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Photographer Piet Niemann (b. 1991) re-visited the EXPO-site and documented the current state in a comprehensive body of work, 20 years after the world fair took place. Sustainability and the successful development of the exhibition site into a “city of the future” are often promised by politicians – similar to the Olympics. But is this actually the case? Twenty years later, it is interesting to find out what has remained and been delivered from these often full-bodied promises — or not. Piet Niemann has planned to make a photographic observation of all EXPO sites, twenty years after the world expositions have taken place. Thus, the declared goal is a documentary work that grows steadily, enabling a reflective view of the past and ideally initiates reflections on responsible action in the future.

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The new media, contemporary techniques for generating pictures, novel materials and substances are currently exerting great fascination. A move away from physical-material reality and toward formless immateriality is consistently shown in her artistic practice. The work of Claudia Zweifel (*1981) assumes a threshold position. She works - in a transitive and process-oriented way - in the transition between space and imagination, object and picture, and between opposing realities. This fully illustrated monograph presents the artist's oeuvre for the first time. Text in English and German.

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Illusion and imagination: although Sador Weinsčlucker’s (*1957) deserted interiors seem as if they have been abandoned, they also look as if someone is about to return at any moment. This ambiguity and emptiness is simultaneously uncanny and vital: Weinsčlucker knows how to lure the viewer into his oil paintings, forcing us to look carefully and hunt for their stories. Whether there really is a story behind every painting is anyone’s guess, but Weinsčlucker nevertheless offers a way to start the search and to begin a dialogue with the image. Text in English and German.

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Simone Zaugg – Thoughts to Go is a monograph with podcasts that provides an overview of the diverse situative and context-related, interdisciplinary works of Simone Zaugg (*1968), as well as insight into the artistic processes and strategies that are the foundation of her oeuvre. As an analogue medium, the book outlines her temporary and ephemeral works but also contains QR codes that give readers access to digital podcasts. In the audio sessions the artist and experts from the fields of art, politics, and science explore the question of what art can contribute to today’s socially relevant debates. Text in English and German.

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Focusing on recent works, the richly illustrated monograph Black Lemons provides an introduction to the work of Danish artist Emily Gernild (*1985). In conversation with editor and curator Milena Høgsberg, the artist explores how she builds her assertive, textured, colourful paintings, drawing from everyday life, dreams, curious idioms, or types of historical still life painting, determined to squeeze more out of them. With great ease she moves between oil paint and rabbit skin glue and pigment, allowing her to investigate the dynamic relationship between figure and ground in different ways. Art historian and writer Grant Klarich Johnson situates Gernild's practice in the landscape of contemporary painting, drawing comparisons to other generations of women artists, who have also explored genres historically deemed “lesser”.

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British artist Christopher Winter (*1968) is a figurative painter, performance and installation artist. His work is influenced primarily by literature, film and politics. He has a particular interest in fairy tales, folk rituals and often questions the nature of our reality. Winter's paintings are mysterious yet also have a narrative element. This is the second monograph to be published on his painting by Kerber Verlag. This volume compliments the preceding one and illuminates Winter's previously unseen installation and performance work. The book is arranged in themed “Islands”, works are not organised chronologically. The reader is then invited to visit “Libertine Island”, “Deep Forest Island” or “Reality Island” as they sail amongst The Archipelago of the Mind. A map at the front of the book guides the way. Text in English and German. Published to accompany an exhibition entitled ARCHIPELAGO OF THE MIND - a CHRISTOPHER WINTER SOLO EXHIBITION with Book Launch and Opening of the Exhibition on Friday 8 October 2021 at ZAK – Center for Contemporary Art Zitadelle, Berlin.

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Working together as a husband-wife team for the past three decades, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have defined and pushed Eastern European conceptualism to epic levels. Their large-scale installations and paintings seamlessly merge both reality and myth to create hyper-theatrical environments. By integrating the visual culture of the former Soviet Union from the 1950s to '70s into the traditional lexicon of art history, their work addresses universal ideas of utopia, fantasy and hope, as well as fear and oppression. The exhibition Paintings about Paintings at Dallas Contemporary and the accompanying catalogue focus on the most recent body of work, some of which never-before seen. Text in English and Spanish.

