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Having lived in the US for almost two decades, Vaterland professor of photography Joerg Colberg (*1968) attempts to understand the political, historical and social developments in his native country, Poland. Text in English, German, and Polish.

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Christine Ödlund’s (*1963) first monograph is composed as a coherent whole, with each part interacting and resonating with the next. Paying particular attention to the proper way of interacting with the multiple forms of intelligence surrounding us, Ödlund finds an inexhaustible source of inspiration in the concept of Deep Listening which states that listening implies becoming aware of oneself as part of a universal whole. The works are the result of the artist transposing sound into form and image, notably through the use of plant pigments. By contemplating the botanical motifs and the soft colours of these works on paper, we might be able to approach the plant kingdom not only with fresh eyes but possibly also with fresh ears.

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Abstract art was never dead. Since its revolutionary beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century, it has repeatedly flourished and survived all animosities, even bans. And more than that: today in particular, artists and museums are increasingly devoting themselves to this theme, in the world’s most important art metropolises and in unprecedented diversity. Aspects of contemporary abstract art, coupled with historical reminiscences, are the focus of the publication on the occasion of the third exhibition, showcasing works from the Deutsche Bank Collection at the PalaisPopulaire. The selection includes works from 1959 to 2021. Included are not only drawings and photographs but also, for the first time, significant paintings and prints. Artists: Markus Amm, Rana Begum, Otto Boll, Kerstin Brätsch, Cabrita, Ernst Caramelle, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Adriana Czernin, Helmut Federle, Günther Förg, Günter Fruhtrunk, Franziska Furter, Rupprecht Geiger, Katharina Grosse, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Erwin Heerich, Bernhard Härtter, Daniel Hunziker, ShŌichi Ida, Jürgen Jansen, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Jennie C. Jones, Kapwani Kiwanga, Imi Knoebel, Norbert Kricke, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Thomas Locher, Fabian Marti, Bernd Minnich, Wilhelm Müller, Nima Nabavi, Albert Oehlen, Susanne Paesler, Blinky Palermo, Jorge Pardo, Georg Karl Pfahler, Charlotte Posenenske, Lothar Quinte, Gerhard Richter, Peter Roehr, Ulrich Rückriem, Fred Sandback, Karin Sander, Kai Schiemenz, Richard Serra, Dieuwke Spaans, Ulrich Wendland, Claudia Wieser, Beat Zoderer Text in English and German.

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2017: 80 years of the New Bauhaus in Chicago - 2019: 100 years of the Bauhaus in Germany. In connection with these two anniversaries, the Goethe-Institut in Chicago organised a series of exhibitions from 2016 to 2018. Starting from the interdisciplinary Bauhaus idea, ten artists from Chicago and Germany were invited to create 'A Little Piece of Bauhaus / Ein Stück Bauhaus' in a situational and site-specific way. The Goethe-Institut thus became an open platform for boundary-transcending artistic dialogues between the 'old' and 'new' Bauhaus, between past and future. Artists: Heike Albrecht, Assaf Evron, Doug Fogelson, Anke Loh, Luftwerk, Christina Wildgrube, Rebecca Wilton, Serene Wise, Monika Wulfers Text in English and German.

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atelierJAK has been working on the film project Soul Blindness for a number of years. The main character in the film is JAK, who suffers from visual agnosia. Soul Blindness does not have a preconceived script. The plot of the film develops further with each exhibition and each artwork, until there are finally thirty film clips, each of them exactly three minutes long. This makes it possible to continuously develop both the storyline itself and the setting ever further. The publication provides insights into the exhibition FAULTY REVERIES. It presents sculptures and installations that enter into interaction with one another, become props, and form the backdrops for the film through their interplay. Besides sculpture, drawing, writing, and language, the use of digital processes also plays a significant role. Text in English and German.

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The dedicated art dealer Rudolf Zwirner and the artist Jakob Mattner meet to look back at his over 40-year-long career. They discuss the fascination with perspective, the poetic means of light, the change of position, and procedure of reversal through which the essence of art can be achieved without withholding information from the viewer: the secret of transcendence, its cause and effect. Text in English and German.

