Founded in the early 1980s with the idea of fostering an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, Parkett was based in Zurich, with an office also in New York.
The magazine's goal has been to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre is explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English. By 2010, Parkett had published more than 80 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide.
Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.
Nr.1: Enzo Cucchi; 2: Sigmar Polke; 3: Martin Disler; 4: Meret Oppenheim; 5: Eric Fischl; 6: Jannis Kounellis; 7: Brice Marden; 8: Markus Raetz; 9: Francesco Clemente; 10: Bruce Nauman; 11: Georg Baselitz; 12: Andy Warhol; 13: Rebecca Horn; 14: Gilbert & George; 15: Mario Merz; 16: Robert Wilson; 17: Fischli / Weiss; 18: Edward Ruscha; 19: Jeff Koons / Marin Kippenberger; 20: Tim Rollins + K.O.S.; 21: Alex Katz; 22: Christian Boltanski / Jeff Wall; 23: Richard Artschwager; 24: Alighiero e Boetti; 25: Fritsch / Turrell; 26: F̦rg / Taaffe; 27: Bourgeois / Gober; 28: Gertsch / Ruff: 29: Baldessari / Sherman; 30: Sigmar Polke; 31: Hammons / Kelley; 32: Knoebel / Levine; 33: Wool / Trockel; 34: Kabalov / Prince; 35: Gerhard Richter; 36: Calle / Balkenhol; 37: Ray / West; 38: Bleckner / Dumas; 39: Gonzales-Torres / Laib; 40 / 41: 10 Jahre Parkett & Index; 42: Weiner / Whiteread; 43: Rothenberg / Mu̱oz; 44: Celmins / Gursky / Tiravanija; 45: Barney / Lucas / Signer, 46: Artschwager / Noland / Sugimoto; 47: Pettibon / SchÌ_tte; 48: Hume / Orozco / Rist; 49: Gordon / Wall / Anderson; 50 51: Armleder / Koons / Mylayne / Struth / Williams; 52: Karen Kilimnik, Ugo Rondinone, Malcolm Morley; 53: Elizabeth Peyton, Tracey Moffatt, Wolfgang Tillmans; 54: Beat Streuli, Mariko Mori, Roni Hor; 55: Sam Taylor-Wood, Andreas Slominski, Edward Ruscha; 56: Ellsworth Kelly, Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft; 57: Nan Goldin, Doug Aitken, Thomas Hirschhorn; 58: Jason Rhoades, Sylvie Fleury, James Rosenquist; 59: Kara Walker, Yayoi Kusama, Maurizio Cattelan; 60: Chuck Close, Luc Tuymans, Diana Thate; 61: Bridget Riley, Liam Gillick, Matthew Ritchie, Sarah Morris; 62: John Wesley, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand: 63: Gregor Schneider, William Kentridge; Tracey Emin; 64: Rodney Graham; Tom Friedman, Olafur Eliasson; 65: John Currin, Michael Raedecker, Laura Owens; 66: Daniel Buren, Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe; 67: Fred Tomaselli, Peter Doig, John Bock; 68: Dan Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Franz Ackermann; 68: Dan Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Franz Ackermann; 69: Francis Alys, Anish Kapoor, Isa Genzken; 70: Christian Marclay, Franz West, Gillian Wearing, Wilhelm Sasna; 71: Olaf Breuning, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Tyson, Richard Phillips; 72: Monica Bonvicini, Alex Katz, Richard Prince; Urs Fischer; 73: Anri Sala, Ellen Gallagher, Paul McCarthy; 74: Bernard Frize, Richard Serra, Katharina Grosse; 75: Glenn Brown, Kai Althoff, Dana Schutz; 76: Lucy McKenzie, Yang Fudong, Julie Mehretu; 77: Carsten H̦ller, Rudolf Stingel, Trisha Donnelly; 78: Ernesto Neto, Rebecca Warren, Olaf Nicola; 79: Marilyn Minter, Jon Kessler, Albert Oehlen; 80: Mark Grotjahn, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla; 81: Cosima von Bonin, Ai Weiwei, Christian Jankowski; 82: Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Harrison; 83: Robert Frank, Wade Guyton, Christopher Wool; 84: Tomma Abts, Zoe Leonard, Mai-Thu Perret; 85: Maria Lassnig, Beatriz Milhazes, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Josh Smith; 86: John Baldessari, Carol Bove, Josiah McElheny, Philippe Parreno; 87: Katharina Fritsch, Annette Kelm, Kelley Walker, Cerith Wyn Evans; 88: John Baldessari, Carol Bove, Josiah, McElheny, Philippe Parreno; 89: Mark Bradford, Oscar Tuazon, Charline von Heyl, Haegue Yang; 90: El AnatsuiNathalie Djurberg, Rashid Johnson, R.H. Quaytman. 91: Yto Barrada, Nicole Eisenman, Liu Xiaodong, Monika Sosnowska; 92: Jimmie Durham, Helen Marten, Paulina Olowska, Damian Ortega; 93: Valentin Carron, Frances Stark, Adrian Villar Rojas, Danh Vo; 94: Tauba Auerbach, Cyprien Gaillard, Ragnar Kjartansson, Shirana Shahbazi;