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A daughter's moving painted portraits alongside diary entries from her mother, an Auschwitz survivorThis book presents colorful paintings by Austrian architect and designer Eva Beresin--based on black-and-white photographs of her mother before being sent to Auschwitz in 1944--alongside postwar entries from her mother's diary. The books cover features a design by Beresin's mother.

Stills from Sonja Feldmeier's video documenting the felling of a sacred treeIn her video work The Peepul Tree, Swiss artist Sonja Feldmeier (born 1965) captures a tree felling in northern India. This publication presents large-format stills from the film, QR codes for its soundtrack and essays.

Dyed fabrics, crystals and organic material: rising artist Anita Zumbühl's installation at the Kunstmuseum LucerneRecent works by German installation artist Anita Zumbühl (born 1975) are presented in this monograph. Zumbühl uses found objects--crystals, branches, moss--in addition to performance and dyed materials--cotton, wool and other fabrics--to investigate the relationship between humans, nature and culture.

A comprehensive survey of electroacoustic sound installations by Robin MinardCanadian composer and installation artist Robin Minard (born 1953) has created electroacoustic compositions and sound installations since 1984, exploring the unity of sound and space. This comprehensive survey documents three decades of work, including QR codes for the reader to experience his sound installations.

A 2017 series of "incident reports" produced and signed by multimedia artist Gabriel Hensche While in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2017, Berlin-based artist Gabriel Hensche (born 1986) produced a series of reports based on actual incident report forms--collected here--in which Hensche and curator Ashlee Conery mimic various roles: investigator, onlooker, witness.

Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist Shannon Bool (born 1972) uses Le Corbusier's architectural plans and erotic drawings of nude Algerian women to challenge the often appropriative politics of the architect and his contemporaries through photocollages and tapestries.

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on fine art, design and architecture, the Vienna Biennale for Change 2019 instigates a debate on values for the digital age. Its organizers--MAK, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna Business Agency, Slovak Design Center and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology--explore values for digital modernity.

Conceptual artist Jochen Gerz transforms a museum into a giant bookFor his "no retrospective" at the Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Gerz (born 1940) has emblazoned a text interweaving his life and works with eight decades of contemporary history along the museum's iconic glass frontage. This book documents his radical transformation of the retrospective model.

This volume presents Vienna-based photographer Julian Mullan's The City, a series of color photographs taken between 2013 and 2018. Mullan's minimalist, haikuesque photographs of city sights--branches, a ladder, a vehicle, a puddle--against geometric, architectural backgrounds poetically portray the urban environment.

German conceptual artist Andreas Duscha (born 1976) uses found imagery or digital footage, often referencing specific places, historical events or political phenomena as the basis for his layered and encrypted works. This publication covers the past 10 years of his multimedia practice.

On Stage collects the latest oil paintings by Austrian painter Richard Kaplenig (born 1963). In this series, Kaplenig produces monochromatic, hyper realistic paintings of small everyday objects--light bulbs, gears, screws, a syringe, a vase of water--at large scale and in isolation from their typical context.

TechnoCare presents art that investigates the aesthetic, social and ethical dimensions of professions involving care for other humans or animals. These professions--geriatric care, parenthood and even sex work--are often characterized by a marginalized, feminized and low-income workforce. Artists include Enants & Marlies Pöschl, Miriam Coretta Schulte, Axelle Stiefel & Camille Alena, Marina Sula and Addie Wagenknecht.

Austrian photographer Tina Lechner (born 1981) explores representations of the female body in her black-and-white photographs. Collected here, Lechner's works feature sculptural objects made from paper and other humble materials that mimic the female form or anonymous models adorned with geometric objects that obscure or accentuate the human body.

For White Flag, Vienna-based photographers Hanna Putz (born 1987) and Sophie Thun (born 1985) photographed one another over a period of two years in staged and improvised poses in landscapes, trains, offices and studios.

This first monograph on the films and video installations of Austrian artist Lukas Marxt (born 1983) focuses in particular on Marxt's current project, which has already taken him to California, Nevada and Utah, and in which he delves into the partly suppressed history of the United States in the context of the military-entertainment complex.

