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.
 
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.
Luciano Castelli - Self-Portrait 1973-1986
2014
English edition
Luciano Castelli's self-portraits.
Daniela Comani - Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage
2014
texts in English, German, Italian
Daniela Comani's gender game.
David Renggli - 25% Painting
2014
English edition
A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.
Erik Steinbrecher - Mondfotografie
2014
no text
Erik Steinbrecher's pictures of the moon (artist's book).
Catherine Ceresole - Beauty Lies in the Eye
2013
English edition
A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).
H. R. Giger - Alien Diaries
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.
Keiichi Tanaami - No More War
2013
English edition
A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.
 Trix + Robert Haussmann -
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Reference monograph.
Marie Angeletti - Fabricants Couleurs
2013
French edition
The French artist Marie Angeletti presents photographs from a project hosted by two sites belonging to a color manufacturing company in the cities of Gémenos (France) and Shanghai.
The Politics of Friendship
2013
English edition
A collaborative project initiated by Anicka Yi, Jordan Lord, Lise Soskolne and Carissa Rodriguez, based on Mal Ahem and Moira Weigel's viral essay and on Derrida's Politics of Friendship.
Marc Elsener - Bärte aus dem Jenseits
2013
no text
Artist's book.
David Küenzi - Zustandsaufnahme
2013
no text
Artist's book: a glimpse into the archive of status assessment photos that David Küenzi took for the city of Zurich over a period of several years.
Max Küng - Pensive Racing Drivers
2013
no text
Artist's book: Max Küng's collection of pensive racing drivers portraits.
Roswitha Hecke - Irene
2011
English edition
60.00 52.00 €
Reprint of Roswitha Hecke's 1978 cult book.
 Lutz & Guggisberg - Loch im Spiegel
2011
no text
Artist's book.
Jussi Puikkonen - On Vacation
2008
English edition
72.00 36.00 €
First monograph.
Walter Pfeiffer - Cherchez la femme!
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.
 KCBR -
2023
English edition
sold out
A series of rail graffiti by the KCBR collective, renewing the practice with an original reflection on the medium, concealment (including, of course, with regard to police services), the trace, public reception and ephemerality, as the works are obliterated by the artists themselves immediately after completion.
Walter Pfeiffer - Chez Walti 2000-2022
2023
English edition
sold out
A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
French edition
sold out
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Pasolini\'s Bodies and Places
2017
texts in English and Italian
sold out
First English edition of a colossal volume on Pasolini's cinematographic oeuvre, first published in the 1980s in Italy: 2.000 film stills ranged under the categories of “bodies” and “places”, with analysis and a compilation of texts by Pasolini. A Pasolinian publication in terms of both content and form, as well as an indispensable tool for research. The book contains also the original text in Italian.
Laurence Rasti - There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
2017
English edition
sold out
For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.
Piotr Uklański - Real Nazis
2017
English edition
sold out
This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.
Jean Tinguely - Torpedo Institut
2015
French edition
sold out
A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.
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