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Reflections on the conditions that shape contemporary Baltic artThis book analyses contemporary practices among artists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production, exploring different aspects of migration, precariousness, belonging and community-building prominent in this cohort--and its shift toward more sustainable methods.

In the wake of the Kosovar War and migration, the birth of translocal urbanismQorri-Dragaj (born 1985) and Qorri (born 1959) explore how the return of migrants after the Kosovar War has affected Kosovar urban space. This book opens a discussion on how urban planning can respond to these specific conditions to create urban resilience and livable cities.

Ethereal, luminous photographs that introduce commercial imagery into natural and domestic scenesUnited Arab Emirates-born, Brooklyn-based artist Farah Al Qasimi (born 1991) is known for her hyper-colorized and richly textured photographs of life in the Persian Gulf. This publication presents a selection of photographs, old and new, wrapped in found images sourced from Alibaba merchants.

Sculptures that function as metaphors for social and psychological experiences, inspired by tools and other objectsGerman-born sculptor Julia Phillips (born 1985) makes works that feature ceramic elements cast from her own body in a range of flesh tones achieved by multiple firings. Energy Exchange is her first publication, reflecting influences from postcolonial studies to psychoanalytic theory and Black feminist thought.

An affordable reader that elaborates upon the ambitious environmental aims of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale's Korean Pavilion projectThis reader is published alongside the Korean Pavilion project at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which presents visions of eco-conscious urban and rural landscapes, as developed among South Korean architects and community activists. The book comprises six essays, a quiz show-style game and ample installation shots.

Hand-crafted, inflated fleshlike sculptures that mimic intestines and other body partsThis is the debut publication for Spanish sculptor Eva Fàbregas (born 1988), whose visceral large-scale installations emphasize the tactility of our surroundings. Her interlacing works evoke a kind of living organism, creating a dialogue between the bodily and the playful, the amorphous and the disturbing.

Documenting site-specific work that raises questions concerning the mechanics of vision, presence and physicalityThis book on Japanese artist Yuki Kimura (born 1971) documents the artist's staging of illusionistic effects within the exhibition space, operating beyond language and occupying an entirely visual sphere that communicates at a highly visceral and embodied level of perception.

A study on the nature of patterns through textiles, music and performanceThis volume chronicles a recent solo exhibition by Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (born 1976). Including works across illustration, textile design, spatial installation and performance, the book showcases Cioni's research on the origin of patterns and their ubiquitous imagery.

A collection of contemporary artworks inspired by the image that remains on the retina after its passageThis publication is a visual meditation on memory and metamorphosis, featuring works by 26 international artists organized around the theme of the coexistence of permanence and transience. The title refers to the visual stimulus that persists on the retina even after the image has disappeared.

An expansive publication of an artist concerned with internal worlds and external spacesPublished following three solo exhibitions of the work of Romanian artist Marion Baruch (born 1929), Tzimtzum is conceived as both catalog and archive. Baruch's work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography and textile art. The book includes a conversation with the artist recorded over eight years.

A meditation on dwindling biodiversity and our interdependence with nonhuman beingsIn While the Dust Quickly Falls, Kurdish Turkish artist Fatma Bucak (born 1984) considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction and climate change in works ranging from living environment to video, sculpture and mosaic, moving across disparate geographies connected by catastrophic impacts.

A group show meditating on the subjective forces of love and desireAccompanying a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, this catalog presents work across mediums centered on the tangled and at times torturous notions of love and longing, loneliness and loss--from melancholic-sanguine emails to case studies on cognitive labor.

This volume comprises a manifesto on contemporary ceramic production arising from a series of six talks on 20th-century ceramics given at Fondazione ICA Milano in 2022, which aimed to depict a panorama of the medium through the work of 23 artists.

Australia-based artists Nadia Hernández (born 1987) and Jon Campbell (born 1961) mobilize the rhythms, harmonies and dissonances of language to explore experiences of relocation and national identity. This volume opens a poetic conversation between their works spanning paintings, drawings, posters, banners and flags.

This volume accompanies the first solo show for German artist Leyla Yenirce (born 1992), who is known for her multimedia installations that examine images of martyrs and explore themes of feminism, war, pop culture, genocide, desire, longing and irony.

