Suzon — both a reprint of Raimundas Malašauskas sold-out book Paper Exhibitions from 2012 and a new collection of writings by the author that have happened since — offers a window onto Malasauskas’ worldview, based on collective improvisation, congregation and continuous drift. It includes essays, exhibition guides, personal letters, song lyrics, an opening speech and a cocktail recipe offering a glimpse of what perhaps in a few years we will look back upon as L’esprit du temps.

The publication Suzon is printed on the reverse of the revised edition of Paper Exhibition, which was originally published in 2012 by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Publishing, Sandberg Institute, and the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt (Baltish Arts Magazine).

Editors: Tom Engels, Yana Foqué & Krist Gruijthuijsen
Design: Goda Budvytytė
Copy-editor: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
Printer: Graphius, Ghent
Publishers: KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), Kunstverein Publishing (Amsterdam), Baltish Arts Magazine (Vilnius) and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (Köln).
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0767-1

€ 22,00

About RAIMUNDAS MALAŠAUSKAS: When growing up in Vilnius, then capital of Soviet Lithuania, Raimundas Malašauskas wanted to become a chef on a trans-oceanic ship but ended up studying art history and theory at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He was particularly drawn to the period of Mannerism in the sixteenth century but ended up writing a study of art criticism of the 1970s and ’80s.

Following a period as a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius from 1995—2006, he has worked itinerantly ever since, driven by what he describes as ‘intellectual wanderlust’ with extended periods of time spent in Bangkok, Cairo, Brussels, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mexico, Paris, and San Francisco, among other places. Writing has been a constant companion during these journeys — a means of both curating exhibitions and experiencing daily life.

The Weight of the Concrete explores the legacy of the Turinese artist and publisher Ezio Gribaudo (1929–2022), examining his multifaceted oeuvre at the confluence of image and language. This publication, named after Il Peso del Concreto (1968)—a seminal work that featured Gribaudo’s early graphic creations alongside an anthology of concrete poetry edited by the poet Adriano Spatola (1941–88)—places Gribaudo’s work in conversation with approximately forty artists and poets from different generations, all of whom similarly engage with explorations of text, form, and visual expression.

Reflecting the editorial premise of Il Peso del Concreto, The Weight of the Concrete revisits the influential anthology, including archive material that documents its production, and reimagines it, pairing Gribaudo’s graphic work with a new selection of historical and contemporary concrete and experimental poetry.

At the heart of the volume is Gribaudo’s emblematic Logogrifi series, developed from the 1960s onward. The Logogrifi reveal his deep engagement with the art of bookmaking and fascination with industrial printing processes, relief matrices, typefaces, and language games. Rooted in linguistic or visual riddles, the Logogrifi function as visual and linguistic puzzles, akin to logogriphs, in which cryptic verses hint at a hidden keyword and provide clues to other words derived from its letters.

In this new edition, the editors take the opportunity to revisit Gribaudo’s pioneering work, examining previously overlooked dimensions—gendered, geographical, and technological—and exploring contemporary associations beyond the original context. The book also includes essays that elucidate the poetic and political interplay between image, language, and materiality.

This publication is released following Ezio Gribaudo – The Weight of the Concrete, an exhibition held at the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz, Austria (2023–24), and at the Museion—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (2024).

Edited by Tom Engels and Lilou Vidal
Published by Axis Axis and Grazer Kunstverein

Contributions by Anni Albers, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Al Cartio, Paula Claire, CAConrad, Natalie Czech, Betty Danon, Constance DeJong, Mirtha Dermisache, Johanna Drucker, Bryana Fritz, Ilse Garnier, Liliane Giraudon, Susan Howe, Alison Knowles, Katalin Ladik, Liliane Lijn, Hanne Lippard, Sara Magenheimer, Françoise Mairey, Nadia Marcus, Giulia Niccolai, Alice Notley, Ewa Partum, sadé powell, N. H. Pritchard, Cia Rinne, Neide Dias de Sá, Giovanna Sandri, Mary Ellen Solt, Alice Theobald, Colleen Thibaudeau, Patrizia Vicinelli, Pascal Vonlanthen, Hannah Weiner, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Essays by Alex Balgiu, Tom Engels, Nadia Marcus, Luca Lo Pinto, Mónica de la Torre, and Lilou Vidal

22 x 32 cm
208 pages (ENG-IT)
First edition
800 copies

Annex:
22 x 32 cm
48 pages (ENG-IT)
800 copies

€ 36,00

This publication coincides with Curtis Cuffie’s New York City, an exhibition presenting Curtis Cuffie’s work as captured in photographs by Katy Abel, Tom Warren, and Cuffie himself. Unlike the exhibition, this book exclusively features Cuffie’s photographs. It is the eight entry in a series of compact volumes featuring visual contributions, correspondence, responses, and conversations accompanying the Grazer Kunstverein exhibition program. 

