Maxine Kopsa, editor of the new issue of DURCH, the magazine of the Grazer Kunstverein, has invited the artists who decisively shaped the Kunstverein’s program in 2013 to design the magazine.

Editor: Maxine Kopsa
Contributions by: Doug Ashford, Josef Bauer, Nina Beier, Eva Berendes, Sarah Browne, Tyler Coburn, Céline Condorelli, Victoria Dejaco, Will Holder, Beatrice Gibson, Germaine Kruip, Jan Mot, Willem Oorebeek, Raivo Puusemp, David Reinfurt & Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister), Lucy Skaer, Kate Strain, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Robert Wilhite, Tirdad Zolghadr
Design: Marc Hollenstein
108 pages, b/w and full color, 24 x 16.5 cm, English/ German
Published by: SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR, Vienna
ISBN 978-3-902833-62-4
Price: 15,– Euro

Lip magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice over the Women’s Liberation era. Collecting and presenting the materials of Lip for the first time since their original appearance, The Lip Anthology, edited by Vivian Ziherl, privileges the range and dynamism of contesting feminisms that comprised the Lip project.

Editor: Vivan Ziherl
Design: Marc Hollenstein
192 pages, many b/w and color images, 27 x 19 cm, 1000g, English
Published by: Macmillan Art Publishing, Kunstverein Amsterdam in collaboration with Grazer Kunstverein
ISBN-13: 978-1-921394-77-5
Price: 20,– Euro

A new edition of the 1980 publication was published on the occasion of exhibitions at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, the Grazer Kunstverein and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City.

Editor: Raivo Puusemp
Design: Marc Hollenstein
29 pages, re-print of historic material
Published by: Project Press
ISBN-13: 978-1872493411
Price: 5,– Euro (out of print)

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Ronald Jones: 1987-1992 which took place at Grazer Kunstverein in 2014.

Editor: Jason Dodge
Authors: Ronald Jones, Peter Halley and Angie Keefer
2 parts, 48 pages, b/w images in total, English
Published by: Motto Books, Grazer Kunstverein
ISBN 978-2-940524-27-3
Price: 13,– Euro

Works 1965–Today stems from a retrospective held at the Grazer Kunstverein showcasing Josef Bauer’s experiments with language, color, and their spatial contexts nearly forty years after his last exhibition in Graz. His practice combines sculpture, installation, painting, and performance to disturb our perception of words and colors as mere carriers of meaning. By removing their two-dimensional context, letters become objects that communicate directly with our bodies in an unfiltered and urgent language called tactile poetry.

Editor: Krist Gruijthuijsen
Authors: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Bettina Steinbrügge, Thomas Zaunschirm
Design: Marc Hollenstein
208 pages, 112 color images, 28 x 22 cm, German/ English
Published by: Sternberg Press, Grazer Kunstverein
ISBN 978-3-95679-096-6
Price: 30,– Euro

This publication represents one of the many spaces occupied by Doug Ashford’s work. As the first collection of his writings and conversations, it attempts to encompass the changing ideas to which the artist has subscribed over the past 25 years. Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist, and writer.

Editor: Krist Gruijthuijsen
Design: Marc Hollenstein
144 pages, 30 b/w images, 16 x 12 cm, 250g, English
Published by: Grazer Kunstverein and Mousse Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-8867490752
Price: 15,– Euro

American artist Vincent Fecteau has, over the last two decades, forged a singular aesthetic that mixes homespun materials (Popsicle sticks, champagne corks, string, and the like), meticulous craftwork, and a curious formal grammar. By turns wonky, erotic, extraterrestrial, or baroque—and sometimes all of these at once—his sculptures are built from small, slow accumulations in which layering, texture, and the work of the hand are all visible. Vincent Fecteau edited and rearranged magazine pages, which he had primarily collected for inspirational purposes, for this publication. 

“In 2005 I was invited to participate in a project in Los Angeles called ‘The Backroom’ initiated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch in which artists were asked to contribute materials related to their research, sources, and interests. Although at that time I was not using collage materials in my sculptures, I had amassed a large collection of magazine pages (mainly from architecture and interior design magazines) that I often flipped through for inspiration. I decided to edit the pages, spending several months arranging and rearranging them as relationships both formal and narrative were revealed. This book is a reproduction of the resulting selection, originally presented in ‘The Backroom’ in a simple black binder.” Vincent Fecteau, San Francisco, 2015

Editor: Krist Gruijthuijsen
Design: Marc Hollenstein
192 pages, 189 color images, 26 x 20 cm, 600 g, English
Publishers: Sternberg Press, Grazer Kunstverein, in collaboration with Galerie Buchholz, greengrassi, Matthew Marks Gallery
ISBN 978-3-95679-132-1
Price: 250,– Euro

This publication shows the works of Frederick Charles Herko.

96 pages, 93 color images., 22 x 16.5 cm, English
ISBN 978-3-200-04221-6
Price: 19,90 Euro

Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles’s work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi. Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets is the first monograph on Ukeles’s seminal practice, and is as much an artist’s book as an art-historical publication.

Editor: Kari Conte
Contributions by: Kari Conte, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, as well as a conversation between Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Tom Finkelpearl and Shannon Jackson
Design: Marc Hollenstein
224 pages, 130 color images, 28 x 20.5 cm, English
Published by: Kunstverein Publishing, Grazer Kunstverein, Sternberg Press, in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Marabouparken, Stockholm
ISBN 978-3-943365-93-1
Price: 30,– Euro

As Bianca Baldi’s publication Play-White sits amidst her recent video work of the same title and a newly commissioned series of textile works, the artist stages ideas around the complicated act of passing. Combining personal stories and literary characters, in a study of radical transgressions, camouflage, unspoken sadness and survival, Baldi draws on historical and zoomorphic research to present a compelling meditation on perception, embodiment, self-presentation, and the aesthetic thresholds of identity. With contributions by Bianca Baldi, Mika Conradie, Shoniqua Roach, Kate Strain, Pieternel Vermoortel, Amy Watson, and others. English-German translation by Anna-Sophie Springer, and design by Katharina Tauer & Wolfgang Hückel in collaboration with K. Verlag.

English (with English German introductory essay)
ca. 156 pages, 14 x 21 cm
B/w & full-color images
Softcover, thread-sewn with dust jacket
ISBN 978-3-947858-29-3; Price: 24,– Euro

The publication is produced in conjunction with Baldi’s exhibition Cameo at Grazer Kunstverein, 16 April to 13 June 2021.