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Uta Zaumseil's woodcuts tend to take a long time to make due to the size of the format and the elaborate implementation of several colours. The artist makes use of the rare, rather risky technique known as the ''lost plate'', in which parts of the surface are constantly removed. Zaumseil shatters the viewer's expectations, since large sections of the images are as familiar as they are inexplicable. Text in English and German.

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Tor Seidel: In Uncharted Territories is the foretelling title of the first institutional solo exhibition by German photographer and artist Tor Seidel (*1964) in the United Arab Emirates. All artworks - specifically produced for the exhibition - are born out of a sense that realities are shifting in a time of utmost uncertainty: the recent, ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. They address how perceptions shift in a time of existential crisis, how our awareness is challenged, certainties are crushed, global patterns of economy and mobility deaccelerate, and social interaction is put to the test. COVID-19 marks a turning point for the global community, having affected each and every one of us, while the future is still unknown. Thus, Tor Seidel takes the viewer on a journey with an open-ended narrative. Text in English and German.

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With The Assembled Human the Museum Folkwang inquires into the ambivalent relationship between humans and machines. It's a conflicted relationship, fluctuating between utopia and nightmare, and it still influences our present time. From the conveyor belt to cybernetics and today's digital revolution, from Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism into the recent present with Ed Atkins, Jon Rafman, Avery Singer, or Anna Uddenberg, the show traces the transformation of technology, presenting a wide panorama of artistic visual worlds: human beings as hybrid creatures, blended with their own self-made machines. Featuring 200 works by 100 artists as well as prolific essays, this extensive catalogue goes in-depth into this highly current issue. Artists: Walter Heinz Allner, Bettina von Arnim, Gerd Arntz, Ed Atkins, Giacomo Balla, Joachim Bandau, Lenora de Barros, Willi Baumeister, Thomas Bayrle, Rudolf Belling, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Renato Bertelli, Umberto Boccioni, Wilhelm Braune, John Cage, Helen Chadwick, Computer Technique Group (CTG), Charles A. Csuri, Mariechen Danz, Fortunato Depero, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Charles & Ray Eames, Max Ernst, Alexandra Exter, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Harun Farocki, William Allan Fetter, Otto Fischer, Herbert W. Franke, Carl Grossberg, George Grosz, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hammer, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eva Hesse, Lewis Wickes Hine, Heinrich Hoerle, Rebecca Horn, Vilmos Huszar, Boris Ignatowitsch, Fritz Kahn, Wassily Kandinsky, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Friedrich Kiesler, Konrad Klapheck, Jurgen Klauke, Paul Klee, Heinrich Kley, Josh Kline, Iwan Kljun, Gustavs Klucis, Alexander Kluge, Kiki Kogelnik, Germaine Krull, Boris Kudojarow, Helmuth Kurth, Jurgen van Kranenbrock, Maria Lassnig, Fernand Leger, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Roy Lichtenstein, El Lissitzky, Hilary Lloyd, Goshka Macuga, Rene Magritte, Kasimir Malewitsch, Man Ray, Etienne-Jules Marey, Remy Markowitsch, Caroline Mesquita, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Alexei Morgunow, Martin Munkacsi, Eadweard Muybridge, Otto Neurath, Katja Novitskova, ORLAN, Tony Oursler, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Georgi Petrusow, Antoine Pevsner, Walter Pichler, Jon Rafman, Robert Rauschenberg, Timm Rautert, Alexander Rodtschenko, Thomas Ruff, Walter Ruttmann, James Shaffer, Arkadi Schaichet, Xanti Schawinsky, Helmut Schenk, Oskar Schlemmer, Nicolas Schoeffer, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Avery Singer, Stelarc, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Thayaht, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Patrick Tresset, Anna Uddenberg, Andor Weininger, Erwin Wendt, Hugo von Werden, George Widener. Text in English and German.

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Since 1953, the ars viva Prize for Visual Arts has been awarded each year to outstanding young artists living in Germany, whose artistic works show an individual style of language and an awareness of contemporary questions. This year the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. (Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries) has awarded the prize to Karimah Ashadu (*1985), Thibaut Henz (*1988) and Cemile Sahin (*1990). The publication accompanies the awardees''s exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg and at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. Text in English and German.

