Scheidegger & Spiess International New Titles Spring 2026

Scheidegger & Spiess

Art I Photography I Architecture

International New Titles

Spring 2026

Recent Highlights

Edited by Arne Reimer Hardback

152 pages, 11 color and 78 b/w illustrations

23 × 32.5 cm

978-3-03942-306-4 English

sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 62.00 | $ 70.00

Miles Davis—Three Days in Malibu

Photographs

by Ralph Quinke

This book marks the centenary of Miles Davis (1926–91). It is a unique homage to an icon of jazz and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. It brings together photographs taken by German photographer and documentary filmmaker Ralph Quinke between 1971 and 1989. The centerpiece is an expanded version of a reportage Quinke photographed in 1989 for an issue of Swiss art and culture magazine Du, which was dedicated to Miles. He got surprisingly close with his camera, taking shots of the artist boxing, in his car, in the kitchen, while painting, sometimes posing, or as an observer of him in conversation.

Centenary of Miles Davis on May 26, 2026

El Lissitzky and Switzerland

El Lissitzky (1890–1941), one of the most eminent figures of Soviet avant-garde art, had been in contact with the Swiss art scene and its like-minded protagonists since 1919. In 1924–25, he spent several months at a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains to treat his pulmonary tuberculosis. He created key works in his oeuvre during this time, spanning the fields of architecture, graphic design and typography, and fine art. A century later, this book takes a fresh look at El Lissitzky from the perspective of his host country at the time, arranged in thematic chapters about architecture, typography, and graphic design, Lissitzky as an artist and theorist, and his relationship to Switzerland.

Edited by Carole Haensler Hardback

160 pages,181 color illustrations

22 × 26.5 cm

978-3-03942-290-6 English

978-3-03942-289-0 German

sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Sabine Flaschberger, and Petra Schmid

Hardback

256 pages, 67 color and 17 b/w illustrations

15 × 22.5 cm

978-3-03942-274-6 English

978-3-03942-273-9 German

sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

King Stag

Carlo Gozzi’s Tragicomedy in a Staging for Marionettes by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, René Morax, and Werner Wolff

In 1918, the great avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp designed stage sets and an ensemble of 17 radically abstracted marionettes for a modern adaption of King Stag, an 18th-century Italian fairy-tale play that turned it into an amusing Dada parody of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung’s psychoanalysis. This book offers the first English translation of this version of King Stag by Swiss dramatist René Morax and director Werner Wolff, supplemented with photographs of Taeuber-Arp’s iconic marionettes as well as essays that explore the genesis of the original 1918 production and place it in historical context.

Edited by Kunsthaus Zürich, Swiss National Museum, and Museum Rietberg

Book design by Severin Weber

Paperback

approx. 144 pages, 150 color illustrations 21 × 28 cm

978-3-03942-317-0 English

sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 45.00

JUNE 2026 (Europe) AUGUST 2026 (US)

Offers insight into important new findings on the topic of dealing with cultural heritage in museums

Points museums and other institutions to new ways in how to deal with pressing issues such as restitution, representation, and cultural dialogue

Features previously unpublished case studies and topical essays on museum practice

Documents the first international Conference on Cultural Heritage in Museums in Zurich 2024

Sensitive, Problematic, Contested?

Challenges and Opportunities in Dealing with Cultural Heritage in Museums

Pressing issues around the cultural heritage held in museums Scheidegger & Spiess

The way in which museums deal with the cultural heritage they are holding has increasingly become the focus of public debate. At the core are the critical examination of collection histories and the biographies of artefacts, as well as the reflection on traditional institutional and museum practices.

This volume brings together contributions on the topics of curating, collecting, researching, provenance, and presentation by museum practitioners, scholars from various disciplines, and artists. They explore new approaches to collecting, exhibiting, educating, and rethinking cultural heritage. Through case studies and topical essays, the book offers contemporary perspectives, pointing museums to new ways in how to deal with pressing issues such as restitution, representation, and cultural dialogue.

The Kunsthaus Zürich is one of Europe’s leading art museums and Switzerland’s largest art institution.

