The Complete Collection of all Editions
The Collection
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 by the artists for Parkett and 101 books with three to five texts and portraits of each artist (above: installation view from Parkett’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 2001).
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.
“A show of the works produced for a revolutionary magazine functions as a mini-museum of the recent time.”
Financial Times, London
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
Explore the 270 collaborating Parkett artists here
Parkett artists, listed alphabetically and chronologically (PDF)
The Editions
“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
Browse the virtual museum of all works (chronologically descending across eight rooms)
Museum Exhibitions
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2012 (书中自有黄金屋 INSIDE A BOOK A HOUSE OF GOLD: Artists' Editions for Parkett)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001
Kunsthaus Zurich, 2004 (Parkett - 20 Years of Artists’ Collaborations)
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
University Castilla La Mancha, Arts Faculty, Cuenca, Spain, 2010 Parkett Viewing Room with permanent Study Center
“… 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
“… 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
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2012 (书中自有黄金屋 INSIDE A BOOK A HOUSE OF GOLD: Artists' Editions for Parkett)
“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
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013
“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
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
“... 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,
Kunsthaus Zurich, 2004 (Parkett - 20 Years of Artists’ Collaborations)
“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
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987 (La Revue Parkett)
"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.
University Castilla La Mancha, Arts Faculty, Cuenca, Spain, 2010
Parkett Viewing Room with permanent Study Center
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
