Markus Schinwald

Heike Munder

Virginia Dellenbaugh

Husslein Agnes

Peter Friedl

Tragedy

Mathilde Ter Heijne

Paul Preciado

Stemming from the timely spring 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum fYr Gegenwartskunst, this volume focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. era.

A Research on Post-Cyber-Feminisms

Producing Futures

Raphael Gygax

The appearance of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s and its subsequent rapid spread left deep marks on society. Artists and activists across the world responded to both the illness itself and its effects with moving work that reflects on loss, remembrance, and activism in art. United by AIDS sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. Published to accompany an exhibition at Zurich's Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst), it looks at the blurred lines between art production and HIV/AIDS activism and showcases artists who played-and still play-leading roles in this discourse. Alongside fifty illustrations of important works, including many in color, the book includes brief texts on the featured artists and essays by Douglas Crimp, Alexander García Düttmann, Raphael Gygax, Elsa Himmer, Ted Kerr, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Nurja Ritter.

An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV / AIDS

United by AIDS

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Tadeusz Kantor

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) is one of Poland's most significant artists. This essential publication offers a comprehensive overview of Kantor's versatility, from theater productions and actions to painterly and sculptural works. It also includes the "happening" photographs of Eustachy Kossakowski (1925-2001).

Exposition, the Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Du 30 Août Au 16 Novembre 2008

Justine Moeckli

Judith Welter

M Séléction features a selection of 28 works from Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst s collection by 27 Swiss and international artists. It examines the artists and their works and puts them in context with various artistic movements from the second half

Collection of the Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst

M Séléction

Rachel Harrison

John Kelsey

Ellen Seifermann

Gracing the cover jacket of Rachel Harrison's highly anticipated second monograph is an informal monument to the man who holds the Americas' namesake. The only hint to this memorial for the 15th century Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, is an apple resting on an outcropping of neon-green cement; of course the fact that the apple is not only artificial but has a bite taken out of it suggests otherwise to the discovery of these "Edenic" continents. This slight yet important fact raises the basic conceit of if i did it: the active disavowal of art's political function as a museological testament to the "progress" of social history. By tossing off this monumental propensity, Harrison builds "antimonuments;" not so much sculptures but lumpen aggregates of pop psychology. In addition to Vespucci, throughout the book, one finds that celebrities Johnny Depp and Tiger Woods are included in a pantheon with John Locke and 18th century Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli, meanwhile Al Gore checks the temperature, Claude Levi-Strauss checks the door with a taxidermied hen and rooster and a bi-curious Alexander the Great is the master of ceremonies. The title, taken from O.J. Simpson's infamous "hypothetical" account of his murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Donald Goldman, groups this role call of high- and low- brow idols into a nonhierarchical tableau where cultural and political value are allotted only where one sees fit.

If I Did it

During the summer months of 2011, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst sculpture project "The Garden of Forking Paths" was a guest on the Froh Ussicht estate, owned by the Blum family, in Samstagern, Zurich. The project alluded to the "Sacro Bosco" in Bomarzo (Italy), the enchanted Renaissance garden, which features sculptures shrouded in mystery and eccentric architecture that over time became overgrown (so-called "follies"). In this context, the invited artists Pablo Bronstein, Liz Craft, Ida Ekblad, Geoffrey Farmer, Kerstin Kartscher, Ragnar Kjartansson, Fabian Marti, Peter Regli, and Thiago Rocha Pitta created their own fantastic narratives. This anthology, which accompanies the project, enlarges the exhibition with texts dealing with the history of follies, landscape gardening, and the interaction between art and garden.

The Garden of Forking Paths

Heidi Bucher

Anticipating architectural sculpture by artists like Rachel Whiteread among others, Swiss artist Heidi Bucher's 'soft' sculptures and Latex molds of architectural fragments and whole spaces first won her fame in the 1970s and 80s. Bucher, the mother of artist Mayo Bucher, died in 1993. This is the first retrospective monograph on her work, and long overdue.

Fernando Alvim

Ulf Wuggenig

This anthology emerged from a series of solo exhibitions by Kendell Geers, Olu Oguibe, Oldadélé Bamgboyé, Mounir Fatmi and Loulou Cherinet--all artists with connections to Africa and living abroad. Reaching beyond the dialectic of difference typical of so many exhibitions of "non-Western" artists, this collection by a twenty-first-century generation (all participants are between ages 35 and 42) aims to construct a new definition of contemporary African positions. These essays here are written by a diverse group of artists, writers, educators and critics, including Cameroonian Curator Simon Njami, and Olu Oguibe, Associate Professor of Art and African American Studies at the University of Connecticut.

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