The Swiss National Museum unites the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins, and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz, as well as the Collections Center in Affoltern am Albis near Zurich.

The Museum Rietberg in Zurich is Switzerland’s preeminent museum of art from non-European cultures.

Paperback approx. 200 pages 14 × 21 cm

978-3-03942-339-2 English

978-3-03942-338-5 German

sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 14.99 | $ 22.00 (English)

sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 30.00 (German

MAY 2026 (Europe) AUGUST 2026 (US)

English German

Bruno Giussani

Mind Under Siege

A broadly intelligible analysis of how AI and other new technologies work and what their impacts are

An efficacious guide to develop collective and individual strategies against the tech giants’ aim of control and modulation of our attention, perception, and autonomy of thought

A thought-provoking reflection on the entanglements of technology, business, geopolitics, and culture, and ways to break existing monopolies in the digital world

Bruno Giussani is an internationally renowned expert on digital culture and the global curator of the widely heeded TED Talks 2005–24

How to use AI without being used by it

How to Avoid Being Manipulated in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Bruno Giussani—author, curator of ideas, and podcaster—was European director and global curator of the widely heeded TED Conferences and TED Talks 2005–24. In Mind Under Siege, the renowned expert on digital culture writes on the technologies of influence and their social and political implications. In a world constantly flooded with information, social media, artificial intelligence, and strategies of cognitive influence, the integrity of our thought is under threat. Technologies that appropriate our personal data, analyzing and exploiting our emotions, algorithmize our entire being. It is no longer only about influence through disinformation and fake news: the aim is control and modulation of our attention, perception, and autonomy of thought.

Giussani offers an efficacious guide to develop collective and individual strategies to understand the complex relationship between ourselves and the artificial intelligences that increasingly invade our daily lives, professionally as much as privately. He explains the economic and power structures in which these technologies exist, and teaches us how to use AI without being used by it.

Bruno Giussani, born in 1964, is a Swiss-based author, curator of ideas, and podcaster focusing on the intersection of politics, the economy, climate and technological innovation. He was global curator of TED Conferences and TED Talks 2005–24 and hosts the Deftech podcast. He wrote for newspapers such as The New York Times and Neue Zürcher Zeitung and is the author of Roam: Making Sense of the Wireless Internet (Random House, 2001) and Storia di @ (Messaggi Brevi, 2023).

Design vs. passive user behavior: a visionary book on digital design tools

Book design by Luis Adrian Borchardt

In cooperation with einBuch.haus, Berlin

Folder in paperback cover approx. 228 pages, 143 color and 25 b/w illustrations

14.8 × 21 cm

978-3-03942-337-8 English 978-3-03942-336-1 Deutsch

sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00

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Not for sale in: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

English German

Luis Adrian Borchardt

Anti-Environments

One of the most exciting and timely books on creativity of recent years and an invitation to break with conventional ways of using design tools

A sensual, unconventional companion on digital design, featuring groundbreaking research on expanding the use of tools and programs

Demonstrates how design software can be repurposed for democratic goals

Winner of one of German Stiftung Buchkunst’s 2025 Sponsorship Prizes for Young Book Design and a 2025 International Creative Award

Digital media and their design are highly topical

On Exploring Unconventional Tools Through Friction and Norm-Bending

In Anti-Environments, designer-artist Luis Adrian Borchardt explores how misusing digital tools and alternative design processes can unearth new creative potential and lead to greater autonomy and experimental practice with digital media. This highly unconventional companion on design tools challenges established traditions and methods through friction. Borchardt deliberately examines fields of tension and software limitations to break with conventional ways of use and to open new, unexplored avenues for creativity. He advocates for digital media being understood as dynamic formative systems to be made use of and to be repurposed, rather than as linear processes.

Borchardt’s visionary book is itself such an “anti-environment,” produced entirely in Google Sheets and avoiding conventional design programs. In this way, he demonstrates an alternative hybrid publishing approach, allowing readers to print a work from the internet and bind the volume themselves.

Borchardt is a trailblazer for a more open, democratic concept of disseminating knowledge and making it accessible.

