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In her installations, objects, drawings and photographs Silke Schatz reflects on the places of her past. For the Celle project, she followed autobiographical trails and looked more closely at her roots, presenting a very personal portrait of her hometown. Currently based in Cologne, Schatz attended the Art Institute of Chicago.

The radical metamorphosis of everyday objects has emerged as an increasingly prominent theme in contemporary art, demonstrating that the legacy of the Surrealist object has only gained in significance. This volume looks at "transformed objects" by John Bock, Jürgen Drescher, Rachel Harrison, Alicja Kwade, Thomas Rentmeister and Margret Wibmer.

These photographs of parking-lot hoodlums, bleak industrial landscapes, crowds in front of HMV and women carrying Louis Vuitton purses are by 15 young artists from the Leipzig School of Fine Arts. They question narrative and perception in the documentary photography paradigm.

Erich Reusch (born 1925) was one of the first sculptors to move away from autonomous, context-independent sculpture toward "decentralised" works that included the space around them as a compositional element. Reich used such basic forms as cubes, discs and columns to explore contrary energies of dispersion and compression. This volume surveys more than 60 years of his art-making.

This sophisticated exhibition catalogue dedicated to the Berlin-based installation artist Thomas Zipp features vellum inserts, a fold-out poster and die-cut and hand-torn pages, giving it the precise feeling of actually walking through one of Zipp's famously sinister-seeming installations.

Swiss artist Maja Weyermann (born 1962) creates computer-generated images of simulated architectural interiors, which cite icons of design and film history such as well-known private homes and scenes from Fellini's La Dolce Vita. This monograph features Weyermann's most recent large-scale works.

Stephen Craig describes himself as both an artist and an architect. His ambiguous work constantly tests the boundaries between independent sculpture and architecture, often referencing the historical structures of Mies van der Rohe and his concept of the liberation of architectural elements and the creation of transitional zones between interior and exterior space. Craig's work was exhibited in Documenta 10.

Characterized by an offhand and chaotic style that can overwhelm and almost invade the spectator's space, Bjarne Melgaard's installations, sculptures, drawings, photographs and videos are an assault on Minimalism and a medley of art and life. Content revolves around Melgaard's own life, not least his homosexuality, and often oversteps taboos to end up in the realm of the illegal.

From 1975 onward, German multidisciplinary artist Karl Horst Hödicke (born 1938) lived and worked adjacent to the Berlin Wall, in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg. This publication presents his detailed chronicles of and painterly notes on crucial events in German history.

This exhibition catalogue presents the current work of German painter René Schoemakers (born 1972). Schoemakers' figurative and often grotesque paintings combine various levels of art-historical imagery and symbolism to explore fundamental existential matters.

The Düsseldorf painter Birgit Jensen creates pixellated urban landscapes and nocturnal city visions that are both highly abstract and engagingly representative. Through her study of urbanity, she opens up a discourse on the mechanisms of perception.

This 368-page monograph is the first substantial publication in 15 years to take on Russia's most famous performance artist, Oleg Kulik. Also a sculptor and curator, Kulik is most renowned for his disconcerting performances as a dog. Art in America reviewed his 1997 solo exhibition at New York's Deitch Projects thus: ""On a sunny afternoon, Oleg Kulik emerged from the dark cage where he had spent the preceding two weeks on public view, living a dog's life in a gallery. Naked except for a studded leather collar, he had romped on hands and knees, eaten from bowls, slept on a mat and uttered only guttural growlsÖ Kulik's past performances as a dog include a turn as Pavlov's pet in a laboratory where he was subjected to the sort of behavioral experiments routinely endured by lab animals. Most notorious was a Stockholm exhibition in which Kulik bit several visitors (including an art critic), leading to his arrest at the request of the curator.

Leipzig photographer Steffen Junghans finds phenomena with his camera, then stages extremely concise images. In this first monograph he presents several bodies of work that bring together such diverse images as snow-covered fields, shoes strewn all over an empty highway, piles of hair and medical students performing biopsies.

This monograph features representative works from the last ten years of Düsseldorf-based artist Frank Bauer (born 1964), a former student of Gerhard Richter. Bauer is known for translating his own photographs into paintings, oscillating between landscape, still life and portraiture.

This volume gathers together the painting, drawing and photography of Mexican visual artist Hugo Lugo (born 1974). In a collaboration, Mexican author Jorge Volpi threads a series of fictional, narrative notes throughout the book, reflecting on Lugo's work.

