How Frequency The Eye
Josephine Pryde
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne & Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2025, 92 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.2 × 28 cm, English/German
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of Josephine Pryde: How Frequency The Eye at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 24–August 18, 2024.

In her practice, Josephine Pryde explores modes of creation, consumption, and production of images, most often through photography. Employing a wide range of technical means, she takes up ideas conveyed through camera-generated images, in order to challenge and re-examine established modes of reception and expectation as to how the visible may be rendered.

How Frequency The Eye continues Pryde’s recent reflections on perception, cognition, and language, and her questions as to how an exhibition of artworks may articulate such concerns. In conjunction with prior works and a short film, the exhibition features a new series of photographs in which the artist interrogates interplays between the eye and consciousness.

#2025 #experimentalphotography #josephinepryde #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Contact M
Park McArthur
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2025, 216 pp. with foam board insert (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €38

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Park McArthur: Contact M bringing together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.

Co-organized by Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach and mumok in Vienna, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.

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I'll Never Ask You
Kazuna Taguchi
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne & Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, 2025, 64 pp. (b/w ill.), 15.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Kazuna Taguchi’s exhibition I’ll never ask you at MUMOK, Wien, 13 June–16 November, 2025.

Taguchi’s meticulously composed monochrome photographs convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes that resonate with the surrealist tradition concerning the questioning of the photographic representation of the female body. This can be moments of the phantomic or Yūgen*-like, images that capture a figure in a state between appearance and disappearance.

*According to the Japanese poet Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), yūgen is a feeling that is not openly expressed in words, but symbolically indicated by images.

Designed by HIT.

#2025 #hit #kazunataguchi #mumok #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2018, 250 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 28 cm, English
Price: €65

Produced on the occasion of Tony Conrad’s retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University (2018/2019) and ICA, University of Pennsylvania (2019). With texts by Rachel Adams, Vera Alemani, Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, David Grubbs, Henriette Huldisch, Branden W. Joseph, Andrew Lampert, Christopher Müller, Annie Ochmanek, Tony Oursler, Tina Rivers Ryan, Jay Sanders, Paige Sarlin, Christopher Williams.

#2018 #annieochmanek #anthonyelms #brandenwjoseph #christophermuller #christopherwilliams #diedrichdiederichsen #jaysanders #tonyconrad #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
The Body Decides
Franz Erhard Walther
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne; Wiels, Brussels & CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 2014, 116 pp. with 6 pop-ups (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 22 cm, English
Price: €290

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Franz Erhard Walther at Wiels, Brussels, 21 February–11 May, 2014 and Franz Erhard Walther: The Body Decides at CAPC, Bordeaux, 13 November, 2014–3 March, 2015.

A pop up book for adults, this catalogue on the work of Franz Erhard Walther sought its inspiration in the artist’s work in order to determine the publication-form that might most appropriately convey the centrality of action to the artist’s oeuvre. The performativity at the heart of Walther’s more than a half century long practice is underscored through the appearance of six brightly coloured elementary pop up forms spread throughout the book.

#capc #elenafilipovic #franzerhardwalther #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wiels
Shonandai - Exposing The World
Itsuko Hasegawa
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2025, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English
Price: €39

An in-depth look at the Shonandai Cultural Centre, one of the groundbreaking buildings in 1980s Japan and the masterpiece of Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa, presented in photographs and technical drawings. The Shonandai Cultural Centre was the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. Shonandai belongs to a different time – the 1980s – and a different place, Japan, but it shares the desire of earlier generations to “overcome” modernism. Hasegawa achieves this in the most outlandish way, possible perhaps only in Japan in the 1980s. This is where the 1960s techno avant-garde comes full circle. Illustrated with photographs by Stefano Graziani, this book is part of the Everything without Content series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis and successor to previous books on Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo.

#2025 #architecture #everythingwithoutcontent #itsukohasegawa #japanesearchitecture #joriskritis #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig