Stackable word game for Der Betrieb built after House of Cards by Ray and Charles Eames
Nicole Eisenman: Giant Without a Body
Nicole Eisenman and Solveig Øvstebø, Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2021
ISBN: 978-82-93654-18-6
Cold-glued soft cover with coloured thread, 24×27,5 cm, 168 pp., English and Norwegian
Astrup Fearnley Museet published this exhibition catalogue with texts by curator Solveig Øvstebø and writers Rahel Aima and Diana Tourjée. This richly illustrated publication includes both installation views from the exhibition and detailed imagery of Eisenman’s intricate and multifaceted works.
The book is dedicated to the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that was adopted in 1948. Accompanied by works of 56 internationally renowned artists.
Andrea Fuchs, Petra Stelzer, Manfred Nowak (eds.)
With texts by Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Hard Cover, Arabic/Chinese/English/French/Russian/Spanish, Thread Stitching, 352 pp.
Drafts for the redesign for Journal 21, 2019. unrealised.
from the Series Drawing BookY.-My Nguyen & Antoine Orand, Powerplay, 2019
thread-stitched, 4C-Risoprint
Die Archivierung der Gegenwart / The Archiving of the Presence
Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (ed.)
Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2024
Brochure, 316 pp.
With texts by Hans-Peter Weiss, Cornelia Offergeld, Katrina Petter, Henrik Orrje, Cathrine Mellander Backman, Uta Hassler, Jakob Helmut Deibl, Linus Neumann, Hans Ulrich Reck
Other Mechanisms, 2018
Anthony Huberman, Secession (eds.)
144 p., 220 × 210 mm
Catalogue/Artist book with works of Zarouhie Abdalian, Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, Eva Barto, Patricia L. Boyd, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Howard Fried, Aaron Flint Jamison,Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Frederick Kiesler, Pope. L, Louise Lawler, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulene, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, and Danh Vo.
foil-stamped cardboard cover; [The catalog] has a bonus track in terms of “training new reading strategies”: it is printed on transparent paper. (Der Standard)
The book as an “inefficient reading machine”, the catalog of Anthony Huberman's group exhibition at the Secession. The exhibition examines how art can question a world in which efficiency and productivity count."Other Mechanisms" is an revised and extended version of the exhibition "Mechanisms" that was on view at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco from October 2017 through February 2018.
filmposter for Cavalcade, a short film by Johann Lurf, 2015
Poster, 40×24,5 cm
4 colours, screen print
Edition of 100
Millaphon Records, 2011
CD and LP, 16 pp. booklet
Original wood type letterpress used by permission of David Wolske
Keil & Kübel
Breaded Escalope Werkverzeichnis
Katarina Schildgen (ed.), 2014
hardcover, 256 p., 260 × 185 mm
with 72 color illustrations and 19 conversational miniatures
This book attempts to retell the joint work history of designers Michael Tatschl, Martin Schnabl and Sascha Mikel, which results in objects, experimental arrangements and production machines. Their creative processes are to be described and made visible.
Johann Lurf: Stargazing in Cinema, 2022
published as a companion to the film ★
Brochure, 208 pp., 23,1 x 30,2 cm
with a screen printed and laser cutted starry night sky dust jacket
Stargazing in Cinema shows a selection of film stills, which were collected during the research to the film ★. These images, which are placed before or after scenes of starry night skies in films, are arranged in groups to compare their similarities or juxtapose their differences. The book expands the perspective on starry night skies in film history with frames deliberately not shown in ★.
The image plates are accompanied by an interview with Roland Fischer-Briand.
Drafts for the redesign of Belvedere Kunstmagazine, 2019. unrealised.
Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth
Eva Maria Stadler, Jenni Tischer (eds.)
Brochure, 272 pp.
This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of art, art theory, art history, as well as law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. It poses questions about the current challenges of a global capitalist economy with claims to expansive growth in relation to aesthetics, technology, and democracy.
Contributions by Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt, and others
“L’anthologie Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth investigue avec subtilité les tensions entre abstraction et économie. Elle est un condensé théorique et artistique du symposium du même nom […].” (Juliette Kernin in: Critique d'art, N°63)
Verena Dengler: Die Galeristin und der schoene Antikapitalist auf der Gothic G'stettn (Corona Srezessionsession Dengvid-20 :) )
Secession 2020
Magazine, 120 pp.
