Jens Hoffmann

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AMERICANA: 50 STATES, 50 MONTHS, 50 EXHIBITIONS
Edited and with introduction by Jens Hoffmann.
WATTIS
ISBN: 9780984960903 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2013
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WHEN ATTITUDES BECAME FORM BECOME ATTITUDES
WATTIS
ISBN: 9780984960927 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2013
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ROMAN ONDáK: GUIDE
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783863351311 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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ANTIDOTE
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642290 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2012
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MORE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS
Text by Jens Hoffmann, Blake Stimson.
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205589 | US $28.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2012
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PAINTING BETWEEN THE LINES
Text by Jens Hoffmann.
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205534 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2012
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PEOPLE'S BIENNIAL 2010
Foreword by Kate Fowle, Renaud Proch. Text by Jens Hoffmann, Harrell Fletcher.
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
ISBN: 9780916365837 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Edited by Jens Hoffmann. Text by Jens Hoffmann, Maurice Berger, Mirjana Blankenship, Elyse Mallouk.
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205596 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2011
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PAUL MCCARTHY'S LOW LIFE SLOW LIFE
Text by Jens Hoffmann.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775725736 | US $85.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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FERNANDO ORTEGA
Text by Jens Hoffmann, Michel Blancsubé.
TURNER
ISBN: 9789689056416 | US $29.50
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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JOHN BOCK: KLüTTERKAMMER
Text by Jens Hoffmann.
WALTHER KöNIG
ISBN: 9783865605542 | US $49.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2009
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MATRIX: BERKELEY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
ISBN: 9780971939783 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2009
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TIM LEE: CAPP STREET PROJECT
Text by Claire Fitzsimmons, Jens Hoffmann.
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205503 | US $15.99
Pub Date: 6/1/2008
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THEANYSPACEWHATEVER
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892073771 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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MAREPE
Text by Jens Hoffmann, Adriano Pedrosa.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567404 | US $69.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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MARIO YBARRA JR.: CAPP STREET PROJECT
Edited and with text by Jens Hoffman, Claire Fitzsimmon, Mario Ybarra Jr.
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9780972508070 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2008
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THE NEXT DOCUMENTA SHOULD BE CURATED BY AN ARTIST
Edited by Jens Hoffman.
E-FLUX/REVOLVER
ISBN: 9783937577418 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 7/2/2004
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PARKETT NO. 68 EIJA-LIISA AHTILA, FRANZ ACKERMANN, DAN GRAHAM
PARKETT
ISBN: 9783907582183 | US $32.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2003
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TELE-JOURNEYS
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
ISBN: 9780938437642 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2003
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MOBY DICK
Text by Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Nemerov.
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205527 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
Text by Jens Hoffmann, Rebecca Loncraine.
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
ISBN: 9780980205541 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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ALIEN NATION
Edited by Gilane Tawadros, John Gill, Jens Hoffmann. Text by David Alan Mellor, Claire Fitzsimmons.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775719445 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 6/1/2007
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SHANGHART
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865602008 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2007
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THE YOUTH OF TODAY
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865600714 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2007
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INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE AND AFTER
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905701654 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 9/15/2006
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SUE DE BEER
DOWNTOWN ARTS PROJECTS
ISBN: 9780976704003 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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JOHN BOCK: KOPPEL
Essay by Jens Hoffmann.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883757735 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 5/2/2004
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PER KIRKEBY 122 X 122
LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
ISBN: 9788790029685 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 6/2/2003
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Jens Hoffmann

Americana: 50 States, 50 Months, 50 Exhibitions

Edited and with introduction by Jens Hoffmann.
Published by Wattis

Americana: 50 States, 50 Months, 50 Exhibitions was a long-term presentation consisting of 50 displays, each approximately one month long, exhibited between January 2011–May 2012 and coorganized by Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann and CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. The title is a reference to an exhibition of the same name that was curated by the artist collective Group Material at the 1985 Whitney Biennial. Each month’s display examined an American state, in alphabetical order by state name. Through artworks, historical artifacts, curiosities and other elements, Americana focuses on overlooked and little-known aspects of each state. Americana examines the states as they are today, looking at how America’s social and political imperatives condition the production, presentation and interpretation of art and exhibition making. The brisk pace of the 50 displays reflects the varied and constantly changing fabric of this relatively young country and its multilayered, shifting national identity.

