RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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: Theophilos Tramboulis, Katerina Gregos
Writers: Pavlos Antoniadis, Pierre Carré, Dimitris Exarchos, Steven Feld, Benoît Gibson, Katerina Gregos, James Harley, Elisavet Kiourtsoglou, Stella Kourmpana, François-Bernard Mâche, Thierry Maniguet, STUDIO LABOUR, Stamatis Schizakis, Makis Solomos, Katerina Tsiourka, Haris Xanthoudakis, Mâkhi Xenakis
ISBN: 978-618-5507-14-5
Number of pages: 368
Language: English
Binding: Hard cover
Dimensions: 27.5 x 20.4 cm
Publication year: 2023
Publications: ΕΜΣΤ
English edition accompanying the first major comprehensive presentation of the work of Iannis Xenakis in two exhibitions, Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys, Iannis Xenakis and Greece, organized and presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, from June 29th, 2023 to January 7th, 2024.
As the ΕΜΣΤ artistic director and curator, Katerina Gregos, indicates:
“Xenaki’s oeuvre still feels utterly novel, as if it literally has arrived from the future, sounding -still- urgent, fresh and contemporary.”
Informative texts and colour reproductions of the works exhibited are included.
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.