Volume II of Adorno: The Possibility of the Impossible documents the exhibition that looks at the connection between contemporary art and Adorno's writings, with the visual arts becoming a central platform for comparison to Adorno's main subjects. The publication illustrates the works exhibited and discusses the relationship between autonomy and sovereignty.
Artists included are Carl Andre, Samuel Beckett, Martin Boyce, André Cadere, Martin Creed, Thomas Demand, Jason Dodge, Maria Eichhorn, Peter Friedl, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, Euan McDonald, John Massey, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Morris, Bruce Nauman, Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina, Florian Pumhösl, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Slominski, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans.

Adorno: The Possibility of the Impossible (2 Volumes) (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Isabelle Graw

Georg Schollhammer

History & Criticism

Lukas & Sternberg

How will artists and galleries produce and distribute their work? How much money will everyone make? This pocket sized reader provides a provocative look into the future by mapping the complex entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets. In cheeky, controversial essays, critics, academics and artists offer insights into the artwork as an asset category and celebrity accessory, the rise of the art fair and the increased competition of auction houses. The first in a series from Temsta Konsthall and Sternberg Press.

Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios

Stefano Baia Curioni

Karen van den Berg/Ursula Pasero

Goldin+Senneby

Noah Horowitz

Suhail Malik/Andrea Phillips

Alain Quemin

Olav Velthuis

Sternberg Press

Louise Lawler subjects the concept of art to critical analysis by re-photographing her own drawings, paintings, and sculptures and incorporating aspects of their immediate surroundings into these "copies." Viewed with a certain detachment, her demystified reproductions also reveal the contextual and situational connotations of her artworks, which recede to a certain extent into the background. Lawler also applies these methods to the work of other artists, photographing their art pieces, particularly as they are mounted in private collections. These contextualizing photographs retain fragments of their surroundings, thus clarifying how the presentation and interpretation of artwork is never free of value judgment or environmental influence. This publication offers the first retrospective overview of the artistic accomplishments of Louise Lawler over the past 20 years. Included are a number of very recent works, some of them created especially for this book.

Louise Lawler And Others

GEORGE BAKER

Birgit Pelzer

Philipp Kaiser

Andrea Fraser

Jack Bankowsky

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers

This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks at Institutional Critique's central aim, the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries, and recent developments that engage with and echo it. IC has been raised again by Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and Fred Wilson, among others, and has been vigorously reoriented in recent years to address issues such as globalization. Contributors include Alexander Alberro, Mike Kelley, Hans Haacke, Lauri Firstenberg, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and others.

Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposia vol. 2)

Jens Hoffmann

Hans Haacke

John Searle

Renee Green

Monica Bonvicini

Mike Kelley

The Yes Men

JRP|Ringier

Texte zur Kunst Heft 70: à Stefan Germer, June 2008

Texte zur Kunst GmbH & Co. KG

Perhaps more than any of his immediate contemporaries, A.R. Penck revived painting as a relevant practice for postwar culture in Germany. His name now seems synonymous with a painting style that is figurative and political in content, a style both gestural and replete with semiotic impact. After his expatriation from East Germany in 1980, Penck coined a universal vocabulary in which the "sign-making" character of prehistoric painting is fused with the content of contemporary history and the concerns of modern science in a single, memorable picture world. A.R. Penck: Works 1961-2006 presents a selection of the artist's large-scale paintings, as well as artist's books, sculptures and objects from 1960 to the present, all of which are discussed against the background of shifts in the contexts and reception of his work.

A.R. Penck. Retrospektive

A. R. Penck

Harald Kunde

Ingrid Pfeiffer

Pirkko Rathgeber

Richter Verlag

Painting has demonstrated remarkable perseverance in the expanding field of contemporary art and the surrounding ecology of media images. It appears, however, to have dispelled its own once-uncontested material basis: no longer confined to being synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, today, painting instead tends to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. With contributions by Peter Geimer, Isabelle Graw, and André Rottmann, Thinking through Painting investigates painting's traits and reception in cultural and socioeconomic discourse.
Contributors Peter Geimer, Isabelle Graw, André Rottmann
Institut für Kunstkritik Series

Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas (Sternberg Press / Institut für Kunstkritik series)

Peter Geimer

André Rottmann

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