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes

Edited and with introduction by Jens Hoffmann. Text by Constance Lewallen, Julian Myers, Christian Rattemeyer. Interview by Harald Szeemann, Jens Hoffmann.
Published by Wattis

Harald Szeemann’s 1969 legendary exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form was one of the first shows to bring together new tendencies in 1960s art, such as postminimalism, Arte Povera, Land art and Conceptual art. While the exhibition has been widely discussed and researched, an investigation into its impact has never before been realized in an exhibition. This volume explores the history and myths around When Attitudes Become Form, gathering a group of artists that explore the legacy of Conceptual art. The catalogue follows the office-binder format of the 1969 publication, with newly commissioned essays, a previously unpublished interview with Szeemann by Jens Hoffman and essays and images from over 80 artists in the exhibition, including Allora and Calzadilla, Claire Fontaine, Elmgreen and Dragset, Lara Favaretto, Luisa Lambri and Tino Sehgal.

Roman Ondák: Guide

Edited by Eric Mangion, Hemma Schmutz, Andrea Viliani. Text by Luca Cerizza, Max Delany, Silvia Eibmayr, Luigi Fassi, Ryan Gander, Francesco Garutti, Patricia Grzonka, Jens Hoffmann, Adam Kleinman, Simone Menegoi, Vivian Rehberg, Elodie Royer, Chris Sharp, Andrea Viliani.
Published by Walther König, Köln

This attractive artist’s book presents a “guide” to works produced by Slovakian Conceptual artist Roman Ondák (born 1966) from 2007 to 2011. Organized by the city in which it was presented, each work is represented by photographic documentation and a brief description by a curator, journalist or fellow artist.

Antidote

Edited by Guillaume Houzé, Mathias Schweizer, Aurélie Voltz. Text by Jean-Marc Ballée, Pierre Bal Blanc, Jens Hoffmann, Claire Le Restif, Christiane Rekade, Alexis Vaillant.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Antidote offers an inventory of the collection of Guillaume Houzé and Ginette Moulin--which includes works by Cyprien Gaillard, David Noonan, Wade Guyton and Ugo Rondinone--but this volume in no way resembles a conventional collection catalogue. Instead, the collection is presented as a comic by Jean-Marc Ballée.

Painting Between the Lines

Text by Jens Hoffmann.
Published by California College of the Arts

Writing and painting have been intertwined throughout history, but literature has of late become a diminished subject in the medium of painting, which has looked more to history, society and politics for inspiration. With Painting Between the Lines, the CCA Wattis reinvigorates the relationship between these two fields by commissioning 14 contemporary artists to create works based on descriptions of paintings in historical and contemporary novels. Here, art that until now has only existed in the mind’s eye can now be seen, as interpreted by the likes of Fred Tomaselli (on Samuel Beckett’s Watt) and Marcel Dzama (on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore). Additional materials include images of first edition book covers and installation images from the accompanying exhibition. Enclosed in a slipcase, the catalogue is itself a take on the library practice of rebinding classic books in hardcover.

More American Photographs

Text by Jens Hoffmann, Blake Stimson.
Published by California College of the Arts

As the United States slowly emerges from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, the CCA Wattis Institute reexamines the well-known photography program of the Farm Security Administration (1935-44). In More American Photographs, 12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States, documenting its land and people. These new works are presented alongside historical images by original FSA photographers such as Dorothea Lange in a catalogue whose design was inspired by Walker Evans’ seminal book American Photographs. Participating photographers include Walead Beshty, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie, Gordon Parks, Martha Rosler, Collier Schorr, Ben Shahn, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas and Marion Post Wolcott.

