World Food Books

Notes on the frames of art
by Daniel Birnbaum

2022, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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In these essays and conversations, Daniel Birnbaum explores what conceptual artist Daniel Buren referred to as the ‘frames of art’. As a director of institutions, Birnbaum has organized events inside and outside some of the most significant art institutions in Europe, including the Venice Biennale, the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Moderna Museet and the Centre Pompidou. Like few other curators he has pushed the boundaries of the studio, the exhibition, and the museum in an attempt to find new ways to ‘frame’ art. This volume contains examples of curatorial approaches to education, exhibition-making and the presentation of collections.

Daniel Birnbaum, born 1963 in Stockholm, is a Swedish art curator and an art critic.

File under: Daniel Birnbaum Hans Ulrich Obrist Walther König / Köln Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Hölle
by Rainald Goetz

2019, English
Poster (double-sided, folded) in envelope, 59.5 x 63 cm
Published by Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

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Limited edition poster with the transcript of Rainald Goetz’s presentation of the English translation of his novel Insane, published on the occasion of the exhibition opening for the group exhibition Hölle in September 2018 at Galerie Buchholz New York, featuring new or selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji Shin.

Rainald Maria Goetz (b. 1954) is a German author, playwright and essayist.

File under: Lutz Bacher Caleb Considine Vincent Fecteau Rainald Goetz Sergej Jensen Jutta Koether Michael Krebber Monica Majoli Albert Oehlen Henrik Olesen Heji Shin Rainald Goetz Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Fiction / Poetry Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Photography

Conserving Active Matter
Edited by Peter N. Miller and Soon Kai Poh

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 23 x 15.3 cm
Published by Bard Graduate Center Gallery / New York

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For as long as people have made things and kept things, they have cared for them and repaired them. The field of conservation developed in Europe and the United States and then spread around the world. Today’s conservator uses a variety of tools and categories developed over the last 150 years to do this work. But in the next decades, new kinds of materials and a new scale of change will pose unprecedented challenges. Thinking through the lens of “active matter,” as understood by philosophers, historians, materials scientists, conservators, and those who work on Indigenous artifacts, this project raises questions and establishes new lines of inquiry for the future rethinking of conservation and the human sciences of the object.

Conserving Active Matter draws together the main lines and interim conclusions of a five-year research project embedded in a ten-year effort to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world—Cultures of Conservation. The effort to conserve things is part of the human struggle with the pervasive activity of matter.

Peter N. Miller is dean and professor at Bard Graduate Center.
Soon Kai Poh is a conservator and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postgraduate Fellow at Bard Graduate Center.

File under: Peter N. Miller Soon Kai Poh Bard Graduate Center Gallery / New York Theory / Essay Art Curatorial Architecture / Interior Painting Ecology

Art of the Sixties / Kunst der sechziger Jahre

1969, English / German
Flexible plastic covers, screw-bound in acrylic spine, multiple stocks throughout, approx 500 pages, 28 x 15 cm
3rd enlarged edition,
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ludwig Museum / Cologne

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The extraordinary, definitive 1960s art exhibition catalogue, in it's 3rd expanded and corrected edition, designed by Wolf Vostell for the Ludwig collection in Cologne in 1969. A work of art itself, "Kunst der sechziger Jahre" perfectly embodies the materiality of the pop-era in book form. Housed in thick blind-stamped clear soft plastic covers bound in a hard acrylic plexiglass spine with stainless steel screws, this remarkable book opens with an introductory text and lexicon in German and English, printed on styrofoam pages and graph stock, with contributions by Gert von der Osten, Peter Ludwig, Horst Keller, and Evelyn Weiss. Featuring 92 artists, all part of the private collection of Peter Ludwig, each artist is presented with a portrait on transparent acetate followed by a selection of glossy offset-printed colour artworks tipped-in (often concertina fold-out!) on thick raw kraft paper pages. This enlarged 3rd edition features over 200 objects in total, a vast expansion on the first editions.

Featuring the greats of European-American Pop, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Informel, Abstraction, Minimalism and more, this mighty tome includes the work of Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Horst Antes, Shusaku Arakawa, Allan D'Arcangelo, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Miguel Berrocal, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, Gernot Bubenik, Anthony Caro, John Chamberlain, Dan Christensen, Alex Colville, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ronald Davis, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Bruno Goller, Robert Graham, Nancy Stevenson Graves, Gunter Haese, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hartung, Erwin Heerich, Eva Hesse, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allen Jones, Donald Judd, Howard Kantovitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Morris Louis, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Marisol, Malcolm Morley, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicolas Schoffer, Bernhard Schultze, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Pierre Soulages, Daniel Spoerri, Lawrence Stafford, Lewis Stein, Frank Stella, Antoni Tapies, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Gunther Uecker, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Wols (Wolfgang Schulze).

A Very Good copy of this fragile and collectible catalogue. The usual bowing to pages, some general ageing, with a split to the lower back of plastic spine where the screw hole is, yet all still intact, nothing missing. Complete copy.

File under: Marisol Öyvind Fahlström Josef Albers Carl Andre Horst Antes Shusaku Arakawa Allan D'Arcangelo Arman Richard Artschwager Larry Bell Miguel Berrocal Joseph Beuys Peter Blake Gernot Bubenik Anthony Caro John Chamberlain Dan Christensen Alex Colville Carlos Cruz-Diez Ronald Davis Jim Dine Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Domenico Gnoli Bruno Goller Robert Graham Nancy Graves Gunter Haese Richard Hamilton Hans Hartung Erwin Heerich Eva Hesse David Hockney Robert Indiana Jasper Johns Allen Jones Donald Judd Howard Kantovitz Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz R. B. Kitaj Konrad Klapheck Yves Klein Yayoi Kusama Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Richard Linder Morris Louis Heinz Mack Piero Manzoni Malcolm Morley Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Louise Nevelson Kenneth Noland Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Pablo Picasso Michelangelo Pistoletto Robert Rauschenberg Martial Raysse Gerhard Richter Jean-Paul Riopelle James Rosenquist Niki de Saint Phalle Nicolas Schoffer Bernhard Schultze George Segal Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Pierre Soulages Daniel Spoerri Lawrence Stafford Lewis Stein Frank Stella Antoni Tapies Paul Thek Wayne Thiebaud Jean Tinguely Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Gunther Uecker Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) Victor Vasarely Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Wols Jo Baer Gert von der Osten Peter Ludwig Horst Keller Evelyn Weiss Ludwig Museum / Cologne Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Minimal Art

The Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967-78

2021, English / German
Hardcover, 392 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach

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For the first time, the 35 legendary box catalogues of Städtische Museum Mönchengladbach have been published as a book. Museum director Johannes Cladders developed the idea of catalogues in the form of a box with Joseph Beuys in 1967. Understated in their initial appearance, the grey boxes provide an unconventional and pertinent overview of the international vanguard art of the period, including seminal movements such as Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Arte Povera, and Pop Art. Until 1978, Cladders worked closely with exhibiting artists to create such catalogues, which radically re-envisaged the traditional exhibition and museum publication. They embody the participatory approach of their time and instance a vision of a porous democratic work. Viewers are invited to actively participate in this artistic and institutional endeavour and engage both intellectually and physically. Some of the boxes include posters, booklets, documentation and texts, while others comprise multiples.

Artists included are Blinky Palermo, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Hollein, Piero Manzoni, Hanne Darboven, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stanley Brouwn, Brecht/Filliou, Jasper Johns, Richard Long, Panamarenko, James Lee Byars, Braco Dimitrijević, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Giulio Paolini, and Gerhard Richter, among many others.

Researched by Susanne Rennert, designed by Petra Hollenbach, with photographs documenting all catalogues by Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, and introductory essays by Susanne Rennert and Susanne Titz. English and German text.

File under: Jasper Johns Marcel Broodthaers Panamarenko James Lee Byars Gerhard Richter Braco Dimitrijevic Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Hans Hollein Piero Manzoni Richard Long Jannis Kounellis Hanne Darboven Bernd and Hilla Becher Stanley Brouwn George Brecht Robert Filliou Lawrence Weiner Giulio Paolini Susanne Rennert Susanne Titz Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Pop Art

The Botanical Mind - Art, Mysticism And The Cosmic Tree

2021, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Camden Art Centre / UK

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Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Drawing on indigenous traditions from the Amazon rainforest; alternative perspectives on Western scientific rationalism; and new thinking around plant intelligence, philosophy and cultural theory, The Botanical Mind investigates the significance of the plant kingdom to human life, consciousness and spirituality across cultures and through time. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree was conceived as a trans-generational group exhibition by Gina Buenfeld and Matt Williams for the Camden Art Centre, bringing together surrealist, modernist, visionary, outsider, indigenous Amazonian, and contemporary works alongside historical and ethnographic artefacts, textiles and manuscripts spanning more than 500 years. Through the symbolism of diverse cultural artefacts and the works of mystics, artists and thinkers around the world, 'The Botanical Mind' reveals how the vegetal kingdom has metaphysical importance to the development of consciousness and spirituality.

