edited heike munder (31 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17,5 x 23,5 cm, hardcover, 148 pages, 51 color & 30 b/w illustrations - In his wide-ranging cycles of works, each of which is devoted to a unifying thematic narrative, the Swiss artist Florian Germann (born 1978, lives and works in Zurich) creates complex systems of reference, playing with the role of the artist-researcher. As points of departure for these individual experimental arrangements, Germann uses characters from history such as Napoleon, or motifs from myth and fantasy such as lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, "wolf," and anthropos, "man": the werewolf), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspects.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21 x 29 cm, 104 pages, 84 color & 7 b/w illustrations - This publication offers a detailed insight in Geoffrey Farmer's complex installation Let's Make the Water Turn Black, and contextualizes it with his other script-based sculptural and kinetic works since the early 1990s, with contributions by Kathy Noble, Michael Turner, Aram Moshayedi, and Jan Verwoert, and a preface by the editors.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 21,5 x 29,1 cm (hardcover) 96 pages (34 color & 13 b/w ill.) - The publication concentrates on a new series of works. Hence in the installation "Ten High" (2007) numerous silver shop display dummies converge on a mirror smooth platform holding in their hands objects such as signs, bearing anti-war slogans like "No War in Iran" or the notorious recession signal "Going Out of Business/Sale," a whisky bottle or a bible and other classical American "icons." Meckseper's object arrangements recall the window displays of department stores and expensive boutiques, re-contextualising the exhibited objects: the shibboleths are ascribed a new significance from now on a consumerist lifestyle posture.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17,5 x 23,5 cm, 120 pages, 60 color illustrations - Fully documenting Koki Tanaka's latest video & photo project, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist's native country the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 16 x 23 cm, 280 pages, 28 color & 23 b/w illustrations. - Museums of contemporary artas they have been defined, activated, and understood over the past thirty yearsare in need of a reassessment to re-think the traditional notion of the "museum." With its traditional core tasks of collection and conservation, this historic category stands in contrast to the term "contemporary." This volume takes a variety of complementary perspectives on today's museology as it reflects upon the paradoxes underlying the very concept of the museum of contemporary art. Composed of three chapters"Now," "Tomorrow," and "Flux"and gathering together original essays, extensive conversations, as well as canonical texts, this anthology addresses questions regarding the roles and tasks of the contemporary art museum. It discusses its double character as a site of both production and conservation, and emphasizes its relation to different public spheres. It also explores ways of dealing with the standards, norms, and regulations that emerge from the practices of collecting, organizing, and educating.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 14,5 x 23,5, 352 pages, 19 color & 69 b/w illustrations - This publication is based on two exhibitions held at the Migros Museum in Zurich, both of which were dedicated, in different ways, to exploring the possibilities of documenting time-based works. It aims to outline the theories that underpin these issues in discussing the various ways in which disciplines that are fixed in time, such as sculpture and installation, or technologically reproducible media, such as film and photography, relate to time-based fields of art that are performative in character, such as dance, performance and sound, in diverse combinations. The focus is on the areas created by these overlaps, and the art that is produced as a result. While Raphael Gygax posits the notion that performances, their installation venues, and the objects involved may be read as rituals, places of ritual and relics, respectively, Heike Munder considers how the body itself can serve as a potential archive of history, and how processes of movementaccording to a re-activated modernist formal syntaxcan be inscribed into a collective corporeal memory. Verena Kuni explores temporality and transience in art in connection with sound and music, and their transformation. Philip Auslander presents his long-held theory that the material documenting performances can in itself be characterized as performative in character. Based on her own artistic practice as a documenter of the Judson Dance Theater, among others, Babette Mangolte examines the relationship between movement and speed in the filming of performative processes. Kristina Köhler also examines the filmic strategies of the performative, and how these strategies oscillate between performance, event, and representation.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 18 x 23,5 cm, Hardcover, 282 Seiten/pages, 173 color & 45 b/w illustrations - The installations of American artist Stephen G. Rhodes (born 1977 in Houston, lives and works in New Orleans and Berlin), which are distinguished by the combination of diverse media, are based on selected references from a wide range of historical and cultural sources, including the American past and the histories of art and film, which he fuses into a new and dense semantic system. In the cycle of works Rhodes presented in 2009 under the title "Dar Allers war ne'er eny Bear Bear" at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, for example, he linked Walt Disney's "Song of the South" (1946), a movie adaptation of Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" stories, which are in turn based on the oral histories of the slaves on the plantations of the American South, to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980). Building such connections allows him to take up the repressed depths of the American past and place them in new contexts.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17 x 23 cm, 160 Seiten/pages, 100 colour & 20 b/w illustrations - First monograph on the American artist. Born 1970, Liz Craft, lives and works in Los Angeles. The image of California is characterized by the myth of the hippie, the lonely cowboy, and the easy rider, by lascivious sexiness and speed, by sun, fun, and wild creative experiments. It seems to be the place where the greatest ideas and dreams are born, that then spread across the world.