People's Biennial 2010

A Guide to America's Most Amazing Artists

Foreword by Kate Fowle, Renaud Proch. Text by Jens Hoffmann, Harrell Fletcher.
Published by Independent Curators International

People's Biennial is a celebration of the unknown, the peculiar and the disregarded. It was conceived through the curators' desire to explore the overlooked and the marginalized, and to present artistic positions usually dismissed by the mainstream art world. For the exhibition, five American art institutions present works by artists in each of the institutions' local communities, selected by the exhibition co-curators, Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann. This catalogue chronicles Fletcher and Hoffmann's research and visits to each of the five cities: Portland, Oregon; Scottsdale, Arizona; Rapid City, South Dakota; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Huckleberry Finn

Edited by Jens Hoffmann. Text by Jens Hoffmann, Maurice Berger, Mirjana Blankenship, Elyse Mallouk.
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Marking the 125th anniversary of the publication of Twain’s classic novel, Huckleberry Finn is the final volume in CCA Wattis’ trilogy of exhibitions that take canonical American novels as departure points for examinations by artists of key themes in American culture. Huckleberry Finn is easily among the most important and best-loved works of American literature, but it still tops the banned book list in America, revealing that its tackling of intolerance, racism and struggles for equality remain all too relevant to our society. Here, Twain’s exploration of racial tension is extended in works by Edgar Arceneaux, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Romare Bearden, Claude Clark, Jamal Cyrus, Emory Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, David Hammons, Dorothea Lange, Henry Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Thomas Nast, Kirsten Pieroth, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Yinka Shonibare, Alec Soth, William Desmond Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol and others.

Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life

Text by Jens Hoffmann.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Low Life Slow Life—a hefty, 640-page tome covering a two-part exhibition at San Francisco's CCA Wattis Institute curated by Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy—is packaged as an instantly recognizable recreation of a Tide box, circa 1973. A fine work of book art in its own right, it showcases a vast range of works that have influenced McCarthy's career, presenting a personal map of his individual take on art history alongside his unique creative philosophy. This personal map includes works by John Altoon, Günter Brus, Howard Fried, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Rachel Khedoori, Yves Klein, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Maria Lassnig, Robert Mallary, Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono, Lil Picard, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth, Barbara Smith, Stan VanDerBeek and Andy Warhol. The catalogue, which is designed by McCarthy with Jon Sueda, also includes an interview with McCarthy and an essay on his work by Wattis Institute curator Jens Hoffmann.

Moby Dick

Text by Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Nemerov.
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Designed as an homage to the classic 1930 Random House edition of Moby-Dick, with its illustrations by Rockwell Kent, this investigation of present-day America through the lens of Herman Melville's great novel convenes artists and film-makers who have made works relating to its themes of seafaring and the pitting of humankind against the elements. The participants in this homage are Kenneth Anger, Matthew Benedict, Mark Bradford, Marcel Broodthaers, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Tacita Dean, Marcel Dzama, Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, John Gutmann, Susan Hiller, Evan Holloway, Peter Hutton, Colter Jacobsen, Brian Jungen, Buster Keaton, Rockwell Kent, Mateo López, Jorge Macchi, Kris Martin, Henrik Olesen, Paulina Olowska, Damián Ortega, Jean Painlevé, Kirsten Pieroth, Richard Serra, Andreas Slominksi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Adrián Villar Rojas and Orson Welles. The book also boasts a foil-stamped clothbound cover, a fold-out map, essays by Jens Hoffmann and Alexander Nemerov, and full-color illustrations.

John Bock: Klütterkammer

Text by Jens Hoffmann.
Published by Walther König

With wooden covers and beautiful interior design mimicking a personal sketchbook or exercise book, Klütterkammer documents an exhibition of the same name, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, which was conceived by Bock as a fantasy compendium of his artistic affiliations.

Fernando Ortega

Text by Jens Hoffmann, Michel Blancsubé.
Published by Turner

In his multidisciplinary works, Mexican artist Fernando Ortega plays with everyday perception--the negligible sights and sounds around us. In "Piano Recital" (2008), for instance, Ortega asked a motorcycle mechanic to tune a piano, on which pieces by Chopin were then played. Featured here are recent works and essays by curators Jens Hoffmann and Michel Blancsubé.

Matrix: Berkeley

A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art

Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Contributions by Bill Arning, Jens Hoffmann, Michael Auping, Jordan Kantor, Constance Lewallen, Lawrence Rinder.
Published by University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

MATRIX is published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of this groundbreaking contemporary art exhibition series at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Originally conceived in 1978 as a rotating program of single-artist exhibitions, it continues as a space of active engagement with contemporary art and ideas. MATRIX has presented the work of more than 240 international artists, including Doug Aitken, Michael Asher, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Brian Eno, Eva Hesse, Robert Irwin, Zoe Leonard, Chris Marker, Julie Mehretu, Shirin Neshat, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman and Richard Tuttle. At more than 500 pages, this volume--designed collaboratively with New York's Project Projects--presents the history of UC Berkeley Art Museum's innovative program and includes newly commissioned conversations between some of the most important voices in contemporary art, including Michael Auping, Lawrence Rinder, Jens Hofmann and Jordan Kantor.

