Hatje Cantz

Form, color, and light – a pioneer of painterly abstractionPaul Cezanne is unquestionably one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. He is regarded as a pioneer of modernism who deliberately broke with the laws of perspective in his works and constructed the world out of color and form. He thus gave decisive impetus to Cubist painting and the development of abstraction. The catalogue accompanies a comprehensive exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, which is honoring this central artist in its collection with a solo show for the first time in its history. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the last and most significant phase of the French painter's career and highlight key themes from his later years, including still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and scenes of bathers. With around seventy oil paintings and watercolors, the exhibition and catalogue allow us to experience form, light, and color in Cezanne's groundbreaking works—qualities that have influenced artists across generations and continue to inspire them to this day.

Niki de Saint Phalle loved pseudo-orders, which she used to arbitrarily assemble terms and pictograms on a sheet of paper. Under the heading "I Love," for example, the sign of a snake could be found next to the emblem for justice, an orange spot for the corresponding color next to two stars as a symbol for astrology. Niki de Saint Phalle A-Z takes the same liberty and puts the many facets of Niki de Saint Phalle's work into the order of the alphabet. This logical order is deceptive, though. From A as in AIDS to Z as in Zurich Angel, from B as in Bride to V as in Vanitas, a mosaic of concepts emerges that filters out the various levels of meaning in her manifold oeuvre and playfully engages them in mutual commentary.

Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light presents the work and lives of over 80 women whose contributions to photography have been historically underacknowledged Featuring a carefully curated selection of images, essays and poetry, this volume is a rich collective portrait of artists whose vision and influence shaped the medium in profound ways. With images by: Berenice Abbott, Karimeh Abbud, Laure Albin Guillot, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Ellen Auerbach, Lillian Bassman, Hilla Becher, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Katt Both, Margaret BourkeWhite, Anne Brigman, Claude Cahun, Lizzie Caswall Smith, Marjory Collins, Olive Cotton, Imogen Cunningham, Louise DahlWolfe, Maggie Diaz, Nora Dumas, Mikki Ferrill, Trude Fleischmann, Sue Ford, Virginia Fraser, Gisele Freund, Heather George, Viva Gibb, Christine Godden, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Annemarie Heinrich, Florence Henri, Kitty Hoffmann, Ruth Hollick, Kati Horna, Dorothy Izard, Lotte Jacobi, Carol Jerrems, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Joan Jonas, Consuelo Kanaga, Gertrude Käsebier, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Melanie Le Guay, Helen Levitt, Grace Lock, Inez McPhee, Dora Maar, Madame d'Ora, Bea Maddock, Marion Marrison, Lee Miller, Alice Mills, Jacqueline Mitelman, Lisette Model, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Marcel Moore, May Moore, Mina Moore, Barbara Morgan, Hedda Morrison, Ann Newmarch, Ruth Orkin, Marion Post Wolcott, Leonie Reisberg, Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, Isabel Seymour, Peggy Silinsky, Eve Sonneman, Varvara Stepanova, Grete Stern, Elsa Thiemann, Tokiwa Toyoko, Ingeborg Tyssen, Edna Walling, Francesca Woodman, Yamawaki Michiko, Yamazawa Eiko.

Following key terms from A–Z, these books illuminate little-known aspects and shed new light on familiar motifs and themes. This time about the artist Edvard Munch Edvard Munch is one of the most famous painters of the early 20th century and a role model for many artists to this day. His legendary painting Scream even inspired a popular emoji, something that no other artist has ever achieved. Munch had a unique way of placing himself as an individual in the foreground of his art, making his psychological state the subject of his work. In doing so, he created a personal and at the same time universal “diary of the soul” that still captivates us today, as international exhibitions of the Norwegian artist show. In twenty-six short chapters, from A for anxiety to G for ghosts, R for revolvers and Z for zoo, familiar but also surprising aspects of his art and life are presented in a compelling way.

