In pursuing their passions and goals, collectors engage in ingenious ways with artists, galleries, museums, and auction houses. Examining the attraction of collecting, its multifaceted social sphere, and the financial opportunities it seems to offer, this book also addresses how taste is formed and identifies possible radical shifts in the art system today. Here, the motives and behaviour of internationally operating collectors are analysed, disclosing the unwritten rules, active networks, and persistent myths of the rapidly growing field of art collecting. Based on the PhD research of Dutch art historian Marta Gnyp, it provides a wealth of information, theories, and empirical research.

The Shift: Art And The Rise To Power Of Contemporary Collectors

Marta Gnyp

Art And Theory Publishing

Insomnia: Sleeplessness As A Cultural Symptom

VARIOUS

A Story Within A Story...the 8th Goteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art

Christer Stromholm - Poste Restante

Arts & Photography

Christer Strömholm

Photography & Video

Swedish artist Lotta Antonssons recent work recalls her fascination with the late 1960s and 70s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions, according to the essay by Patrik Andersson. From a process that utilizes techniques of collage and montage emerges a very personal way of looking at the ephemeral nature of things, whether printed matter (magazines, books) or natural objects (shells, minerals, driftwood). Antonssons analogue cuts and repetitions seize upon the allegorical potential of image fragments, freeing fashion and erotic photography in an exploration into the gendered side of this clichéd history.

Lotta Antonsson: I Am A Woman

Lotta Antonsson

Gunnel Wåhlstrand

Gunnel Wahlstrand

Edited by Magdalena Malm, this volume articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding context, or which require a specific structure in order to play out. In such practice, curatorial considerations are interwoven with production, and the intentions of artists and curators are foremost, rather than institutional structures. With contributions by Grégory Castéra, Claire Doherty, Raimundas Malaauskas, Jessica Segerlund, and more, the texts and conversations offered here reflect on how these curatorial methodologies not only situate works in different places, but also transfer curatorial methods into other fields.

Curating Context Beyond The Gallery And Into Other Fields

Magdalena Malm (ed)

History & Criticism

The artistic practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti explores and acts within and against the condition of permanent temporariness that permeates contemporary forms of life. In their research and project-based approach, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts. This book is organised around fourteen concepts that activate seventeen projects. Each is the result of a larger process of collaboration, and is accompanied by individual and collective texts and interviews that expand and contextualise the reach of every intervention. Contributors include Charles Esche, Okwui Enwezor, Salwa Mikdadi, Grupo Contrafilé, and others.

Permanent Temporariness

Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti E.a.

Greta Knutson Tzara

Martin Sundberg

Anna Kleberg Tham: 99-19 A Retrospective

EDITED

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