Buchhandlung Walther König

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The third issue of e-flux Index is now available in print and for digital download. 540 pages long, this volume includes contributions from 76 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and theorists from many parts of the world. Ulysses Carríon once declared that “In the new art every book requires a different reading”—an attitude which the Index here adopts in its approach to contemporary culture.

Ranging from short articles and reviews of exhibitions, books, and films, to extensive interviews, long-form essays, and new theoretical vernaculars, the new kaleidoscopic issue of e-flux Index reflects in eleven chapters on topics ranging from the technology of remembering in a forgetful era, to the saturation of contemporary imagery and the current state of photography, moving image, and appropriation art. In fast-changing times, Index 3 also responds to the current climate of cultural censorship over Palestine, and explores the fault-line between diversity and homogenization—from global food monocultures to architectural uniformity.

In two stand-alone chapters, the issue presents the first English translations of feminist writings from the 2022 Jina Uprising in Iran, and elsewhere explores the metabolic rifts of the climate crisis, from the curious origins of autotune in Exxon oil extraction to speculative essays on post-fossil fuel architecture. Index 3 also focuses on the role of notation in musical scores and performance scripts, eventually ending with a section that turns everything inside out to consider the potential for code-switching and the subversion of binaries in art and life.

Published five times a year, e-flux Index recomposes content commissioned across e-flux’s Journal, Architecture, Criticism, Education, and Notes platforms, organizing texts thematically to draw out today’s most vital strains of inquiry.

e-flux Index is available to purchase at e-flux Shop and in select bookstores worldwide. It is distributed by (Canada), (USA), (UK, Europe), (Europe), (East Asia), and (Germany, Austria).

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In this extensive historical and contemporary analysis of shame and its power, artist Andrea Büttner probes the definitions and representations of shame. ‘Shame’ (Koenig Books, 2023) includes close readings of Sigmund Freud’ writings on play and fantasy, challenges theoretical approaches to Andy Warhol’s q***r performativity on film, and frames Dieter Roth’s representations of shame in his writing and moving image work.

Item-No.: 1609566

Am 7. September ab 16 Uhr landen wir ein zu einer Signierstunde mit dem bekannten Kinderbuchillustrator Axel Scheffler in der Buchhandlung Walther König (Ehrenstr. 4, 50672 Köln).

Anlass der Signierstunde bei Walther König ist ein Kalender, den Scheffler mit illustren Kolleg*innen herausgibt - zugunsten der Organisation „Three Peas“. Informationen über diesen Kalender haben wir unter folgendem Link bereitgestellt: https://pe-ri-dot.com/pages/presse

JOAN MIRÓ - DRAWINGS 1901-1981
Catalogue Raisonné by Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud
Paris 2008-2018.

This new catalogue raisonné will be published in seven volumes and will include the drawings from 1901 to 1983 in pencil, gouache, watercolour, collage, oil, and works in various media on paper, card, cardboard and other supports. All drawings are reproduced in mostly colour and are accompanied by title, date, technique, support, dimensions, and signature as well as documentation regarding current location, provenance, important exhibitions and books where they have been reproduced

ItemNo.: 1664652

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“Christ & Gantenbein. Projects I–III” is out now. Our first comprehensive three-volume monograph, published by Verlag der , is available in bookstores globally.

Developed with graphic designer , it showcases over 160 projects from 1998 to 2023, offering a chronological survey of our work with texts by various authors.

Volume 1 includes 42 projects, from Garden Rooms in Arlesheim to Landesmuseum Zürich, and 15 texts. Discover the first part of our practice’s contributions to architecture in the Swiss and international context over the past 25 years.

Image 1: Cover volume 1 (photo )
Image 2: Garden Rooms Arlesheim
Image 3: Landesmuseum Zürich New Wing
Image 4: Landesmuseum Zürich New Wing
Image 5: Three volumes

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We are delighted that the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung / Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has added over 20 works on paper by Berlin artist Maximilian Kirmse to its collection following the solo exhibition MAXIMILIAN KIRMSE | BERLIN MON AMOUR.

Check out the eponymous exhibition catalog published at by Michael Hering with a lot of the works presented.

Congratulations

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Allana Clarke’s first monograph An Infinitive Breath has recently been published and offers a comprehensive insight into the artist’s work to date. The book traces her practice, which moves fluidly between sculptural and text-based approaches as well as photography, video and performance. An interview between and as well as essays by and explore some of the central themes in Clarke’s work.

