Editors:
Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

With contributions by:
Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger
Elisabeth Lebovici

This book is devoted to a reflection and the reinstallation of a single artwork, Tobias Kaspar's installation "Bodies in the Backdrop," which was conceived as a site-specific installation for Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg.

Kaspar worked with material from Peggy Guggenheim’s autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict and photographs taken at Guggenheim’s palazzo in Venice in 2011. The body of work referred to the self-portrayal of a collector and the entanglement with personal relations in the process of building a collection: love and money.

Publication on occasion of the exhibition „Bodies in the Backdrop“ at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
(18. February 18th – April 1rst 2012)

Graphics: HIT
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Köln 2012
ISBN: 978-3-86335-237-0
Softcover, 64 pages
18,00 / 14,00 EUR

Editors: Valérie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger and Magnus Schäfer

With contributions by :

Andrea Fraser
Manfred Hermes
Karl Holmqvist and Tobias Kaspar
Isla Leaver-Yap
Jackie McAllister
James Meyer and Christian Philipp Müller
Magnus Schäfer
Axel John Wieder
Phillip Zach
Conversation between Colin de Land, Josef Strau and Stephan Dillemuth
Introduction by Hannes Loichinger and Magnus Schäfer

The New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.–whose name today is largely syonymus with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955-2003)–represents a gallery practice in which a decided deviation from conventionals models overlaps with successful activities within the frameworks of the art market. Today, American Fine Arts, Co. and de Land figure as uncontested projection screens for the desire for independence from or bohemian resistance against the dictate of the market. Particularly in retrospect, a consistent image of the gallery is not discernible. faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how Amercan Fine Arts, Co. functioned as a gallery.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition „Dealing with—Some Books, Visuals, and Works Related to American Fine Arts, Co.“ at Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg and Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg
(May 28 – July 7, 2011)

Design: HIT, Berlin
English / German
Sternberg Press, Berlin 2012
ISBN: 978-3-943365-28-3
Softcover, 80 pages
Illustrations: 18 b/w
16,00 / 12,00 EUR

Editors: Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

With contributions by:
Mathieu Carmona
Vanessa Desclaux
Valérie Knoll
Benoît Maire
Catherine Malaboux
Barbara Preisig
Benjamin Thorel

Mit der Werkserie „Geschichte der Geometrie“ reflektiert Benoît Maire über die spezifischen epistemischen Vermögen und Praxen der Kunst, die ein nicht-thetisches Wissen visualisieren. Im Raum stehen Fragen nach den Ordnungen des Wissens, nach Formalisierungsprozessen von Ideen, von Theorien, von (unbewusstem) Wissen; von unmessbaren Affekten, Denkprozessen, dem Nicht- Antizipierbaren.

With his series of works, "History of Geometry", Benoît Maire reflects on the specific epistemic capacity and practices of art aimed at visualizing a non-thetic knowledge. Up for debate are questions related to the orders of knowledge, processes of formulating ideas, theories, (subconscious) knowledge; to immeasurable affects, processes of thought and that which cannot be anticipated.

Publication on the occasion of the exhibition „Benoît Maire – History of Geometry“ at Halle fuer Kunst Lüneburg
(April 2nd – May 15th, 2011)

Layout: Thomas Petitjean – Hey Ho
Archive Books, Berlin 2012
ISBN: 9783943620030
Softcover, 60 pages
18,00 / 16,00 EUR

Editors: Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

Die Geschichte der Philosophie ist geprägt von einem Denken in Gegensätzen – dazu zählt auch das Oppositionspaar von Aktivität und Passivität. Die dabei bislang unbezweifelte Bevorzugung der Aktivität gerate zunehmend in Verruf, und es scheint, als antwortete man auf philosophischer Seite mit einem gesteigerten Interesse an Phänomenen des Passivischen auf ein Unbehagen am Vorrang des Tuns. Die Appelle und Ansprüche an das eigenverantwortliche Tätigsein sind im Alltag in einer Weise angewachsen, dass sie mit Unmut, wenn nicht mit Verweigerung oder krankhaften Störungen beantwortet werden. Das heutige Subjekt ist als „unternehmerisches Selbst“, wenn es sich verweigert, nicht deviant und gesetzesbrecherisch, sondern es versagt, ist ausgebrannt und kann nicht mehr.

