Janina Roider (*1986) is part of a young generation of painters whose work is positioned amid a fascination for technological progress, profound knowledge of art history, and a seismographic sensibility for current events. She confidently makes use of digital tools as well as gestural, analogue brushstrokes, which are equalised on the canvas. Fiction and reality blend on both contextual and formal levels. Make It Newer! is an ode to Gunther Foerg, the abstract artist whose spirit of invention she has adopted as a role model. The title is programmatic. The book's dimensions transport the explosive force of her paintings, which collide with each other on a large scale. Featuring essays by Florian Matzner, Hans-Joerg Clement, and Johannes Ungelenk, as well as an interview with Birgit Sonna. Text in English and German.

Deconstructivism is understood to encompass a specific form of thought and a specific way of dealing with materials. Freiwald's art is distinguished by its impressive manner of bringing together both sides. First, he comes to grips with the material foundation of painting, by singeing, cutting, or sawing the picture support. The remaining space is pure pictorial space and is entirely subject to the expressive quality of the planes of colour filling it. His works are thus always new ways of presenting an intriguing dialectic. They alternate between material and effect, inquiring into the relationships between the object and the phenomenal expressive force of art. The exhibition catalogue captures this lively philosophy in a sublimely aesthetic form. It shows how thought and vision overlap in Freiwald's work to become truly visionary.

Seditiously garish paintings, watercolours, animated films, absurd journals, and extensive installations - all of these are only a small part of the practice of the young artist duo Mehmet & Kazim. Initially active in the graffiti and Hip Hop scene, both of them studied with Markus Oehlen at the Academy in Munich. Kissing Cousins is both an elaborately designed artist book and a detailed monograph on their work at the same time. Supplemented by a conversation with Florian Matzner, their pictorial strategies are shown very directly - subtly oriented toward art history, which is then promptly thrown 'out the window' again.

This volume, published on occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, provides a comprehensive history of this institution, which is connected with such names as Wilhelm Leibl, Wassily Kandinsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Guenther Baselitz, but did also experience periods of lesser significance. A catalogue provides an overview of the academy's collections in color photographs. German text.