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How do we value the life we are living? For 15 years, photographer Tim Mitchell has studied 21st century objects and commodities, as their transformation testifies to our ever-changing everyday values. He is a poignant observer of social and environmental issues and in his first monograph Product, he asks what sustainable, ethical models of production and utilisation could be. The book addresses the glamorous chaos of Paris Fashion Week as well as the repercussions of global clothes recycling and the financial crisis in Greece; economical, sociological and art historical essays provide further context.

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State of Change provides an overview of the artistic work of Karen Irmer (b. 1974). In her photographs and film installations, which are as poetic as they are analytical, Irmer reflects upon the relationship between illusion and reality, but also between the artwork and the viewer. Her work is characterised by atmospheric moods and pared-back visual language. The recurrent subject is landscape, in which she seeks contemplation and immersion as an alternative to the overstimulated reality of modern life, in which it often appears these things are no longer possible.Text in English and German.

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In his work, Dor Guez (b. 1982) explores the relationship between art, memory, storytelling and historiography. The examination of archives, maps, and local narratives has become the hallmark of his approach. Amid Imperial Grids was born out of his artistic analysis of the work of artist Felix Nussbaum and the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, designed by Daniel Libeskind. Here, Guez has created a truly unique site-specific installation based on the interweaving of biography and history, the past and memory, cartography, and the demarcation of borders. He addresses the peculiarities of the architecture and creates a content-rich spatial setting that reflects on concepts such as nation, culture, history, identity, territoriality, and geopolitics. Text in English and German.

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Tanz auf der Klinge (Dance on a Knife’s Edge) is the first monograph by the artist Willehad Eilers aka Wayne Horse (b. 1981). This publication features works created between 2018 and 2023, presenting the many facets that make up the artist’s universe - from blind drawing to graffiti and monumental oil paintings. Eiler’s visual world, made up of grotesquely lewd scenes, reveals a generous portion of humour while exploring the darkest depths of society. Studio images and photographs from Eiler’s everyday life provide shed light on his creative process. This visual journey is accompanied by interviews with the artist, brief explanatory texts, and the notes that in many cases served as the starting points for the works depicted here. Text in English and German.

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With her first comprehensive monograph Infinite Walk, Katharina Lehmann (b. 1984) invites the reader on an individual artistic journey through her impressive oeuvre. The process of creating her works involve the artist walking back and forth using her unique thread-drip painting technique to create a fabric made up of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of yarn and acrylic paint which Lehmann then uses in a multitude of ways to create spatial installations, objects and pictures. Like a journey, the book also has several stages. In a total of eight chapters, the publication illuminates the artist's most significant creative phases to date. Beginning with 2014, which Katharina Lehmann described as her personal ground zero', the presentation extends to the present day and provides an outlook to new horizons.Text in English and German.

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Paco Knöller Unter mir der Himmel (Beneath Me, the Sky) is being published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Hilti Art Foundation’s museum space in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The exhibition features numerous works by the artist (b. 1950) dating from the 1980s to the present day. The works, created exclusively with oil pastels, examine various aspects of human existence in the context of human and natural history. Photographs of the installation provide direct insight into the exhibition, which also features sculptures from the Hilti Art Foundation’s collection. Text in English and German.

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The Schaubühne Berlin is one of the foremost German-language theatres and has a unique artistic profile. Between 2018 and 2022, renowned artists Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai, Katharina Sieverding, and Monica Bonvicini designed a series of posters for the theatre. The outcome: striking two-dimensional artworks that, when inserted into Berlin’s cityscape, created a kind of temporary urban exhibition. The array of artistic executions in the poster campaigns ranges from humorously grotesque scenes or fanciful tableaux featuring members of the ensemble to purely conceptual approaches devoid of any text or imagery, to posters that use round cut-outs to capitalise on their ever-changing impact in the urban space. This publication brings together for the first time all of the designs alongside accompanying texts and interviews. Authors: John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Irmer, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Ostermeier, Antonia Ruder, Katharina Sieverding, Christian Tschirner Text in English and German.

