After Rain offered a sensorial parcours, pointing out the interconnectedness of local and global issues. The assembled artworks created a polyphonic forum that raised questions about our ecologies, the rights of nature, what defines cultures, and how they are conserved. /

DIRIYAH CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNALE 2024: AFTER RAIN / VISUAL READER
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Published in retrospect, the Visual Reader documents the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024  with an extensive image section on one hand, but goes much further than a generic catalogue: by including a 200 page Research section, it dives deep into the curatorial and artistic processes behind the exhibition. With plenty of unpublished materials provided by the 100 artists – from scribbles to technical drawings to iPhone snapshots to sketchbook pages – the Research section tries to convey the manifold ideas and perspectives that are assembled in a biennale, while also providing a snapshot of its host country Saudi Arabia at a time of accelerated transition.

/ Commissioned by / Diriyah Biennale Foundation /
/ Artists / Hamra Abbas, Jumana Emil Abboud, Sara Abdu, Irene Agrivina, Alia Ahmad, Azra Akšamija,Nabila Al Bassam, Tara Aldughaither & Joe Namy, Rasha Al-Duwaisan, Mohammad AlFaraj, Dhali Al Mamoon, Reem Al Nasser, Daniah Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Al-Soliman, Nazgol Ansarinia, Rasheed Araeen, Siah Armajani, Andrius Arutiunian, Martha Atienza, Tarek Atoui, Dana Awartani, Asma Bahmim,  bahraini—danish, Sammy Baloji,  Zarina Bhimji, Ursula Biemann, Safeya Binzagr, Rossella Biscotti, Bricklab, Britto Arts Trust, Muhanned Cader, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Rachaporn Choochuey, Tiffany Chung, Ade Darmawan, Priyageetha Dia, Vikram Divecha, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Alexander Eriksson Furunes & Sudar Khadka, Alia Farid, Christine Fenzl, Ângela Ferreira, Simryn Gill, Anne Holtrop, Hiba Ismail, Saodat Ismailova, Joan Jonas, Susanne Kriemann, Liang Shaoji, Armin Linke & Ahmed Mater, Liu Chuang, Mariah Lookman, Nidhi Mahajan & Moad Musbahi, Taus Makhacheva, Robin Meier Wiratunga, The Migrant Ecologies Project, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Regina Maria Möller, James Morris, Tania Mouraud, Zarina Muhammad, Dala Nasser, Hind Nasser, Hussein Nassereddine, Filwa Nazer, Nguyên Trinh Thi, NJOKOBOK, Elia Nurvista, Phi Phi Oanh, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Sopheap Pich, Marjetica Potrc, Lala Rukh, Arin Rungjang, Tomás Saraceno, Citra Sasmita, Seher Shah, Hassan Sharif, Shooshie Sulaiman, syn architects, Tang Da Wu, Paulo Tavares / autonoma, TAYYUN, Sissel Tolaas, Anaïs Tondeur, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Suzann Victor, Munem Wasif, Ines Weizman, Jana Winderen, Yang Fudong, Yeo Siew Hua, Liam Young, Camille Zakharia, Samia Zaru, Feifei Zhou /
/ Editor / Ute Meta Bauer /
/ Editorial Managers / Laura Schleussner, Eva Ebersberger /
/ Design Assistance / João Pedro Costa /
/ Publishers / Hatje Cantz,  Kaph Books /
/ Printers / DZA Altenburg /
/ Softcover / 22 x 28 cm / 432 Pages /

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After Rain brings together diverse formats and languages used by artists, ranging from drawings and paintings to sculptures, installations and photography as well as time-based media practices such as performance and film. /

DIRIYAH CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNALE 2024: AFTER RAIN / GUIDEBOOK
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Conceived as an onsite companion to the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, the publication pursues a functional approach to giving more substantial information to the 100 featured artists, within the colourful overall identity for the Biennale. A book as reference, guide, and archive during and after the exhibition.

