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Kerber Verlag Claudia Zweifel
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.
£25.20
Kerber Verlag Sador Weinsčlucker: der weg nach innen und aussen
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.
£51.30
Kerber Verlag Simone Zaugg: Thoughts to Go
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.
£52.46
Kerber Verlag Emily Gernild: Black Lemons
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”.
£33.75
Kerber Verlag Piet Niemann: Expo 2000
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.
£63.00
Kerber Verlag Lena Mattsson: The Window Opens to the World
Lena Mattsson (*1966) is a distinguished Swedish artist. Her practice includes photography, performance and social critique, as well as film and video art. Her new book encompasses her whole career, yet at the same time, it highlights her most recent works and future perspectives: especially Mattsson’s works on legendary Swedish publisher Bo Cavefors or her latest experiments with light and projections. The selection of photographs, film stills, and documentary material forms the basis for the profound discussion of her work by Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Peter Nilsson, and Charlotte Wiberg.
£43.65
Kerber Verlag Overtrump
A portrait of the most powerful men in the world through his own words. To 'overtrump' oneself or others does not necessarily have negative connotations. It also means to get the maximum out of oneself, to constantly better ones standing, and to learn from what has come before. With this collection of quotations, Sven Lindhorst-Emme shows a broad sampling of Donald Trump's verbalisations, and thus, of how he thinks, and ultimately leave it to the reader to create their own picture. The quotations that make up this publication are often contradictory: they impress, shock, surprise, amaze, amuse, provoke anger, sadden, or leave one incredulous and confused. From interviews to television appearances to speeches and a number of social media channels - Donald Trump is everywhere.
£14.66
Kerber Verlag Mentagramm IV: The Secret Garden, the Viennese Piano Variations and the Art Intelligence of Kd-L47
£46.85
Kerber Verlag Mulan River
The brothers Chen Yufan (*1973) and Chen Yujun (*1976) have been working together non-stop on their huge project Mulan River since 2008. Starting with a river near their hometown of Putian, in the province of Fujian, they discovered a way to add the cultural and social experiences of “Chinese who return home to their cities from overseas” to the context of contemporary art. Inspired by profound transformations in society and their unique ancestral history, Mulan River took on a variety of artistic forms over the years, including installation, painting, and video. “Mulan River refers to that local geographic position, while also symbolising a fluid cultural space. This concept of ‘fluidity’ is not only manifest in the Chen brothers’ content and subject matter, but more importantly, it brings a new understanding of their working approach to art.” Mulan River has already been on display numerous times as part of various exhibitions. This is the first publication to cover the entire work of art. Text in English and Chinese.
£57.96
Kerber Verlag Anja Engelke: Room 125
£35.28
Kerber Verlag Frank Hoffmann: Romantische Ironie
£45.39
Kerber Verlag Sebastian Neeb
The first monograph on New Leipzig School painter and sculptor Sebastian Neeb presents his artistic cosmos in which, with subtle irony, the artist balances art on its edge. Text in English and German.
£60.00
Kerber Verlag The Magic of Yuanfen: Searching for Masters of Healing and Ancient Chinese Wisdom
Photographer Stefanie Schweiger (*1979) and author Phoebe Hui (*1983) set out in search of ancient wisdom, hidden worlds, alternative medicine, and faith, in China. In words and images, they tell stories about their encounters with Chinese masters of healing and lore. Their paths lead them to Buddhist secret societies, shamans, hermits, Taoists, herbalists, Tibetan doctors, bimos, feng shui experts, and monks. They explore if the wisdom passed down for thousands of years can be reconciled with contemporary Chinese life. The book lays out a nuanced panorama of China's diverse beliefs, many of which are virtually unknown in the West.
£38.41
Kerber Verlag Rebecca Horn Glowing Core
£45.00
Kerber Verlag Samaneh Khosravi Among Women
£39.95
Kerber Verlag Jan Wawrzyniak: Broken and Lost: Drawing
£45.40
Kerber Verlag Marcel Duchamp. La Patte
£20.70
Kerber Verlag Between One Line Katharina Hinsberg Monika Gryzmala
£36.00
Kerber Verlag Mie Olise Kjærgaard Ferocious Expeditions
Mie Olise Kjærgaard (b. 1974) conquers an artistic domain closely linked to the idea of the genius male painter: expressive, figurative, large-scale paintings. Composed of turbulent brushstrokes, her works on their huge canvases exude a wildness and power. Kjærgaard is utterly convincing in her adoption of the genre and translates the expressive force of gestural painting into a world of female experience. Her works depict active women in sportswear and flip-flops, their hair standing wildly on end. They ride mythical creatures, hang from the railings of ships, play a round of tennis, or hurtle through the neighbourhood on skateboards. Ferocious Expeditions brings together her works from recent years, accompanied by texts that give insight into the work of this Danish painter.
£51.30
Kerber Verlag Mammu Pasi Rauhala Bears All Things
Bears All Things (from the Finnish Kaiken se kestää) is a lifelong art project by the artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala. The project, which has taken place every year since 2013, comprises photographs of the artists going about their daily lives, from renovating their home, to gardening always in the same getup: their wedding attire. Their gestures and appearance, always very serious, are a nod to the tradition of the family portrait. With a generous dose of humour, the works encourage the audience to reflect on the institution of marriage and issues of interpersonal relationships, both on the individual and the societal level.
£30.60
Kerber Verlag Frizzi Krella: Paris - 9 Rue de l’Université
In her photographic series Paris – 9 Rue de l’Université, Frizzi Krella (b. 1970) explores the seemingly mundane subject of a window front undergoing renovation work. With her precise eye, she transforms her observations into a multifaceted reflection of the moment, a composition of the ephemeral. Krella’s photographs are an invitation to investigate the world, with its various distortions and compositions, as if it were a puzzle. They are an opportunity to delight in the playful appropriation of the various layers of reality and coincidence in order to assimilate the things we have seen into the cosmos of our own experience of art and the world around us. Thus, her work takes us all the way back to the very origins of photography and to the Paris of two centuries ago, when moments first began to achieve timelessness. Text in English, German and French.