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Leiko Ikemura’s (*1951) exhibition project In Praise of Light at St. Matthew’s Church in Berlin was created at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A space of light and colour, specific to the time and yet timeless, began a dialogue with the church: paintings on glass and canvas, sculptures, and a light installation that filled the apse of the church transformed the church, designed by Friedrich Stüler, into an open, interior space of protection and light, creating a vivid locale for debate and conversation, ad hoc concerts, worship services, and performances. The conversations published in the book reflect the dialogic creation of the exhibition and document the artistic resonance of the show, which was curated by Hannes Langbein and Alexander Ochs. Text in English and German.

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Bogdan Rața is a sculptor. His sculptures are simple, hand-made, and most of all they are flat. A fact, not only defying the traditional perception of sculpture as something three-dimensional, voluminous, and figurative but also leading to radically new ways of aesthetic experience. Rața‘s forms are abstract and evanescent. They articulate a departure from the kind of sculpture one used to be accustomed to or familiar with. Rața urges us to reconsider today’s need for independent and critical thinking. The book accompanies his solo exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest. Text in English and Romanian.

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Young people around the world have been following the example of Greta Thunberg and demonstrating for climate protection as part of 'Fridays for Future'. Week after week since 2018, they have called emphatically for political ramifications in order to finally stop the dangerous effects of global climate change. The photographer Andrea Baumgartl (*1965) has accompanied these demonstrations from the very beginning. At close proximity and with great empathy, she shows the determination with which young people are fighting self-confidently for their future. Her new book is a highly topical, moving, and rousing contemporary document. Text in English and German.

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The exhibition catalogue Three Hundred Mountains comprises a select one hundred paintings by the Chinese artist Haiying Xu (b. 1975). In her work, Xu, who came to Germany more than two decades ago, continues to explore issues of personal identity at the tense interface between heritage, homeland, and migration. Haiying Xu's memories of the traditional cultures of southeastern China give rise to a reinterpretation of childhood fascination, imagination, and the experience of nature, though her paintings are also very specifically inspired by the colourful costumes of the Peking opera, classical Chinese literature, and the spatial concepts of shadow theatre. Despite its retrospective character, the main focus of this catalogue is her most recent work, which will be on display in 2024 as part of a solo exhibition at Galerie Andreas Binder in Munich.Text in English and German.

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Contemporary And (C&) is a dynamic platform for reflecting and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. C& Magazine publishes weekly features, columns, reviews, and interviews in English and French. C& América Latina Magazine (C& AL) focuses on the connections between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. 2023 marks a special year for C& as the platform has turned ten! All that it holds. Tout ce qu'elle renferme. Tudo o que ela abarca. Todo lo que ella alberga brings together a selection of texts from the two online magazines' living archives and gives insight into pivotal discussions and issues related to contemporary art in an African context.Authors: Sandra Benites, Adriana Bustos, Dagara Dakin, Gürsoy Dogtas, Keyna Eleison, Fairygawdzad, N''Goné Fall, Sheila Feruzi, Will Furtado, Thuli Gamedze, Camila Gonzatto, Mia Harrison, Russel Hlongwane, Mwangi Hutter, Ruth Ige, Kapwani Ki

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The photobook No Fat Poetry is a democratic marriage of image and text, without any subordination or superordination of either. Nowadays, new media communicates a hitherto unimagined quantity of images. This means that, today, images are far more dependent on their context, and it is within these contexts that they generate an importance that may change, depending on where the image appears or who or what the image is juxtaposed with — in this case, text and typography. The origins of the texts are democratic too, and almost all of them are recycled (samplings). They are quotes by artists and photographers; they come from the street or from photo — graphic theory or aesthetics. Ultimately, the involvement of the photographers is also democratic, including newcomers and established photographers alike (e.g., Thomas Demand, Alex Prager, Jörg Sasse, Alec Soth, Josef Sudek, Jürgen Teller, Jeff Wall). Text in English and German.

