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Art and Theory Publishing Art & Theory Publishing is a publishing house dedicated to contemporary art, photography and aesth

The focus is on creating well designed quality publications in order to generate a forum where aesthetics and art can meet. Art and Theory specialize in the publication of books on a variety of subjects in the fields of art and theory.

FAMOUS PAINTINGS: MARCUS MÅRTENSONMarcus Mårtenson’s artistic practice addresses contemporary issues such as consumption...
15/08/2024

FAMOUS PAINTINGS: MARCUS MÅRTENSON
Marcus Mårtenson’s artistic practice addresses contemporary issues such as consumption, surveillance and social media. In his work process he transforms references from capitalist popular culture into social criticism. Among Mårtenson’s sources of inspiration are current events, graffiti, icon painting and his upbringing in New York during the 1980s. His paintings embody a grid of thoughts and ideas mainly focusing on the existential crisis of the constantly digitally connected human being.

Book launch at Galleri Hedenius, Stockholm, August 29 and at CHART Book & Print Fair, Copenhagen, August 29–September 1. Published in connection with Marcus Mårtenson’s upcoming exhibition, Galleri Hedenius, August 29 - September 28, 2024.



Text: Sebastian Johans. Design: Filip Rensfelt and Finntorp grafisk form
2024, English, softcover, 232 pages.

Christian Andersson, ”Marrow” (detail), 2022. Find out more about Christan Andersson’s work in the recently published bo...
12/08/2024

Christian Andersson, ”Marrow” (detail), 2022.

Find out more about Christan Andersson’s work in the recently published book: CHRISTIAN ANDERSSON: NO VESTIGE OF A BEGINNING, NO PROSPECT OF AN END

Published in connection with the exhibitions No vestige of a beginning June 15 – November 10, 2024 and No prospect of an end November 23, 2024 – March 30, 2025.

Texts: Christian Andersson, Sara Arrhenius, Eva Eriksdotter,
Caroline Gustafsson, Magnus Jensner, Jerker Virdborg. Design: Waters Löwenhielm, 2024, English, Swedish.

Philip Guston, Untitled, 1968
07/08/2024

Philip Guston, Untitled, 1968

Summer greetings from the studio of Hans Andersson
26/07/2024

Summer greetings from the studio of Hans Andersson

See you in Copenhagen! 👋🏼🇩🇰CHART Book & Print Fair 29/8 - 1/9
19/07/2024

See you in Copenhagen! 👋🏼🇩🇰

CHART Book & Print Fair
29/8 - 1/9

Yinka Shonibare CBE, The War Library (2024) consists of 5,000 books bound in Dutch wax print representing conflicts and ...
15/07/2024

Yinka Shonibare CBE, The War Library (2024) consists of 5,000 books bound in Dutch wax print representing conflicts and peace treaties.

Shonibare’s signature use of Dutch wax print symbolises the tangled relationship between Africa and Europe. This brightly coloured fabric was inspired by Indonesian batik designs, mass-produced by the Dutch and eventually sold to British colonies in West Africa, where it later was referred to as ‘African print.’

Enzo Mari book bus 👌🏼
11/07/2024

Enzo Mari book bus 👌🏼

Art & Theory on summer break! 😎👋🏼
07/07/2024

Art & Theory on summer break! 😎👋🏼

Installation view from Christian Andersson’s exhibition ”No Vestige of a Beginning”  15 June – 10 November 2024 💚
04/07/2024

Installation view from Christian Andersson’s exhibition ”No Vestige of a Beginning”
15 June – 10 November 2024 💚

New book! CHRISTIAN ANDERSSON: NO VESTIGE OF A BEGINNING, NO PROSPECT OF AN ENDThe title is a quote by Scottish physicia...
01/07/2024

New book! CHRISTIAN ANDERSSON: NO VESTIGE OF A BEGINNING, NO PROSPECT OF AN END
The title is a quote by Scottish physician and geologist James Hutton (1726-1797). In his text Theory of the Earth (1785), Hutton described the fundamental processes of the Earth’s crust and the formation and transfiguration of rocks – the basis of modern geology. The poetic and temporally open formula of the quote is enticing and inspiring to Andersson, but also mirrors his fascination with the perspectives on time and spatiality that so often distinguish his work.

