Published to document the exhibition of the same name, curated by Beatrix Ruf and Arthur Fink, "Collecting Lines" compiles the Ringier Collection's range of drawings. The collection of works on paper by the early Russian and Western European avant-garde has been consistently extended over the past two decades with works from early Conceptual artists such as John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth and Allighiero Boetti to oeuvres by leading contemporary artists such as John Armleder, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Matt Mullican, Urs Fischer, Jim Shaw, Richard Phillips, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Jack Pierson, Joe Bradley, Wade Guyton, Trisha Donnelly, Lutz Bacher and Rosemarie Trockel, among many others. Many of the artists represented in the collection have explored drawn formats extensively, questioning the status of the genre and conceiving new forms of drawing.