Solo Publications
Direct and Circumstancial. Relevant Evidences in Naples, Butia, Kassel, and Ubatuba. Published by documenta fifteen 2022.
Alves' booklet Direct and Circumstancial. Relevant Evidences in Naples, Butia, Kassel, and Ubatuba was made within the work for documentata fifteen & as a part of the collectives Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road. As such it is part of the collective's publication, published by documenta fifteen & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2022 and can be ordered through Walther König Buchhandlung.
The Graniceros. A Poem by Genaro Amaro Altamirano and Maria Thereza Alves, May 2020. Poem published in: Palm. Jeu de Paume Magazine, December 2021
Thieves and Murderers in Naples: A Brief History on Families, Colonization, Immense Wealth, Land theft, Art und the Valle des Xico Community Museum in Mexico. No Man's Land Collection, ed. by Di Paolo Edizioni, Spoltore, Italia 2020.
"This book is dedicated to the people of Xico in the State of Mexico and to the Valle de Xico Community Museum."
For joining the artists' call also see the project Son del Pueblo / Of the People
→ to purchase the book please contact: zerynthia@zerynthia.it
Recipes for Survival. Solo publication. With a foreword by Michael Taussig. Texas of University Press, Austin 2018
After 35 years the unpublished book "Recipes for Survival" will be released in November 2018.
further information on Texas of University Press website
further information on the work "Recipes for Survival"
El Largo Camino a Xico. / The Long Road to Xico. Maria Thereza Alves: 1991-2015. Ed. by Pedro De Llano and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla. Sternberg Press, Berlin 2017
The catalogue is the first comprehensive survey about the works and projects by Alves spanning 1991 until 2015. It also includes unpublished artist's text by Alves, and essays by Pedro de Llano and T.J. Demos.
→ more details at STERNBERG PRESS website
Why Here? Published by Carico Massimo, Livorno 2016
Wake: The Flight of Birds and People. Published in conjunction with Art Dubai Fair LLC, Dubai 2015
El Retorno de un Lago / The Return of a Lake. Published by Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (Folio 019), Mexico City 2014
Maria Thereza Alves. Ed. by Mai Tran, Nantes Art School - École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole. Published by Musée du Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes. 2013.
Los Héroes del Lago / The Heroes of the Lake. Published in conjunction with dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel 2012
El regreso de un lago / The Return of a Lake. Published in conjunction with dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. Köln (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König) 2012
What is the Color of a German Rose? / Welche Farbe hat die Deutsche Rose? Ed. by Holger Saupe and Silke Opitz. Kunstsammlung Gera 2007
Inadequate Response. Published by CEAAC/Le Chaufferie, Strasbourg, co-written with Jimmie Durham. 2005
Thing-Process. Published by Galerie Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb 2003
Wake. A project for Berlin by Maria Thereza Alves. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 4FREE at BüroFriedrich, Berlin 2001
Back to the Water. Published in conjunction with the residency at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht 2000
The reflection of my neighbor’s window. A project by Maria Thereza Alves for the Jeker River on Grote Looiersstraat. Published in conjunction with the residency at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht 2000
Changing of the Guard. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Free Space (NICC, Antwerp, 1999), Maastricht 1999
Minus One Dimension: Zinneke Reflections. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Urban Experience (1995), Brussels 1997
A Brief History of Colonialism. (With Peter Weibel). Published for the exhibition Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz 1996
Nowhere. Published by The Central Space, London 1993
Post Eldorado Amazonas. Published by Galería del Lago, Mexico City 1991
Chico Mendes. Los anti-heroes y la ley de la gravedad. Published by Centro de Estudios Brasileños de la Embajada de Brasil, México DF 1991
No soy su madre. Published by Galería La Estación, Cuernavaca 1990
Group Publications & Podcasts
When They Come, Flee. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in Conversation with Maria Thereza Alves. The conversation is part of the book: An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale – Ruminations on Art, Culture, Politics and Us/Others by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Published by Archive Books, Berlin, Milan, Dakar 2022.
Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road, Vol. 1-12. Published by documenta fifteen & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2022.
The book consists of the booklets by the members (and invited guest authors) of the collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road. This collective came about from the idea of Jimmie Durham to gather a group of artists to form "a community on the road" and contribute in collaboration with him to documenta fifteen. Durham did not expect the members of the collective - Bev Koski, Elisa Strinna, Hamza Badran, Iain Chambers, Joen Vedel, Jone Kvie, Maria Thereza Alves, and Wilma Lukatsch - to elobate a single work or theme. Instead they would share knowledge, empathy, and humour and leave open the possibility that their different contributions could entwine.
The book can be ordered through Walther König Buchhandlung.
Maria Thereza Alves: When Forests Speak. Episode 3 of BALTIC Podcast.
BALTIC Podcast series Climate Frequencies listens to the climate emergency and its reverberations through the ears of artists, thinkers and activists.
Climate Frequencies is a podcast available to listen online here
Emigration: Improvising Amongst Unforeen Rocks, published in: Voice Over - Magazine for Alternative Discourse. No. 3: Borders. December 2020, p. 18-30.
Voice Over, an online magazine created by international artist David Liver with the support of the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe, invites thinkers from the international sphere to address questions such as “How do we address intercultural, interclass, or inter-racial issues for raising criticism, exercising resistance, and experimenting with alternative discourses?”.
Read the Text online
Brasile. Il Coltello Nella Carne / Brazil. Knife In The Flesh. Ed. by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Diego Sileo & PAC (Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Milano). Milano 2018.
Objets culturels traditionnels du Brésil. Ed. by Bétonsalon - Centre d'Art et de Recherche, Mélanie Bouteloup et. al.. Paris 2017
The Contract… (It is unfortunate that we feel ourselves in need of contracts…) Published by Venice Agendas. The Contract Newspaper. London, Venedig et al. 2017
Venice Agendas was developed by Bill Furlong and Mel Gooding and has featured at every Venice Biennial since 1999.
This is not an Apricot. Published by Concreta (Nuria Enguita Mayo & Laura Vallés). Concreta 09, Spring Issue, Valencia (Spain) 2017
→ This is not an Apricot in Concreta 09, 2017
(The Spring Issue 2017 of Concreta Magazine, based in Valencia (Spain), provides a full survey of Alves' work This is not an Apricot, 2008/2009.)