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Independent photojournalism and documentary photographyare indispensable tools of political educationfor a democratic society and an essential part of shapingpublic opinion-especially in our so-called 'post-factual'times. In recognition of this, the independent non-profitorganization World Press Photo Foundation, based inAmsterdam, has been presenting the World Press PhotoAward for the best photo, the best story, the best longtermproject of the year for more than six decades. Thewinning images in the various categories tell bold storiesand provide invaluable insights into the state of our world.The winning photo will be announced alongside the booklaunch and presented in a traveling exhibition. The excitementcontinues as we wait to see which images will bechosen from thousands of submissions-and, of course,which photo will become the cover illustration!

Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries that shaped the course of European art. In 48 lavishly illustrated analyses, Matthias Depoorter explores how painters such as Van Eyck, Van der Weiden, Massys, Bosch, and Bruegel reached unprecedented heights, and are rightfully considered innovators to this day.The defining factor was their perfecting and mastery of the oil painting technique as well as their groundbreaking attention to optical lighting effects. The new technical possibilities offered a different way of looking at the world and ultimately a new way of painting. No less innovative was the level of detail. These painters were thoroughly acquainted with each other's work-this volume shows the fundamental artistic cross-fertilization. A must-read for anyone who wants to fall in love with the old master- pieces anew.MATTHIAS DEPOORTER (*1980) is a writer and an art historian. He was one of the curators of the seminal exhibition Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent and coordinated the accompanying scholarly publication.

Born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997.

Critical Geography examines the power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies that shape physical space. By critically analyzing these forces, the publication stimulates conversations about social justice, environmental sustainability, and transformative change. The artistic practices featured in the book shed light on systemic oppression, violence, and pressing environmental issues, and encompass a wide range of image-based practices that make inequality visible in both colonial and postcolonial contexts, including mapping, social media, and technology. FOTOFEST is a Houston-based contemporary arts organization co-founded by photojournalists Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss. The use of photography or related media to examine social, cultural, and political histories as well as contemporary life is central to FotoFest's mission. In addition to year-round programming, FotoFest organizes a city-wide biennial project that includes large-scale central exhibitions, curated lectures, performances, a symposium, and a film program.

Call Me Lola is a moving photo essay by the acclaimed Israeli-American lens-based artist and documentarian Loli Kantor. For over twenty years, she combed through the family archives of her Polish-born father, a doctor and political activist. At the center of her work is her mother, Lola, who died in childbirth: a woman who manifests herself principally through images and stories rather than direct memories. The family documents and photographs that retrace the artist's personal history are shown alongside new camera-based works, resulting in a deeply subjective reflection on the most significant upheavals of the twentieth century: war and displacement, love and loss, trauma and grief. LOLI KANTOR (*1952) is an Israeli-American photographer whose work centers on personal and cultural memory. She lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.

Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook that he filled with motifs as he wandered through the city, and whose original binding has been lost. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett have now largely reconstructed the original sequence of the book's pages. This forms the basis of the present facsimile. In his fascinating studies, van Heemskerck captured the ancient sculptures, ruins, and Roman cityscapes. His sketches display a refined eye for composition and perspective as well as an extraordinary sensibility of drawing. In the sketchbook, the artist developed a space for individual experimentation, as well as a valuable trove of motifs from which he would draw throughout his life. MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK (1498-1574) was one of the most famous Dutch painters of the sixteenth century. Today he is best known for his magnificent Roman drawings.

Piet Blanckaert, one of Belgium's most important landscape architects, brings more than forty years of experience and a love of gardens to his work. Inspired by the great English landscape architects, his repertoire ranges from the walled gardens of his hometown of Bruges to magically structured landscape ensembles. With an introductory essay on his working methods, this book presents Blanckaert's gardens from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the earliest to the most recent, captured in fantastic photographs by Jean-Pierre Gabriel in every season. PIET BLANCKAERT (*1955) is a landscape architect and has run his own independent studio, Piet Blanckaert Landscape Design, in Bruges since 1979. His commissions include private gardens, the design of open spaces around hotels and industrial facilities, as well as sculpture gardens in Belgium, France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Greece.