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 260 pages. French language. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21 x 27 cm, 288 pages, 159 color & 40 b/w illustrations - This comprehensive monograph on Teresa Burga acknowledges the recent reassessment of the multidisciplinary artist's work as a pioneering voice in Peruvian contemporary art.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17 x 23 cm, 256 Seiten/pages - This publication on the French-Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic accompanies her comprehensive exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and focuses on her most recent bodies of works. Since the mid-1990s she has explored a wide variety of issues related to globalization and migration, inclusion and exclusion, exploitation, neoliberalism, and the interactions between these notions. Bajevic also consistently investigates her own identity, and the meaning of "home" and what this constitutes. Her oeuvre is part of a tradition in art that deals with social and educational issues, and that wants to shake up the prevailing social consciousness. In this respect, Bajevic's approach is all-encompassing; for example, when she compiles an archive of political slogans, she focuses on the entire political spectrum. By bringing together the core of Bajevic's oeuvre with specially commissioned essays by art historians and curators, this publication reflects on her main artistic strategies and themes, standing as a reference monograph covering the last ten years of her work. The book is divided into three chapters: "Power," "Governance," and "Labor," and includes essays by Barbara Biedermann, Manuel Borja-Villel, Boris Buden, Raphael Gygax, and Ana Janevski.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 16,5 x 23,5 cm, 272 pages, numerous colour illustrations - This publication is built around an important installation Homes from Homes 2 (2000 2001), which simultaneously references the development of Art & Languages's work over the decades and the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, in which it is now included.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17,5 x 23,5 cm, hardcover, 144 Seitenpages, 27 color & 35 b/w illustrations - This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon & Jeon's collaborative project News from Nowhere premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 20,8 x 27,5 cm, 104 Seiten/pages, 43 color illustrations - Monograph documenting an eponymous project in which the American artist explores the relationship between humans and nature by means of a sculptural assemblage made out of the skulls of Europe's largest animal species.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17,5 x 24,5 cm, cloth binding, 200 pages, 161 color & 20 b/w illustrations - First monograph on the oeuvre of Copenhagen-based, American artist Yvette Brackman. "Systems and Scenarios" contains a series of interviews with Brackman conducted over several months by independent curator and writer Helene Lundbye, and a comprehensive essay by Heike Munder, director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. Both these authors' contributions illuminate Brackman's visual and conceptual approach in detail and explore how she weaves together a broad array of artworks and topics ranging from the artist's own family's roots in Soviet Russia to Siberia's indigenous communities and the cultural impact of global commerce on them.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Limitierte Ausgabe. Z : 17 x 24 cm, 158 pages,102 color & 6 b/w illustrations - The publication presents new works by painter Christoph Ruckhäberle, assembling linocuts and offset pages held together by a Japanese binding. Beautifully produced, this artist's book is published in a limited print run.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 24 x 29 cm, 152 Seiten/pages, 108 farbige Abbildungen/ colour illustrations - In her sculptures, which often incorporate photographic elements and objects, Rachel Harrison (*1966, in New York) thematizes the complexity of art in a humorous manner, playing with the observer's appetite for decoding meanings. If she makes connections with the current discourses on sculpture and installation, her works remain difficult to characterize. Her unfailingly virtuoso sculptures are often constructed in colorfully painted organic-amorphous forms, serving as mounts for readymades whether lifestyle magazines, Calvin Klein underwear packaging, or found photographs appearing both finished and unfinished, thus extremely fragile and ephemeral. The unexpected mix of materials links kitsch and formalism with a cynical wink of the eye.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17,5 x 23,5 cm, Hardcover, 264 Seiten/pages, 37 color & 15 b/w illustrations - This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers. Works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Jan Peter Hammer, Nic Hess, Danny McDonald, Dawn Mellor, Claus Richter, Tabor Robak, Timur Si-Qin Michael Smith, Lily van der Stokker, Julia Wachtel, Hannah Weinberger.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17 x 23,5 cm, 194 pages, 224 color illustrations - Laura Lima's (born in 1971, lives in Rio de Janeiro) works are informed by her fascination for the complexity of social relations and forms of human behavior. In her works, which employ media such as drawing, performance, and installation art, the Brazilian artist explores the boundaries of perception in dreams and fiction, in everyday reality and the absurd.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21,5 x 29 cm, Hardcover, 112 Seiten/pages, 40 color illustrations - Art has always been the sensorium of the all that is fragile, brittle, and porous in the human. In this book, based on an eponymous exhibition, however, human break lines are not treated directly in terms of the human body, but instead through the surrogate of architecture. For at the fractures and interfaces of buildings, the cracks and fissures of human existence are registered analogously. The notion in the title, Displaced Fractures, is taken from the medical world. It describes how bone fracture sites reveal themselves elsewhere than at the major stress site. The publication discusses installations, spatial interventions, and sculptures working with the displacement of symptoms. What predominates is the field of tension between the refusal of form and monumental creations, between subjective and formal rational gestures.