Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion
Reinhard Mucha
Published by Hirmer Verlag, München, 2022, 312 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 29 cm, English / German
Price: €45

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Reinhard Mucha. Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 3 September, 2022–22 January, 2023. The exhibition united long unseen installations with works from all creative phases at its two venues, K20 and K21, creating a panorama that spans more than four decades of artistic work.

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Falk Wolf.

#2022 #hirmerverlag #reinhardmucha
Fragments, or just Moments
Tony Cokes
Published by Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2022, 224 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 32 cm, German / English
Price: €36

Produced on the occasion of Tony Coke’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, a collaboration between Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst. The thematic starting point for Cokes’s new productions is the ideological and propagandistic entanglements of both exhibition venues during the Nazi era as well as their cultural-political role in the context of the 20th Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.

The publication accompanies the eponymous exhibition and translates stills from the newly produced video essays into a book format while examining the significance of Cokes’s work in terms of a contemporary approach to institutional critique. The essays are written by Tina M. Campt and Tom Holert, with an introduction by Emma Enderby and Elena Setzer (Haus der Kunst) as well as Maurin Dietrich, Gloria Hasnay, and Gina Merz (Kunstverein München).

#2022 #gloriahasnay #kunstvereinmunchen #maurindietrich #tonycokes
Me in my going out of myself (and you in yours)
Reinier Vrancken & Émile Hermans
Published by Reinier Vrancken, Rotterdam, 2022, 8 pages and inserts (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Me in my going out of myself (and you in yours) by Reinier Vrancken & Émile Hermans at SB34 The Pool, Brussels. Designed by Robert Milne.

“…exchanges and relationships—from me to you and vice versa—with circulating objects and identities, fiction and artificiality, and unstable ontological statuses. From Émile Hermans to Reinier Vrancken, or the other way around, it’s a matter of becoming the other a little, of letting oneself be taken in hand so as to project unexpressed desires. In the space of SB34-The Pool, clothes are lent, flowers offered, we breathe the scent of a stranger, choose the work of a friend, project ourselves through it, and finally, with circumspection, decide on the status of what we have observed.”—exhibition press release

#2022 #ephemera #reiniervrancken #robertmilne
Archief 7
Jef Geys
Published by Jef Geys, Balen, 2022, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €62

In 2015, the Frans Masereel Centre started a collaboration with Geys to publish parts of his archive. The first archive publication, Archief 1 and Archief 2, consists of two thick volumes in A4 format with more than 800 scanned archive documents, and appeared on the occasion of Geys’s solo exhibition in the SMAK in 2015. The material was presented as it was, without any explanation or hierarchy. Archief 6 and 7 (2022) are the final two volumes in the series. Edited by Sofie Dederen.

#2022 #jefgeys
Archief 6
Jef Geys
Published by Jef Geys, Balen, 2022, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €62

In 2015, the Frans Masereel Centre started a collaboration with Geys to publish parts of his archive. The first archive publication, Archief 1 and Archief 2, consists of two thick volumes in A4 format with more than 800 scanned archive documents, and appeared on the occasion of Geys’s solo exhibition in the SMAK in 2015. The material was presented as it was, without any explanation or hierarchy. Archief 6 and 7 (2022) are the final two volumes in the series. Edited by Sofie Dederen.

#2022 #jefgeys
Makeup 1989–2005
Inge Grognard
Published by Zegris Books, Antwerp/London, 2022, 104 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 13.4 × 20 cm, English
Price: €25

Inge Grognard, Makeup 1989–2005 features the formative work of one of the fashion world’s most revered makeup artists. From the first days of  Maison Martin Margiela through to contemporary Balenciaga, Inge Grognard has spent her career as an integral part of  fashion’s avant garde. Grognard’s aesthetic approach revolutionised makeup in the nineties and this book documents her work at that time, featuring imagery from campaigns, runways and editorials for brands such as Raf Simons, Dries Van Noten, Maison Martin Margiela and A.F. Vandevorst.

#2022 #driesvannoten #fashion #ingegrognard #maisonmartinmargiela #rafsimons #zegrisbooks