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21,5 x 16 cm |
Ulf Aminde – misererewith a text by Felix Ensslin edited by Cordelia Marten The artist’s book presents an overview of all works by Ulf Aminde which came up over the last five years, and illustrates the artist’s close connections with the theater. Through the images’ autonomy – they cannot be seen as simple copies or stills of Ulf Aminde’s films –, a kind of meta-narration was created, which tells about the artist’s entire work. The images have been photographed as collages: Aminde in the role of the director and as a protagonist in an image tableau which one can’t escape. The result is an impressive panorama, a network of actors and director as a description of a radical way of working, asking a question for subjectivity.
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20 x 14,8 cm |
Paul Vanouse – Fingerprints...published by Jens Hauser and Heike-Catherina Mertens, Schering Stiftung with texts by Simon A. Cole, Jens Hauser, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Paul Vanouse The publication Fingerprints… by Paul Vanouse is the first volume of the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Publication Series dedicated to selected The biomedia installations of Paul Vanouse challenge the codes and images of contemporary molecular biology. In four theoretical essays, criminologist Simon A. Cole, science historian Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, curator Jens Hauser and the artist himself reflect upon the criticism of genomics inherent in the installations of “Fingerprints…” from an aesthetic, political and techno-philosophical angle.
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23,5 x 17 cm |
Florian Dombois – What Are the Places of Danger Works 1999–2009published by Kunsthalle Bern with an introduction by Philippe Pirotte Kunsthalle Bern presents 34 projects by Florian Dombois (*1966), 2010 winner of the Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis (German Sound Art Prize), and one of the international protagonists in artistic research. In his work of the last decade, he deals with landscape, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, scientific and technical fiction and the poetics of technology. Documentations of his projects are supplemented by six essays by Dombois – published for the first time in English.
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22 x 19,5 cm |
Filipa César – Montragepublished by Doreen Mende with texts by Galit Eilat, Colin MacCabe, Eglantina Monteiro, Helena Vilalta, including a conversation between Filipa César and Doreen Mende Montrage is an exhibition in book format with cinematographic projects of the Portuguese artist Filipa César. The central themes are remembrance, politics and language in regard to film. César applies the technique of montage marking the space for a ‘third gaze’ (Godard) of the spectator. Yet as in her films, she relies neither on a linear temporality nor on a dialectical organization of what is depicted here, instead, letting readability emerge in a crystalline space between the images and words. Design: Manuel Raeder
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26 x 20 cm |
Transient Spacesedited by Marina Sorbello and Antje Weitzel published on the occasion of the exhibition at ngbk, Berlin with essays by Zygmunt Bauman, Adrian Franklin, Ursula Biemann, Chiara Brambilla, Michael Zinganel, Paula Bialski, Tom Holert, Mark Terkessidis, Thomas Kilpper, Heidrun Friese, Aureliana Sorrento amongst others Over the past two years, the interdisciplinary project Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome has been addressing current issues of mobility through workshops, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions in Italy, Lithuania, Romania, and Germany. This volume, published on the occasion of the project’s final exhibition in Berlin (NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien), offers a multifaceted approach to themes such as tourism, migration and new forms of flexible living and being permanently on the move, through essays, texts, interviews, case-studies and artists’ interventions. The publication is an important document of the recent debate on questions of representation related to contemporary mobility issues.
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26,5 x 24 cm |
Erik Steinbrecher – Schluss mit Öko/An End to Ecopublished by Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel/Berlin 2010 Curator Roman Kurzmeyer regularly invites artists to engage for a week, with the mountain village and surrounding area of the Walensee in Switzerland. When Erik Steinbrecher set out from Berlin on his way to the artists’ colony at Walensee, he brought with him a famous Berliner “fast food” specialty, as a sort of multiple: 1000 Berliner Buletten (meatballs), which were first “hung up” in a barn and finally – spectacularly – burnt in a bonfire. This publication documents the story of Erik Steinbrecher’s Berlin Buletten-Installation in the former artists’ village. Design: Stephan Müller
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22 x 16 cm |
Matthew Antezzo – Doppelpunktwith a text by Erlend Hammer published by Bernd Milla, Kunstverein Göttingen Matthew Antezzo’s painting is influenced by Fluxus, Constructivist and Conceptual Art. His current catalogue revolves around decisive turning points in the history of media, such as the invention of the transistor radio and the computer. At the same time, the publication forms a collage of works dating from the last twenty years of Antezzo’s career.
