solo publications

You Are Mine (UPCOMING)
Artist book by Daniela Comani
Brochure bound with a special cover of cotton and aluminum
72 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
Monroe Books, Berlin, 2024
ISBN: 978-3-946950-17-2

Daniela Comani: Perturbazione/Disturbance
Exhibition catalogue curated by Francesca Guerisoli
Fondazione La Rocca, 2024
ISBN 979-12-210-4015-9


Perturbazione/Disturbance
Artist book by Daniela Comani
Danilo Montanari Editore, 2023
ISBN 9791280750341


Daniela Comani: A-Z
Danilo Montanari Editore, 2023
ISBN 9791280750150


Orlando's Library
Danilo Montanari Editore, 2022


35q di bronzo (3.5 Tons of Bronze)
Danilo Montanari Editore, 2021
ISBN 9788885449923


The B The E
Monroe Books, Berlin, 2021
ISBN 978-3-946950-13-4


The Beginning The End / Der Anfang Das Ende / L'inizio La fine
Monroe Books, Berlin, 2020/2021
English: ISBN 978-3-946950-09-7
German: ISBN 978-3-946950-07-3
Italian: ISBN 978-3-946950-08-0


Planet Earth: 21st Century
Humboldt Books, Milano, 2019
ISBN 9788899385729


1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
Archive Books, Berlin, 2017
ISBN 978-3-943620-66-5


Sunsets
Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2016
ISBN 978-3-906803-17-3


It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999 / Sono stata io. Diario 1900-1999
Archive Books, Berlin, 2016
ISBN 978-3-943620-49-8 / ISBN 978-3-943620-48-1


Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage
Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2014
ISBN 978-3-905929-52-2


My Film History - Daniela Comani's Top 100 Films
Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2013
ISBN 978-386895-301-5


Novità editoriali a cura di Daniela Comani
Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., Mantova, Italy, 2012
ISBN 978-88-7570-360-8


C'était moi. Journal 1900-1999
Analogues - maison d'édition pour l'art contemporain
Arles, France, 2010


Neuerscheinungen hrsg. von Daniela Comani
Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2008
ISBN 978-3-905509-78-6


Sono stata io. Diario 1900-1999 / It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999
Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., Mantova, 2007
ISBN 978-88-7570-126-0 / ISBN 978-88-7570-127-7


Comanicasino*
Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle kunst, Frankfurt a.M., 2006
ISBN 3-86588-293-5


Eine glückliche Ehe
Goldrausch Art IT, Berlin 2005
ISBN 3-937476-37-7


Ich war's. Tagebuch 1900–1999
Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt a.M., 2005
ISBN 3-86588-138-6


Double Drawings
Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin, 2000
ISBN 3-932809-17-3


[O.m.U]
catalogue (with Beate Daniel), German and English, 94 pages
texts by Dorothea Strauss, Peter Morse and Alexander Tolnay
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1997

Daniela Comani
catalogue, German and English, 24 pages
text by Reinhold Happel
Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1997

Double Drawings
catalogue, German and English, 16 pages
text by Bojana Pejic
Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW, 1996

Speculum Absconditum
catalogue, German, English and Italian, 63 pages
text by Bernhard Kerber
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin 1995

artist books / limited editions

Ich war's. In 32 Tagen um den Alexanderplatz. 1805-2007
36 pages, german/english
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 2008


Ladies
200 pages, limited edition
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 2000


Models, Räuber u.a.
128 pages, edition of 10
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1997


Bosheiten/Cattiverie
60 pages, edition of 10
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1996


Pagine private
132 pages, edition of 10
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1992/95


Horizontale Ausschnitte
10 pages, 5 x 19 cm, unique copy
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1992/98


Traffic
14 pages, 19 x 28 cm, unique copy
(c) Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1990/98


Adagio
28 pages, 11.5 x 10.5 cm, unique copy
Daniela Comani, Berlin, 1990


selected group show catalogues

Artenumero
Museo Archeologico, Aosta
Nomos Edizioni, 2024

Stills of Peace and Everyday Life - Edizione X - La vita è un'altra cosa
Fondazione La Rocca, Pescara, 2023

The Things I Tell You Will Not Be Wrong, Scope - Biennale für Fotografie und Medienkunst
Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hannover, 2021

On Photography: Landscape, Cityscape, Interior
Edition VFO, Zurich, 2021

Io dico Io - I say I
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Silvana Editoriale, 2021

Metropolis
Museum on the Seam, 2020

Inside - Out. Konstruktionen des Ichs
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2019

POLITICAL AFFAIRS - Language is not innocent
Kunstverein Hamburg, 2019

Vergessen - warum wir nicht alles erinnern
Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 2019

