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

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.

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.

A second artist's book from the German photographer. For more than 35 years, Jochen Lempert's photographs have stood out as a singular oeuvre within contemporary art. A trained biologist, his gaze is marked by constant wonder at the natural world. Frogs, doves, swans, insects, plants, people, clouds, and the sea: nature populates Lempert's photographs in all its variety. On closer examination, the photographs reveal an interplay of associations and echoes. Delicate forms are reproduced, playing both with such natural imagery as a butterfly's wings, and with our means of perception. Lempert is increasingly interested in the phenomena of perception and how it is translated into images. For all their photographic minimalism, always captured with the simplest means of an analogue camera or light-sensitive paper, Lempert's pictures are full of poetic power and a profound knowledge of the Natural Sources of our existence. Along with the stark, simple hanging of his works in exhibitions, artist's books are one of his favourite ways of presenting his work.

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.

Generously illustrated monograph on the works of the French NP2F architectural studio, which is known for its public projects, such as sports, housing, cultural buildings, or public spaces.NP2F is an architectural studio created in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long and Paul Maitre Devallon and operating in various cities in France and abroad. The projects on which NP2F works are both architectural and urban and its areas of expertise are sport, housing, cultural and educational buildings, places of relaxation and restoration, and public spaces. The issue contains the most important works of the studio made to date, preceded by a pair of critical essays by the architect and professor Djamel Klouche and the Argentine architect Marcelo Faiden. A conversation with the Chilean architect Felipe De Ferrari complements the monograph.Text: Felipe De Ferrari. Photographs: Antoine Espinasseau.

The catalogue examine the relationship between gender, art and Modernism. It will focus on the question of what kinds of stylistic and visual imagery were developed by women artists in response to the social change, political upheaval and technical innovations of the first half of the last century. The works in the exhibition can be considered as not only bearing witness to rapidly advancing industrialisation, urbanisation and technological development but also reflecting the complexity and contradictions that came with emancipation and evolving gender roles. Featured artists include Gertrud Arndt, Louise Bourgeois, Claude Cahun, Benedetta Cappa, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonia Delaunay, Maya Deren, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Alexandra Exter, Leonor Fini, Trude Fleischmann, Erika Giovanna-Klien, Natalia Goncharova, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Lotte Laserstein, Tamara de Lempicka, Alice Lex- Nerlinger, Jeanne Mammen, Marlow Moss, Hanna Nagel, Alice Neel, Anton Prinner, Gazbia Sirry, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dorothea Tanning, Charley Toorop, Toyen, Madiha Umar, Fahr-El-Nissa Zeid.

An essential reference text from one of the most important abstract artists of all time. This slim but powerful text is required reading for anyone interested in the history of 20th century art. The book, which Kandinsky claimed had been gestating for nearly a decade, elucidates his artistic theories and his valuing of expression and spirituality over naturalistic representation. With reference to and analysis of earlier masters such as Picasso and Matisse, Kandinsky calls for a spiritual revolution in painting in which artists to express their lives in abstract terms. The treatise also delves deeper into the psychology of colours, the language of form and the responsibilities of the artist.

An extraordinary document in the history of photographic criticism. Perhaps more than any other text, A Little History of Photography by the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin has shaped the way in which we understand early photography and the photographic act. One of the first theoretical studies of visual culture, this essay laid the foundation for modern cultural criticism. Instead of regarding the artwork as a unique object, Benjamin emphasized the political and artistic potential of a new technology based on endless reproduction. A Little History of Photography was originally published in the German literary journal Die Literarische Welt in 1931 as three short essays reviewing several books dedicated to early photography. In this text, Benjamin introduced concepts that remain central to critical theory of the medium: the aura, optical unconscious, reproducibility, among other topics. It constitutes a remarkably prescient description of the limits and potentials of photography which remains thought-provoking today.

A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson is considered one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful. Working in a variety of media, ranging from monochrome works in dark pastel to vast sheets brightly coloured in vibrant gouache and watercolour. Johnson's distinctive drawings of friends, relatives, and often herself seek, as the artist puts it, "to tell a different story about our presence in this country".Ed.: Elizaveta Shneyderman, Grace Storey.Text: Dorothy Price, Claudette Johnson and John Akomfrah.

Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings, others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue includes their recent work, from single family houses to commercial buildings.Text: Bruther, Enrique Walker. Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas.

This monograph includes the latest works built by the Barcelona studio of Víctor Rahola (also in his time in partnership with Jorge Vidal), from the expansion of the library of the Biology Faculty of the University of Barcelona, passing through the wineries in Mont-Ras to various hotels in the Balearic Islands. In addition to the works, three texts by the architect himself reflect on important issues contemporary architecture, specially in the Mediterranean area. Foreword by the critic Josep Quetglas.