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 230 pages. 10.75x8.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21,5 x 29 cm, Hardcover, 64 pages, 28 color & 2 b/w illustrations - In her paintings and drawings, Dawn Mellor (*1970 in UK) uses black humour to deconstruct the cult of the star (which appears to have been chosen in our society as a substitute for religion) and its believer the fan. The majority of female protagonists in her works are music icons such as Madonna, Courtney Love or Britney Spears, but there are also appearances by film actresses and figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (alias Judy Garland), or "glamourous" politicians such as Hilary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21 x 27,5 cm, cloth binding, 252 Seiten/pages, 36 color & 82 b/w illustrations - During the summer months of 2011, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst sculpture project "The Garden of Forking Paths" was a guest on the Froh Ussicht estate, owned by the Blum family, in Samstagern, Zurich. The project alluded to the "Sacro Bosco" in Bomarzo (Italy), the enchanted Renaissance garden, which features sculptures shrouded in mystery and eccentric architecture that over time became overgrown (so-called "follies"). In this context, the invited artists Pablo Bronstein, Liz Craft, Ida Ekblad, Geoffrey Farmer, Kerstin Kartscher, Ragnar Kjartansson, Fabian Marti, Peter Regli and Thiago Rocha Pitta created their own fantastic narratives.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. B : 160 pp., 58 color & 31 bw. illustrations - This volume examines the censorship of Iannone's work, using her 1970 artist's book The Story of Bern as a starting point. Iannone's works were removed from an exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, after the museum director demanded that the genitals in her paintings be covered. Iannone responded with The Story of Bern, reclaiming her work from the controversies surrounding it by making her perspective public. In a nod to the censorship of Iannone's work, the explicit image on the cover of this book is hidden by a belly band.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 22 x 33 cm, Hardcover, 156 Seiten/pages, 460 color & 8 b/w illustrations - Artist's book. Play, coincidence, wonder, vital force, decay, and waste are all essential topics of Ruedi Bechtler's work. Graduated as a mechanical engineer, Bechtler (*1942, in Zurich) developed his affinity with natural science and technology as an artistic practice. And the artist, as an intermediary between science and philosophy, might have found, if not more answers, at least better questions than many scientists.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21 x 29 cm 264 Seiten/pages, zahlreiche Abbildungen/b/w illustrations - Gianni Motti's actions oscillate between the rational and the irrational, between irony and provocation, between rumor and misunderstanding. Which is why Motti's events are experienced mainly through the narrative and illustrative potential of photographs made by onlookers or the press. This first monograph brings together for the first time a large selection of images and documentation to provide an overview of Motti's actions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z . 16,5 x 23,5 cm, 320 pages, 60 colour & 20 b/w illustrations - This book focus on self-confident, non-conformist feminist positions, and points out that new role models and strategies are being requested. In her essay, Amelia Jones contests the notion of a current post-feminism and, using the example of Pipilotti Rist's works, develops a model of parafeminism. Refering to Mary Beth Edelson and Annie Sprinkle, Maria Elena Buszek compares two generations and their respective strategies, and Katy Deepwell questions the role of female artists within art history. Mercedes Bunz looks at femininism in relation to flexibilized capitalism and diagnoses a new form of oppression. The exhibition's curator, Heike Munder, presents a survey of the exhibition's different positions and makes an appeal for new role models.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 21 x 28,6 cm, hardcover, 152 pages, 43 color & 66 b/w illustrations - This publication offers a comprehensive overview of Kantor's versatilityfrom his theater productions and actions to his painterly and sculptural works. It also includes the "happening photography" of Eustachy Kossakowski (1925-2001)who documented Kantor's artistic output for decadesthat has rarely been published.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17 X 24 cm, 191 Seiten/pages, 30 colour illustrations. - This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it, such as agoraphobia, vertigo, and claustrophobia. The publication analyzes spatial emotion in contemporary art and architecture and maps its extremes and multiple overtones. With essays by Anthony Vidler on the relation between psychoanalysis and the perception of space, Mark Wigley on insecurity and design, Philippe Rahm on the emotional conditioning of space definition, and Stephen Willats on living conditions in social housing. Featuring works by such artists as Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Büchel, Jan Dibbets, Urs Fischer, H. R. Giger, Katarzyna Jozefowicz, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Liebeskind, Jane and Louise Wilson, Paul Noble, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul Thek, Monika Sosnowska, and Décosterd & Rahm, the anthology also provides a visual survey of these topics in contemporary art. Designed by NORM, the book was distinguished in The most beautiful Swiss books competition in 2003.

In his melancholic yet absurdly comical performances, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976) explores his own physical and psychological limitsùfor example, singing SchumannÆs Dichterliebe over and over for two weeks. This book unites for the first time all of KjartanssonÆs music-related works from 2001 to 2012., English/ German, Year2013, Illust. B/W3, Illust. Color172, ISBN 9783037643037, Code 6777. RETAIL ONLY. Hardbound, In Pristine Condition, Pages 220, Size 9 1/2öx 7ö.