Michelle Kuo

Daniel Birnbaum

This is the second in the Summit publication series, disseminating key insights of the 2018 Summit and extending a global dialogue on an important social issue: art in the digital age. The multidisciplinary perspectives come together through the inspirational book design of Irma Boom.Acting as a cultural incubator for innovative ideas and change, the Verbier Art Summit is an international platform erected to optimise the role of art in a global society. Their mission is to connect thought leaders to key figures in the art world and thus position the Summit as a catalyst for innovation and change. Their vision is to create an influential platform in a non-transactional context for artists, curators, museum directors, private and corporate collectors, art critics, gallerists, art historians and art consultants - Verbier Art Summit 2018

Art in the Digital Age

More Than Real

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather's life. In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper in Basel under the name Dr. B. He also begins working as an editor for the legendary German publisher S. Fischer Verlag. Gottfried Bermann Fischer had established an office in Stockholm to evade German censorship, publishing celebrated German writers such as Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig. Immanuel also becomes entangled with British intelligence agents who produce and distribute anti-Nazi propaganda in Stockholm. On orders from Winston Churchill, the Allied spies plan several acts of sabotage. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, the plotters are exposed. The letter, long a mystery in military history accounts, was in fact written by Dr. B. But why would a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off? Daniel Birnbaum's novel will intrigue readers with its fascinating portrayal of the astonishing connections and often mysterious players illuminated by his grandfather's remarkable wartime life.

Dr. B.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition

Spacing Philosophy

Olafur Eliasson

Michael Speaks

Madeleine Rynsztejn

A study of the artist and his poetic explorations of science and perception.

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s life. In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper in Basel under the name Dr. B. He also begins working as an editor for the legendary German publisher S. Fischer Verlag. Gottfried Bermann Fischer had established an office in Stockholm to evade German censorship, publishing celebrated German writers such as Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig. Immanuel also becomes entangled with British intelligence agents who produce and distribute anti-Nazi propaganda in Stockholm. On orders from Winston Churchill, the Allied spies plan several acts of sabotage. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, the plotters are exposed. The letter, long a mystery in military history accounts, was in fact written by Dr. B. But why would a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off? Daniel Birnbaum’s novel will intrigue readers with its fascinating portrayal of the astonishing connections and often mysterious players illuminated by his grandfather’s remarkable wartime life.

A Novel

Doktor B.

Carolyn Steel

Charlotte Birnbaum

Sanford Kwinter

Tobias Rehberger

Mike Bouchet

Fabrice Mazliah

David Ruy

Kivi Sotamaa

Jan Aman

CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Städelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art and architecture. The series addressed the enormous so- cial, economic and cultural spaces that accompany the production and consumption of food, and attempted to unravel some of these spaces' structure and dynamics. The central ambition was to learn from culinary history and, not the least, the recent vanguard of culinary practice. No human activity is so encompassing and engenders such ef- fects on our societies and lives as the culinary. Culinary practices lay out aesthetic as much as ethical trajectories that span from century-old traditions to lifesaving experiments for the present and future. They provide for human sustenance and the highest form of bodily enjoyment while transversing the spaces that they at once produce and profoundly affect. This fourth issue of the SAC JOURNAL presents the central con- versation in Culinary Lessons, which took place in Venice, together with a series of texts and projects that chart and speculate on the relationship between architecture, art and the culinary wor- ld. Contributors to this issue include, amongst others, Charlotte Birnbaum, Daniel Birnbaum, Mike Bouchet, Sanford Kwinter, Fabrice Mazliah, Tobias Rehberger, David Ruy, Kivi Sotamaa, Carolyn Steel, Jan Åman and Johan Bettum. It also features the winning projects of the AIV Master Thesis Prize in 2015 and 2016. SAC JOURNAL is a publication series that addresses topical isues within architecture. The journal documents, critically reviews and presents theoretical discussions concerning contemporary design and research. The content of SAC JOURNAL is produced by invited contributors and students and faculty at the Städel- schule Architecture Class.

SAC Journal 4

Culinary Lesson: The Space of Food

Central to this book is the part entitled Selected Source Files that Paul Chan developed together with the graphic designer and Schaulager.These heterogeneous, collage-like sequences of images enable an insight into the visual and intellectual context of the works' evolution.In his essay, Daniel Birnbaum explains the concept of the exhibition, his remarks completed by a photo spread with installation shots of the exhibition at Schaulager, as well as archive material of the artist.The book concludes with a list of works in the exhibition, including detailed information and short comments, as well as reference images of every work.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Chan: Selected Works, at Schaulager, Basel, 22 April - 19 October 2014.English and German text.

Selected Works

Paul Chan

Ann-Sofi Noring

Hilma af Klint was an abstract pioneer who eschewed representational painting as early as 1906. Her radical spiritual imagery strives to provide insights into the different dimensions of existence. Besides Hilma af Klint's important and radical abstract paintings, she left behind a plethora of notebooks and drawings. Taking one of these, 'A Work on Flowers, Mosses and Lichen', as a starting point, nine contemporary artists were invited to response to Hilma af Klint and her legacy. Hilma af Klint did not want her works to be seen until several decades after her death.

Nine Contemporary Responses

The Legacy of Hilma Af Klint

Eugenie Tsai

A comprehensive monograph on the work of KAWS, one of the most sought-after artists and creative forces of our time Drawing from Pop art traditions, KAWS's work straddles the line between fine art and popular culture, crossing the mediums of painting and sculpture, along with fashion, merchandise, vinyl toys, and, most recently, augmented reality. This book, made in close collaboration with the artist, features his most well-known works alongside sketches, preparatory drawings, and never-before-seen images of KAWS at work, revealing the meticulous process behind his iconic artworks. Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, it captures the artist's unique ability to reshape the ways we think about contemporary art and culture today.

