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| Title: A Hole in the Sky |
| By (author): Neven Allgeier |
| ISBN10-13: 3954767872 : 9783954767878 |
| Neven Allgeierâ s (b. Wiesbaden, 1986; lives and works in Frankfurt/Main and Vienna) photographs revolve around themes such as environmental change, politics, pop culture, and subcultures. Most recently, his series were presented in extensive solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Göttingen and the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. He has also published pictures in media including SPIKE Art Quarterly and ZEIT Magazin. In his new photobook A Hole in the Sky, Allgeier explores the stylistic groups of our time. Portraits that spotlight the individual sittersâ carefully crafted self-presentation meet group constellations; cityscapes and landscapes awash in light meet positively enchanted details. The pictures are accompanied by text contributions. The authors articulate their perspectives on the contemporary world in free-form writing. They live in the places where the photographs were taken: Istanbul, Jakarta, Tbilisi, and Berlin. After Porträts (2021) and Fading Temples (2022), A Hole in the Sky is Allgeierâ s third book published by DISTANZ. |
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Pages: 320
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - November 2025 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 31 |
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| Title: A Lua e Eu |
| By (author): Paulo Nimer Pjota |
| ISBN10-13: 395476783X : 9783954767830 |
| In his practice Brazilian artist Paulo Nimer Pjotaâ s (b. São José do Rio Preto, 1988; lives and works in São Paulo) remixes iconographies from pop culture and counterculture as well as art history. His large-format unframed canvases and metal panels feature tribal tattoos, advertisements from bodegas or luxury shops, graffiti tags, and cartoon characters and are often complemented by sculptures the artist places in front of them. By confronting mundane objects and references to archaeology and art history, Pjota critiques the inefficiency of the hierarchical epistemic systems that draw a divide between high and vernacular culture. The monograph A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I) presents Paulo Nimer Pjotaâ s work of the past five years, illustrating the artistâ s imposing montage practice. With contributions by Mateus Nunes and Gabi Ngcobo as well as a conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist. |
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Pages: 232
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - October 2025 |
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| List Price: 42.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 31 |
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| Title: Bastard Sun |
| By (author): Sophio Medoidze |
| ISBN10-13: 3954766043 : 9783954766048 |
| What Is the Use of Fire if It Does Not Warm? Sophio Medoidzeâ s (b. Tbilisi, then USSR, 1978; lives and works in London) practice encompasses film, photography, writing, and sculpture and explores the poetic potential of uncertainty. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the Serpentine Gallery, the Close Up Film Centre, Kunstmuseum Luzern, and the Whitechapel Gallery, amongst others. For a time she worked anonymously as part of the Clara Emigrand collective, disseminating her work outside the gallery context. Medoidze explores the relationship between rural and urban, languages and translations, as well as gender politics and dynamics. Her works often emerge from writing and unfold as installations incorporating moving image, sculpture, and text. The publication Bastard Sun brings together a collection of photographs taken after the civil unrest in Georgia in the 1990s with short texts written over the subsequent visits to Georgia, together with a collection of twelve short stories. Medoidzeâ s writing provides nuanced and at times humorous reflections on personal and political change. Bastard Sun is co-published with KONA BOOKS, a Tbilisi-based publishing house that focuses on contemporary visual and interdisciplinary projects. |
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Pages: 184
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - October 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 36.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 31 |
| Title: 3 of: 31 |
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| Title: Begin Suddenly in Splendour |
| By (author): Rose English |
| ISBN10-13: 3954767058 : 9783954767052 |
| Ballet, Dressage, Baroque in Service to Feminism Rose English (b. Hereford, UK, 1950) developed her singular practice surrounded by the conceptual art of the 1970s, which remains seminal today, and in the orbit of the feminist avant-garde. Boasting an extraordinarily diverse oeuvre, she ranks among the most influential performance artists of our time. Her art combines elements of theater, circus, opera, comedy, and poetry for an interdisciplinary investigation of themes including the politics of gender, the identities of performers, and the metaphysics of presenceâ the true nature of performance. Many of her works have been collaborative productions involving a large cast of participants such as musicians, singers, dancers, filmmakers, circus artists, magicians, and even dressage horses. The publication Begin Suddenly in Splendour is released on occasion of Englishâ s solo exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Presenting an exploratory survey of the artistâ s oeuvre, which now spans five decades, the richly illustrated catalogue contains extensive documentation as well as essays by Connie Butler, Nicole Haitzinger, Lisa Moravec, Marijana Schneider, and Amy Tobin. |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - August 2024 |
