The Moderna galerija plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are currently opened, and you may also order publications by post. Please send your request to info@mg-lj.si and specify the publication. You may pay on delivery or on our bank account. Some recommendations:
The Power of Secrets is Karol Radziszewski's montage of queer archival materials that formulate new ways of understanding history, memory, and legislation in Eastern Europe. The secret performativity of Karol Radziszewski's archive is not merely in its tales of the past, but above all, in the queer potential of the future: its revolutionary nature, its change, and its promise of freedom.
Price: 25.00 €
Nancy Fraser in Fortunes of Feminism From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new radical and egalitarian phase of feminist thought and action.
Price: 15.00 €
Explore the poster art of Joseph Beuys and discover some of the philosophies that made him one of the most influential artists of the postwar period. One of the most important German postwar artists, Joseph Beuys is known for his drawings, performance art, activism, and teaching, influencing a generation of younger artists and expanding the concept of what art is. He had an ambitious goal for his art: to transform western culture into a more peaceful, democratic, and creative place. He also considered everyone to be an artist and that art and life should not be viewed separately.
Price: 35,00 €
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration? Taking as its starting point the 2019 exhibition Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, which featured more than a hundred works from Malmö Konstmuseum made between 1880 and today, this publication (editors Maria Lind in Cecilia Widenheim) brings to light the radical approach of museum director Ernst Fischer, who in 1945 transformed the museum into a refugee shelter for survivors of German concentration camps. It also highlights the museum’s long-forgotten Latvian Collection, comprised of art acquired in solidarity with the young Baltic nation and its exiles.
Price: 25,00 €
Parapolitics; Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, editors Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, Antonia Majača,
During the Cold War, modernist art became a flagship of freedom and democracy in the West, and took on the role of a symbolic overcoming of fascism. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War examines the cultural diplomacy of this period, particularly the activities and magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization funded by the Central Intelligence Agency that was tasked with steering the left away from Soviet Communism and toward a new world order established under the aegis of the United States. This book analyzes how the organization’s activities in the non-European world were a major force behind the culturalization of economic liberalism on an international scale. With extensive archival documentation and recent responses by artists and writers, this book is a rich reference for readers interested in challenging the structural conditions of contemporary art and the prevailing canons of modernism.
Oli Mould in his brilliant, counter-intuitive blast Against Creativity (Verso) demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritises individual success over collective flourishing. It refuses to recognise anything—job, place, person—that is not profitable. And it impacts on everything around us: the places where we work, the way we are managed, how we spend our leisure time. Is there an alternative? Mould offers a radical redefinition of creativity, one embedded in the idea of collective flourishing, outside the tyranny of profit. Bold, passionate and refreshing, Against Creativity, is a timely correction to the doctrine of our times.
Price: 19,00 €
The MG+ bookstore recently received two publications about Tobias Putrih from the Gregor Podnar Gallery in Berlin: the older from 2007 is entitled 99-07 and is in English, while the newer Solar Limb / Routine Inspection from 2015 is in English and German. Both contain texts by many authors and numerous colour photographs.
Price: 30,00 €
The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of “self” and “system.” First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let’s construct a space where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch lost in a library of artists’ books. Let’s invent our right to do so. Let’s enter the world of smell and write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manage—from making objects to performing one’s own existence? Device, organon, animal. This book arises from the 2018 activities of the MA Fine Arts program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It reflects the conviction that an art school can be a pedagogic nexus dedicated to the transmission of knowledge, experimentation, and research, as much as a locus for civic and critical debate and exhibition, involved in its community, locally and globally.
Price: 23,00 €
McKenzie Wark, Capital is dead Is this something worse?
Cena: 23,00 €
Laura Raicovich, Culture strike Art and Museums in an age of Protest
Cena: 24,99 €
For Marc Augé the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Price: 20,00 €