Texts by Verena Dengler, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anna Gien, Leon Kahane, Christian Meyer, Barbara Urbanic
Nairy Baghramian. Breath Holding Spell
Saddle stich, 30.4×30.4 cm, 16 pp
On the levels of both form and content, Breath Holding Spell unmistakably harks back to Bruce Nauman’s 1970 artist’s book LA AIR, whose eight monochrome pages present photographs of the atmosphere, illustrating the widely varying hues of the air over L.A.
It inspired this artist’s book by Nairy Baghramian, which features variations on a single photographic motif: no more than a cropped detail of a tightly packed standing crowd of people is visible in Tight Sluice. Monochrome pages that reprise the colors of their attire appear in rhythmical alternation with the pictures.
Nairy has autographed the books on the back cover, again quoting Nauman, though his signature was a printed facsimile.
Siggi Hofer, Flowerbouquet, 2019
thread-stitched, 4C-Risoprint
from the Series Drawing BookAnna Gille, Gardenscapes, 2019
thread-stitched, 1C-Risoprint
from the Series Drawing BookMarkus Riedler, Die Sonne zögert aus der Welt, 2025
thread-stitched, 4C-Risoprint, with pop-ups and tattoo
from the Series Drawing BookKerstin von Gabain, Creatures of the Dark, 2019
thread-stitched, 4C-Risoprint
from the Series Drawing BookMax Schaffer, Le Message d'Absence, 2019
thread-stitched, 4C-Risoprint
Nathalie Rozanes: March
2020
Brochure, cold glued, 2C-Risoprint
March brings together poems and performance texts by Nathalie Rozanes, as well as a conversation with Elizabeth Ward and Tarek Halaby.
Das Leben der Dinge: Geraubt – verschleppt – gerettet
Hemma Schmutz, Lentos (ed.)
Bibliothek der Provinz, 2024
in cooperation with the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024
Cold glued-brochure, 19×13,5 cm, 78 pp.
The exhibition catalogue uses contemporary perspectives to shed light on the fate of artworks and artefacts amidst looting, removal and restitution. The spectrum of works ranges from an exploration of colonial looting and in some cases dubious collecting activities, state-organised art theft and expropriation in the Third Reich, to cultural genocide through the removal and destruction of cultural treasures.
With Said Baalbaki, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, CATPC / Renzo Martens, Ines Doujak, Assaf Hinden, Moussa Kone, Oliver Laric, Markus Proschek, Anja Ronacher, Dierk Schmidt, Philip Topolovac, and others.
The content of the small, handy reader is structured by the use of eight different papers. The images are printed on shortened super glossy paper with a metallic Pantone backside. The brown metallic printing color and earthy, rough papers in beige and cream contrast with neon yellow spreads, black or metallic brown type.
The publication is cold glued for best long-term durability of the binding and opening properties.
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel: Sculptures in the Round
Secession, 2021
17×22 cm, 112 pp.
Nicole Eisenman: Dark Light
Secession, 2017
Thread stitched hardcover with embossing on fake leather, 60 pp.
The book is designed as a notebook, depicting drawing and sketches on matte paper, combined with two reproductions of paintings.
Touch Nature
Hemma Schmutz, Lentos (ed.)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025
Gaze-covered hardcover, foil embossed with visible print underneath, 24×29,5 cm. 112 pp.
5C metallic print
This publication showcases international artists and their takes on the devastating consequences of the Anthropocene. A practice that can take the form of documentation and resistance, but also offer utopias and hopeful visions.
Curated by Sabine Fellner
Leporellos for Performance Passage at Museumsquartier
curated by Andrea Maurer
with David Moises, Ernst Caramelle, Miriam Stoney, Alma Söderberg, VALIE EXPORT
Poster for Loose Festival, Vienna 2015
Maja Vukoje: Auf Kante / On the Edge
Belvedere (ed.)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, 2020
Hardcover, printed in 6C, 23×30.5 cm, 256 pp.
An attempt to think of the book as a spatial display that points beyond the flat double page. A book “on the edge”. The design grid is derived from the Albers Squares cited by Maja.
Secession 2016
Brochure with dusk jacket, 16×24 xm, 148 S.
Random stories on the subject of “guest medium” based on letters, books, images and sculpture.