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Conversation with My Other Me is a photo art book by the Berlin-based Danish photographer René Riis (b. 1967) featuring a series of multi-photograph portraits. A unique cabinet of mirrors created specifically for this purpose captures one-of-a-kind portraits of various individuals: a mixture of prominent public figures, among them dancers, politicians, actors, and sports personalities, as well as unknowns with a charismatic presence. What makes these multi-photographs so extraordinary is that the person is portrayed from five different angles. In addition, in front of the mirrors, the subjects develop a personal and unique dynamic with themselves. It is, after all, a highly unusual experience to see oneself from so many different perspectives simultaneously.

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Christian Hellmich (b. 1977) creates works characterised by gestural abstraction and the asymmetrical arrangement of planes of colour, which are used to develop a kind of geometric grid pattern that dissects the pictorial space. This avoids any uniform perspective so that spaces penetrate into one another, and various image planes appear simultaneously. The fragments of motifs that Hellmich assembles are taken from his extensive image archive of photographs, magazine cuttings, Internet sources, postcards, and more. His approach is shaped by society’s handling of images in today’s mediatised age. References to architectural structures and comic-like shapes trigger associations without being clearly categorisable, thus rousing interest in their assumed decryption. Text in English and German.

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The artist book Marcel van Eeden – 1898 is being published to coincide with the Hans Thoma Prize 2023. The prizewinner, Marcel van Eeden (b. 1965), explores Thoma’s little-known travels to the Netherlands in 1898. He reflects on Thoma’s analysis of Rembrandt van Rijn or Paulus Potter, under the problematic influence of the cultural theorist Julius Langbehn. Present-day gum bichromate images of the places Thoma visited alongside historical quotes by Thoma and Langbehn result in a multifaceted, critical consideration of nationalistic views on culture. Text in English and German.

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Light, colour, materiality. These are perhaps the most significant components of Wolfgang Kessler’s (b. 1962) paintings. An additional characteristic is the tranquillity and introversion of the figures, who are usually depicted individually before a black background. In contemporary painting, this practice is unusual. At the same time, it touches upon recollected images and a notion of beauty that are buried in our cultural memory. When the question arises as to whether painting is or may be beautiful, one likes to look far back to art-historical frames of reference. One might arrive, for instance, at Delacroix’s works, which started to engage with subjects that extended beyond the common notion of beauty. Terribly Beautiful - Wolfgang Kessler is a painter of quiet yet aggressive, power. The comprehensive publication offers a detailed insight into Wolfgang Kessler's complete paintings from 2013-2022. Text in English and German.

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This book by the artist Benno Blome (*1979) is a composition of rhythm, eloquence, and silence. It is based on a series of abstract drawings derived from incidents and objects in the real world. Even though the drawings conceal their meaning behind the clear, reduced line management, the concreteness of these models remains present in the works. In the book, the individual drawings are combined into a sort of text — a story from the unknown. Even if we are not proficient in the writing and language of this text, it is possible to recognise one pattern or another in it. This also gives rise to curiosity to fathom the other, the unknown in these drawings. Text in English and German.

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Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is one of the most important women artists in art after 1960. Over her decades-long career, she produced an extensive and singular oeuvre in the fields of painting, drawing, and graphic reproductions, with intermittent excursions into (animation) film and sculpture. At the centre of her work are visualisations of physical perceptions, or so-called body-awareness pictures. Her painstaking self-analyses are also expressed in numerous self-portraits. Helmut Klewan accompanied Maria Lassnig as a gallerist for over three decades. This led to the development of a rich inventory of oil paintings and works on paper as well as one sculpture. Forty works from various creative phases were selected for the exhibition in Berlin. Text in English and German.

