Catalogue Raisonné 1961–1996
Isa Genzken
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Cologne & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2026, 702 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €240

The first volume of Isa Genzken’s catalogue raisonné documents works produced between 1961 and 1996, providing documentation of her oeuvre in chronological order and across all media (sculpture, painting, installation, works on paper, and film). Edited by Daniel Buchholz with Michael Sanchez, Katharina Forero de Mund and Christopher Müller. The book includes an introductory essay by Manfred Hermes, as well as a biographical timeline, exhibition history and bibliography.

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Mire Lee
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2026, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of Mire Lee’s exhibition The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead at Secession, Vienna, 26 June–26 August, 2026.

Mire Lee’s large-scale installations are often composed of leaking mechanisms and quasi-organic structures that appear to drip and decay. Deliberately broken motorised elements seem to strain under their own operation, resisting the seamless efficiency associated with contemporary technological aesthetics. With texts from Haris Giannouras, Gemma Barricarte and Mire Lee. Designed by Sabo Day & Rosen Eveleigh.

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Asleep in Dirt
Yair Oelbaum
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2024, 104 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.8 × 26.7 cm, English
Price: €32

An artists’ book gathering photographic works by Yair Oelbaum, followed by a note by the artist on his process, from his experiments with a Macro 5 Polaroid camera—a camera originally intended for dental and crime scene photography—to his creation of images of “transient arrangements on an array of surfaces.”

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60er Jahre - Lidl-Zeit
Chris Reinecke
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1999, 192 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24.5 cm, German
Price: €38

Chris Reinecke’s boundary-crossing work from the late 1960s questions female role behaviour, raises critical social awareness, and aims for radical political change. The concepts and actions realised between 1966 and 1971 need to be re-evaluated today, both within the art context and against the backdrop of current political and social developments.

Reinecke withdrew from the art world in 1970 and founded a self-help collective for tenant solidarity, organising demonstrations and squatting buildings for the homeless. Later she withdrew in turn from politics and, out of the public eye, took up her artistic work again.

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Exhibition History 1964–1975 and Selected Works 1957–1975
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.

#2021 #annydedecker #marcelbroodthaers #sabinefolie #susannepfeffer #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
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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