RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Editors: Katerina Gregos, Ioli Tzanetaki
Texts: Marcus Coates, Sue Coe, Katerina Gregos, Terike Haapoja, Philip Low, Anna Mykoniati, Martin Rowe, Stamatis Schizakis, Mathilde Skiloyannis, Jonas Staal, Dimitris Tsoumplekas, Klara Tsoumpleka, Ioli Tzanetaki, Kostis Velonis, Daphne Vitali.
ISBN: 978-618-5507-28-2
Number of pages: 346
Language: English
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 21 x 28 cm
Publication year: 2026
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
Considering Animals is an Εncyclopaedia of Ιnterspecies Understanding unfolds in close dialogue with the exhibition Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives, presented at ΕΜΣΤ from June 2025 to April 2026.This publication serves as a theoretical companion to the exhibition and focuses on key questions in animal ethics and animal studies. It provides a sustained critique of speciesism and anthropocentrism, approaching nonhuman animals as co-inhabitants of the planet who possess inherent rights, capabilities, and histories. It presents specially commissioned artistic projects along-side texts by participating artists, it includes a section devoted to all exhibiting artists, featuring texts, photographs of their works, and installation views from the exhibition Why Look at Animals?. A must have piece for everyone.
Edited by Nilüfer Şaşmazer and Süreyyya Evren
Published by Arter, Istanbul
Designed by Utku Lomlu
Softcover, 144 pages
Language: English and Turkish
ISBN: 978-625-96585-2-0
Release: 2025
This book, which accompanies Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s solo exhibition Phantom Quartet at Arter, approaches the artist’s practice, whose core engagement revolves around the notions of invisibility, cyclicality, memory, architecture, the city and nature, in a multi-layered way. Opening with an in-depth conversation between the exhibition’s curator Nilüfer Şaşmazer and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, the volume examines the relationship between the artist’s personal memory and the ruptures inscribed in the city’s history through various formal and conceptual tools such as the “ghost”, “reverse perspective”, and the “surface tension”.
Aykan Safoğlu’s essay “In the Scab Form of Time” reimagines the artist’s past stretching from Kurtuluş to Tarlabaşı, and the reflections of this past in her practice, in the form of a walking narrative, while Anne Barlow’s text “A Landscape within a Landscape” offers a wide-ranging reading of the temporal and spatial sensitivities that emerge across Büyüktaşcıyan’s international exhibitions. Katerina Gregos’s essay “Unsettled Ground” considers the artist’s multi-layered practice, focused on themes of identity and displacement, as a poetic archaeology that renders suppressed histories visible. Designed by Utku Lomlu, the book brings together Murat Germen’s photographs of the works with images scanned from the artist’s sketchbooks and archival photographs.
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Responsible publisher: Edith Grandjean
Texts: Clémentine Davin, Katerina Gregos
Designed by Salutpublic, Bruxelles
Pages: 47
Language: English and French
ISBN: 978-2-931161-08-1
Release: 2025
Editor: MACS / Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu
Autors: Charlotte Crevits, Florian Gaité, Denis Gielen, Katerina Gregos
ISBN: 9-789464-987102
Language: English & French
Features: 368 pages
Format: 22,6 x 16,6 cm
Release: 2024
The first monograph devoted to the work of Belgian artist Ariane Loze, this catalogue is published in conjunction with her first solo exhibition but goes beyond the framework of the show to look at her broader practice, past and present.
The catalogue explores Loze’s work by focusing on 26 of the videos* made by the artist between 2008 and the present day. Offering a variety of interpretations of the situations that Loze imagines, writes, interprets, directs and then films, this book attempts to give a wider vision of her rich oeuvre: images, synopsis and dialogues from the films are presented alongside several essays that situate her work in the panorama of contemporary art.
*To date, Ariane Loze has made 47 video works.
Editor: Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno - CAAM
Language: English & Spanish
ISBN 13: 9788417434373
Features: 216 pages
Release: 2024
Retrospective edition: Direction des Arts plastiques contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Editorial coordination: Pascale Viscardy
Graphic design: Pam&Jenny (Nathalie Pollet)
Impression: Graphius
Language: French
Features: 87 pages
Release: 2024
Editor: Sarah Nuttall
Language: English
Format: 6.8 x 1.4 x 8.6 inches
Features: 504 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
Release: 2024
Penny Siopis is internationally acclaimed for her pathbreaking paintings and installations. Your History with Me is a comprehensive study of her short films, which have put her at the front ranks of contemporary artist-filmmakers. Siopis uses found footage to create short video essays that function as densely encrypted accounts of historical time and memory that touch on the cryptic and visceral elements of gender and power. The critics, scholars, curators, artists, and filmmakers in this volume examine her films in relation to subjects ranging from the history of Greeks in South Africa, trauma and cultural memory, and her relationship with the French New Wave to her feminist-inflected articulations of form and content and how her films comment on apartheid. They also highlight her global South perspective to articulate a mode of filmmaking highly responsive to histories of violence, displacement, and migration as well as pleasure, joy, and renewal. The essays, which are paired with vivid stills from Siopis’s films throughout, collectively widen the understanding of Siopis’s oeuvre. Opening new vocabularies of thought for engaging with her films, this volume outlines how her work remakes the possibilities of film as a mode of experimentation and intervention.