This richly illustrated 224-page companion publication includes essays by the curators and contributions from scholars on the key themes of the exhibition – alchemy, art history, plant ontology, Gaian ecology, anthropology and ethnobotany – unifying philosophical, scientific, spiritual and artistic approaches to meditate on the cosmic significance of plants in different worldviews.

Edited by Gina Buenfeld and Martin Clark
Designed by Sara De Bondt studio.

Artists and Writers
Eileen Agar / Anni Albers / Josef Albers / Sarah Angliss / Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua / Gemma Anderson with Wakefield Lab and John Dupré / Anna Atkins / Kirk Barley / Jordan Belson / Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater / Karl Blossfeldt / Carol Bove / Jagadish Chandra Bose / Kerstin Brätsch / Bernd Brabec De Mori / Hildegarde von Bingen / Andrea Büttner / Adam Chodzko / Ithell Colquhoun / Bruce Conner / Brenda Danilowitz / Das Institut / Mirtha Dermisache / Minnie Evans / Cerith Wyn Evans / Charles Filiger / Robert Fludd / Monica Gagliano / Giorgio Griffa / Brion Gysin / Friedrich Wilhelm Heine / Ernst Haeckel / Dr Stephan Harding / Anna Haskel / Tamara Henderson / Channa Horwitz / Textiles from the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) people / C.G. Jung / Joachim Koester / Rachid Koraïchi / Hilma af Klint / Emma Kunz / Yves Laloy / Ghislaine Leung / Linder / Simon Ling / Michael Marder / Agnes Martin / André Masson / John McCracken / Terence McKenna / Henri Michaux / Matt Mullican / Wolfgang Paalen / Paul Păun / Stefan A. Pedersen / Santiago Ramón y Cajal / Steve Reinke and James Richards / Edith Rimmington / Adele Röder / Daniel Rios Rodriguez / Rupert Sheldrake / Textiles and ceramics from the Shipibo-Conibo people / Penny Slinger / F. Percy Smith / Janet Sobel / Philip Taaffe / Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon / Fred Tomaselli / Delfina Muñoz de Toro / Alexander Tovborg / David Tudor / Lee Ufan / Scottie Wilson / Terry Winters / Adolf Wölfli / Bryan Wynter / Henriette Zéphir / Anna Zemánková / Unica Zürn / artists from the Yawanawá community

File under: Eileen Agar Anni Albers Josef Albers Karl Blossfeldt Carol Bove Das Institut Sarah Angliss Consuelo González Amezcua Anna Atkins Kirk Barley Jordan Belson Kerstin Brätsch Andrea Büttner Cerith Wyn Evans Adam Chodzko Ithell Colquhoun Bruce Conner Giorgio Griffa Brion Gysin Hilma af Klint Emma Kunz Henri Michaux Matt Mullican Wolfgang Paalen Penny Slinger Lee Ufan Terry Winters Adolf Wölfli Scottie Wilson Delfina Muñoz de Toro Alexander Tovborg Fred Tomaselli Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon Janet Sobel Philip Taaffe F. Percy Smith Joachim Koester Minnie Evans Mirtha Dermisache Ernst Haeckel Ghislaine Leung Linder Agnes Martin André Masson John McCracken Friedrich Wilhelm Heine Simon Ling Charles Filiger Anna Haskel Tamara Henderson Channa Horwitz Rachid Koraïchi Yves Laloy Adele Röder Daniel Rios Rodriguez Stefan A. Pedersen Edith Rimmington Steve Reinke James Richards Henriette Zéphir Anna Zemánková Sara De Bondt Bernd Brabec De Mori Gina Buenfeld Martin Clark Emanuele Coccia Stephan Harding C. G. Jung Terence McKenna Charles Webster Leadbeater Annie Besant Jagadish Chandra Bose Hildegarde von Bingen Brenda Danilowitz Michael Marder Robert Fludd Monica Gagliano Rupert Sheldrake Paul Păun Santiago Ramón y Cajal Camden Art Centre / UK Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Sound / Music Ecology / Earth

Memo Review 05 : 2021

2022, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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What is it like to make art the way the world is today? What is it to write about art? Every review you read in 2022 will attempt to answer these questions, whether it knows it or not. You can see it if you look hard enough. And in thinking about this we perhaps hold a candle to the darkness, or perhaps these questions are the light that allows us to see the darkness around us. Thank you for reading Memo lit by the world’s candlelight.

