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Intruders, a performance piece by Kenyan-born, Germany-based artist Ingrid Mwangi (born 1975) and German artist Robert Hutter (born 1964), inspires viewers to consider the notion of identity in multicultural societies--a theme as topical in Berlin as in Nairobi. This publication documents the collaborative work.

Turkish artist Özlem Sulak (born 1979) spent three months in Vienna on an artist's residency. This publication presents her personal and politically charged video works and installations, examining issues of migration, entry and residency permits, and language and cultural barriers.

Subverting Disambiguities is a collective reflection on themes raised by exhibitions curated at the Shedhalle Zurich by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart, between 2009 and 2012. Composed of theoretical essays, artist and curatorial statements, installation documentation and interviews, the book surveys the ideas explored by Hoffmann and Volkart in five themed chapters: "Pausing and Interrupting," "How Art Writes History," "Ecologics," "Im/Possible Community" and "Acting Out and Opening Up." Among the artists, critics and curators interviewed are Matthew Fuller, Gluklya, Graham Harwood, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Uriel Orlow and Emily Richardson among others. "We want to make that visible which is off the beaten track," write Hoffmann and Volkart: "the remote, suppressed, irrational; that which is on the dark side or traumatically recurs; but also the flipside: the absurd, humorous and cheerful, which can be equally as tenacious."

Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi (born 1961) refers to her installations of text-image collages, which often continue through several rooms, as visual representations of her knowledge, her experiences and memories. Her Knowledge Museum is an ongoing, imaginary constellation of knowledge fulfilling the classic requirements of a museum: the archiving, organizing and presentation of social, political and artistic knowledge. This volume surveys her work.

Dan Perjovschi's black felt-tip drawings, done directly onto the walls of the venues in which they are exhibited, satirize current affairs, both globally and in his native Romania. Perjovschi is a member of the Group of Social Dialogue collective, which publishes the Revista 22 newspaper, one of Romania's most prestigious intellectual journals.

The Berlin-based duo Romy and Stef Richter, aka Burghard, devise installations composed of everyday/office materials such as blackboards, desks, books, projectors etc, which effect tensions between objecthood and the mediation of objects by language. This publication covers Burghard's works and exhibitions of the past ten years.

The installations of Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (born 1957) use neon signs and mirrors to create luminous semiotic environments. This artist's book records works from the late 1990s to the present, in a novel layout that expands on the sign-based character of her work.

A selection of paintings and drawings from the past ten years, this volume is the first overview of Romanian artist Christina Chirulescu (born 1974). Her abstract paintings combine a careful geometricism with warm swells, patches and drips of color.

Maja Vukoje (born 1969) uses acrylics, oils and spray paint in her large-scale paintings, to which she applies objects such as hair, glitter, mirrors and straw. Her subject matter is influenced by a study of the religious practices of Afro-American cultures. This monograph presents a large selection of recent paintings and drawings.

Over two years, Austrian artist Susi Jirkuff (born 1966) collated information from television, newspapers and the internet to produce videos and installations that attempt to breach the ubiquitous fabric of media reality.

Romanian-born, Amsterdam-based artist Veron Urdarianu (born 1951) paints pale, melancholy landscapes, with silhouettes of houses and figures hovering vulnerably on an indeterminate or unstable pictorial plane. This volume offers a concise survey of his works.

This volume focuses on the photography of multimedia artist Sabine Hornig (born 1964), in particular the Windows series, begun in 2001, which now comprises some 50 large-scale photographs. Hornig presents the windows as pictures that unite several perspectives at once: the view into an interior, the reflection of the world outside on the window pane and the window pane itself.

This publication introduces two pioneers of new media: Zbigniew Rybczynski, from Poland, and Gábor Bódy, from Hungary. Rybczynski (born 1949) is a creator of experimental animations and a multimedia artist. Bódy (1946-1985) was considered one of the most important Hungarian filmmakers.

Andrei Roiter, born in 1960 in Moscow and now living between Amsterdam and New York, maintains a distinctive playfulness and Shrigleyesque sense of humor throughout his paintings, drawings, mock-shabby sculptures and photography. This catalogue looks at his recent Runaway/Kolobok project, which summates his philosophical preoccupations of the past 20 years.

Exploring issues such as migration, integration and globalization, Anna Jermolewa employs photography and video work to make a critical study of the balance of power between the individual and society and the manipulations of the media and consumer industry. Step Aside documents her most important works of the past ten years.

