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Featuring rarely seen photographs by Francesca Woodman, this catalogue accompanies the exhibition at the Moderna Museet.

The second volume cataloguing the Danish artist's iconic brick sculptures. Beginning in 1966, Per Kirkeby created more than 150 brick sculptures throughout his lifetime. Initially, Kirkeby was drawn to the essential qualities of bricks as a unit of architectural design and a symbol of human civilization - being the same size as the human hand. While Kirkeby was undoubtedly alluding to the simplicity and order of Minimalism at the time, the Danish artist was also looking beyond aesthetic purity to the pictorial and narrative possibilities of bricks. Although Kirkeby is revered for his painting, his brick sculptures represent his most instantly recognisable work, in a material so familiar that it is almost invisible. At once ornamental, functional, architectural and purposeless, Kirkeby's brick sculptures have become an iconic symbol of Danish modern art. This is the second volume of a three-volume catalogue raisonné on the brick works, together offering a comprehensive overview of his output from 1966 until his death in 2018. This volume concentrates on Kirkeby's unrealised brick sculptures, from 1983 to 2017. From smaller installations for exhibitions to private commissions and city planning projects, none of these sculptures were ever realised at their proposed site, and are presented to the public for the first time in this book. Contributions from the likes of Hans Ulrich Obrist and Robert Storr provide further context to these important works.

Die Arbeiten des Kopenhagener Büros Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter werden als intelligente Antwort auf aktuelle Herausforderungen gesehen. In ihren breit gefächerten Projekten verbinden sie erfolgreich Zeitgenössisches mit dem jeweiligen genius loci.Text: Stephen Bates. Photographs: Rasmus Norlander.

In 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made 'gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining.' Mired in micropolitics, for Bersani, queer activism had relinquished the radical task of reconfiguring the horizon of the possible. Later published as 'Gay Betrayals', Bersani's intervention champions a truly disruptive vision of homosexuality, one that betrays the relational, identitarian and communitarian foundations of bourgeois heterosexual respectability through 'antimonogamous promiscuity'.  Building on extensive artistic research into the politics of queer spaces and culture some 20 years later, artist duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings revisit Bersani's polemic with a response in three acts. Through a kaleidoscopic array of drawings, preparatory sketches and egg tempera paintings, a narrative of everyday (homo)sociality comes into view. A series of statuesque figures are caught as they feel the outlines of existing power structures, try out new strategies of inclusivity and, ultimately, wrestle with the blurred lineaments of identity and community.

Anish Kapoor Painting is the first publication to explore Kapoor's paintings in depth. It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last ten years but has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his career began in the late seventies.  In works that sit on the cusp between abstraction and figuration, Kapoor's paintings reveal the desire to go beyond the surface that has been so iconically explored in his better-known sculptural works.  Recurring motifs are returned to time and again, rendered in paintings in which image, surface, space and time appear in sometimes delicate but often violent symmetry. With essays from such as vital voices as Julia Kristeva and Homi K.Bhabha, with whom the artist has collaborated in articulating his distinctive visual language, this extensive survey presents the trajectory that has led Anish Kapoor to his boldest and most startling body of work to date.Texts: Homi K. Bhabha; Julia Kristeva; Martin Kemp; Greg Hilty; Norman Rosenthal; Emma Ridgway; Chris Knight; Anish Kapoor

Mit einer prägnanten grafischen Gestaltung und zahlreichen Illustrationen wirft der Band einen frischen Blick auf das vielseitige Werk des Designkollektivs Metahaven. Das Kollektiv arbeitet erst seit kurzem mit dem bewegten Bild. Die Textbeiträge beleuchten, ob Metahaven den soziopolitischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart, aber auch der Bildwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte verpflichtet ist.