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23 x 15 cm |
Paolo Chiasera – Relic and Fetishwith texts by Dieter Roelstraete, Andreas Schlaegel and Andrea Viliani edited by Paolo Chiasera and Cordelia Marten Chiasera’s range is manifold: it extends from painting and drawing through sculpture and installation to film and performance. He carves heads out of wood, emerges disguised in the roles of the most diverse figures in the history of art, dedicates to them their own archive or sculpts enormous sculptures out of clay only to blow them up and generate something new once again. Paolo Chiasera’s work changes its form frequently and allows the viewer to take in various angles. The artist’s book presents various projects that were customized in collaboration with the graphic designer Till Gathman on varying paper, quality and size.
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32,2 x 22,5 cm |
Kathrin Sonntag – SUPERKALIFRAGILISTIKEXPIALIGETIKincluding a conversation between Mary Poppins and Grant H. Atkinson published by Janneke de Vries, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen The artist’s publication documents the exhibition by the Berlin artist Kathrin Sonntag (*1981) in the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen and communicates her thoughts in book form. Kathrin Sonntag is interested in the moment in which a normally thoroughly readable object comes out of itself: the magic en route, which can still be found in the commonplace. Like the exhibition, the catalogue, too, takes a playful approach to the connections between the different elements and reveals relationships in form, color and content. A fictional conversation between Mary Poppins (who lends the exhibition and the book its title) and Grant H. Atkinson (an anagram of “Kathrin Sonntag”) gives an introduction to both the presentation and publication.
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29,7 x 21 cm |
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO…: Olaf NicolaiArtist's magazin published by The Office, Berlin 2010 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on paper. On 64 blank pages, he creates a special project by collecting images, texts, graphs, and/or by inviting artists, friends, family-members to generate content and to contribute to it. Olaf Nicolai’s (*1962) works are conceptually invested and often marked with (socio-)cultural references. The artists’ magazine was published on the occasion of the exhibition Warum Frauen gerne Stoffe kaufen, die sich gut anfühlen in the “Arbeiterkammer”, Vienna. The magazine comprises extensive references and an apparatus without actually printing the original (imaginary) text.
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24 x 20 cm |
Felix Meyer – la belle indifférenceThis artist’s book captivates first and foremost through its simplicity of form, color and means of reproduction. Simultaneously, a link is established to the XEROX books of the 1960s – of Seth Siegelaub, for example. “La belle indifférence” (relative indifference, lit. beautiful indifference) is a term coined by the psychoanalyst Pierre Janet and refers to the symptom of hysterics, a quite conspicuous disregard for their obvious and quite severe physical symptoms.
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21,2 x 14,8 cm |
Claudia Christoffelwith literature by Tanja Dückers and a text by Ludwig Seyfarth
„Claudia Christoffel’s photographs, collages and photo-collages systematically leave the question of what we are actually looking at, which (reality) levels it has to do with, unclear. The means of representation do not serve the purposes of presentation but refer in the end back to themselves. With subtle, almost invisible interventions she brings sense and order into disarray.“ Ludwig Seyfarth
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29,7 x 21 cm |
Theater of Peacepublished by ngbk, Berlin edited by Dietrich Heißenbüttel, Anke Hagemann, Karin Kasböck, Christoph Leitner und Gunda Isik Every day, theaters of war around the world are at the center of media attention. Working for peace on the other hand is unspectacular, slow, and not very appealing. How can a place, an initiative, an artistic work become a theater of peace? What alternative perspectives can be used to counter asymmetrical conditions of visibility? Is it even possible to make peace visible, to represent it? The book Theater of Peace brings together artistic and activist strategies that make visible the hidden stories behind the different scenes of crisis around the world, intervene into public discourse, and resist the logic of war.
