Northern Europe / Scandinavia

 
 
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
Erkki Veltheim - The Slow Creep Of Convenience  (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
A single extended work presenting the pipe organ and electric violin as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes.
Marie Lund - Scout
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A series of sculptures set in a roofless exhibition space in Merida, Mexico.
Joachim Koester - Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication serves as an extension of Joachim Koester's artworks and research on Jerzy Grotowski's (1933-1999) mythical persona and experimental approach towards theater. More specifically here, Koester retraces Grotowski's trips to Mexico with the help of historians, anthropologists, and former students.
Asger Jorn - The Open Hide
2016
English edition
Petzel
The Open Hide offers a concise overview of the diverse accomplishments of Danish artist Asger Jorn. The volume comprises over 75 images of Jorn's work, each with complete provenance, exhibition and literature history. A comprehensive biography of the artist is also included, along with photographs and other archival material.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
Dysfunctional Comedy - A Reader
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.
Ina Blom - The Autobiography of Video - The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The birth and life of video art.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Nina Canell - Satin Ions / 새틴 이온
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
Simon Starling - A–Z
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.
 Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport - Maximilian Stejskal - Folklig idrott
2016
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
Emanuel Röhss - Location Scout
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.
Jean-Louis Huhta - A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush - The Last Recordings, Sweden, November 2013 (2 CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
Zbigniew Karkowski's last recording, in Sweden, November 2013—a few weeks before his death—accompanied by musicians Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund.
Fredrik Værslev - Reality Bites
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reality Bites is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Fredrik Værslev, analyzed through rich visual content and texts by Matias Faldbakken, Alberto Salvadori and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, as well as a conversation between the artist and Josh Smith.
Niklas Tafra - Can You Tell Me Your Honor Where behind a Lamp-Post Is? - A Retrial of Félix Fénéon
2016
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A retrial of Félix Fénéon (an artist book conceived and written by artists Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra, with contributions by poet Claes Tellvid and assistant judge Erik Hellsten).
Mads Emil Nielsen - SoundTales Collage (CD)
2016
Arbitrary
An audio collage based on an archive of carpentry and hardware recordings from Mads Emil Nielsen's "SoundTales" project, released on limited edition CD with three printed drawings by French, Amsterdam-based visual artist Julie Dassaud.
Momentum 8 - Tunnel Vision Viewer
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Appearing after the Reader, this second volume covering the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial features images from all artists participating in the exhibition, both in the pages of the publication and via a memory stick, incorporated in the spine.
 Carla Zaccagnini & Runo Lagomarsino -
2015
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first extensive survey catalogue of Zaccagnini & Lagomarsino, a selection of works from 2001 to 2015 especially displayed by artist Luca Frei and which reflects the two artists' transnational ideals.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Percussion Loops (7\
2015
Arbitrary
Four pieces based on drum/cymbal + synthesizer recordings by Mads Emil Nielsen.
Agnes Nedregård - Performance Works - The Big Toe
2015
texts in English, French, Norwegian
various
28.00 12.00 €
This richly illustrated edition presents the ten-year performance career of Bergen visual artist Agnes Nedregård, looking at her practice from a diversity of perspectives and media.
Simon Starling - Peep-Hole Sheet - Woven Worlds – Some Notes on a Work in Progress
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.
Momentum 8 - Tunnel Vision Reader
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The reader of the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial which explores tunnel vision as a cultural and artistic condition.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Benjamin Tiven - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
Jesper Just -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level - J. V. Martin and the Situationist International
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Marte Eknæs - Formal Economy
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Formal Economy is the first comprehensive survey of Marte Eknæs' practice, presenting her sculptural works, drawings and collages as visual narratives and fictional landscapes.
PARIS LA - CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV
2015
English edition
PARIS LA
DoPe Press
PARIS LA #13 or CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV has been especially created by the artists Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, and Oscar Tuazon.
 Yarisal & Kublitz - Bling blang, ching chang, give me some of that yin yang
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.
Karl Larsson - Strange
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The most in-depth presentation of the work of Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson to date.
Carsten Höller - Leben
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.
Erkki Veltheim - Entertainment = Control (CD)
2015
Immediata
(last copies available!)
14.00 12.00 €
Long-range acoustic hallucinations for violin (Anthony Pateras) and piano (Erkki Veltheim).
We Are Living on a Star
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.
Ursula Nistrup - Eavesdropping
2014
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book (each book contains 4 different types of paper handmade by the artist).
Marie Lund - Drums
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist's book designed by Åbäke, based on Danish artist Marie Lund's first institutional solo exhibition.
Aleksandra Mir - The Space Age - Poster book
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert.
Joachim Koester - Of Spirits and Empty Spaces
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Klara Lidén - Invalidenstraße
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A new perspective on one of the most sticking bodies of work to have emerged in the last twenty years.
Monday Begins on Saturday
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The first edition of the triennial of contemporary art Bergen Assembly.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Framework 1 (book + CD)
2014
Arbitrary
Framework is a series of graphic scores and recordings by Copenhagen-based musician Mads Emil Nielsen. Framework 1 consists of 14 hand-drawn graphic scores, printed in risograph, with simple instructions and a recording for each score.
Mette Winckelmann - Lucky Pieces
2013
trilingual edition (English / Danish / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An introduction to the painting based artwork of Danish artist Mette Winckelmann.
Kopioitu
2013
English edition (texts in English and Finnish)
Shelter Press - Books
A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels.
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