Published in connection with the exhibitions No vestige of a beginning, Hallands Konstmuseum, June 15 – November 10, 2024 and No prospect of an end, Borås Konstmuseum, November 23, 2024 – March 30, 2025.

Texts: Christian Andersson, Sara Arrhenius, Eva Eriksdotter,
Caroline Gustafsson, Magnus Jensner, Jerker Virdborg 
Design: Waters Löwenhielm
2024, English, Swedish, softcover 

Summer vibes
27/06/2024

Summer vibes

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24/06/2024

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THAM & VIDEGÅRD – ON: ARCHITECTUREThe title - On: Architecture - comes out of Tham & Videgård s desire to think and talk...
20/06/2024

THAM & VIDEGÅRD – ON: ARCHITECTURE
The title - On: Architecture - comes out of Tham & Videgård s desire to think and talk about the fundamentals of architecture. The book shares this conversation with the reader and shows, through seventy-three project examples, how their ideas have been tested in practice. ”Architecture concerns us all. It is the most comprehensive and complex art form in society. In our work, it emerges from an ongoing discussion about architecture and a desire to explore what architecture can be” says Bolle Tham & Martin Videgård. Tham & Videgård, founded by Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård in 1999, are internationally recognized, award-winning architects of unique buildings at a wide variety of scales. The new book, the most comprehensive publication to date, includes a broad selection of built, unbuilt and ongoing projects from the studio’s over twenty years in practice.

Texts: Daniel Golling, Kieran Long. Layout: Felix Dahlén, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. Design Consultant: Björn Kusoffsky. Photography: Åke E:son Lindman. 2023, English, softcover.
Book photos: Emil Fagander

We🤍Carl Hammoud’s painting Whence One Came, 2023Oil on linen, 145x160 cm(Slightly cropped)
14/06/2024

We🤍Carl Hammoud’s painting
Whence One Came, 2023
Oil on linen, 145x160 cm
(Slightly cropped)



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11/06/2024

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A summer peony for you 🌸
05/06/2024

A summer peony for you 🌸

Write a postcard! ✏️📮
02/06/2024

Write a postcard! ✏️📮

Harry WoodrowSpecial Edition , 14/12/18 ÅrstabergRavensburger jigsaw puzzle, 500 piecesEach puzzle is delivered in a cus...
30/05/2024

Harry Woodrow
Special Edition
, 14/12/18 Årstaberg
Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle, 500 pieces
Each puzzle is delivered in a custom made box, signed by the artist, ed. 40.

documents Harry Woodrow’s ongoing project of taking selfies whilst wearing a specially constructed reflective helmet. The artist becomes a mirror, so in each ‘selfie’ the viewer sees the mirrored box, the iPhone taking the photograph, and the photograph being taken within its screen. The book is illustrated with 82 examples of these recursive images, which Woodrow has been posting on a dedicated Instagram account since 2015.

includes a conversation between Woodrow and curator and writer Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on the role of the selfie in contemporary society, and an essay by artist and writer David Price.

We 💛 the bookshop
27/05/2024

We 💛 the bookshop

PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART - Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art TodayWhat does it mean to remember through art? Th...
24/05/2024

PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART - Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today

What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art – Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss memorial art in our common spaces. The anthology includes texts on monuments, memorials, memory, democracy, power, and oppression and have a Swedish focus with an international perspective. The book is published by the Public Art Agency Sweden and the Swedish edition is distributed by Eddy Books and the English edition by Art and Theory Publishing.

Cover image: A drawing from the book Rundor by artist Astrid Göransson included in a democracy monument for the Swedish Parliament in 2022.

