Böcker av Daniel Birnbaum

How af Klint's early drawings rose from spiritual practices conducted with friends: the first volume in a beautiful new catalogue raisonné

Tremulations präsentiert Objekte aus dem Archiv des Swedenborg-Hauses sowie Schriften und Kunstwerke u.a. von Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Yayoi Kusama und Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Die Publikation stellt die Orthodoxien des institutionellen Kuratierens in Frage und nimmt dabei wenig Rücksicht auf die traditionellen Formen der Kategorisierung der Welt. Sie kombiniert Elemente aus dem Archiv des Swedenborg-Hauses, darunter die Ohrknochen des Mystikers Emanuel Swedenborg, mit Werken der modernen und zeitgenössischen Kunst und Literatur. Der Katalog ist nach Swedenborgs "Neun Regeln der Tremulation" gegliedert und wird in Kapiteln unterteilt, die sich im physischen, zeitlichen und virtuellen Raum des Swedenborg-Hauses manifestieren. Swedenborgs Regeln sind ein Schema, um historische und zeitgenössische Formen der Verbreitung und Übertragung zu erforschen: Spiegelbilder, Träume, Reflexionen, divinatorische Visionen, Phantasien, Erinnerungen, Prophezeiungen und Halluzinationen sowie filmische Projektionsformen, die sich älterer Vermittlungstechnologien als Fernsehen und Video bedienen, sowie postkinematische und virtuelle Formen: The Bridge von Mark Leckey; Hilma af Klint: The Temple und It will End in Stars von Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg.

The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the "curatorial turn" in critical theory.In 1985, the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated Les Immatériaux at Centre Georges Pompidou. Though widely misunderstood at the time, the exhibition marked a "curatorial turn" in critical theory. Through its experimental layout and hybrid presentation of objects, technologies, and ideas, this pioneering exploration of virtuality reflected on the exhibition as a medium of communication and anticipated a deeper engagement with immersive and digital space in both art and theory. In Spacing Philosophy, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology. Les Immatériaux can thus be seen as a culmination and materialization of a life's work as well as a primer for the many thought-exhibitions produced in the following decades.The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the "curatorial turn" in critical theory.Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market. "It was especially interesting for us to watch a kind of transatlantic divide happening. While the US-American participants mostly declared criticism as obsolete while hoping for turning its weakness into a strength, most European participants departed from the opposite diagnosis: that criticism has never been as strong as it is today, since it is now part of a knowledge-based economy." Isabelle Graw/Daniel Birnbaum

Hilma af Klint is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. Now, for the first time, af Klint's works, some 1,600 in all, have been collected in a Catalogue Raisonné. Af Klint's work should be seen and appreciated in the series of paintings often depicting specific themes and this ground-breaking publication, divided into seven volumes, allows for this. This final volume presents Hilma af Klint's splendour as a painter of landscapes, portraits and botanical works. Produced with the permission of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and featuring introductions by Daniel Birnbaum and Kurt Almqvist, a separate slip cased edition containing all seven volumes will be available in autumn 2021.

Hilma af Klint¿s Catalogue Raisonné, the fourth of seven volumes, about one of Sweden¿s most fascinating collections of artistic output

Hilma af Klint¿s Catalogue Raisonné, the fifth of seven volumes, about one of Sweden¿s most fascinating collections of artistic output.

Hilma af Klint¿s Catalogue Raisonné, the sixth of seven volumes, about one of Sweden¿s most fascinating collections of artistic output.

This third volume of the artist¿s catalogue raisonné collects sketches made in preparation for af Klint¿s masterwork The Paintings for the Temple

What public institutions are capable of

One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience. This title documents the artist's first project in Berlin, where he has lived for many years.

A catalog of the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum for T2 - the second Torino Triennale. It brings together works by fifty young international artists and presents two special projects by Paul Chan and Olafur Eliasson.