Anna Daučíková: My Mental Body
Secession 2022
folded saddle stitched brochure with sleeve, 34×30,2 cm, 60pp
Katrin Hornek: Modified Grounds, Bodies of Data
Riff am Hang, 2022
open thread-binding, 5C-Offsetprint, 9×13 cm, 192 pp.
Josef Bauer: Demonstration
Stella Rollig, Hemma Schmutz & Harald Krejci, Belvedere / Lentos (eds.)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2019/20
Brochure with folded dust jacket, 16,5×23,4 cm. 280 pp., 442 images, with repetitions 940 illustrations, 16 grid types, each showing 1 to 48 images per page
You can connect everything with everything. (Josef Bauer)
The soft book is wrapped in rough, cloudy transparent paper. This obscures the view of the pictorial content, that is depicted in total on the covers. The title of the book is printed on the inside of the dust jacket.
The design of the book is the editorial work and vice versa, the arrangement and structure of the pictures. The image material from seven decades and a wide variety of sources is arranged in a grid structure to form picture panels. These panels have a simple coordinate system that refers to the work titles in the back of the book and allows the exact position of each image to be determined. The index also allows repetitions to be traced.
The panels start with a few more loosely connected panels, but as you turn the pages the pictures become larger and larger, and connecting to into more concrete contexts, tracing the connecting lines in Bauer's work and making the recurring themes and narratives of Bauer's work visible.
One and the same picture, shown in different correlations, can thus be experienced in multi-dimensionally. Like an alphabet, the pictures are linked to form ever new sentences and meaning.
Illustration plates and texts are separated and printed on different types of paper. The text section is printed on a somewhat rougher recycled paper with delicate black speckles, while the image section is printed on a smooth paper with a harder tone. The continuous light paper allows the silhouettes of the pictures on the other side to shine through and thus connects the works on a further level, giving the panels additional vibrancy.
Ines Doujak, Nevertheless / Nichtsdestoweniger
Kerber 2023
cold-glued brochure with flaps, 23×13 cm, 448 pp.
For the very first time, Nevertheless provides an overview of Doujak’s artistic oeuvre from the last 30 years, encompassing a multitude of different media. The extensive plate section is supplemented by autobiographical fragments and quotations relating to the pictures.
Haus-Rucker-Co: Atemzonen
Hemma Schmutz, Lentos (ed.)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2024
Thread-bound hardcover with linen spine, twin volume in portrait and landscape format
The publication is actually two volumes united in a book that opens to take up a lot of space:
The portrait-format catalog section with three essays and full-page illustrations; and the catalog section, which fully exploits the panorama of the landscape format and presents the complete “Lentos Archive Haus-Rucker-Co,” sorted chronologically into groups of works. Several grid sizes are used here, allowing a varied sequence of pages and image density. At the same time, the images of the works always take precedence over the strict classification system, without the grid ever being completely dissolved. Some groups of works are described again in detail and structure the flow of images, in which drawings, models, objects, photographs and collages from six decades come together.
R.H.Quaytman: An Evening, Chapter 32
Secession 2017
18×29 cm, 176 pp.
German and English
Including a text by Elfriede Jelinek bound in two booklets
Only every fourth double page – always on very glossy paper referring to and allows to depict the piano lacquer that is used by the artist – can be opened and shows the works of the chapter in perspective. If the hidden pages are opened at the perforations, additional imagery from the artists studio, studies, photographs, references, sketches come to light. once open, matte and glossy pages alernate and create a new structure of the book. The book thus becomes an object and provides different narratives to its readers, conveying the work through the act of tearing open and exposing the inner pages.
awarded the State Prize / Most Beautiful Books Austria
Leporellos for Der Betrieb, since 2022
Each season gets its own colour scheme, using and mixing 3 Pantone colours
printed matter for Der Betrieb, since 2019
Posters for the lecture series “Repetitions. Artistic Perspectives,” a cooperation between Collection and Archive & Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, organized by Stefanie Kitzberger, Eva Maria Stadler & Jenni Tischer
Johann Lurf: Notebook No.1 – ★
2020
Saddle stich with partial dusk jacket, 24 pp. 20×28 cm, English
With Essays by Kate Strain and Martin Reinhart
written and produced by Ines Doujak and John Barker for the Liverpool Biennial 2021.
large Leporellos with the transcripts for the exhibition Ines Doujak – Geistervölker at Kunsthalle Wien