The Wizard of Oz

Text by Jens Hoffmann, Rebecca Loncraine.
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz--which captured an America rapidly changing in response to industrial, political and technological advances--is the impetus for this exquisitely designed catalogue for an exhibition by curator and CCA Wattis Director Jens Hoffmann. An eclectic group of international artists including Robert Bechtle, Jennifer Bornstein, Ulla von Brandenburg, Bruce Conner, Walker Evans, Simryn Gill, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Loris Gréaud, Joseph Grigely, Carsten Höller, Evan Holloway, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Gareth Moore, Rivane Neuenschwander, Raymond Pettibon, Clare Rojas, Harry Smith, Donald Urquhart, Andy Warhol and Cerith Wyn Evans either created new work or are represented by existing pieces that resonate with the way we experience the world and the idea of America itself. The generously illustrated volume includes a text on each artist, as well as critical essays by Hoffmann and Baum biographer Rebecca Loncraine.

Theanyspacewhatever

Essays by Michael Archer, Jan Avgikos, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Stefano Boeri, Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Douroux, Patricia Falguieres, Heike Föll, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Michael Govan, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jens Hoffman, Chrissie Iles, Branden Joseph, Emily King, Christy Lange, Maria Lind, Tom Morton, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Barbara Steiner, Rachael Thomas, Eric Troncy, Giorgio Verzotti, Thomas Wulffen, Olivier Zahm
Published by Guggenheim Museum

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a performance or a journey. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, is the first in the U.S. to examine the dynamic interchange among a core group of these artists--Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija--a many-sided conversation that helped shape the cultural landscape of the 1990s and beyond.

Tim Lee: Capp Street Project

Steve Martin Let's Get Small 1977- Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps 1979

Text by Claire Fitzsimmons, Jens Hoffmann.
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

San Francisco's Capp Street Project was founded in 1983 as the first visual arts residency in the United States dedicated to the creation and presentation of new art installations. For his 2007 residency, Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee created an exhibition influenced by Steve Martin's first comedy album, Let's Get Small (1977), and Neil Young's seminal electric/acoustic album, Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Answering Martin's now-famous quip from that album, "You just can't play a depressing song on the banjo," Lee mastered Neil Young's maudlin "My My, Hey Hey" on banjo and then installed a recording of it in the Wattis Institute elevator. This engaging publication includes texts by Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann and Deputy Director Claire Fitzsimmons

Mario Ybarra Jr.: Capp Street Project

Edited and with text by Jens Hoffman, Claire Fitzsimmon, Mario Ybarra Jr.
Published by CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art

When referred to as a Chicano artist in the Los Angeles Times, Mario Ybarra Jr. once protested, "I make contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles." Filled with graffiti, restaurant signage and stills from music videos, with sweeping graphic lines and lyric abstractions, his outrageous, multicolored murals speak about his particular experience as an artist and a Mexican-American, both politically and aesthetically. Compactly designed by Jon Suede/Stripe, this slim, dynamic catalogue with paper changes features an essay on the artist's entire oeuvre by Jens Hoffmann, along with an engaging text by Claire Fitzsimmons. Produced to accompany Ybarra's installation at San Francisco's Capp Street Project, this volume is the artist's first monograph, as well as a thorough document of the mural he produced over the course of his residency there.

Marepe

Text by Jens Hoffmann, Adriano Pedrosa.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

This is the first comprehensive monograph on the young Brazilian artist Marepe, who lives and works in Santo Antônio de Jesus in Bahia Province in northwestern Brazil. The cosmos of this location--Marepe's birthplace--provides the stimuli for his art. His works, exhibited worldwide at Biennale festivals and museums such as London's Tate Modern or Paris' Centre Pompidou, evolve from the region's history, the daily lives of its people and the creativity that helps them to survive. As Jens Hoffmann writes in his essay: "Marepe's world is fairly unique and his works of art are not just objects representing an idea or concept, they are witnesses of his life and the condensation of his experiences and his dreams. His interpretation of his surroundings is rendered into multifaceted, poetic and frequently beautiful works of art, which speak profoundly about some of the most relevant and even existential questions of our lives." Adriano Pedrosa analyzes the transformative impact of placing rows of water filters or replica market stalls in an art context. Statements, notes and poetry from the artist himself shed further light on the background of his pieces.