“When people encounter a body, they immediately try to deconstruct it and make connections to things they already know or think they understand. They immediately reduce it because the way we understand bodies in the world is very reductive: we judge them by race, class, gender; we make all kinds of associations, it’s an automatic process. My works with hair bonding glue counteract these associations: they are bodies. They have weight. They have gestures and movement.“ — Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke: An Infinitive Breath is edited by Thomas Zander and published by , Cologne.

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All works © Allana Clarke.

ANNA JERMOLAEWA - BIENNALE VENEDIG, ÖSTERREICHISCHER PAVILLON
Catalogue ed. by Gabriele Spindler. Venice 2024. Contrib. by Aleida Assmann, Boris Groys & Gabriele Spindler. 16 x 23 cm. 224 pp. with 182 (170 farb.) mostly coloured mostly full- our double-page ill., softcover – Text in German & English.

The artist Anna Jermolaewa, who fled from Russia to Austria, still has a bone to pick with Putin. In 1989, the KGB had her studio flat in St Petersburg, where he was working at the time, searched - she never saw the confiscated works again. It was the year of her first invitation to the Biennale. „I resent that personally,“ she told an interviewer on the occasion of her return to Venice. For us, her Austrian pavilion is one of the great discoveries. The generously presented catalogue celebrates her multifaceted conceptual art. The art philosopher Boris Groys diagnoses the precipitation of „political radiation“ in her works.

Item-No.: 1655608

Anna Jermolaewa & Oksana Serheieva, Rehearsal for Swan Lake, 2024, Installationsansicht, Austrian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2024
Foto: Markus Krottendorfer und Bildrecht

KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL 296: 60. BIENNALE 2024 VENEDIG - FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE
Cologne 2024. Text in German.

Anyone looking for an independent publication on the 60th Venice Art Biennial will reach for the latest volume of Kunstforum. Simultaneously a magazine and an encyclopaedia of contemporary art, the magazine in book form always sends first-class authors and photographers to all the important major events. On almost 400 pages, the current issue covers both the curated show „Foreigners Everywhere“ and all the exhibitions in the national pavilions. The Cologne-based editorial team does not shy away from critical categorisations.


Item-No.: 1676700

Jetzt erhältlich - frisch vom Drucker in unser Fenster 2011-2017.

Feiert mit uns die Publikation, heute ab 16 Uhr, mit Zimtschnecken und Glühwein auf der Albertusstraße Ecke Ehrenstrasse in Köln.

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Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 400 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 27.4 × 33.5 cm, English, €28
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American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Working through an experimental and avant-garde tradition, she wrote numerous novels, essays, poems, and novellas from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. As a postmodernist, plagiarist, and post-punk feminist, she continues to inspire generations of writers, philosophers, and artists. Get Rid of Meaning is the first comprehensive publication on Acker’s work from an artistic and literary perspective. It includes previously unpublished material from Acker’s personal archive and other collections. The publication is the compilation of a multipart research project including an exhibition and a symposium at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe.
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With contributions from: Kathy Acker, Eleanor Antin, Dodie Bellamy, Hanjo Berressem, Ruth Buchanan, William S. Burroughs, Anja Casser, Georgina Colby, Leslie Dick, Claire Finch, Johnny Golding, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Anja Kirschner, Chris Kraus, Sylvère Lotringer, Douglas A. Martin, Jason McBride, Karolin Meunier & Kerstin Stakemeier, Avital Ronell, Carolee Schneemann, Daniel Schulz, Matias Viegener & McKenzie Wark.

MARTIN WONG: MALICIOUS MISCHIEFS - MADRID, MUSEO CA2M CENTRO DE ARTE DOS DE MAYO - Catalogue ed. by Krist Gruijthuijsen & Agustín Pérez Rubio. Madrid/Berlin u.a.O. 2022/23

Martin Wong is recognized for his depictions of social, sexual, and political scenographies from the American 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Poetically weaving together narratives of q***r existence, marginal communities, and urban gentrification, Wong stands out as an important countercultural voice at odds with the art establishment's reactionary discourse at the time. Heavily influenced by the artist's immediate surroundings, Wong's practice merges the visual languages of Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti, carceral aesthetics, and sign language. His work offers a valuable insight into decisive periods of recent American history.

