Julian Rosefeldt's film installations present the paradoxical and irrational aspects of modern life and work using subtle comedy and irony. The winner of 2010's Vattenfall Contemporary award, he has a solo exhibition Living in Oblivion in the Berlinische Galerie and created the concept for this intricately designed publication. His recent work The Shift (2008) is documented via a great number of images as well as being combined with re-arranged works from the 1990s. These earlier works, created in collaboration with Piero Steinle, are less well-known, and delineate the point of departure of the artist's interest in forgotten and hidden places. In The Shift these mutate into the claustrophobic inner life of a technoid, deserted future world. The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Julian Rosefeldt Living in Oblivion, May to September 2010, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, in course of the Vattenfall Contemporary 2010 prize. English and German text.