Publications
I Know the Emptiness of this House عَرَفتُ المَنزِلَ الخالي
catalogue | Darat Al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, JO.
Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition "I Know the Emptiness of this House" at Darat al Funun , Amman, the catalogue features an interview with curator Rana Beiruti (Ar/En).
Art Unlimited Special Edition | House of Taswir & Friends
Wednesday Society. The Couch of Meret O.
A Situationist Exhibition Developing Artistic Research in Perpetually Forthcoming Collaborative Constellations. With artists & writers: Rebecca Horn, Meret Oppenheim, Ali Kaaf, Walid Raad, Dorothea Tanning, İpek Duben, among others. Edited by A.S. Bruckstein | House of Taswir | Istanbul: taswir publishing (2023).
I AM A STRANGER. TWOFOLD A STRANGER
Ich bin ein Fremder. Zweifach Fremder.
Published on the occasion of Ali Kaaf's exhibition “Ich bin Fremder. Zweifach Fremder” in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the catalogue documents the sculptural intervention created in the context of the Mschatta Façade. The volume includes essays by Paris-based German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen and Syrian poet Golan Haji.
– Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag | Berlin, March 2022. Pages: 224 (German, English, Arabic) Dimensions: 24,50 x 32,00 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-5101-8
Arab Design Now
Design Doha
Published by Qatar Museums in partnership with Silvana Editoriale, the Arab Design Now book, richly illustrated in full color and edited by curator Rana Beiruti, celebrates the main exhibition of the first edition of Design Doha.
– Published by Qatar Museums in September 2024 | 360 Pages | English | Dimensions:151mm x 206mm | ISBN: 978-3-7757-5282-4
document fifteen Handbook
The Exhibition Companion
– Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag on June 2022 | 304 Pages | English | Dimensions:151mm x 206mm | ISBN: 978-3-7757-5282-4
Now Then: Testimonials on Independent Syrian Cultural Work
Written by Wael Kaddour (Arabic)
Introduction by Hanan Al Haj Ali
Published by Ettijahat: Independent Culture
Beirut, 2017
Contemporary Interventions in The Bumiller Collection #1: Ali Kaaf - The Color of Water is the Color of its Vessel.
Exhibition catalogue (English)
Edited by BUMILLER ART FOUNDATION, 2016
House of Taswir
Edited by Almut Shulamit Bruckstein Çoruh (German)
Published by Wilhelm Fink
Paderborn, Germany, 2014
Pages 40, 45, 65, 252, 253, 255
Das Maribor Projekt: Rebecca Horn und Gäste
Edited by Moontower Foundation, UGM and ifa (German)
Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2014
ISBN 978-3-86930-618-6
THE KHALID SHOMAN COLLECTION: Arab Art Histories
Edited by Sarah Rogers and Eline van der Vlist (Arabic/English)
Published by The Khalid Shoman Foundation
Worldwide distributor: Idea Books, Amsterdam
Ali Kaaf: Paper and Glass
With two essays by Doris von Drathen and Robyn G. Peterson and a Poem by Rebecca Horn
Edited by A. Kaaf
Leipzig, 2013
Larynx – Ali Kaaf
Produced by AlMyra Communications (English)
San Francisco, 2014
Doris von Drahten: Ali Kaaf
Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst (German)
Kunsthandel Verlag, Ausgabe 104, Heft 22, 4. Quartal 2013
ISSN 0934-1730
Ghubar: Ali Kaaf
Exhibition Catalog (English and Arabic)
Rafia Gallery
Damascus, 2010
Spiegel im Spiegel: Jakob Schaible, Antonio Paucar, Markus Wüste, Ali Kaaf
Exhibition Catalogue (German)
Kunstverein Oberer Neckar
Horb am Neckar, 2010
Taswir. Islamische Bilderwelten und Moderne
Almut Sh. Bruckstein Coruh and Hendrik Budde (Eds.)
Nicolai Verlag, Berlin, 2009
ISBN 978-3894795542
ODE: Ali Kaaf, Antonio Paucar, Jakob Schaible , Markus Wüste
Documentation on the occasion of the exhibition, curated by Ulrich Höfler
Kommunale Galerie
Berlin, 2009
Ali Kaaf: Beirut February 2006
Edited by Solidere
Beirut, 2006