Contemporary Art
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Agnes Husslein-Arco et al.
Heidi Horten Collection
The House and its HistoryA new art location will be opening in the heart of Vienna in the spring of 2022. The museum for the famous collection of Heidi Goëss-Horten will be completed between the Albertina and the Opera House. The first museum publication is dedicated ... -
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Eduardo Terrazas
Cosmos"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series "Possibilities of a Structure". Which suggests at ... -
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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch
Annette Werndl
Color is my MusicAbstract and expressive – the works of the color virtuoso Annette Werndl (b. 1956 in Deggendorf, Bavaria) are internationally appreciated and exhibited. The monograph assembles her works from the past years which were inspired mainly by ... -
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Ed. Kunstmuseum Bonn et al.
Wiebke Siem
Das maximale - The Maximum MinimumWiebke Siem (b. 1954 in Kiel), who was awarded the prestigious Goslar Kaiserring in 2014, is an important representative of contemporary art with an oeuvre that questions the boundaries between the genres of fashion, design and sculpture and ... -
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Eduardo Terrazas
Cosmos"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series "Possibilities of a Structure". Which suggests at ... -
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David Katzenstein
RitualThese photographs by David Katzenstein emerged from his lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. His mission led him to travel to many parts of the world to experience other cultures and peoples firsthand, capturing images that ... -
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Ed. Jayme Yahr
Over the course of seven decades, Twinka Thiebaud has collaborated with more than thirty artists working in photography, painting and drawing. This catalogue explores her body of work as an artist’s model alongside developments in ... -
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Sophia Sotke
Mack - Sahara
From ZERO to Land Art. Heinz Mack's "Sahara Project” (1959–1997)Heinz Mack’s Sahara Project is legendary. In 1968 he installed for the first time light columns with a height of up to 11 metres which reflected and mirrored the glaring sunlight in the Tunisian desert. Nature and object fused to create an ... -
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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.
Xenia Hausner
True LiesXenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, ... -
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Ed. Regina Selter et al.
Flowers!
In the Art of the 20th and 21st CenturiesFlowers have been a popular motif in art for centuries. As the epitome of natural beauty and earthly mortality since the Baroque era, flowers have lost none of their fascination for artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Why does modern and ... -
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Ed. Abe Frajndlich
Abe Frajndlich - Seventy Five at Seventy Five
Lives I've Lived"Seventy Five at Seventy Five" is about the visual working life of US photographer Abe Frajndlich, starting from the 1970s to the present. The book covers his myriad themes and obsessions from portraiture of the famous and the anonymous ... -
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Ed. Dieter Buchhart et al.
Ai Weiwei
In Search of HumanityAi Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. "In Search of Humanity" presents a comprehensive overview of all phases of the artist’s ... -
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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.
René Myrha
A Singular UniverseAt the centre of René Myrha’s (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectiveswhich are transformed into stage-like settings. They form the scenery for the choreography of his figures. Myrha ... -
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Lisa Hockemeyer et al.
Steven Scott
OdysseySteven Scott (b. 1955 London) is a Copenhagen-based artist whose work revolves around the rich complexities of light. The main essay is penned by the art and design historian Lisa Hockemeyer. This volume takes one on a journey through Steven ... -
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Ed. Dakota Hoska et al.
Here, Now
Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum"Here, Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum" features 200 of the museum’s most notable Indigenous artworks. It reinterprets the collection and reveals new insights into the historic and contemporary work of ... -
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Ed. Heinz Kroehl et al.
The Breath of Japan
Written and Painted PoetryThe publication presents large-format works by 14 Japanese artists that fascinate us with their aura of mystery. These impressive works, created between the 1950s and the present day, fuse poetry, penmanship and painting to produce an aesthetic ... -
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Ed. Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien et al.
Katharina Grosse
Wolke in Form eines Schwertes / Cloud in the Form of a SwordKatharina Grosse (*1961) is considered to be one of the defining painters of her generation; her powerfully colourful interventions have had a determining effect on contemporary art dialogue. Grosse’s works cross the boundaries of space and ... -
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Ed. Thomas Zuhr
All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer PublishersFounded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ... -
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Ed. Sergio Risalti et al.
Wolfgang Laib in Florence
Without Time – Without Place – Without BodyIn 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents ... -
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Ed. Sergio Risalti et al.
Wolfgang Laib a Firenze
Without Time – Without Place – Without BodyIn 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents ... -
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Ed. Magdalena Broska et al.