These are the reviews from 2021, the fourth year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Featuring contributions by A. D. S. Donaldson, Adelle Mills, Amelia Winata, Amy May Stuart, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Babs Rapeport, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Diego Ramírez, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Hilary Thurlow, Jarrod Zlatic, Léuli Eshrāghi, Luke Smythe, Matt Marasco, Michelle Guo, Miriam La Rosa, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva, Tara Heffernan, Tara Mcdowell, Timmah Ball, Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw, Victoria Perin, and Vincent Le.

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Diego Ramírez Adelle Mills Amelia Winata Amy May Stuart Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Babs Rapeport Cameron Hurst Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Hilary Thurlow Jarrod Zlatic Luke Smythe Matt Marasco Michelle Guo Miriam La Rosa Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva Tara Heffernan Tara Mcdowell Timmah Ball Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw Victoria Perin Vincent Le Léuli Eshrāghi Monash Art Projects / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Periodicals Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Ecology Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

Information (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Kynaston McShine. Text by Lucy Lippard, et al.

2019, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized. This facsimile edition of the original Information catalog, which has long been out of print, invites reengagement with MoMA’s landmark exhibition while illuminating the early history of conceptual art.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Ettore Sottsass Newspaper Ettore Sottsass Jr. Kynaston McShine Lucy R. Lippard MoMA / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Art Fluxus Minimal Art

The Conditions of Being Art
Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co.

2018, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press

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The Conditions of Being Art is the first book to examine the activities of groundbreaking contemporary art galleries Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004), and the transnational milieu of artists, dealers and critics that surrounded them.

Drawing on the archives of dealers Pat Hearn and Colin de Land—both, independently, legendary players on the New York art scene of the 1980s and '90s, and one of the great love stories of the art world—this publication illustrates their distinctive artistic practices, significant exhibitions and events, and daily business. Hearn and de Land championed art that challenged the business of running an art gallery; artists like Renée Green and Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser and Cady Noland, who employed conceptualism and installation, social and institutional critique.

Contributing to the history of exhibitions, institutions and curating, The Conditions of Being Art addresses a significant gap in this literature around experimental commercial spaces in recent art history. This publication is the first book-length critical account of the alternative commercial gallery practices of the 1990s, a moment and a scene that is extremely influential to many of today's art dealers, curators and artists.

Hearn and de Land's gallery practices explored new experimental and ethical possibilities within the selling of art, testing the relationship of contemporary art to its markets. In this volume, full-colour images, in-depth scholarly investigations and detailed gallery histories vibrantly document how Hearn and de Land tested new notions of what an art gallery could be.

Edited with text by Jeannine Tang, Lia Gangitano, Ann Butler. Text by Johanna Burton, Jill Casid, Lauren Cornell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jennifer King, Mason Leaver-Yap, Kobena Mercer.

Features the work of: Mark Morrisroe, Jimmy de Sana, Art Club 2000, Moyra Davey, Alex Bag, Lutz Bacher, John Knight, J. St. Bernard, John Miller, Renée Green, Jutta Koether, Phillip Taaffe, Christian Philipp Müller, Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser, Cady Noland, Mark Dion, Julia Scher, Kirsten Mosher, Dan Flavin, Jack Pierson, Stephen Dillemuth, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, Jessica Diamond, Rapid Response (Christina Cobb, Peter Fend, Julia Fischer, William Meyer), Lincoln Tobier, Ted Byfield, and many others.

File under: Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press Group Shows / Collections Art Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

CATPC — Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise/Congolese Plantation Workers Art League
Edited by Eva Barois De Caevel and Els Roelandt

2017, English / French
Softcover, 456 pages, 15 x 21.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This book offers a first report on the activities of the Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise (CATPC), an association based in Lusanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. CATPC brings together a unique gathering of individuals—along with its members and partner institutions that are engaged in dialogue with it—and attempts to rethink postcolonial power relations within the global art world. Initiated in 2014 by Renzo Martens, an Amsterdam-based artist whose radical and controversial practice feeds into many current debates, and René Ngongo, a Kinshasa-based biologist and environmental activist, this cooperative continues to develop independently and to redefine the relations between art, agriculture, industry, and value creation.

