Product Description: Exploring African influences on modernist avant-gardes, Saâdane Afif (born 1970) riffs on André Breton’s anthology of the same name for this catalogue accompanying his show at MMK Zollamt. For the show, Afif built a coffin based on a Ghanian memento mori, and invited artists and critics to respond...read more

Product Description: The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten’s Aesthetics and Kant’s Critique of Judgment. The claim is that the historical invention of aesthetics was not about expanding the range of legitimate objects of philosophical inquiry―these objects all existed before aesthetics...read more

Product Description: German artist Katharina Grosse is one of the internationally most important representatives of contemporary painting. For more than a decade now, she has been working on a picture type that nullifies all borders and hierarchies between painting and space...read more