"Since its foundation, museum in progress has been a highly influential, intangible but all the more effective institution that has always been ahead of its time." (Max Hollein, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2020)

This publication presents a selection of works from museum in progress’s comprehensive archive – works which seem every bit as relevant today as at the time they were created. The artistic intervention Analogue Encounters by Adrian Paci makes every copy of the book unique, while the double-cover by Lawrence Weiner is meant to be understood in programmatic terms as an invitation to take new paths through the sensory delights of this exhibition in book form every time you open it, & THEN AGAIN.

museum in progress. Art in public spaces and in media – IN ONE END & OUT THE OTHER [ & THEN AGAIN ], edited and curated by Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl and Alois Herrmann, museum in progress, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021, graphic design: Alois Herrmann, 398 pages, 486 illustrations, bilingual (English / German)

"museum in progress is one of the most visionary museum projects of all times." (Una Meistere, Arterritory, 2020)

Short texts (selection): Tauba Auerbach, Christian Boltanski, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Yilmaz Dziewior, Rainer Fuchs, Massimiliano Gioni, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hou Hanru, Max Hollein, Kasper König, Élisabeth Lebovici, Rosa Martínez, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Julia Peyton-Jones, Stella Rollig, Jérôme Sans, Nancy Spector, Gerfried Stocker, Sally Tallant, Peter Weibel, Erwin Wurm and others.

Artists (selection): Nobuyoshi Araki, Cory Arcangel, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Thomas Bayrle, Alighiero e Boetti, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Sanja Iveković, Joan Jonas, Martha Jungwirth, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Kogler, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Christian Marclay, Matt Mullican, Olaf Nicolai, Julian Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Jack Pierson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Eva Schlegel, Christoph Schlingensief, David Shrigley, Nancy Spero, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Jun Yang and many more.

museum in progress in loving memory of Joseph Ortner and Lawrence Weiner.

This publication was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Bildrecht and Dieter & Gertraud Bogner.

The book is available here:
museum in progress
Buchhandlung Walther König