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Building on his interest in evolution, philosophy, and society, in his project A Gift From Him Maximilian Prüfer (b. 1986) explores the destruction of natural habitats to make way for agriculture in China. To this end, Prüfer took two trips to the Szechuan Province, where the fruit trees need to be pollinated by hand due to insect deaths caused by the increased use of pesticides. These developments are attributable to Mao’s campaign to “Destroy the Four Olds,” which entailed the killing of around two billion sparrows in order to restore the natural equilibrium. Prüfer documented the entire manual pollination process in photos, collected items, and films which make for an ambivalent exploration of the cultural evolution of humankind. Text in English and German.

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Six Berlin-based artists set out in search of their inner self and travelled down paths that could not be more diverse: Frauke Bohge, Catherine Bourdon, Andrea Cataudella, Sayyora Muin, Katrin Salentin and Anna-Lisa Unkuri expressed their respective self-enquiry through painting, drawing, collage-making, photography, sculpture, and installation. However, none of them provide any absolute answers to their questions, nor ever fully expose their innermost selves. Singer-songwriter Jan Plewka contributes a lyrical exploration to the project (together with his colleague Marco Schmedtje) in the form of his song Wie ein Geist (Like a Ghost). In it, he considers the works of the artists and lends words and sound to his thoughts and feelings as an inquisitive observer. (Watch the video at www.von-clowns.com) Text in English and German.

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In his work, Veit Mette (*1961) deconstructs and reconstructs imagery. For example, he projects photographs from the collections of Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Peter August Böckstiegel Museum onto heads and bodies which he presents both digitally and in physical exhibitions. For his latest work, he visited a specialised facility for patients with eating disorders, the Klinik am Korso, to explore issues relating to our public image and self-image. Patients were asked to select images from the painting collection at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, which were then projected onto their faces. Texts written by the men and women who were photographed accompany the images. Text in English and German.

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Since the end of the 1990s, through her videos, sculptures, photographs, art installations, and performances, the internationally acclaimed Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle (b. 1974) has been critically examining the established and hierarchical social structures upon which our daily lives are built. Marcelle uses collective action as the medium through which to break down rigid mechanisms and organisational forms and to renegotiate new ones. This publication is the first comprehensive monograph of Marcelle’s work and provides multidimensional and analytical insight into her work, reflecting the complex societal discourse it explores. It was created through the artist’s close cooperation with the Museum Marta Herford and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). Text by Anna Roberta Goetz, Eungie Joo, Leandro Muniz, Adriano Pedrosa, Kathleen Rahn, Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos, Isabella Rjeille Text in English and German.

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An extensive publication with numerous illustrations titled Healing: Life in Balance is being published to accompany and exhibition at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. The book presents all the participating international artists in personal conversations on the topic of healing and, based on the museum’s collection, expands the ethnological view to include interdisciplinary perspectives by international scholars and activists. The book opens up a polyphonic dialogue and offers possibilities for designing postcolonial, global coexistence and a healthy life in balance. Artists: Marina Abramović, La Vaughn Belle, Elena Bernabè, Roberta Carvalho, Magnus Døvigen, Alejandro Durán, Marco del Fiol, Ayrson Heráclito, Feliciano Lana, Naziha Mestaoui, Michael O’Neill, Roldán Pinedo.

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The Wiener Variationen (Viennese Variations) comprise 18 piano compositions. Alexander Wiener also describes his pieces as sound-sketches or mental sound-diagrams. They are dated chronologically and reveal spontaneous moods, circumstances and experiments. Alexander Wiener composed the pieces Wiener Variation 15B and Wiener Variation 32B To the Mother Earth for the ballet AcroDuo by Elena Petrichenko and Sergey Chumakov. Each of the compositions is accompanied by video images and hitherto unpublished lighting interventions. In addition, to accompany the publication, the Alexander Wiener Prize, which encourages musical exploration of Wiener's work, has also been established. Text in English and German.