Adolf Luther
Licht LightLight and space, transparency and beauty were the ideals in the art of Adolf Luther (1912–1990). More than many another artist, his numerous light integrations and optically fascinating concave-mirror objects left their mark on the reality ... -
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Wiebke Steinmetz et al.
Ruth Baumgarte
Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I-IIIThe artistic oeuvre of Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) is firmly rooted in the representational tradition. On the basis of the latest scientific research it is presented here with a complete catalogue raisonné in an opulent, three-volume edition. ... -
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Ed. Melanie Roumiguière et al.
Olga Costa
Dialogues with Mexican ModernismIn her elective home country of Mexico, the artist Olga Costa (1913–1993), a native of Leipzig, has long been established as an important female voice of Mexican Modernism. This volume presents impressively her autonomous artistic work ... -
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Ed. Astrid Ihle et al.
Street Life
Die Straße in der Kunst von Kirchner bis Streuli - The Street in Art from Kirchner to StreuliThe significance of the street is complex: it is a place of representation, self-dramatisation and communication, of resistance and protest. In this lavishly illustrated volume we encounter the bandwidth of this highly topical subject and its ... -
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Ed. Sébastien Delot et al.
Etel Adnan
English EditionFor the first time, the Lebanese-American writer and artist Etel Adnan is being honoured with a comprehensive retrospective in Germany. This volume presents her fascinating work from all creative phases and media. Politically, poetically and ... -
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Ed. Synagoge Stommeln - Stadt Pulheim
Stommeln Synagogue
30 Years of Art ProjectsIn 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examination of this historically significant location. Since then it has continued to make a contribution to a culture of remembrance. A ... -
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Ed. Colin B. Bailey et al.
Georg Baselitz. 100 Drawings
From the Beginning until the PresentThe famous international German artist Georg Baselitz has donated a collection of works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The publication combines the 100 sheets to create a ... -
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Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Heroes
Principles of African Greatness"Heroes: Principles of African Greatness" is a multilayered project that relays the stories of the key heroic principles and people in Africa’s arts and history, and considers the core values of leadership – justice, ... -
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Ed. Franziska Leuthäußer et al.
STOA169
The Artist Columned HallA hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121 individually designed pillars created by famous artists from all over the world: Bernd Zimmer has been pursuing this idea and its realization for over 30 years. The volume is lavishly illustrated ... -
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Ed. Kunstmuseum Thun et al.
The Other Kabul
Remains of the GardenKabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United ... -
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Ed. Nicholas Bell et al.
Mary Mattingly
What Happens AfterAs we navigate the early decades of a new epoch defined by the measurable human imprint on the earth, the question of how we will reconcile our behaviour with the evidence of its catastrophic effect is yet to be answered. With her works on ... -
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Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.
The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (*1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte Cifra, the Italian version of Neo-Expressionism. Among his extensive oeuvre, the publication focuses on ... -
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Ed. Alex Gartenfeld et al.
Chakaia Booker
The Observance"Chakaia Booker: The Observance" is the first comprehensive monograph on this important yet understudied American artist. Illuminating more than three decades of Booker’s practice, the publication explores her signature form – ... -
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Turry M. Flucker
This book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social justice. In 1963, as civil rights protests swirled across the fiercely segregated state, this liberal arts college became an unlikely hub in ... -
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Dorothy Moss et al.
Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. "Kinship", published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery’s next “Portraiture Now” exhibition, features the work of eight ... -
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Ed. Hanna G. Diedrichs gen. Thormann
Kubra Khademi
Political BodiesKubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This makes it both political and highly topical. Multi-faceted themes pervade her art, including her function as ... -
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Ed. Zoë Chan et al.
Jin-me Yoon
About TimeJin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouver’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s. "About Time" focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted production of ... -
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Ed. Mirjam Fischer et al.
Stéphane Zaech
NefertitiThe artist monograph presents a representative overview of the artistic work of Stéphane Zaech (b. 1966). His paintings are technically sophisticated and are created through an investigation of the works of the old masters – Titian, ... -
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Ed. Nicholas Pollack
Nicholas Pollack
MeadowThe photographs in Nicholas Pollack’s new book "Meadow" were made between 2015–2020 in and around Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S. Inspired by the landscape of the New Jersey Meadowlands, "Meadow" is a body of work about a ... -
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Ed. Lisa Fischman
Kanishka Raja
I and IKanishka Raja’s ravishingly patterned work, as the artist put it, “explores the intersection of representation, craft, technology, and the gaps that occur in the transmission of information.” Conceptually heady and aesthetically ...