This representative volume features large format plates of an imposing selection of masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zurich: fascinating late gothic paintings, paintings from the Golden Age of the Netherlands, the Italian baroque, and the Venetian settecento. Compelling images exist in the comprehensive spectrum of Swiss artists, which includes Fuseli, Böcklin, Hodler, Segantini, Vallotton, and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. First-class works by leading painters draw the viewer into the colorful world of impressionism and post-impressionism, at whose center stands a group of works by Claude Monet. Besides pieces by Edvard Munch, there are important works by Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, and Lovis Corinth. Last but not least, this splendid book features an excellent array of classic modern works by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, as well as American post-war art, pop art, and other works up to the present time: Cy Twombly, Joseph Beuys, Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, and Fischli/Weiss set the tone here. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-1145-6 )

The aim was already formulated at the last Venice Biennale: "to create a common place in a common time" - but the pavilions of the individual countries once again proved to be mutually isolated islands. This aim will now be realised at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 in the official contribution for the Danish pavilion by American Jason Rhoades and the Danish artist Peter Bonde. For the first time in the history of this art event, the representatives of two nations will create a common cultural and artistic space. The Snowball documents this joint project, in which the artists will transform the pavilion into a stock-car course with American stock cars, sound effects and film projections. Rhoades and Bonde see the multimedia installation as a work in progress that will already be created in the run-up to the Biennale in dialogue with artists, writers, academics and sponsors, and will be continued in creative cooperation beyond the art exhibition - in other places and with other people.

In June 2008, Christian Boros opened part of his valuable collection of contemporary art to the public in a bunker built in 1942 in the center of Berlin. Within a period of five years, this structure was renovated into a spectacular private museum with eighty rooms of different heights and not a single ray of natural light. The first permanent exhibition features selected sculptures, installations, and light and performance works, each of which refers to the special and complex spatial situation of the bunker, making it possible to tangibly experience each space. All of the works, in part reworked or recreated, were installed and set up by the artists themselves. Together with the photographs by Noshe, this volume documents the pieces in this unusual exhibition context and invites the reader to discover lesser-known stances and young talents, alongside famous figures such as Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sarah Lucas, Tobias Rehberger, Anselm Reyle, and Santiago Sierra.

In his wonderfully ambiguous One Minute Sculptures, which are only humorous at first glance, Erwin Wurm takes a literal approach to sculpture while also deconstructing it. On the one hand, his Fat Car and Fat House are spirited, thoughtful critiques of consumer culture, but they are also simple to comprehend. Wurm coolly manipulates and deforms his seemingly melancholy protagonists, their paradoxical actions, grotesque grimaces, and strained poses giving rise to fundamental questions concerning normality and the meaning or the lack of it in both artistic conventions and human actions.

Anyone who knows Wurm’s work looks forward to and enjoys every new work produced by the Vienna-based artist. This informative monograph offers many new, previously unpublished videos, sculptures, installations, and performances. Wurm’s profoundly humane art is an eye-opener to social forces, always leaving room for alternative or playful interpretations.

Exhibition schedule:  Le lieu unique, Nantes, December 16, 2007–March 16, 2008  ·   Kunstmuseum St. Gallen,  Februrary 24–April 28, 2008

Four legendary artists who have never been exhibited together before are united for the first time in the Goetz Collection: Gotthard Graubner (1930–2013), Imi Knoebel (*1940), Blinky Palermo (1943–1977), and Reiner Ruthenbeck (1937–2016). Each one is connected to the renowned Düsseldorf Akademie, and each has explored, in his own way, within the creative space of abstraction. These artists are distinguished by their pleasure for experimentation with the picture frame, materials, color, and space. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue offer opportunities to focus on individual artworks by the quadrumvirate, as well as to engage in a dialogue that examines both their varying approaches and shared commonalities.

Exhibition: Sammlung Goetz, Munich 4.5.–14.10.2017

This book is only available in German. If you would like more detailed information, please consult our German website. You can also contact Hatje Cantz directly.

In spring 2009 one of the highlights of recent contemporary architecture—the new building for the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection in Munich’s museum complex—will be dedicated. More than seven hundred works of modern and contemporary art are being entrusted to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.

This impressive museum, designed by internationally renownedBerlin architects Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, is located on an extremely narrow piece of land, very close to the Pinakothek der Moderne. 36,000 glazed ceramic bars in 23 different colors give the building an inimitable appearance, an urbane image of enormous concision, and an incomparable signal effect. The building’s interior is reserved, so that prominence is given to the art, yet its well-proportioned rooms are impressively attractive. With its technical innovations in lighting and ecologically sound climate control, the building sets new international standards for museum architecture.(German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2354-1)

This book is only available in German. If you would like more detailed information, please consult our German website. You can also contact Hatje Cantz directly.