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22,5 x 16,5 cm |
fake or feint, Berlin 2010The exhibition series fake or feint took place from January until July 2009 in project spaces at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz as well as in the Kino Arsenal. Thematically it focused on the idea of a politics of the surface, which was explored following concepts such as marking, masquerade, staging, display, disturbance, and deviance. Subsequently a publication was compiled, that transfers the formats of documentation and contextualisation developed and tested during the project into book form. The documentation of the six exhibition and film scenarios is juxtaposed with a selection of text excerpts, that are to create a narrative along the concepts relevant to the project. Edited by Martin Beck, Adrian Bremenkamp, Joerg Franzbecker together with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art. Participating artists: Kaucyila Brooke, Claude Cahun, Daniela Comani, Keren Cytter, e-Xplo with Jaime Lutzo, Amy Granat, Tom Holert, Heiko Karn, Daniel Knorr, Annja Krautgasser, Katrin Mayer, Eran Schaerf, Eske Schlüters / Axel Gaertner, Sofie Thorsen / Katharina Lampert. |
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19,5 x 24 cm |
Matts Leiderstam – Nachbild / After Image, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2010With texts by Anja Casser and Wolfgang Ullrich The catalogue documents Swedish artist Matts Leiderstam’s (*1956) solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein. The book shows new works especially created for the exhibition and various older work groups which Leiderstam has been continously expanding since the 1990s. Leiderstam is interested in the repressed aspects of historical pictures, which he detaches from their normative context within collections or archives and investigates from a contemporary point of view. He combines two contexts that are crucial for his gaze on paintings: The history of art and the history of homosexual culture. Leiderstam draws the attention to hidden homoerotic undertones, marginal details or latent connections. |
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21 x 22,5 cm |
Grönlund-Nisunen – Works Werke, Berlin 2010With texts by Jyrki Siukonen and Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen work as a collaborative unit, both as architects and visual artists. They create sculptural installations and interventions in urban and natural environments using sound, light and the architectural context as their primary material. The book undertakes a presentation of twenty of Grönlund-Nisunen’s works, projects and realized commissions with forty full page color plates. Each work is presented on a double spread and accompanied by captions written by the artists. |
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4 books & 1 booklet, each 26 x 21 cm |
Stefan Eichhorn, Andrea Legiehn, Margret Hoppe, Hans-Christian Lotz – Marion-Ermer-Prize 2009The Marion-Ermer-Prize, initiated in 2001, is considered an important patron of young art in the new Federal States today. In 2009 the award went to Stefan Eichhorn, Andrea Legiehn, Margret Hoppe and Hans-Christian Lotz. The publication comprises one booklet and four individually conceived artist’s books with essays written by Ellen Blumenstein, Christian Driesen, Vanessa Joan Müller, Thibaut de Ruyter, and Raimar Stange. Jury 2009: Ellen Blumenstein (curator of the exhibition), Giovanni Carmine (Kunsthalle St. Gallen), Vanessa Joan Müller (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf), Dieter Roelstraete (MuHKA, Antwerpen), Christian Sery (Director HfBK Dresden) |
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14 x 21 cm |
GAK Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof – Space Revised #1–4, Berlin 2009Appropriation and loss of space, spatial deviations and social space are the four perspectives from which this cooperation project looked at the current positioning of recent artistic debates on space. In exhibitions initiated by the four institutions, space was not presented as an abstract container, but as a tangible phenomenon, a multilevel landscape, full of hills and valleys. The catalogue presents a huge range of images as well as the artists’ biographies and essays by Kerstin Stakemeier, Janneke de Vries, Stefanie Böttcher, Roger Behrens et al. Participating artists: G. Bijl, C. Bodzianowski, B. Braine/L. C. Reed, W. Breuer, T. Brown, Y. Duyvendak, FLOSS, C. Haake, E. Hansdóttir, G. Hudson, C. Jankowski, G. Leblon, D. Maier-Reimer, B. Maire, K. Mayer, R. Nashashibi, E. Olofsen, Peles Empire, F. Pisano, K. Schiemenz, G. v. d. Werve and J. Wood/P. Harrison. |
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29 x 22,5 cm |
Claudia Wieser and Bernd Ribbeck – Ich und Du, Berlin 2009With texts by Gertrude Wagenfeld-Pleister and Noemi Smolik, edited by the Oldenburger Kunstverein. At the Oldenburger Kunstverein Claudia Wieser and Bernd Ribbeck presented their approaches to spatial experience and design from various perspectives, and with different materials: ceramics and photocopy collages as well as paintings and drawings created with ballpoint pens, markers and touch-up sticks. The catalogue shows a wide selection of works by the artists which were made during the last couple of years. |
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19,5 x 24 cm |
