«RELAX. Den Geschichten von Menschen zuzuhören nimmt oft die Form einer Diagonale an, 2022» (Listening to People's Stories Often Takes the Form of a Diagonal. English translation).
Essay über die künstlerische Praxis von RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), in:
Museum und Ausstellung als gesellschaftlicher Raum. Praktiken, Positionen, Perspektiven. Sønke Gau, Angeli Sachs, Thomas Sieber (Hg.)
Transcript 2023.
ISBN 978-3-8376-6668-7
« Open House, Designing Spaces for Living. Looking beyond the popular fascination with trendy tiny houses »
Publication of the exhibition Open House, Parc Lullin Genthod Geneva.
Edited by Simon Lamunière, published by Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG
Texts: english and french, Paperback, 336 pages, ISBN 978-3-85881-885-0
on RELAX members only 2017/2022, text by Elisabeth Chardon, pages 166-169
« Take Care - Kunst und Medizin »
Herausgeber: Kunsthaus Zürich, 2022. Beiträge von Vincent Barras, Christoph Becker, Flurin Condrau, Georges-Didi Hubermann, Cathérine Hug, Adina Kamien, Bonaventure Ndikung, Muriel Pic, Linda Schädler, Agnès Virole, Nicola von Luterotti.
Museumsshop Kunsthaus Zürich, Broschiert, 273 Seiten, 289 farbige Abb. 28 x 22.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-86832-704-5
« ART AS CONNECTION »
The publication traces the development of the exhibition Art as Connection and provides an insight into the process of conception, the preceding considerations, the joint discussions, the organisation up to the final "exhibition".
With contributions by RELAX on Care Work and the development of the installation HEALTH COMPLEX, p. 49-53, 80-81, 110, 130-132
Edited and published by Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland, 2022
ISBN 978-3-905004-39-7
« electrical network. from the collection, 2021 »
Edited by Friedemann Malsch and Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Published by the museum, 2021,
ISBN 978-3-906790-45-9 (German/English)
« RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co »
SIKART-Lexikon zu Kunst in der Schweiz / Sikart Lexicon on art in Switzerland
Text by Edith Krebs, 2017 - Last Update 17.11.2020
« WE SAVE WHAT YOU GIVE. Das Kollektiv RELAX »
in: Kollaborationen Teil 7: Eine Gesprächsreihe von Max Glauner,
KUNSTFORUM International, Nr. 270: exhibit! September 2020, p. 320-329
full text in german (pdf).
RELAX « Je suis une femme pourquoi pas vous 1995 » and « du bist was du siehst wir sind was du willst, The Eternal manifesto. A conversation between theory and practice, 1991 » in: FAIR COLLECTIF,
Revue féministe d'artiste.x.s intersectionelle révolutionnaire. Geneva, september 2020, p. 54-63
« RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), what do we want to keep (was wollen wir behalten)? »
Ed. by Graphische Sammlung (Graphic Art Collection) ETH Zurich, Linda Schädler,
Verlag für Moderne Kunst Wien, 2018
Ausstellungskatalog DE /
Exhibition catalog EN
« Eine von vielen Geschichten der Kunst ». Das Künstlerduo RELAX verfolgt in Zürich die Spuren der Kanonisierung
(One of many stories of art. The artist duo RELAX follows the traces of canonization in Zurich)
by Beate Söntgen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11.10.2018, Nr. 236, S. 14
RELAX, Was wollen wir behalten?
by Dominique von Burg, Kunst-Bulletin No. 10, 2018
RELAX, Wenn die Spitze des Bleistifts bricht..., Wie ist berühmte Kunst berühmt geworden?