In this large and generous monograph, German painter Heiner Meyer quotes and appropriates from a wide variety of sources, layering one image upon the other. Classical Greek sculpture, portraits of 1950s movie stars, Mickey Mouse, butterflies and cubes are recurring images in Meyer's Pop pictorial language.

German painter Martin Mannig (born 1974) stages diverse figures from pop culture--comics, manga, horror and action films, fairy tales and folk art--in ways that contradict their visual appearance. For the first time, this monograph presents both drawings and paintings and an analysis of Mannig's working method.

Nets features works of art that play with the idea of webs and networks, from spiders' webs to diagram structures. Among the contributing artists are Edward Burtynsky, Trevor Paglen, Dan Perjovschi, Chiharu Shiota and Jorinde Voigt. In addition, authors from various disciplines comment on various related keywords, such as "digital," "spider," "web" and "sensory."

In Interiors, photographer Marcus Schwier takes the viewer inside baroque palaces in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After grand depictions of magnificent reception halls, Schwier portrays more private scenes, rooms in the midst of restoration projects and living spaces with the humble signs of actual habitation, like jumbled childrens' toys or half-completed ironing.

Ernesto Tatafiore (born 1943) explores the high-energy testosterone of Italian Futurism in his latest painting series, recorded in this new monograph. Tatafiore wittily contrasts Futurists sporting "Combat Vests" and "Combat Ties" with female figures that serve as foils to their raucous espousal of machine aesthetics.

These soft-edged, pastel-shaded watercolors of domestic scenes and sporting landscapes; these still lives and portraits, are moments rescued from the flood of images emanating from television. Fabritius watches TV with a camera, and then works from the snapshots: channel-surfing immortalized.

To create his endlessly detailed paintings, the French-born, Frankfurt-based artist Eric Decastro (born 1960) applies paint to a wet background, adding a fresh layer as the previous one dries, and accumulating up to 30 layers of thinned and viscous acrylic paint that result in a monochrome relief. This volume reproduces nearly 200 works in full color.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, this New York City-based painter moves easily between figuration and abstraction in her work. Influenced by Aboriginal art, Indian theater and architecture, American Abstract Expressionism and European art history and philosophy, Green has a special affinity for the work of Joseph Beuys.

The first publication on German painter Ina Gerken (born 1987) presents her abstract, textural paintings that incorporate graphic techniques, paper and expressionistic layers of acrylic paint. This comprehensive survey of Gerken's work includes photographs and texts by Frieze writer Carina Bukuts and German art historian Gregor Jansen.

From afar, Jeongmoon Choi's brightly colored wool threads resemble laser beams rendering the contours of a room. Bathed in "black light" (UV light), these works, which, when installed, often extend along the bannisters or windows of exhibition spaces, combine the effects of advanced technology with the humblest of materials. This volume reproduces works from the past five years.

German sculptor Robert Metzkes' lifesize terracotta sculptures and bronzes seem to hail from a different era: the serene expressions and carefully modeled coiffures of his models recall ancient Greek and Roman marbles or eighteenth-century neoclassical French busts. This elegant monograph reproduces works from the past 20 years.

A selection of artworks that deal with European football, presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Leipzig, Germany--home of the now-famous art academy. Features Leipzig artists like Christoph Ruckhäberle and Albrecht Tübke, as well as work by Kendall Geers, Greg Colson and Wim Delvoye.

Polish artist Christian Keinstar's unsettling installations and video pieces suggest a kind of nihilistic anarchy. Explosions and their aftermath are everywhere, shown in video pieces and implied in sculptures of smashed-up reinforced concrete within which red neon tubes glow. This catalogue is published for his first solo museum show, and includes works made between 2001 and 2011.

Conceptual paintings that remix or reinterpret historical and contemporary landscapes, quoting from Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Monet and Eberhard Havekost, among others. Drühl, who works in the tradition of Serial and Appropriation art, sometimes fuses separate painting fragments, creating quotation collages. This monograph spans from 2001 until 2005.

Breaking Records is an installation by German multimedia artist Nasan Tur (born 1974). Projections on multiple screens show the artist repeatedly attempting and failing to break records for simple activities such as jumping rope and dribbling a basketball. Documented here are this installation and other pieces by Tur, whose work plays on our perceptions of everyday life.