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Plakatief is an international urban archeological study by emerging German artist Pola Brändle (born 1980). As she traveled through 26 different countries, Brändle photographed what might be called found collages: months and even years of accumulating street posters, overlapping and peeling to create a rich tapestry of social artifacts.

Gatecrasher presents the latest film trilogy by German artist Erik Schmidt (born 1968). The films explore various socio-psychological parameters of European society, such as the fraught German notion of Heimat, against a series of backdrops such as a hunting scene in the Westphalian landscape and the Bad Driburg spa resort.

For more than half a century, the German artist Barbara Schmidt Heins has drawn upon the energies of media-fragmented language and a style of abstraction informed by the urgencies of city living. Her colorful prints resembling circuit boards and her humorous word collages on file cards are among the highlights of this broad overview.

Using classical sculptural techniques, Peter Senoner (born 1969) has factured a small population of alien beings realized in various materials, whose heads and/or feet are swollen as though with some unspecified advanced evolutionary purpose. This volume looks at Senoner's work of the past ten years--his "cosmorama."

The Chinese-born, artist Qi Yang, currently based in Germany, draws on the suspension between these two cultures in his art. At once earthy and delicate, as when he hangs slabs of stone from a seemingly flimsy brace, the recent work displayed here encompasses installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video.

The German artist Stefan Fahrnländer (born 1959) has been working with 3-D computer programs for more than 15 years, creating completely artificial paintings that depict underwater worlds populated by objects resembling diving bells and other bizarre devices. This volume reproduces works from the past five years.

An overview of the booming design scene in IstanbulToday Istanbul is one of Europe's largest cities, and its design scene is booming, though it remains little known outside of Turkey. Spagat! offers an overview of this world with texts, images and interviews from over 30 designers, including Refik Anadol, Demet Bilici, Ela Cindoruk, Aykut Erol, Joelle Hancerli, Tamer Nakisci, Paratoner, Adnan Serbest and Can Yalman.

In Axel Teichmann's colorful but ominous narrative tableaux, humanity is depicted as beset by machines such as rockets or complex winch systems, struggling for control over them as both nature and technology begin to turn against its would-be masters. This volume includes paintings made over the past decade.

The Israeli artist Talia Keinan (born 1978) creates magical dream worlds through her room-based installations, which combine video, drawing and sound. Echoing the mythic themes and storytelling motifs of Kiki Smith, Keinan's works transport the viewer into a spellbound realm of wolves, girls and totemic birds.

This project monograph records Gerwald Rockenschaub's installation at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Rockenschaub installed a 216-foot wall covered with 385 colorful pictograms made of adhesive foil, that resemble a strange hybrid of computer icons and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Here, the entire work is reproduced as installed.

Since the 1960s, German painter and sculptor C.O. Paeffgen (born 1933) has assembled symbolically charged compositions with recurring motifs--such as moons, mice and hearts--within fruit and vegetable crates, like miniature stages. This publication focuses on this group of works.

Photo Objects reflects on the history of the photograph from the 19th century to the internet age, bringing together photographs from four archives in Berlin and Florence, supplemented by the perspectives of artists and photographers Johannes Braun & Toby Cornish, Ola Kolehmainen, Joachim Schmid, Elisabeth Tonnard and Akram Zaatari.

Spanish artist Enrique Marty (born 1969) envisions humankind as cartoonishly extreme, perpetually on the brink of coming apart. The figures in his paintings, sculptures and videos appear alternately dazed and ecstatic, their bodies frequently ravaged by trauma or grotesquely disproportionate. This volume explores his two-decade career.

German photographer and artist Dieter Kiessling (born 1957) creates portraits in which the photographer and his subject stand side by side and look at each other in a mirror. Kiessling thus portrays himself in the act of taking photos. The result is the 100 double-portraits collected here.

The Hamburg Kunsthalle celebrates German painter Friedrich Einhoff (born 1936) with this catalog of his 70 drawings and paintings in their collection. Created between 1981 and 2016, these works reveal Einhoff's vision of alienation and displacement through anonymous figures or torn body fragments.

