At the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, in the middle of an installation extending through several rooms, the Georgian-born artist Gia Edzgveradze presented a bed in which a handsome man lay under a blanket with the inscription, "Come and join me, and we could make an art-baby..." The provocations Edzgveradze engineers in his work are always humorous and full of irreverence.

Summary: In this publication, both the texts as well as the images provide a fascinating overview of the recent developments in the work of an entire generation of young Georgian artists. Even though contemporary politics has manifestly had an impact on their work, this is not what gives it its direction. In terms of forms of expression, art rooted Georgian soil is thriving entirely within contemporary Western art traditions. At the same time, however, this work is deeply grounded in the region from which the artists have come. Exhibition: Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, 24.1-14.6.2009.

Polish-born, Dusseldorf-based artist, Magdalena Kita (b.1983), chose to create her latest multimedia project on the common bath towel. Influenced by the erotic works of 1960s NY-based visual artist, Dorothy Iannone, Kitas, colorful and sensual motifs go much further. In a well illustrated monograph, Kita assembles a large number of the new bath towel series, covered with her naively lustful female nudes alongside documentation of her public performances where sensual young men are either sunbathing on or parading her erotic towels around the beach. Kitas intention is to create tension around issues of identity and sexuality that reference her long involvement with Feminist agendas. Kita was the co-founder of the international semi-fictional Feminist collective, CONGRESS. Featured texts by Gia Edzgveradze, Tytus Klepacz, Thomas W. Kuhn, Matthew Licht, Elena Malzew, JL Murtaugh, Marina Pinsky & Alex Wisse, Noemi Smolink and Catherine G. Wagley. Kitas performances have been shown throughout North America and Europe.

Florian Meisenberg (b. Berlin, 1980; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) trained as a media designer before studying painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts with Peter Doig starting in 2004. This book presents Meisenberg's most recent paintings and new video works.