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This publication collects recent work by the Austrian artist and printmaker Anna Artaker (born 1976), in which the artist uses a 19th-century technique to make nature prints inspired by William Henry Fox Talbot's photographs and photograms.

This beautiful limited-edition artist's book documents a recent project by the Austrian painter Tobias Pils (born 1971) for the Kunstalle Krems. Pils' painting installation in Krems--rendered in his usual black, white and shades of gray--moves between abstraction and figuration, drawing and painting.

Addressing global insecurity and the fragility of human existence, the installation Partenza by Croatian photographer Renata Poljak (born 1974) and this accompanying publication investigate migration and the economic and social life of Croatia since the '90s.

German artist Eva Berendes (born 1972) explores the conditions under which we distinguish objects from images, frequently using sculptural screens to confuse this distinction. Eva Berendes: Silk, Grids & Souvenirs surveys the development of the artist's work over the past ten years.

Best known as a sculptor in plywood, New York-based sculptor Erik Levine (born 1960) has also made videos over the past 16 years, exploring disruptions to social norms, rituals and stereotypes. This book surveys these works.

This is the first monograph of the abstract, monochromatic paintings and drawings of Swiss, New York-based artist Bruno Jakob (born 1954) from the late 1960s to the present day. It includes installation views of recent exhibitions and a compilation of documentary photographs from four decades.

This book gathers a series of primitively executed and colorful paintings, drawings and installations by Swiss artist Gilles Rotzetter (born 1978), about the Swiss atom bomb.

Viennese-born Martina Funder (born 1953) creates expressive clay sculptures, each a textured, surprising work that both imitates the earth's organic forms and invites us to perceive them afresh. With scholarly essays, The World Composed in Clay is an accessible introduction to the ceramicist's work.

Public art interventions in Vienna by four artist duosIn Vienna's second district, four artist duos use public art interventions to create new zones where encounters, exchanges and discussions can take place. Artists include: Margareta Klose & Nourhan Maayouf, Oscar Cueto & Bassem Yousri, Lisa Großkopf & Soukaina Joual, Malek Gnaoui & Markus Hiesleitner.

Swiss artist Maria Magdalena Z'Graggen (born 1958) has been attracting attention for many years with her abstract paintings and large-format watercolors. This publication is the first to provide an overview of Z'Graggen's oeuvre from the beginning of her career around 1992 up to the present.

In the late '60s and early '70s, German sculptor Joachim Bandau (born 1936) reappraised the human figure with his polyester sculptures--always mutilated and monstrously mutated. Early Sculptures explores these impressive caricatures.

These works by photographer and videographer Marco Poloni consist of photo storyboards for films never made. Haunting black-and-white images and accompanying captions suggest noir danger, but in fact, all action, if indeed there is any, takes place outside the frame. The viewer is thus forced into the role of a confidant, an unwilling party to a conspiracy. In this way, Poloni plays with our certainty about the alleged ability of a picture to be representative of reality. The frame is the ultimate arbiter of the story.

Twenty-five years of material experimentation from a Hungarian printmakerHungarian artist Csaba Fürjesi (born 1969) works in painting, drawing and photography, with a special emphasis on prints and material experimentation. His oeuvre presents a world that is simultaneously innocuous and surreal.

The title of Italian sculptor Loredana Sperini's (born 1970) new monograph refers to an Italian song that describes a brief but intense meeting between two people and how that moment constitutes "the whole world." Sperini translates these themes into uniquely strange wall objects and sculptures, documented here.

Austrian artist Herwig Turk (born 1964) works in video and installation to dissect complex scientific themes, examining high-tech laboratory culture as well as the landscapes ripe for colonial and industrial exploitation. This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of his work.

On Travel is an exhibition and book project by Rémy Markowitsch documenting the outcome of his expeditions into the inner sanctums of books on travel and photography on Africa, China and South America. In his photographic transilluminations of select pages and quotations from literary and scientific travelogues, Markowitsch playfully deconstructs the "white traveler's perspective" and his encounters with "the foreign," and reorganizes, resituates, recontextualises and replots the tropics. A delightful picture book with quotations from literary and scientific sources.