ShanghART

Edited by Sine Bepler, Uta Grosenick. Text by Sine Bepler, Jens Hoffmann, Jonathan Napack, Philip Tinari.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Since its establishment in 1996, ShanghART gallery has fostered and embraced radicalism and diversity in Shanghai art. Located initially in a downtown hotel and thereafter in an old workshop in Fuxing Park, the gallery quickly became an international reference point for contemporary Chinese art. Today it is regarded as one of the country's most acclaimed and innovative cultural spaces, with notes of appreciation from some of the most prominent figures of the western art world, including Hans Ulrich Obrist and Arthur Danto. This publication is structured as a virtual exhibition, documenting key works by represented artists including Wang Guangyi, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong and 28 others, as well as the gallery's own development. Essays relate the history of the emergent Chinese art scene and detail the radical sociopolitical and cultural changes of the past decade.

Alien Nation

Edited by Gilane Tawadros, John Gill, Jens Hoffmann. Text by David Alan Mellor, Claire Fitzsimmons.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Alien Nation explores the ways the metaphor of the alien (little green man) has been used to process the reality of the alien (illegal or otherwise). If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci-fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep-seated fears of the Other, the foreigner--the increasingly frequently decried "invasion" of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs. Among the 12 international contemporary artists showcased are Laylah Ali, Kori Newkirk and Yinka Shonibare. They and their compatriots explore themes of otherness and difference in film, sculpture, painting, photography and installation. Their interplanetary visitors--which might be built from Christmas ornaments, like Marepe's untitled creature, or sewn from African cloth, like Shonibare's "Dysfunctional Family"--are illustrated alongside film stills and posters from the 1950s and 60s, a glossary of alien names from those films, several thoughtful essays and interviews with the participating artists. A timely, ambitious and thought-provoking exploration of the complex relationship between fiction, race and contemporary art.

The Youth of Today

Edited by Matthias Ulrich, Max Hollein. Text by Mercedes Bunz, Jens Hoffmann, Georg Seblen, Niels Werber.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Designed to look and feel like a chic new artsy, underground magazine, this big, floppy, glossy publication features art that mines contemporary youth subcultures--from vapid suburban party girls, to urban graffiti artists, to Goths, student athletes, losers, sluts, political activists, computer geeks, skaters and burgeoning homoeroticists. Includes work by Joe Andoe, Slater Bradley, Sue de Beer, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Tracey Emin, Lauren Greenfield, Pierre Huyghe, Marlene McCarty, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr and Banks Voilette, among others.

Institutional Critique and After

SoCCAS Symposium Vol. ll

Edited by John C. Welchman. Essays by Alexander Alberro, Jens Hoffmann, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green, Isabelle Graw and Lauri Firstenberg, et. al.
Published by JRP|Ringier

This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks at Institutional Critique's central aim, the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries, and recent developments that engage with and echo it. IC has been raised again by Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and Fred Wilson, among others, and has been vigorously reoriented in recent years to address issues such as globalization. Contributors include Alexander Alberro, Mike Kelley, Hans Haacke, Lauri Firstenberg, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and others.

Sue De Beer

Essay by Shamim Momin. Texts by Trinie Dalton, Jens Hoffmann, Casey McKinney and Brandon Stosuy. Introduction and Interview by Simon Watson.
Published by Downtown Arts Projects

Artist Sue de Beer has cited Proust's influence on her oeuvre, particularly the great author's work The Captive, which in achingly beautiful prose recounts a young man's quest to comprehend the object of his amorous obsession. This first installment in the Emerging Artists Book Series, by New York's Downtown Arts Projects, captures the heart of de Beer's work, in which photographs, video stills and installation shots convey expressions of time and memory. Extensive full-color as well as black-and-white illustrations are paired with thematic essays by contemporary writers and curators, in addition to early critical writings. This volume is an exciting debut in a series that promises to champion the finest emerging visual artists appearing in the United States today.