Tracing the origins and influences of the iconic French fashion house in the 1920s, from the Riviera to Paris The beginnings of Chanel's fashion brand lie in the French seaside resorts. In 1913, Coco?then still Gabrielle?Chanel opened her first boutique in Deauville, an upscale seaside resort just a few hours west of Paris. Soon after, she opened shops in Biarritz, Monte Carlo and Cannes. It was in these ritzy beach destinations that her simple, sporty designs first flourished. Here they were met with a cosmopolitan clientele who carried her fashion back to the capital city of Paris. In the 1920s, the Chanel brand thus experienced its first heyday, driven by the artistic and social upheaval of those years, now known as the Roaring Twenties. This lavishly illustrated catalog chronicles this early era of the iconic French fashion house, documenting in drawings and photographs the extraordinary productivity of the designer herself, who maintained friendships with artists such as Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and others. It also traces Chanel’s early influences such as Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, who were performing on the Riviera in the 1920s just as Chanel began to gain a foothold in the region. The book reveals the Slavic influence on Chanel's creations, highlighting a network of correspondences with female artists close to Diaghilev's?including a chapter on the chromatic textile collaborations between Chanel and Russia–born French artist Sonia Delaunay. Finally, it also features images of La Pausa, Gabrielle Chanel's dream villa built near Monaco in 1929.

The past year in photojournalism: 2024 as told through its most arresting, inspirational and profound images Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2025 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2024, carefully selected from thousands of entries by six regional and one global jury of acclaimed independent professionals. Providing a diversity of perspectives from all over the world, the awarded works bear witness to the events that shaped this past year and document in long-term projects the ongoing issues we face. Recognizing the importance of photojournalism and documentary photography at a time when truth is so contested, the awarded images share courageous stories and present invaluable insight-from war zones, the struggle for civil rights and political empowerment to the visible effects of the climate crisis, which were felt in 2024 more acutely than ever.

Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer. It is dedicated to the dynamic relationship between human and nonhuman forces as conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. The cross-disciplinary investigation utilizes practices of notating, reflecting, showing, and sharing that are employed in different media and within different theoretical contexts such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism. This book, which is supplemented by an extensive online archive, contains numerous research artifacts such as texts, drawings, photo series, diagrams, sound recordings, and video stills and is intended as an invitation to a wider community to participate in this investigation.

The Forest in modernist art The fascination of the North is enduring: vast, impenetrable coniferous forests on the edge of the Arctic polar region, "white" summer nights, the long darkness of snowy winters and the famous Northern Lights exert a magical attraction. The Fondation Beyeler is dedicating an exhibition to this global phenomenon with landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada. In addition to works by famous painters such as Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Hilma af Klint, it also features paintings by artists who are highly respected in their home countries, but who-unjustly-have been virtually unknown in Central Europe until now. The Nordic pictorial worlds of Harald Sohlberg, Gustaf Fjaestad, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and Prince Eugen of Sweden are finally being presented to a wide audience. Other artists represented in the exhibition and catalogue are Ivan Shishkin, Anna Boberg, Helmi Biese, Fanny Churberg, Lawren S. Harris and J. E. H. MacDonald.

The pioneer of performance art and her class With the first appointment of the outstanding performance artist Marina Abramovic to the Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts, the focus in the 202323 academic year was placed on transdisciplinarity, artistic daring and social awareness. The project supervised by Abramovic, entitled "Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL)", was realised in a class put together by her, in which she brought together over 20 students from the fields of music (classical and jazz, instrumental, vocal and composition), dance, design, photography, (physical) theatre and directing. The students developed individual or collective concepts for performances and learnt how to develop a longterm performative work form in an experiencebased process. In a workshop entitled "Cleaning the House", which was organised according to a method developed by Marina Abramovic, the students developed a sense of the presence required in performances, including the exploration of their individual physical and mental limits.

From Carl Meyer to Wener Herzog to Christian Petzold?a record of German film history through the lens of one remarkable archive This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of German film based on the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. This impressive archive houses several hundred thousand photographs, 25,000 posters, 26,500 films and approximately 20,000 costumes and architectural sketches. A few standouts include the entirety of Marlene Dietrich’s estate, donations by Werner Herzog and the TV documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller, as well as film scripts by Carl Mayer and Christian Petzold. German Film traces the nation’s cinematic history from its beginnings in 1895 to the present day, illustrating the artistic, technical, political and social developments that have shaped its course. Twelve chapters, organized by decade, and more than 450 texts present famous and lesser-known films. The volume pays tribute to the filmmaking techniques popularized in the country as well as to all those personalities whose creativity established German film’s diversity. Around 2,700 objects from all areas of the collection illustrate a period of 130 years and form an overwhelming overview of the Kinemathek’s archive holdings.