Join us on the 8th of December at our bookshop in Cologne Ehrenstrasse for the book launch of SSZ Sued 2011-2017 from 4-6pm.

There will be mull wine and cinnamon buns ✨.

booklaunch - VERBIEST APPROXIMATIONS
wednesday 14th of december - 19h00
rue jean verbiest 5 - 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
free entrance, register by e-mail : [email protected]
book edited by Harold Fallon & Evelia Macal with Orfee Grandhomme
published by
intro by Benoît Burquel & Benoît Vandenbulcke
conversation with Evelia Macal, Benoît Meersseman & Harold Fallon, moderated by Hülya Ertas
visit of the house and workshop

Repost • Die Ausstellung „Die Natur der Natur. Fukushima Project“ endet am Sonntag.

Zur Ausstellung ist im Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln ein gleichnamiger Katalog in deutscher sowie in englischer Sprache erschienen. Neben den Fotografien von Norbert Schoerner enthält der Katalog Textbeiträge von Shinichi Nakazawa, Tom Morton, Julia Psilitelis und Matthias Wagner K. Auch nach Ende der Ausstellung wird der Katalog noch an der Museumskasse erhältlich sein.

Außerdem möchten wir Euch zur letzten Führung durch die Ausstellung einladen! Diese findet am Sonntag, den 27. November 2022 um 15 Uhr statt.

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The exhibition "The Nature of Nature. Fukushima Project" is ending on Sunday.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog of the same name has been published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, available in German and English. In addition to the photographs by Norbert Schoerner, the catalog contains text contributions by Shinichi Nakazawa, Tom Morton, Julia Psilitelis and Matthias Wagner K. Even after the end of the exhibition, the catalog will still be available at the museum shop.

We would also like to invite you to the final guided tour of the exhibition! This will take place on Sunday, 27 November 2022 at 3 pm.

Foto/Photo: © Museum Angewandte Kunst

Repost • Beautiful catalogue from the new exhibition Design für Olympia in Munich. A diverse collection of objects including logos, poster design, apparel and sporting equipment. And a few torches, including our design for London 2012 Olympics. Exhibition architecture and display cases were designed by

2G n. 85 • Leopold Banchini • Dodged House, Lisbon, 2017

Leopold Banchini Architects is an architectural studio based in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 2017 by Leopold Banchini, after being part of Bureau A for three years. The office is a multidisciplinary research team exploring the frontiers of space shaping. Deeply rooted in architectural history, it is interested as well in contemporary popular cultures as in vernacular traditions and crafts. His work has been built in countries as Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Bahrain, and Australia.

Photo: Dylan Perrenoud

Repost • Last chance to browse through Wilhelm Klotzek's imaginary library at Buchhandlung Walther König in Cologne.
"Vergleiche Hinken"
Staged shop window by Wilhelm Klotzek
Until November 6, 2022

Stop by our shop in Cologne to see the shop window put together by Wilhelm Klotzek and named „Vergleiche Hinken“. As part of the preparations for Klotzek made a larger model of the façade out of sheet metal/glass.

The display will be up from 22nd of October til 6th of November.

Visit us on the Frankfurt Book Fair at booth 3.1/J110. You can find us there till Sunday 23rd of October.

Visit us at FRIEZE MASTERS
12-16 October at
the Regent's Park and discover rare gems like a first edition Max Ernst Historie Naturelle, one of only 17 copies of Baselitz‘s Samuel or a complete set of Lawrence Weiner artist books 1969-1989.

Thierry Greub
CY TWOMBLY – INSCRIPTIONS

2.280 pages with more than 1.000 coloured illustrations in six cloth-covered volumes in slipcase

Itemn-No.: 1624218 subscription price € 998,--
as of November 1st 2022 € 1.298,--

From 1953 onwards, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) began to add texts and literary quotations from poets from antiquity to the present day to around 40% of his paintings, including Sappho, Praxilla, Rumi, Keats, Rilke, Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Bachmann and others.

In five volumes - catalogue raisonné - all 901 works annotated are illustrated. Each inscription is transcribed and cited with the literary source in the variant translation used by the artist.
Additional diagrams explain the often difficult identification of the quotations. In fact, the author succeeds in attributing all 901 works to 109 authors.

The catalogue raisonné is supplemented by a monographic sixth volume, "A Collaboration of Image and Words".