The artist duo Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset continues to devise new ways of presenting and perceiving art through their subversive and versatile work. The updated and expanded edition of Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures is the most comprehensive study to date of the duo's sculptures from the mid-1990s to the present day. Visually designed to reflect the aesthetic and concep-tual working methods developed by the artist duo over the course of their careers, the book features detailed photographic documentation as well as four seminalessays on the artist duo's oeuvre. MICHAEL ELMGREEN (*Denmark) and INGAR DRAGSET (*Norway) have been working together since 1995. Their work explores socio-cultural and political themes such as the challenges of growing up, queer issues, the construction of identity, consumer culture, and the privatization of public space. The artist duo has received numerous prizes, including the Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2002) and a Special Mention at the Venice Biennale (2009).

This catalogue is an immersive adventure through the what, how and why of a contemporary art exhibition for children and adults alike. It is a journey through the 2023 exhibition Thoughts Play Hide and Seek by Ephra in Berlin. Curated by Rebecca Raue, the catalogue features works by Paula Anke, Ilit Azoulay, Olafur Eliasson, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Jeppe Hein, Claudia Hill, Christian Jankowski, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Ali Kaaf, Wie-yi T. Lauw, Dafna Maimon, Wolfgang Karl May, Ayumi Paul, Ana Prvacki, Karin Sander, Yorgos Sapountzis, Tomás Saraceno, Nadine Schemmann, Vlado Velkov, Ulrich Vogl and Nicole Wendel.

In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their business, Makers of Simple Furniture, in London. Until 1940, the company produced hundreds of ingenious plywood designs that helped define the idea of the modern interior in Great Britain. Based on Marjorie Butcher's vivid recollections and a wealth of unpublished material-including photographs, personal correspondence, designs and workshop documents-the book traces the groundbreaking achievements of the furniture company best known for the iconic Bent Plywood Armchair .  The publication was supported in part by the Graham Foundationfor Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. GERALD SUMMERS (1899-1967) is one of the foremost furniture designers of the twentieth century. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he worked as an engineer before starting his design career. In 1931, he and his partner, MARJORIE BUTCHER (1909-1996), opened Makers of Simple Furniture in London. They managed the firm for almost ten years, producing hundreds of pieces for the modern home. In 1940, wartime exigencies brought an end to the enterprise. They redirected their energy to Gerald Summers Ltd., a supplier of engineering parts. MARTHA DEESE is an authority on Gerald Summers. She earned a master's degree in decorative art history from Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, New York, and worked for three decades as an administrator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her groundbreaking article on Summers and his firm, Makers of Simple Furniture, published in the Journal of Design History in 1992, remains the principal source on the designer.

This publication gives a comprehensive overview of the work of Italian artist Alberto Garutti. His innovative oeuvre, consisting primarily of sculptures, installations, and works in public space, explores site-specificity along with its social realities and historical contexts. With the artistic and methodological strategies he has employed since the 1990s, he has revolutionized the vocabulary of public and site-specific art. ALBERTO GARUTTI (1948-2023) has been a key figure on the Italian and European contemporary art scene of the last forty years. Since the early 1990s, Garutti's practice has evolved into a radical manifesto for public art. His works in the urban context-commissioned by cities and institutions around the world-are meant to be open devices for reimaging. As a practitioner of public art and a teacher at the Academy of Brera in Milan and at the IUAV in Venice who has influenced many generations of Italian artists, Alberto Garutti is considered one of the most influential Italian artists of his generation.

