Writings And Conversations
Doug Ashford
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan & Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2013, 144 pages (b/w ill.), 12 × 16.5 cm, English
Price: €15

This publication represents one of the many spaces occupied by Doug Ashford’s work. As the first collection of his writings and conversations, it attempts to encompass the changing ideas to which the artist has subscribed over the past 25 years. Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist, and writer. He has taught design, sculpture, and theory at Cooper Union in New York since 1989. From 1982 to 1996, his primary artistic activity was as a member of Group Material, and since then he has gone on to paint, write, and produce other cross-disciplinary projects.

Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

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10 Years KV
Published by Kunstverein Publishing, Amsterdam, 2019, 310 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 30 cm, English
Price: €25

Kunstverein is essentially a curatorial office that offers lectures, presentations, screenings, and independent publishing. Because of its unconventional structure, it allows alternative methods to be considered in terms of presentation, hosting, and exhibition-making. This extensive anthology looks back at the past decade of their activity, from 2009 to 2019, and is filled with ephemera, images of performances and shows, bulletins, and much more. With contributions by Yana Foqué, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Anthony Huberman, and Maxine Kopsa.

Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

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The Joke Book: Collected By Seth Siegelaub
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2017, 216 pages, 13 × 20 cm, English
Price: €16

The Joke Book is the first printed edition of the complete jokes & messages file that was found on Seth Siegelaub’s computer by his partner Marja Bloem. It contains jokes, quotes, and pieces of advice, that he collected since 1999 and regularly redistributed via email amongst his friends. With contributions by Alex Alberto, John Baldessari, Marja Bloem, Myrna Bloom, Martin Browne, Alan Kennedy, David Kunzle, Joel Miller, Loren Miller, Kay Robertson, Laurent Sauerwein, Seth Siegelaub, Joan Simon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Peter Sinclair, Steven Wright, and an introduction by Huan Hsu (written after a long conversation with Marja Bloem). Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

#2017 #kunstvereinamsterdam #kunstvereinpublishing #marchollenstein #marjabloem #sethsiegelaub
Who's Werner
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2019, 8 pages, 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €5

Exhibition pamphlet produced on the occasion of the exhibition Who’s Werner? at Kunstverein Amsterdam, 23 November–21 December, 2019. Curated by Yana Foqué, Who’s Werner? is a spacial conversation that explores artistic practices that have become intertwined and focuses on the role of a figure whose work is commonly kept a public secret. It looks into some mutualistic relationships between artists in various disciplines and their assistants; producers; sometimes lovers.

Including the work of Céline Condorelli, Denise Scott Brown, Elle Burchill, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Raoul De Keyser, James Langdon, John Baldessari, Jonas Mekas, Lucy Skaer, Margot Sandeman, Norman Laich, Paul Robbrecht, Robert Venturi, Simon Harlow, Jan-Philipp Hopf, Laura Kaminskaitė.

Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

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DURCH 12
Maxine Kopsa (Ed.)
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz 2014, 108 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 24 cm, English/German
Price: €15
  • Josef Bauer, Körpergalerie,1974
  • Dear Trisha Brown: A letter from Robert Wilhite
  • Dear Mr Christopher Williams: A letter from Robert Wilhite
  • Nina Beier: In tribute to time spent walking with Will (2013)
  • Will Holder: Caption card (2014)
  • Democracy is Empty, A conversation between Doug Ashford and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, originally published in Documents, no.10, Fall 1997, pp. 23–30
  • Lucky Dime, for Seth Siegelaub by Willem Oorebeek
  • Thoughts on control by Raivo Puusemp
  • Jan Mot and Germaine Kruip in discussion about Ian Wilson
  • A letter to Céline Condorelli by Tyler Coburn
  • A conversation between Eva Berendes and Doug Ashford
  • A conversation between Lucy Skaer and Willem Oorebeek
  • Invited by Tirdad Zolghadr, Marina Noronha’s Curatorial Systems Manifesto (as a response to Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
  • Céline Condorelli, Three letters to all and no one: strangers, friends, collaborators, allies
  • Notes on a lunch meeting (with Willem Oorebeek) by Kate Strain
  • Sarah Browne, Remembering Gray, 2013: In collaboration with Alice Lyons
  • Beatrice Gibson, A letter to Axel Wieder (and also implicity to Will Holder)
  • David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey: A conversation
  • Victoria Dejaco: Lantern slides

Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

#celinecondorelli #christopherwilliams #davidreinfurt #dougashford #ianwilson #janmot #josefbauer #lucyskaer #marchollenstein #maxinekopsa #mierleladermanukeles #ninabeier #robertwilhite #sethsiegelaub #stuartbailey #tirdadzolghadr #trishabrown #willholder #willemoorebeek
Grace Crowley
Riet Wijnen
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2019, 272 pages, 12 × 17 cm, English
Price: €20

Grace Crowley is a publication by Riet Wijnen, based on letters sent to the Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting Grace Crowley (1890–1979) by friends, family and colleagues. Parts of those letters, which are now housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales archives in Sydney, were transcribed and categorized by Wijnen in subsections such as ‘Marital Status’, ‘Teaching’, ‘Hosting’, ‘Eurasia’, ‘X’, ‘Being A Woman’, ‘War’, ‘$’, and ‘Making Work’. The result is an alternative biography constructed solely through a living set of relations.

Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

#2019 #kunstvereinamsterdam #kunstvereinpublishing #marchollenstein #rietwijnen