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Austrian artist Bernd Oppl's immersive installation featuring architectural models and artworks that play with perceptionVienna-based installation artist Bernd Oppl (born 1980) combines architectural models, photographs and video into installations that challenge unaided human perception. Hidden Rooms documents Oppl's installation at the Kunstraum Dornbirn.

Vienna-based artist Birgit Graschopf (born 1978) has been in the public eye for over 15 years with her performances and staged photographs in which her own body is the raw material. In Sur Face Depth, Graschopf investigates social spaces and cultures, combining installation and performance.

Since 1995, Zurich-based artists Karin Wälchli (born 1960) and Guido Reichlin (born 1959) have worked together under the name Chalet5. This volume is the first to comprehensively cover their extraordinarily wide-ranging and interdisciplinary oeuvre, illustrating their interest in ornamental forms in everyday life across cultures and contexts.

The first comprehensive overview on Swiss video, performance and sound artist Christoph OertliChristoph Oertli (born 1962) has been a major presence in Swiss and international video art since the early 1990s. With in-depth texts and documentation of important video works for the first time, this publication offers a precise introduction to his oeuvre.

Birgit Zinner's new monograph is designed as an extension of her geometric, brightly colored sculptural installationsAustrian artist Birgit Zinner (born 1963) transforms flat surfaces into sculptural works by cutting and overlapping abstract shapes and expressionistic patterns. Made in collaboration with her brothers--a photographer and a graphic designer--this book is both a survey and an example of her work.

A book iteration of an exhibition as play stageEmerging from a solo exhibition held at the TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Instructions draws from the oeuvre of German musician, composer and conceptual artist Nicholas Bussmann (born 1970) and features his signature repetitious games and programmatic instructions.

In an era when artists are as flooded with media as any other viewers, and perhaps moreso, World Images asks how they sustain their own individualized worldview, how they see the world and reproduce it in photographs uniquely their own. These works originate from the minds, eyes, and cameras of Axel Htte, Boris Mikhailov, Shirana Shahbazi, James Nachtwey and Wolfgang Tillmans among others. They vary not just in their geography, subjects, and themes, but in their essence, in their personality, in their view of the world.

Austrian artist Manuel Gorkiewicz (born 1976) creates colorful, decorative sculptures and installations that combine stylistic exaggeration with delicate irony. His first monograph documents work from the last six years.

This publication offers a glimpse into the complex installations of Irish artist Gerard Byrne (born 1969), whose multimedia work verges on performance art. The solo exhibition A Late Evening in the Future experiments with conventional spatial structures and temporal sequencing.

Celebrated works from the 1990s from the Haubrok family collectionArtists featured include Richard Artschwager, Carol Bove, Jimmie Durham, Ólafur Elíasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Claire Fontaine, Günther Förg, Mario Garcia-Torres, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, On Kawara, Philippe Parreno, Charlotte Posenenske, Wolfgang Tillmans, Franz West and Christopher Wool.

Erica Pedretti (born 1930) is best known as a writer--she won the Swiss federal award for literature in 2013--but she is also an accomplished visual artist. This publication is the first to focus on her artistic production, presenting works made since the 1970s.

Meditative photographic stills of timber production from the documentary film WaldenThis volume accompanies Swiss documentary filmmaker Daniel Zimmerman's eponymous 2018 debut film in which 13 360-degree panoramic shots meticulously document the 8,000-mile voyage of a felled fir tree in Germany. This volume documents the film's development and presents a visual screenplay, including stills not featured in the film.

Austrian installation artist Peter Kogler's latest work incorporates classic works of modernism to form a poetic cosmos This catalog documents an installation by Peter Kogler (born 1959) deploying Léger, Antheil's Ballet Méchanique and other works into a unified constellation.

Munich-based artist Judith Egger (born 1973) explores nature's uncontrollable forces--particularly those considered most repugnant or threatening--in her performances, installations and objects. This monograph showcases her work of the past seven years, unabashedly taking on even the most alarming of natural phenomena.

Swedish installation artist Matts Leiderstam (born 1956) takes art history itself as his material, specifically portrait and landscape painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using simple optical instruments (color filters, magnifying glasses, slide projections and computer animations, Leiderstam exposes buried narratives in these works, presenting his discoveries as archives and archival installations.

Large-scale sculpture, photographs, drawings and video works: Florian Graf's solo exhibition at Kunsthaus BielThis catalog accompanies Swiss multidisciplinary artist Florian Graf's (born 1980) solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Biel, featuring three large-scale sculptures, drawings, photographic works and an installation in which Graf has reinterpreted the gallery into a living space with a selection of video works.

This monograph covers four projects by German artist Till Velten (born 1961), with critical analysis of his unique film style. Velten, who views himself as a "sculptor of conversation," creates fluid portraits of his subjects in documentary-esque conversations.

Themes of political conflict and state violence in new video works and installation from Birgit BrennerThrough text collages, large-scale installations and videos, Berlin artist Birgit Brenner (born 1964) creates socially critical works that address topics of violence, injustice and surveillance with irony and black humor. This catalog collects a selection of her work from 2014 to 2020.

In Reeling to Real, Swiss artist Franziska Rutishauser (born 1962) reflects on the man-made threat of climate change to our world. With striking photorealistic oil paintings, drawings and lightbox installations, she seeks to sensitize viewers to the dire situation gripping the globe.

