Exhibition History 1964-1975
Marcel Broodthaers
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 880 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.8 × 31 cm, English
Price: €78

In 1963, the writer Marcel Broodthaers decided to embark on a career in the visual arts. Yet he never severed his ties to poetry and language, whose systems of meaning make up an integral aspect of his work. Retaining a certain distance to the art world, he posed fundamental questions about art -its mediums, its conceptions of what constitutes an artwork, its representation in museums. To this day, his oeuvre takes a critical stand on art’s commercialization strategies. Exhibition-making itself was a key element of Broodthaers’s artistic approach. Documenting all of the artist’s solo exhibitions that took place during his lifetime, the catalogue is the first ever to highlight that praxis. The extensive chronology and the accompanying detailed pictorial documentation of the most important works of every year together offer a systematic overview of his oeuvre. In addition to scholarly essays and many texts by Marcel Broodthaers himself, the publication also features an extensive series of photographic views of the major retrospective at the Fridericianum.

Edited by Susanne Pfeffer, with contributions from Michael Compton, Anny De Decker, Sebastian Egenhofer, Sabine Folie, Maria Gilissen Broodthaers, Gloria Moure, Susanne Pfeffer & Cord Riechelmann.

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1 Rue Gabriel Tarde, Sarlat-La-Canéda, Dordogne (Card)
Liam Gillick
Published by Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 2015, card, 15.2 × 10.7 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Liam Gillick’s exhibition 1 Rue Gabriel Tarde, Sarlat-La-Canéda, Dordogne at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 21 March–18 April, 2015.

Liam Gillick is known for contributions in sculpture, video, architecture and text. His work focuses on contemporary management of labor, time, and aesthetics extended through a distinctive conception of exhibition as a medium in its own right. His work is divided between abstraction based on social and political structures of the present and texts, films and graphics that often appear to contradict and comment upon the apparent clarity of his structures.

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FINITE INFINITE
STURTEVANT
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2013, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 6 cm, English
Price: €15

Published to accompany the exhibition LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, this flip book focuses on one of Sturtevant’s more recent works, Finite Infinite (2010), a large scale projection that features a dog running in an endless loop across an expanse of grass. Finite Infinite, like many of Sturtevant’s video works, references the endlessly repeating imagery that has become so prevalent in the world we live in today. Looping and repetition, key themes throughout Sturtevant’s practice, are also elegantly drawn out in the insightful text by Daniel Birnbaum included in this book.

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PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI
Published by Libro Port, Tokyo, 1991, 1 volume in cardboard slipcase and dust jacket 168 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 26 × 30.3 cm, Japanese
Price: €90

With a text by Jacques Henric, translated by Masashi Ogura.

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. A prolific late in life artist who was internationally acclaimed for his writings and translations on Sadeian erotic expression, Klossowski is a pivotal yet underrepresented figure in the history of 20th-century art, often overshadowed by his earlier literary work and his younger brother, Balthus. Primarily working with pencil and charcoal, the laborious drawings he produced reference a variety of subjects, including Greek mythology, Sadean decadence, medieval fantasy and sexualized scenarios involving a recurring female figure, Roberte. These imagined scenes depict a perplexing and intriguing array of mature, familiar and fantastical situations involving cartoonish human figures set in fictitious landscapes that uniquely relate back to the dystopic realities he creates.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

#1991 #pierreklossowski
Eyes Open in the Dark
Peter Hujar
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2026, 144 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, German
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Peter Hujar, Eyes Open in the Dark at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 27 February–23 August 2026.

Peter Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his photography was largely unknown to a broader art world. Hujar’s principal concern was with portraiture, whether photographing his friends and denizens of the downtown scene – whom he encountered on the street, shot in his apartment studio, and sought out at performance venues – or turning his attention to animals, architecture and landscapes.

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Portrait Mode
Moyra Davey
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2025, 128 pp. (b/w ill.), 16 × 25 cm, English/German
Price: €20

Portrait Mode presents a new essay by artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey. In aphoristic texts paired with her own photographs, Davey interweaves accounts of her experiences as a photographer with reflections on canonical practitioners and theorists of the medium. With a particular focus on framing, light, contingency, and temporality, she considers the work of photographers who have challenged conventions of (self-)portraiture and representation, connecting their approaches to contemporary queer and feminist protagonists of the genre.

#2025 #artistswritings #moyradavey #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig