gouache on paper.

Aurel Schmidt's drawings.

The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.

An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.

B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.

The first volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The ten volumes of the anthology of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté between 2013 and 2022, packaged in a box set.

The second volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The third volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The fourth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The fifth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The sixth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The seventh volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The eighth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The ninth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

The tenth volume of Une décennie, an anthology of ten years of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté, between 2013 and 2022.

Looking back at a decade of activity of the project space Kinderhook & Caracas, this compendium showcases the work of the 83 Berlin-based artists whose practices have crossed paths through the small room on Kreuzbergstraße and several off-site projects around the city.