The publication CATPC—Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise/Congolese Plantation Workers Art League is part of an artistic research project initiated by Renzo Martens, affiliated as a researcher at KASK/School of Arts of University College Ghent, from 2012 to 2016.

Edited by Eva Barois De Caevel and Els Roelandt. Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Eva Barois De Caevel, Eléonore Hellio, Ruba Katrib, Alexander Koch, J. A. Koster, Renzo Martens, René Ngongo, Els Roelandt, Charles Sikitele Gize, Charles Tumba, Françoise Vergès
Photos by Léonard Pongo

Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt, Jonas Temmerman, 6'56''

File under: Eva Barois De Caevel Els Roelandt Ariella Azoulay Eléonore Hellio Ruba Katrib Alexander Koch J. A. Koster Renzo Martens René Ngongo Charles Sikitele Gize Charles Tumba Françoise Vergès Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

United States of Latin America
Edited by Jens Hoffmann

2016, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 15.24 x 20.23 cm
Published by Kadist Art Foundation / San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit / Detroit Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This publication documents the exhibition “United States of Latin America,” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), in collaboration with the Kadist Art Foundation. Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey’s of recent art from the region.

Hoffmann and de la Barra’s project draws attention not only to the geographic territories of Latin America itself, but also to its relation within the wider scope of the Americas, and its position in a global artistic context. This book offers a framework for critical insight into artworks dealing with crucial social, industrial, or ecological concerns, and also for interrogating the very categories and terminologies used to construct the notion of Latin America.

Edited by Jens Hoffmann. Contributions by Stefan Benchoam, Fernanda Brenner, Eduardo Carrera, Jens Hoffmann, Pablo Léon de la Barra, Camila Marambio, Heidi Rabben, Marina Reyes Franco

This catalogue includes a conversation between Stefan Benchoam, Fernanda Brenner, Eduardo Carrera, Camila Marambio, and Marina Reyes Franco (moderated by Heidi Rabben), a glossary, a reflective essay by Hoffmann “after the fact,” and images from the exhibition.

Copublished between Sternberg Press, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Kadist Art Foundation

Design by Jon Sueda/Stripe SF

File under: Camila Marambio Eduardo Carrera Fernanda Brenner Heidi Rabben Jens Hoffmann Marina Reyes Franco Pablo Léon de la Barra Stefan Benchoam Kadist Art Foundation / San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit / Detroit Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Curatorial Group Shows / Collections

Memo Review 02 : 2018

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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These are the reviews from 2018, the second year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

As readers engage with this second year of reviews, they might see a group of art writers coming to grips with the particular limitations and opportunities of the weekly review format and even the particularities of its online delivery. Some will track the successive mentions of the same artist or gallery space, seeing what different writers make of them. Others will follow the progress of individual writers, finding and developing their own style and argument.

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Benison Kilby, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Eva Birch, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hester Lyon, Jane Eckett, Kate Warren, Nicholas Tammens, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Shelley Mcspedden, Sophie Knezic, Tiarney Miekus, Tim Alves, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Benison Kilby Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Eva Birch Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen Hughes Hester Lyon Jane Eckett Kate Warren Nicholas Tammens Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Shelley Mcspedden Sophie Knezic Tiarney Miekus Tim Alves Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Photography Australian Photography Sculpture / Installation Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals

Memo Review 03 : 2019

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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The third hardcopy Memo publication, collecting the 52 reviews from 2017 published by Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Aneta Trajkoski, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Brendan Casey, Chelsea Hopper, David Homewood, David Wlazlo, Ella Cattach, Elyssia Bugg, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen O'toole, Jane Eckett, Luke Smythe, Maddee Clark, Marnie Edmiston, Matthew Linde, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Sophie Knezic, Stephen Palmer, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Aneta Trajkoski Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Brendan Casey Chelsea Hopper David Homewood David Wlazlo Ella Cattach Elyssia Bugg Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen O'toole Jane Eckett Luke Smythe Maddee Clark Marnie Edmiston Matthew Linde Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sophie Knezic Stephen Palmer Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Film / Video Australian Photography Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Photography

Memo Review 04 : 2020

2020, English
Softcover, 269 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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These are the reviews from 2020, the third year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

"There is no getting around it: 2020 was the year of COVID. It was something that all kinds of cultural activities tried to make sense of. We could quote, to show it has all apparently happened before, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year at you. Or, like everybody else, you could read some prominent philosopher or cultural theorist try to make sense of it. Slavoj Žižek wrote no fewer than two books on the subject during the year, which made us realise that at least he was doing what he usually does during lockdown."

