Product Description: Over the course of two decades, Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt (born 1960) has amassed a repertoire of single-channel video projections, slide projections, sculptures and sound works. This Source Book offers access to Dekyndt's inspirations in literary fiction, film and music, and records Agnosia, her solo exhibition at Witte de With in the spring of 2009...read more

Product Description: Accompanying an exhibition that takes sloth as one of its central themes, Cosima von Bonin's newest monograph also reproduces an anthology of texts on laziness and sloth that were first published by Brooklyn-based Cabinet magazine.

Product Description: This first monograph on Korean-born, New York-based Sung Hwan Kim offers a multifaceted encounter with the artist's lyrical, perfomative work via the artist's own writing, a conversation with Joan Jonas, an account of his Prix de Rome performance by Ann Demeester and an essay by Harvard's Luis E...read more

Product Description: Edith Dekyndt's artistic approach results in a disturbing observation of the physical phenomena taking place before our very eyes, or even in certain cases, within our eyes. Just as science fiction produces the supernatural from the rational, fantasy and strangeness are no longer the result of superstitious attitudes, as in the age of fantastic and fabulous stories, but the lucid vision of a world whose reality revealed by science now reaches beyond fiction...read more

Product Description: Taking off from Saadane Afif's 2008 Witte de With exhibition Technical Specifications, this volume examines the artist's practice in relation to music. In addition to tracing the evolution and reconfigurations of the works in the show, it includes documentation of Afif's radio show, 53:56--which broadcast related words and songs...read more

Product Description: The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists.

Product Description: Alexandra Bircken's sculptures and installations consist of knitted-together bits of wood, branches, stone, metal, dried plants and leather. Her interest in the preciousness and abjection of fashion and flower arrangement synthesizes a homely, therapeutic, arts-and-crafts aesthetic to create amuletlike objects that border on the spiritual, if not the occult...read more

Product Description: For more than 30 years, the German artist Isa Genzken (born 1948) has been amassing a body of work in sculpture, installation, photography, collage and film. As one of Germany's brightest stars in the art world, she was well suited to represent her country at the Venice Biennale in 2007, an occasion which this volume commemorates...read more

Product Description: Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art...read more