The Gold Edition of Australian artist Jonny Niesche's (born 1972) monograph Cracked Actor documents his colorful geometric sculptures made with steel, mirrors and fabrics in soft pastel tones. Niesche's objects and installations experiment with color, light and movement as viewers navigate through the gallery.

The last decade of video and photographic works by Austrian artist Judith Huemer (born 1969) --who uses technical reworking and cropping to create colorful, abstract images and videos of everyday objects and environments--is presented here. The book includes installation photographs, essays and an artist interview.

This publication surveys works by Austrian artist Markus Hiesleitner (born 1981) whose conceptual sculptures, installations and videos examine political, social, economic and ecological issues in contemporary life. Comprised of mass-produced objects like balloons and plastic shipping crates or compost and organic material, Hiesleitner's works are often characterized as "ecopolitical."

In the fragmented, almost ornate paintings of Vienna-based Malaysian artist Thean Chie Chan (born 1972), skulls, hands, eyes and heads hover in space or against a hellish abyss. Gathered here, Chan's paintings draw on the visual rhetoric of Bacon, Picasso and Piero.

Here, Zurich-based artist duo Relax--established in 1983 by Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza (born 1957) and Daniel Hauser (born 1959)--produce works inspired by depictions of working women and female artists in the prints and drawings of Zurich's Graphische Sammlung.

Welcome to the Jungle presents video installations, performances, presentations and site-specific works by nine artists--Jasmina Merz & Anna Lena Seiser with Jonathan de Andrade, Kristina Buch, Oto Hudec, Laura Lima, Cinthia Marcelle, Mario Pfeifer, Liu Shiyuan, Kota Takeuchi and Alvaro Urbano--whose works explore issues of consumption and sustainability.

The large-format drawings and installations of Vienna-based Zsolt Tibor (born 1973) are built up from a vocabulary of motifs, such as details of buildings, animals, heraldic symbols, magazines, bottles, figures, hands or vehicles, to explore human behaviour and current social problems. This book surveys works of the past decade.

This book documents the fascinating works on paper of Vienna-based Peruvian artist Casanova Sorolla (born 1984), who dusts dancers with colored pigments, inviting them to dance on large-scale sheets of paper. The marks and footprints transferred to the paper capture the vital aspects of dance--rhythm, tempo, intensity and gesture.

AWAY chronicles the Artists Residency Program run by the Federal Chancellery of Austria, which has sent local artists around the world--from the US to Istanbul--since the 1970s. Here, contributions and statements by participating artists accompany theoretical texts examining the program within the larger context of Austrian art funding.

The 2018 Werkleitz Festival--an annual international festival held in Halle, Germany focused on film and media art--is documented here. The book presents artworks, workshops and discussions exploring the topic of global mobility--the transportation of goods, people, information or the economy.

This catalog documents an installation by German artist duo Böhler & Orendt (established 2008) at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina. Böhler & Orendt combine video projection, photography and music in a mystical narrative about nine extinct animal species.

The third yearbook from Styria's Institute for Art in the Public Space presents 26 art projects and seven initiatives for cultural education realized in 2016 and 2017. Here, international and regional artists produce public art projects inspired by the themes of light, social and political monuments and human rights.

Sonic Wave documents the latest series by Berlin-based Austrian painter Robert Muntean (born 1982), inspired by pop and literary culture from Sonic Youth and Nick Drake to Joris-Karl Huysmans and William Blake. Muntean's paintings are both abstract and figural: each depicts a human figure, sometimes present only as a silhouette hidden within expressive brushstrokes.

Photographs, collages, objects and videos by Turkish artist Nilbar Güres (born 1977) are presented in this catalog accompanying a retrospective of work created since 2006. Often charged with eroticism, her works explore clichés of the social visibility of women in different cultures and challenge conventional role attributions.

This book presents a collaborative work from 1978-1979 by Austrian artist Peter Weibel (born 1944) and Swiss artist Loys Egg (born 1947). Biblioteca Insomnia consists of 170 works on paper, each of which was created by one artist and augmented with media and text by the other.