Edition Patrick Frey

Active since 1986, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs. The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists, mainly Swiss but also international, an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but EPF has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 20 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.
 
Judith Bernstein - Dicks of Death
2016
English edition
Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.
Daniela Comani - Sunsets
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.
Alan Reid - Warm Equations
2016
English edition
Monograph offering a collective literary and poetic rendering of Alan Reid's works.
Basile Mookherjee - Fully Fueled
2016
no text
Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.
Arno Brandlhuber - Legislating Architecture Schweiz
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
Klaus Pichler - Golden days before they end
2016
English edition
A swan song for Vienna's drinking dens.
Andreas Tschersich - Peripher
2016
no text
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
 Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei) - 11 mantras
2016
English edition
Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Female Chic
2016
English edition
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
Fabian Marti - Bilder 2005-2016
2016
English edition
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
Billy Sullivan - Still, Looking - Works 1969-2016
2016
English edition
The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.
Bad Bonn Songbook
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, artists performing at the Café Bad Bonn in Fribourg were asked to put their songs on paper. The results proved as diverse as their musical styles and personalities, including everything from sheet music and lyrics with guitar tabs to photos and drawings (with Arto Lindsay, Will Oldham, Wire, Maja Ratkje, Timber Timbre, Thurston Moore, Herman Dune, Panda Bear, Flaming Lips, Suzanne Vega...).
 Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport - Maximilian Stejskal - Folklig idrott
2016
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.
 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian - Her Majesty?
2016
English edition
The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.
Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Barbara Davatz - As Time Goes By - Portraits 1982, 1988, 1997, 2014
2016
English edition
In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.
 Prill Vieceli Cremers - Money
2016
English edition
An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.
Greetings from Auschwitz
2015
English edition
Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947—only two years after the liberation of the camp.
Thomas Müllenbach - Originale
2015
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Thomas Müllenbach's series Halboriginale (“Semi-originals”), which he worked on from 2005-2013, constitutes an artistic appropriation of art-related documentation found in his mailbox over the years. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by the artist.
Claudio Cambon - Shipbreak
2015
English edition
A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.
Salon Moderne
2015
no text
The art of hair salon window-dressing in Switzerland.
Luciano Rigolini - Mask
2015
no text
An artist's book presenting an extensive series of grilles from American cars built between 1955 and 1962. A book allowing multiple readings and meanings, in a balance between conceptual rigor and visual sensuality.
Gasoline and Magic
2015
English edition
Collected amateur photographs tell with a wistful eye the magical heyday of Motor sports from the sixties until the eighties.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Cameron Jamie - Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
2015
English edition
America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).
Bob Nickas - 69 / 96
2015
English edition
In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
 Weinberg & Co - Haussmann für Weinberg
2015
English edition
A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.
Die Not hat ein Ende - The Swiss Art of Rock
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
A visual history of rock music and its subcultures in Switzerland in the last 50 years.
Robert Müller - Morgan is sad today
2015
English edition
A photo series influenced by the Free Cinema captures the Beat spirit in Switzerland during the Sixties.
Beni Bischof - Texte
2015
German edition
Artist's book.
Albert Oehlen - In der Wohnung
2015
no text
(last copies available!)
Albert Oehlen's collages (artist's book): a spatial and temporal journey into the tradition of artistic representations of domestic interiors, from the great names of art history to the artist's own works.
Eric Bachmann - Muhammad Ali, Zurich, 26.12.1971
2015
English edition
The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich, covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.
Susanne Meyer - Are you kidding
2015
English edition
Artist's book.
Marianne Mueller - Stairs etc
2015
no text
Artist's book.
David Weiss - Die Wandlungen
2015
English edition (text in English and German)
An exclusive publication of an important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012): Die Wandlungen (“The Metamorphoses”) for the first time reproduces all 82 series of graphic metamorphoses dating from 1975 to 1979 in Marrakesh, Carona (Switzerland), and Zurich.
Das Fremde ist nur in der Fremde fremd
2015
German edition
Catalogue.
Giuseppe Micciché - Cento Passi
2015
bilingual edition (German / Italian)
Artist's book.
Anne-Lise Coste - Où suis-je
2014
English edition
Artist's book.
 Huber.Huber - Hoffentlich verliebe ich mich nicht in dich
2014
German edition
A project by the Zurich artist duo Huber.Huber— i.e. twin brothers Markus and Reto Huber—and Bern poet Jürg Halter.
Karen Kilimnik - Photographs
2014
no text
Artist's book (Karen Kilimnik's photographic works).
Ashley Bickerton - Susie
2014
English edition
The first monographic close reading of Ashley Bickerton's influential early work (texts by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Bob Nickas, Thomas Lawson, John C. Welchman...).
Suzanne Perrottet - Bewegungen / Movements
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
A visual archive of movement.
William Leavitt - The Particles (of White Naugahyde)
2014
English edition
The first publication of a play by one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Los Angeles (new edition).
Maya Rochat - Crystal Clear
2014
no text
A series of analog and digital photographic collages by Maya Rochat.
The Rendering Eye - Urban America Revisited
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
A series of images of the urban United States based on 3D screenshots taken from Apple Maps, by Regula Bochsler.
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