The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin's view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him, one of the most outstanding drawing artists of the twentieth century. Trapped in his fantasies, he finds himself confronted with uncanny dream apparitions and a pronounced fear of the feminine, the night, and fate. This catalogue explores Kubin's graphic cosmos of the ominous, his nightmares and obsessions and the iconography of evil. ALFRED KUBIN (1877-1959) was an important Austrian draughtsman and graphic artist. In 1898, after a traumatic childhood in Zell am See and a series of mental crises, he began his artistic training in Munich. Kubin worked through his nightmares and obsessions in a large number of fantastic drawings.

Frans Hals is one of the most important portrait painters of all time. Like Rembrandt, the famous Dutch Baroque master's striking portraits of the bourgeoisie and social outsiders are distinguished by their extraordinary vividness and accurate depiction. His sketch-like paintings, executed with bold brushstrokes, had a decisive influence on modernist painting. This comprehensive publication coincides with the first major survey exhibition of Hals' oeuvre in more than thirty years. FRANS HALS (1582/84-1666) was born in Antwerp, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1610 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Hals created hundreds of genre paintings, individual, and group portraits and enjoyed great public prestige. Despite his fame during his lifetime, it was not until the nineteenth century that he was enthusiastically rediscovered by the Impressionists and Realists.

This catalogue pays tribute to the artist Sven Drühl as a collector and theorist. For more than twenty years, he has been exhibiting his conceptual landscape paintings, neons and bronzes in institutional exhibitions. Now, for the first time, the Hans Erni Museum Lucerne and the Museum Wiesbaden are showing Drühl's collection of nineteenth-century paintings alongside his works: from Eugen Bracht to Janus La Cour and Carl Spitzweg. Another key aspect is Drühl's theoretical work, in which he has made a name for himself, as a guest editor of Kunstforum International and as the author of numerous articles on art history. SVEN DRÜHL (*1968, Nassau) studied art and mathematics. He became internationally known through his compilations of famous landscape paintings. With a PhD in art theory, he is also an author and editor of publications on contemporary art.

This book is a comprehensive tribute to the Polish-Belgian artist Tapta (Maria Wierusz-Kowalska). Her work transcends traditional artistic boundaries, captivating audiences with her innovative exploration of fluid spaces and dynamic interactions. Her work, an important contribution to twentieth century sculpture, is essentially divided into two major sections: the textile works of the 1960s to 1980s and the subsequent neoprene works of the last years of her life. Her practice moved away from traditional weaving through experimental techniques and evolved into three-dimensional works-first made of cords, then of neoprene sheets-that interacted with the space and the viewer. TAPTA (*1926-1997) was born in Poland and came to Belgium as a political refugee with her husband, Krzysztof Wierusz-Kowalski, after taking part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. She studied weaving at the La Cambre National School of Visual Arts, Brussels, from where she graduated in 1949. Shortly afterwards, the couple moved to the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), where they lived from 1950 to 1960. On their return to Belgium in 1960, until her sudden death in 1997, she worked in Brussels as an artist and-from 1976 until 1990-as a professor at La Cambre.

