Produced on the occasion of Shahryar Nashat’s exhibition Prosthetic Nord, Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn 2013, 7 December, 2013–9 February, 2014.
With texts by Thomas Niemeyer and Kathleen Rahn.
Produced on the occasion of Haim Steinbach’s exhibition appear to use at Tanya Bonakdar, Los Angeles, 16 March–18 May, 2019. With texts by Bruce Hainley, Akiva Lasry, John Miller, Elizabeth Lebovici and Haim Steinbach.
Since the early 1980s, Friedl has written on a variety of subjects. The book Secret Modernity: Selected Writings and Interviews 1981–2009 compiles for the first time a representative selection of his (partly unpublished) texts, along with a series of interviews. As in his artworks, Friedl’s writings quote from and rework multiple genres. He offers reviews and portraits of George Sand and Clarice Lispector, of Alighiero Boetti and Jean-Luc Godard; articles and documents contributing to theater and film history, which examine the work of, among others, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, or Glauber Rocha; as well as comments and reflections on his own projects. Alongside these are essays delving deep into the past, exploring mainly colonial history and its paradoxical traces in the present: narratives about Haiti, South Africa, and Italy’s repressed colonial rule in Africa.
Edited by Anselm Franke. Designed by NODE Berlin Oslo. Co-published with Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen.
An A6 arts quarterly, distributed free in book shops and art galleries globally.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, 24 November, 1996–19 January, 1997 and Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, Saõ Paulo, Brazil, April 8 – May 25, 1997. Artists include Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, and Tobias Rehberger.
Hito Steyerl is rightly considered one of the most exciting artists working today who speculates on the impact of the Internet and digitization on the fabric of our everyday lives. Her films and writings offer an astute, provocative, and often funny analysis of the dizzying speed with which images and data are reconfigured, altered, and dispersed, many times over, accelerating into infinity or crashing into oblivion.
Published to accompany the artist’s survey exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Too Much World gathers a series of essays and close readings of Steyerl’s films from the past ten years. Newly commissioned texts by Sven Lütticken, Karen Archey, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Nick Aikens, alongside writings by Thomas Elsaesser, Pablo Lafuente, David Riff, and Steyerl, are spliced with over one hundred pages of color stills. This publication is a charged slideshow of the artist’s extraordinary investigations into the status, circulation, and materiality of images.
Copublished with Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Design by Bardhi Haliti.