It has been known for years that the author, a habilitated art historian and staff member at the International College Morphomata at the University of Cologne, is working on this unusually interesting reference work. The edition will be delivered at the end of October 2022.

Please send your order for subscription to [email protected].

With kind regards

Walther König
Cologne, October 2022

Zwei Schwestern, eine Künstlerin und eine Dichterin, beschreiben in einem intimen Briefwechsel die Konturen ihres Lebens innerhalb der künstlerischen Avantgarde New Yorks.

Die Sammlung der Korrespondenz zwischen der Künstlerin Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) und der Dichterin Bernadette Mayer (geb. 1945) umfasst die Jahre 1976 bis 1980, eine Zeit reichhaltiger Kreativität in der künstlerischen Avantgarde New Yorks, in der auch bedeutende Werke der beiden Frauen entstanden sind. Rosemary Mayer schuf Skulpturen, Aquarelle, Bücher und „temporäre Denkmäler“ aus Wetterballons und Schnee, während Bernadette Mayer an einigen ihrer bekanntesten Veröffentlichungen arbeitete, darunter das Gedicht Midwinter Day in Buchform sowie die Gedichtsammlung The Golden Book of Words. Diese Briefe, die die Welten der Konzeptkunst, des Postminimalismus, des Feminismus, der New York School, der Sprachpoesie und mehr vereint, verdeutlichen die Bande der Schwesternschaft durch einen intimen Austausch über Kunst, Beziehungen und das tägliche Leben.

Herausgegeben von Gillian Sneed, Marie Warsh
Vorwort von Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber
Texte von Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Gillian Sneed
In Englischer Sprache

Bestellnr.: 1631649
ISBN: 978-0-9995059-6-0

Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer: Letters

Zwei Schwestern, eine Künstlerin und eine Dichterin, beschreiben in einem intimen Briefwechsel die Konturen ihres Lebens innerhalb der künstlerischen Avantgarde New Yorks.

Die Sammlung der Korrespondenz zwischen der Künstlerin Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) und der Dichterin Bernadette Mayer (geb. 1945) umfasst die Jahre 1976 bis 1980, eine Zeit reichhaltiger Kreativität in der künstlerischen Avantgarde New Yorks, in der auch bedeutende Werke der beiden Frauen entstanden sind. Rosemary Mayer schuf Skulpturen, Aquarelle, Bücher und „temporäre Denkmäler“ aus Wetterballons und Schnee, während Bernadette Mayer an einigen ihrer bekanntesten Veröffentlichungen arbeitete, darunter das Gedicht Midwinter Day in Buchform sowie die Gedichtsammlung The Golden Book of Words. Diese Briefe, die die Welten der Konzeptkunst, des Postminimalismus, des Feminismus, der New York School, der Sprachpoesie und mehr vereint, verdeutlichen die Bande der Schwesternschaft durch einen intimen Austausch über Kunst, Beziehungen und das tägliche Leben.

THE LETTERS OF ROSEMARY & BERNADETTE MEYER, 1976-1980 - MÜNCHEN, LENBACHHAUS - Catalogue ed. by Gillian Sneed & Marie Warsh. New York/Aachen u.a.O. 2021-23. Vorw. von Eva Birkenstock. 23. 14 x 21 cm. 376 S. mit 56 (35 farb.) Abb., broschiert.

Bestellnr.: 1631649
ISBN: 978-0-9995059-6-0

Repost• 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 – 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘴 - Takarai Kikaku

Tsukioka Yosh*toshi (1839–1892) was the last great woodblock print master of the Ukiyo-e tradition. With his distinctive style of dramatic lines and use of gorgeous colours, Yosh*toshi was soon recognised by his contemporaries as the most outstanding woodblock artist of his time. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 is regarded as his greatest achievement. The series brings to life the history and mythology of ancient Japan. In all 100 prints the moon figures prominently, either clearly visible in the design itself, or else referred to in the beautiful poem in the text cartouche.

The subjects of the prints range from historical figures such as the novelist and court lady Murasaki Shikibu from the Heian period (794–1185) and samurai warlords like Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) to mythological creatures and scenes related to the Japanese theatre forms kabuki, no and kyogen. The series not only strongly refers to Japanese literature and culture, it also includes many references to the literary traditions of China, which were of major influence on the cultural developments of classical Japan.



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