Die Publikation widmet sich Paul Hutchinsons fotografischerArbeit aus den Jahren 2019 bis 2024. Wirsehen Bilder, die auf Fragen von Klasse anspielen,Momente von Fragilität und Rauheit, und eine Stadt,die sich selbst durch Schriftzüge auf Wänden artikuliert. Remnants bezieht sich auf eine Gruppe abstrakterArbeiten, in denen Hutchinson unbeabsichtigte Überresteabbildet, die bei der Entfernung von Graffiti anU-Bahn Wägen entstehen. Der Titel verweist außerdemauf das wachsende Gefühl eines akuten gesellschaftlichenWandels, die zunehmenden sozialen Spannungenund Hutchinsons persönliche Reflexionen, die vondiesenumfassenderen Themen durchdrungen sind. PAUL HUTCHINSON (*1987, Berlin) hinterfragt kritisch die Entwicklung sozialer Prozesse im urbanen Raum. In seiner fotografischen Praxis und in seinen Texten setzt er sich mit innerstädtischer Kultur und Bedingungen sozialer Mobilität auseinander und oszilliert dabei zwischen Dokumentation, Fiktion und Poesie. Seine Arbeiten wurden in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, zuletzt in der Kunst-Station Wolfsburg via Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, während des Europäischen Monats der Fotografie Berlin und im Kunstverein Ulm. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Zu sein wie Wasser, ohne Form, fähig sich allen Gegebenheitenanzupassen, ist das Ideal der in Berlin lebendenKünstlerin moki. In ihren Gemälden mäandert sie zwischenzeitlosem Eskapismus und der Konfrontation mitden Themen unserer Zeit. In ihren detailreichen Acrylbildernverschwimmen Fiktion und Realität. Wie eineForscherin erkundet sie die Schattierungen der Farbräumein einem grün-blauen Spektrum und erschafftihren eigenen Kosmos, in dem die Sehnsucht nachSymbiosesichtbar wird.Bereichert durch zahlreiche Texte und ein Interviewvereint Mäander ihre Gemälde der Jahre 2014 bis 2023. MOKI ist bildende Künstlerin und nimmt seit 2004 an internationalen Ausstellungen teil. Der Schwerpunkt ihres Schaffens liegt auf der Malerei. Sie abeitet darüber hinaus mit unterschiedlichen Medien. Für ihre Graphic Novels & Kinderbücher wurde Moki mehrfach ausgezeichnet.

For the Lebanese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Mounira Al Solh has been invited to create a bridge between myth and reality. Her installation, A Dance with her Myth , is about the abduction of the Phoenician princess Europa by the god Zeus, who disguised himself as a white bull. The artist reinterprets this ancient myth from a contemporary perspective. The catalogue includes several texts on the significance of the monumental 41-part installation. MOUNIRA AL SOLH (*1978 Beirut, Lebanon) is a multidisciplinary artist, working with painting and drawing, text, embroidery, recorded sound, sculptures, video and performative gestures. Growing up during the Lebanese Civil War in Lebanon, Al Solh's works bear witness to the impact of conflict and displacement in the region. She deals with ongoing social and feminist struggles, while her work can be political and poetically escapist at once. She lives and works between Lebanon and the Netherlands.

Der international bekannte Fotograf Michael Wesely fängt in seinen Fotografien Zeit und Leben ein. In Doubleday erforscht er die archäologische Dimension der Fotografie, indem er seine eigenen Aufnahmen passgenau über historische Ansichten von Berliner Bauten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts legt. Er schafft einen Zeitsprung von der Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart: Flaneure des 19. Jahrhunderts treffen am Alexanderplatz auf Reisende von heute, unter Rekonstruktionen werden Ruinen sichtbar und an die Stelle des Schlosses Monbijou tritt - fast wie durch Zauberhand - ein Park. MICHAEL WESELY (*1963) ist gefeierter Meister der Langzeitbelichtung. Sein präziser, dem jeweiligen Gegenstand entsprechender Einsatz dieser fotografischen Technik machte ihn weltbekannt. Seine einzigartige Ästhetik ist in zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungen und Sammlungen vertreten. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

In der Arbeit des Künstlers Titus Schade geht es um Malerei und um ihre visuelle Räumlichkeit. In seinen an Kulissen erinnernden Umgebungen entwickelt er Orte, die mal wie ein Modell, mal wie eine Theaterbühne wirken. So erfindet Schade in seinen Bildern eine Reihe verschiedener Architekturen und Ausstattungsstücke, die den Betrachter in private Räume führen. Dabei versucht er nicht, die Wirklichkeit abzubilden. Vielmehr arbeitet er mit Ersatzelementen, die er in einer in sich geschlossenen Umgebung anordnet. Seine Formen und die meist architektonischen Raumstrukturen werden auf geradezu barocke Art beleuchtet. Klassische Landschaften begegnen geometrischen Formen, deren Zeitlosigkeit eine universelle Lesart erlaubt. TITUS SCHADE (*1984, Leipzig), einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der jungen deutschen Malerei, war Schüler der Leipziger Akademie der Bildenden Künste, unter anderem bei Neo Rauch. Er lebt und arbeitet in Leipzig. Seine Arbeit wurde in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Deutschland gezeigt. Titus Schade wird vertreten durch die Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig / Berlin.