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This book is a restless chronology of works by Australian-born, internationally exhibiting artist Richard Dunn (b. 1944) who explores the contemporary potential of art with full awareness of its modernist heritage. Thinking Pictures includes Dunn's own foreword and notes on his work, providing an insight into his thinking, of which this book is an illuminating, partial archive. It reveals how Dunn's visually seductive and speculative works explore the perception and interpretation of the social and historical context of art. Dunn uses a variety of materials and formal orientations—photography, realist painting, abstract constructions, filmic montage and digital techniques, installations, light and sound—as strategies to interact with and subvert conventional styles of image-making to reveal something new and current. Dunn seeks to engage us in his exploration of how we perceive the particularities of place, including history, architecture, and ideas, bringing together the personal and the global.

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Is contemporary art’s recurring turn to a material with a rich tradition an attempt to free the precious metal from its historical heritage, from grandeur and pathos? Is the saying “all that glitters is not gold” thus put to a test by transferring or shifting the always sought-after, glittery material to other contexts? The exhibition Doré | Vergoldet | Gilded and accompanying catalogue bring together works of contemporary art that deal with gold as a material and colouring agent and thus reflect the notions of value and symbolic power connected with it. Artists: Antje Blumenstein, Olivia Breckemeyer, Ruth Campau, Marianne Engel, Luka Fineisen, Niklas Goldbach, Eckart Hahn, David Krippendorff, Claudia Kugler, Alicja Kwade, Andréas Lang, Via Lewandowsky, Michael Müller, Sebastian Neeb, Andrea Pichl, Johanna Reich, Julian Röder, Stéphanie Saadé, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Karina Spechter, Henrik Strömberg, Philip Topolovac, Panos Tsagaris, Frauke Wilken, Andrea Winkler, Clemens Wolf, He Xiangyu. Text in English, German and French.

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There is a trace of timeless arithmetic validity in the work of Ruth Maria Obrist. Her objects and installations explore themes such as mathematics – chaos and order – space, void, proportion, and volume. Over the years, the ocean, too, caught between beauty, destruction and healing, has been a central theme. Ruth Maria Obrist’s works are of a profound materiality. Using bitumen, white glue, mercuchrome, gold or rust, she creates sensory surfaces that – formally reduced to the essential – exude a poetic ease. This book covers works from the years 2000 to 2021, including some of the numerous projects that Ruth Maria Obrist realised together with architects and in public spaces. Text in English and German.

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Smavos, Tnösis, Cephandrion, and Graue Sonne: These words do not come from science fiction, but are instead the titles of ceramics by Gereon Krebber that are being presented in the exhibition Keramocringe at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl, along with room-dividing works made of burnt wood. This publication documents the sculptures and architecture in the final ensemble before the museum moves to its new location. An in-depth conversation between the artist and Georg Elben, the director of the museum, describes Krebber’s working method and the effect of his works. In the second text, the art historian Maria Müller-Schareck shows how pivotal clay is as a key material for understanding Krebber’s practice. Text in English and German.

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A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in dialogue with the collections of Galeri Nasional Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai, Thailand), and Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and initiated and funded by the Goethe Institut. Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories at Hamburger Bahnhof is dedicated to the relationship between art and political protests, historical trauma, and social narratives from the 19th century to now. The works on display explore the effects of nation-building, colonialism or the Anthropocene on societies, their narratives, as well as the ecology of our planet. Departing from Beuys’s concept of the social sculpture, the exhibition confronts the notion of nation contained in the name "Nationalgalerie" with alternative concepts of connectivity, solidarity, and individuality. Artists:Agan Harahap, Albert Samreth, Amanda Heng, Ampannee Satoh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Arahmaiani, Bruce Nauman, Bussaraporn Thongchai, Carl Schnebel, Charles Lim, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Dolorosa Sinaga, Germaine Krull, Gregor Schneider, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hannah Höch, Ho Tzu Nyen, Holly Zausner, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Joseph Beuys, Karl Hofer, Käthe Kollwitz, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Klaus Staeck, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Marcel Odenbach, Marina Abramović, Mary Wigman, Melati Suryodarmo, Ming Wong, Natalia LL, Natasha Tontey, Nguyên Bá Viet, Noa Eshkol, Orawan Arunrak, Öyvind Fahlström, Raoul Dufy, Ray Langenbach, Rudolf Jordan, Semsar Siahaan, Shane Bunnag & Pichet Klunchun, Soydivision, Stephanie Comilang, Sung Tieu, The Forest Curriculum, Tina Haim-Wentscher, Tita Salina, un.thai.tled, Valie Export, Vandy Rattana, Via Lewandowsky Texts by Sven Beckstette, Stefan Dreyer, Patrick D. Flores, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Pujita Guha, Gabriele Knapstein, Charlotte Knaup, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, Ariel Orah, Grace Samboh, David Teh, Abhijan Toto, Sarnt Utamachote, Hortensia Völckers, June Yap Text in English and German.

