Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen was looking for the right sofa for a house from the fifties and discovered Finn Juhl (1912-1989), whose furniture is experiencing a renaissance in the wake of the retro wave. When Juhl's house in Charlottenlund, which he desi…
From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this…
Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film…
What happens when you not only observe one of the most famous artists of our time, but do so in the company of one of the best art historians, as well? You get an unusual publication, the reading of which opens the eyes in the truest sense of the ph…
Edward Hopper's world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United St…
The name Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) is inseparable from his unrivalled chairs, which helped Danish design to achieve its international breakthrough. Every design fan has his or her favorite from among Wegner's approximately five hundred creations. T…
Denmark has long since written international design history. Today, Danish furniture, textiles, and home appliances and utensils from the sixties and seventies are more popular than ever. The beautiful pieces are meanwhile for sale at design galleri…
The publication by Paul McCarthy (*1945 in Salt Lake City) is a new edition of Chocolate Factory: Pretext, which has been expanded by 128 pages. It is the striking documentation of the artists' first major solo exhibition in France. It illustrates b…
The human being was at the center of Danish Modernism. Traditional craftsmanship and a high degree of quality influenced both design and architecture. Besides numerous groundbreaking public buildings, the fifties and sixties saw the design of many n…
In the rank of great Danish designers, Finn Juhl (1912-1989) is mentioned in the same breath with Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. He became particularly well known for his sculptural, seemingly organic tables, chairs, and sofas. However, the compl…
American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) quickly became one of art history's most luminescent personalities; his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna, as well as his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, are the stuff o…
Back in print, the most authoritative overview on the beloved Bauhaus Renaissance man and pioneer of abstraction, the first artist to take a line for a walkThe many books on Paul Klee (1879-1940) published over the years should not obscure the fact…
At least since his spectacular exhibition in the Romanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Adrian Ghenie (*1977 in Baia Mare, Romania) has been known to the broad public as one of the most interesting and unconventional painters of his…
The standard work on Heino Engel's structure systems is now available at an attractive price. On the basis of excellent drawings and model photographs, the book examines the various forms of structure systems and explores the relationship between st…
Curated and edited by the artist Ina Otzko, 100 Norwegian Photographers is a magnificent volume of photos from today's Norwegian photography scene. Otzko gives one hundred con-temporary photographers from her country the space to show their best ima…
Bruno Gironcoli (*1936 in Villach) occupies a unique position in the field of international contemporary sculpture. The Austrian artist has developed an unmistakable form of expression which he continues to cultivate, from his early ornate wire obje…
At first glance the photographer Santeri Tuori's pictorial world appears to be timeless. On second glance, however, it becomes clear what is going on. Tuori's compositions of trees, tangled branches, and clouds are sophisticated montages made up of…
Noa Eshkol (1924-2007) was a remarkable personality, creative and versatile. In collaboration with Avraham Wachman, the daughter of the third prime minister of Israel developed a system of notation for dance in order to capture "ephemeral" dance mov…
What is it like to return to the place of one's childhood? For Jan T ve: Faraway/Nearby, the photographer (born 1958) returned to his home region in the Swedish countryside over a period of almost ten years, taking photographs of its landscape and i…
Christopher Anderson (*1970, Kelowna, Canada), a member of Magnum Photos, is one of the most infl uential contemporary photographers. He fi rst gained recognition in 1999 when he boarded a small boat with 44 Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the…
"From early images of socks drying on a radiator to more recent fields of glossy color created in the darkroom, all Tillmans' work asks this question: how to make it new?" -The GuardianThis publication accompanies Fondation Beyeler's survey on the g…
Penetrating works by renowned artists have been assembled against the background of the former power plant's raw concrete walls: the Tanzteppich, a work by Norbert Bisky that has meanwhile been turned into a kinetic sculpture, is familiar from the b…
"When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the most unusual spots. . . . I don't know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly s…
At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic (*1946 in Belgrade, Serbia) is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. The publication acco…
Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes) was the deliberately misspelled title of a music festival that took place at the Tempodrom in Berlin in 1981 and which became a synonym for a brief era of artistic awakening. An avant-garde blossomed, in p…