Luis Adrian Borchardt is a Berlin-based graphic designer and artist. His practice explores experimental forms of publishing and the interplay of digital processes and social dynamics. Through errors and acts of subversion as aesthetic and political means, his work questions traditional publication systems.

Two beginnings and no end: the iconic visual universe of designer Jörg Boner and photographer Milo Keller

Edited by Anniina Koivu

Book design by Norm, Zurich

Paperback

approx. 112 pages, 130 color illustrations

20 × 30 cm

978-3-03942-323-1 English

sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00

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Views on Things

A unique record of an intense, creative correspondence between photography and product design

Demonstrates how product designers and photographers can collaborate to create something that transcends their individual achievements

Documents highlights and milestones of the collaboration between the Swiss product designer Jörg Boner and photographer Milo Keller between 2008 and 2024 and the visual universe they created together

A Visual Dialogue With and Between Jörg Boner and Milo Keller

This extraordinary book weaves a fascinating dialogue between the works of product designer Jörg Boner and the images of photographer Milo Keller (1979–2025). Over the course of 20 years, they have developed a fruitful collaboration, creating an iconic visual universe around Jörg Boner’s design projects. They share a keen interest in content-related discourse and historical awareness in their respective fields of activity. Views on Things has two beginnings and no end—based on the personal journeys of Keller and Boner, the book can literally be read in two directions. In anecdotal dialogue about realized projects, the two artists shed light on their common cause and their individual activities. An introduction by curator and design writer Anniina Koivu and an essay by curator and publisher Bruno Ceschel round off this unique presentation of a shared vision and creative exchange that unites photography and product design.

Jörg Boner is a Zurich-based product designer who has developed a wide range of lighting, furniture, and objects. He has received several international design awards, including the 2011 Swiss Grand Prix Design.

Milo Keller (1979–2025) was a Swiss photographer and professor at ECAL in Lausanne, where he headed the photography department from 2012 and established a master’s program in photography. He also curated numerous international exhibitions and publications.

Anniina Koivu is a design writer, curator, and educator based in Milan and Lausanne. She is head of the master’s program in theory at ECAL in Lausanne and founder of the Koivu knitware and homeware brand.

Survival of the Holocaust and Jewish culture translated into abstract art: Fishel Rabinowicz’s paper works

Edited by Anita Winter and the Gamaraal Foundation

Book design by Martina

Brassel

Hardback

approx. 144 pages, 50 color illustrations

21 × 29 cm

978-3-03942-334-7 English

978-3-03942-333-0 German

978-3-03942-335-4 Italian

sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00

JULY 2026 (Europe) SEPTEMBER 2026 (US)

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Fishel Rabinowicz

First book on Fishel Rabinowicz (1924–2024), graphic designer, artist, and Holocaust survivor

Features 40 previously unpublished paper works by Fishel Rabinowicz

With a contextualizing essay by distinguished curator and art historian Dorothea Strauss

Published to coincide with an exhib ition of Fishel Rabinowicz’s paper works at the Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar (summer 2026)

Fishel Rabinowicz (1924–2024) was born in Sosnowiec, Poland. Growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family, he showed a talent for painting even as a child. In 1941, he was captured and his ordeal with forced labor in nine different camps of the Nazi death-machine began. In February 1945, he was sent along with 1,220 other prisoners on a 200-mile death march to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, where he just escaped death when the camp was liberated in April 1945. Following his four-year recovery in sanatoriums in Germany and Switzerland, Rabinowicz was offered the chance to study graphic design at the Zurich School of Art and Craft. Following graduation, he settled in the Swiss canton of Ticino, where he married and founded a family, and made his living as a graphic designer. Only after retirement did Rabinowicz turn to fine art, translating the story of his life, his experiences, and Jewish culture into abstract paper works that gained him international fame. This book features for the first time 40 of Fishel Rabinowicz’s paper works in full-page plates, supplemented with brief explanatory texts by the artist himself and editor Anita Winter, and an essay by art historian and curator Dorothea Strauss.

Anita Winter is the founder and president of the Zurich-based Gamaraal Foundation. She is the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations’ Main Representative at the UN Human Rights Council and has received numerous honors for her engagement to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, such as the Federal Republic of Germany’s Order of Merit.

