Art & public space

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.