Die Publikation erscheint anlässlich des Vortrags „Potentia Passiva“, den Kathrin Busch im Rahmen des 2010/11 von der Halle für Kunst realisierten Projekts „Off the Record“ gehalten hat.

Volume 6 of the series „Kleiner Stimmungsatlas in Einzelbänden“ published by Jan-Frederik Bandel and Nora Sdun
Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2012
Softcover, 80 pages
ISBN: 978-3-941613-85-0
12,00 / 9,00 EUR

Published by:
Eva Birkenstock
Rahel Blättler
Hannes Loichinger
Beatrix Ruf
Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento
GAMeC – Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V.
Kunsthalle Zürich

Publication on occasion of the exhibition Tris Vonna-Michell, „Capstans“ in der Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. (7. November bis 20. Dezember 2009) amongst others.

Edition:
English
20011
ISBN 978-3-03764-170-5
Softcover, 210 x 260 mm
80 pages, b/w and coloured illustrations
28 EUR

Editors: Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

With contributions by:

Guy Brett
Maeve Connolly
Mathieu Copeland
Hannes Loichinger
Olivier Michelon
Charlotte Moth
Sadie Murdoch
Francesco Pedraglio
Alice Peinado

The texts assembled in this book began their formation during Charlotte Moth's residency in Bleckede in 2009. Founded on the basic principle to comment and react on events, images, or situations, different artists, writers, and curators have since then been invited to respond on material chosen by Charlotte Moth. The book collects a selection of those responses that have recently been part of the artist's projects or are yet to become a part of it. Taking these different approaches of collaborative praxis as a starting point, Charlotte Moth conceived this book as a further elaboration of her artistic practice, linking different projects that have been realized since 2009.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition “The Absent Forms” at Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
(September 4 to October 17, 2010)

Exhibition and publication were generously funded by: Land Niedersachsen, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Stiftung der Sparkasse zur Förderung der Kunst, Institut français, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, Hansestadt Lüneburg, Marcelle Alix, Département de l’Art dans la Ville, Ville de Paris

Grafik: HIT
English / German
Sternberg Press
ISBN: 978-1-934105-68-9
Softcover, 110 x 180 mm
112 pages
Illustration: b/w
12,00 / 10,00 EUR

Published by:
PROVENCE

With contributions by (amongst others):
Gerry Bibby
Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi
Ulf Wuggenig
Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda
Edgars Gluhovs
Ei Arakawa / Malik Gaines

Publication on occasion of the exhibition PROVENCE
(24. April – 6. Juni 2010)

Edition:
Englisch
2010
Magazin, 230 x 310 mm
80 Seiten
s/w
10,00 / 8,00 EUR

ART / TV-CLASH

Published by:
Multitudes
Cneai = Chatou / Paris
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

With contributions by:
Nicolas Aiello
Henrique Antoun & Fàbio Malini
Bettina Atala
Bad Beuys Entertainment
Sylvie Boulanger
Pascale Cassagnau
Jean-Marc Chapoulie
Yves Citton
Lenka Clayton
A Constructed World
François Curlet & Sylvie Boulanger
Denicolai & Provoost
Simon Denny
Stefan Doepner, Marko Kosnik, Borut Savski & Britta Peters
Fabrice Hyber
Barbara Kruger
Ariel Kyrou
Pierre Leguillon
Éric Macé & Multitudes
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Michalka & Hannes Loichinger
John Miller
Yann Moulier Boutang
Joseph Nechvatal & Yves Citton
Paula Roush
Lynn Spigel
Nadim Vardag

Publication on the occasion of the cooperative project „CHANNEL TV“.

Edition:
German / English / French
2010
ISBN: 978-235480-079-6
Softcover, 155 x 210 mm
236 pages
b/w and coloured illustrations
15,00 / 18,00 EUR

Published by:
Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
Land Niedersachsen
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV
Kunstverein Hildesheim

Authors:
Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Jan Van Woensel

Der Versuch, durch das Nachstellen von Ereignissen bestimmte historische, kulturelle oder politische Situationen emphatisch zu begreifen, bildet die Folie zahlreicher Arbeiten von Bettina Cohnen. In Fotografien und Filmen werden Ereignisse und Phänomene verdoppelt und durch die Überlagerung von Vor-Bild und Wiederholung als fragwürdig dargestellt. So setzt sie sich beispielsweise in Selbstporträts, die das fotografische Auge berühmter Fotografen und Fotografinnen imitieren, ironisch in Szene, dekliniert in Selbstinszenierungen die Bandbreite weiblicher Stereotype oder dokumentiert ihre Partizipation an Traditionen, die in New Yorker Vereinen praktiziert werden. Anhand dieser Reenanctments, die immerzu zwischen offensichtlicher Inszenierung und vermeintlicher Authentizität oszillieren, zeigt Cohnen stark klischierte Rollenbilder und Identitäten, um gleichzeitig ihre jeweiligen Konstruktionen offen zu legen.

