The Complete Collection of all Editions

The Collection of All Works

Parkett is a one-of-a-kind, 33 year collection and survey of today's art. The direct collaborations with artists from around the world feature 270 artworks specially made for Parkett and 101 books with three to five texts and portraits of each artist.

In addition to exhibitions, the collection with its large and diverse number of works, books, texts and artists’ documents provides multiple public outreach opportunities for a wide range of educational and academic projects (above: installation view from Parkett’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 2001).

 
 

“If asked to choose a favorite among Parkett’s artist editions over the past 33 years, my definitive answer would be 'All of them.' The individual editions are wonderful, but collectively they form an extraordinary … collection that charts a vast array of changes that have swept through the art world since the 1980s ...”

Glenn Phillips, Curator and Head of Modern & Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica, California

 

“… the diversity of works … offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distill their practices into a single, compact object or image ….”

Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

The Artists

"… a great beacon of intelligence and exuberance, not to mention a constant source of inspiration … surrounded by all that energy and art; the pleasures of making and thinking were truly infectious!"

Helen Marten

”Such a singular treat to work with Parkett … so enlivening to be part of something so studious and tempered. And wild! … Working in close cahoots … I felt retrieved, inverted. And I’d never have made (as my edition) a great flap of trammelled face otherwise.”

Ed Atkins

“… Parkett has greatly contributed to the introduction and deeper investigation of artworks; truly one of a kind and it will be historical… “

Mariko Mori

Museum Exhibitions, Publications, Artists’ Documents and more

The collection continues to be exhibited in museums jointly with fully documented exhibition catalogues, the Parkett books with 1800 texts, artists’ documents (letters, sketches, photos et al.) and more.

“… the diversity of works … offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distill their practices into a single, compact object or image ….”

Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

“If you want to see the entire forest, in terms of contemporary art, instead of looking at trees, this exhibition is a fitting choice. While blockbuster exhibitions usually focus on a single artist or group, the exhibition showcases over 200 artworks by as many world-renowned artists ... offering a stunning wrap up of contemporary art at a glance.”

Korea Herald, Seoul

“The MoMA collection contains numerous examples of editions by the most significant artists of the modern period…. the editions made for PARKETT carry on this rich tradition.”


Deborah Wye, Chief Curator emer., Prints and illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art , New York

“... a wonderland of sometimes fantastical treasures ... the scope and quality of what is on display, not to mention the artists involved … make this show one of the strongest so far this year”

Time-Out, Beijing, April, 2012

“… Parkett’s editions highlight the Zeitgeist, the hopes and fears of artists in the globalized world, their questions of identity, of past and future, their zest for life, and their creation of new utopias...”
NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Zurich,

“Since its inception, Parkett has asserted itself as one of the best publications on contemporary art available today. It is one of those rare periodicals that does not resemble a magazine. The quality of its operations and topicality of its discussions combine to make Parkett both a luxurious and necessary publication.”

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

 

"The collection allows the University to present a dynamic, lively museum in full dialogue with the main centers of contemporary art in Spain. Together with the artworks, the Faculty also displays all Parkett volumes published since 1984, and in doing so fully reflects Parkett's unique character as a small museum and large library. 'The scholarly and teaching character of this collection is very significant' concludes the Faculty's vice dean."

El Mundo, Madrid

“A Collection to turn your hands inside out and your mind upside down … And with its innumerable possibilities, a stimulating array of objects, but also of critical views and study around some of the most crucial and controversial aspects of contemporary artistic practice … a powerful mix of poetics and politics, aesthetics and critique...”

Helena Cabello, Head of the Parkett Collection and Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University UCLM, Cuenca, Spain. Member of the artists’ group Cabello/Carceller.

 

Exhibition Catalogs of All Parkett Works

The collection of all editions is fully documented and illustrated in Parkett’s evolving catalogues raisonnés, published in English, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Japanese and Korean.


More details on exhibition catalogs and other special titles

View the most recent catalog raisonne e-book, A TIME CAPSULE

 

“…Parkett has included almost all the most important artists and critics in a quarter of the century… we hope that it will enlighten many more Chinese readers… How much we envy a medium that needs no attitude! “

Gong Yan, Director, Power Station Museum, Shanghai

The Parkett Books
with 270 Artists’ Portraits and over 1800 Texts

Artist Documents