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Exploring Dave Bopp's dynamic, layered abstractionsSwiss artist Dave Bopp (born 1988) makes large-scale abstract paintings by layering bright swatches of color to form oscillating shapes and dynamic compositions. This volume accompanies Bopp's first institutional show at the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen and collects works from 2012 to 2020.

Gerlind Zeilner's paintings explore the artist's role as a woman in the male-dominated history of artAustrian artist Gerlind Zeilner (born 1971) creates vibrant figurative paintings that toy with clichéd images familiar within the male-dominated history of art. Cowgirls collects her paintings, which engage with artists as diverse as Nicole Eisenman and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Documenting the enigmatic sculptural cosmos of Bruno GironcoliBruno Gironcoli (1936-2010) was an Austrian sculptor originally trained as a goldsmith, who is known for his large-scale aluminum works. Cast Enigma foregrounds his mysterious sculptures and the personal cosmos they explore.

An intimate look at the artificial paradises of Austrian performance company Liquid LoftThe photographs compiled in Shiny Shiny document Austrian dance and performance company Liquid Loft's choreographic productions. This publication expands their purview outside contemporary dance, with contributions by scholars of theater, film, music and architecture.

This volume documents British artist Roger Hiorns' (born 1975) largest show to date, at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt and Galerie Rudolfinum. Hiorns' installations and sculptures generate and fill gaps between disparate ideas: between construction and destruction, theology and technology, temporariness and performance, authoritarian control and spontaneity.

This volume looks at artworks situated between photography and sculpture. Artists include Will Benedict, Clegg & Guttmann, Valie Export, Birgit Jürgenssen, Nadim Vardag, Peter Weibel and Heimo Zobernig.

The idea of this book is based on a simple question: "What are your tips, thoughts, or words of wisdom on collecting Chinese contemporary art?" Some writers contribute from an institutional background, others from a market perspective.

This publication contextualizes the paintings of Austrian artist Stefan Sandner (born 1968) within an art-historical context--particularly in terms of conceptual and minimalist art movements. An extensive overview of work the artist has produced in recent years is also featured.

This catalogue brings together an assortment of artists who extend the medium of painting into post-Constructivist sculpture and installation. Participating artists include Sofie Thorsen, Michael Kienzer, Luisa Kasalicky, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ernst Caramelle, Heinrich Dunst, Helga Philipp, Herbert Hinteregger, Peter Sandbichler, Esther Stocke and Ingo Nussbaumer.

This book traces Berlin-based multimedia artist Sabine Kacunko's (born 1963) development through photography, photographic installations, interactive video installations, media performances and audio sculpture.

This publication examines Austrian multimedia artist Heimo Zobernig's (born 1958) work with painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and furniture design, video, performance and music. Focusing on simple, geometric forms of abstraction, Zobernig uses everyday materials such as cardboard, styrofoam, pressboard, linen and fluorescent lights.

The sculptural objects and public artworks of German artist Jochen Gerz (born 1940) address the public's emotional distance to commemorated events and memorials. This volume documents a project that draws on an archive of photographs from the Nazi period in Styria, Austria.

German Tina Bara and Italian Alba D'Urbano have worked together since 2000, creating works that deal with female identity, the body and personal history. This volume explores their combination of documentary strategies with performance-related image production, linking narrative and conceptual elements.

Music Tames the Beast is the most comprehensive overview of Austrian painter Constantine Luser's (born 1976) work to date. At the core of Luser's oeuvre lies the notion of translation--translating a drawing into the physical world of touch, sound and movement.

This publication presents the oeuvre of Austrian artist Alfredo Barsuglia (born 1980), which hinges on themes of social norms and collectivity. Barsuglia is known for critical installations and sculptures such as Social Pool (2014), which was installed in the Southern California desert.

This publication assembles works from the EVN Collection--an Austrian collection company founded in 1995--offering a survey of international art from the past 20 years, with works by Phyllida Barlow, Mark Dion, Marlene Dumas, Peter Doig, Carsten Höller, Mike Kelley, Roman Ondák, Elizabeth Peyton and Rosemarie Trockel.

In Image in Meditation, German artist Jana Gunstheimer (born 1974) presents a multipurpose building of her own invention. The layout and use of this building's many rooms are shown through Gunstheimer's sketches, floor plans, photographs and geometric designs.

Editor Alexander Linn has gathered a selection of press releases, letters, interviews and conversations, prose and poetry by painter André Butzer (born 1973). Butzer was cofounder of Academy Isotrop in Hamburg in the mid-'90s, and rose to become one of the internationally most influential and controversial painters after 2000.

Austrian artist Hartmut Skerbisch (1945-2009) explored perceptions of reality, focusing on the image of the television monitor screen as the central symbolical object of our culture. This overview is devoted to his multimedia and installation works.

Exceptional Editions compiles all of the special editions produced by the great American Pop artist Mel Ramos (born 1935), including sculptures, works on enamel, backlit frames and bas-relief works, as well as all of the prints published since 2013 (thus updating the previous volume Mel Ramos: New Prints). Like his fellow painters Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Ramos adopts motifs from mass media and advertising. In the early 1960s he attracted attention with painted appropriations of comic book heroes such as Batman and Superman. In the mid-60s, he began to incorporate pin-ups into his paintings, which he juxtaposed comically and revealingly with American consumer products.

In his ironic appropriations of seemingly simple themes and concepts, German artist Jan Bräumer (born 1970) creates images and drawings that are both humorous and intellectual. Irrwisch uniquely curates Bräumer's works in a way that emphasizes his aversion to dogmatism and formalism.

German painter André Butzer (born 1973) combines abstraction and figuration to create paintings at once sinister and humorous, often invoking figures from comics and pop culture. This volume offers a concentrated overview of his works from the years 2004-16.

This publication features the latest works by German painter André Butzer (born 1973). Abandoning his recent exploration of abstraction, here Butzer returns to his distinctive grotesque, childlike style with ten large-scale paintings of women.

André Butzer (born 1973) came to international attention more than 15 years ago for his audaciously colored and thickly slathered paintings of cartoonish figures. This volume is published on the occasion of his exhibition at Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, in which the artist presents five new paintings.

Seeing Her Ghosts compiles photographs, art and texts by German photographer Kirsten Becken. With pieces by Siri Hustvedt, Andrew Solomon and Bessel van der Kolk, it explores how psychoses are addressed by families.

In 2010, André Butzer (born 1973) began an ongoing series of abstractions consisting of single vertical and horizontal black bars emerging from what were initially gray backgrounds, eventually becoming vast fields of black with thin gaps of white on the right side of the canvas.

The installations and sculptures of German artist Max Schaffer (born 1985) explore the institutional realities and laws governing the presentation and reception of art. Power of Style presents a unified body of work examining these themes.

This book documents the recent installations, sculptures, films, videos, photographic works, pictures, drawings, texts, theatre and music of Brussels-based Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck (born 1969), which explore the manipulation of domestic space through the combination of banal and decorative objects.

This catalog documents a recent exhibition by German painter Jonas Weichsel (born 1982) at the Museum Wiesbaden in which the artist carefully selected paintings in response to the specific characteristics of the site, creating an idiosyncratic whole out of the assembly of individual works.

Available in three different covers, this publication on the multimedia work of Austrian artist Günther Selichar (born 1960) documents 30 projects using photography, painting, print and most notably public space, all of which address mass media.