At the heart of "How to Do Things with Art" lies the question of art's relevance to society. How does art become politically or socially significant? This book attempts to answer this question on a theoretical level, and to indicate, through the analysis of works by James Coleman, Daniel Buren, Jeff Koons, and Tino Seghal, how artists can create and shape social relevance; in other words, to provide what could be called a pragmatic understanding of art's societal impact. The title of the book itself is a play on John Langshaw Austin's seminal lecture series "How to Do Things with Words", in which he discussed the performative, or reality-producing, capacity of language--Publisher.

Mr. Huyghe, one of the most admired and intellectually formidable European artists of his generation. -- The New York TimesThis publication is a survey of Pierre Huyghe's practice of the last 10 years.Seminal works are focused on, along with other works that were developed simultaneously. The first of these, THE HOST AND THE CLOUD (2009 -2010), took place on a former museum in Paris; UNTILLED (2012), which was developed during documenta (13); AFTER LIFE AHEAD (2017), was conceived in a disused ice rink as part of Skulptur Projekte Münster; UUMWELT (2018), which was installed first at the Serpentine Galleries in London, and later at Luma Arles, is the culmination of a ground-breaking approach to exhibitions.A conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an essay by Dorothea von Hantelmann, offer a comprehensive discussion of this period.Drawings, diagrams, plans, text and reference images, photographs and fill stills add to over 400 pages and make this an important reference book.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt at Serpentine Galleries, London (3 October 2018 - 10 February 2019).

Wie kann es sein, dass ausgerechnet die Künstlerische Leiterin der dOCUMENTA (13) von der »Obsoletheit der Ausstellung« spricht? Dieser Frage geht Dorothea von Hantelmann nach, Bezug nehmend auf ein Gespräch mit Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev und Einblick gebend in ihr kurz vor Abschluss stehendes Buchprojekt. Während mehr Museen gebaut, mehr Biennalen realisiert und mehr Besucher denn je gezählt werden, wächst Kritik an den aktuellen Ausstellungsformen. Die historische Entwicklung des Museumswesens zeigt, dass sich die Orte der Kunstpräsentation zunehmend von ihrer in der modernen bürgerlichen Gesellschaft definierten Aufgabe der »Objektschau« abwenden und den Erlebnis- und Erfahrungsgehalt der Dinge aufsuchen. Doch die klassischen Werke der Kunst verdichten die Zeit im Objekt und sind auf eine zeitlich ausgedehnte Rezeption angewiesen, die in der gegenwärtig nur noch selten geleistet wird. Der White Cube verschiebt den Fokus zwar bereits erfolgreich »vom produzierten Objekt zum konsumierenden Subjekt« und macht Ausstellungen im Sinne von Objektschauen tatsächlich obsolet. Zugleich aber muss die Wahrnehmung von Kunst ein »soziales Ritual« werden, sollen Traditionslinie und Legitimationsmacht des Museums gewahrt werden. Dorothea von Hantelmann (*1969) unterrichtet Kunstgeschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin.

Uncertainty, the present, diversity, theater production and classical dancethese are the themes around which the international performing arts festival Foreign Affairs has drawn artists and audiences over the past four years. Investigating theory and art, global and local realities, Foreign Affairs invites an array of international performing artists to question prevailing political and economic structures on a chosen topic. Believing that our world can be changed, Foreign Affairs takes a distanced look at our own society. How to Frame is both manual and query. It is a collection of ideas, knowledge and experience from all five festivals, including the most recent on the topic of uncertainty, in cooperation with William Kentridge. As artistic director, Kentridge worked with participating artists to develop projects for stage, urban spaces and night exhibitions at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. With contributions from artists Carolin Hochleichter, Ragnar Kjartansson and Catherine Wood among others.

Which artists have laid the foundations for contemporary cultural production? Between 2008 and 2009, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art held a monthly lecture series, posing this question to leading art historians and critics, each of whom was asked to speak on the work of an artist of their choosing--From publisher's website.

From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons's art is anything but conformist. This work offers an in-depth study of Koons's entire oeuvre.

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 favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. 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 USA to examine the dynamic interchange among a core group of these artists - Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten H�ller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija - a many-sided conversation that helped shape the cultural landcape of the 1990s and beyond. Featuring over thirty texts by scholars and curators, most of whom have shared in the artists' individual and collective histories, the exhibition provides insight and background on the artists and their ongoing social and intellectual exchange.