Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev - Böcker

The definitive overview and anthology of the artworks and writings associated with Arte Povera, the influential art movement that explored the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artifacts, and experien...

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The first book to explore the fascinating career and fantasy-driven worlds created by the acclaimed Argentinean artist Adrin Villar Rojas's works concoct imaginary realms. Usually made from clay, his colossal installations are transitory and ...

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This new catalogue provides a comprehensive document of Goshka Macuga's Bloomberg Commission, The Nature of the Beast, exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery. The catalogue includes an introduction by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and ...

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In her Letter to a Friend, dOCUMENTA (13)'s artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gives an insight into her working process, outlining some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition. In shifting voices, such as storytelling, theoretical ...

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflects on the historical as well as personal notion of destruction and art, as well as on the potential healing power that art can have. Guiding us through a web of etymological, historical, philosophical, personal, an...

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Der früh verstorbene US-amerikanische Künstler Mark Lombardi (1951?2000) produzierte visuelle Netzwerke und Diagramme, die die unsichtbaren Verknüpfungen zwischen politisch-ökonomischen Vorgÿngen, Korporationen und Individuen transparent mach...

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Since 2004/5, the artist Dinh Q. Le has collected watercolors and ink drawings of Vietcong artists from North and South Vietnam. In his notebook, in an interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, he describes the historical and autobiographical cor...

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»Platziere den Künstler, nicht die Kunst« ? Alanna Heiss, Gründerin und langjÿhrige Kuratorin des P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, gibt in ihrem Notizbuch »Die Platzierung des Künstlers« ihre wichtigsten Credos preis. Die Hauptau...

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Mit dem hundertsten Notizbuch zur dOCUMENTA (13), einer erneuten Lektüre des Hauptwerkes von Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), setzt Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev dem abstrakten Kunstdiskurs der Gege...

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Der früh verstorbene US-amerikanische Künstler Mark Lombardi (1951?2000) produzierte visuelle Netzwerke und Diagramme, die die unsichtbaren Verknüpfungen zwischen politisch-ökonomischen Vorgÿngen, Korporationen und Individuen transparent mach...

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflektiert aus personlicher wie historischer Sicht uber Zerstorung und uber Kunst sowie uber die heilende Kraft, die Kunst potenziell haben kann. Sie fuhrt uns durch eine Matrix von etymologischen, historischen, philoso...

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Seit 2004/05 sammelt der Künstler ¿Dinh Q. Lê ¿Aquarelle, Tinten- und Tuschezeichnungen von Vietcong-Künstlern aus Nord- und Südvietnam. ¿In seinem Notizbuch ¿beschreibt er im Interview mit Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev die historischen und a...

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»¿Platziere den Künstler, nicht die Kunst¿«¿ ? Alanna Heiss, Gründerin und langjÿhrige Kuratorin des P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, gibt in ihrem Notizbuch ¿»¿Die Platzierung des Künstlers¿«¿ ihre wichtigsten Credos prei...

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Mit dem hundertsten Notizbuch zur dOCUMENTA (13), einer erneuten Lektüre des Hauptwerkes von Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), setzt Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev dem abstrakten Kunstdiskurs der Gege...

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In ihrem »Brief an einen Freund« gibt die künstlerische Leiterin der dOCUMENTA (13), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, einen Einblick in ihren Arbeitsprozess und umreiÿt dabei einige Schlüsselfragen der 2012 stattfindenden Ausstellung. In unterschi...

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This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregr...

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<i>All-in-One</i> offers an overview of the multifaceted oeuvre of Thomas Bayrle (born 1937), from his early kinetic machines to the recent engine installations, the serigraphies, sculptures, videos, his early work as a graphic designe...

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VOTI was an international forum that existed online before the turn of the millenium, when these kinds of online discussion groups have still been novel structures. It was a digital place for discussion among contemporary art curators, many of who...

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The book investigates the use of colour in art through artistic movements and research that stand apart from canonical histories on colour and abstraction, with multiple accounts relating to memory, politics, spirituality, storytelling, psychology...

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Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artefacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses wo...

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A series of film works, sculptures, and new wooden high-reliefs by the Egyptian artist inspired by the Crusades and narrated from an Arab rather than a European point of view.

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The works by visual artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966), one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. Steyerl's works are critical reflections on the digital and contemporary age and focus on the pervasive role of technol...

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Anne Imhof (Gießen, Germany, 1978) is internationally recognized as one of the most innovative voices of her generation. Through her "durational performances", she offers an unprecedented expression of the experience of the contemporary ...

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Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition devoted to Otobong Nkanga(Kano, Nigeria, 1974; lives and works in Antwerpen, Belgium), among the most important international contemporary artists of African origin who tackles urgent issues related...

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