Editors: Annika Enqvist, Karolina Modig, Rebecka Katz Thor, Joanna Zawieja.
Introduction: Patrick Amsellem. Texts: Nasim Aghili, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Mathias Danbolt, Håkan Forsell, Josefin Granetoft, Elin Haugdal, Sandi Hilal, Rossana Mercado-Rojas, Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Lotta Mossum, Santiago Mostyn, MYCKET, Hanna Nordenhök, Temi Odumosu, Henrik Orrje, Outi Pieski, Lisa Rosendahl, Merete Røstad, Moa Sandström, Tanja Schult, Ingrid Svahn, Masha Taavoniku, Andrzej Tichý, Rebecka Katz Thor, Joanna Warsza, Michael K. Wilson, Joanna Zawieja.


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DAAR, SANDI HILAL, ALESSANDRO PETTI: REFUGEE HERITAGE Refugee camps are established with the intention of being demolish...
21/05/2024

DAAR, SANDI HILAL, ALESSANDRO PETTI: REFUGEE HERITAGE
Refugee camps are established with the intention of being demolished. As a paradigmatic representation of political failure, they are meant to have no history and no future; they are meant to be forgotten. The history of refugee camps is constantly being erased and dismissed by states, humanitarian organizations, international agencies and even by refugee communities themselves, who fear that any acknowledgment of the present condition in the camp may undermine their right of return to their place of origin. The only history that is recognized is one of violence and humiliation. Yet the camp is also a place rich with stories, narrated through its urban fabric.

Authors: Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti. Photographic documentaion by: Luca Capuano. Texts: Suad Amiry, F**d Al-Laham, Muhammad Khalil Al-Laham, Khaldun Bishara, Ilana Feldman, Sari Hanafi, Ismae’l Sheikh Hassan, Osama Jafari, Thomas Keenan, Elias Khoury, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Paul B. Preciado, Nasser Ramadan, Rasha Salti, Jad Tabet, Pelin Tan, Eyal Weizman. Design: Matthew Ashton and Mauro Bubbico with assistance from Fabio Bacchini, Giacomo Dal Prà, Alessandro Latela, Luca Longobardi, 2021, English, Arabic, softcover.

Antics    💕 visit if in Stockholm to browse and buy books 👀
17/05/2024

Antics 💕 visit if in Stockholm to browse and buy books 👀

HARRY WOODROW:  documents Harry Woodrow’s ongoing project of taking selfies whilst wearing a specially constructed refle...
11/05/2024

HARRY WOODROW:
documents Harry Woodrow’s ongoing project of taking selfies whilst wearing a specially constructed reflective helmet. The artist becomes a mirror, so in each ‘selfie’ the viewer sees the mirrored box, the iPhone taking the photograph, and the photograph being taken within its screen. The book is illustrated with 82 examples of these recursive images, which Woodrow has been posting on a dedicated Instagram account since 2015.

includes a conversation between Woodrow and curator and writer Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on the role of the selfie in contemporary society, and an essay by artist and writer David Price.

Text David Price. Conversation Nora Hagdahl & Harry Woodrow. Design Multistorey, 2021, English, softcover.

Joan Didion in 1987 🩵You get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them dow...
02/05/2024

Joan Didion in 1987 🩵

You get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it’s worth doing. That the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something. – The Paris Review interview (2006).

COLLECTIVELY derives from Collectively, an international forum with 80 participants on the art of thinking, working and ...
29/04/2024

COLLECTIVELY derives from Collectively, an international forum with 80 participants on the art of thinking, working and living together held at Konstnärsnämnden - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee/Iaspis in Stockholm, 2019.

The concept of Collectively was developed by Council and commissioned by Iaspis, and was curated by Grégory Castéra. The texts in this publication form a polyphony of the participants’ different voices, perspectives and reflections. The intention behind the forum was to explore collective ways of doing, how collectivity affects the notion of artistic creation, and how it can contribute to development within art, culture and society. Working collectively can give us a platform for relationships that build upon exchange rather than competition. The texts also reveal that collaboration can mean both possibilities and challenges. Published in collaboration with Konstnärsnämnden – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee/Iaspis.