"And we for our part at Memo Review also did what we usually do. Here are the forty-seven reviews we published during the year—a year when virtually every show we reviewed was only available online."

Contributions by Amelia Wallin, Amelia Winata, Amy May Stuart, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Benison Kilby, Bianca Winataputri, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hester Lyon, Jane Eckett, Kate Meakin, Levi Mclean, Lisa Radford, Luke Smythe, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Robert Schubert, Sarinah Masukor, Tara Heffernan, Victoria Perin, Vincent Le.

File under: Amelia Wallin Amelia Winata Amy May Stuart Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Benison Kilby Bianca Winataputri Cameron Hurst Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Giles Fielke Helen Hughes Hester Lyon Jane Eckett Kate Meakin Levi Mclean Lisa Radford Luke Smythe Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Robert Schubert Sarinah Masukor Tara Heffernan Victoria Perin Vincent Le Monash Art Projects / Victoria Art Australian Art Australian Photography Photography Theory / Essay Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Periodicals Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections

Culture Strike : Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
by Laura Raicovich

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 21.7 x 14.7 cm
Published by Verso / London

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A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined.

In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change.

As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence.

In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.

“Culture Strike is a must-read account of how museums have positioned themselves as progressive while working hard to maintain the status quo. Written by someone who knows the ropes and drawing on interviews and conversations from all corners of the art world, it is a road map of how we’ve gotten where we are, a blueprint for change, and a love letter to museums for their potential to change the world if only we would think differently about them.” — Aruna D’souza, author of Whitewalling

File under: Laura Raicovich Verso / London Art Curatorial Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay

SouthEastAsia : Spaces of the Curatorial (Jahresring 63)
Ute Meta Bauer, Brigitte Oetker (Eds.)

2016, English / German
Softcover, 288 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Ute Meta Bauer, Zoe Butt, Kevin Chua, Patrick D. Flores, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tony Godfrey, Yin Ker, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Seng Yu Jin, Simon Soon, Nora A. Taylor, David Teh

This publication focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building. How do curators engage with the intricacies of a particular place, and how do they respond to the specificities of the local under the expectations of the international? The diversity of voices in this publication mirrors the complexity of the region itself: its various curatorial spaces, infrastructures, and political systems. What emerges is a highly diverse art system that shifts away from traditional formats to embrace new or alternative platforms—from symposia to fieldwork—with the aim of emphasizing curating as a process of critical thinking that goes beyond presentations and representations.

The Jahresring series is edited by Brigitte Oetker and published on behalf of Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V.
Design by Surface

File under: David Teh Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez Gridthiya Gaweewong Kevin Chua Nora A. Taylor Patrick D. Flores Seng Yu Jin Simon Soon Tony Godfrey Ute Meta Bauer Yin Ker Zoe Butt Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

“100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research
by Olga von Schubert (THE CONTEMPORARY CONDITION SERIES VOL. 10)

2019, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. This book presents “100 Years of Now,” a research project taking place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from 2015 to 2019, as a critical investigation into the temporality of contemporaneity—both in terms of its structure and content. To address the expanding temporality of the now, the book argues for the need to include other forms of knowledge in curatorial process, and for contemporary cultural institutions to facilitate the development of collective curatorial processes and research practices.

The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 11
Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum

Design by Dexter Sinister

File under: Dexter Sinister Olga von Schubert Geoff Cox Jacob Lund Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Art Curatorial SALE

Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions (Cultures of the Curatorial 3)
Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (Eds.)

