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Since 2009 Willem de Rooij (born 1969) has created a series of handwoven textiles: 24 individual works to date, which relate to each other in color, scale and material. About is a comprehensive catalogue of these works accompanied by an essay by curator and historian Vanessa Joan Müller.

Tiré du site Internet de Revolver: ""On one hand, this book is a catalog for an exhibition with pictures and academic discussions around the work of the artist. On the other hand, this is a publication of prose. Both of these formal threads are woven parallel to each other throughout the book. It is left up to the reader to decide whether to read the story first, to read the catalog first or to work straight through the book, alternating between prose and catalog text. [...] The artist's catalog and the booklet of prose represent two polar alternatives. Both distinguish themselves with their own characteristics. Released concurrently with an exhibition, the catalog presents a limited selection of works. It would not be presumptuous to assume that in the coming year, the artist will create new works, at which point this catalog will be outdated. Catalogs are always anchored to a moment in time, and over time their claims to offering a survey often remain unfulfilled. A literary story, however, remains formally timeless. Therefore, with the help of calculated graphic elements, Mandla Reuter offers the possibility to cut the book apart. The catalog can be - as it were - discarded like a scrap, leaving just the pocket-sized booklet of prose." (Jochen Volz). With a narrative text by Mandla Reuter and essays by Vanessa Joan Müller and Jochen Volz (German/English)."

So far, the work of Austrian artist Peter Friedl (*1960) has managed to elude stylistic classification. Investigating the social, political, and cultural realities at work in institutionalized practice, his projects have been called "conceptual, aesthetic acts"--usually they are subtle forays into institutional criticism with political insight. Four or Five Roses continues Friedl's exploration of the stereotypical language of the monologue genre. The book contains some 45 children's "monologues," edited by the artist from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa. Faithfully transcribed and translated into English from different South African languages (Afrikaans, Northern and Southern Suthu, Zulu, Xhosa...), the "edited monologue" then becomes a hybrid genre, both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice. What is ultimately at stake is how discursive strategies operate as a political tool, endlessly reshaped and manipulated for the sake of persuasion. The texts are accompanied by color illustrations of the actual South African playgrounds.

So far, the work of Austrian artist Peter Friedl (*1960) has managed to elude stylistic classification. Investigating the social, political, and cultural realities at work in institutionalized practice, his projects have been called "conceptual, aesthetic acts"--usually they are subtle forays into institutional criticism with political insight. Four or Five Roses continues Friedl's exploration of the stereotypical language of the monologue genre. The book contains some 45 children's "monologues," edited by the artist from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa. Faithfully transcribed and translated into English from different South African languages (Afrikaans, Northern and Southern Suthu, Zulu, Xhosa...), the "edited monologue" then becomes a hybrid genre, both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice. What is ultimately at stake is how discursive strategies operate as a political tool, endlessly reshaped and manipulated for the sake of persuasion. The texts are accompanied by color illustrations of the actual South African playgrounds.

"This book is published on occasion of the parallel exhibitions Silke Otto-Knapp presented in two markedly different locations: on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and at the Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna. The contrasting influences of place - between rural and urban, new and old world - is evident in the selection of works presented and compiled in this catalogue. The partnering of these exhibitions clearly brings into focus questions about art and its contexts. The tensions between nature and culture provide an appropriate figure for the artwork: a context imagined and devised for the circumstances of its own activation. Questions of Travel includes essays by Susan Morgan and Vanessa Joan Müller and a conversation between Otto-Knapp and Nicolaus Schafhausen. Müller reflects on how the tensions Otto-Knapp's artwork engenders are the substance of its experience, while Morgan approaches the work via three significant influences: the cultural geographer J.B. Jackson; avant-garde dancer Anna Halprin and her husband, the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin; and the poems of Elizabeth Bishop. In the conversation with Schafhausen, Otto-Knapp likens the art exhibition to "a theatre situation that is both distinctly separate from reality and engaged with it at the same time." As the activating element of an exhibition, the viewer could also be said to embody the reality of a work's engagement. Otto-Knapp took the title for this project, "Questions of Travel," from Bishop's poem of the same name, which has been reprinted for this catalogue."--Publisher's website

"First published 2021 by One Boat, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Copyright page.

Monographic catalogue by Caroline Achaintre (born 1969) on the occasion of the exhibition "Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings" at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (20 November 2021 to 20 February 2022) and at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel (10 April to 12 June 2022). "Shiftings" is Anchaintre's first museum exhibition in Germany and Switzerland. The catalogue and exhibition give insight into the memorable work of the German-French artist, which is characterized by its precision, experimentation and unconventionality. Anchaintre's ceramics, watercolours and imposing, large-scale tapestries are invitations for the viewers' imaginations to run free. The title "Shiftings" not only alludes to the fact that Anchaintre transfers traditionally established techniques such as tapestry or ceramics to the present day but also to her constant sounding out of the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

Der Katalog erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung"Nicole Wermers. Chemie" in der Secession, Wien (26.11.2004-30.1.2005). Detaillierte Dokumentation der Ausstellung und zahlr. weiterer Arbeiten, sowie zahlr. Essays.

Marcel Odenbach is widely known as a pioneering video artist—however, the connections between his video works and his ongoing works on paper call for due recognition. Many of his works reflect the lasting impact of National Socialism up to the present day, all the while bestowing a universal perspective on what is usually constituted as a specifically German concern. Reflections on the familiar and the foreign, elements of his own biography, the interplay between subjective remembrance and collective memory—all of these are crucial themes in his work, which make their claim on the aesthetic as well as the political level. Departing from his eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, this publication examines new works by Odenbach and contextualizes them within a broader context. Named after an early poem by Ingeborg Bachmann, the exhibition reflected the atmosphere of the postwar period that dominates Bachmann's poetry, which itself is shaped as much by the search for authenticity and truthfulness as it is by the traumatic memory of the past. The exhibited works developed a series of interconnected motifs linking memorial remembrance of the atrocities committed during the Nazi period to individual memories. The complex history of the African continent was likewise presented through film as well as collages that created multilayered vectors pointing as much from the past toward the present as vice versa. Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien