Bottled humanism, colored neon contaminations, tattered flaps of skin, and limp penises bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical devastation is in fact an appeal to understand metamorphosis as a state of being. Over a period of three decades, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that serves as a model for contemporary conceptual approaches of Posthumanism and the New Materialism. The catalogue brings together contributions by artists and theorists and documents Kudo’s comprehensive oeuvre in work and archive images as well as exhibition views from the retrospective at the Fridericianum (2016).

With contributions by Mike Kelley, Antje Krause-Wahl, Susanne Pfeffer, and Reiko Tomii

Softcover, 19.5 x 26 cm, 356 pages, 44 b/w and 191 colored illustrations
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Fridericianum, Kassel, MUSEUMMMKFÜR MODERNE KUNST, Frankfurt am Main

In English and German, ISBN 978-3-96098-410-8

There is no typical Frank Walter. His painterly spectrum is free and wide. His way of seeing is his own. His oeuvre seems to stand in opposition to the permanent ascriptions he was subjected to throughout his lifetime, with respect to race and nation. His cosmological paintings radiate transcendentally, his abstract works are systematic, his figurative ones captivating by virtue of their individuality, and his landscapes come into their own in clear abstraction. His works are of exceptional clarity and directness. Their concentrated quality, which can also be traced back to their size, opens unobstructed access.

The work of the native Antiguan and Barbudan artist Frank Walter (1926–2009) encompasses numerous paintings, drawings, sculptures, and writings that will be on view in a museum for the first time.

Edited by Susanne Pfeffer
Consulting Editor Barbara Paca
With texts by Precious Okoyomon, Barbara Paca, Susanne Pfeffer, Cord Riechelmann, Gilane Tawadros, Krista Thompson, and Frank Walter

Softcover, 21.0 x 26.3 cm, 420 pages, 548 colored illustrations
KOENIG BOOKS

English edition: ISBN: 978-3-96098-826-7

Edited by Victoria Noorthoorn, Peter Gorschlüter, Klaus Görner, Javier Villa and Gaby Comte.
With contributions from Alejandra Aguado, Gonzalo Aguilar, Luca Massimo Barbero, Marcos Cabobianco, Luis Camnitzer, Mauricio Corbalán, Martin Engler, Carlos Gamerro, Santiago García Navarro, María Amalia García, Klaus Görner, Mario Kramer, Tobi Maier, Abaseh Mirvali, Harper Montgomery, Victoria Noorthoorn, Bernardo Ortiz Campo, Marcelo E. Pacheco, Florencia Qualina, Ana María Reyes, Eva Schmidt, Silviano Santiago, Dirk Snauwaert, Katrin Thomschke and Javier Villa.

Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm, 496 pages, c. 300 mainly color images, German/English.
Kerber Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-7356-4027-7

Edited by Robin Mackay, Susanne Gaensheimer, Miguel Wandschneider.
With contributions by Éric Alliez, Ina Blom, Françoise J. Bonnet, Gabriel Catren, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christopher Haworth, Robin Mackay, Sarat Maharaj, Reza Negarestani, Michael Newman, Fernando Zalamea.

Paperback, 14 x 21 cm, b/w images, 224 pages, English.
Koenig Books
ISBN: 978-3-96098-055-1

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Klaus Görner.
With contributions by Kader Attia, Iwona Blazwick, Susanne Gaensheimer, Klaus Görner, Philippe Dagen, Irit Rogoff.

Hardcover, 24 x 29 cm, 75 color and 64 b/w images, 248 pages, German/English.
Kerber Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0255-8

Edited by Sabrina van der Ley, Enrico Lunghi, Susanne Gaensheimer, Suzanne Landau.
With contributions by Ruth Direktor, Eva Klerck Gange, Peter Gorschlüter, Jenny Hval, Angela Jerardi.

Hardcover, 22.8 x 22.8 cm, 84 color images, 208 pages, English/German/Norwegian/Hebrew.
Koenig Books
ISBN: 9783863358396

Published by RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain.
With contributions by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Ralf Dingeldein, Peter Forster, Peter Gorschlüter, Elke Gruhn, Jule Hillgärtner, Beate Kemfert, Alexandra Lechner, Celina Lunsford, Clemens Meyer, Helmut Müller, Franziska Nori, Luminita Sabau, Gregor Schuster, Matthias Wagner K.

Hardcover, 20.5 x 25 cm, 150 mostly color images, 232 pages, German/English.
Kehrer Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-86828-620-5

Published by The Photographers' Gallery.
With contributions by Simon Baker, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Eva Eicker, Hlonipha Mokoena, Olga Sviblova.

Hardcover, 23 x 27 cm, including colored images, 96 pages, German/English.
The Photographers' Gallery
ISBN: 978-0-9576188-2-4

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Mario Kramer, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Udo Kittelmann.
With contributions by Klaus Albrecht-Schröder, Susanne Gaensheimer, Udo Kittelmann, Mario Kramer, Michael Lobel.

Hardcover, 16,5 x 22,5 cm, 100 color images, 192 pages, German/English.
JRP Ringier
ISBN: 978-3-03764-396-9

Published by Dayanita Singh and Walter Keller, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Bildmuseet / Umeå University, Sweden.

Linen, 29 x 32 cm, 88 b/w images, 96 pages, English.
Steidl Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-86930-693-3

Edited by Aveek Sen and Susanne Gaensheimer.
With contributions by Germano Celant, Bharti Kher, Sunil Khilnani, Raqs Media Collective and Aveek Seen.

Hardcover, 30.4 x 24.8 cm, color images, 284 pages, English.
Penguin Books India, New Delhi
ISBN: 978-0-6700-8785-3

Edited by Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Susanne Gaensheimer, Peter Gorschlüter, Sunjung Kim.
With contributions by Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Peter Gorschlüter & Jewyo Rhii, Sunjung Kim, Henk Visch.

Paperback, 16 x 22.5 cm, 159 mostly color images, 296 pages, German/English.
Koenig Books
ISBN: 978-3-86335-300-1

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Peter Gorschlüter.
With contributions by Rineke Dijkstra, Peter Gorschlüter, Hans den Hartog Jager.

Paperback, 30 x 23 cm, color images, 124 pages, German/English.
Idea Books
ISBN: 978-3-00-040526-6

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Eva Huttenlauch.

Hardcover, 18.5 x 23 cm, color images, 80 pages, German/English.
Gestalten Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-89955-486-1

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Bern Reiß, as well as the Goethe Institut Mumbai.
With contributions by Kaushik Bhaumik, Suprio Bhatterjee, Susanne Gaensheimer, Amira Gad, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ranjit Hoskote, Shanay Jhaveri, Mario Pfeifer, Kurnal Rawat, Bernd Reiß, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ragunath Vasudevan, Markus Weisbeck.

Hardcover, 17,0 x 25,0 cm, color and b/w images, 300 pages, English/Hindi.
Spector Books
ISBN: 978-3-940064-60-8

Edited by MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Susanne Gaensheimer, Peter Gorschlüter, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, César Oiticia Filho.
With contributions by Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Susanne Gaensheimer, Clemens Krümmel, Hélio Oiticica, César Oiticica Filho.

Hardcover, 19,3 x 25,5cm, 71 (including color) images, 336 pages, German/English.
Hatje Cantz Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-7757-3729-6

Edited by Eva Badura-Triska, Karola Kraus, Susanne Gaensheimer, Klaus Görner.
With contributions by Eva Badura-Triska, Susanne Gaensheimer, Klaus Görner, Georg Gröller, Peter Keicher, Karola Kraus, Andreas Reiter Raabe.

Hardcover, 28.5 x 23.5 cm, color images, 160 pages, German.
Publisher of the bookstore Walther König
ISBN: 978-3-902490-96-4 (German edition)
ISBN: 978-3-902490-97-1 (English edition)

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Anthony Spira.
With contributions by Richard Birkett, Susanne Gaensheimer, Lars Bang Larsen, Chus Martinez, Anthony Spira and an interview between Andrea Büttner and Nikolaus Hirsch and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Paperback, 22.5 x 29 cm, mainly color images, 335 pages, German/English.
Koenig Books
ISBN: 978-3-86335-326-1

Published by the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
With text contributions by Bojana Kunst, Michael Oppitz, and Benoît Turquety.

Paperback, 18.5 x 23.5 cm, two-color images, 91 pages, German/Spanish.
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Note Books
ISBN: 978-3-943514-07-0

Published by RAY Fotografieprojekt Frankfurt/RheinMain.
With contributions by Barbara Basting, Herbert Beck, Anne-Marie Beckmann, Lilian Engelmann, Peter Gorschlüter, Jule Hillgärtner, Holger Kube Ventura, Alexandra Lechner, Celina Lunsford, Luminita Sabau.

Hardcover, 21.4 x 25.6 cm, 163 color images, 216 pages, German/English.
Hantje Cantz Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-7757-3338-0

Published by the Publications Department of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
With contributions by John J. Curley, Molly Donovan, Anthony E. Grudin, Susanne Gaensheimer, Mario Kramer, John J. Hanhardt, Earl A. Powell III, Matt Wrbican.

Hardcover, 31 x 25 cm, color images, 214 pages, German.
Prestel Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5160-5

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Anne König.
Text by Andrea Hiott.

Paperback, 21.6 x 29.6 cm, color images, 88 pages, English.
Spector Books
ISBN: 978-3-940064-93-6

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Klaus Görner.
With contributions by Michael Fried, Susanne Gaensheimer, Klaus Görner, Caoimhíin Mac Giolla Léith and an interview between James Franco and Douglas Gordon.

Hardcover, 24,5 x 29 cm, 189 color and 30 b/w images, 234 pages, German/English.
Kerber Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-8667-8628-8

Edited by Katrin Sauerländer, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
With contributions by Eduard Beaucamp, Andreas Bee, Ulrike Crespo, Silke Hohmann, Udo Kittelmann, Caterina Maderna, Hans-Jürgen Müller, Katrin Sauerländer, Heiner Stachelhaus, Franz Erhard Walther, Götz Adriani, Rudolf Zwirner.

Hardcover, 25 x 19.5 cm, 184 mostly color images, 208 pages, German.
Revolver Publisher
ISBN: 978-3-86588-151-9