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| List Price: 38.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 31 |
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| Title: Beneath the Cobblestones, the Earth |
| By (author): Sigmar Polke |
| ISBN10-13: 3954767538 : 9783954767533 |
| Sigmar Polke (1941â 2010) has been hailed as one of the worldâ s preeminent artists of the twentieth century. In his oeuvre, Polke worked through experiences of war, militarization and forced migration, and reflected on the image and the mass media in which it circulated. Taking an interest early on in the visual information contained in pictures and their agency, Polke set standards that younger generations of artists continue to emulate, and his work remains as relevant as everâ what might seem its historic dimension in fact turns out to speak directly to present-day concerns. Beneath the Cobblestones, the Earth is the catalogue for the exhibition devoted to Sigmar Polke at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. Bice Curiger, curator of the exhibition and a specialist in Polkeâ s work, is editing the book. It gathers paintings, photographs, and films plus graphic art from 1960 to 2009 to illustrate the multifaceted quality of the artistâ s output, which is informed by astute observations and powerful creative choices that reflect the artistâ s sense of irony and love of experimentation. One focus of the selection of works is on the political dimension of Polkeâ s oeuvre; he was an exacting analyst of the world around him and commented critically on politics, art, and history. |
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Pages: 240
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - July 2025 |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 31 |
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| Title: Brancusi |
| By (author): Constantin Brancusi |
| ISBN10-13: 3954768259 : 9783954768257 |
| In Search of the Ideal Shape. Constantin Brancusi (b. HobiÈ a, Romania, 1876; d. Paris, 1957) ranks among the pre-eminent modernist sculptors and has exercised a defining influence over generations of contemporary artists. Having completed his academic training in Romania, he set out at the age of twenty-eight for a tour of Europe before settling in Paris. Organic and stripped down to the essential, his works establish him as a pioneer of sculptural abstraction in the early twentieth century. Brancusiâ s persistent pursuit of a creative ideal is manifest in the formal variations of a few motifs and his playful exploration of diverse materials and surfaces. He deftly used specific pedestals, lighting, and movement as well as photography and film to dramatize his sculptures. The retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlinâ produced in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, Parisâ is accompanied by this comprehensive catalogue, which sheds light on the manifold facets of Brancusiâ s oeuvre: it features major works from international collections as well as views of his studio. Photographs of the artist from his personal collection round out the extensive plate section. With an introduction by Ariane Coulondre; and other essays by Nina Schallenberg on Brancusiâ s staging of his works, and Maike Steinkamp on the reception of his art in Europe |
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Pages: 240
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - February 2026 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 31 |
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| Title: By the Highway |
| By (author): Ser Serpas, Rafik Greiss, Dora Budor |
| ISBN10-13: 3954765195 : 9783954765195 |
| Afterimages somewhere between curbside and landfill In By the Highway, Ser Serpas walks through Paris with Rafik Greiss, seeking out the sites that shape her sculptures and installations. In dialogue with Dora Budor, this volume in the KONTEXT series presents new approaches to form, volume, and materiality as well as how Serpasâ s method updates the tradition of readymades. Whether she is working with discarded trash or hoarded things, Serpas (b. Los Angeles, 1995, lives and works between Los Angeles and Paris) manipulates these materials to create art in ways that complicate our perception of value and inscribe meaning into what would otherwise be trash. Serpas often brings her sculptures back to the street after the exhibition, letting them become trash while playing with what is allowed inside and outside the museum. In his work, the Egyptian artist Rafik Greiss (b. Dublin, 1997; lives and works in Paris) captures matter in a state oscillating between representational image and factual substance. His photographs are less about specific objects and more about examining these objects in their own lives and how they react with each other. The artist and author Dora Budor (b. Zagreb, 1984; lives and works in New York) contributes an essay to this volume, which examines Serpasâ s work in relation to the processes of accumulation, obsolescence and scavenging, as well as deriving from their historical precedents; assisted readymades, scatter pieces and combines. |