The Gamaraal Foundation, founded in Zurich in 2014, supports Holocaust survivors and is engaged in education on the Holocaust around the world. The foundation has received numerous honors, including the 2024 Simon Wiesenthal Prize for civic engagement to combat anti-Semitism and to educate the public about the Holocaust.

Scheidegger & Spiess

Poetic stories of cities, landscapes, and cultural dialogues: the art of Susan Hefuna

Edited by Stephan Kunz

Book design by Muriel Comby

In cooperation with the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur

Paperback

240 pages, 143 color illustrations

23.5 × 29.5 cm

978-3-03942-313-2

English / German

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 60.00

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Susan Hefuna

Susan Hefuna is one of Germany’s most highly regarded contemporary artists, whose work is regularly shown in solo exhibitions at major museums and is well represented in important public collections

The book offers a comprehensive survey of Susan Hefuna’s multifaceted oeuvre from all periods of her career and across the entire spectrum of media she applies

Informative essays and a conversation with Susan Hefuna convey her artistic practice, which moves between worlds and constantly creates new connections

Exhibition: Susan Hefuna at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (February 21 to July 26, 2026)

German artist Susan Hefuna explores the interplay between place, time, and perception. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography, installation, video, and performance. Her art reflects the duality of public and private spaces and opens up new perspectives on subjective perceptions and realities. Hefuna’s works tell poetic stories of cities, landscapes, and cultural dialogues, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in her artistic world and perceive connections across boundaries.

Susan Hefuna is published in conjunction with the artist’s first major exhibition in Switzerland. Produced in close collaboration with Hefuna, the book offers a survey of her multifaceted oeuvre to date. The essays are contributed by curator and critic Nat Muller, art historian Linda Schädler, curator William Wells, and by Stephan Kunz, the director of the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. A conversation between Susan Hefuna and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist rounds out the volume.

Susan Hefuna, born in 1962 and raised in Egypt, Germany, and Austria, obtained her artistic education at various art schools in Germany, which she concluded at the Institute for New Media at Frankfurt’s Städelschule in 1992. In addition to her own artistic practice, she teaches as a professor of design with audiovisual media at Pforzheim University’s School of Design. Stephan Kunz is artistic director at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur.

Edited by Dorothea Strauss

Book

design by Bureau Sandra Doeller

Hardback

136 pages, 156 color and 30 b/w illustrations

24 × 32 cm

978-3-03942-329-3 English

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 60.00

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Séverin Guelpa Trembling

Séverin Guelpa is one of the strong voices in contemporary Swiss art

Guelpa’s Trembling series is a succession of powerful parables of a world in transition

The book combines artistic practice, reflection, and materiality into a dense, visually powerful, internationally relevant document of art and time

Séverin Guelpa, born in 1974, is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Swiss art. Based in Geneva, he works at the intersection of art, science, and the exploration of social phenomena. Guelpa examines how tremors—geophysical, social, or emotional—can become the driving force behind the development of new perspectives. Since 2022, he has been working on Trembling, a series in which he combines rough materials such as earth, stone, and concrete with media such as drawing, sculpture, video, and printing techniques to create powerful parables of a world in transition. His video Times Parallax takes a global look at the relationship between humans, technology, and nature.

Séverin Guelpa: Trembling features striking sequences of images that guide readers through the artist’s working environment, bringing his physical, site-related method to life. An essay by critic and curator Deborah Keller explores Guelpa’s art. In conversation with curator and writer Dorothea Strauss, Guelpa addresses aspects such as responsibility, uncertainty, and the role of art in a shaken world.

Dorothea Strauss is a Swiss-based curator, transformation coach, editor, and author. She was director of various art museums in Switzerland and Germany and established the department of corporate social responsibility with Swiss insurance company Die Mobiliar. She has also held teaching appointments at Zurich University of the Arts, the University of St. Gallen, and Bern University of Applied Sciences.

