Produced on the occasion of Fareed Armaly: Parts at Kunstverein München, 17 October–23 November, 1997. Edited by Fareed Armaly und Saskia Drechsel.

Interviews with Niels Clausnitzer, Helmut Draxler, Elizabeth Endriss, Zdenek Felix, Rainer Graefe, Martin Gretschmann, Bernd Hartwich, Eberhard Haug, Holger Hiller, Felix Knoth, Jürgen Koppers, Fred Maire, Susanne von Medvey, Michaela Melián, Thomas Meinecke, Pierre Peters-Arnolds, Moritz Reichelt, Dirk Snauwaert, Maria Thaler, Andi Toma, Arnold Walz, Jan St. Werner. Designed by Fareed Armaly.

Publication produced on the occasion of Jef Geys presentation at the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009, in the form of an overview of media comments compiled by Mélanie Gaillard. The show which was curated by Dirk Snauwaert, featured elements of Geys’ work from the last four decades.

Commissioned by the Flemish Ministry of Culture for the Belgian Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. Curator: Dirk Snauwaert

Kempens Informatieblad, was a newspaper published by Belgian artist Jef Geys between 1971 and 2018.

Since the early 1960s, in addition to his interlocking artistic and pedagogical work, Geys was also involved in the production and distribution of a local newspaper, the Kempisch Reklaamblad, on whose pages he began to publish various textual and pictorial material among the advertisements placed therein. After it was discontinued, Geys took over the paper and continued it under his own direction as Kempens Informatieblad.

Functioning as an alternative to the conventional artist catalog, the issues, over 50 in total, were mostly published in connection with his exhibitions. As an information system directed by the artist, it successively developed into a kind of meta-medium within his practice, through which he himself organized his representation and mediation—beyond the exhibition context.

Guy Mees’s (1935–2003) photographs, videos, and above all his fragile works on paper are characterized by a formal rigor combined with sensitivity and delicacy. The uniqueness of his oeuvre lies precisely in its avoidance of conventional aesthetics and discursive classifications. A leading figure of the Belgian avant-garde, Mees left behind an outstanding body of work that transgresses geometric abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and applied art.

The Weather is Quiet, Cool, and Soft is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (February 1–April 8, 2018), and at Mu.ZEE, Ostend (November 25, 2018–March 10, 2019). Borrowed from a note the artist jotted down on one of his works on paper, the title pays homage to the atmospheric impermanence of Mees’s works, as well as his infra-ordinary, relativistic, and poetic approach.

Edited by Lilou Vidal. Texts by François Piron, Fernand Spillemaeckers, Lilou Vidal, Wim Meuwissen, Dirk Snauwaert, Micheline Szwajcer. Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien. Designed by Joris Kritis.

Lilou Vidal, curator of the exhibition and François Piron, art critic, curator and editor, to discuss Guy Mees’ work here.