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Hans Ulrich Obrist
HENI Publishing is delighted to present INVADER: In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, a book that offers unique insight into the enigmatic French street artist, renowned for his iconic ceramic…
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Roberto Matta, Cecilia Vicuna, Alfredo Jaar, Paz Errazuriz and others offer insight into Chilean art and politics
This volume looks closely at the Chilean experimental art scene, in which practitioners…
Gerhard Richter: The Overpainted Photographs is a landmark publication offering the most comprehensive account of this lesser-known aspect of Richter's practice. The catalogue documents the artist's overpainted photographs, a series…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.
Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian…
The Hockney Interviews brings together expansive conversations held between art world icon David Hockney, who is best known for his large scale, vivid paintings, and pre-eminent curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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The Brazilian painter Maxwell Alexandre, 32, has soared rapidly in the art world, with solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MAC Lyon, the David Zwirner Gallery…
Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents…
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Sheikha Maryam Hassan,Mohamed A Al Thani
Mahmoud Obaidi’s work encompasses sculpture, conceptual objects, film and painting; a series of politically-charged fragments which are brought together within this publication.
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Milan Grygar,Ivan Kafka,Stanislav Kolibal
This publication is the result of visits carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist to artists’ studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jiri Kovanda, Karel Malich…
Yona Friedman is the great utopian and visionary among architects of the 20th century. A native of Hungary, who lives and works in Paris, Friedman considers himself both an architect…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,John Baldessari
Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator…
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed a range of architects and artists associated with the venue…
Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider…
The French filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno born in Algeria, has been working and collaborating with curator/thinker/editor Hans Ulrich Obrist for many years; over many projects they have taken huge…
Over the past three and a half decades, Marina Abramovic’s astonishing oeuvre, with pieces in which she performs feats of extreme endurance or mortification of the flesh, has laid bare–perhaps…
Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gustav Metzger.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Christian Boltanski
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski are not only associated through their longstanding friendship: Boltanski was also the first artist that Obrist ever exhibited. Over the course of this friendship…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Dan Graham
Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain is famous for his sculptures of crushed cars, which made him pioneer of Pop Art. This conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, traces his life and art, from Abstract…
Matthew Barney,Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Over the course of about ten years, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Matthew Barney met several times to discuss Barney’s past work, current projects and his plans for the future. The…
A collection of 31 conversations Hans Ulrich Obrist has held with thinkers and scientists on art, science and philosophy.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Jhaveri
Following the 2014 publication of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s The Czech Files, this publication brings together 11 interviews with Indian artists and cultural producers carried out in the 2000s and 2010s…
Judy Chicago, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martha Easton
A new work from Judy Chicago, fifty years in the making: Judy Chicago: Revelations is the work she thought would never see the light of day. Her captivating narrative combatting…
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Paul Chan,Michael Diers
Think Like Clouds collects for the first time the drawings, notes and diagrams of curator, writer and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the past 22 years, Obrist has…
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist,David Shrigley
Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) has made a weekly contribution to Das Magazin, the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.
His weekly column offers a survey of…
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The challenging French conceptualist Gonzalez-Foerster is prominent on the international scene. For Skulptur Projekte Munster 2007, she showed small-scale replicas of other Munster fair works, past and present; for her…
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world’s most significant creative and cultural figures. This title…
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Part of JRP-Ringer’s innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Reel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping…
Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with the foremost musicians and composers of the mid- to late 20th-century, from Yoko Ono to Brian Eno
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s…
Rem Koolhass,Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Rem Koolhass is a bold theoretician of contemporary architecture. This book looks at Koolhaas’ role as counselor for the EU and his views on architecture as metaphor and on the…
The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration.
Brian Clarke: Collages is an inspiring collection of 327 collages created by British artist Brian Clarke, who is widely considered the most progressive artist working with stained glass in the…
A Great Light is a striking catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name, both testaments to British artist Brian Clarke's widely regarded status as the most important…
Inside Phyllida Barlow's abundant archive of drawings, from her days as an art student to her later works.
Reproducing over 200 works on paper spanning 50 years, from 1963 to…
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Kostas Stasinopoulos
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation
Artists are…
Lauren Halsey, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Inspired by the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood that the artist and her family have lived in for generations, Halsey s expansive practice teems with the signs and symbols that…
Gustav Metzger, Hans Ulrich Obrist
The artist's biography as told by Metzger himself, a leader of the Auto-Destructive Art and Art Strike movements.
A visionary artist and radical thinker, Gustav Metzger asked provocative questions about…
Thomas Girst, Azu Nwagbogu, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Esther Mahlangu: To Paint is in My Heart is a captivating exploration of the life and work of the iconic South African painter, one of the most influential artists of…
This book features all 153 original posters created by the 127 artists invited to participate in IT’S URGENT!, an open form touring exhibition. Artists from all over the world responded…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Jeff Koons
Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such…
Joseph Grigely,Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Zak Kyes
Exhibition Prosthetics by Joseph Grigely explores the artist’s use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real. Grigely uses the term ‘exhibition…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hear Us is a collection of writings exploring the transgressive and transdisciplinary nature of Burns’ practice. The publication is richly illustrated with material representing Burns’ work across photography…
Features contributors from the fields of art, science, mathematics, performance, music, architecture, design, literature and sociology who have devised or chosen their own formula to express their understanding of life…
A classic photo book is now available again| Photographs documenting illegal objects, smuggled goods, and contraband
At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, the work of Seung-taek Lee (born 1932) draws on the subtle beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art, also reflecting contemporaneous developments…
This impeccably designed artist’s book presents a selection of images collected by Puerto Rican artists Allora & Calzadilla over the course of a decade. A parallel component to the duo’s…
In this artist’s book, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) takes New York Times obituaries of famous people, removing anecdotal information to reveal the wit, drama and absurdity of the…