Book design by

Focus Grafik, Karin Rütsche

Paperback

approx. 176 pages, 100 color

illustrations

21.5 × 28 cm

978-3-03942-328-6

English / German

sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 38.00 | $ 45.00

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Bernhard Egger, Hans Furer Can AI Do Art?

An investigation of art and AI based on scientific research

Addresses key topics such as creative artificial intelligence, authorship, and copyright

Specialist authors contribute to the manifold discourse around AI and artistic creation

Offers a focused outlook into the future of AI and art

The book is digitally expanded by a unique augmented reality experience of the artworks, accessible through an integrated QR code

Testing the limits of generative AI and its capacity for abstraction Scheidegger

Can AI do art? Since 2022, computer scientist Bernhard Egger and artist Hans Furer have been jointly conducting an experiment to test the limits of generative AI and its capacity for abstraction. Prompted by some 800 paintings that Furer had created since 1971, Egger’s AI model generated its own images, from which the artist selected five to transfer them again onto canvas as accurate copies of the digital templates. As a reply, he then painted a new version of one of his earlier works, thus entering a dialogue with the AI image.

The book Can AI Do Art? offers Furer and Egger’s field notes of their experiment, supplemented with contributions by specialists from the fields of digital art history, creative human–machine collaboration, and law, who shed light on the theoretical foundations of creative artificial intelligence, art-historical contexts, and questions of authorship and copyright. The juxtaposition of the copied AI image with Furer’s replies invites a reflection on the fundamentally different orientations of artificial and human intelligence and creativity.

Bernhard Egger is a junior professor of cognitive computer vision in the Department of Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Hans Furer is a Basel-based artist and art collector, lawyer, judge, and politician.

Edited by Sarah Burkhalter, Julie Enckell, and Federica Martini

Book design by Bonbon

In cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA

Paperback

approx. 100 pages, 12 color illustrations

10 × 15 cm

978-3-03942-320-0 English / French

sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 14.00 | $ 20.00

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Mai-Thu Perret And Each Moment Has Its Own Response

Mai-Thu Perret is one of the most recognized contemporary artists in Switzerland

Perret combines diverse ideological and visual reference systems and questions the visions of modernism and the creative power of utopias

The On Words series features interviews with leading female contemporary artists

On Words adds to the polyphonic art history the narrative of those who actively shape it

Female artists offer personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art

Mai-Thu Perret talks about personal fascinations, the randomness of glazing ceramics, the love of reading, and the importance of motherhood in art discourse

This latest volume in the On Words series is dedicated to Mai-Thu Perret, one of Switzerland’s most recognized contemporary artists. In conversation with Sarah Burkhalter, she talks about her personal fascinations, the randomness of glazing ceramics, and her love of reading. Burkhalter and Perret also explore artistic and intellectual means of including the importance of motherhood into art discourse without being reduced to that role.

Born in Geneva in 1976, and of Franco-Vietnamese heritage, Perret combines ceramics, installation, film, sculpture, painting, and textiles in her practice, which is based on an original affinity for writing and storytelling. She draws on the artistic and historic genealogies of the avant-garde as well as on Zen and feminist literature to create objects, spaces, and performances in which anthropology and political history give rise to intriguing heterotopias.

Sarah Burkhalter is head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA in Lausanne.

Julie Enckell is an associate professor and director at HEAD – Genève, where she heads the Cultural Development Department.

Federica Martini is an associate professor at HEAD – Genève, where she directs the MA program CCC—Critical Curatorial Cybermedia.

Photographic research of 20 major cities and megacities of the 21st century—a picture essay on the urban world that is home to more than half of the global population

Book design by Bruno Margreth Hardback

approx. 232 pages, 120 color illustrations 22 × 27 cm

978-3-03942-327-9

English / German

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | € 60.00

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Philipp Sarasin The Big City

A Visual Anthology. Photographs 2009–2024

A photographic investigation of architecture, urban structures, and living conditions that shape the lives of more than 50% of the global population

A visual anthology that is unique in terms of geographical range and a topical focus beyond travel photography

Features images of Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Casablanca, Chicago, Dubai, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jinan, Cairo, Cape Town, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York, Panama City, Shanghai, and Warsaw

Philipp Sarasin’s photography is analytical and observational, inspired by the tradition of artistic urban photography

Since 2009, historian and photographer Philipp Sarasin has been traveling the globe for his visual research on major cities and megacities. He visited Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Cairo, Nairobi, Dubai, Mumbai, Beijing, Jakarta, Panama City, and ten other places, driven by his search for a relevant photographic image of the world in which we live. It is an urban world for more than half of humanity—and the trend is going up.