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Felix Dobbert has been devoting himself to flowers in his photographs since 2014. The publication presents four very different series. The medium of photography itself is interrogated again and again when, for instance, the active participation of algorithms in designing the pictures is addressed or when three-dimensional effects are produced directly by apps. The range extends from pictures of the past to minimalist still lifes that link the artificiality of our consumer world with the artificial aesthetics of hydrangea: “Natural, but extremely artificial, more leaf than bloom, and documented with no superficial symbolism.” Text in English and German.

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Martina Sauter’s (*1974) photographic work portrays interiors with complex planes of space and time that simultaneously explore their construction through the media. Her work focuses on how humans design the spaces in which they live and how internal spaces are created through personal experience and by what is conveyed by the media. Martina Sauter combines photographs that she herself has taken with stills from films and screenshots of newspaper images to create visual spaces with unfamiliar perspectives within which fragmented figures or text appear. This encourages the viewer to explore ostensible representations of reality while challenging them to attempt to solve the spatial pictorial puzzles they depict. One group of works is dedicated to unusual species of animals, which are positioned in new habitats through the use of collages. These works are unique visual events encompassing partial areas that glow in the dark, providing an opening into further additional worlds. The publication ONE/TWO is a book and an object in one and features works created between 2008 and 2022. Text in English and German.

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Theresa Möller (*1988) explores the tragic entanglement and indissoluble interdependency of natural evolution and cultural development. Her work is inspired by the deep vulnerability and the sensual opulence of colours and forms of nature. The shades she uses are sweet mauves, powdery blues, fruity oranges, and sea greens. Architectures reappear occasionally through horizon lines and geometrical forms created by nature. The artistic approach is phantasmagorical and reflects a tormented inner space, which also outlines major current contemporary concerns. Theresa Möller’s book Dis-Nature is an invitation to discover her own nature and her vision of contemporary painting. Text in English, German and French.

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The book Envoi of the Swedish photographer and filmmaker Stefan Bladh (*1967) consists of photographs that were created on numerous trips between 2002 und 2018. In his work, in which he lets himself be driven by intuition and instinct, Bladh explores the conditio humana. Recurring topics are the consciousness and the impermanence of our existence. “These pictures pose questions for me and make me think about our longings, our needs, and our nature; our notion of a separate self, even though we are so closely interwoven with one another—in every atom, since the beginning of time.” Stefan Bladh

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The fact that artist agencies in New York are familiar with Neumarkt in Bavaria is thanks to the chamber music hall located there. Its exceptional acoustics were what prompted the local businessman Ernst-Herbert Pfleiderer to establish the Neumarkter Konzertfreunde. For over 40 years, this association has been organising a series of concerts that are popular with both musicians and audiences. In order to trace the personal connections between artists and friends of concerts, the OSTKREUZ photographer Frank Schinski was commissioned to capture moments of closeness: in the artists’ dressing rooms, on trips, and at musicians’ homes. This resulted in this unique behind the scenes look at this very famous series of concerts: with pictures that offer all the protagonists of a very special stage. Text in German.

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In her photo and video project Mountain Pieces. Reflecting History Sissa Micheli (*1975) deals with the theme of war and peace and confronts spectators, with the wartime past of the South Tyrolean mountains. The settings for her artistic exploration are selected war zones in the massifs of Alta Pusteria. The focus is on interventions to commemorate the fallen of the First World War on the Alpine front and peace performances. Sometimes the artist herself takes on the role of protagonist in her photo and videoworks. The videos were created in collaboration with the artist Thomas Riess. Text in English, German and Italian.

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Remains: Zsolt Berszán provides in-depth insights into the works that the Romanian artist (*1974) created between 2014 and 2021. Roughly 100 artworks — paintings, sculptures, and mix-media objects — shaped by the idea of dissolution and decay are presented in three chapters. The artist again and again insinuates the human body, which becomes visible in a macabre play of distortions, contortions, and torn fragments. Zsolt Berszán is not interested in the individual itself, but in human remains, which themselves become the topic. Text in English and German.