Editirs: Anne Klontz, Johan Pousette. Texts: G. Castéra, S. Dahlqvist, R. Govender, L H. Millán, k.ö.k, B. Lace, G. Mamedov, A. Mendes, J. Pousette, f. rakun, F. Sandström, Werker Collective, WochenKlausur Design. Design: BankerWessel, 2020, English, Swedish, softcover.

PERMANENT TEMPORARINESSSandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti has explored and acted within and against the condition of perma...
13/05/2023

PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS

Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti has explored and acted within and against the condition of permanent temporariness that permeates contemporary forms of life. In their ambitious research- and project-based practice, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts: built architectural structures, the shaping of critical learning environments, interventions that challenge dominant collective narratives, the production of new political imaginations, the re-definition of words, and the formation of civic spaces. Published in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

Editors: Nick Axel, Maria Nadotti. Texts: Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, M. Nadotti, C. Esche, R. Latham, S. Mikdadi, E. Weizman, O. Enwezor, M. Fasheh, Grupo Contrafilé, M. Odeh, R. Abughanna. Design: Kölqvist. 2018, English, softcover.

TOVA MOZARD: COPS, PSYCHICS AND COMEDYText: Annika Elisabeth von HausswolffConversation: Chris Kraus & Tova MozardDesign...
09/05/2023

TOVA MOZARD: COPS, PSYCHICS AND COMEDY

Text: Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff
Conversation: Chris Kraus & Tova Mozard
Design: Waters Löwenhielm
2021, English

Tova Mozard’s work is often characterized by an interest in how people act and the games they play in group settings. When visiting Los Angeles for the first time, she experienced that type of improvisation right in front of her and realized she had found her subject matter. Cops, psychics and comedians are involved in roleplay one way or the other but Tova Mozard goes deeper, to find uncharted territories within these stereotypes, seen and mirrored within and beyond ourselves using Los Angeles as its prismatic stage.

The one and only Printed Matter! Book stores we love  🍎
05/05/2023

The one and only Printed Matter! Book stores we love 🍎

PETER GESCHWIND: AFTER IMAGEGeschwind developed a unique technology for creating “reality animations”. Using sound and l...
28/04/2023

PETER GESCHWIND: AFTER IMAGE

Geschwind developed a unique technology for creating “reality animations”. Using sound and light to create animations of real things in the physical space. The result is for example dancing brooms or popcorn appearing to pop. Just like in the classic artistic trompe l’oeuil technique, the works are experienced as true, while you simultaneously understand that you’re being tricked.

Peter Geschwind (1966–2021) lived and worked in Stockholm where he had great influence on the field of art. In his artistry, Geschwind explored a variety of materials and techniques. He often reused everyday objects that he redefined and charged with new meanings. The usually low-tech, works have a D.I.Y. feel, playing with popular cultural references, in which humour as well as melancholy are present. Geschwind had a background in music – sound, rhythm, and pulse are constantly present as an additional dimension in his artistry.

Published in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Essays: Sara Arrhenius, Fia Backström/Gunilla Klingberg, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, Maria Lind, Theodor Ringborg, Niclas Östlind. Design: Andreas Doré. 2023, English, softcover, 112 pages, 18 x 24,5 cm.

ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF: GRAND THEORY HOTEL Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff's images are often based on the themes of spat...
26/04/2023

ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF: GRAND THEORY HOTEL
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff's images are often based on the themes of spatiality, psychoanalysis, crime photography and global capitalism. She belongs to the generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s, inspired visually by postmodernist art and theory and with a profound interest in the photographic image, manifested through a predilection for analogue technology. She uses staging and associative imagery as methods to create images where the boundaries between fiction and reality are fluid. Another distinctive feature of von Hausswolff’s works are the spatial installations in which her photographs are often combined with sculptural elements such as window blinds and textiles – everyday details from domestic environments that also appear within the photographs.

Published in collaboration with Hasselblad Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Grand Theory Hotel at Hasselblad Center in 2016.

Edited by Dragana Vujanovic Östlind
Text by Dragana Vujanovic Östlind
Design by Malmsten Hellberg
2016, English, softcover

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