The Big City features some 120 of Sarasin’s color photographs that are marked by his analytical observing eye. His focus is on urban space with all its images and signs, embedded in the faceless architecture that shapes 21st-century cities. Sarasin’s shots are neither architectural photography in the narrow sense nor classic street photography. He follows the tradition of urban photography, inspired in particular by the concepts of artists such as Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall.

An essay by architectural historian and curator Martino Stierli and an introduction by Philipp Sarasin supplement the full-page color plates in this striking volume.

Philipp Sarasin is a historian and photographer. He is a professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Zurich.

Martino Stierli is the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA in New York. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Las Vegas Studio (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008/2015) and Before Publication (Park Books, 2016).

Delicate, ephemeral declarations of love to language: the art of Maude Léonard-Contant

Edited by Nidwaldner Museum, Stans

Book design by Bonbon

Paperback

112 pages, 58 color illustrations

24 × 32 cm

978-3-03942-326-2

English / German

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 60.00

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Maude Léonard-Contant gathering

Features a series of four site-specific installations by Canadian-Swiss artist Maude Léonard-Contant, created between 2023 and 2025

Supplementing essays analyze the artworks and their personal and artistic context

Canadian-Swiss artist Maude Léonard-Contant’s imagery is nourished by language— the shape of letters, words, and fragments of sentences. It is manifested in idiosyncratic, often space-filling works that are spread out on the floor. Language is palpable even when her installations are barely comprehensible. Léonard-Contant navigates the nonverbal through meticulous articulation of shapes and surfaces, textures, and space. Her engagement with materials she loves and which she carefully selects for their erotic and narrative potential forms a syntax with which meaning is created and narratives unfold.

Maude Léonard-Contant: gathering features a series of four site-specific works the artist created between 2023 and 2025 for displays in museums in Switzerland, Italy, and France. Texts by Maude Léonard-Contant, as well as essays contributed by writer and critic Estelle Hoy, curator Elise Lammer, and art historian Gabriela Christen, supplement the images.

Maude Léonard-Contant, born 1979, studied at Concordia University in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal and at the Glasgow School of Art, and has been based in Switzerland since 2013. Her work, for which she has received numerous awards, is regularly shown in solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.

Nidwaldner Museum, with its three locations in Stans, Switzerland, offers a program of temporary exhibitions on themes related to the canton of Nidwalden and of contemporary art related to Central Switzerland, and documents the region’s art and cultural heritage.

Architecture of minimal intervention: the reconstruction and revival of Chesa Culaischem

Book design by Focus

Grafik, Karin Rütsche

Paperback

approx. 304 pages, 320 color and 20 b/w illustrations and plans

17.6 × 23 cm

978-3-03942-292-0 English

978-3-03942-291-3 German

sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

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English German

An inspiring guide to sustainable building in precious historic fabric

A manifesto for a holistic concept of sustainability in architecture, minimal intervention, and the use of traditional knowledge and local materials

Combines personal narratives from the client, architects, and craftspeople with precise specialist knowledge

The preservation and extension of cultural heritage is topical beyond any local context

Presents an example of female leadership in the largely maledominated construction industry and rural regions

Magdalena Wallhoff, Lena Breitenborn, Charlotte Schoenberger Of

Materials,

Memory, and Mountains

Reviving a House in the Engadine

Of Materials, Memory, and Mountains offers insights into the sensitive reconstruction of Chesa Culaischem, a historic house in the Upper Engadine, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Built in the 16th century, it remained unused and empty for more than 60 years. Magdalena Wallhoff, who owns the house today, revived it with the support of local craftspeople. Together with architects Lena Breitenborn and Charlotte Schoenberger, she now reflects on the undertaking in this book. Core concerns were to be mindful of the house and its legacy, to observe local building tradition and methods, and to learn from and appreciate each other’s work and contributions.

