Bøger af Michael Holm

Påsken 2018. Lagerarbejderen Thomas rejser fra København til Jerusalem for at bringe kisten hjem af sin storebror, Peter, der er blevet dræbt ved et terrorangreb i byens ultraortodokse kvarter, Mea Shearim. Peter arbejdede til sin død som psykolog på en klinik, der specialiserer sig i patienter med Jerusalemsyndromet; en psykose, der hvert år rammer mellem 30-40 af byens kristne besøgende. Da en tidligere agent fra den israelske efterretningstjeneste Shin Bet overbeviser Thomas om, at Peter ikke var et tilfældigt offer for terror, begynder de en efterforskning, der fører Thomas ind i det gamle Jerusalems labyrintiske gader og tilbage til sin egen religiøse fortid, indtil han til sidst står foran det højspændte centrum for tre religioners dedikerede tro og dommedagsforestillinger: Tempelbjerget. Er et nyt terrorangreb med enorme konsekvenser på vej til at ramme Jerusalem? Er Thomas i gang med at redde verden, eller er han blot det seneste offer for Jerusalemsyndromet? Uddrag af bogen Ilden var begyndt at spise grådigt løs af indboet i stuen, og røgudviklingen tog til for hvert sekund. Han satte sig på hug og så til, imens hoveddøren blev omspændt af flammer. Han løftede op i T-shirten, så den dækkede munden og næsen, og overvejede at tage flugten med det samme, men han kunne ikke. Ikke endnu. Der var to lukkede døre tilbage, han ikke havde tjekket. Døren under trappen var dog ikke længere en mulighed. Han kunne nå derhen, men næppe tilbage. Han hostede. Kun døren ved sin venstre side kunne han nå. Han lagde han sig ned på alle fire, tog i håndtaget, kravlede hen og puffede til. Et hurtigt kig ville være nok til at sikre den langsigtede samvittighed. Et enkelt kig og så ud. Røgen kravlede straks med ham ind i køkkenet, mens den første hånd, han satte foran sig, klæbede fast til gulvet. Han mærkede hende, før han så hende. Men da han først så hende, så han intet andet. Om forfatteren Michael Holm (f. 1979) er født og opvokset på Bornholm, men bor nu på Vesterbro. Jerusalemsyndromet er hans debutroman.

Sponsoreret af en australsk energidrik-virksomhed, Comeback, vender den danske bjergbestiger og BASE Jumper Jonas Overgaard sammen med sit gamle hold tilbage til Everest Base Camp. Målet er at nå Everests top. Allerede efter kort tid må Jonas og resten af holdet dog erkende, at flere fatale beslutninger fra deres første topforsøg i 2013 er vendt tilbage for at hjemsøge dem, og et sted i Base Camp er nogen ved at gøre regnskabet op. Base Camp er Michael Holms anden bog. Han udgav sin debut, spændingsromanen Jerusalemsyndromet, i 2019.

How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.

How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.

This catalogue focuses on the artist's graphic production from the period after 1982 with works from the UBS Art Collection. Freud's (1922-2011) portraits--often of the same subjects he painted--manage to encompass his own psyche, the models' responses and our own reactions. "My work," he said, "is purely autobiographical. It is about myself and my surroundings." In an etching, the subject is scored into a metal plate covered with a wax mixture, which, after immersion in an acid bath, exposes the scorings, which are left as black lines in the finished print. Readers get even closer access to this involved and nontraditional printmaking process, as the volume is supplemented with ten stages of a print from a private collection in England.

In the fall of 2014 the internationally acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) showed the major solo exhibition Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. The exhibition included a monumental site-specific intervention--a huge landscape of rocks and streaming water--occupying the main part of Louisiana's exhibition space in what was his first solo show in the renowned museum, located on the outskirts of Copenhagen. The installation radically transforms the museum and the visitors' journey through this reconstructed space: it comes to life through the visitors' encounters with one another, extending from inside the museum to the world outside. This book introduces the artist and the ideas behind the exhibition to a broader audience through interviews, dialogues and an introductory essay by Louisiana curator Marie Laurberg. Other contributors include Niels Albertsen, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Timothy Morton, Lone Frank, Andreas Roepstorff, Minik Rosing and the EU commissioner for Climate, Connie Hedegaard.

Arab Contemporary is the second chapter in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Architecture, Culture and Identity series, following 2012's New Nordic, which explores architecture in specific regions. Arab Contemporary attempts to distinguish particular features of architecture that are shared by Arab countries from the Arab Peninsula through Lebanon to Morocco. While these areas are primarily connected via a common language, they further share major elements of visual culture, such as the use of calligraphy in architecture. Ranging over varied architectural works as well as visual arts, this volume showcases architecture by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, X-Architects, Henning Larsen Architects and many others, alongside artwork by Egyptian visual artist Mounir Fatmi, the Saudi artist Ahmed Mater, art historian and graphic artist Bahia Shehab and the Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni.

In the years during and just after World War II, the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-73) and the American painter Jackson Pollock (1912-56) came to play major roles in the development of a new Abstract Expressionist art. Both drew on Surrealism and Picasso to explore automatism in painting, each breaking through to a unique style around 1943, when Pollock had his first show at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, and Jorn established the groundwork for working collectively that would lead to the founding of the CoBrA group. In both cases, this led to an incredibly energetic, primitive-seeming painting (although Jorn retained more figurative elements than Pollock). Alongside more than 100 color reproductions, Jorn & Pollock: Revolutionary Roads includes the essays "Image Revolutions - Abstract Expressionism and What Looks Like It in Jorn and Pollock" by Anders Kold; "In the Shadow of Picasso: Asger Jorn and Jackson Pollock" by British art historian Jeremy Lewison; "Sounds in the Grass" by Axel Heil; and "Simpler Evolutions" by Courtney Martin, which discusses the British critic Lawrence Alloway's comparisons of the two artists.

Looming large in the cultural imagination as a wild territory to be conquered and the ultimate perimeter of human power, the seemingly untouched landscape of the Arctic has been an inspiration to artists from the Romantic age to the present. Arctic, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, brings together a range of artists responding to the terrifying sublime of the Arctic, from Caspar David Friedrich to Sigmar Polke, Sophie Calle, Mark Dion and Joachim Koester. With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth-century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

Edward Kienholz's life-size tableau "Five Car Stud" (1969-72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome "punishment" on an African American man. "Five Car Stud" is a harsh reminder of a shameful part of our history whose traces still linger. It was seen only in Germany in 1972 and has since remained in storage in Japan for almost 40 years. On the occasion of its first public showing in the United States, this volume examines an extraordinarily powerful artistic statement that has lost none of its potency. The catalogue presents essays by Roberto Ohrt and Thomas McEvilley, as well as an interview with American artist Paul McCarthy.

In her form-conscious video installations and photo works, South African artist Candice Breitz deploys stereotypes and visual conventions of popular culture as vehicles for closer examinations of relationships between the collective and the individual. Here, Breitz delves into identifications of modern fan culture--and a new art of portraiture. This volume contains five mini-posters.

Edited by Michael Juul Holm. Text by Michael Juul Holm, Helle Crenzien, Geoff Dyer, Judith Thurman, Christoph Ribbat, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Rune Gade.