The Art of Tomorrow presents an international selection of seventyseven young artists, with four pages dedicated to each, who show great potential for the future. They were selected by three insiders from the art world: Laura Hoptman is a curator in the department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Yilmaz Dziewior is the director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz and a member of the acquisitions committee of the collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany; Uta Grosenick has edited numerous anthologies on contemporary art. The book is intended for an audience that wants to know today what will be happening in tomorrow’s art scene. It is thus an indispensable compendium for collectors and curators, for art students and others interested in art. Designers, graphic designers, fashion designers, and advertising agencies all derive ideas and inspiration from the visual arts. With its selection of artists, the book posits clear worldwide trends; its distinguished and futuristic design make the book a musthave.

The Art of Tomorrow (German and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

Yilmaz Dziewior

History & Criticism

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A collection of remarkable paintings created mostly without paint. Since the mid1990s, Sergej Jensen (b. in Copenhagen in 1971) has been offering one of the most remarkable responses to the question of what painting can still be today. Painting in the classical sense plays only a minor role: in lieu of canvas, Jensen uses jute, coarse cotton, and jeans. He incorporates spots on fabrics, which turn the expressive gesture of his paintings into a sign of wear from real life. Jensen sews fabrics together, leaving the seams visible to evoke the fleeting impression of a drawing and he colors others with gouache, acrylics, and markers, but Jensen more often applies materials foreign to painting, such as patches, paper money, spices, beads, and glitter. Hanging his fabrics from windows, Jensen lets the sun and rain contribute a patina and treats them with chlorine and paints mixed with bleach to reduce their brilliance.

Sergej Jensen

Peter Eleey

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

Helmut Draxler

Jacob Fabricius

Rainald Goetz

Dirk von Lowtzow

Melanie Ohnemus

Susanne Pfeffer

Her oversized enamel canvasses of everyday objects put Tatjana Doll's name on the map: cars, trains, containers, pictograms, babushkas... And yet the pictures do not show reality. Instead they retain their independence. This is also true of her fine drawings. Like the objects in her paintings, the artist lends her figures an independent existence. Tatjana Doll (b. Burgensteinfurt, 1970; lives and works in Berlin) was made professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Kunste Karlsruhe in 20092010. This is the first publication of 350 leaves selected from her drawing oevre and dated between 1998 and 2010.

Tatjana Doll (German and English Edition)

Individual Artists

Michael Sailstorfer’s (b. Velden/ Vils, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) works go far beyond visual perception and speak through sound, vibrations, and even smells that address the viewer’s other senses. He removes the most ordinary objects from their original context, dissecting and deforming and then reassembling them, thus creating powerful installations and sculptures: he transforms street lamps into falling stars, makes popcorn in a cement mixer, orturns a police car into a drum kit.

Michael Sailstorfer

Sauerbruch and Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton’s renowned buildings such as the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Environmental Agency Dessau or Munich’s Brandhorst Museum, this book also shows their more recent work. Highlighting the sensual force of colour, Noshe’s vibrant photographs reveal the architects’ search for the expression of an architecture of sustainability that transcends both technical perfection and energyefficient performance. Words by Jonathan Glancey, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch complement the photographs.

Sauerbruch Hutton

Architecture

An online interview magazine is coming out in print. The book presents twentyfive Berlin creatives in their workspaces and homes. The pictures focus on human beings in private settings. Nothing seems staged; the photographs emphasize the authentic qualities and idiosyncrasies of the sitters, including many trendsetters such as gallerists, collectors, artists, photographers, illustrators, architects, shopkeepers, and entrepreneurs. Professional photography and a loving eye for detail unite to offer a unique and exclusive glimpse into the storied lives of Berlin’s creatives. With background information and insiders’ tips.

Freunde Von Freunden (German Edition)

China is undergoing rapid economic and sociocultural transformation. Between the euphoria of unchecked economic advancement, frenzied modernization, and the concomitant fear that the country’s identity will be lost, art charts new and individual paths. Ji Dachun (b. Nantong, China, 1968; lives and works in Beijing) has found a distinctive visual language in his bizarre scenarios. They contain clear references to shan shui, the classical Chinese landscape painting, but also articulate the artist’s engagement with Western modernism and the contemporary painting of Philip Guston, Cy Twombly, Georg Baselitz, and others. By showing traditional subjects while breaking with the conventions of central perspective, his pictures open up space for spiritual contemplation and the inward imagination. With an essay by Uta Grosenick, editor of two surveys of Chinese contemporary art as well as monographs on Miao Xiaochun, Yang Shaobin, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Ji Dachun (English and German Edition)

Painting

Timo Nasseri (b. Berlin 1972 to a German mother and Iranian father; lives and works in Berlin) launched his career in the arts as a photographer. In recent years, however, he has systematically built a sculptural oeuvre. Rising slowly and with infinite precision on the foundations of mathematics, it undoes the separation between abstraction and ornament. Nasseri blends the two formative influences on his art, those of Islamic and Western culture, in arresting ways. The resulting works are alive with tensions and contrasts. The series Epistrophy/Muqarnas, for instance, interrogates sculpture as such. Complex structures made of reflective stainless steel form a space of contemplation that seeks to approximate the infinite. Nasseri's most recent works, including the sculpture GON, for which he was awarded the 2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, allow the beholder to experience mathematical theories in space. This first monograph surveys the works Nasseri created between 2006 and 2012.

Timo Nasseri

Azimi, Negar

Michel Majerus died at the young age of thirty-five, and yet this visual artist (1967-2002) has left a multifaceted and extensive oeuvre. His contribution to an expansion of the medium of painting has informed an entire generation of contemporary painters. In his pictures and installations, Michel Majerus explored all formats, from the smallest to the overwhelmingly large. On the level of content, he quotes from comics, media, advertising, and time and again also from an art-historical repertoire ranging from Minimal to Pop Art. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is accompanied by a catalog that outlines the various phases of his artistic development, embeds Majerus's oeuvre in a larger art-historical context, and analyzes his art against the backdrop of a global flood of images. Numerous installation shots convey an impression of Majerus's large-format works and space installations. With essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Heike Föll, Ulrike Groos, Joseph Kosuth, Charlotte Laubard, and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen.

Michel Majerus (English and French Edition)

Majerus, Michel

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installations, objects, and photographs, experiments in philosophical thought take concrete shape, reminding us that we cannot understand everything. Both social conventions and the laws of physics are at stake. Alicja Kwade’s discreet interventions in scenes of everyday life can invert gravity, transmute pebbles into jewels, and even open doors to parallel worlds. The texts in this book are likewise unusual: in addition to an introduction by the art historian Eveline Suter, it includes an essay by Alicja Kwade’s mother, the biologist Elisabeth Kwade, about why artists are different, and the wellknown furniture maker and author Rafael Horzon contributes a jester’s play.

Alicja Kwade (English and German Edition)

Kwade, Alicja

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