The texts shed light on the entire project from different angles. Newly taken photographs document the house and its surroundings as well as the progress of its reconstruction. Interviews with craftspeople, technical information, drawings, and plans round out this portrait of Chesa Culaischem.

The revived house represents a manifesto for an architecture of minimal intervention that honors local resources and craft, while also demonstrating the chances offered by a contemporary approach to the building culture of the Engadine region. The combination of philosophy and practice can be transferred to other projects, as it responds to broader questions of long-term sustainability in construction.

Magdalena Wallhoff has worked as an entrepreneur in Asia, North America, and Latin America for many years. Since returning to Switzerland in 2021, she has been engaged with several charitable foundations and pursues various reconstruction projects, including her current home Chesa Culaischem in the Upper Engadine.

Lena Breitenborn and Charlotte Schoenberger are German-based architects and jointly run PIONIRA, a platform through which they explore the intersections of architecture, ecology, and craftsmanship. Scheidegger & Spiess

Edited by Feller AG and the Züst-Kellenberger family, Mara Züst, and

Susanna Züst

Book design by Herendi Artemisio

Paperback

80 pages, 16 color and 61 b/w illustrations

18.7 × 26.3 cm

978-3-03942-325-5 French 978-3-03942-324-8 German

sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 35.00

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French German

L’art, encore et toujours

La collection d’Elisabeth Feller et la Feller SA

First book on Swiss entrepreneur Elisabeth Feller’s art collection and the aesthetic cosmos of her company Feller AG

Elisabeth Feller was an innovative entrepreneur and a dedicated campaigner for equality and better opportunities for women in business

Feller AG is an early example of utilizing art, design, and architecture to create a corporate identity reaching far beyond functional branding

Elisabeth Feller: a campaigner for the women’s movement in Switzerland and life-long art collector

Elisabeth Feller (1910–73) was an entrepreneur, art collector, and campaigner for women’s rights and humanitarian causes in Switzerland. Following the sudden and premature death of her father in 1931, she took over as managing director of Adolf Feller AG, a manufacturer of electrical equipment, at the age of just 21. Henceforth, she championed better opportunities for women in business.

The French language book L’art, encore et toujours traces Elisabeth Feller’s life and career as well as the evolution of her passion for art: from being infused with a sense of art even as a youth, to her encounters with Swiss architect and artist Hans Fischli and the Zurich Concretists around Max Bill, and to her tenure as chief executive of Feller AG, shaping the company and its products, making sure that their design met the highest standards.

Richly illustrated, the book allows readers to immerse themselves in Elisabeth Feller’s art collecting and Feller AG’s aesthetic.

Mara Züst is a Zurich-based artist, art educator, and historian.

Susanna Züst is a scholar of geobotany and Elisabeth Feller’s niece. Feller AG, established in 1909, is a leading Swiss electrical engineering company that develops and manufactures equipment and systems in the fields of switch design, home automation, building networks, and electrical distribution.

Edited by Kunsthaus Zürich

Book design by

Jane Schindler

Paperback

approx. 160 pages, 140 color illustrations

21 × 28 cm

978-3-03942-316-3 English

978-3-03942-315-6 German

sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

APRIL 2026 (Europe) JULY 2026 (US)

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A Future for the Past

Highlights the much-debated displays of the famous Bührle Collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich Presents new findings and previously unpublished material related to the Bührle Collection

The issues of Nazi art theft, persecution-related confiscation and forced sales, and restitution are highly topical

High-profile and highly controversial: the Bührle Collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich

The Bührle Collection: Art, Context, War and Conflict

Since 2021, the Bührle Collection has been on display at Kunsthaus Zürich, in the galleries of the museum’s new extension building designed by David Chipperfield. The high-profile collection is widely perceived as problematic. This is due to the personality of the collector, Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956), who made his fortune as a weapons manufacturer and did extensive business with Nazi Germany, and the fact that the provenance of some of the artworks is controversial. The initial presentation at Kunsthaus Zürich sparked a heated debate. The second display, opened in 2023, provided more historical context and a broader insight into provenance research. It also included a range of public voices and gave a face to some of the Jewish former owners of artworks, many of whom were forced to sell.

