Art & public space

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.

Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.

The “micro-interventions” in the public space in the age of social movements and citizen action.

Liz Magic Laser's recent works.

Catalogue.

A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists—Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner, and Lani Maestro—developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).

Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.

Rethinking public space.

Art in the city.

First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.

Interview with Emilio López-Menchero around a commissioned work executed by the artist as part of the New Patrons program.

A New Patrons project, 2010.

A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).

A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.

Disturbing public space.

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

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.

Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

An in-depth survey of Yorgos Sapountzis' work in ten chapters from 2000 to the present.

Art in the public sphere.

A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.

Reference monograph.

First monograph.

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).

The design, actual production, and issues of a hybrid piece of public art mixing virtual and real worlds, conceived by artist Miguel Chevalier and architect-designer Charles Bové.

Art dis-location.

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.

Sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

A film about a series of interventions in public space by Betty Bui, Daniel Buren, Jace, Tadashi Kawamata and Louis Pavageau, accompanied by a booklet documenting a symposium about art in public space.

A set of new embroideries with a selection of older works by German artist, gathered for a specific installation: a reflection on the living space and the architectural environment.

Inspired by a water tower conceived by architect Thierry Van de Wyngaert, philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier shares a text on his teenage years in South-East France.

An investigation on the social and political dimensions of buildings and urban spaces, oferring multiple perspectives on the limits and creative possibilities of the built environment (edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle, with contributions by Rachel Allen, Ava Bromberg, Jesko Fezer & Mathias Heyden, Nis Rømer, CM von Hausswolff...).

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 3rd issue extends artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Brazil.

Using non-linear heuristic methods and experimental webs of information to draw links between the cities of Utrecht, and Slab City, California, USA, this book brings together speculative proposals that ask basic questions about public space, conceived as a physical and conversational sphere.

The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.

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...).

A new series of images taken in Brussels: the portrait of a city.

This visual essay on hostage portrait questions the emotional relationship to the image in wartime. The artist uses basic communication tools to encourage us to reflect on information in public spaces.

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.