Bibliography

A doctoral dissertation by Yoshikazu Nangko for the University of Tokyo, 2024. See abstract and table of content in PDF below.

Article in Het Parool about the sculpture Constant's Gate (De Poort van Constant), 1963 and its new status as municipal monument of Amsterdam.

Article on the website of the Municipality of Amsterdam about Constant's Gate (De Poort van Constant, 1963), which stands at the entrance of sports park Ookmeer in the district of Amsterdam Nieuw-West. On January 16, 2024, the artwork received the status of 'municipal monument': a special occurrence, because, as the article states, artworks in the public space don't receive such a status all too often.

The Soundscape of New Babylon. Artist Justin Bennett explores the role of sound in Constant’s New Babylon project in his new podcast Constant’s New Babylon on UFMC.

This four-episode series dives into Constant’s practice as an artist, his life and the context in which he operated and built his oeuvre. Ans Boersma and Thijs van Elten dig into the archive and question friends, art historians and contemporary artists about the relevance of a legacy like Constant’s in today’s world. Listen here or find Constant 1-on-1 The podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Podcast website

This four-episode series dives into Constant’s practice as an artist, his life and the context in which he operated and built his oeuvre. Ans Boersma and Thijs van Elten dig into the archive and question friends, art historians and contemporary artists about the relevance of a legacy like Constant’s in today’s world. Listen here or find Constant 1-on-1 The podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Podcast website

This four-episode series dives into Constant’s practice as an artist, his life and the context in which he operated and built his oeuvre. Ans Boersma and Thijs van Elten dig into the archive and question friends, art historians and contemporary artists about the relevance of a legacy like Constant’s in today’s world. Listen here or find Constant 1-on-1 The podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Podcast website

This four-episode series dives into Constant’s practice as an artist, his life and the context in which he operated and built his oeuvre. Ans Boersma and Thijs van Elten dig into the archive and question friends, art historians and contemporary artists about the relevance of a legacy like Constant’s in today’s world. Listen here or find Constant 1-on-1 The podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Podcast website

Catalogue for the exhibition Cobra 75: Freedom Without Borders from June 2 till October 8, 2023 at Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen.

The child who plays invents worlds of his own idea. This book, the result of an exhibition, proposes to take this metaphor seriously, and to theorize the architectural creative process from the concept of "play". By crossing the psychoanalytic theories of Winnicott and the philosophies of Gadamer and Bataille, the investigation ventures into the world of play, this transitional space which is located in the mysterious interval linking our subjectivities to external reality, and which makes possible the communication of a work, its sharing between a creator and society.

Catalogue with the exhibition of the same name at Folkwang Museum Essen, 24 November 2023 till March 17, 2024.

Essay 'Inktvlekken bewonen de stad' ('Ink Blots Inhabit the City'), by poet and art critic Maarten Buser. Buser draws connections between Constant's visions for New Babylon and science fiction films, to reflect on the possibility of making a film adaptation of New Babylon. The essay was printed in the 6th edition of magazine Sintel, which appeared in October of 2022. 

Review by Arnold Verplancke for Brabant Cultureel of the exhibition Constant, religie, idealisme en protest at Museum Krona from March 19 till May 22, 2022. Quote from article: Klein maar fijn geldt voor deze dubbeltentoonstelling van Mamedov en Constant in Krona Uden.

Review by Sophia Geuze for Nederlandsdagblad of the exhibition Constant, religie, idealisme en protest at Museum Krona from March 19 till May 22, 2022.

On 4 May 1968, a few hours after angry student protesters in Paris had caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein. Conceived by Herbert Bayer, Ludwig Grote, Hans Maria Wingler and Dieter Honisch, the then director of the Kunstverein, the show is still regarded as the most influential post-war exhibition on the Bauhaus.

Catalog with the exhibition Becoming CoBrA at Kunsthalle Mannheim from 18 November 2022 till 5 March 2023.

A blog by head curator of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Terry van Druten on the collection endowment by collectors Loes and Egbert Dommering. Amongst the donation are several beautiful works by Constant, like the watercolor Le départ, 1978, and the portfolio New Babylon.

Catalog with the exhibition Cobra en Chaissac, zielsverwanten at Kunstmuseum Den Haag from May 8th till September 19th, 2021.

With an introduction by Juan Pro, Professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The essay Sonic Imaginaries of New Babylon! Soundtrack for an Unbuilt City by Steve Taylor for the UK based platform MUSICITY analyses the sonic landscape of Constant's New Babylon.

A book by Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye A comprehensive history of urban design in the 20th century. 

Review of City sculptures in Amsterdam.

Children's picture book by Bette Westera and Sylvia Weve, with a nod to the playful, childlike, provocative art of the CoBrA artists. Both author-illustrators received the Gouden Griffel award in 2020 for the book. 

Catalogue with the travelling exhibition Impossible Architecture. The exhibition travels to the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Niigata City Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of Art in Osaka from February 2019 till March 2020.