With the first appointment of the outstanding performance artist Marina Abramovic to the Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts, the focus in the 2023-23 academic year was placed on transdisciplinarity, artistic daring and social awareness.The project supervised by Abramovic, entitled "Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL)", was realised in a class put together by her, in which she brought together over 20 students from the fields of music (classical and jazz, instrumental, vocal and composition), dance, design, photography, (physical) theatre and directing. The students developed individual or collective concepts for performances and learnt how to develop a long-term performative work form in an experience-based process. In a workshop entitled "Cleaning the House", which was organised according to a method developed by Marina Abramovicmethod developed by Marina Abramovic, the students developed a sense of the presence required in performances, including the exploration of their individual physical and mental limits. The outstanding performance artist Marina Abramovic was the first holder of the new Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2022/23. She focused on transdisciplinarity, artistic daring and social awareness. In her Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL), Abramovic brought together over twenty students from the fields of music, dance, design, photography, (physical) theater and directing. Over two semesters, they realized artistic-performative projects that dealt with agency, resilience and body awareness and explored physical and mental boundaries.

Seit den 1960er-Jahren beschäftigen sich weltweitKünstlerinnen wie Margaret Raspé, Gabriele Voss,Tomaso Binga, Anna Daucíková, Hackney Flashers,Mako Idemitsu, Ana Victoria Jiménez, Mary Sibandeund JinranHa kritisch mit Care-Arbeit. Sie thematisierendie körperlichen Strapazen der täglichen Arbeit, dekonstruierendie Mythen, die sich um die »Arbeit aus Liebe«ranken, führen die Bedingungen vor, die Care-Arbeiterinnen strukturell marginalisieren und machen dieMechanismen sichtbar, unter denen das Kochen, Putzenund Sorgen bis heute abgewertet wird.Der zweisprachige Katalog ist die erste umfassendeÜberblickspublikation zu Care-Arbeit in der bildendenKunst. FRIEDERIKE SIGLER ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. LINDA WALTHER ist Direktorin des Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop.

Sanyu: His Life and Works in Oil traces the life of theChinese artist (1895-1966) from his early years in Chinaand Japan, to his artistic experimentation and developmentin Paris and New York, ending in his tragic death,impoverished and forgotten. Today, however, Sanyu is oneof the most coveted Chinese modern artists. An examinationof his life reveals that it was precisely the polaritiesand tensions he experienced that spurred him to create aunique pictorial language that so dynamically integratedthe spirit of Western modernity with centuries-old establishedChinese traditions. Sanyu metamorphosed froma Chinese artist of the modern period to a modernistwith Chinese cultural roots. These intersecting dynamicsresulted in a hybridization previously unseen.Featuring examples of his works of all genres and drawingon a wealth of archival material as well as personal storiesrecounted by people who knew Sanyu, this biography is themost comprehensive record of Sanyu's life to date.

A prolific writer, photographer, portraitist, and documentarian, Lucia Moholy defies categorization. She was as active in avant-garde circles as she was in the field of information science, advancing an expansive understanding of visual reproduction. While previous publications on Moholy have limited her accomplishments to the five years she spent at the Bauhaus, Lucia Moholy: Exposures presents the full breadth of her writings and photographs for the first time. Extensive essays drawing on new archival discoveries offer insights into her early life in turn-of-the-century Prague, her involvement in the radical social movements of the 1920s in Weimar Germany, her emigration to London, where colleagues and friends included members of the Bloomsbury Group as well as her wartime involvement with microfilm and scientific documentation and her work in the Middle East on behalf of UNESCO. Acknowledging her reception by contemporary artists such as Jan Tichý, the publication demonstrates how Moholy's interdisciplinary approach to photography anticipated the medium's post-analogue present.LUCIA MOHOLYs (1894-1989) photographs in the aesthetics of the New Objectivity continue to shape the international reception of the Bauhaus to this day. After studying art history and philosophy in her native Prague, she worked as an editor before arriving at the Bauhaus with her husband László Moholy-Nagy in 1923. Her bestselling book A Hundred Years of Photography 1839-1939 was highly influential for the recognition of the medium as an art form. In 1959 she settled in Switzerland, where she continued to work as an art critic.

