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Elementary Refraction examines the superbly executed surreal narrative cycles of German painter Michael Sistig (born 1982), in which he encrypts personal experiences in protagonists that also serve as universal metaphors or archetypes. This volume constitutes his first monograph.

A former pupil of Georg Baselitz, Berlin-based painter Daniel Mohr (born 1975) merges figurative motifs of landscapes, parks or the artist himself--many of which are borrowed from works by Goya or Klee--with fragments and abstract forms that cause what Mohr calls "phase shifts" in the painting's composition.

This catalogue gathers a selection of artists who, aspiring to a more "beautiful world," have elected to construct their own: Thomas Arnolds, Michael Biber, Michal Conrads, Martin Kippenberger, Bjarne Melgaard, Ernesto Neto, Philipp Schwalb, Andreas Slominski, Franz West, Meredyth Wulff and others.

This volume gathers recent paintings by German artist Jan Davidoff (born 1976), made between 2007 and 2012. Davidoff's electrically colorful landscapes, resembling high-contrast photographs, articulate longings for a lost paradise.

Henning Strassburger contemplates the role of painting in a world where social media seems more real than realityBerlin-based painter Henning Strassburger (born 1983) explores the position of painting in today's chaotic digital landscape. This volume includes reproductions of his artworks, which juxtapose oversized details of photographs with riotous painterly gestures.

Cold Crusts, Rare Earths brings together the work of 12 artists--among them David Claerbout, Valérie Favre, Thoralf Knobloch, David Schnell and Maik Wolf--who explore landscape, in painting, photography, video and installation.

A German painter explores the rich legacy of Romantic irony through themes of authenticity and cliché Dresden-based painter Frank Hoffmann (born 1972) plays with the concept of "romantic irony" and associated notions of self-reflection. Romantische Ironie provides an overview of his work with these ideas from the past eight years.

Surfers, and not the Internet kind, compose the majority of Rainer Fetting's latest group of paintings, set amid the sunny environs of Venice Beach, California (in contrast to his more typical urban subjects). Surfing as a subject of art has made a comeback worthy of Brian Wilson's Smile, as seen in Catherine Opie's photographs and Robert Longo's recent paintings, among others. Fetting's thick paint applied in simple adjacent lines flirts with abstraction but also conveys the power of waves, with matchstick-bodied surfers at nature's mercy. At other times, single firgures balancing on boards playfully allude to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" and Dufy-esque views from a beachside hotel capture California colors in a testament to the painter's versatility. And what's more Californian than a sunset--over a car?

German sculptor and painter Martin Schwenk's (born 1960) fantastical worlds of plants evoke the enchantments and taxonomies of eighteenth-century cabinets of curiosities. Home Grown looks at his biomorphic sculptures and delicate watercolors of the past two decades.

The abstractions of Madrid-based painter Prudencio Irazabal (born 1954), achieve exquisite effects of luminous blur and throbbing color, often evoking the amorphous light effects of sunlight on closed eyelids--as the title of her new monograph, Omnia Pervia ("everything is permeable"), neatly conveys.

Paintings and works on paper inspired by trips to Japan German painter, draftsman and graphic artist Peter Tuma (born 1938) investigates the imbalanced relationship between nature and technology and between abstraction and figuration. This volume gathers paintings and works on paper featuring symbols of popular culture and a more conceptual approach, inspired by Tuma's several stays in Japan.

Semiglot documents German artist Mariella Mosler's (born 1962) most recent installation in the town of Giessen: a sweeping, labyrinthine floor mosaic made from tiny multicolored sweets and a wall installation of 60 masks made from rope, cardboard and wood shavings.

25 years ago, a firewall was a real, tangible wall used to prevent the spread of fire. Today, it is a virtual protection system in an electronic data system. In Firewall, the exhibition, the term is used in a figurative and metaphorical sense to discuss the security problems associated with the increasing digitization of our world. This catalogue showcases the exhibition works of eight artists--six of whom created new works for Firewall--all of which reflect on the protective and unsettling factors associated with living in today's surveillance society. With innovative, cutting-edge, technology-inspired design, this catalogue thoroughly delves into the works of Jonas Dahlberg, Andreas Köpnick, Julie Mehretu, Aernout Mik, Julia Scher, Markus Vater, Magnus Wallin and Johannes Wohnseifer.

A search for the traces of childhood in the past and present of Berlin's southern neighborhoodsGerman photographer Johann Karl (born 1992) captures places from his childhood in Waldstadt, Kummersdorf and Sperenberg, south of Berlin. The Forbidden City gathers Karl's research, illustrating the region's constant change through the Wilhelmine era, National Socialism and Soviet occupation to today.