Austrian artist Marko Lulic (born 1972) investigates Yugoslavian and international modernism, addressing utopian aspects of the 20th century in different political contexts. This catalog accompanies an exhibition of his large-scale installations, video, posters and public works at Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz.

Small-format paintings by Drago Persic exploring color through the motif of draped cloths on tablesThis monograph presents a series of paintings by Bosnian artist Drago Persic (born 1981), each depicting the same motif--a cloth draped over the edge of a table. Persic uses pure pigmented oil paints for the cloth against acrylic or gouache backdrops in complementary colors.

Working in video installation, sculpture and film, Berlin-based artist Alexandra Ranner (born 1967) explores images of intense beauty and pain, often depicting the incessant transgressions of humanity. This volume documents her large-format pieces, which feel at once familiar and completely suspended from tangible reality.

Soccer meets politics in an immersive video installation by artist duo Wermke/LeinkaufThis book documents an immersive installation by Berlin-based artist duo Wermke/Leinkauf, known for their examination of political power structures. Here, the artists investigate the increasing influence and political potential of the fastest-growing youth subculture--the fanatical group of soccer fans called Ultras.

A lavishly produced inventory of the remains of a lifeIn this two-volume artist's book, Isolde Loock (born 1943) invites the viewer into the apartment of a deceased friend to imagine his life through writings and works.

This book takes its title from Routine Pleasures (1986), a film by director Jean-Pierre Gorin, who had once collaborated on a series of politically charged cinetracts with Jean Luc-Godard (as the Dziga Vertov Group) before relocating to teach in San Diego, California. The film delineates two parallel tracks--one, a gradual infiltration of the Model Railroaders Club, a group of "train people" who met every Tuesday night in a hangar near San Diego; and two, a consideration of the still-life paintings and writing of artist and film critic Manny Farber--and the often unexpected intersection of these tracks. Artists responding to this work include James Benning, Jennifer Bornstein, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Harry Dodge, Manny Farber, Judy Fiskin, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess, Galería Perdida, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Simon Leung, Lucky Dragons, Roy McMakin, Carter Mull, Newspaper Reading Club, Pauline Oliveros and Steve Roden.

Twenty artists explore the historical shifts embodied by the city of ChemnitzThis book documents a public exhibition project staged in Chemnitz, Germany, which recounts the city's history as a 19th-century industrial center and model of GDR-era socialism. The publication includes projects by an international roster of artists whose work addresses the city's history and urban landscapes more generally.

Since the 1950s, German artist Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) has made painterly elaborations on the form and symbolism of the cross. This splendid catalogue brings together the entire ensemble of works for the first time--61 etchings, executed between 1956 to 2009, reproduced in full color.

Der Akt des Gehens hat als gesell­schaft­li­ches Phäno­men im 21. Jahr­hun­dert an neuer Bedeu­tung gewon­nen. Neben der alltäg­li­chen körper­li­chen Fort­be­we­gung oder dem moder­nen Moment der Erho­lung und der sinn­li­chen Erfah­rung berührt er aktu­elle Fragen des ökolo­gi­schen, globa­len, geopo­li­ti­schen sowie ökono­mi­schen Wandels. Mit der Grup­pen­aus­stel­lung WALK! gibt die SCHIRN einen Über­blick zu der bisher wenig beleuch­te­ten Facette des Gehens als Praxis in der gegen­wär­ti­gen Kunst­pro­duk­tion. Sie fragt nach der zeit­ge­nös­si­schen Ausein­an­der­set­zung und Erwei­te­run­gen der Walking Art, deren Ursprünge im Mini­ma­lis­mus, der Land Art und der Konzept­kunst der 1960er-Jahre liegen.Die SCHIRN präsen­tiert über 40 inter­na­tio­nale Künst­le­rin­nen und Künst­ler, in deren Schaf­fen das Gehen ein wesent­li­ches Element darstellt. Die rund 100 Foto­gra­fien, Video­ar­bei­ten, Colla­gen, Zeich­nun­gen, Male­reien und Skulp­tu­ren sowie Live-Perfor­man­ces und parti­zi­pa­ti­ven Projekte im öffent­li­chen Raum verschrän­ken das Gehen ästhe­tisch mit den Heraus­for­de­run­gen unse­rer Zeit, reflek­tie­ren aktu­elle Debat­ten um Themen wie Globa­li­sie­rung und Klima­wan­del und verfol­gen Formen von Protest und Demons­tra­tion.

"Alpine Signals" is an unusual portrait of the Alps, based on twentysix cell towers in the Engadin, a high valley in the south east part of Switzerland. The artist Thomas Kneubühler challenges the romantic image of the Alps with the non-lieux of the mountain world, and goes to places that are usually not a destination. "Alpine Signals" touches on important issues, such as our relationship with nature and landscape asking: how much data do we need, even in the remote mountain world? The photographs are accompanied by two texts. The author Romana Ganzoni, who lives in the Engadin, invites us on a breathtaking antenna hike, and debunks a number of Alpine clichés in the process. The Canadian writer Rebecca Duclos visits the Alps in a dream. In her hybrid text, she reflects on the paradox of images and encounters which are at once sublime and banal.