Curtis Cuffie (1955–2002) was an artist based in New York City’s East Village. Originally from Hartsville, South Carolina, he moved to Brooklyn at the age of fifteen and eventually settled in Manhattan, first near Bryant Park and later around the Bowery where he lived unhoused for long stretches of his life. Artforum, The New York Times, and The Village Voice all profiled and reviewed his work and he held solo exhibitions at Flamingo East, Tribes, and 4th Street Photo Gallery, all in New York. During his lifetime, Cuffie was featured in nearly a dozen group shows across the US at various venues including Exit Art, American Primitive, and the Jamaica Art Center in New York, as well as the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Cuffie was integral to a dynamic circle of artists and intellectuals, marking his place within New York’s black avant-garde. Recently, his work has been presented in exhibitions across New York City, including Souls Grown Diaspora (2020) at Apexart, curated by Sam Gordon; Greater New York (2021) at MoMA PS1, curated by Ruba Katrib; and Curtis Cuffie (2023) at Galerie Buchholz, curated by Scott Portnoy. Curtis Cuffie, a book edited by Scott Portnoy, Robert Snowden, and Ciarán Finlayson, and designed by Julie Peeters, was published by Blank Forms in 2023.

Editor: Tom Engels
Photographer: Curtis Cuffie 
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Printing and binding: Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao
Photo credits: All photographs in this publication, both color and black and white, were taken by Curtis Cuffie between 1990-1999. They have been reproduced with the permission of Carol Thompson and Galerie Buchholz
128 pages, color, B&W
ISBN: 978-3-9505230-7-2
Price: 15,- euros, 9,- euros for members

This publication coincides with the exhibition The Weight of the Concrete by Ezio Gribaudo in a scenography by Davide Stucchi. It is the seventh entry in a series of compact volumes featuring visual contributions, correspondence, responses, and conversations accompanying the Grazer Kunstverein exhibition program.

This volume contains photographic excerpts from Ezio Gribaudo’s series of achromatic embossed “Logogrifi” limited edition books, created between 1965 and 1972. These works challenge the conventional relationship between ink and material in print, using embossing to highlight the tangible process of creating printed matter. One of the key elements of Gribaudo’s work is the “logogrifo” (logogriph), a word puzzle derived from the Greek “logos” (word) and “griphos” (riddle). Typically, the logogriph, or a riddle in verse, involves altering words by adding, removing, or changing one letter at a time to form other words. In Gribaudo’s interpretation, a logogrifo oscillates between legibility and abstraction, serving both as readable forms and as a gateway to an enigmatic world where the image and language, disconnected from their origins, coalesce. This publication, The Weight of the Concrete, features a selection of pages from the “Logogrifi” books, uniquely complemented by an intervention on the back cover by Davide Stucchi as a conceptual and poetic response to its title. 

Editors: Tom Engels, Lilou Vidal
Images: Ezio Gribaudo
Intervention: Davide Stucchi
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Photography: Martteo Ninarello, Martina Caravella
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao
64 pages, B&W
ISBN: 978-3-9505230-6-5
Price: 9,- euros, 5,- euros for members

This publication coincides with the exhibition Until Due Time, Everything Is Else by Pan Daijing. It is the sixth entry in a series of compact volumes featuring visual contributions, correspondence, responses, and conversations accompanying the Grazer Kunstverein exhibition program.

The images within this book are excerpts from a video created by Pan Daijing. This publication is intended to act as a sixth screen, aligning with a five-channel video installation on display in Until Due Time, Everything Is Else at Grazer Kunstverein. 

Editor: Tom Engels
Image: Pan Daijing
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Printing and Binding: Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao
128 pages, color
ISBN: 978-3-9505230-5-8
Price: 13,- euro, 7,- euro for members

This publication appeared in conjunction with the exhibition Colorless Green Freedoms Sleep Furiously by Miloš Trakilović. It is the fifth in a series of small volumes of correspondence, responses, and conversations, which accompanies the exhibition program of Grazer Kunstverein.

