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A city lives through the people who reside in it, work there, and party there. The well-known photographer Kristian Schuller and his wife Peggy have lived in Paris and New York for the past decade. In Berlin he went off on an expedition to capture life in this city. Schuller is on the lookout for the characters who inhabit Berlin's nightlife-a nightlife that stands for Berlin worldwide, one in(TM)uenced by artists, actors, musicians, and all of the city's wonderful eccentrics. The result is an album of portraits that draws its own map of the pulsating capital. Whether in modest black-and-white or exploding color, each portrait has its own individual expression, personal touch, and peculiarities. Schuller's very own picture of Berlin is created from one photo to the next. It is multifaceted and glittering-a Berlin that reinvents itself every night. As always, the artistic concept and photographs were created through Kristian and Peggy Schuller's close collaboration.The photographer KRISTIAN SCHULLER (Halchiu, Romania) lives and works in Berlin and New York. He and his wife, Peggy, studied fashion under Vivienne Westwood and photography under F.C. Gundlach. He is known for his imposing fashion photography in international magazines, and his photographs have been seen in many exhibitions.

Throughout his forty-plus-year career, Peter Arnell has built an unparalleled reputation creating groundbreaking, boundary-averse work for many of the world's most well-known brands. This beautifully conceptualized two-volume publication celebrates over four decades of tireless innovation and provides rich insight into a creative mind and an exceptionally diverse body of work. Arnell's far-reaching career has spanned disciplines ranging from graphic design, industrial design, automotive design, architecture, photography, and filmmaking, and has involved numerous collaborations with iconic figures like Helmut Newton, David Hockney, Muhammad Ali, Tom Brady, Steven Spielberg, and Jay-Z to name just a few. Included are signature projects for Samsung, Chanel, Gucci, DKNY, Pepsi, Reebok, Chrysler, Nespresso, and the Special Olympics, as well as texts by architect Frank Gehry, photographer Peter Lindbergh, and New York Times journalist Michel Marriott.PETER ARNELL (*1958, Brooklyn, New York) started his career working in the offices of Robert A.M. Stern and Michael Graves before publishing, writing, designing, and editing over twenty books on contemporary architecture, art, and photography for Rizzoli International Publications. He began specializing in design, branding, and product development with the founding of Arnell/Bickford in 1980. A twenty-year retrospective of his work Made in Brooklyn was published in 1996, and his New York Times best seller, Shift: How to Reinvent Your Business, Your Career, and Your Personal Brand appeared in 2010.

The work of the conceptual artist Loris Gréaud includes installations, films, and architecture, and his long-term project taking place around the world, The Unplayed Notes is no exception. Viewers encounter an experimental field of diverse media, all of which attempt to give form to temperature, light waves, or time. Gréaud is interested in the stages of artistic production. The process of searching per se becomes visible in his installations. This book invites readers to travel through a host of fantastical stories, from the (sur)natural history museum cleverly vandalized to the reactivation, as poetic as it is disturbing, of an old glass factory to the burial ad vitam of sculptures in a subterranean park in the heart of the desert-in accordance with the ideas of Karlheinz Stockhausen, which gave the book and this series of projects their name: the actual meaning of a work lies in its unplayed, unheard notes.Yet, the monolith features more than 300 hundred art works spread across 500 pages and traces eight years of aesthetic experiments and adventures from Paris, New York, Dallas, Venice to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. It includes one complementary essay by the artist's long-time collaborator, outstanding theorist, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud.LORIS GRÉAUD (*1979, Eaubonne) is a French conceptual artist. His works are part of prominent collections, and have been presented in museum and gallery exhibitions around the globe.

Pitsou Kedem's spatial arrangements evoke a continuing shift of perspective: A recurring element of the Tel Aviv architect's buildings is the impressive double height living room that creates a connection between levels. Guided by fundamental principles of minimalism, the studio was involved in a constant pursuit of purity in order to reveal the essence of a space. After years of simplifying materials to the extent of avoiding all distractions, the architects began to add layers of materials as well as spatial layers. This comprehensive publication retraces the past 20 years of the Studio's practice. Alongside a photographic archive of its built history in Israel, it features Kedem's drawings and studies of light perforations from his time at the AA School of Architecture, highlighting his fascination for light as the characterizing element that is at the core of his architectural language.Pitsou Kedem Architects Studio was founded by PITSOU KEDEM (*1970) after graduating from the AA Architectural Association School of Architecture in 2000. Operating for two decades, the studio has planned many projects in Israel, and more recently around the world, often characterized by a contrast between simple and clean outward masses, and complex and rich internal sections.