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His mostly precisely composed, large-format paintings, with deserted spaces as their main motif, made Ben Willikens (*1939) famous in the second half of the 1970s. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue present nearly 50 works created between 1971 and 2021 and thus span the artist’s entire oeuvre. Three groups of works form the central pillars: the Anstaltsbilder of the 1970, in whose motifs Willikens processes a dark chapter in his life, and the series ORTE (PLACES) And ORTE 2 (PLACES 2), which deal with Willikens’s examination of the architecture of the National Socialist period. There are also various works from the series Räume der Moderne (Spaces of Modernity). Text in English and German.

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Hermann Nitsch, born in Vienna in 1938, is a co-founder of Viennese Actionism, and one of the international pioneers of the Performance Art Movement. This Austrian universal artist’s world-famous painting actions have made a major contribution to the development of art post 1945. More than 90 of these painting actions have been staged thus far, the most recent were held at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2021 to accompany a new production of the opera The Valkyrie. Nitsch’s 20th painting action took place at the Vienna Secession in 1987 and is the only instance in which the artist’s action works have remained fully available. This is probably Nitsch’s most important integrated work of this kind. It symbolises his extraordinary artistic development and constitutes an unrepeatable contemporary document which exudes an international radiance.

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A quiet revolution is going on in contemporary painting; young artists are ignoring the taboos of modernism and delving into figurative painting. The exhibition >1000 Words at the Galerie Rothamel is staying abreast of this development. For five centuries European painting depicted histories, faces, and legends. As development began speeding up, modernism broke with this tradition and shifted the artistic snapshot, the shock, into focus. The longing for stories remained. The painters in the exhibition >1000 Words took up the challenge. Their narratives are complex, virtuoso — and astoundingly traditional. Artists: Ellen Akimoto, Undine Bandelin, Ivana de Vivanco, Jonathan Kraus, Nguyen Xuan Huy, Marten Schädlich. Text in English and German.

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Mihai Olos (1940-2015) was one of the most prominent Romanian artists of the 1970s. Being interested in various media - painting, sculpture, happenings, Land Art, and even literature - he developed a coherent conceptual system of modular morphologic structures (knots), ultimately leading him to his utopian project, the “universal city” of Olospolis. This monograph is published as a follow-up to the exhibition The Ephemerist. A Mihai Olos Retrospective, organised by the National Museum of Contemporary Art - MNAC Bucharest in 2016. The publication compiles a representative selection of artworks, photographs from the artist’s archive, which are being published for the first time, and essays on the oeuvre and life of Mihai Olos.

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A key element in Christian Jankowski's (*1968) practice of art involves feeding interventions peppered with humour into media contexts and closed systems. The paths of transmission and moments of disruption materialised in the exhibition Sender and Receiver at Fluentum, which featured a selection of new and previously rarely seen works. The show has been conceptually extended via the eponymous catalogue: Jankowski’s art from the past two decades has been documented in extensive photo series and is accompanied by a variety of texts that examine the content in depth. Of particular interest: a piece on the current coronavirus pandemic. In it, the artist gives so-called essential workers a temporary platform on select television formats in order to publicly share their personal experiences and impressions in a time when living conditions have been altered by the pandemic. The result is a complex stratum of unconventional narratives layered on top of television’s usual working order. Text in English and German.

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