'Of Beauty and Doubt' is de eerste monografie over het werk van beeldend kunstenaar Silvia B. Het boek biedt een uitgebreid overzicht van haar beelden, tekeningen, foto's en installaties van de afgelopen 25 jaar. De lezer wordt meegenomen in haar met zorg geconstrueerde universum, dat wordt bevolkt door ongrijpbare wezens die het midden houden tussen mensen, dieren, kinderen, volwassenen, mannen en vrouwen. Met tekstbijdragen van Arnoud Odding, Marcel Möring, Jaap Röell, Werner van den Bel...

Nine essays on home, identity and ruins. Writers, artist curators, and researchers, discuss homelessness and war, utopias of free movement, reconstructing cities and their histories, and the ethics of art. Viewpoints from Benelux, Finland, and Syria are bound together by artist Anssi Pulkkinen's 'Street View (Reassembled)', a mobile installation of a ruined Syrian home. The essays offer surprising perspectives into timely themes in today's world.

With contributions by Umayyad Abu-Hanna, Marwa...

'Lonely Planet. Yamatai Koku.Susan Kooi' is the second part of the triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various traditions of ceramic crafts. During a three-month residency in Arita - birthplace of Japanese porcelain production with a rich history in ceramics - Kooi worked with recontextualizing and poetically reconstructing ceramic objects. This publication shows a selection of works made during Kooi's three-month residency in Arita, a...

In his work Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959) searches for a visual language that will bring different cultures together. His recent work is inextricably bound up with African traditions and the Western, modernistic art tradition. He is interested in the intersecting paths travelled by motifs from Africa, the Surinamese Maroon culture, and 20th century Modernism. By exploring the convergence of patterns and shapes from these seemingly disparate cultural landscapes, he reveals ...

German duo Haubitz + Zoche were among the first artists in Germany to address climate crisis in their work. The book Blind Date with the Future gives a comprehensive overview of the artistic projects on ecological issues such as sea level rise or dwindling resources that they have realised between 2006 and 2022. In the context of current climate debates their oeuvre is becoming increasingly relevant.

An art-historical essay by Ann-Katrin Günzel and an interview between Franziska Kunze and St...

Deels verhaal, deels game, dit boek is anders, uniek. Een boek waarin de lezer de protagonist wordt. Geïnspireerd door Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time en Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler. Het verhaal is gesitueerd in een hotel casino aan de kust in Normandië. The Wheel of Fortune herontdekt het 'Kies uw eigen avontuur' gamebook-- een genre dat populair was in de vroege jaren negentig, net voordat het internet tot bloei kwam.

Het boek is opgebouwd uit 350 tekstfragmenten. De lezer bep...