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Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 18
2030: War Zone Amsterdam

Christel Vesters (coordinating editor), Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Margriet Schavemaker, Domeniek Ruyters (eds.)
Now is the Time
Art & Theory in the 21st Century

Jenny Barendregt, Sabrina Kamstra, Mieke van der Star, Arnold Witte (eds.)
Corporate collections in the Netherlands

Pascal Gielen, Paul De Bruyne
Arts in Society
Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times

Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen, Timo de Rijk (eds.)
Dutch Design Yearbook 2009

Frits Gierstberg, Georgi Gospodinov, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Rik Suermondt
Simply a Line
No Man's Land between Bulgaria and Turkey

Henriëtte Heezen, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Tom van Gestel (red.)
Art as Urban Strategy
Beyond Leidsche Rijn

Linda Vlassenrood (ed.)
Tangible Traces
Dutch Architecture and Design in the making

Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond & Bregje van Woensel, Ineke Holtwijk, Luciano Figueredo
Brazil Contemporary
Architecture, Art, Visual Culture

Moosje Goosen, Janwillem Schrofer, Sarah Farrar, Juan A. Gaitán
PRIXDEROME.NL 2009
Visual arts

Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 17
A precarious Existence
Vulnerability in the Public Domain

Javier Panera, Rein Wolfs, Tom Morton, Katarina Gregos
Marc Bijl
"In case you didn't feel like showing up"

Liesbeth Melis, Joride Seijdel (eds.), Pascal Gielen ( guest editior)
Open 16
The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon
Strategies to Counter Neoliberal Market Logic

Dominic van den Boogerd, Wouter Vanstiphout et al.
Jeroen Doorenweerd

Hans den Hartog Jager, et al.
Tom Claassen

Matteo Pasquinelli
Animal Spirits
A Bestiary of the Commons

Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool, et al.
Questioning History
Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art

Liesbeth Melis, Jorinde Seijdel (eds.)
Open 15
Social Engineering
Can Society Be Engineered in the 21st Century?

Dick Raaijmakers, Arjen Mulder, Elmer Schönberger, Paul Slangen, Michael van Hoogenhuyze
Arjen Mulder (ed.)
Dick Raaijmakers
A Monograph

Auke van der Woud, Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz, Alison Nordström
Editors: Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz
Nature as Artifice
New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art

Henk van Os, Louise Fresco
The Discovery of the Netherlands
Four Centuries of Dutch Landscapes Painted by its Masters

Chantal Mouffe, Sven Lütticken, Simon Sheikh, Nina Montmann, Jan Verwoert, Florian Waldvogel, Gerard Drosterij, Bik Van der Pol, 16 Beaver Group, BAVO
Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 14
Art as a Public Issue
How art and its institutions reinvent the public dimension

Hein van Haaren, Rudi Oxenaar
André Volten
Sculpture in Private Space, Sculpture in Public Space

Thomas Berghuis, Cees Hendrikse, Francesca Dal Lago, Sabine Wang and Eduardo Welsh
Writing on the wall
Chinese Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties

Sue-an van der Zijpp, Mark Wilson and Carol Lu
New World Order
Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China

Sue-an van der Zijpp, Mark Wilson and Karen Smith
Ai Weiwei

Eric Kluitenberg
Delusive Spaces
Essays on Culture, Media and Technology

David Jackson, Sijbolt Noorda Ellen Rutten, Marija Valjaeva, Patty Wageman
Russian Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Geralyn Huxley & Greg Pierce, Matt Wrbican, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Hubertus Butin, Hal Foster, Elisabeth Bronfen et al.
Eva Meyer-Hermann (ed.)
Andy Warhol
A Guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours and 56 Minutes
Other Voices, Other Rooms

Richard Grusin, Geert Lovink, Oliver Marchart, Richard Rogers, Willem van Weelden, Martijn de Waal, David Garcia, Albert Benschop, Florian Göttke, Geert van de Wetering/ HotSpot
Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 13
The Rise of Informal Media
How phenomena such as weblogs, videologs and -podcasts change the public domain

Paulien Oltheten, Hans Aarsman, Tijs Goldschmidt
Theory of the Street

Carel Blotkamp, Daniel Dekkers, Jonneke Jobse, Ruud Schenk
P. Struycken

Toos van Kooten, Marente Bloemheuvel, Gerrie Andela, Antje von Graevenitz, Ingrid Commandeur, Esther Darley, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Jörg Heiser, Anne van der Zwaag
Toos van Kooten, Marente Bloemheuvel (eds)
Kröller-Müller Museum
The History of a Sculpture Garden