The publication features a newly commissioned essay by Edwin Nasr, as well as an interview between Elena Petrović and Miloš Trakilović conducted on the occasion of the exhibition.

Editor: Tom Engels
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Printing and Binding: Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao
64 pages, color, English
ISBN: 978-3-9505230-4-1
Price: 9,- euro, 5,- euro for members

This publication appears in conjunction with the exhibition sekretas by Marija Olšauskaitė. It is the fourth in a series of small volumes of correspondence, responses, and conversations, which accompanies the exhibition program of Grazer Kunstverein.

secrets gathers words, plants, and glass contributed by Elena Narbutaitė, Marija Olšauskaitė, Maria Tsoy, Aleksandra Krivulina, and Tom Engels.

Editor: Tom Engels
Guest Editor: Elena Narbutaitė
Poems: Maria Tsoy
Photography: Marija Olšauskaitė
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Printing and Binding: Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao

This publication appeared in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name Druckgraphik 1970–85, which took place in 1986 at the Grazer Kunstverein. The collection shows a selection of the most impressive works created between 1970-85 and is intended to give an insight into the medium as well as its contemporary use and importance. 

Editor: Peter Pakesch
Authors: Bice Curiger, Martin Disler, Monika Faber, Johannes Gachnang, Günther Gercken, Per Kirkeby, David Shapiro, Emilio Vedova, Wolfgang Wunderlich
Artists: John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Marcel Broodthaer, Günter Brus, Werner Büttner, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Gunter Damisch, Martin Disler, Jörg Immendorf, Jasper Johs, Hubert Kiecol, Per Kirkeby, Sol Lewitt, Markus Lüpertz, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, A.R. Penck, Arnulf Raier, Dieter Roth, Emilio Vedova, Franz Wanner
120 pages, 158 images in total, 124 b/w, 34 color images., 27 x 21,5 cm, 540g, German
Published by: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1986
ISBN 3-201-01326-9
Price: 31,– Euro

The articles of the first issue of the magazine Durch deal with space, the interweaving of art and science, philosophy and poetry and a lot more. 

Editors: Peter Pakesch, Elisabeth Printschitz, Klaus Feichtenberger
Authors: Rudolf Haller, Rolf Herken,Peter Kogler, Roger Penrose, August Ruhs, Ferdinand Schmatz, Elisabeth Schweeger, Albert Oehlen, Peter Weibel, John A. Wheeler, Oswald Wiener, Erich Wonder
Artists: Günther Förg, Reinhard Mucha, Meuser, Hubert Kiecol, Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen
Design: John Baldessari
66 pages, 33 images in total, 10 b/w, 23 color images, 24 x 16,5 cm, 180g, German/ English
Published by: self-published
Price: 29,– Euro

Die Wahlverwandtschaften is the publication of the exhibition of the same name, which took place as part of steirischer herbst ’86 at the Stadtmuseum Graz from 21 September to 20 November 1986. The exhibition dealt with the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

Editor: Peter Pakesch
Authors: Elechi Amadi, Alberto Boatto, Konrad Bayer, Elias Canetti, Raymond Carver, Daniil Charmes, Joseph Conrad, Alain Cueff, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby, Pierre Klossowski, Joseph Kosuth, Giacomo Leopardi, Thomas Mann, Mario Merz, Peter Pakesch, Edgar Allen Poe, Ezra Pound, Reinhard Pressnitz, Dieter Roth, Claude Royet-Journoud, August Ruhs, Johannes von Schlebrügge, Ferdinand Schmatz, William Shakespeare, Mariella Simoni, Daniel Walter, Franz West, Elisabeth Wiesmayr-Schlebrügge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Denys Zacharopoulos, sowie aus dem Alten Testament, den Nachtwachen des Bonaventura und Suburban Souls
Artists: Hans Holbein, Mario Merz, Pierpaolo Calolari, Johan Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Reinhard Priessnitz, Norbert Brunner, Günter Brus, Werner Büttner, Francesco Clemente, Gilbert & George, Jenny Holzer, Ilja Kabakov, Per Kirkeby, Pierre Klossowski, Joseph Kosuth, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Dieter Roth, Mariella Simoni, Jan Vercruysse, Franz West, Ferdinand Schmatz, Otto Zitko
158 pages, 95 images in total, 57 b/w, 38 color images, 27 x 21 cm, 685g, German 
Published by: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1986
Price: 29,– Euro