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.
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.
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)
Becoming Human: A Compendium
Edited by Katerina Gregos with Zane Ozola
Published by Mousse (forthcoming)
Commissioned and produced by the Riga Biennial Foundation