Research Library
- The Research Library is a continually expanding curated selection of exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, art theory, and cultural studies publications as well as works from theory, postcolonial studies, political history, geopolitics, and other fields. Together these materials seek to provide an overview of the key exhibitions, artists, theories, and discourses that made a significant contribution to charting the shifts in contemporary art and intellectual debates from 1989 till today. The physical Library is housed at BAK; an online version of it, complete with a short entry on each publication explaining why the book is relevant to FORMER WEST project research, can be accessed below. Please note that the selection of artist monographs and catalogs of solo exhibitions is not available online at this time. We are happy to receive suggestions for books to include in the Research Library. Please send an e-mail with the book title, publication data, and a short message to info@formerwest.org. If you would like to visit the physical library at BAK in Utrecht, please schedule an appointment (during visiting hours, Wednesday–Saturday 12.00–17.00 hrs, Sunday 13.00–17.00 hrs) by sending an e-mail to info@bak-utrecht.nl.
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After the Wall: Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe Bojana Pejić and David Elliot Moderna Museet 1999 EXH Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art Okwui Enwezor Steidel 2008 EXH Arrivals: Art from the New Europe Suzanne Cotter, Andrew Nairne and Victoria Pomery Modern Art Oxford/Turner Contemporary 2007 EXH Art and Utopia: Limited Action Jean-Francois Chevrier with Elia Pijollet MACBA 2005 EXH Art of Two Germanies/Cold War Cultures Stephanie Barron, Sabine Eckmann, and Eckhart Gillen New York: Abrams 2009 EXH Aspekte / Positionen: 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949–1999 Lóránd Hegyi Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien 1999 EXH Ausgeträumt… Kathrin Rhomberg Secession 2001 EXH Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 Nicolas Bourriaud Tate Publishing 2009 EXH Ausstellung/Exhibition: Documenta 11_Platform 5 Gerti Fietzek and Christian Rattenmeyer Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2002 EXH 2000+ Arteast Collection: The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, From the 1960s to the Present, Exhibition of works for an emerging collection Zdenka Badovinac Moderna galerija 2002 EXH Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter Tate Publishing 2010 EXH A.C.A.D.E.M.Y. Angelika Nollert, Irit Rogoff, Bart De Baere, Charles Esche, et al. Revolver 2006 EXH B
The Balkans Trilogy René Block and Marius Babias Kunsthalle Fridericianum & Silke Schreiber 2007 EXH Baghdad Calling Geert van Kesteren episode publishers 2008 EXH Berlin 37 Räume Klaus Biesenbach Kunst-Werke 1992 EXH Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe Laura J. Hoptman et al. Museum of Contemporary Art 1995 EXH 1st Berlin Biennale: Berlin/Berlin Miriam Wiesel, Klaus Biesenbach, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Nancy Spector Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 1998 EXH Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art Thelma Golden Harry N. Abrams 1994 EXH C
Capital (it fails us now): (oe critical readers in visual culture #6) Simon Sheikh b_books 2006 EXH Catalog International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) 2008 Andrew Maggiore and Nicole Sante Pantheon Drukkers 2008 EXH Cork Caucus: On art, possibility & democracy Shepard Steiner and Trevor Joyce National Sculpture Factory 2006 EXH Cities on the move Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 1997 EXH Cities on the Move Hans Ulrich Obrist Capc Musee d’ art contemporain de Bordeaux 1998 EXH Culture in Action: Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson, and Eva M. Oldson Bay Press 1995 EXH D
Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen zur Malerei Kasper König and Hans Ulrich Obrist Kunsthalle Wien 1993 EXH Documenta IX Roland Nachtigaller and Nicola von Velsen Edition Cantz 1992 EXH Der Riss im Raum Dokumentation Uta Gnewuch Guardini Stiftung 1995 EXH Documenta 11_Platform 5 Okwui Enwezor Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2002 EXH Desacuerdos 5. Cultura popular Pedro G. Romero MACBA 2009 EXH Der Riss im Raum: Positionen der Kunst seit 1945 in Deutschland, Polen, der Slowakei und Tschechien Matthias Flügge and Jiri Svestka Guardini Stiftung/Verlag der Kunst 1994 EXH The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s Thelma Golden, David Deitcher, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. New Museum of Contemporary Art 1990 EXH Desacuerdos 4. Cine y Video Jesus Carrillo MACBA 2007 EXH E
Europa, Europa: Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa Ryzard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus Hatje Cantz Verlag 2004 EXH F
Fundamentalisms of the New Order Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Jean Charles Massera et al. Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg 2004 EXH Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Querying the Guwangzhou Triennial 2008, Sarat Maharaj Printed Project Issue 11 2009 EXH Face á l’histoire: l’artiste moderne devant l’événement historique 1933–1996 Jean-Paul Ameline Flammarion 1996 EXH Freeze Damien Hirst and Ian Jeffrey Olympia and York Canary Wharf and Docklands Development Corporation 1988 EXH Form Specific Arteast Exhibition Tamara Soban Revolver 2003 EXH G