Editor: Solvej Helweg Ovesen und Kathrin Becker / KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Language: German/English
Format: 21 x 28 cm
Features: 144 pages, 80 color images, Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-95476-6002-4
Release: December 2023
In the global West, our plans for our careers and lives have typically been focused on being good at one thing (specialization), developing a consistent personality (individuality), and loving one person (monogamy). Contemporary aesthetics are still about refining one form (minimalism). Yet health, ecological, and political (poly)crises have a sustained influence on our conception of the unique, the singular, and dominant. A proliferation of options and potential solutions illustrates that we need a wide spectrum of love, of ways of acting and living and economic as well as ecological strategies to grapple with circumstances changed by wars, climate change, and the other upheavals we face today.
The publication accompanying the exhibitions POLY. A Fluid Show and Emma Talbot at the KINDL and Polychrome, Polymorph, and Polyharmony in Galerie Wedding - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, explore the theme of nonbinary worldviews in contemporary art. The catalogue combines essays by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Felicia Ewert, Maxi Wallenhorst, and Katerina Gregos summarizing extensive artistic and scholarly research with short interviews and texts with and about the participating artists Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, melanie bonajo, Elolo Bosoka, Kerstin Brätsch, Raquel van Haver, Nile Koetting, Toni Mauersberg, Thomias Radin, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Lorenzo Sandoval, Emma Talbot, and MIKEY Woodbridge
Editor: Katerina Gregos
Coordinating editors: Theophilos Tramboulis, Sophie Perryer
Texts: Sinazo Chyia, Pumla Gqola, Katerina Gregos, William Kentridge, Achille Mbembe, Griselda Pollock, Laura Rascaroli, Penny Siopis, Olga Speakes
ISBN: 978-618-5507-19-0
Number of pages: 392
Language: Greek, English
Type: Hard cover
Dimensions: 30 x 24.5 cm
Publication year: 2024
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
Bilingual edition accompanying the first major museum retrospective in Europe of the work of Penny Siopis, For Dear Life. A Retrospective, organized and presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
Born in South Africa in 1953 to Greek parents, Siopis, one of the most important artistic voices of her generation, came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with her historically and culturally charged paintings that exercised a fierce critique against colonialism, apartheid, racism and sexism.
The exhibition includes work from all her major series from the early 1980s onwards.
Informative texts and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included in the catalogue.
Editors: Katerina Gregos, Theophilos Tramboulis
Texts: Katerina Gregos, Theophilos Tramboulis and the artists
ISBN: 978-618-5507-10-7
Number of pages: 132
Language: English
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.5 cm
Publication year: 2023
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
English edition accompanying the international group exhibition Modern Love [or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies], organized and presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art from December 16th, 2022, to May 31st, 2023.
As the artistic director and curator, Katerina Gregos, indicates in the preface of the catalogue, "the exhibition grapples with the challenges facing our most intimate relationships today and explores the possibilities, pathologies and problems afflicting love and matters of the heart during these times, while aiming to prompt a reconsideration of how we might imagine a way out of the "cold intimacies" and illusions engendered by the digital revolution."
Informative texts and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included.
Editors : Schwarz Foundation, Katerina Gregos, Ioli Tzanetaki, Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz
Texts by: Fanie Antonelou, Tania Cañas, Markellos Chryssicos, Michelangelo Corsaro, Boris Dežulović, Dorukhan Doruk, Antje Ehmann, Marina Fokidis, Mulo Francel, Caspar Frantz, Konstantia Gourzi, Katerina Gregos, Masha Ilyashov, Alexis Karaiskakis-Nastos, Dimitris Kountouras, Guy Mintus, Ina Niehoff, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Daniel Nodel, Lorenda Ramou, Lenia Safiropoulou, Nikos Tsouchlos, Ioli Tzanetaki, Alexander Ullman, Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz, Nikos Xydakis, Katerina Zacharopoulou
Graphic Design: Enno Poetschke
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5384-5
Number of pages: 296 Pages, 140 Ills.