Gegründet von Stéphanie Bru und Alexandre Theriot, arbeitet Bruther in den Bereichen Architektur, Forschung, Bildung, Städtebau und Landschaft. Seit 2007 entwickelt Bruther viel gepriesene, nationale und internationale Projekte wie jüngst das Kultur- und Sportzentrum Saint-Blaise, die Helsinki-Zentralbibliothek, oder das Forschungszentrum for a New Generation in Caen. Bruther steht für eine Architektur, die sich wesentlich am zukünftigen Gebrauch des Projekts orientiert, hierzu forscht und dessen mögliche Veränderungen bei der Entwicklungsfähigkeit der Gebäude im Entwurf bereits mitdenkt.

The first monograph on b+ reflects their wide-ranging practice, including building projects in Berlin, Minneapolis, fashion shows and furniture pieces.b+ is a collaborative project led by Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Jonas Janke and Roberta Jur¿i¿ that understands architecture as an open process, and views buildings as part of larger systems that require a systemic approach and can have a transformative effect. Thus, b+ celebrates the potential of the existing built environment and aims to reveal and activate the latent possibilities within. This monograph includes works such as the towers of the San Gimignano Lichtenberg project in Berlin, the Midway Contemporary Art Garage in Minneapolis, fashion shows for Tussardi, and furniture pieces. The monograph is preceded by texts by Aaron Betsky and Antje Stahl, as well as a reflection by the architects themselves on their practice within the international context. Text: Aaron Betsky, Antje Stahl.

The first monograph on the SOS studio founded by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann presents some of their joint works as well as architectural works by Studio Olafur Eliasson.Studio Other Spaces (SOS) connects architecture and art through interdisciplinary and experimental building projects and artworks for public space. They use each project as a vehicle and tool to dive into topics, into locations, and into the intricate relationships between people and spaces. Featured works include the façades of the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik (Iceland, in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects), the famous installation "Your rainbow panorama" at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, as well as recent joint works such as the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the Vertical Panorama Pavilion in Sonoma (California) and the Cirkelbroen in Copenhagen.Text: Paola Antonelli, Olafur Eliasson, Sebastian Behmann.

This book focuses solely on the Shonandai cultural centre, the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. It is the unlikely successor to the previous books we made on the works of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo. Shonandai belongs to a different time -1980s- and a different place -Japan- but it shares the desire of the earlier generations to 'overcome' modernism. Hasegawa achieves this most outlandish way, possible perhaps only in Japan in the 1980s. This is where the 1960s techno-avant-garde comes full circle. The building is presented with photographs by Stefano Graziani, as well as technical drawings. This book is part of the Everything without Content series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis. Are you participating again?Photograph: Stefano Graziani.

Accompanies an exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Spring 2025. This book demonstrates how Japanese art aesthetically permeates and comments on the changes and uncertainties of existence in a variety of ways. It deals with weathered wooden sculptures, Hokusai's "Great Wave" as well as tea ceramics, some of which have been skilfully repaired with gold lacquer. Also on display are images depicting human life with and on the water, cherry blossom festivals and courtly butterfly dances. With Ueda Rikuo, Hide Nasu, Shiriagari Kotobuki, Peter Granser and Mari Kashiwagi, surprising positions in contemporary art, tea culture and poetry have their say, reflecting in different ways the panta rhei attitude to life that has always characterised Japan.

The rediscovery of a still underappreciated artist who, along with Auguste Rodin, revolutionised sculpture in the 19th century.Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin - Medardo Ross was one of the great pioneers of Modernism. The catalogue presents a comprehensive retrospective of the artist with more than fifty sculptures and a large selection of photographs, photocollages, and drawings. It follows the relational thinking of Medardo Rosso, who frequently exhibited his output with comparable works, and contextualizes his oeuvre with selected works by about fifty artists - among them Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancüi, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, and Andy Warhol - who resonate directly or indirectly with Rosso.Text: Georges Didi-Huberman, Heike Eipeldauer, Elena Filipovic, Ines Gebetsroither, Francesco Guzzetti, Karola Kraus, Lisa LeFeuvre , Megan R. Luke, Esmee Postma, Florian Pumhösl, Nina Schallenberg, Francesco Stocchi, Matthew S. Witkovsky.