by Thomas Ribi, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12.09.2018, Nr. 211, S. 40
« Interview mit RELAX »
von Kathleen Bühler, in République Géniale, Kunstmuseum Bern, 18.10.2018
blog interview link (german langage)
« a word a day to be wiped away »
in: République Génial, Kunstmuseum Bern, 2018, p. 66/69, p. 93-95
online Publication
RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), « you pay but you don't agree with the price »
Photo insert in: The Swiss Issue, a field study on art & market, FGA #20,
Edition fink, 2018, p. 41
« Teaching is public art, 2017 » (english edition of RELAX: enseigner, c‘est un projet d‘art public, 2008)
In: Teaching for people who prefer not to teach
Edited by Mirjam Bayerdörfer and Rosalie Schweiker, AND Publishing, London, 2017
« RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Von der Kunst des Kritik-Übens »
Ein Beitrag von Verena Doerfler, Kunst-Bulletin No. 5, 2017,
English translation (pdf)
« Alleine denken ist kriminell »
Ein Gespräch zwischen Barbara Basting und RELAX, Stadt Zürich, Kultur, 2017
RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), « we save what you give »
Monograph of the works from 1984 to 2005,
language: german / english / french, two volumes and a DVD,
Texts by Irene Müller, Ilka & Andreas Ruby, Katharina Schlieben and Soenke Gau, Philip Ursprung, Susann Wintsch, design Emanuel Tschumi,
Edition Fink and Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2006,
ISBN-10:3-939921-56-6 / ISBN-13:978-3-938821-56-5
« The Artists Just Before the Peak of Their Careers »
In: MANIFESTA 11. The Historical Exhibition: Sites Under Construction, The European biennial of contemporary art,
Löwenbräukunst, Zurich 2016, Lars Müller Publishers, 2016, p. 62
« USE (unexpected side effects) »
In: Offside Effect, 1. Tbilisi Triennial 2012, catalogue of the Triennial,
Ed. by Henk Slager, Metropolis M, Utrecht, summer 2013, p. 13-19,
Text by RELAX on USE, realised by the USE-Team: René Fahrni, RELAX, Chantal Romani, Miro Schawalder, Studio Action, Judith Weidmann
« YOYO, caprices des dieux / caprices »
Catalog, sound-installation and video-work by RELAX,
in: Kunst und Architektur im Dialog (Art and Architecture in Dialogue),
Ed. by Roderick Hönig, Edition Hochparterre and the City of Zurich, Amt für Hochbauten, spring 2013, p. 62-65
RELAX: « papiri »
In: In Transition – Darstellungsformate im Wandel, Z+,
ZHdK University of the Arts Zurich, 2013, p. 58-61 (http://blog.zhdk.ch/darstellungsformate).
RELAX: « Towards passionate love »
In: Substitut – The Publication, Ed. by Urs Kuenzi, Berlin, 2013
« RELAX chiarenza & hauser & co), GO MIO - der geheime Grund der Weltkultur
(GO MIO - the secret reason for world culture) »
by Gerrit Gohlke, in: Borderline. Von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Dokumentation 2006 - 2008 (Borderline. On Art and Sciences. Documentation 2006 - 2008) ,
PACT Zollverein, Essen, 2011, p. 48-57
« Dislocacion ». Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization,
Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Bern, Ed. by Kunstmuseum Bern, Ingrid Wildi Merino and Kathleen Bühler, Bern, 2011
on the RELAX-installation « invest & drawwipe », Text by Fernando Balcells, p.178-185,
Text by RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), p. 186-187
RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), « what is wealth? » and « THE WEALTH MANIFESTO »
Publication as part of the installation Strategic Questions: What is Wealth?, in: Unrealised Potential Cornerhouse Manchester,
Ed. by Cornerhouse Publications Manchester and Gavin Wade, 2010
RELAX: « Orphans from Haiti, in: The Wealth Complex, 2010 »
In: What is a Path? Forms of Movement in a Global World,
Magazin 31, No. 16/17, Hg. Instituts für Theorie ZHdK, Zurich, 2011, p. 122-125
RELAX: « formuler en parlant »
Uriel Orlow and Andrea Thal in discussion with RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Katharina Schlieben & Soenke Gau and Eran Schaerf
Ed. by U. Orlow, les Complices*, edition fink, Zürich, 2009
RELAX: « WASTE-Manifesto »
In Work to do! Catalogue to the project Work to do! Self-Organisation in Precarious Working Conditions at Shedhalle Zurich,
Ed. by Soenke Gau and Katharina Schlieben for the association Shedhalle, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2009, p. 160-169
« Average » Catalogue to the show at Kunsthaus Langenthal,
Text The Longing for a clear line by Eveline Suter on the RELAX installation.
Ed. by Fanni Fetzer, Kunsthaus Langenthal, 2008. p. 48-51
RELAX: « enseigner, c‘est un projet d‘art public (teaching is a public art project) »
In: Contagions! (let‘s infect!) HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, 2008, p. 144
« Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art today »
Catalogue to the show at Kunsthaus Zurich, Ed. by Mirjam Varadinis, JRP/Ringier Zurich, 2008, p. 189-191
Text-contribution The Beginning. A Discussion by RELAX, 2008 / Kathy Acker, Ultra light - last minute, Merve 155 Berlin, 1990, p. XI-XIII
RELAX: « you pay but you don‘t agree with the price »
In: Fucking Good Art # 20 The Swiss Issue. On art & market,
Ed. by R. Hamelijnck & N. Terpsma, edition fink Zürich & Episode Publishers Rotterdam, 2008, p. 50-51
« Day after Day »
Kunsthalle Fribourg Fri-Art 2003-2007,
Ed. by Sarah Zürcher, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art, Fribourg, 2007,
RELAX-contribution « platzhalter (placeholder) », p. 386-389