Language: English
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 240mm x 164mm
Publication year: 2023
Publications: HATJE CANTZ
For 12 years, the Schwarz Foundation has been organizing regular exhibitions on the island of Samos at Art Space Pythagorion as well as the Samos Young Artists Festival. Due to its location on the Greek–Turkish border, Samos symbolizes one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time: Migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, geopolitical conflicts at the borders of Europe, and the human impact on the oceans around he world.
A Decade of Cultural Production presents the work of the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation, whose declared aim is to promote dialogue through music and art. The book highlights how its projects deal with issues of migration, social responsibility and intercultural coexistence.
Editor: Katerina Gregos
Texts: Katerina Gregos, Anny Malama, Ioli Tzanetaki, Theophilos Tramboulis and the artists
ISBN: 978-618-5507-06-0
Number of pages: 202
Language: English
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 18 x 13 cm
Publication year: 2022
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
English edition accompanying the exhibition Statecraft (and Beyond), organized and presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, from June 17th to October 30th, 2022.
As the artistic director and curator, Katerina Gregos, indicates in the preface of the catalogue, "Statecraft is an international group exhibition that explores the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the nation-state, as we know it today, and the challenges it faces in today’s globalised, networked world."
Informative texts and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included.
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel Verlag
ISBN 9783829609531
Language: English & German
Number of pages: 320
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm
Publication year: 2022
For the past fifty years, the Federal Foreign Office, has coordinated the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennial. This anniversary publication presents all German Biennial contribution since 2009, features photo essays, texts, and interviews, examines the place and myth of Venice and explores the phenomenon of the Biennial from various perspectives. With texts by Anne Carson, Niklas Maak, Shwetal Patel and others.
Texts: Katerina Gregos, Nikos Lamnidis, Amanda Michalopoulou, Dimitris Tsoumplekas
ISBN: 978-618-5507-04-6
Number of pages: 178
Language: Greek, English
Binding: Soft cover
Dimensions: 22 x 16.5 cm
Publication year: 2022
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
Bilingual edition accompanying Dimitris Tsoumplekas' project Amazonios - We Are Sailing with a Corpse in the Cargo, that took place in the former house and studio of artists Nikos Kessanlis and Chryssa Romanos in Polydroso, a neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Athens, as part of the exhibition program ΕΜΣΤ Extra Muros, from May 5th to July 7th, 2022.
Amazonios was a trip down memory lane and an introduction to some of the unseen views of the city; it was the dialogue between an important contemporary artist and his prominent ancestors, a multi-dimensional, holistic artistic project eight years in the making, which combined the decaying remnants of Kessanlis’, the surrounding overgrown landscape, the artist’s own photographs and videos, and site-specific interventions.
Informative texts, historical documents and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included.
Monograph Maarten Vanden Eynde, MMXX
Published by Mercatorfonds/Yale University Press
Editor: Katerina Gregos
Texts by: Katerina Gregos, Sven Beckert, Oulimata Gueye, Nav Haq, Jan Zalasiewicz
Graphic design: Raf Vancampenhoudt, Lennart Van den Bossche
Languages: English, French, Dutch
224 pages with 200+ color illustrations
Hardcover
ISBN-13978-0300253962
Bringing together works from the past 20 years, this book introduces readers to multidisciplinary Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde (b. 1977) has established a research-based practice, which spans diverse social, economic, environmental, and anthropological perspectives. His work covers some of the most important subjects of our time from extractivism, ecology, and colonialism to the after-effects of colonialism. The book is built up as an alternative encyclopedia of the history of human kind, investigating our influence on planet Earth. It proposes an industrial and post-industrial archaeology of the future, mapping out a speculative "future-fiction" of our evolutionary traces, and offers a survey of Vanden Eynde's work from the past two decades.
Family Matters
Conversations about Old Spirits, the Question of Belonging, and Complementary
Monograph Viron Erol Vert
Published by Distanz Verlag
Editors: Kristina Kramer, Didem Yazici
Texts by: Ingo Arend, Stephane Bauer, Katerina Gregos, Eva Scharrer, Angelika Stepken, Didem Yazici, Misal Adnan Yildiz
Graphic design: Krzysztof Pyda
Language: English
224 pages with 139 colour illustrations
ISBN 978–3–95476–325–2
Family and cultural conditioning play a crucial role in the work of the German Turkish artist Viron Erol Vert. His expansive installations and sculptures explore religious systems, cultural identities, and linguistic experiences. Everyday objects and textiles are recurring media in Vert's works, which also examines sexuality, gender, and heritage. The publication Family Matters is the first to document a cross section of Vert's work. It communicates his unfaltering perspective of cultural hegemony that results from identity politics.