2016, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 14 x 21 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (Eds.)Cultures of the Curatorial 3
Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions

Texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Nanne Buurman, Maja Ćirić, Alice Creischer, Andrea Fraser, Lorenzo Fusi, Wiebke Gronemeyer, Erik Hagoort, Anthony Huberman, Thomas Locher, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Dieter Roelstraete, Stefan Römer, Jörn Schafaff, Andreas Siekmann, Ruth Sonderegger

A curatorial situation is always one of hospitality. It implies invitations to artists, artworks, curators, audiences, and institutions; people and objects are received, welcomed, and temporarily brought together. It offers resources for material and physical support while also responding to a need for recognition, respect, or attention. Finally, and very importantly, a curatorial situation operates in the space between an unconditional acceptance of the other and exclusions legitimized through various rules and regulations.

This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for refugees. The contributions in this volume, by international curators, artists, critics, and theoreticians, deal with conditions of decontextualization and displacement, encounters between the local and the foreign, as well as the satisfaction of basic human needs. Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions is the third volume in the Cultures of the Curatorial book series.

Copublished with Kulturen des Kuratorischen, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Design by Surface

File under: Alice Creischer Andrea Fraser Andreas Siekmann Anthony Huberman Beatrice von Bismarck Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Dieter Roelstraete Erik Hagoort Jörn Schafaff Lorenzo Fusi Maja Ćirić Nanne Buurman Ruth Sonderegger Stefan Römer Thomas Locher Wiebke Gronemeyer Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

FLOOR BAG
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Bagged set of 19 booklets, softcover (staple-bound), 4-56 pages each, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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FLOOR BAG, bagged complete set of 18 artist booklets/catalogues published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. This bagged set includes all 18 booklets, plus additional cover-hand-stamped text booklet, including exhibition text by Nixon and Tønsberg, along with biographies of all artists involved. All artists included : Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

Only one copy available.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: Stephen Bram Tine Borg Vicente Butron A.D.S. Donaldson Jørgen Fog Leonard Forslund Marco Fusinato Signe Guttormsen Kent Hansen Peter Holm Henrik Jørgensen Torben Kapper Stephen Little Anne-Marie May John Nixon Rose Nolan Ivar Tønsberg Gary Wilson Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Curatorial Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Painting Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Australian Art

A.D.S. Donaldson
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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A.D.S. Donaldson catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Minimal Art Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial SALE

John Nixon
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 4 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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John Nixon catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial SALE

Gary Wilson
FLOOR SHOW (John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg)

2000, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark

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Gary Wilson catalogue booklet, published as part of FLOOR SHOW, an Australian / Danish exhibition curated and organized by John Nixon & Ivor Tønsberg, May 13th — June 4th 2000, with Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods, Denmark. This is 1 of 18 booklets published on occasion of the exhibition. Each booklet is edited exclusively by the represented artist. Artist's included in the series were Stephen Bram, Tine Borg, Vicente Butron, A.D.S. Donaldson, Jørgen Fog, Leonard Forslund, Marco Fusinato, Signe Guttormsen, Kent Hansen, Peter Holm, Henrik Jørgensen, Torben Kapper, Stephen Little, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Ivar Tønsberg, Gary Wilson.

About Floor Show

It must have been a great show; the one Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin had in the first version of The Fri in 1893. The style of that house and the style of their paintings must have suited each other just right. And that's the problem nowadays -when you are exhibiting in The Fri, you are dealing with spatial conditions that - even though the present house is a later version than the one Van Gogh and Gaugin used - are related not to our time but to the late 19th century. Those were the days of golden frames and lots of different pictures hanging close to one another. It was long before pop, minimalism and conceptual art, and it didn't matter whether the paintings were hung directly on nails or in strings from the ceiling, as they do in The Fri, which is one charismatic exhibition building in the city of Copenhagen, but unfortunately also a most impossible one.

In a strictly formal manner Floor Show is, so to speak, tailor made for The Fri. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition are painters, but - due to the spatial circumstances of the exhibition house - the organizers gave them the task to exhibit only on the floor in The Fri. The walls were not to be used, and the relatively few works (approximately one per Artist) were to be shown in a manner not too close to the installation genre.

What you might extract from Floor Show is, when working with painting you can't take the wall for granted as the only site for display. On the floor the works of the contributing artists explores a range of different media indicating the diversity of their practice and its relation to painting.

With Floor Show, the artists have radicalised the space and the organisers intentions have been realized.

— John Nixon & Ivor Tonsberg

File under: Gary Wilson John Nixon Ivor Tønsberg Den Frie Udstillings Bygning Oslo Plods / Denmark Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Curatorial SALE