In Paris Calligrammes the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds Ulrike Ottinger links historical archival material with her own art and film works to create a sociogram of the era in which she came of age as an artist. In the grip of political upheavals, Paris of the 1960s attracted artists from all over the world and was a pulsating stream of energy hovering between trauma management and the utopia of Europe. From the Librairie Calligrammes, a meeting place of exiled German intellectuals, to the Cinémathèque française, which sparked her love of film, Ulrike Ottinger charts a city and its utopias. They live on in her collaged landscape of memories in a workshop exhibition complimenting her film Paris Calligrammes (2019).The films by ULRIKE OTTINGER (*1942 Konstanz, Germany) were shown at the most important international festivals and honored at various major museums, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. With her photographs she was represented at the documenta and the Biennale di Venezia.EXHIBITIONHKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, BerlinAugust 23-October 13, 2019

In its complexity, modern art can be intimidating and incomprehensible for some viewers. Without detailed knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology or Christian theology-once so vivid in the minds of both artists and viewers-some of the works of the Old Masters now seem meaningless, for the secret to understanding the masterpieces of art history often lies in a system rife with symbols, themes, and motifs that are frequently opaque to today's viewers. Patrick de Rynck and Jon Thompson decipher the mysteries, using more than two hundred paintings as examples. Brief, succinct descriptions are accompanied by more than five hundred color pictures that illuminate the images and awaken interest in these and other works of art. An attractive overview of the most beautiful paintings from the Renaissance to the present day!Patrick de Rynck is a classicist, translator, and the author of several books. Jon Thompson, artist, author, and curator, was former head of the fine art department at London University, and senior research professor at the University of Middlesex up until his recent retirement.

Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with humor, song, and an unlikely spirituality. His productions addressed the bitter political realities of his time-the systemic devaluation of Black life, governmental indifference to the AIDS crisis, sexual repression, genocide in Europe and war in the Middle East-with harrowing eloquence. Just before his death he ordered that his plays should never be performed again. Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh's works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, and conversations with his friends and colleagues, as well as scripts of his plays and contemporary reviews.The Iranian director REZA ABDOH (1963-1995) was known for his wildly ambitious, experimental, and often confrontational, theatrical productions. When he died of AIDS at the age of just thirty-two, he was already regarded as a crucial figure on the American avant-garde scene.

StudioMDA ist ein multidisziplinäres Architektur- und Designbüro mit Sitz in Frankfurt und New York. Gegründet wurde es von Markus Dochantschi, der davor für Zaha Hadid Architects tätig war. Seine gestalterische Herangehensweise beruht auf der Frage, wie wir Kunst weltweit wahrnehmen und präsentieren. Als Experte für Kulturgebäude kann das Büro auf eine ganze Reihe von Entwürfen für Kunstgalerien, Messestände und Ausstellungen verweisen, die in Zusammenarbeit mit renommierten Kunstsammlern, Künstlern und Galeristen entstanden sind. Die Publikation nimmt das Verhältnis von Kunst und Architektur in den Blick und beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Kunst- und Präsentationsgrößen. In Gesprächen zwischen Künstlern, Architekten, Galeristen, Kunstsammlern und Messedirektoren über die Beziehung von Raum und Maßstab werden Parallelen und Unterschiede deutlich, die sich in den Präsentationsformen von Architektur und Kunst vom Konzept bis zur Konstruktion finden.

Consolidation of color and form

Working with nature: clay and chance

The history of Europe as a history of media | Peter Weibel's collected writings of the history of media in 6 volumes

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre contains more than three thousand individual works of art. Over a period of six decades he has created a stylistically diverse and complex body of work, which confirms Richter's rank as the most important artist alive today. The six-volume scholarly catalogue raisonné of all the paintings and sculptures features numerous full-page color reproductions of the works, as well as complete technical information on all of the art and the artist's handwritten notes, as well as provenance, exhibitions, and reference literature. Commentary, quotations, and comparative images of individual catalogue items round out the material.GERHARD RICHTER (*1932, Dresden) is one of the most influential contemporary artists. His oeuvre encompasses over three thousand paintings and sculptures. Richter studied from 1961 to 1964 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was later a professor . Richter lives and works in Cologne. DIETMAR ELGER studied a the University of Hamburg and has held the role of director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006.

Ernst Wilhelm Nay, the catalogue raisonne: the third volume of works by the great postwar abstract artist