John Bock: Koppel

Essay by Jens Hoffmann.
Published by Walther König, Köln

The textured, crazy, and highly energetic world of John Bock comes alive in Koppel, which documents 18 of the young artist's surrealist performances from the past two years (10 of them from Documenta 11). Video stills, artist texts, photos, and sketches reveal the humor and found-object curiosity that drives his zany work.

The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist

Edited by Jens Hoffman.
Published by e-flux/Revolver

Instigated by a conversation between Jens Hoffman and artist Carsten Höller after the opening of Documenta 11, this project provocatively questions the ascent of the curator, the value of the artist as curator, the future of international exhibitions and many less easily summarized tangents. Exhibited virtually on the e-flux website, The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist is really much more of a question than a statement, a question to which a dozen or so artists responded in a varied manner, including Marina Abramovic, Pawel Althamer, AA Bronson, Daniel Buren, Liam Gillick, Joseph Grigely, Alfredo Jaar, Ken Lum, John Miller and Martha Rosler. Some offered considered expository positions and formal exhibition proposals, others contributed brief wit and poetic statements. The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist offers an experimental means of questioning a relevant topic through one of the most important exhibitions on the international scene.

Parkett No. 68 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Franz Ackermann, Dan Graham

Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Jan Avgikos, Dan Cameron, Rudi Fuchs, James Rondeau, Jens Hoffmann, Daniel Pinchbeck and Paul Bonaventura, et al.
Published by Parkett

Presenting unparalleled investigations and discussions of important international contemporary artists by esteemed writers and critics for 20 years, Parkett's investigations continue in issue No. 68, which features collaborations by German painter Franz Ackermann, Finnish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and American Conceptual artist Dan Graham. Studies in the multiple perspectives of several simultaneous vantage points mark the pages of this volume. Authors include Joshua Decter, Douglas Fogle, and Raimar Stange on Ackermann; Gertrud Koch and Taru Elfving on Ahtila, with a conversation between Chrissie Iles and Ahtila; Marie-Paule MacDonald, Nicolas Guagnini & Karin Schneider, and Massimiliano di Bartolomeo on Graham, and an interview with Graham by Carmen Rosenberg-Miller. Also in this issue: Gregor Jansen on Dirk Skreber, Jens Hoffmann on Tino Sehgal, Bernard Frize interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an insert by Jonathan Monk. For Parkett No. 69, the featured collaboration artists are Belgian Conceptual artist Francis Alÿs, German sculptor and mixed-media artist Isa Genzken, and the Indian-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor. Authors include Saul Anton, Robert Storr, and Kitty Scott on Als; Pamela Lee and Jörg Heiser on Genzken, and an interview with Genzken by Michael Krajewski; and Norman Bryson, Marina Warner, and Kurt Forster on Kapoor. Other features include Philip Kaiser on Amelie von Wulffen, Stuart Comer on Swetlana Heger, and a special Parkett Inquiry on consensus in contemporary art world entitled, “The Economy of Attention.” The twentieth-anniversary issue, Parkett No. 70, will be published in summer 2004, with special collaborations and projects to be announced.

Tele-Journeys

Artwork by Mark Bain, Runa Islam, Carlos Amorales, Joan Jonas, Fiona Tan. Edited by Jens Hoffman. Contributions by Jane Farver.
Published by MIT List Visual Arts Center

Focused on young artists from around the world who are living and working away from their cultures of origin, and who, like their predecessors of the 1960s and 1970s, are creating new ways to articulate responses to the ever present problem of reconciling the global with the local.

Per Kirkeby 122 X 122

Paintings on Masonite

Artwork by Per Kirkeby. Edited by Michael Holm. Text by Mikkel Bogh, Lars Morell, Jacob Wamberg, Jens Hoffmann, Poul Erik Tojner.
Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Testimony to an artist both searching for a language adequate to his experiences and hunting for experiences that can fill out the available sets and scenery, Per Kirkeby's masonite paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s are rich and many, a strange, flat mix of the provincial and the cosmopolitan--from Brigitte Bardot to the Royal Deer Park in Copenhagen, from minimalistically expressionless stripes to expressive gestures, from grottos and caves full of longing to closed, inapproachable cabins from the western mythology of Hollywood. It is all there, in its own oddly subdued, spatially illusionistic way.