Kaws: What Party

Wolfgang Tillmans

Julie Ault

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Joachim Jäger

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin).

Over the past few years, abstraction has gained considerable importance in the multifaceted oeuvre of Turner Prize-recipient Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968 in Remscheid). Following Blushes, the monumental Freischwimmer series, and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series (starting in 2005) is the most significant--treat the photograph no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object. Tillmans's paper drop photographs feature the actual prints in almost geometrical compositions that become practically tangible.Constantly oscillating between photograph and object, these most recent works are assembled by Wolfgang Tillmans for the first time in this new book. Unprecedented in this publication is an extensive section of installation views, taken by Tillmans himself, thus enabling the reader to directly experience his visual cosmos as it was presented in recent exhibitions, including his last retrospective, seen at various venues in the United States. Exhibition schedule: Hamburger Bahnhof--Museum für Gegenwart--Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March 21-August 24, 2008

erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin ; publ. in conjunction with the exhibition [Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter ... March 21 - August 24, 2008]

Wolfgang Tillmans - Lighter

Isabelle Graw

Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market. “It was especially interesting for us to watch a kind of transatlantic divide happening. While the US-American participants mostly declared criticism as obsolete while hoping for turning its weakness into a strength, most European participants departed from the opposite diagnosis: that criticism has never been as strong as it is today, since it is now part of a knowledge-based economy.”—Isabelle Graw/Daniel Birnbaum Contributors George Baker, Johanna Burton, Merlin Carpenter, Melanie Gilligan, Isabelle Graw, Tom Holert, Branden W. Joseph, John Kelsey, André Rottmann, Julia Voss Institut für Kunstkritik Series

Criticism and Its Markets

Canvases and Careers Today

Nikolaus Hirsch

Peter Geimer

Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. Institut für Kunstkritik

Introduction : remarks on contemporary painting's perseverance André Rottmann -- Painting and atrocity : the Tuymans strategy Peter Geimer -- Questions for Peter Geimer Isabelle Graw -- Response to Isabelle Graw Peter Geimer -- The value of painting : notes on unspecificity, indexicality, and highly valuable quasi-persons Isabelle Graw -- Questions for Isabelle Graw Peter Gaimer -- Response to Peter Gaimer Isabelle Graw.

Reflexivity and Agency Beyond the Canvas

Thinking Through Painting

Julia Voss

Hilma af Klint

Melissa Blanchflower

Melissa Larner

Jennifer Higgie

Emma Enderby

Painting the Unseen

Hilma Af Klint

Liam Gillick

Whitechapel Art Gallery

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 3 May - 23 June 2002.

The Wood Way

Highlighting the diversity in Adnan's work, this volume includes her paintings, drawings, leporellos, tapestries, writings and films from the 1960s onwards.

Roads to Paradise

إيتل عدنان

Hans Ulrich Obrist

"Two framing devices have been employed in this edition of 'The Hospitality of Presence" : an anthology of citations from writers who explore Husserl's themes in a fashion that seems to radically alter the point of view, and a series of interventions by artist Olafur Eliasson, an artist whose work can be understood as an attempt to position our perceptual possibilities within a framework that goes beyond ther perspectives of a phenomenology of embodiment, no matter how sophisticated."--Inside front cover.

Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology

The Hospitality of Presence

A comprehensive monograph on the work of KAWS, one of the most sought-after artists and creative forces of our time Drawing from Pop and Neo-Pop traditions, KAWS's work straddles the line between fine art and popular culture, crossing the mediums of painting, sculpture, and printmaking, along with fashion, merchandise, and vinyl toys. This book, made in close collaboration with the artist, captures his exciting talent as never before, presenting work from across his career and exploring his unique ability to reshape the ways we think about contemporary art and culture today.

KAWS: WHAT PARTY (Yellow Edition)

När Daniel Birnbaum rensar i vindsutrymmet hemma hittar han en smutsbrun papplåda som det står hans farfars namn på. Inuti ligger en hel epok bevarad. Det visar sig handla om några av de av de mest spänningsfyllda åren i svensk nittonhundratalshistoria, 1939-1943. Det var då Stockholm blev ett centrum för världspolitiska krafter, hotellreceptionerna fylldes av hemlighetsfulla män och kvinnor med viktiga uppdrag och vardagslivet präglades av osäkerhet och rädsla. Plötsligt kunde vad som helst hända. Hösten 1939, efter att Tyskland invaderat Polen, anländer den tysk-judiska journalisten Immanuel Birnbaum till Stockholm. Han har tvingats fly med sin fru och sina två barn från Warszawa där han arbetat som korrespondent för några tyska tidningar. I Stockholm kommer han i kontakt med den tyska bokförläggaren Bermann Fischer och får jobb på det förlag som han driver i exil. Immanuels signatur är Dr. B. Han hjälper brittiska spioner med att sprida propaganda i Tyskland. Men i ett brev skrivet i osynligt bläck röjer han deras planer att spränga malmhamnen i Oxelösund för att tvinga in Sverige i kriget. Han försvinner in i fångenskap men dyker upp som en skugga i en novell av Stefan Zweig. Daniel Birnbaum har skrivit en roman om sin farfars märkliga upplevelser i Sverige under en kaotisk och skrämmande tid. Han framkallar skickligt och omsorgsfullt den atmosfär som råder i ett osäkrat Stockholm där varje felsteg kan kosta dig livet.

Dr B

Daniel Birnbaum

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