This book is only available in German. If you would like more detailed information, please consult our German website. You can also contact Hatje Cantz directly.

This opulent volume features large-format plates of an impressive selection of masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zurich: fascinating paintings from the late Gothic period, the Golden Age of the Netherlands, the Italian Baroque, and the Venetian Settecento. Icons of Swiss art, including Fuseli, Böcklin, Hodler, Segantini, Vallotton, and Giacometti are among the highlights of the collections. First-class works by leading painters draw the viewer into the colorful world of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, at whose center stands a group of works by Monet. Besides pieces by Munch, there are important works by Kokoschka, Beckmann, and Corinth. Last but not least, this splendid book presents an excellent array of early 20th-century works by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, as well as American post-war art, Pop art, and other works up to the present time: Twombly, Beuys, Bacon, Baselitz, and Fischli/Weiss set the tone here. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-1144-9)

Willi Baumeister is considered one of the protagonists of 20th- century art history. The development of his work as well as the course of artistic career, from training under Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart, the professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt up to his role as a champion of abstract art in the reconstruction phase of the post-war period and his task as a stimulating teacher at the Art Academy are documented in this detailed, extensive monograph. In addition to a large section of colored pictures, this meticulously edited biography provides the most up- to-date collection of material. Consequently this book will become an indispensable item in the library of anyone who is interested in art.

The 300 SL (W 194) is the first racing car with which Mercedes-Benz renewed its participation in international automobile racing in the postwar period. Top-ranking positions and triumphs, such as at the legendary twenty-four-hour endurance race in Le Mans or the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, are not a long time in the coming and as early as 1952 secure a place for the Stuttgart-based make in the worldwide motor sports scene. The racing car achieved particular fame for its unusual gull-winged doors, which turn the production sports car 300 SL, introduced in 1954 and directly derived from the W 194, into one of the lasting icons in automobile history. The book provides exhaustive and authentic documentation of the technical development of the W 194 based on extensive research in the archives of Mercedes-Benz Classic: all of the races as well as the biography of each individual vehicle are presented with the aid of in part unpublished images and illustrations. Its high-quality design as well as its exquisite features make the book a true collector’s item. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4003-6)

Women artists in Mexico present their lifeworld from a decidedly female point of view and respond to international artistic movements with very different approaches: works by Teresa Serrano (*1936), Ximena Cuevas (*1963), Betsabeé Romero (*1963), Teresa Margolles (*1963), Claudia Fernández (*1965), Melanie Smith (*1965), and Maruch Sántiz Gómez (*1975) constitute the core of this publication. The photographs, videos, objects, and installations from the holdings of the Daros Latinamerica Collection in Zurich take a subversive look at Mexico’s national identity. The works call prevailing hierarchies of power into question, including their associated traditional functions as well as the social spaces of women within Mexican society. The apparent banality of everyday things and actions—both in the domestic-private as well as the urban-public sphere—experiences new, deeper meaning and is in part ironically broken.

Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern 3.6.–23.10.2016

Dennis Hopper, one of Hollywood's last great cult figures, is mostly known for his depiction of social outcasts in films such as "Rebel Without A Cause" or "Apocalypse Now", but also as the director of classic films like "Easy Rider" or "Out of the Blue". Yet, Hopper also made a name for himself as an artist and photographer. His photographic chronicle of America in the sixties, a decade marked by awakening and rebellion and documented by Hopper in forceful black-and-white pictures, has by now become legendary. A System of Moments, a kaleidoscopic documentation of painting, photography, film and life, is the first comprehensive publication that takes into account the diverse activities of Dennis Hopper's career of almost fifty years, the subtle connection of individual genres. For the first time, recent photographic works, which emerged after a long creative break in the nineties, are also presented: large- format, more or less abstract pictures featuring urbane motifs, weirdly threatening clippings from graffiti-clad walls or dense textural pictures in rich colour shades with almost tactile surfaces. The artist: Dennis Hopper, born 1936 in Dodge City, USA. In 1953, his first important role as an actor in "Johnny Guitar". In 1969, breakthrough as a director with his first film "Easy Rider", which was jointly written by Hopper and Peter Fonda. Since 1961, numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums, among them a great retrospective in The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exhibition Schedule: MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna 30.5.-7.10.2001