For more than 35 years, Jochen Lempert's photographs have stood out as a singular oeuvre within contemporary art. The trained biologist's gaze is marked by constant wonder. At first, and not without irony, at the history and forms (and warps) of our cultural fascination for the inexhaustible potential of plants and animals. He is increasingly interested in the phenomena of perception and how it is translated into images, to the life forms of flora and fauna and their analogies to his own creative process. For all their photographic minimalism - always captured with the simplest means of an analogue camera or light-sensitive paper - Jochen Lempert's pictures are full of poetic power and a profound knowledge of the Natural Sources of our existence. Along with the purist and reduced hanging of his works in exhibitions, artist's books are one of his favourite ways of presenting his work. Following the publication of "Phenotype" in 2013 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, "Natural Sources" is Jochen Lempert's second major artist's book.Text: Kathrin Schönegg.

Children's books tell more than just stories. They stimulate the imagination, convey feelings and world views and help children to explore the world. They appeal to children and adults alike through their idiosyncratic narratives, but above all through their diverse and unusual illustrations and individual styles. Their creative appeal lies in the variety of illustrative possibilities, which range from detailed watercolors to linocuts and woodcuts to minimalist drawings, and can also evolve into animations or digital applications.The publication presents works from the end of the 19th century to the present day. On display are international books and illustrations for children that surprise and fascinate with their creative and sophisticated design.Text: Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles.

Der finnische Künstler Akseli Gallen-Kallela war zu seiner Zeit Nationalheld und gleichzeitig internationaler Star. Der Katalog lädt ein, Gallen-Kallelas künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit Land und Leuten seiner Heimat, dem finnischen Nationalepos Kalevala, der Idee des Gesamtkunstwerks und der nordischen Landschaft nachzuspüren.Text: Charlotte Ashby, Frances Fowle, Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt, Timo Huusko, Marja Lahelma, Anne Pelin, Stella Rollig, Salla Tiainen, Anu Utriainen, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff , Tuija Wahlroos.

The Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafoja is considered one of the most important voices from a new generation of Black artists. Boafo portrays his friends, acquaintances, and people from public life, presenting a contemporary image of Black self-empowerment and self-perception. After graduating from art college in Accra, Boafo began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2013, where he developed his signature style characterized by his unusual finger-painting technique. The people portrayed by Boafo embody the idea of Black identity that draws on its own culture, to be understood as an act of resistance against the racist labels of a predominantly white society. The artist's intensive engagement with Black history is subtly reflected in his paintings that include motifs inspired by literary works by key pioneers of the Black Freedom Movement. Text: Sergey Harutoonian, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Ekow Eshun / Amoako Boafo, Taiye Selasi.

The French architects and winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize, present their work through three concepts:free space: The ideal space would invariably be generous of size, efficiency and comfort. This pre-determined aim is a fundamental principle for Lacaton and Vassal: it is no longer up for debate, and it forms the basis of all their projects. transformation: Never demolish, always add, transform, extend. Apply free space to existing structures and situations. Treat the place as an existing prerequisite. Take the values of the place as it is and integrate them into the project, never in opposition to it. habiter: Life, uses, making the space one's own. Making the others and the inhabited space tangible through the frames of Karine Dana's films, showing the life and inhabitants in nine built works by the architects.Text: Enrique Walker, Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philppe Vassal.

The award-winning Mexican architect analyses two centuries of evolution of the built element with the greatest impact on the planet: the house. Including 110 coloured illustrations.In this study, Fernanda Canales analyses the evolution of the house over the last two centuries through projects, exhibitions, and books. My House, Your City expands the meaning of "house" by dismantling three erroneous assumptions - the house as a place of rest separate from work, the house as an object of private property and the house as a sanctuary for the nuclear family - in favour of other formats of belonging, coexistence and use.

After the publication of Richard Tuttle's Collected Writings in 2019, this new publication presents the interviews conducted with the artist by various authors over a period of more than 50 years—it is an essential companion to the writings. The interviews were given on the occasion of Tuttle's exhibitions and published in catalogues, newspapers and magazines. Directed to a wider audience, Tuttle speaks about his life, his work, his friends, his dreams and his passions. The interviews are an authentic introduction into the work of one of the great artists of his time.