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Hans Ulrich Obrist
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…
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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…
The complex video installations of Rachel Rose trace themes of mortality and narrative
New York-based artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) approaches visual storytelling as a sensory experience informed by key…
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers…
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…
The author has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world’s greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. In this book, he chooses nineteen…
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Gonzalez-Foerster's newest installation is dedicated to her lifelong interest in deep space and alien life
Drawing on wide-ranging references from music, literature, film, architecture and pop culture, French artist Dominique…
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…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist first met in 1985. Their professional collaborations began seven years later, when the 24-year-old Obrist curated his first Richter exhibition; the following year he…
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…
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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…
Richly illustrated, this publication includes contributions by Gus Casely-Hayford, Joseph Manca, Erin L. Thompson, Yesomi Umolu, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and an interview between Chase-Riboud and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The catalogue also…
Young artists reflect on the Pinault Collection's monumental exhibition of 20th-century photography
The landmark Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century from Conde Nast's archives is responded to in this…
Mind-bending compositions of human beings and commercial products scrutinizing work, religion and consumerism
Known for his complex "patternizations" or "superstructures," German artist Thomas Bayrle (born 1937) creates grid-like images of…
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Rem Koolhaas,Hans Ulrich Obrist
Architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist compile a history of Metabolism: the first non-Western avant-garde architecture, born out of postwar Tokyo. Extensive interviews and rare photographs introduce the…
April Lamm
Essays and portraits on the career and influence of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
In 1993, the curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) organized an unannounced exhibition in a hotel room in Paris, where he lived for the duration of the…
Hans Ulrich Obrist often quotes the great art historian Erwin Panofsky, who once famously said that the future is built from fragments of the past. How these fragments accumulate is…
Theaster Gates' 2022 Pavilion is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. It features new, insightful perspectives on the work of Gates and his Pavilion commission including Ryan Dohoney, Jayden Ali…
Staffan Ahrenberg,Sam Keller,Hans Ulrich Obrist
The first issue to be published since 1960, here is Issue N Degrees 1 from highly revered art publisher Cahiers d'Art
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries)
Hans Ulrich Obrist celebrates the art of handwriting with a collection of aspirational Post-it notes from world-renowned contributors to his ongoing Instagram project.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Michael Eddy
On January 31, 2008, Swiss curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a marathon of conversations in Beijing, after the example of his famous Serpentine Gallery marathons. This marathon…
In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter Feldmann–who…
Holly Crawford
A list and index of the curatorial concepts of Hans Ulrich Obrist that were derived from his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating? His book did not…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Francesco Stocchi
Published on the occasion of Rudolf Polanszky’s first exhibition with Gagosian, this publication highlights recent paintings and sculptures by the Viennese artist.
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Julia Garimorth
The publication shows for the first time an overview of conversation portraits by Christine Ljubanovic which have been created over the past forty years.
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Published to accompany Damien Hirst’s 2007 exhibition at White Cube in London, Beyond Belief shows new work by Hirst including major formaldehyde pieces, to the more recent fact paintings and…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Barbara Stevani
This publication introduces a never-before-exhibited series of works by the late British artist John Latham (1921-2006).
Accompanying a solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert, London, the group of work features spray…
A collection of 223 paintings and drawings by Sabine Moritz that show the artist’s development working in a range of mediums and techniques.
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. Subjects range…
Hiroshi Sugimoto,Hans-Ulrich Obrist
A rare opportunity to see unpublished works by Hiroshi Sugimoto reproduced at the highest standard
This second volume of JRPRingier’s complete John Baldessari writings traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present. More Than…
The second collection of Hefuna’s work including a series of interviews with Obrist. Hefuna has been nominated for the 2009 Jameel Prize to be hostwed by the Victoria and Albert…
Derives from the first of a series of Symposium Merzbau at Cabaret Voltaire investigating the legacy of Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau in contemporary architecture, art and society. This work also includes…
The most comprehensive study on the German -Egyptian artist including images of her recent work, her working practice and a series of interviews with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Rem Koolhaas
Part of a series of publications edited by three leading authors on the world’s architectural and artistic scene, this title includes dialogues resulting from the first, legendary Serpentine Gallery Marathon…
Kayoko Ota,Hans Ulrich Obrist
For Ishigami (born 1974), architecture is a field of infinite possibilities that affect every area of life, raising existential questions and requiring both scientific and artistic observation. Here, the Japanese…
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Daniel Birnbaum
This new title celebrates 50 years of the creative force of nature that is the artistic partnership of Gilbert & George. Published in cooperation with the LUMA Foundation in Arles…
Marathon Marathon documents a 2010 iteration of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s series of Marathon events, held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and co-curated by Nadja Argyropoulou. Marking the 2,500th anniversary…
Rene Burri,Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Over the course of a half-century, the photographs of Rene Burri (1933-2014) have tracked the turning points, triumphs and crises of the twentieth century. Whether it was the 15-year-old Burri’s…
An exploration of what Daniel Buren referred to as the frames of art
Swedish curator and art critic Daniel Birnbaum (born 1963) has pushed the boundaries of the exhibition space…
Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with…
