Works on Paper. Peter Doigs paintings are variously described as uneasy, enigmatic and dreamlike. Though less well known, Doigs works on paper are equally haunting and explore many of the same themes and images as his paintings. However, they are not merely a preamble to the canvases but are vehicles for innovation in their own right. Doig distills images to create works that possess an ephemeral,

The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his videos, drawings and installations which blend a novel aesthetic of drawing with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life today. The publication presents a first significant overview of his work, starting with his most recent series entitled The 7 Lights (2005 2007). These are large-scale digital ...

Roman Ondk works with drawing, performance, sculpture, and installation. In the Wiener Secession (2001), he had old cars parked behind the building for weeks, and in front of the Klnischer Kunstverein (2003), he organized queues. He photographs friends and acquaintances who do not like to travel and sends them around the world as postcards and artworks. For another work, he asked friends and ...

How long do you have to live somewhere to become part of a community? How are social utopias being constructed? How does the belonging manifest itself and what forms do togetherness and cohabitation take? The exhibition, Volksgarten: Politics of Belonging depicts portraits of (real and imaginary) communities, with a particular focus on Lend and Gries, two Graz districts in the neighbourhood of ...

There are art schools willing to risk failure in order to spur innovation. These attract a very particular kind of faculty and in turn a particular kind of student. Schools that stand behind the frontiers of curricular innovation simply imitate what has already proved successful elsewhere, without assuming the risk of innovating on their own. Or they dont even bother to imitate, taking a risk of .

Reality Reset. The exhibition Reality Reset presents the first survey of works by the German artist Bettina Pousttchi including Black Out - new sculptures in which Pousttchi further develops themes from her photographic series Parachutes and Take Off - and the video works Docu Clip: The Katharina Show and Docu Clip: To Good Neighbours. Alternating between photography, video and sculptural ...

Hans Ulrich Obrist visited Wolfgang Tillmans twice to speak with him about his work, the changes in his photographic way of seeing and thematical pursuits since the 1980s. Tillmans recently published book Manual is discussed in detail. Cultural and social topics such as AIDS, which Tillmans confronts in word and image, are also discussed by the artist in these very personal conversations.

Maltreated Frigate I - IV. This special artists book documents the extensive notes and drawings made by John Bock for his Maltreated Frigate multi-media performance project. Each of the four softback notebooks, reproduced in facsimile, provide a unique insight into the artists creative process. Both the unique packaging (the four notebooks are wrapped in a shirt) and the design of this hand-writte

Should art make us laugh? Austrian artist Werner Reiterer certainly challenges us to ponder on the sense and nonsenses of our world, but the black humour and irreverent handling of reality in his approach mean that our first reaction is to laugh out loud. What we make of it afterwards is the long finish, as it were.

From Minimalism to Land Art, this selection of the most important drawings from the Marzona Collection at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin features works byAmerican and European works including Vita Acconci, Carl Andre, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, On Kawara, Iannis Kounellis, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Ed Ruscha, Fred Sandback and Robert Smithson.

The Conversation Series 13. Hans Ulrich Obrist met the Icelandic art wanderer in a variety of locations including his studio and onboard airplanes. The interviews are published here for the first time. Eliasson was born in Copenhagen of Icelandic extraction. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial and temporal research. Eliassons works range from ...

Index. This monograph has been published on the occasion of Darren Almonds major solo exhibition at the Parasol Unit. Index is a two-part book: Part I catalogues the Fire Under Snow exhibition, while Part II provides a retrospective of the artists work to date. Fire Under Snow is the most extensive display of Almonds work yet to be held in the UK. It features two films, shot separately in China ..