Product Description: Since his impressive debut at the 2009 Venice Biennale, Tomás Saraceno (b. San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1973; lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) has been a fixture of the international art scene. In his works, which occupy their exhibition sites like organic structures, he envisions scenarios for possible architectures and the urban planning of the future...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a last few half-hearted lels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the end of art history -- far from it...read more

Product Description: What Good is the Moon? is the first book to chronicle the exhibitions of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, which stages ambitious shows at historic landmarks and unusual sites throughout Milan. Works by Darren Almond, John Bock, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Urs Fischer, Fischli and Weiss, Paola Pivi and Tino Sehgal are featured...read more

Product Description: Rachel Harrison (born 1966) is one of the most exciting artists making sculptures today. Her assemblages of found and constructed objects carry a provisional quality, a wry sense of humor and an all-embracing intelligence. Playing with materials ranging from plinth, pedestal and corrugated cardboard to plastic ketchup bottles, insulated travel mugs and Barbie's wheelchair-bound friend, Harrison creates colorful, canny, thought-provoking constructions that are worthy peers of Rauschenberg's Combines...read more

Product Description: This publication gathers the interior photographs of Amy Simon (born 1957). Like the apartment depicted in these images, the places where Simon works hold special significance for her, attuned as she is to the mood and suggestiveness of interiors...read more

Product Description: "Although often pervaded by a melancholy tone, the selected works by no means reveal an introspective or apolitical spirit. . . Traditionally linked to the artist’s temperament, melancholy is the state of mind of inspiration." —Daniel Birnbaum

Product Description: Like the most recent exhibitions curated by Daniel Birnbaum, the Art Biennale 2009 will present worlds in the making. A work of art is more than an object, he says, more than a commodity. It represents a vision of the world, and, if taken seriously, it can be seen as a way of world-making...read more

Product Description: Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Reel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U...read more

Product Description: During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters...read more

Product Description: Destroy, she said was the title of the first exhibition at the Dusseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Collection, which was widely acclaimed when it opened in 2007. Stoschek is a private collector, primarily of film and video, whose dramatic media-supportive gallery was designed by the Berlin architectural firm, Kuhn Malvezzi...read more

Product Description: Destroy, She Said was the title of the first exhibition at the Dusseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Collection, which was widely acclaimed when it opened in 2007. Stoschek is a private collector, primarily of film and video, whose dramatic media-supportive gallery was designed by the Berlin architectural firm, Kuhn Malvezzi...read more

Product Description: Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Following Blushes, the Freischwimmer series and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series is perhaps the most significant--treat the photograph, and especially photographic paper itself, no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object...read more

Product Description: Founded in 1987 at the initiation of Kasper König, Portikus is Frankfurt's hottest venue for contemporary art and has quickly become one of Germany's leading venues, with an impressive roster of shows by artists such as On Kawara, Luc Tuymans and Franz West...read more

Product Description: In the 1980s, London-based Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, born in 1958, worked as an assistant to filmmaker Derek Jarman, soon gaining a reputation for his own experimental shorts and his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark...read more

Product Description: Olafur Eliasson, one of today's most acclaimed contemporary artists, and David Adjaye, a rising architecture star, have engaged in a unique collaboration. Eliasson's light installation "Your Black Horizon," which debuted at the 2005 Venice Biennale, was conceived from the start as a hybridization of both of their practices...read more

Product Description: Hartmut Rausch is a janitor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Over the past 12 years he has collected works by alumni and professors including Hermann Nitsch, Thomas Bayrle and Per Kirkeby, changing his living room into an art space...read more

Product Description: Destined to become the authoritative text on Eliasson as well as a lasting resource on contemporary installation art.In the work of Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, the sun can rise inside a museum and rainbows can appear indoors...read more