The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is a singular position within contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Nicolae Ceaüescu, he dreamed of other worlds that seemed forever inaccessible due to the Iron Curtain. From the beginning, Schmückle's uniquely coherent pictorial cosmos has been linked to the idea of primeval forests and jungles, oscillating between hyperrealism and undisguised escapism, precise observation of nature and exuberant imagination. His almost scientific approach belies the fact that his complex creations have not sprung from nature but from imagination. Schmückle's fascinating hybrid creatures intertwine notions of scent and poison, beauty and transience, anatomy and sexuality to create an oeuvre between truth and invention that is both timeless and ostensibly fallen out of time.This monograph comprises works from the past 15 years and gives insights into the artist's concepts and technique through an in-depth interview with art scholar and journalist Simon Elson.MIRON SCHMÜCKLE (*1966 Sibiu, Romania) emigrated toGermany in 1988 and studied from 1991-96 at the MuthesiusUniversity of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel in Renate Anger's classfor experimental painting, and at the HFBK Hamburg in the classfor performance with Marina Abramovic in 1994. He moved intohis first studio in Hamburg in 1997. Since 2008, he has lived andworked in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 2016, with a studyon Joris Hoefnagel's 16th century cabinet miniatures..

Ugo Rondinone's 2022 exhibition the water is a poem unwritten by the air / no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire at the Petit Palais in Paris explores the theme of transformation. Ugo Rondinone presents three ensembles of sculptures and a monumental video installation. Earth, sky, air, water and fire are invoked in the fullness of their spiritual dimension. Under the museum's painted ceilings, the first ensemble welcomes visitors in a farandole of suspended bodies painted in a clouded sky camouflage, underlining the ephemeral melding of air and water. A second ensemble is composed of seated sculptures of dancers at rest made from a blend of wax and earth collected from seven continents. The centerpiece artwork titled burn to shine, is a film installation presented in a monumental charred wood cylinder. The artwork depicts bodies coming together throughout movement, with dancers and musicians gathered around a fire in the desert from sunset to sunrise. In echo with John Giorno's poem titled You Got To Burn To Shine. This catalogue is a unique document of the dialogue between Rondinone's works confronted with the museum's architecture and its collections.UGO RONDINONE (*1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary in sculpture, painting, video, and performance. The New York-based artist borrows from ancient and modern cultural sources; his works exude pathos and humor, going straight to the heart of the most pressing issues of our time.

John Sanborn became one of the most prominent protagonistsof the American video art scene in the 1970s and1980s. His work ranges from the beginnings of experimentalvideo art to MTV music videos, interactive art, and digitalmedia art. Consulting with Apple and Adobe, he contributedto shaping the possibilities of new image toolsand was instrumental to the dawning of the digital imagerevolution in California.This monograph brings together a collection of works thatspans over four decades of exploring sound, music, culturalidentity, memory, mythologies, and the human compulsionto tell stories. Essays by video art experts, contributions byhis friends and companions, and a conversation betweenSanborn and acclaimed media artist Dara Birnbaumexplore the tension between mass media and contemporaryart. Sanborn himself traces the unique arc of his careerand talks about a journey that took him from museumsand alternative spaces to television networks, Hollywoodand Silicon Valley before returning to the art world. Fewother artists working with media can claim to have delvedinto so many visual territories.JOHN SANBORN (*1954, Huntington, New York) is a key memberof the second wave of American video artists. His body of workspans the early days of experimental video art in the 1970sthrough the heyday of MTV music/videos and interactive artto the digital media art of today. His work has been exhibitedon television, as video installations, video games, Internetexperiences and in live performances such as God in 3 Persons,a collaboration with The Residents, at MoMA in New York (2020).Sanborn lives and works in Berkeley, California.

