Science Fiction

The combination of architecture and vacations is highly inspiring. It promises relaxation and pleasure, beauty and style, all in one. Each of the v...

Embracing seaside lifestyles across the globe Living near the sea promises an intense experience of nature. The view of waves breaking on the shore...

Vibrant cities or quiet idyllic landscapes, Mediterranean coasts or alpine mountain ranges: Europe’s unique cul - tural and natural diversity attra...

What will architecture be like in the coming years and decades? Are new trends and tendencies emerging? This book presents architects and companies...

The desire for beautiful gardens is as strong as ever. An own garden as a private oasis of well-being, but also as a place of prestige can be much ...

How can homes be upgraded to meet today’s demands – from living comfort to energy efficiency and digital requirements? How can the fusion of the hi...

Contemporary architecture in the German capital by local architects as well as projects elsewhere by architects based in Berlin, complemented by es...

At first glance, this illustrated book appears to present a mishmash of the widespread, in some cases unauthorized, unfinished buildings that make ...

If you release a chip from one of the five coloured boards and place it on a different-coloured background, its color suddenly appears different to...

Every day there is something happening in the world of typography and graphic design – something new being created in Buenos Aires, Paris, Tel Aviv...

Product Description Although handwriting is one of man-kind’s greatest cultural achievements, written communication today means mostly typing into...

Anish Kapoor Painting is the first publication to explore Kapoor's paintings in depth. It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasi...

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta that ...

This publication is the first to devote itself in detail to the biography of the Frankfurt banker and philanthropist Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rot...

What is an original, what is a one of a kind, and what is a work of art? How do the condition, provenance, and history of a work of art affect its ...

Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, notic...

Tomasz Gudzowaty (*1971 in Warsaw) is one of today’s preeminent photographers in Poland. His medium is film-based black-and-white photography that ...

From the perspective of her childhood, the photographs by Loredana Nemes (*1972 in Sibiu, Romania) tell of the beauty of her hometown and a life ro...

Julie Ault (*1957) is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural ...

Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death, remarkable works on paper reflect Paul Gauguin’s (1848–1903) experiments ...

For the first time, the prominent German artists Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), Bazon Brock (* 1936), and Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), who collaborated in ...

His early monochrome “white pictures”; his “reflectors,” polished, haptic, kinetic works made from silvery sheet metal and mounted on the wall; or ...

An album with the most beautiful flowers―yet something does not seem to be right, be it the scruffy contours of a stem made of plastic or the struc...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a reputation like a thundering echo―the oldest American museum of modern art surely holds the most spectac...

In Personalities, people open doors into their very personal immediate surroundings: their homes and spaces of creative work. As different as they ...

Paris, Antwerp, Zwolle, and Bremen―the Atelier Kempe Thill works in these cities on the building typology of the urban villa, which today essential...

Whilst photographer Sandra Ratkovic (*1980 in Frankfurt am Main) was documenting abandoned military airports, barracks, and other leftovers of the ...

It starts with a simple idea: massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi (*1970 in Mexico City), cubes o...

The “European Digital Art and Science Network” was initiated in 2015 with the aim of connecting the microcosm and macrocosm of science with the dig...

Product Description Working slowing, consciously perceiving, precisely observing; in our increasingly fast-paced and abstract world, this type of ...

How do we define cultural, social, and emotional identity? What influences their creation? Throughout her entire oeuvre, the French artist Lili Rey...

For more than fifty years, James Turrell (*1943, Los Angeles), one of the most prominent artists of our time, has devoted himself to the exploratio...

The St�del Museum’s collection of Old Masters can look back at a more than two-hundred-year history. It began in 1817, when the deceased Frankfurt ...

For many artists, overcoming the two-dimensional canvas is a central point of reference. The exhibition Tutto and its accompanying catalogue provid...

In this volume of photographs the photographer Christine Fenzl investigates the living conditions of young people in the peripheral areas of Berlin...

One literally can’t argue about taste, but there is certainly a lot to say about it. How is it articulated within the spectrum of our senses? And h...

Franco Viola paints landscapes based on sketches he produces during tours in the mountains and along the coast near his hometown. During the painti...

Franz Erhard Walther’s art examines themes related to the categorisation of art. Walther himself said that the elements of place, time, space, body...

Since 1979 Ars Electronica has tracked and analysed the digital revolution and its multiple impacts. The focus has always been on processes and tre...

Ottilie W. Roederstein, born to German parents in Zurich in 1859, was one of the leading painters in the German-speaking world during her lifetime....

Like no other artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso has adopted the variety of graphic techniques and expanded them through his play with artis...

Landscape architecture is a form of high art for Erik Dhont, who has brought both nuance and sensitivity to various sites. Playing with flowers, gr...

“Eight years after moving from New York City to Berlin, a feeling of alienation still haunts me. I wander the streets alone at night, camera in han...

Hermann Nitsch produced his first “poured” paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the subst...

The ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann (1904–1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office machinery company Oliv...

Since the 1970s, members of the Hilti family have been actively engaged in the collection of art. The systematic long-term development and growth o...

The elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throug...

ReVisi�n: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art h...