R,C
Maria Toumazou
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2023, 64 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 10.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €9

R,C appeared in conjunction with the exhibition RHYTHM, CITIZEN by Maria Toumazou. It is the third in a series of small volumes of correspondence, responses, and conversations, which accompanies the exhibition program of Grazer Kunstverein. R,C is a visual and textual passage through living and making in the Nicosian landscape. It combines artist statement, photography, and rap. R,C summons three voices: On The Solitary Crossing Of Impassable Passages, a statement by Koula Savvidou, written on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, in 1995; EXHAUST, a selection of lyrics written by ‘Tasos Lamnisos / x.ypno for EE&ET (2021), a 10-track album by steliosilchuk & x.ypno; and a selection of 26 photographs taken by Maria Toumazou between 2021 and 2022.

Editor: Tom Engels. Conceptual Development: Maria Toumazou, Tom Engels, Julie Peeters. Translation: EXHAUST: Tasos Lamnisos, Maria Toumazou/ On The Solitary Crossing of Impassable Passages: Maria Toumazou, Koula Savvidou, Tom Engels. Graphic Design: Julie Peters.

#2023 #grazerkunstverein #juliepeeters #mariatoumazou #tomengels
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1997, 52 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €15

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

#1997 #rosemarietrockel
Walter De Maria
Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1991, 62 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €15

In his sculptures, land works, and installations, Walter De Maria (1935–2013) explored the relationship between the relative and the absolute, using basic geometric components to produce sublime repetitions. By arranging forms according to mathematical sequences, he worked at the intersections of Minimalism, conceptual art, and land art—drawing attention to the limits of gallery spaces, prioritising bodily awareness, and locating the content of an artwork in the viewer.

#1991 #walterdemaria
Glass Sculpture
Vikky Alexander
Published by Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 1990, 6 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English
Price: €8

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition James Welling, Vikky Alexander, 12 May–24 June, 1990 at Kunsthalle Bern. With a text by Bruce W. Ferguson. You can find more information on the exhibition here.

Vikky Alexander has worked in photography, sculpture, and installation since the 1980s. Her work is characterized by an ongoing consideration of illusion and desire within design and architecture. Through the appropriation of images of people and landscapes, Alexander recognises the artificial as a space of utopian fantasy that is built into design and photographic advertisements.

#1990 #kunsthallebern #vikkyalexander
secrets
Marija Olšauskaitė
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2023, unpaginated with inserts (colour & b/w ill.), 10.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €9

secrets is a publication that gathers words, and glass summoned by Elena Narbutaitė and Marija Olšauskaitė. It is produced in conjunction with sekretas (Lithuanian for secret), the exhibition by Marija Olšauskaitė at the Grazer Kunstverein, which departs from a recreational activity performed by youngsters in the former Soviet Union. Stealthily, children would enter a courtyard, woods, or plains and place small objects under a piece of glass: flower petals, pictures, a note, golden bottle caps, shells, and other idiosyncratic elements would be organised and composed into a material expression of friend-ship. The pane would then be covered with earth or dust, as a sekretas withdraws from the eye.

With contributions by Elena Narbutaitė, Marija Olšauskaitė, Maria Tsoy, Aleksandra Krivulina, and Tom Engels, designed by Julie Peeters.

#2023 #elenanarbutaite #grazerkunstverein #juliepeeters #marijaolsauskaite #tomengels
Divine Drudgery
James Richards, Leslie Thornton
Published by Lenz Press, Milan; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö & Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2021, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.9 × 28.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Temporarily out of stock)

Divine Drudgery is an artist book with collages and artworks by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, and contributions by artists, writers and poets centred around liminality and the aesthetics and politics of the invisible. These dialogues and strands are anchored in and loop back to three exhibitions developed by the editors: Speed (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart), Speed II (Malmö Konsthall), and The Holding Environment (Bonner Kunstverein), and radiate outwards.

Works and contributions by Horst Ademeit, Rae Armantrout, Tolia Astakhishvili, Ed Atkins, Kirsty Bell, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Fatima Hellberg, Mason Leaver-Yap, Veit Loers, Terence McCormack, James Richards, Jens Thornton, Leslie Thornton, Thomas Zummer.

Edited by Fatima Hellberg, James Richards, Leslie Thornton. Designed by Karl Kolbitz & Nicoletta Dalfino Spinelli. Published with Bonner Kunstverein, Malmö Konsthall and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

#2021 #bonnerkunstverein #edatkins #fatimahellberg #jamesrichards #kirstybell #kunstlerhausstuttgart #lenzpress #lesliethornton #raearmantrout #toliaastakhishvili