Curatoring / exhibition practices & history / museology / scenography

Exhibition history (Paul Thek at Moderna Museet 1971/72).

The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.

Documenta 4 in film.

Documenta 5 in film.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

Focused on a series of exhibitions entitled The Opening—marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings—the book documents all six events via text and snapshot-like images.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book.

An exhaustive documentation on La Maison Forestière Wilfred Owen, a commissionned work by Simon Patterson inaugurated in 2011 as part of the New Patrons program.

Interviews with 10 Italian curators.

Visible documents a research project by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna. The publication highlights nine curators, who showcase forty-one ways of making art.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

This publication provides in two illustrated volumes a basis for developing theory and praxis of gallery education: an ideal resource for people working in the fields of curating exhibitions, youth work and cultural policy. The first volume gives a comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of formats and models of education and collaboration with the public at documenta 12.

This publication provides in two illustrated volumes a basis for developing theory and praxis of gallery education: an ideal resource for people working in the fields of curating exhibitions, youth work and cultural policy. The second volume focuses on a theory of gallery education, its methods and contexts, and reflects theoretically on examples presented in volume 1.

A reader about exhibition display.

Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Curating a private collection.

For many years now, Helke Bayrle has documented the activities of the Portikus. The result is a unique collection of artist portraits. Portikus Under Construction presents the last decade, edited backstage material that the viewer of the finished exhibitions never sees.

In the curator's archives.

Collection catalogue.

Inside the white cube.

A book / magazine to prolong in texts and images a season of exhibitions in 35 French art centers: a guide to apprehend the current art scene and the specificities of its places of exhibition.

With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).

Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.

The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.

Mapping a new sensibility.

Artists invite artists.

Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.

A deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material around the work of four artists who represent Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennial 2007.

Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.

A tribute to the foundator of the famous Marseille Gallery, the ARCA and the Art Dealers fair, with contributions by artists Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall...

Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.

Contemporary art in New Zealand: an imaginary exhibition for the Venice Biennale 2007.

Recapitulative publication about Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble.

Charley 04 (Checkpoint Charley) is born out of the reasearch conducted by the curators of the 4th Berlin biennal for contemporary art (2006) and brought together images of works produced by more than 700 artists.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

A retrospective catalogue of the exhibitions organized by the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, as well as an exhaustive presentation of the collection with reproductions, index, comments and analyses.

The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

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

Exhibition catalogue (texts by Christophe Cherix, Sarah Lombardi, Olivier Mosset, Caroline Nicod, Bernard Wyder, interviews by John Armleder, Rene Berger, Pierre Keller).

An anthology of texts around issues such as spatial politics of representation and identity, the public and the private, the space of art and culture, the memory of places and the inscription of remembrance, and the relations between utopias, heterotopias and the real.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Also available in English edition.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.