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Pages: 112
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - April 2024 |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 31 |
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| Title: Computer Paintings |
| By (author): Albert Oehlen |
| ISBN10-13: 3954767279 : 9783954767274 |
| â Finishing it is then the job of the human hand.â â Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlenâ s (b. Krefeld, 1954; lives and works between Gais, La Palma, and Los Angeles) first Computer Paintings were made with the assistance of a notebook computer he had bought in 1990. The painter used it to sketch initial drawings he then transferred to the canvas in several series beginning in the 1990s. The constrained pixel aesthetic imposed by the technology with its aliasing and block effects became a consequential point of departure for a strand in his oeuvre that veers between cool austerity and a proliferating diversity of forms. It seems more relevant than ever in light of todayâ s debates around the use of artificial intelligence in art. The publication Computer Paintings accompanies the exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle and documents the eponymous body of work by Albert Oehlen, which has rarely been on public view. With an essay by the director Alexander Klar. |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - February 2025 |
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| List Price: 38.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 8 of: 31 |
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| Title: Desire and Denial: On Constructing and Contesting Infrastructures |
| ISBN10-13: 395476816X : 9783954768165 |
| Ambivalent Infrastructures Infrastructures are not just technical systems but cultural and political orders that stabilize and transform societal processes. Following Brian Larkinâ s study â The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructureâ , the writings collected in Desire and Denial conceive of infrastructures as material manifestations of symbolic and economic projects and efforts to build political power. They embody collective desiresâ for mobility, safety, control, or modernization, among other thingsâ that not only structure planning processes, but also constitute normative ideas about the future. Meanwhile, infrastructures operate on the basis of denial: by systemically conceal- ing, say, environmental devastation, social inequality, political exclusion, and colonial continuities. As Donna Haraway already underscored in the late 1980s, techno-scientific orders are premised on stories of objectivity and innocenceâ narrative patterns that also inform the planning and legitimation of infrastructures and the visions of the future they imply. The contributions explore this complex set of tensions, reading infrastructures as not just part of the built environment, but also politically contested, culturally appropriated, and symbolically fraught scenes of social conflict. |
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Pages: 144
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - January 2026 |
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| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 9 of: 31 |
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| Title: Flow of Paint = Flow of Life |
| ISBN10-13: 3954768291 : 9783954768295 |
| Rethinking Art from the Inside Out The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (b. Kappel am Krappfeld, 1919; d. Vienna, 2014) and the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (b. Løten, 1863; d. Ekely, Oslo, 1944) were equals in the radical and unsparing scrutiny of their own selves. Each also had a singular way of handling paint as a means of their art and powerful medium for expression of emotions like grief, love, loneliness, trepidation, joy, pain, or also for physical levels of perception. The richly illustrated volume accompanies the grand double exhibition of these two exceptional artistsâ oeuvres. Released on occasion of the exhibitions at Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunsthaus ZÃ"rich, it presents intimate insights into the artistsâ works, highlighting parallels as well as differences between what are arguably two of the most celebrated oeuvres in more recent art history. With writings by Andreas Eriksson, Sandra Gianfreda, Sheela Gowda, Johanna Hornauer, Hans Dieter Huber, Siri Hustvedt, Brigitte Kölle, Maria Lassnig, Edvard Munch, Johanna Ortner, Ulrike Ottinger, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Luc Tuymans, and others. |
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Pages: 304
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| Published: DISTANZ Verlag - February 2026 |
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| List Price: 44.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 10 of: 31 |
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