This reader accompanies the 14th Baltic Triennial, focusing on the geopolitical territory of Central and Eastern Europe. The book is premised on the conviction that in a paradoxical time of fragmented integration, to address the local is to question the global.

The duo's performative interrogations of architecture excavate political and gender normsThe Paris-based American artists Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly (born 1978 and 1979) have collaborated for nearly two decades on performance, video and installation projects blending the movement of conceptualist dance, the strategies of appropriation and institutional critique and the tenets of queer theory. They are perhaps best known for their site-specific dance videos. By staging choreographic and cinematographic works at locations such as Philip Johnson's Glass House or the Maison Carrée temple, the duo rereads architectural icons, subverting their original bourgeois and patriarchal usage and questioning assumptions of gender, sexuality, memory and history.This book documents the duo's first museum survey exhibition at Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes. The catalog gathers together an extensive array of their video installations, sculptures, site-specific interventions, performances and works on paper.

This is the first English-only reader on the practice of Berlin-based artist and music producer Vika Kirchenbauer (born 1983), gathering her essays and scripts alongside video stills and installation shots from 2012-22, complemented by critical essays on her career.

A critical reader on culture and society in postwar Central and Eastern EuropeIn Cold Revolution, essayists examine the relationship between visual culture and the radical social revolutions of 1950s Central and Eastern Europe. As international political tensions intensified and dictatorships rose to power, social realist art and design served as a means of societal critique. Here, 20 contributors explore the social transformations of 1950s Europe, with case studies on art, architecture and urban planning, design, photography, film and graphic design, from countries such as Poland, East and West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.Contributors include: Justyna Balisz-Schmelz, Irina C?r?ba?, Ralf Forster, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Katerina Gadzheva, Wojciech Grzyba?a, Emma Hanzlíková, Sándor Hornyik, Sándor Horváth, Astrid Ihle, Constantin Iordachi, Dorota Jarecka, Vít Jakubí?ek, Marie Klimesová, Doreen Mende, Alina Mircea, Zsolt Petrányi, Agata Pietrasik, Kristina Popova, Nadège Ragaru, Gábor Rieder, Hana Rousová, Piotr Rypson, Piotr S?odkowski, Oliver Sukrow, Aleksandra Sumorok, Ond?ej Táborský, Monika Talarczyk, Irina Tulbure, Aneta Vasileva and Magdalena Zió?kowska.

An in-depth examination of Italian collective ZimmerFrei's most recent film, wherein vision becomes a social act ZimmerFrei is known for multimedia work and documentary films that revolve around the ideas of identity politics, otherness and togetherness. This publication focuses on the collective's new trilogy of short films, LUMI, and includes the scripts and exhaustive visual documentation of the production of the series.

On the bizarre creatures and characters that populate Diego Perrone's multifaceted artOver the course of his 25-year career, Diego Perrone (born 1970) has used photography, video, sculpture and drawing to create expressive, imaginative and often surprising work addressing existential themes. This catalog demonstrates the complexity of Perrone's oeuvre to date.

New explorations of the unexpected materiality of digital photographyIsraeli artist Noa Yafe (born 1978) operates at the forefront of contemporary digital photography while also working with traditional modes of creating pictures. Beyond the Distance, a Distance features new works that bridge the sculptural and the photographic.

An appreciation of filmmaker Abrantes' synthesis of cinema and politicsIn Programmed Melancholy, filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes (born 1984) juxtaposes references to art and cultural history to create a body of work that weaves personal feelings with wider social, environmental and political concerns.

On American abstractionist Stephen Rosenthal's austere monochrome paintingsNew York-based Stephen Rosenthal (born 1935) began to work with ideas of reduction in painting in the late 1960s, through works on unstretched canvas, examined in successive cycles. This publication focuses on his most recent work and includes texts by Davide Ferri and Barry Schwabsky.

Hassan Khan conducts a libretto for troubled timesWorking with music, performance and sound, Hassan Khan (born 1975) captures frustration and mourning over troubles of the present: biopolitical control, economic inequality, environmental destruction, pandemics and the rise of ethnonationalism.