L'altro sguardo, Fotografe italiane 1965-2018
Silvana Editoriale, 2018

Centrale - La fotografia di ricerca in Italia
Editrice Quinlan, 2018

Lieben - Nähe, Begehren und Beziehungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Kallmann-Museum, München-Ismaning, 2018

Drive Drove Driven: Cars in Contemporary Photography
Editor Matthias Harder, Berlin, 2017

Faktor X - Das Chromosom der Kunst
Revolver Publishing, 2017

Da Duchamp a Cattelan. ALT. Arte contemporanea al Palatino
Electa, 2017

My Way - A modo mio - Ginevra Grigolo e lo Studio G7, 44 anni tra attualità e ricerca
Corraini Edizioni, 2017

Selección Natural - This is the Cover of the Book
Centre Cultural Libreria Blanquerna, Madrid, 2017

DALL'OGGI AL DOMANI. 24 ore nell'arte contemporanea
MACRO - Museo Roma, Manfredi Edizioni, 2016

Sistema - Giovani artisti della Collezione Farnesina
Nero, 2016

Masterpieces from Farnesina Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Gangemi Editore, 2015

Liebe / Love
Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Berlin, 2014
ISBN: 978-3-86678-967-8

Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell arte italiana contemporanea
MAMbo/Corraini, 2013

Italiens. Artisti italiani di Berlino
Mondadori Electa, 2013
ISBN: 9788837092078

History is mine! - Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2012
Editions La Muette
ISBN : 978-2-35687-189-3

C_arte libro. Il principio delle pagine
Danilo Montanari Editore, 2012
ISBN: 978-88-87440-96-6

21er Haus. Zurück in die Zukunft - Ein retroperspektiver Blick auf ein Museum
Belvedere, Wien / Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2011
ISBN: 978-3-86895-201-8

INbook OUTbook IFbook
viaindustriae, Foligno / a+m bookstore edizioni, Milano 2011
ISBN: 978-88-903459-5-1

Courier
University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-910763-40-0

fake or feint
Argobooks, Berlin 2010
ISBN 978-3-941560-38-3

The Fate of Irony
Kerber Verlag 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86678-429-1

Press Art - Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel
Stämpfli Verlag, Bern, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-7272-1134-8

HeartQuake
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem 2008

Just Different!
Cobra Museum, Amsterdam-Amstelveen 2008

Así se escribe la historia
La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2008
ISBN 978-84-96917-27-9

U2 Alexanderplatz 07
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V (NGBK), Berlin, 2008
ISBN 978-3-938515-22-8

History Will Repeat Itself - Strategien des Reenactment in der zeitgenössischen (Medien-) Kunst und Performance
Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt a.M. 2007
ISBN 978-3-86588-402-2

Liebe. Love - Paare
Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2007
ISBN 978-3-86678-078-1

Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960
Verlag Hatje Cantz, 2006
ISBN 978-3-7757-1829-5

Planet Earth: 21st Century
artist book by Daniela Comani
with a text by Vera Tollmann (German, English, Italian)
soft cover, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, 768 pages, 360 photos, black and white
edition of 700, 26 EUR
Humboldt Books, Milano, 2019
ISBN 9788899385729
www.humboldtbooks.com


"Planet Earth: 21st Century" stems from visual material sourced from Apple Maps Flyover and from Google Earth Virtual Reality. In 2011, Apple bought this 3D cartographic software for use on mobile devices that was originally developed for Saab-Military Industries. Starting in 2016, Google Earth VR also translated photographic material into 3D graphic models with a rendering software and GPS. Both Apps allow you to fly over cities and buildings in 3D.

I flew through the cities and made my own pictures: I chose my favourite virtual city view, took screenshots, and turned them into black and white. I selected the countries and cities based on what was avaible in 3D between 2015 and 2019. The spoils of my virtual trip are 360 postcards with streets, buildings, and monuments from cities around the world - like a quote from Godard's "Les Carabiniers": the scene when the two soldiers come back from their world travels with only a suitcase full of postcards.

Through this new technology, cities become a virtual reality; then, with my collected visual material, postcards are printed, referencing the analogue field.

The postcard as mass medium is a consequence of aerial photography. In the beginning of the 20th century, picture postcards with aerial photographs of cities were very popular, with the golden age of the picture postcard dating about 100 years ago.

The motifs of the postcards and atlas in "Planet Earth: 21st Century" are the buildings and infrastructures of our cities: new landscapes conceived, created, and often destroyed and reconstructed throughout history by human beings. The urban landscape becomes an integral part of the natural one, thus modifying the nature and history of the planet.

In the work "It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999", I wrote a personalized history of 20th Century events as re-enactment. Re-enacting geography in the era called Anthropocene, the focal point of the project "Planet Earth" is the interaction between human perception of the planet, urban landscapes, and technology of the 21st Century.

Introduction by Daniela Comani