/ Commissioned by / Diriyah Biennale Foundation /
/ Artists / Hamra Abbas, Jumana Emil Abboud, Sara Abdu, Irene Agrivina, Alia Ahmad, Azra Akšamija,Nabila Al Bassam, Tara Aldughaither & Joe Namy, Rasha Al-Duwaisan, Mohammad AlFaraj, Dhali Al Mamoon, Reem Al Nasser, Daniah Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Al-Soliman, Nazgol Ansarinia, Rasheed Araeen, Siah Armajani, Andrius Arutiunian, Martha Atienza, Tarek Atoui, Dana Awartani, Asma Bahmim,  bahraini—danish, Sammy Baloji,  Zarina Bhimji, Ursula Biemann, Safeya Binzagr, Rossella Biscotti, Bricklab, Britto Arts Trust, Muhanned Cader, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Rachaporn Choochuey, Tiffany Chung, Ade Darmawan, Priyageetha Dia, Vikram Divecha, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Alexander Eriksson Furunes & Sudar Khadka, Alia Farid, Christine Fenzl, Ângela Ferreira, Simryn Gill, Anne Holtrop, Hiba Ismail, Saodat Ismailova, Joan Jonas, Susanne Kriemann, Liang Shaoji, Armin Linke & Ahmed Mater, Liu Chuang, Mariah Lookman, Nidhi Mahajan & Moad Musbahi, Taus Makhacheva, Robin Meier Wiratunga, The Migrant Ecologies Project, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Regina Maria Möller, James Morris, Tania Mouraud, Zarina Muhammad, Dala Nasser, Hind Nasser, Hussein Nassereddine, Filwa Nazer, Nguyên Trinh Thi, NJOKOBOK, Elia Nurvista, Phi Phi Oanh, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Sopheap Pich, Marjetica Potrc, Lala Rukh, Arin Rungjang, Tomás Saraceno, Citra Sasmita, Seher Shah, Hassan Sharif, Shooshie Sulaiman, syn architects, Tang Da Wu, Paulo Tavares / autonoma, TAYYUN, Sissel Tolaas, Anaïs Tondeur, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Suzann Victor, Munem Wasif, Ines Weizman, Jana Winderen, Yang Fudong, Yeo Siew Hua, Liam Young, Camille Zakharia, Samia Zaru, Feifei Zhou /
/ Editor / Ute Meta Bauer /
/ Editorial Manager / Laura Schleussner /
/ Design Assistance / João Pedro Costa /
/ Publisher / Kaph Books /
/ Printers / Sarawat Printing /
/ Softcover / 16.5 x 22 cm / 320 Pages /

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The ocean, that vast and mysterious cosmos of life unknown. The complex interaction of water, currents, temperature, light, animals, matter. Layers upon layers, a fragile balance, breathtakingly beautiful. /

TBA21 / JOAN JONAS: MOVING OFF THE LAND
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Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land documents the performance of the same title by seminal American artist Joan Jonas, which concerns itself with the state of the ocean and the impact of mankind on the environment. As so often with Jonas, the piece started as an annotated lecture and developed, over many years and iterations, into a rich and layered performance piece, combining video, live sound, fragments of text, painting, personal stories, and movement.

For the book, Jonas gave us unprecedented access to her archives, including scribbles and notes, personal photographs, technical instructions, fragments of scripts and writings, as well as hundreds of drawings, that give a rare glimpse into the artist’s process of thought and research. We translated the density of the piece by working on a horizontal plane – a full documentation of the entire performance in Venice in 2019 – and a vertical axis – the related reference materials inserted and layered in position. And so the book chronicles a very specific performance while also presenting a unique case study of Jonas‘ universe and working process.

/ Commissioned by / TBA 21 /
/ Artist / Joan Jonas /
/ Editor / Ute Meta Bauer /
/ Editorial Managers / Eva Ebersberger /
/ Publisher / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König /
/ Printers / Grafiche Veneziane /
/ Softcover / 16.8 x 24 cm / 272 Pages /

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