Contemporary Art

A remarkable artist from the New York art scene – in Germany at last! Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) devoted herself to a wide variety of artforms and became a virtually unrivalled master in collage. Featuring more than fifty artworks, this volume celebrates her unique oeuvre, which will also be honoured with a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in the winter of 2025–26.  

Highly political and controversial: this is art that addresses events of the past which still affect the present. Under the Nazi regime, twenty-six million people in various countries across Africa and Europe were forced into labor. Their experiences and losses continue to shape their communities and descendants to this day.  

George Steinmann is a visual artist, musician and researcher. In his Mindmaps, he addresses the state of our planet. The poetry of these mostly small-format sheets is based on structures, autonomous chemical reactions, and the conviction that even a small amount of natural material possesses universal knowledge.  

A topic that affects us all: family. Everyone has one, and each is different. Contributions from newspapers, academia, forums and blogs, together with literary texts, personal accounts and photographic works, open up a worldwide kaleidoscope of historical and contemporary perspectives – with Nando von Arb’s cartoons offering a thoughtful commentary. An invitation to reflect on the idea and reality of family, including your own.

Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi’s art, this book publishes never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry, spaninng five decades of her practice.  

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, and concerns of tattooing shape the artists’ studio practices in experimental and revelatory ways.  

Desire, eroticism, playing with gender – these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer aesthetics, the aim is to discover the visual worlds of hitherto little-known figures of international Modernism, from Eastern and Western Europe and from North and South America.

An exhibition highlight in book form: his magical universes are shown all over the world and are now coming to Munich. Miguel Chevalier (*1959) is one of the pioneers of virtual art. For his dazzling work, he uses the latest technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), while always remaining in dialog with art and cultural history.

From egg tempera to chalk and oil paint, Janaina Tschäpe has mastered a style of painting that combines Nordic depth with supple, airborne line dancing. The author Doris von Drathen, an art historian specializing in Aby Warburg’s iconology, immediately recognized the Hamburg school in the German-Brazilian-American artist. Thus began a friendship and an inexhaustible dialogue about art.  

A visually rich examination of how contemporary art, design, and culture have responded to Big Data and its outsized role in modern life. Inspired by the growing field of data visualization, Seeing the Unseeable focuses on the myriad issues and inventions embodied in works by a dynamic range of 21st century artists and designers exploring the intersection of information and expression.