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For this volume, German photographer Karø Goldt (born 1967) took items from the bibliography of Fritjof Capra's classic The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture (1982), using them as a system for titling and arranging alphabetically the apparently random snapshots of places, objects, city views, museum architecture and landscapes.

Published for her first institutional solo exhibition, this catalog on Cologne-based painter Jana Schröder (born 1983) presents works created between 2011 and 2017. Schröder records the movements of her hands to create sweeping layers of increasingly abstract blue and black lines.

In 2016, in the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, Berlin-based sculptor Wolfgang Flad (born 1974) installed Kiss and Tell, a large-scale suspended installation consisting of 30 winding forms. More or Everything documents the evolution of this work, providing sketches and exhibition photographs.

BLACKBRIDGE OFF offers a comprehensive look at the eponymous exhibition space's eight years of operation in the Heiqiao district of Beijing, between 2010 and 2017, when the area was demolished. This bilingual collection of texts and images documents the exhibitions realized during this span.

In her installation for the Missing Sculpture project at the Lehmbruck Museum, documented here, Bosnian video and installation artist Danica Dakic (born 1962) created a complex installation of sound collage and floor drawing in the vein of Joseph Beuys and Wilhelm Lehmbruck.

Published in conjunction with his winning the Leipziger Volkszeitung Art Prize, LUX is the first monograph for German painter Benedikt Leonhardt (born 1984), introducing his multilayered monochrome works inspired by the pictorial representation of digitized society.

The Kiefer Hablitzel Art Prize has been awarded to young Swiss artists since 1951. In 2018, following a one-year selection process involving 179 applicants, the young artists Martina Mächler, Marie Matusz, Valentina Minnig, Mia Sanchez, Dorian Sari, Rafal Skoczek and Axelle Stiefel were presented with the award.

Between 1988 and 2018, Art in Public Space for Lower Austria launched more than 40 art projects addressing the country's complex history of persecution, including memorials, monuments, films and installations by Anna Artaker, Linda Bilda, Clegg & Guttmann, Ramesch Daha, VALIE EXPORT, Manaf Halbouni, Jenny Holzer and Oleg Komov, documented here.

This monograph presents works by German sculptor Sandra Peters (born 1969) created between 1998 and 2007 that evolved from an examination of the history of modern architecture, minimalism and conceptualism.

The Zurich installation artists Lutz and Guggisberg compile objects, pictures and videos with such relish that they trigger atmospheric change wherever their work is exhibited. This richly illustrated catalogue documents two recent and related European shows comprised of labyrinthine, show-jumping "courses" that make the observer part of the artwork.

Swiss filmmaker and painter Hannes Schüpbach explores the oeuvre and methods of Swiss sculptor Cesare Ferronato (born 1927), whose lifelong practice of crafting uniquely articulated and abstracted human figures in stone is documented in this publication.

Art This Way illustrates the mercurial and cryptic wit of Austrian photographer Robert Zahornicky (born 1952) in his snapshots of urban and rural life--from the complexity, fast pace and fragmentation of life in the city to the countryside's fringes, forests and often destructive human interventions.

From their Southeastern European bases in Bucharest and Sofia, artists Dan Perjovschi and Nedko Solakov have taken the international art world by storm over the course of the last 15 years, showing their work either solo or jointly at such prestigious venues as the 2007 Venice Biennale, Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Both artists work with pictures, texts and biting irony to comment on the social, political and cultural status quo. Early this year, Perjovschi and Solakov took over Vienna's BA-CA-Kunstforum, drawing all over the walls, floors and surrounding architecture with felt-tipped markers and pencils. Political, witty, subversive and fresh, this winning exhibition is documented here.

German installation artist Thorsten Brinkmann (born 1971) combines everyday objects--discarded metal buckets, curtain rails, bowls, egg cups, refrigerators and clothing--into unexpected assemblages. This monograph presents these humorous objects, as well as his photographic and video works.

Fägerskiöld's majestic abstractions evoke cosmic wonderSwedish-born, New York-based painter Paul Fägerskiöld (born 1982) creates semiotic hyper-landscapes full of metaphors, symbols and references from popular culture, literature and science. These deceptively simple canvases, like the book's title, evoke questions about humanity's place in the universe.