Historically, Ultima Thule has been a concept for `the northernmost boundary with the end of the world', a mythical place. For more than 200 years artists, writers, scientists and adventurers have felt the attraction of life on this boundary. In thi…
Amor is a culmination of moments of Kate Bellm's trips and travels over the last 10 years. Friends and lovers dreaming, escaping, kissing, and skateboarding. Kate's pure and atmospheric photography seduces you into an otherworldly psychedelic paradi…
On the legacy of Xenakis' innovations in music notation for contemporary composersTrained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities. In the late 19…
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm holds a vast collection of Italian paintings dating from the High Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The catalogue presents the initial results of ongoing research on the approximately nine hundred paintings.…
The South Korean contemporary artist Kimsooja (*1957 in Taegu) has attracted a great deal of attention for her sculptures, performances, and interventions captured on video, as well as for her numerous solo exhibitions around the world. One of the f…
Bae, Bien-U (*1950 in Yosu, South Korea) gained recognition for his meditative landscape photographs, which possess an almost calligraphic quality. His new series, created over the course of the past twenty years, features landscapes in motion. Tree…
Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographi…
The works of art by Lois Weinberger (*1947 in Stams, Tyrol) have revolved around the subject of nature since the seventies. In response to social discourses and issues concerning the boundary between nature and culture, he lets nature speak for itse…
This is the third volume in the series on GAM-Global Art and the Museum, a research project initiated by Hans Belting and Peter Weibel of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe. The goal of the project is to analyze how globalizatio…
Those who have stood under one of her Mamans, sculptures of spiders that symbolize maternal protection, understand the singularity of Louise Bourgeois's artistic approach. In terms of style, her pioneering body of work is complex, and she uses a wid…
Originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, Belgian artist Michael Borremans (*1963 in Geraardsbergen) has made a name for himself with absurdly ominous and enigmatic works of art. This publication presents a unique selection of a doz…
Black holes, dark matter, gravity, time, motion-these phenomena fascinate physicists and artists alike. Both strive to discover how they shape our world. The connection between art and science is gaining increasing significance in contemporary art.N…
In a self-reflexive narrative, the Egyptian author and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi questions the meaning of homeland versus birthplace in a controversial location such as contemporary Cairo. She weaves personal childhood memories into the…
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a celebrated figure and innovator in modern Austrian art. Rudolf Leopold developed an early interest in the art of "Vienna 1900" and began collecting works by Gustav Klimt in the fifties. The collector's preferences did…
What is the critical relevance of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) to contemporary society? In pursuit of an answer to this question, the publication places Munch's oeuvre in dialogue with works by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard (*1967 in Sydney), who…
The Fondation Beyeler begins its fall exhibition season in 2019 with five women artists. Instead of a comprehensive group show with numerous works, the art of Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bachli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, and Rachel Whiteread provide…
The Pleasure of Research delves into issues such as knowledge production, artistic thinking, medium-specificity, and context-responsiveness. How do these issues connect to the current state of art education and artistic research? A starting point fo…
A reader-format facsimile of Schnabel's classic 1987 autobiographical artist's book, with explosive illustrations and hilarious textIn 1987, at age 36, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) was not only represented in some of the most important exhibitions of…
Peter Saul has consistently challenged art, history, and politics with his radical, unrefined style. Positioned outside of the can-on of contemporary and Pop Art, Saul's exuberantly grotesque works feature an ironic and caustic humor that simultaneo…
Before John Cage (1912-1992), almost no one was as consistent as he was in his questioning of the boundaries of music and its connections to other fields of art and the everyday world. Along with Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik, and Joseph…
Although Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential artists of international Modernism, so far only certain parts of his immensely varied pictorial work have been thoroughly investigated. Now his oeuvre has been documented and properly acknowle…
Borge Mogensen (1914-1972) was one of the most important and influential representatives of Danish furniture design. In more than thirty years, he created a wealth of quality furniture, many pieces of which are sold as design classics to this day, f…
The loop is omnipresent-whether in music and video art, or hotel lobbies and living rooms, where flickering flames or aquariums with ceaselessly darting fish run continually on monitors. At the same time, the self-contained circuit, the endless loop…
Founded in 1983 by Boje Lundgaard and Lene Tranberg, Lundgaard & Tranberg is among the most important Danish architecture firms of our time. Here, author Karsten R.S. Ifversen presents a guide to their works.