Here is the premier of Alois Mosbacher's block of works developed over the last few years, comprising over 80 pictures and revolving around the theme of the woods as a space for outsiders and drop-outs. By interlocking the classical media of painting and drawing with the language of computer games, Mosbacher expands his image-based research into complex and often eerie narratives that present contemporary meanings of the woods on various levels.

Kalin Lindena (born 1977) transforms exhibition spaces into film or theater sets, deploying figurine-like sculptures on wheels as her cast. Props in her spectacles include buckets, bicycle tires, glass or polystyrene. This volume is published to celebrate her winning the Werkstattpreis for young sculptors awarded by Kunststiftung Erich Hauser.

German painter Pat Rosenmeier (born 1979) works in pure abstraction, using very wet acrylic paints to model waves and filigrees of color. This catalogue reproduces the 57 major paintings she has completed to date, from an early series of O'Keefe-like flower paintings through works that play with gradients of shadow and fields of ocean blue.

What is it that separates the search for gold in Miami Beach or Manhattan from the desire to erect idols like the golden calf? As Matthew Weinstein's transcultural, high-tech, easy-going haven for urban neurotics reveals: nothing. They are all just Universal Pictures.

Olaf Schlote's haunting photographic portraits of first-generation Holocaust survivorsPhotographer Olaf Schlote (born 1961) journeyed from Auschwitz to Majdanek to Stutthof and finally Israel, where he photographed 11 first-generation Holocaust survivors who began anew there. Memories gathers Schlote's portraits alongside stories from the survivors and photographs from his journey.

Nature as represented in Sonja Braas's photographs is not a sweet and gentle force but a violent and destructive one. Roaring waterfalls, crashing ice and eroding rocks are pictured large-scale and at frighteningly close range, almost as if the camera tripod was set up in the middle of the action. Braas succeeds in capturing the unrestrained drama of nature, in all its visual and aural strength--but is the spectacle she frames entirely authentic? Subtle hints and surreal light effects suggest that parts of her photographs are simulated, for an artistically inflated version of nature.

This catalogue collects recent works in painting and sculpture by Turkish artist Özcan Kaplan (born 1964). Purely abstract, Kaplan's large canvases are explorations in color and gesture, and his sculptural works are three-dimensional continuations of his paintings, such as his stacked towers of dried oil paints, and monochrome gray cement casts of canvases.

Anja Ganster's (born 1968) Passageways show halls, foyers and passages--"in-between" places that are not quite inside or outside. Highly detailed but infused with a sense of unreality, these fascinatingly lucid paintings are a blend of fact and fiction, dream and reality. This volume gathers the series.

Familiar paintings by such masters as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ingres and Picasso are craftily reinterpreted by Leipzig painter Jochen Plogsties (born 1974) in this introductory monograph. He "copies" in oils not the original works, but reproductions of those works as he finds them in books, magazines and on the internet.

This catalogue documents a recent installation piece by German artist Thomas Zipp (born 1966) for which he transformed the Kunstraum Innsbruck into a psychedelic laboratory: an environment filled with sculptures, drawings, portraits, Hammond organs and other objects arranged into a type of chapel and brought to life through music and stage performances.

Over the course of numerous trips to Vietnam, Nora Bibel (born 1971) photographed and interviewed various people who had lived in Germany for several years but had since returned to Vietnam. Que Hong offers a portrait of the human negotiation of displacement and home.

Investigating the fickleness of personal memory and the influence of the unconscious upon memory, Past Desire brings together ten international artists who work with the themes of history and memory: Yael Bartana, Ulla von Brandenberg, Chen Chieh-Jen, Martin Gostner, Franz Kapfer, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, David Makjkovic, Rosell Meseguer, Lorraine O'Grady and Margaret Salmon.

Burhan Dogançay became famous the world over with the series of photographs he created--often at dizzying heights--during the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. But the main focus of his photographic career has been the series The Walls of the World, the artist's intensive, exhaustive interrogation of walls. Through travels to more than 100 countries, among them Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Cuba, Dogançay has captured the exceptional and the trivial aspects of these surfaces in more than 20,000 photographs, a selection of which appear here.

Since the late 90s, Magnus von Plessen has investigated the possibilities of painting after the age of photography. In small-format pictures of rooms, persons and rudimentary scenes, the artist's painting technique is deliberate, its apparent casualness really controlled. The strange and special quality of the painted picture is set in contradistinction to the world of media-dominated imagery.

This artist's book serves as a retrospective monograph for German photographer and video and performance artist Franz Wanner (born 1975). Descriptions and documentation are given for the projects and installations he has created since 1996. Wanner makes frequent use of the security camera and open doors to make works about voyeurism and security in society.

This young Leipzig painter, who won an International Studio and Curatorial Program scholarship to New York for the year 2007, and has galleries in New York and Houston, makes strange, soul-chilling paintings of people, landscapes and architectural spaces that are based on his own filmic scripts and resulting photographs.