Documenting the German performance artist's subtle disruptions of the everydayGerman artist Stefanie Trojan (born 1976) intervenes in everyday situations to subvert people's habits and expectations--usually in the form of a simple action or question--which are documented in videos and photographs. This catalog collects her provocative oeuvre.

A multimedia hauntology: Hirschbichler traces the mythic in the urban fabricUsing photographic and filmic works, experimental painting and texts, Vienna-born artist Michael Hirschbichler (born 1983) explores the mythic substrates of everyday life. His Spirit Cloths, for example, incorporate the natural traces of haunted places in Kyoto on printed cloth.

Tracing historical political strategies in current events through an artistic meditation on Hitler's seminal textAustrian artist Hannes Priesch (born 1954) has produced book objects using silkscreen-printed excerpts from Mein Kampf. This publication, which reproduces the series of silkscreen prints, shines new light on this taboo volume.

Misadventures in perception and contradiction from a playful craftsmanAustrian artist David Eisl (born 1985) reveals the fragility of human perception through playful sculptures and collages using wood inlay, dead leaves and other unusual materials. These works are presented in this equally playful book, in which the title has wandered from the spine to the book block.

Tensions of image interpretation in the art of Toba KhedooriExamining large-format drawings by Australian artist Toba Khedoori (born 1964) from the 1990s and 2000s, art historian Monika Leisch-Kiesl explores the tension between semiotic and phenomenological paradigms as critical approaches to his art.

Documenting the 4th Artists' Biennial at Haus der Kunst in MunichReferencing the title of Raymond Chandler's detective novel and the legendary 1946 film, The Big Sleep appears on the occasion of the 4th Biennale of Artists at Haus der Kunst in Munich, which showcases artworks made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Multimedia works tracking cultural memory across generationsIn her multimedia works, Argentinian multimedia artist Silvina Der-Meguerditchian (born 1967) addresses issues related to the burden of national identity and the position of the "other" in society. This is the artist's first comprehensive monograph, showcasing three groups of works.

An introduction to the psychedelic painterly cosmos of Oliver RossThe incredibly colorful paintings and installations of German artist Oliver Ross (born 1967) oscillate between chaos and order, movement and fixation, big and small. This first monograph on Ross traces these relationships in his work.

Introducing a new biannual journal exploring our outer and inner worldsThe first issue of Periodikum Magazine seeks to open a new pop-cultural sphere inspired by Romantic and Symbolist literature, with writings by artists and philosophers themed around "codices" such as Transformation, Symbol, The Tower, The Sublime and more.

Drawings of daily life under lockdownItalian artist Aldo Giannotti's (born 1977) new drawings reflect everyday routines as shaped by pandemic restrictions and the attendant growing sense of insecurity. From canceled exhibitions to excessive food shopping, Giannotti's drawings reveal the gradual shift from one social norm to another.

Sculptural intersections with architecture: recent and selected worksSwiss artist Miriam Sturzenegger (born 1983) creates sculptures and installations that emphasize construction materials, surface quality and the use of everyday materials. The book presents a combination of site-specific interventions, newly produced groups of work and selected past projects.

For Martina Steckholzer, painting is architecture, deconstructive and poeticWorking from video footage filmed in art galleries, fairs, studios and museums, Austrian artist Martina Steckholzer (born 1974) creates large-scale paintings inspired by architectural geometric forms. This book is the artist's first in 20 years and features an index of over 400 of her works.

Austrian sculptor Karl Karner (born 1973) creates bronze and aluminum abstract sculptures that loosely allude to the human body in their biomorphic character. This book surveys his works.

German artist Andreas Greiner (born 1979) makes experimental use of technical, scientific processes and integrates natural organisms as coauthors of his work. The first comprehensive monograph on the artist, this volume documents his time-based and living sculptures as well as his photographic and filmic works.

Margret Wibmer's multimedia art analyzes the relationship between bodies and digital spaceFor more than 20 years, Austrian artist Margret Wibmer (born 1959) has presented the human body in relation to the digital environment. This publication focuses on her multimedia video and performance piece Relay, made accessible via a QR code inside the book.