With their free-flowing impasto, Andrea Bender’s images open up a disconcerting gap between figure and colorful backdrop.

ISBN 978-3-86828-182-8
25 Euro
2011

»Take your time.« With this programmatic request, Arvid Boecker encourages visitors to unhurriedly explore the interplay between his sculptural and painted works against the architecture of the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen.

ISBN 978-3-86828-283-2
30 Euro
2012

back to black presents an intriguing variety of works as a way of examining the significance of black in recent painting. Black as a color in its own right only came into acceptance again in the early 20th century amongst artists such as Matisse, and was then rehabilitated in the postwar period by Rauschenberg, Rothko and Stella.

ISBN 978-3-86828-010-4
49 Euro
2008

The Californian light artist James Turrell (*1943) founded a new, spatially defined light art in the 1960s. In it, light appears as an autonomous means of composition, separately from its source. In this way, he created pictures made for the first time of pure light. In this volume, the art historian Ulrike Gehring examines the various qualities of light in American art after 1945.

ISBN 978-3-936636-82-6
39 Euro
2006

The internet has radically changed our handling of knowledge. How we process, prepare, store and transfer knowledge and its forms has altered substantially from earlier practices.

ISBN 978-3-939583-93-6
10,00 Euro
2009

Born in 1961 in Cologne, the photographer Boris Becker belongs to a young generation of artists who have increasingly turned their attention to the subject of landscape...

ISBN 978-3-933257-37-6
25 Euro
2001

Under the title "Colorful is My Favorite Color" – a quote from Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius – the colored pencil drawings of the Art Brut artists are juxtaposed with selected modern works on paper: masterpieces by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Johannes Itten, Meret Oppenheim, Richard Paul Lohse and Camille Graeser. Exemplars from contemporary art supplement this sensual celebration of the rainbow.

ISBN 978-3-936636-33-8
28 Euro
2005

Presence is a counter-intuitive, conceptual, and thoroughly entertaining take on the search for celebrity. Photographer Chris Buck hides his famous subjects without the use of digital manipulation in this perverse take on power portraits.

ISBN 978-3-86828-307-5
30 Euro
2012

Orpheus Descending is a journey through the nocturnal streets of New York, situated somewhere between dream and reality. Lost among steel, stone, concrete, and neon light, the viewer takes the perspective of an anonymous and restless wanderer in this mythical city.

ISBN 978-3-936636-87-1
44 Euro
2006

The Architectural History Game teaches the basics of the history of building in a playful manner. It introduces twelve epochs by presenting six representative buildings for each, showing their floor plans and elevations. These two different views of a building form the pair.

ISBN 978-3-86828-020-3
19,80 Euro
2008