German artist Sibylle Springer (born 1975) has a unique ability to locate urban traces that might otherwise escape notice. Her photographs of graffiti, captured while riding the New York subway, are developed into collages that are then further transformed into large-scale paintings, where everything appears blurred and shimmering.

This slim, beautifully designed hardback monograph surveys the most recent abstractions of German painter Frank Maier (born 1966). It reproduces his hard-edged, mostly pink, beige and black geometric compositions as installed in his studio, to convey a sense of the work's dimensions and actual presence in a room.

In this two-volume book, photographs and paintings by German artist Stephan Kaluza (born 1964) question the historical context of natural spaces that have been transformed into fatefully charged locations, such as meadows that became battlefields for Waterloo and Verdun or the fields of Auschwitz.

This volume explores the many applications of irony in art, from matters of gender to depictions of nature and self-reflexivity. The contributing artists are John Bock, Shannon Bool, Thorsten Brinkmann, Mark Dion, Anton Henning, Brigitte Kowanz, Ragnar Kjartansson, Peter Land, Patrick Mimran, Ahmet Ögüt, Sener Özmen and Claude Wall.

German photographer Christoph Faulhaber (born 1972) calls this study "a memorial of a process." It records rebuilding efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York after September 11. Addressing the role of the artist in the aftermath of tragedy, Faulhaber discusses here the strategies that develop in such a heightened emotional and political environment.

German Hungarian painter Szilard Huszank (born 1980) creates large-scale landscapes that balance depiction and colorful, gestural abstraction. Landscapes from the past three years are collected in this volume, which provides a glimpse into Huszank's working method.

Thorsten Passfeld (born 1975) constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.

The recent paintings of Cordula Güdemann (born 1955) portray a world in which the abuses and violations of Abu Ghraib and the obscenities of war take place as entertainment, in venues such as circus rings in which crowds sit passively. Other works embrace more general Kafka-esque themes of faceless power and grotesquery.

This monograph on New York-based multidisciplinary artist David Fried (born 1962) takes its name from interdependent systems of nature that operate "far from equilibrium," which are echoed in his sculptural, photographic and interactive works exploring systems-thinking in scientific and social contexts.

Polish artist Alice Musiol (born 1971) was just ten years old when her family moved to Germany. Perhaps unsurprisingly, her sculptures frequently revisit the motif of home, its loss and the experience of foreignness. Musiol builds her delicate and fragile creations out of everyday materials yet ironically requires that they be small, easily taken apart or folded up.

Kunstverein Schwerte in Germany invited the artists Christian Freudenberger and Markus Karstiess to develop a project around the idea of the cave as a place of creativity. Freudenberger and Karstiess selected a number of artists to participate in this conceit. This volume records the results.

German artist Thitz (born 1962) puts a new spin on the tradition of the artist on the Grand Tour: he paints city scenes upon paper bags scavenged in the places he visits. The bags are opened out flat for maximum coverage, and the paintings are executed with acrylics, in messy, busy, George Grosz-esque delineations of bird's-eye views or individual landmarks (the Manhattan bridge, Chabola City Tower).

In his series Fehlstellen, Simon Wachsmuth (born 1964) replicates the missing and destroyed parts of Piero della Francesca's "Legend of the True Cross" fresco cycle. Using black paint, he thereby creates a fictitious cartography from these holes in visual information to which he adds current newspaper cuttings on Turkey's accession to the European Union and old photographs of Istanbul.

Drawing on the disparate traditions of Abstract Expressionism and 1980s graffiti, Michael Gerngroß (born 1977) creates a hybrid style that foregrounds color as gesture. Recently, the artist has incorporated aluminum foil to extend the boundaries of the painting into space, producing works that seem to explode like fireworks.

The paintings of Munich-based artist Judith Milberg abound with ornamental and floral motifs: filigree lines develop into rosettes, flowers and vegetable-like patterns swirl and flow over the picture ground. This publication surveys her work of the past three years.