Bice Curiger

Margit Rowell

Sigmar Polke

Works on Paper

Mieke Bal

In the 21st century we have witnessed a significant expansion in the field of transhistorical exhibition practice. A range of curatorial efforts have emerged in which objects and artefacts from various periods and art historical and cultural contexts are combined in display, in an effort to question and expand traditional museological notions such as chronology, context, and category. Such experiments in transcending art historical boundaries can result in fresh insights into the workings of entrenched historical presumptions, providing a space to reassess interpretations of individual objects. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Hendrik Folkerts, Nicola Setari, Maria Iñigo Clavo, and others.

Mapping the Field

The Transhistorical Museum

Christoph Heinrich

Artists include: Marina Abramovič, Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Hans Bellmer, John Bock, Louise Bourgeois, Olaf Breuning, Glenn Brown, Erik Bulatov, Chris Burden, Robert Cottingham, Salvador Dalí, Karin Davie, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Eric Fischl, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Anna Gaskell, Gilbert Poersch, George Passmore, Domenico Gnoli, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hamilton, David Hammons, Duane Hanson, Damien Hirst, Allan Kaprow, Kim Sooja, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama.

Rampant Reality, 1950-2000 : from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons

Hypermental

Neal David Benezra

Robert Fleck

Franz West

An investigation into the work of the celebrated Viennese Aktionist.

Robert Fleck, Bice Curiger, Neal Benezra

Eileen Myles

Raoul Vaneigem

Elfriede Jelinek

Deftig Barock

Carin Kuoni

A handbook for beginning curators with sixty essays on some of the important curatorial strategies of the last twenty-five years.

A Curator's Vade Mecum on Contemporary Art

Words of Wisdom

Rebecca Warren

Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Essays by Carl Freedman and Gregorio Maghani.

Every Aspect of Bitch Magic

Founded in 1984, Parkett has long been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is explored in richly illustrated essays by leading writers and critics. The artists also create exclusive limited editions, available to Parkett readers. Recent artists featured in Parkett include Jeremy Deller, Wael Shawky, Dayanita Singh and Rosemarie Trockel (no. 95); Tauba Auerbach, Urs Fischer, Cyprien Gaillard, Ragnar Kjartansson and Shirana Shahbazi (94); and Valentin Carron, Frances Stark, Adrián Villar Rojas and Danh Vo (93). Additional texts have focused on the role of robots in contemporary art (95), the challenges of exhibiting performance art (95) and the effects of new technologies and social media on the live arts (94).

Parkett No. 97: Andrea Büttner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Camille Henrot, Hito Steyerl and More

Meret Oppenheim

Defiance in the Face of Freedom

Massimiliano Gioni

Urs Fischer

New Museum (New York, N.Y.)

This catalogue is the culmination of four years of work and takes over all three gallery floors of the New Museum, New York.

Shovel in a Hole : "Marguerite de Ponty", New Museum, New York, 10/28/09-1/24/10

Parkett 82 features sculptor, diarist and preeminent Feminist Louise Bourgeois; the theatrical, shamanistic Polish artist Pawel Althamer and New York sculptor Rachel Harrison. Essayists on Bourgeois include Robert Storr, whose text is aptly called "Mother of Them All/Sister of Some," Tracey Emin and Griselda Pollock, while Althamer's collaborators are Massimiliano Gioni, Catherine Wood and Adam Szymczyk. Harrison's work is discussed by Ina Blom, Richard Hawkins, George Baker and Alison Gingeras. Also in the issue are texts by Burkhard Meltzer on Susan Philipsz, Jan Verwoert on WACK, Jeremy Sigler on Brock Enright, Kenneth Goldsmith on UbuWeb and Suzanne Hudson on the 60s hippie retreat Esalen. The Cumulus texts are by Mark von Schlegell and Catherine Chevalier. There is an insert by Sadie Benning and the spine is by Paulina Olowska.

Louise Bourgeois, Pawel Althamer, Rachel Harrison

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Michael Semff

"This book is published to accompany the first American museum exhibition of Polke's drawings from this period, shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1999. More than 300 works are illustrated, virtually all of them in color. They include small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process."--BOOK JACKET.

Works on Paper 1963-1974

Flowers & Questions: A Retrospective

Fischli Weiss

Giulia Enders

Sibylle Berg

Arno Camenisch

Pipilotti Rist

Wulf Herzogenrath

Kurt Aeschbacher

The exhibition that Pipilotti Rist presented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, her first show in Spain, consists of five video installations: a selection of which are considered the best works by the artist since 1994 until today. Monitors with images, music, objects that form the scenes, projectors are the basic elements of these five installations in which you can perceive the essence and the most recent evolution of the artist's work.

Your Saliva is My Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain

Susanne von Falkenhausen

Jean de Loisy

A l'occasion de ses cinq ans, la Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles prévoit la publication d'un manifeste offrant à voir la ligne artistique et philosophique qu'elle développe à travers sa programmation : cherchant à porter depuis sa création un regard vivant sur l'Histoire, la Fondation a ainsi toujours tenté d'établir des liens fructueux et inédits entre l'oeuvre de Van Gogh et celles de créateurs contemporains. Sous forme d'album photographique, cette publication a pour objectif de présenter les précieuses archives de ce lieu artistique unique, et ce à travers un retour sur les différents évènements - expositions, programmation publique ou encore symposiums - organisés au cours de ces cinq années. Pour l'occasion, artistes et penseurs, dont Jean de Loisy et Suzanne von Falkenhausen, seront invités à témoigner de leurs projets et de leur relation à la Fondation à travers des textes, essais et entretiens. Enfin, c'est l'ensemble des collaborations menées avec les graphistes, les acteurs locaux et l'équipe qui seront mis en avant dans cet ouvrage festif et réflexif.

Van Gogh manifesto

Parkett 88 contains special features on four contemporary artists: painter, designer and performance artist Kerstin Brätsch (born 1976), with essays by Massimiliano Gioni, Fionn Meade and Beatrix Ruf; artist and film-maker Paul Chan (born 1973), with essays by Carrie Lambert Beatty, Alan Gilbert and Boris Groys; the pioneer of appropriationism Elaine Sturtevant (born 1930), with essays by Roger Cook, Paul McCarthy and Stéphanie Moisdon; and the photographer and sculptor Andro Wekua (born 1977), with essays by Daniel Baumann, Douglas Fogle and Claire Gilman. Also in the issue are an essay by Juri Steiner and conversations between art historians Herbert Lachmeyer and Jacqueline Burckhardt, and poet Marcella Durand and painter Suzan Frecon.

Elaine Sturtevant, Kerstin Br,,Tsch, Paul Chan and Andro Wekua

Parkett 2011

Cristina Bechtler

Dora Imhof

Museums of contemporary art are expanding and in crisis. They attract ever-larger audiences, architects constantly redesign them, and the growing number of artists is producing more massively than ever; at the same time museum funds are dwindling in the economic crisis and an overheated art market.The question of which art is to be collected is also becoming a more openly discussed topic in a globalized art world. How do curators meet these challenges? What opinion do the artists have of their relationship to the museum? How do practitioners navigate between ideas, ideals, and realities?This publication gathers together interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer, Suzanne Cotter, Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas, among others.Their different answers bring visibility to the complexity of the topic, but also to the deep pleasure and intellectual stimulation museums provide, as well as to their relevance to culture today.The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writing.

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