This volume gathers Rainer Ganahl's numerous works devoted to Alfred Jarry, the playwright, novelist, avid cyclist and chief theorist of Pataphysics. Ganahl, in whose art bicycles are a recurrent motif, here presents a series of staged photographs of himself with a bike, costumed as Jarry, as well as Jarry-related sculptures and drawings, weaving a semi-fictitious portrait of the great man.

With Kafka in Search of Pina Bausch, German artist Volker März (born 1957) continues his fictional biography of Franz Kafka, realized in clay figurines and paintings. In this latest installment, Kafka, recently fallen from heaven to the West Bank, falls in love with choreographer Pina Bausch, whom he pursues to South Africa.

Vienna has hosted a number of ambitious collaborative public art projects in recent years, started by the Public Art Vienna program. This volume gives an overview of the initiative, documenting installations by artists such as Peter Fattinger, Heinz Gappmayr, Liam Gillick, Maria Hahnenkamp, Oliver Hangl, Ken Lum, Inés Lombardi, Veronika Orso, Michael Rieper and Franziska and Lois Weinberger.

This catalogue provides an overview of the career of German-born sculptor Gunter Frentzel (born 1935), whose elegant minimal sculptures made of metal, concrete, wood and beams of light make simple geometric assemblages. His trademark works are formed of unconnected metal rods that are stacked and balanced on each other to create waves, rings and columns.

Karin Sander's Patina Paintings are created at--and by--the site of their exhibition. Sander transports blank canvases to the exhibition venue and leaves them outside, unprotected, to accumulate the patina of their location as chance and the whims of nature determine. The results are delicate abstractions resembling the mark-making of John Cage or Cy Twombly. This handsome monograph records the series.

This volume pairs two Swiss artists with a profound debt to Pop art: first-generation Pop painter/sculptor Peter Stämpfli (born 1937) and the younger sculptor Davide Cascio (born 1976). Both draw on advertising for their materials--Stämpfli to isolate and rework its motifs, and Cascio to create futuristic sculpture-installations.

As far from "the decisive moment" as a photographer could be, Christopher Muller does not discover his interiors and still life photographs, rather he composes them with considerable forethought, even drafting them in numerous preparatory drawings. This volume reproduces nearly 150 of Muller's color photographs, which must rank among the most crafted images being made today.

Turkish installation artist and film director Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946) explores orientalism, the effects of global migration, the role of women and the influence of the Orthodox church in Turkish culture. This volume, published in the new Solo Forseries, presents an overview of her work to date.

Swiss painter Tatjana Gerhard (born 1974) uses classical technique to depict decidedly unclassical subject matter. The monstrous hybrid creatures that populate her canvases are pitched somewhere between the comic and the horrific. This volume follows the unfolding of Gerhard's cast of curiosities over the past three years.

After early international success with her all-female punk band Kleenex (later Liliput), Klaudia Schifferle (born 1955) recently returned to Zurich and has thrown herself with prolific zest into painting and drawing. Schifferle, a longstanding creative presence in Zurich, uses oil, acrylic, lacquer and marker pen to create images of mythical beasts and hybrid humans in dreamworld backdrops.

Artist, technician and DIY enthusiast David Moises (born 1973) is fascinated by mechanical devices, which he analyses, takes apart and reassembles in unexpected ways. Stuff Works demonstrates exactly how the artist's creations function, through illustrations and inventions inspired by the handyman magazine Hobby.

The mechanisms of celebrity culture at the Venice Biennale are dissected in this merciless critique of art-world logic. Essays by Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Bernhardt, Beatrice von Bismarck, Jolanka Boeke, Paola Bonino, Anna Bromley, Régis Debray, Pamela Church Gibson, Elke Krystufek, Rachel Mader, Jana Riester and others analyse the Biennale's peculiar social laws.

Rudolf Zwirner was the first gallery owner to put his weight behind the American Pop art movement in Germany, as well as one of the founders of the Cologne Kunstmarkt, the precursor of today's ART Cologne fair. This small catalogue documents Zwirner's essential role in the European art world, from the 1960s until today.

Famed for his bold interventions in art institutions such as Tate Modern, Polish painter and sculptor Miroslaw Balka (born 1958) here tackles the spatial experience of the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, and its collection of old German master painting. Balka constructed a corridor through the collection rooms with a system of paths to steer and renew visitors' perceptions of these works.

German artist duo Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann photograph the offices of trading companies in Chicago, where they live and work, as well as interview traders, programmers and businessmen. Volatile Smile explores the impact of technology on systems of global commerce.