From Vienna-based duo Elisabeth Gabriel and Daryoush Asgar (both born 1975) comes a response to hyperactivity: waiting rooms where one can flee from the command to be productive, refusing to fulfill tasks and evading promises. Deep Sleep Dummy documents the artists' latest sculptural installation and painting.

German artist Anna Lea Hucht's (born 1980) drawings and watercolors present a world as bizarre as it is magical; familiar domestic scenes contain phantom like apparitions, while her sculpture resembles mutant versions of vases and heads. This volume surveys her output of the last decade.

An artist's book by Austrian Wolfgang Capellari (born 1964), Sprung assembles images from 2010 onward, organized thematically. One chapter takes on the form of paintings in ruins, while another investigates narrative painting; two essays and a fictitious interview round out the volume.

With paintings, installations, written pieces, and photographs and interventions in public spaces, German artist Ludger Gerdes (1952-2008) created models for public dialogues. The first overview of his output, this volume explores the lasting contributions of the political visual artist, author and performer.

Under 30 presents annual award-winning young up-and-coming Swiss artists.This volume presents 2016's winners: Brigham Baker, Lorenzo Bernet, Chloé Delarue, Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Marc Hunziker, Daniel V. Keller, Flora Klein, Yoan Mudry and Mathias Ringgenberg.

Peter Jellitsch (born 1982) explores the micro-measurements of atmospheric change activated by wireless data networks through drawings and sculptures. Precisely measured numerical values take on the appearance of abstract artistic gesture.

+4812 documents Jan Hoeft's (born 1981) public piece in Kraków between two football stadiums: a football scarf mimicking the design of the two hostile clubs was placed on the side of a newly installed handrail. It was stolen each day and replaced immediately, its art context always denied.

Moving between thrill, heightened perception, stupefaction, rapture and detachment, this thematic catalog transports readers into intoxication in contemporary art. With works by Carsten Höller, Meret Oppenheim, Pipilotti Rist and more, the volume invites us into the realms between high-flying and crash-and-burn.

Permutations on the concept of pattern in new works by Sven KaldenIn Patterns, German multidisciplinary artist Sven Kalden (born 1969) reads through the double meaning of the word "pattern"--as an expression of repetitive forms and to describe something that is representative of an entire field or group--as a rubric in which to understand his work from the last 20 years.

German artist and performer Susanne Carl (born 1962) makes masks and uses them to create a variety of characters, also using costumes and wigs. Together with photographer Bruno Weiss, Carl scouts settings for her orchestrations, which may be a hotel, a museum or a soccer stadium. This volume compiles their collaborations.

On the minimalist, Bauhaus-inspired public sculpture of Norwegian sculptor Camilla LøwThis monograph on Norwegian sculptor Camilla Løw (born 1976) documents ten of her public sculptures in Scandinavia--from conception to execution--situating them within a global context. The book also includes art historical texts and an interview with a London-based gallerist.

"Güres proposes a reckoning with the patriarchal straitjacket placed on our capacity for desire and joy." -ArtforumVienna-based Turkish artist Nilbar Güres (born 1977) works in painting, photography, film, performance, collage and drawing. The colorful sculptures and paintings in this catalog playfully question gender conventions and suggest possibilities for strengthening queer identities.

Artistic investigations of the interpersonal in the digital agePresenting works that conceive of the human being as a social animal, Something between Us looks at interpretations of love and empathy in the digital age by artists Kirstin Burckhardt, Miriam Cahn, Teboho Edkins, Vivian Greven, Luzia Hürzeler, Alice Musiol, Warren Neidich, Stefan Panhans, Sibylle Springer, Thomas Taube and Andrea Winkler.

Iconic art historical replicas by German artist Franz Part's students transform school hallways into art galleriesThis book documents an ongoing series by German artist and decades-long art teacher Franz Part, in which he and his students create and display replicas of iconic works--by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Ellsworth Kelly and more--in their school's hallways alongside original works of their own.