Marianna Christofides: Days In Between (monograph)
Published by Hatje Cantz
Editors: Brenda Hollweg, Marianna Christofides
Texts by Bernd Bräunlich, Érik Bullot, Marianna Christofides, Katerina Gregos, Brenda Hollweg, Vanessa Joan Müller, Elena Parpa, Andrei Siclodi, John Sundholm
Graphic design by baldinger.vu-huu
Language: English
272 pages with 284 illustrations
Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7757-4882-7
Days In Between is Marianna Christofides’ decade-long project of multi-layered encounters with the Balkans, one of Europe’s most historically and geopolitically contested "fracture zones". Initially realized as a 16mm essay film, the project has continued to evolve in various modes: as multi-channel analogue film projection, site-specific audio installation, serigraphy prints, light sculpture, geologic-photographic assemblage, text and 16mm film study. This book draws on Christofides’ recent solo exhibition at MNAC, Bucharest and gives, for the first time, a profound insight into her diverse aesthetic work and unique artistic practice. It assembles nine critical voices from the arts and academic world. Thinking with new materialism, Deleuzian film theory, and philosophical studies on time and space, the contributors highlight the multiple enfolded ways in which the artist’s work opens up to conversations around landscape and space in postcolonial contexts, essayistic film practice and forms of critical-emancipatory knowledge production in the arts.
Associate Institutions: Berlin Senate Office for Culture and Europe (DE); Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (DE); Künstlerhaus Büchsen-hausen, Innsbruck (AT); MNAC Bucharest (RO); ENSA Bourges (FR); Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme (DE)
Edited by Luigi Fassi, Katerina Gregos, Steirischer Herbst.
Texts by Luigi Fassi, Katerina Gregos, Christian Marazzi and all participating artists
Published in January 2014
Langage: English edition
12 x 19 cm (softcover)
136 pages (color & b/w ill.)
ISBN : 978-88-6749-049-3
The book accompanies the exhibition “Liquid Assets: In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital.” Aimed at exploring changes in the financial system, it presents a range of international artists engaged in investigating the shifting, viral nature of capitalism. Understanding the mechanics of capitalism today has become an increasingly complex task, since it has morphed into increasingly intangible and immaterial forms. The very notion of money has changed: from an operative aspect of the economy, into the justification for an increasingly speculative economy, where money is harnessed to produce more of itself. The project tries to shed light on the obscurity of finance, the current non-transparency of money, and the causes and practices that lie behind financial crises in this era. Ranging from time-based practices to sculptures and installations, the works on view in “Liquid Assets” foreground the dramatic changes that the entanglements of finance, speculation, and politics have been enacting on the social body, affecting both bios and anthropos, and simultaneously raising questions about the ethics of capitalism and current financial practices.
Portrait of the Collector as Work of Art: An Intimate Journey
PUBLICATION CO-ORDINATOR: Anne Vierstraete
PUBLICATION EDITOR: Katerina Gregos
INTRODUCTORY TEXTS: Anne Vierstraete, Katerina Gregas
COLLECTORS TEXTS: Baudouin Michiels, Bruno van Lierde, in their own words;
Wilfried Cooreman, Lieven Declerck, Michel Delfosse, Mimi Dusselier, Filiep Libeert, Cédric Liénart de Jeude, Baudouin Michiels, Benedikt van der Vorst, Bruno van Lierde, Mark Vanmoerkerke are all texts based on interviews by Frank Lubbers
COPY EDITING & PROOFREADING: Colin Perry, Mari Shields
DESIGN: Leen Persoons
PORTRAIT PHOTOS: Ivan Put, except photo of Michel Delfosse (p. 31) which was provided by Mr. Delfosse
PHOTOS ON PAGES: 34, 40, 52 & 58 Philippe D
PUBLISHED BY Filipson Editions
PRINTED BY Cossochrome
ISBN 978-2930387437
Publication year: 2014
SPECIAL THANKS TO Marc Filipson, Frank Lubbers, Bernard Marcelis, Bernard Soens
ARENA
A PUBLICATION BY THE Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu
ON THE OCCASION OF THE EXHIBITION Arena (11.04- 28.09.2014)
EDITED BY Dobrila Denegri
TEXTS: Dobrila Denegri, Antonia Alampi, Jude Anogwih, Sergio Edelsztein, Katerina Gregos, Piotr Lisowski
PUBLISHER: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Poland
PRINTED BY ARTiS Poligrafia s.c.
ISBN: 978-83-62881-43-7
Publication year: 2014
Contributor: Katerina Gregos
Foreword: Belinda Quirke
Publisher: Solstice Arts Centre
Language: English
Pages: 54
ISBN 978-0955512032
Publication year: 2008
Becoming Human: A Compendium
Edited by Katerina Gregos with Zane Ozola
Published by Mousse (forthcoming)
Commissioned and produced by the Riga Biennial Foundation