Global Feminisms Maura Rielly and Linda Nochlin Merrell Publishers Ltd 2010 EXH Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s Jane Farver, et al. New York: Artdata/Queens Museum of Art 1999 EXH 4th Gwangju Biennale: P_A_U_S_E, 2002 EXH H
Horizons of Reality Bart De Baere, Viktor Misiano, Yonah Foncé-Zimmerman , et al. MuHKA 2003 EXH 3rd Havana Biennial: Tercera Bienal de la Habana ’89 Gerardo Mosquera Centro Wilfredo Lam 1989 EXH I
9th International Istanbul Biennial Guide : Istanbul Deniz Unsal Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 2005 EXH It's a Better World: Russischer Aktionismus Und Sein Kontext – Russian Actionism and Its Context Joseph Backstein, Johanna Kandle, Kikhail Ryklin et al. Secession 1997 EXH Inklusion/Exklusion: Probleme des Postkolonialismus und der globalen Migration Peter Weibel and Slavoj Žižek Passagen Verlag 1997 EXH International 2002: Liverpool Biennial Lewis Biggs Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2002 EXH If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. A Project by Martha Rosler 1991) (Dia Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Volume 6) Brian Wallis New Press 1998 EXH Inside Out: New Chinese Art Gao Minglu University of California Press 1998 EXH Interpol: The Art Exhibition Which Divided East and West Eda Cufer and Viktor Misiano Ljubljana & Moscow: IRWIN and Moscow Art Magazine 2000 EXH 3rd International Istanbul Biennial : Production of Cultural Difference Vasif Kortun Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 1992 EXH 4th International Istanbul Biennial : ORIENT/ATION – The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World René Block Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 1995 EXH 11th International Istanbul Biennial : What Keeps Mankind Alive? The Guide What, How and for Whom/WHW Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 2009 EXH In Defense of Globalization Jagdish Bhagwati Oxford University Press 2007 EXH 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive? The Texts WHW/What, How and for Whom? Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 2009 EXH 10th International Istanbul Biennial : Not Only Possible but Also Necessary. Optimism in the Age of Global War Ilkay Balic Ayvaz Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 2007 EXH J
Jurassic Technologies Revenant: 10th Biennale of Sydney Lynne Cook Biennale of Sydney 1996 EXH K
Kunst, Europa: 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern Margarethe Jochimsen, Tilman Osterwold, Jiri Svestka, et al. Verlag Hermann Schmidt 1991 EXH Kollektive Kreativität/Collective Creativity [DE/EN] What, How and for Whom/WHW Revolver 2005 EXH Kontext Kunst: Kunst der 90er Jahre Peter Weibel DuMont 1993 EXH L
Lotte or the Transformation of the Object = Lotte oder der Transformation des Objekts Clémentine Deliss Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt 1990 EXH Laboratorium Barbara Vanderlinden and Hans-Ulrich Obrist DuMont 2001 EXH Partage d'exotismes: Cinquième biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon Tony Garnier Réunion des Musées Nationaux 2000 EXH M
Manifesta 2 Agence luxembourgeoise d`action culturell a.s.b.l. and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d`art contemporain Luxembourg: Agence luxembourgeoise d`action culturell a.s.b.l. and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d`art contemporain 1998 EXH Manifesta 3: Borderline Syndrome. Energies of Defence Igor Zabel Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre 2000 EXH Moneynations@access Marion von Osten Shedhalle 1998 EXH Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel ZKM and MIT Press 2005 EXH Mas alla del documento: Versiones del Sur Monica Amor, Octavio Zaya et al. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 2000 EXH Money Nations: Constructing the Border – Constructing East West Marion von Osten edition selene 2002 EXH Manifesta 1 Miriam Beerman Manifesta & IDEA Books 1996 EXH Magiciens de la Terre Jean-Hubert Martin Editions du Centre Pompidou 1989 EXH Manifesta 4 (Supplementary Pack) Meike Behm 2002 EXH Metropolis: International Art Exhibition Berlin Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal Rizzoli 1991 EXH Manifesta 5 Cecilia P. Alemani, et al. Barcelona: Actar 2004 EXH Manifesta 4 (Catalog) Meike Behm, et al. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2002 EXH Manifesta 4 (guide) Meike Behm, Uta Nusser Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2002 EXH MigMap: Governing Migration Marion von Osten, et al. 2006 EXH N
The Need to Document Vit Havranek, et al. JRP Ringier 2005 EXH NowHere Lars Nittve, et al. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 1996 EXH Nuit blånche, Scènes nørdiques: les années 90 Paris Musées Paris Musées 1998 EXH O
The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain Rasheed Araeen South Bank Centre 1989 EXH Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979 Paul Schimmel, Russel Ferguson, and Kristine Stiles Thames and Hudson, 1998 EXH Oh boy, it’s a girl!: Feminismen in der Kunst Hedwig Saxenhuber and Astrid Wege Kunstverein München 1994 EXH P