Andrea Büttner – I believe every word you say, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2009With texts by Dan Fox, Anja Casser and a conversation with Daniel Pies. This first monograph of German artist Andrea Büttner (*1972) follows her solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein and was developed in close collaboration with the artist. In addition to drawing, photograph, video, reverse painting on glass and silkscreen, Büttner uses the technique of woodcut. It is the supposed antiquity of this medium - as well as the artistic tradition which it evokes - that refers to a fundamental question in her work: How is it possible to comprehend or to describe the threshold which is occupied by an artwork between the intimate practice of production and the public practice of exhibitions? Büttner's works not only thematize aspects of individual surrender, failure and shame, but also refer to the exemplary, utopian imagination of life-forms operating beyond these feelings of inadequacy. |
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30 x 22,5 cm |
Kim Nekarda – Marlène et Héléna, Berlin 2009With texts by Kim Nekarda and Maria Zinfert. The book which Kim Nekarda designed in close collaboration with Michael Pfrommer presents an overview of his latest works. Within large-sized, colorful pictures painted symbols and signs of different times and cultures enter a symbiosis with shapes of things and persons as well as with real objects mounted on the canvas: “The space between painting and the viewer is a space animated by perception and memories, ensouled by ghosts. No illusion but presence.” (Kim Nekarda) |
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27 x 21 cm |
Sabine Gross – Dauerbrenner, Berlin 2009Text by Andrea Jahn published by Kunstverein Friedrichshafen "With her art that looks at art's reception, Sabine Gross formulates a remarkably confident and critical treatment of established artistic positions, which meanwhile include radical, anti-modernist statements such as Dada and Anti-Form. This stance reveals a very current, contemporary perception of art that considers the artwork's myth to be a construction and portrays it as such. ." (Andrea Jahn)The catalogue, with its detailed images of the material Sabine Gross uses, gives an overview of her installations of the past years. |
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28 x 21 cm |
Iris Schomaker – songs of love and hate, Berlin 2009In the series "Neun" Landeskulturzentrum Salzau, Vol 1 Iris Schomaker’s faces, figures, and landscapes are works reflecting on abstraction using iconic forms. She engages with fundamental questions of painting by combining parameters of painting, weighing them against one another: line and color, surface and space. "Her subjects are a possibility for Iris Schomaker to explore painting and its potential for abstraction. Their visual solutions evoke peace and distance, and perhaps also make current moods visible in the isolation of the figures." (Antje Krause-Wahl) |
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32 x 24 cm |
Robert Gfader – Chess drawings
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English/Spanish |
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO…: Iñaki Bonillas
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36 pages |
Egill Saebjörnsson, Berlin 2008In the series Kunst und Theorie by Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, No 3, edited by Bernd Milla Since the late 1990s Egill Sæbjörnsson (*1973) has been developing a unique approach towards the use of material, style and subject. Sæbjörnsson has built up a language different from others combining installations, video, performance, music, photography and theater. His works sometimes seem different in-between them but there is an underlying thread that connects the works in a rich and complex way. She Was a Fighter is a small book with drawings and texts and an audio CD with Sæbjörnsson compositions. It shows a new side on this otherwise multifaceted Icelandic artist living in Berlin since 1999.
Exhibitions (Selection): further exhibitions and information under www.egills.de |
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Skafte Kuhn. Hervor aus Gebirgen des Nichtmehr, Berlin 2008“Sound artist“ Skafte Kuhn presents an artist book, which looks like a precious special edition of an LP album. The texts are taken from song lyrics of 13 LPs by Anne Clark, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash or ACDC. Sakfte Kuhn transformed them into the poetic language of Schlegel, Tieck or even Shakespeare, juxtaposing them with 13 ink-pencil portraits showing the individual singers. “Skafte Kuhn went through the recent history of music and selected lyrics dealing with darkness, gloominess and the colour black. (…) It is … surprising how little historical and contemporary thought differ, how strongly emotionality and individualism appear as constants,” (Bettina Steinbrügge) Exhibitions (selection): |
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Adib Fricke. A Gorilla in a Mirror, Berlin 2008With a text by Knut Ebeling, published by Edzard Brahms/Realace, Berlin 2008 This book has not the shape of a line but of a ball, without beginning and end. It starts at each spot, on each page. One takes a stroll in a kaleidoscope-like labyrinth, made of sentences and assertions, that begins nowhere and ends nowhere so that eventually the statements circle around the reader like projections of a mirror ball. (Knut Ebeling) With A Gorilla in a Mirror, Adib Fricke, linguist in technical times, who undertakes an archeology of digital writing, has created an elaborate artist book. Printed high-quality, with four full tone colors and protective lacquer, it makes for an outstanding visual experience. The book is being released at the exhibition in the Gallery Realace, Wilhelmstraße 138, Berlin.
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