Germany

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

The sequel to The Future of Art – A Manual (2011), in which Niedling joined Niermann on his search for a new, epic artwork.

Eva Grubinger's large-scale sculptural works referring to the fishing, both subtly and explicitly engaging a vocabulary of the alluring, as well as a critical position towards the reception of art.

Artist's book.

This monograph features in depth essays on the collective's work as well as an annotated image section, which highlights bankleer's recent projects and deployments.

First and extensive monograph dedicated to the drawings of an artist hitherto primarily distinguished as an artist of the book, a typographer and a etcher, revealing the many aspects and the autonomy of the practice of drawing, as well as its role and importance in Johannes Strugalla's artist's books and whole production.

Painter Gerhard Richter and filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge composed a collection of 39 stories in connection with the history of the 20th century and the month of December, illustrated with 39 photographs.

Documenta 4 in film.

Documenta 5 in film.

A fascinating artist's book that, with its particular structure, states the impossibility of catching the raw beauty without destroying it.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.

Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.

"Das Institut" presents a lavishly illustrated review of the productions, exhibitions, and collaborations in which it has been involved over the past three years in the style of a business report.

A collaboration of the sound poet Anne-James Chaton, guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and musician Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai): a dense and structured sound design, in which words, rhythms, and melodic loops inexorably blend.

Artist's book: 32 inkjet print / polyurethan “posters” by Lucie Stahl (with three essays on her work).

The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

Artist's book: Christoph Keller's weather experiments with a replica of Wilhelm Reich's rainmaking machine in Morocco, in the form of a complex flip-book.

Exploring the socialist ruins.

Six publications which accompany exhibitions at Kunstverein München, all developed in close collaboration with the artists as an extention to the exhibitions into printed matter.

An artist's book inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, which explores the relationship between text and image, addressing the literary and visual culture of Italy.

In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.

A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.

CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.

The extended new edition of the out-of-print publication of the same name, from the year 1996, appears on the occasion of the death of Friedrich Kittler. Along with an introduction, it contains an extensive and unabridged interview with Stefan Banz and Kittler's unusual text Skiagraphia, die Schattenschrift (the shadowed text) from 2005.

Reference monograph, with two essays and an interview with the artist.

This catalogue brings together a series of photographs by painter Suzanne Strassmann in which she deals with the specific codes of the art world and plays with the ambiguity of the interactions between artworks, art professionals, and the public.

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

Monograph.

A selection of seminal graphic design projects developed by Weisbeck and his firm, Surface, over the last ten years.

The book is comprised of texts on Susanne Kriemann's practice and its relation to the concept of Reading in a wider sense: reading photographs, archives, and texts and transforming these into new compositions with photography, urban space, and historiography.

A tribute to one of Germany's most radical, experimental, and progressive voices, with contributions from over thirty internationally renowned curators, artists, critics, theorists, directors, and practitioners.

Artist's magazine.

An interview with Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Artist's book.

The book discusses Mario Pfeifer's recent 16mm film installation Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974. This installation, consisting of two synchronized, looped, and parallel projected films, takes it point of departure from the first monograph of Baltz's work, published by Castelli Graphics, New York in 1974.

A socio-political enquiry.

This book centers around two exhibitions which took place at the Grazer Kunstverein, “Die Blaue Blume” (2007) and “Idealismusstudio” (2008).

First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.

An artist's book documenting apartment installations created with a series of twelve photoworks (limited numbered edition).

The art of ceramics (available in English edition).

An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.