Privatisierungen – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa Boris Groys Revolver Verlag 2004 EXH The Populism Catalogue Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, and Nicolaus Schafhausen Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg 2005 EXH Places with a Past: New Site-specific Art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival Christian Boltanski, Mary Jane Jacob, and Theodore Rosengarten Rizzoli 1991 EXH Projekt Migration Marion von Osten and Kathrin Rhomberg DuMont 2005 EXH Progressive Nostalgia Viktor Misiano and Marco Bazzini Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci 2007 EXH Projekt Migration Austellungsführer Marion Ritter Kölnischer Kunstverein 2005 EXH Politics/Poetics: Documenta X – the book Catherine David and Jean-Francois Chevrier Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 1997 EXH Promises of the Past: A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe Christine Macel and Nataša Petrešin Centre Pompidou and JRP Ringier 2010 EXH Parisien(ne)s Hou Hanru Camden Arts Centre and Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA) 1997 EXH The Populism Reader Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, and Nicholas Schafhausen Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg 2005 EXH R
Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century Stuart Morgan and Frances Morris Tate Gallery Publications 1995 EXH S
Sex & Space Marion von Osten Shedhalle 1996 EXH 60 Jahre, 60 Werke: Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 bis 2009 Walter Smerling Wienand Verlag 2009 EXH “SOWJETUNION.” 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern: Kunst, Europa Margarethe Jochimsen, Tilman Osterwold, Jiri Svestka, et al. Verlag Hermann Schmidt 1991 EXH 22nd São Paulo Biennial: Bienal Brasil Seculo XX Nelson Aguilar Fundação Bienal de São Paulo 1994 EXH Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection Norman Rosenthal, Brooks Adams, et al. Thames and Hudson 1998 EXH 24th São Paulo Biennial: 24e Bienal de São Paulo Fundação Bienal de São Paulo 1994 EXH 3rd Shanghai Biennale Shanghai Art Museum 2000 EXH The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 Okwui Enwezor Prestel 2001 EXH SUPERmarkt: money, market, gender politics Marion von Osten Shedhalle 1998 EXH Sonsbeek 93 Jan Brand, Catelijne de Muynck, and Valerie Smith Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon 1993 EXH T
Trade Routes – History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997 Rory Bester and Matthew Debord Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council and Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development 1997 EXH This is the show and the show is many things Bart De Baere, Pierre Giquel, and Dirk Pültau S.M.A.K. 1994 EXH Traffic Nicolas Bourriad CAPC Contemporary Museum 1995 EXH Transnacionala: Highway Collisions Between East and West and the Crossroads of Art Eda Cufer Ljubljana: Koda 2000 EXH Trust (Catalogue) 1995 EXH Tamáss, Contemporary Arab Representations: Volume 2: Cairo Catherine David Witte de With 2004 EXH Traumfabrik Kommunismus/ Dream Factory Communism: Der Visuelle Kulture der Stalinzeit/The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era Boris Groys Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2003 EXH Tamáss – Contemporary Arab Representations: Volume 1: Beirut/Lebanon Catherine David Fundacio Antoni Tapies 2002 EXH U
Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan NAi Publishers 2001 EXH The Uncertain States of America Reader Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press 2006 EXH V
50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer Francesco Bonami Skira Editore/Marsilio Editori 2003 EXH 52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense. Robert Storr Marsilio Editori 2007 EXH 49th Venice Biennale: Plateau of Human Kind Harald Szeemann, Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli, and Lara Facco Electa 2001 EXH 53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds Daniel Birnbaum Marsilio Editori 2009 EXH 45th Venice Biennale: Aperto 93 Emergency/Emergenza Léonie von Oppenheim Flash Art/Giancarlo Politi Editore 1993 EXH Visite: Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn Beatrice von Bismarck, Eugen Blume, Annette Husch, et al. DuMont 2008 EXH 48th Venice Biennale: Over All – Aperto Harald Szeemann Marsilio Editori 1999 EXH W
Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?: 7 episodes in (ex)changing Europe Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder Amsterdam: Artimo 2004 EXH Westkunst, Realismus, Mimesis, in: Kunstforum International no. 44/45, 2–3 Kunstforum International Kunstforum International 1981 EXH Wittgenstein | Biographie. Philosophie. Praxis.: Eine Ausstellung der Wiener Secession Michael Huter, et al. Secession 1989 EXH Writings from the 9th International İstanbul Biennial : Art, City and Politics in An Expanding World Deniz Unsal Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 2005 EXH Wild Walls Leontine Coelewij and Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen Stedelijk Museum 1995 EXH Westkunst, Heute Kaspar König DuMont 1981 EXH Whitney Biennial: 1993 Biennial Exhibtion Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips, and Elisabeth Sussman Whitney Museum of American Art 1993 EXH Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939 Laszlo Glozer DuMont 1981 EXH
