Published to complement the 14th Shanghai Biennale, entitled Cosmos Cinema and curated by Anton Vidokle, this illustrated catalogue extends the exhibition’s proposal that the methodologies of filmmaking might offer one way of representing and reimagining our entanglement in time and space.

The publication reproduces in book form an exhibition widely acclaimed for its innovative narrative structure, with high-quality reproductions of work by more than 80 artists complemented by chapters dedicated to the parallel film program and newly commissioned texts by writers including Christina Kiaer and Ekaterina Kulinicheva, Xin Wang, Elena Vogman, Zhen Zhang, Jonas Staal and Arseny Zhilyaev alongside contributions by the curatorial team. Co-published by Sternberg Press and the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Cosmos Cinema is a document of the exhibition and an elaboration on its key themes. As such, it serves not only as an archival resource but as a compilation of ideas and subject matters that might provoke new responses among artists, curators, and thinkers interested in the new ways of figuring the relationship of individuals to the systems, orders, and harmonies that organize our experience of the world. As chief curator Anton Vidokle envisaged an "exhibition as film" for the 14th Shanghai Biennale, so this publication brings the same principles of montage, storytelling, and temporal disjuncture to the production of a book designed by Mengyi Qian and NONPLACE studio. 

The 14th Shanghai Biennale was curated by Anton Vidokle with Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis, Zairong Xiang and Ben Eastham. It was held at the Power Station of Art from November 9, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and was widely and positively reviewed, with Kunstforum calling it "a masterpiece [...] perhaps the best and most exciting biennial of the last years worldwide.”