Art & public space

Art and public spaces in the city.

Group exhibition catalogue exploring the theme of space from several angles (the public space from the viewpoint of legislation, individual liberty, social linkage, architecture and city- or town-planning; the exhibition space).

Identifying an intensified concern for place-based production in art and architecture, Surface Tension – Supplements addresses questions of site-specific art, public and architectural design, and location-based practice.

This first monographic book discusses issues of art in public space and the social-political implications of Beutler's work.

A retrospective presentation of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works.

A reflection initiated by Veit Stratmann on the sometimes conflictual relationship between the artist and public space.

Non-Places questions the redefined relationship between public and private space as well as the phenomenon of modern “nonplaces,” which appear to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time: airports, shopping malls, anonymous new suburbs, or international franchise companies.

Neue Welt (New World) documents a group show which investigates the political and social restructuring of recent years. Going beyond one-dimensional statements, the texts discuss the redefinition of public space and the effects of a globalized economy.

Publication documenting a public commission of the sculptor for the campus of the University of Burgundy in Dijon.

A retrospective of the American artist's work, balanced on the fulcrum between sculpture and architecture, spanning more than twenty years, presented as a visual essay on experimental space-making.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

A score of performative gestures, drawn from the conceptual art and body art scenes from Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.

The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.

The importance of Gordon Matta-Clark's work in a revaluation of architecture after modernism.

The first monographic publication dedicated to one of the foremost artists of his generation and a key figure in the development of Bucharest's artistic community in the early 2000s.

A guidebook to Oslo's brutalist architecture.

This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.

Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.

Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.

Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.

A comprehensive look at the public artworks that Daniel Buren has made using ephemeral materials.

The public art program conceived in the context of the urban development project for the city of Poitiers in France, with commissioned works by Élisabeth Ballet, Pierre Joseph, Didier Marcel, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, and Christian Robert-Tissot.

A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.

What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?

Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.

Six interviews.

An archive of vandalism.

Shadows of witches, bats and black cats for a street public lighting commissioned work.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of public and private space.

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).

At a time when questions of “place” are active in dialogues around globalization, cultural identities, and the loss of public space, how are artists, theorists, and architects imagining space? “Surface Tension” examines the conversations that occur as negotiations between cultural production and the place of its reception.

The most complete monograph available on Armajani's work until 1994.