A Future for the Past documents in words and images the Bührle Collection’s history. At the core are the two recent exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, in regard to culture policy arguably the most significant and most debated art shows in Switzerland in decades.

Kunsthaus Zürich is one of Europe’s leading art museums and Switzerland’s largest art institution. Its permanent collection comprises masterpieces ranging from medieval to contemporary art, with a focus on French Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and classical modernism.

In conversation, Peter Zumthor explores his own and his guests’ passions

Dear to Me

Peter Zumthor in Conversation

978-3-03942-010-0 English

978-3-03942-009-4 German

sFr.

A comprehensive dictionary of Constantin Brancusi, one of the 20th century’s most eminent artists

Brancusi

978-3-03942-203-6 English

sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 52.00 | $ 65.00

978-3-03942-202-9 German

sFr. 29.80 | € 29.80 | £ 52.00 | $ 65.00

Ambiguous worlds that play with conventional boundaries and defy interpretation: the art of Françoise Pétrovitch

Françoise Pétrovitch De l’absence

978-3-03942-244-9 French / German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

A unique insight into Marina Abramovic´’s biography and art and what connects the two

Jeannette Fischer

Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic´ Artist meets Jeannette Fischer

978-3-85881-794-5 English

978-3-85881-546-0 German

sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 22.00 | $ 29.00 English German

The multifaceted, always surprising early work of Swiss artist and designer HR Giger

HR Giger

The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976

ISBN 9783039421367

978-3-03942-136-7 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

The history of the Zurich Concretists and their strive to transform society through aesthetics, design, and architecture

Circle! Square! Progress! Zurich’s Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times

978-3-03942-164-0 English

978-3-03942-163-3 German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 |

A celebration of the Japanese art of colored woodblock printing

Impressions of Japan

978-3-03942-293-7 English / French sFr. 49.00 |

What is real, what is fake? German-Swiss artist duo Cortis & Sonderegger challenge our perceptions and urge us to take a closer look

Studio Blending Model With Reality 978-3-03942-275-3

Memories of a passionate gardener and renowned garden photographer

Marina Schinz Green Thoughts and Memories

978-3-03942-195-4 English

sFr. 49.00 | €

The collective artistic work of women who shaped the fashion and material culture of late Soviet socialism

Collective Threads

Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory

978-3-03942-249-4 English

ISBN 9783039422494

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 50.00

At the interface of documentation and fiction: the art of Pauline Julier

Pauline Julier And so on, a single universe

978-3-03942-217-3 English / German

sFr.

Félix Vallotton: claimed by both his native Switzerland and his adopted home France as one of the great figures in “their” art history

Vallotton Forever

978-3-85881-896-6 French

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00

Poetic, radical, and ironic: Hannah Höch’s montages and the visual culture of Modernism

Hannah Höch Assembled Worlds

978-3-03942-172-5 English

978-3-03942-171-8 German

sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00

English German

Fascinating insights into the 14th Dalai Lama’s public and private life

Dalai Lama

Photographs by Manuel Bauer 1990-2024

978-3-03942-238-8 English

978-3-03942-272-2 French

978-3-03942-237-1 German

sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

Celebrated architect Peter Zumthor’s monograph with his own texts, sketches and drawings, photographs, and a complete catalog of his works until 2013

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013 Buildings and Projects

978-3-03942-248-7 English

978-3-03942-247-0 German sFr. 320.00 | € 320.00 | £ 290.00 | $ 350.00

Fascinating

The View Out of My Window Seoul, Busan,

Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore 978-3-03942-304-0 English /

69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 65.00 | $ 75.00

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Cover image: detail of WOGG50 chair for Wogg (Switzerland). © design: Jörg Boner; photo by Milo Keller. From the book Views on Things: A Visual Dialogue With and Between Jörg Boner and Milo Keller (see pages 8/ 9).

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