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Yafeng Duan (*1973) was born in Hebei in northern China, in the shadow of the Great Wall. For the artist - now based in Berlin - nature is the mirror of the soul, and the source from which she draws is a spiritual one. Artistic creativity is a vehicle for approaching and exploring reality and transferring it through painting into non-spaces. Her pictures testify to her notion of a breath of energy, which spreads out into a great void and, thanks to the constitutive factors of yin and yang, solidifies into all manifestations of existence, only to pass away again. Text in English, Chinese and German.

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Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union’s most important and influential international artists today. After the two-volume catalogue raisonné of paintings (2008) and 2017’s catalogue raisonné of installations, we are now publishing a complete overview of Kabakov’s recent paintings. Different ideas, phases, and styles unfold across the 350 works of art, but the artist’s inimitable signature can always be recognised. Visual themes include, for example, the colour white, the relationship between complete and incomplete, and the combination of either various styles or of painting and photography. Still, all of the pieces have one thing in common: they all pursue a conceptual approach and make references to art history.

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Ulrich Wüst (*1949) trained as an urban planner and began photographing East German cities in the late 1970s. Today, his early work is widely recognised as a subtly formulated critique of social conditions in the GDR and one of the most important photographic records of the socialist state. Since the 1990s, he has expanded his practice to focus on the memory landscape of reunified Germany and the transformations of both city and countryside, particularly the villages and farming culture of Uckermark and other rural regions. In this first monograph on Wüst, Van Zante provides a context for his work in American and German urban photography and photography of place. Over 200 photographs are published here, many for the first time, including a selection of Wüst’s distinctive leporellos of titled series. An interview with the photographer and an exhibition and publishing history are included. Gary Van Zante is curator of the photography, design and architecture collections at the MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Contemporary media artist Claudia Schmitz (b. 1975) explores the limits and paradigms of media translation, both as a solo artist and through collaborative projects. Her work focuses on identity in virtual, expanded and real spaces, reactivity and interactivity, intermediality and transmediality, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She also examines issues of sustainability and synaesthetic experience and questions socio-urban structures and hegemonial perceptions. Tracing these boundaries, she develops spaces for transmedial experiences; pneumatic sculptures; multidimensional drawings. She also creates gustatory sculptures that develop their meaning on the viewer’s tongue. Invisyllables is the first volume in her monograph, which is based on the concept of an open archive. The three volumes in the archive, entitled Moving Space, Moving Air, Moving Line each convey alternative phenomenological depictions while reciprocally integrating the others. Invisyllables is dedicated to Moving Space and shows current series of work and collaborations of this internationally acclaimed artist. With texts by: Ana María Romano G., Bruno Besana, Chris Chafe, Dong Yeon Koh 고동연, EfeCeEle, Felipe Cesar Lodoño, Geroco, Ingo Reulecke, Jorge Barco, Kim Alpert, Kisso Kim 김기수, Laetitia Sonami, Lee YOO 유리, Liana Zanfrisco, Maria Colusi, Mariela Yeregui, Mikyung Song 송미경, Mimi Jeong, Nicola L. Hein, Rebekkah Palov, Sabine Ercklentz, Sarah Weaver, Seth Cluett, Silke Lisek, Susanna Schoenberg, Stefanie Stallschus, Sue-C, Tatiana Durán Text in English, German and Spanish.

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In 2013, five years after the world has been convulsed by a global banking and financial crisis, Isaac Julien (b. 1960) premiered his film PLAYTIME to address an important question: Can capital be rendered visible? By following the stories of six protagonists — interconnecting figures in the world of art and finance — Isaac Julien subsequently found narrative images for the process of capital interlocking at a global level, intertwining a macroscopic and a microscopic perspective dialectically, as it were. The Palais Populaire and the Wemhöner Collection have joined forces to shed new light on PLAYTIME from today’s perspective and to testify to the work’s topicality, as capital as a medium plays into almost all political, social, and societal issues and influences the lives of nearly every human being on this planet. Texts by Zeigam Azizov, Philipp Bollmann, Anna Herrhausen, Isaac Julien. Design by Pit Stenckhoff, Anna Bühler, Flo Paizs, Neue Gestaltung, Berlin. Text in English and German.