Die Kunstgeschichtsschreibung interessiert sich bei derMalerei im Wesentlichen für die Grundthemen Technik,Kunstepochen und Bildgattungen und kann sich dabeibis in das kleinste Detail vertiefen. »Denk nicht, sondernschau!« verfolgt das gegenteilige Anliegen. Hier ist derVerzicht auf kommentierende Texte Programm. Es gehtum den bewussten Akt des Sehens: das Betrachten derKunstwerke ohne Ablenkung, um das Wesentliche - das»Unerklärbare« - im Kunstwerk zu erkennen.Diese Publikation will eines nicht sein: eine umfassendeKunstgeschichte. Vielmehr möchte die durchaus subjektiveAuswahl von 338 Gemälden aus sieben Jahrhunderteneinen ungetrübten Blick auf die chronologischeEntwicklung der westlichen Malerei ermöglichen.Das Schlüsselbild ist auf dem Umschlag abgebildet: Diegroßen Badenden von Paul Cezanne. Hier ist die Landschaftfrei erfunden und die Darstellung erzählt keine Geschichte:Der Weg zum ungegenständlichen Bild unserer Zeit istgeöffnet.WALTER FEILCHENFELDT jr. (*1939, Amsterdam) ist ein SchweizerKunsthändler, Sammler und Kunstforscher. Nach seinemStudium der Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Zürich ginger zunächst nach London zu Sotheby's als Art Expert im BereichImpressionismus und Moderne, bevor er 1966 in die KunsthandlungWalter Feilchenfeldt eintrat, die sein Vater als Nachfolgefirmades Kunstsalons Paul Cassirer in Zürich gegründethatte. Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Kunsthändler machte er sicheinen Namen als Experte von Paul Cezanne und Vincent vanGogh und war Mitherausgeber zahlreicher Publikationen.

Guy Ben Ner macht aus wenig viel, indem er sich selbstund sein privates Umfeld radikal in seine künstlerischePraxis mit einbezieht. Die Wohnung seiner Familie in TelAviv dient dem Videokünstler genauso als Drehort wie dieFilialen einer Möbelkette. In diesen oft grotesken Settingsoffenbart sich der Einfluss von Wirtschaft und Politik aufdie intimsten menschlichen Beziehungen.Dabei ist es die Diskrepanz zwischen improvisierten Drehsituationenund der Stringenz der künstlerischen Konzepte,die sein Werk auszeichnen. Im Gespräch mit dem engenFreund und Künstlerkollegen Christian Jankowski gibt BenNer Einblick in den Entstehungsprozess seiner Werke. Dennwas im Video improvisiert und zufällig wirkt, basiert aufmonatelangen Recherchen und gründet in einem umfangreichenfilmhistorischen Wissen. Entlang von Begriffen wie»Ästhetik«, »Fantasie«, »Familie« oder »Zitat« entwickeltKuratorin Fanni Fetzer ein Alphabet des Widerstands in BenNers OEuvre. Die Publikation will die klare politische Haltungdes Künstlers und seine Strategie, spielerisch Widerstandzu leisten, vermitteln. Der Videokünstler GUY BEN NER (*1969, Ramat Gan, Israel) lebt und arbeitet in Tel Aviv. 2003 schloss er sein Studium der bildenden Kunst an der Columbia Universität in New York City ab. 2005 bespielte er an der Biennale Venedig den israelischen Pavillon und wurde 2022 mit einer umfassenden Retrospektive im Tel Aviv Museum of Art geehrt.