Stephen Wright, Joost Smiers, Brian Holmes, Willem van Weelden, Dennis Kaspori, Pascal Gielen, McKenzie Wark, Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds)
Open 12 Freedom of Culture
Regulation and Privatization of Intellectual Property and Public Space

Just published art books

Bas Heijne, Piet de Jonge
Hans Wilschut (photography)
Hans Wilschut. Hidden Harbour
The Port of Rotterdam Exposed
Hans Wilschut. Hidden Harbour

The Rotterdam-based photographer Hans Wilschut (b. 1966) captures monumental images of urban and industrial landscapes, often in the evening and at night. By exposing the photos for longer than necessary, he conjures up a hidden city from the urban materials of stone, glass and concrete – a city that seems to be composed of nothing but light and colour.

Hardcover, 112 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 42.00


Jelle Bouwhuis, Margriet Schavemaker
Monumentalism
History, National Identity and Contemporary Art
Monumentalism

Monumentalism. History, National Identity and Contemporary Art (Proposals for Municipal Art Acquisitions 2010)’ exhibition is to be staged at the temporarily opened Stedelijk Museum on the Paulus Potterstraat in Amsterdam, which is undergoing renovation. For this edition of the annual Municipal Art Acquisitions the museum invited artists to submit work that reflects upon the notion of national history and identity, makes complex interrelationships manifest, creates connections with other histories and looks at historical canons in distinctive and original ways.

Paperback, 264 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 25.00


Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 19
Beyond Privacy
New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain
Open 19 Beyond Privacy

Our traditional notion of privacy is coming under pressure from a political system obsessed with security and control and a commercial sector avid for sales. More and more measures are being taken that confl ict with our constitutional right to privacy. New technologies are being developed and implemented in order to keep an eye on citizens and collect data about their comings and goings. Societal resistance to this is relatively scarce, particularly in the Netherlands.

Paperback, 144 pages, English edition
€ 23.50


Lex ter Braak, Johan Pijnappel, Özkan Gölpinar, Iftikar Dadi et al.
Editors: Lex ter Braak, Lilet Breddels, Steven van Teeseling
6(0) Ways...
Artistic practice in culturally diverse times
6(0) Ways...

A Western, modernist view of art continues to prevail, both in the art discourse and within the world of art institutions. This muddies our perspectives on diversity. Contemporary art practice is different, a practice that is not yet embedded in any clear-cut framework. This publication highlights different ways to shake off the modernist approach, or at least to question its premises, thereby establishing a new frame of reference for artistic practices that have already changed.

Paperback, 208 pages, English edition
€ 30.00


Jos Bosman, Aaron Betsky, Charles Esche, Linda Vlassenrood
Frank Havermans
Architectural Constructions
Frank Havermans

There is growing national and international interest in the work of Frank Havermans (b. Breda, 1967). He constructs complex spatial structures using simple means, without the intervention of an engineer or building contractor. His work stems from a combined fascination with architectonic space and archi¬tectural structure. Alongside this fascination, materiality and the production process play prominent roles in his work. His sphere of activity embraces the whole spectrum of architecture, from furniture and interior to installations, buildings and large-scale urbanism.

Hardcover, 192 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 42.00


Catrien Schreuder, Jorinde Seijdel, Noud Heerkens
Pixels and Places
Video Art in Public Space
Pixels and Places

Video art is to be seen ever more frequently outside the walls of art institutions in public space. Artists infi ltrate advertising screens on the street, project moving images onto edifices or enter into far-reaching collaborations with architects. At unexpected spots this video art shakes chance passers-by out of their reverie or merges effortlessly into the streetscape.

Hardcover, 160 pages, English edition
€ 29.50


Sue-an van der Zijpp, Ingeborg Harms, Francesca Granata Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus
Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus

Willhelm graduated from Antwerp’s prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. During his studies he worked as an assistant to Alexander McQueen, Dirk Bikkembergs, Walter Van Beirendonck and others. A year after graduating he established a women’s wear line under his own name in association with Jutta Kraus, immediately revealing a highly personal and wayward style.

Paperback, 488 pages, English/Dutch/ German edition
€ 35.00


Ine Gevers et al. (eds.)
Difference on Display
Diversity in Art, Science and Society
Difference on Display

The ambitious ‘Difference on Display’ art exhibition is being staged at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam from 15 December 2009 to 8 March 2010. Aimed at a broad audience, it features the responses of international artists to a defining social question of our time: What is normal and who gets to decide?

Paperback, 384 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 35.00