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The monograph Scapes unites various strands of Nina Annabelle Märkl's work in the diversity of their links and leaps between drawing and spatiality, which follow on from one another in the diversity of manifestation or interpenetrate one another in individual arrangements. Text in English and German.

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Lisa Klein (*1958) circles around her aspiration to the beautiful in a loop consisting of analogue and digital images. The book presents the groups of works "Körperumkreisungen and "Vorhandene Dinge". In her interview with herself, the artist examines works that were created for the most part in the past ten years. This fictional dialogue makes reference on the one hand to the works presented, and on the other to her artistic development and her attitude toward art. The publication also includes a text by the artist’s colleague Anton Herzl, a careful consideration of Lisa Klein’s working method. Text in English and German.

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In his paintings, the artist Szilard Huszank (*1980) deals with the possibilities and peculiarities of the landscape as a subject, exploring it through new contexts in refreshing and unusual ways. Enthused by the colour palettes of classic modernism, yet far from parody, he has developed an inimitable canon of colour and a formal vocabulary all his own. Always gliding into abstract solutions, the colours and content demand the eye’s attention. Text in English and German.

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When Michael Biedowicz bade farewell to DIE ZEIT in 2020, photographer Michael Wesely set out in search of a suitable gift for the man who, for 23 years, had immersed himself in all sorts of issues surrounding images, photographs and how best to communicate them. What came to mind were ideas about DIE ZEIT and time itself. Wesely, whose artistic technique of choice is long exposure, took portrait photographs – each with an exposure time of five minutes – of individuals at DIE ZEIT who had been particularly important to Biedowicz. In turn, those individuals were asked to pose a question to Biedowicz, whose response was recorded in images with various lengths of exposure. The portraits and Biedowicz’s answers provide a unique insight into a life lived for and with photography. Text in English and German.

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The internationally active sculptor and performance artist Paweł Althamer (*1967) often works on projects in planned or chance collaborations that attempt to break open socially charged structures. He examines his self-portrait again and again in a spiritual way, free from any concrete religious viewpoints. Althamer broadens the conventional concept of art with unusual techniques, materials, and approaches. Social initiatives significantly determine his artistic program. The publication is produced on the occasion of the exhibition to mark Paweł Althamer being awarded the 2022 Lovis Corinth Prize and is dedicated to his projects so far as well as to new works. Text in English and German.

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The catalogue Angela Hampel – The Artistic Work is being published on the occasion of the exhibition with the same title at the Städtische Galerie Dresden. It contains more than 180 illustrations, as well as scholarly texts on Hampel’s artistic media: painting, graphics, installation, performance, artist books, and work in public space. A look back at her reception in the 1980s, a discussion of her current artistic work, and an extensively illustrated biography provide never-before-published insights into Angela Hampel’s life and oeuvre. Text in English and German.

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In January 1971 Joseph Beuys's (*1921 – †1986) first museum exhibition outside of Germany took place at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The photographer Lothar Wolleh (*1930 – †1979) accompanied Beuys on his journey and photographed the installation of this exhibition. These photographs formed the basis for an artist book by Beuys and Wolleh, which became famous under the title “Unterwasserbuch”. The present publication features a new edition of the “Unterwasserbuch” as well as the rich history of the “Projekt Unterwasserbuch” in two volumes, both in a single slipcase. The books tell the story of two soul mates, while also testifying to the creative discourse of the early 1970s. Text in English and German.

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Lubomir Typlt (*1975) is one of the well-known representatives of contemporary Czech figurative painting. The pictures of the former A.R. Penck student captivate with their expressive colours, heavy brushstrokes and his relentless view of the human form. The catalogue Somnambul assembles his latest images in which adolescent girls and boys oscillate between fear and aggression, captivity and freedom, as well as isolation and solidarity. Typlt’s visual worlds are relentless, angular metaphors. They appear terrifying, but admonish that nothing can be more terrible than ignorance and numbness.

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