The paintings and drawings by Jake Grewal draw the viewer in through stillness and ambiguity: they invite reflection on how we inhabit places—physically and emotionally—and how our inner landscapes mirror the physical world. This is the Grewal’s first book, published to accompany the artist’s exhibition at Studio Voltaire.
The transformation of the notion of monuments and the way cultural institutions choose to deal with it find in Maurizio Cattelan an interpreter capable of manipulating historical memory and shared symbols, to the point of turning them into a terrain of doubt and play. Lisa Parola and Lorenzo Giusti investigate the potential of contemporary art within the public sphere.
This is a visual archive of 12 years of developing, designing and exhibiting the House of One, a multireligious sacred space in the heart of Berlin. The architecture, conceived by Kuehn Malvezzi, has been displayed at various venues while being developed in close collaboration with three local religious communities in Berlin since 2012.
The first major monograph on artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings thread motifs of decay, memory, history, and private myth, featuring humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.
The essays in this first-ever monograph dedicated to Swiss artist Jan Vorisek, alongside image portfolios of the exhibitions they explore and an appendix that features photos and documentation of Vorisek’s performances, recordings and ephemera, grant us unprecedented access to the private fictions that the work reveals.
Since the 1990s Costa has been challenging hierarchies of art production and the fetishization of the “finished” artwork, inviting viewers to reconsider what is discarded, both materially and socially. Through over 300 artworks, accompanied by new writing, this catalogue explores Adriano Costa’s work, a meditation on transformation—of objects, meanings, and systems of value.
The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice BiennaleA Comparative Dialogue Act
Edited by Joel Valabrega, Andrea Mancini, Every Island
Texts by Dan Fox, Bettina Steinbrügge, and Joel Valabrega
Scores by Selin Davasse (sound by Alexander Iezzi), Célin Jiang, Stina Fors & Bella Báguena
Published with Mudam Luxembourg
2024, English, vinyl and book bundle, 48 pages, 30 x 30 cm
ISBN 979-12-80579-53-9
The 48-page booklet is a prequel to the exhibition titled A Comparative Dialogue Act, the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, and includes an introduction by Bettina Steinbrügge, Director of Mudam Luxembourg; a commissioned essay by writer and musician Dan Fox a curatorial statement by Joel Valabrega, curator of the pavilion; alongside a rich visual contribution by the commissioned artists.
The vinyl record was released to mark the end of the Biennale, capturing the essence of the sonic interventions which have unfolded in the pavilion space over the last six months. The pavilion is the result of a collaboration between Luxembourgish artist Andrea Mancini and the multidisciplinary collective Every Island and was conceived as an infrastructure for the transmission of sound.
The pavilion welcomed four guest artists at the Biennale—Selin Davasse, Célin Jiang, Stina Fors and Bella Báguena. Their creations were turned into an ongoing dialogue, now available as a vinyl record.