Inspired by the English garden, Blanckaert’s landscape designs are both charming and versatile Piet Blanckaert, one of the major Belgian landscape architects, brings more than 40 years of experience and love of gardens into his work. This book presents a large selection of Blanckaert’s designs from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, all photographed by Jean-Pierre Gabriel.

A journey through Matisse’s epoch-making practice, from his early Fauvist works to his brilliant cutouts The volume is anchored by and named after Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poem “Invitation to the Voyage,” to which Matisse repeatedly referred in his lifetime. Following Baudelaire’s poem, the book is thus conceived as a journey through the work and life of Matisse, in which travel played an important role. Published alongside the Matisse retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, this monograph sails across the many waves of the artist’s practice. Beginning with his early paintings from around 1900, Invitation to the Voyage then carries the reader from his revolutionary Fauvist works of the 1910s to the sensual paintings of his Nice period in the 1930s and his legendary silhouettes of the late 1940s and 1950s. The wealth of important paintings, sculptures and silhouettes gathered here reveals the development and richness of Matisse’s masterful oeuvre. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is one of Modernism’s leading exponents. By liberating color from its conventional associations and simplifying forms, he redefined painting and brought a hitherto unknown lightness to art. Matisse was also an innovator in sculpture, and in his late silhouettes he developed an unmistakable interplay between painting, drawing and sculpture.

Alternative Realities "Video games are to the twenty-first cetury what movies were to the twentieth century and novels to the nineteenth century." - HANS ULRICH OBRIST WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition features works by more than 50 artists, including Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTurbo Avedon, Meriem Bennani, Ian Cheng, Cao Fei, Harun Farocki, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Pierre Huyghe, Rindon Johnson, KAWS, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sturtevant, and Suzanne Treister. This catalogue is conceptualized as a future standard reference in the field in close collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist. In addition to texts by contemporary theorists, curators, and critics on the individual works, a series of newly commissioned contributions will investigate various perspectives on the intersection of gaming and time-based media art. This playfully designed volume features rounded edges, a screen-printed PVC dust jacket and kiss-cut stickers showing a range of different digital avatars.

Alfred Kubin's view on the world of evil The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin’s view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him, one of the most outstanding drawing artists of the twentieth century. Trapped in his fantasies, he finds himself confronted with uncanny dream apparitions and a pronounced fear of the feminine, the night, and fate. This catalogue explores Kubin’s graphic cosmos of the ominous, his nightmares and obsessions and the iconography of evil.

A tender portrait of how artists’ work reflects their childhood experiences, from Vaginal Davis to Ai Weiwei Childhood never lets go of anyone. For many artists, it was the trigger for making art in the first place, and still is what drives them today. What formative memories spurred their creativity? What inspiration do they take from their childhood years? Curator Gesine Borcherdt conducts conversations with 33 artists on the influence of their childhood on their artwork. Transcribed from their original sound bites, these stories are illustrated by family photos, children’s drawings, portraits and examples of their current works. Their tales are touching, amusing or tragic; most have never been told before and their corresponding material has never been published. Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, Jeff Koons, Valie Export, Lynda Benglis, Mona Hatoum, Marcel Dzama, Richard Billingham, Mike Nelson, Kader Attia, Yehudit Sasportas, Julius von Bismarck, Andro Wekua, Jordan Wolfson, Raphaela Vogel, Vaginal Davis, Wong Ping, Ernesto Neto.

A concise introduction to the matchless still life collection of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Old Meister Gallery (Gemäldegalerie) in Dresden, this richly illustrated book presents a selection of stunning still life paintings. The enchanted objects depicted in still lifes bear witness to great wealth and hedonism, but they also reflect the worldly curiosity of the Enlightenment and the religious reverence of the Baroque era. Along with individual works from the Gemäldegalerie’s world-class collection, this volume examines the many facets of the genre of still life, as well as its role in Dutch and Flemish painting traditions. What function did still lifes serve, what allegories and symbols were hidden in their coded messages? More than 70 works from the Dresden collection by painters such as Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch and Frans Snyders provide a unique insight into the heyday of this magical genre.