Publication on occasion of the exhibitions Bettina Cohnen »FAKE«
(September 5­ - Oktober 18, 2009)
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV as well as Bettina Cohnen »FICTION«
(September 26 - November 22, 2009) Kunstverein Hildesheim

Edition:
German / English
2009
ISBN 978-3-86678-330-0
Softcover, 23,5 x 29 cm
68 pages, 14 b/w and 47 coloured illustrations
18,00 / 15,00 EUR

Editors:
Eva Birkenstock
Stefanie Böttcher
Hannes Loichinger
Britta Peters
Tim Voss
Janneke de Vries

Authors:
Roger Behrens
Eva Birkenstock
Stefanie Böttcher
Philip Gaißer
Hannes Loichinger
Britta Peters
Kerstin Stakemeier
Tim Voss
Janneke de Vries

Appropriation and loss of space, spatial deviations and social space are the four perspectives from which the cooperation project Space Revised # 1-4 looked at current positioning of recent artistic debates on space. In exhibitions initiated by GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg und Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof space was not presented as an abstract container, but as a tangible phenomenon – a multilevel landscape, full of hills and valleys.

Artists: Guillaume Bijl, Cezary Bodzianowski, Bob Braine & Leslie C. Reed, Wolfgang Breuer, Trisha Brown, Yan Duyvendak, FLOSS/VHDG, Christian Haake, Elín Hansdóttir, Graham Hudson, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Kapielski, Guillaume Leblon, Daniel Maier-Reimer, Benoît Maire, Katrin Mayer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Erik Olofson, Peles Empire, Robert Pfaller, Falke Pisano, Kai Schiemenz, Guido van der Werve, John Wood & Paul Harrison and others.

This book is published on the occasion of the cooperation project by Halle für Kunst with GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof May –­ August, 2009 at argobooks, Berlin.

Edition:
German/English
2009
ISBN 978-3-941560-37-6
Softcover, 14 x 21 cm
216 pages, 103 coloured illustrations
22/18 EUR

Recorded Accounts of EL AL FLIGHT 1862

A Project by Dani Gal

Editors:
Eva Birkenstock
Hannes Loichinger

On 4th October 1992, shortly after its take-off from Schiphol Airport, a freight plane owned by Israeli airplane company El Al crashed into a residential complex in Bijlmermeer on the outskirts of Amsterdam smashing the building into two. Based on comprehensive research in Amsterdam, oriented by the atmospheres and worlds of subjective memories and experiences in Chanting Down Babylon, Recorded Accounts of EL AL FLIGHT 1862, various occurences and stories are woven into a complex weave of abstract and formal connections.

For the exhibition in Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2009) and the subsequent publication project, Dani Gal visited the occupants of the Bijlmermeer district and journalist Vincent Dekker for the purpose of entering into a dialogue with them on the plane crash and the reassembled everyday life in the reconstructed building complex.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition »Dani Gal – Chanting Down Babylon« at Halle für Kunst e.V.
(March 29-May 5, 2009)

German / English
2009
ISBN: 978-3-941560-23-9
Softcover, 158 x 238 mm
176 pages
b/w and coloured illustrations
24,80 / 20,00 EUR (members)

Figures and Demonstrations

Editors:
Martin Beck
Eva Birkenstock
Joerg Franzbecker
Max Hinderer
Heiko Karn
Hannes Loichinger
Katrin Mayer
Eske Schlüters

Authors:
Hans-Christian Dany
Dirck Möllmann

This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition „TO SHOW IS TO PRESERVE – figures and demonstrations“ at Halle für Kunst eV
(September 27th – November 18th, 2008)

Edition:
German
2009
ISBN: 978-3-938801-82-6
Booklet, 148 x 210 mm
42 pages, b/w illustrations
8,00 / 6,00 EUR