Boeken Abt

Gilbert and George/Hans Ulrich Obrist

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 most important landmarks in their four-decade-long career together. Many of the conversations are delightfully performative.

Christian Boltanski/Hans Ulrich Obrist

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 the two have often met for discussions, the earliest of which, from 1994, are published here. Whether on a taxi-boat in Venice, in his atelier …

Niets boven de liefde : woorden van een abt ter meditatie

Jan Fabre

This catalogue, which has been designed in close collaboration with Jan Fabre, presents the five pieces shown at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, which come together as sculptural tableaus rich in symbolism and references. The piece follows the form of the human body, beginning with the feet, then the genitals, the stomach, the heart and finally the …

Charles Avery

Gesamtausgabe Abt. 2 Vorlesungen Bd. 42. Schellings Abhandlung über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit

In the course of Heidegger's philosophical development we find a recurrent engagement with Schelling's ideas, to which he devoted a number of lectures and seminars. Of central concern to him was Schelling's APhilosophical Investigations into the Nature of Human Freedom and Related SubjectsA (= AOf Human FreedomA). The present edition combines the script of the …

Rudolf Stingel

Invited to install an intervention in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Rudolf Stingel (born 1956) covered the entire floor of the large museum hall with a carpet, the pattern of which stems from an original nineteenth-century Indian rug, and whose sensual opulence and design counters Mies van der Rohe's severe architecture. Designed in an oversized format, this …

Elmgreen & Dragset

In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self. Two allegorical installations on celebrity and its implications of the one (the …

Liudger

Ein Liudger-Buch hat es seit hundert Jahren nicht mehr gegeben, ein wissenschaftliches überhaupt noch nicht. Dabei gibt es eine Überfülle neuer Aspekte. Sie alle faßt dieses Buch des international renommierten Kirchenhistorikers zu einem facettenreichen Ganzen zusammen. Geboten wird ein bisher so nicht gesehenes Liudger-Bild - mit besonderem Profil vor dem allgemeinen Zeitgeschehen. Das Buch ist …

Katharina Fritsch

Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, 1956) is inspired by the typography, layout and surface feel of a children's book in this artist's publication. The oversize format allows the reproduction of her sculptures, installations and silk-screen objects in excellent quality. This work contains an essay by Bice Curiger.