£29.70
Kerber Verlag Doug Fogelson 2012-2022: Chemical Alterations
Chemical Alterations presents a photographic series by Doug Fogelson (b. 1970) that reflects the range of impacts caused by climate change around the planet. Using a process that combines traditional landscape photography with a chemical bath of toxic cleaning products to alter the original analogue film, Fogelson illustrates what are often invisible changes to the environment. Such changes culminate as disastrous events like fire, flood, drought, increasingly powerful storms, and overall global warming. Images of natural spaces that include mountains, deserts, volcanoes, jungles, oceans, rivers, and forests become represented in a state of flux. Through the processing of the film, traces such as bubbles, crystals, fingerprints, and dust are integrated into the images, probing the borderline of abstraction. The Chemical Alterations series has been in-progress over a decade and exhibited through various iterations internationally at both galleries and museums including: The Royal Geographic Society, United Kingdom, Museum Belvedere, Netherlands, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Alpenium Produzentengalerie, Luzern, SFO Museum, San Francisco, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Sasha Wolf Projects, NYC, Klompching Gallery, NYC, The Arts Club of Chicago and others. It has been covered by The Brooklyn Rain, Humble Arts Foundation, Ain’t Bad, The OD Review, Great Lakes Writers Corps, and others.
£42.30
Kerber Verlag Andréas Lang: Broken Memories
In Broken Memories Andréas Lang explores the themes of recollection and history in Turkey. In a series of photographs and videos, he reflects on the disappearance, the discontinuity and the multiple layers of historical writings as well as the overwriting that leaves visible traces of a collective memory long since rendered invisible. He focuses on the contemporary approach to history, but especially on places with links to the later Ottoman Empire, the Armenian heritage and the 1915 genocide. Lang describes his work as visual archaeology that exposes the many layers of history and of mythology, as well as of the present day. Text in English, Turkish and Armenian.
£37.80
Kerber Verlag Existing Otherwise
Existing Otherwise (XO) was conceived as an exhibition and discourse program in Berlin and Tamale (Ghana) by Isabel Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, and Solvej Helweg Ovesen. The book presents the transformative artworks and discourses developed within the realm of this contemporary art project that happened during coronavirus pandemic times. Artists, choreographers, sustainable leadership thinkers, and scientists reflect in interviews and “reschooling” lectures about the future of coexistence, how to accept societal and physical collapse, recycling, and the space that art holds for transformation. Artists: Ana Alenso, Dirk Bell, Rüzgâr Buşki, Eli Cortiñas, Sarah Ama Duah, Irene Fernandez Arcas, Gloria Höckner, Emily Hunt, Ato Jackson, Anton Kats, Justin F. Kennedy, Sandra Stephanie Kyeraa, Isabel Lewis, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Hannah Toticki, Éva Mag, Rachel Monosov, Ania Nowak, Anna Nowicka, Ingrid Ogenstedt, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Thomias Radin, Jimmy Robert, Moran Sanderovich, Colin Self, Viron Erol Vert, RA Walden, Ziggy Zeitgeist. Authors: Jem Bendell, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Isabel Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, Nitsan Margaliot, Ute Müller-Tischler, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Malte Pieper, Kathrin Pohlmann, Maja Smozsna. Text in English and German.
£33.30
Kerber Verlag Max Neumann: Journey / Wanderung
The catalogue Max Neumann – Journey comprises around 80 paintings and works on paper from all creative phases of the painter and graphic artist Max Neumann (b. 1949), who is an important representative of contemporary German figuration. His enigmatic human figures seated in enraptured pictorial settings are not geared toward capturing a subjective, distinct portrayal, but toward the crystallisation of an unmistakable humanlike allegory. His characters, in their at once disconcerting and graceful silhouettes, fall out of time and history as symbolic markers of a human state of mind. Neumann does not intend to narrate any incidents; he rather traces emotional human qualities, confronting the viewer with his own desires, fears, obsessions, and phantasms. Text in English and German.
£37.80
Kerber Verlag Motherhood
The notion of motherhood and how to define it are hugely complex. Scarcely another concept has provoked a more diverse range of associations, emotions and stereotypes nor shifted so frequently throughout the history of humankind. Today, the topic is more political than ever. This book provides an overview of how contemporary art reflects perceptions of motherhood and mothering. Fourteen examples illuminate various aspects from a biological, psychological and social perspective. Another topic that is included in these considerations is that of non-motherhood. In addition, the ambivalent attitude of the arts and cultural sector towards artists who decide to become mothers is examined, as is the artistic exploration of motherhood in terms that go beyond heteronormative, cis-gendered relationships. Text in English and German.
£36.00
Kerber Verlag Friedrich Einhoff: 100+
The catalogue Friedrich Einhoff. 100+ includes 100 works on paper by the Hamburg-based artist Friedrich Einhoff (1936–2018) as well as 32 further works on canvas dating from various periods of his work. Einhoff’s pieces, which employ a wide range of painting and drawing techniques, all revolve around the central image of humankind and its ambivalent and fragile nature. Anonymous traces of figures, torn off fragments of bodies and facial contours oscillate between concentration and dissolution and speak to an image of humankind that is subject to constant change. In their alienation, displacement and fragmentation, in their isolated juxtaposition, his figures search for their sacrosanct state of being. Text in English and German.
£23.40
Kerber Verlag Henning Bertram: Work Phases 1979–2022
This publication spans more than 40 years of artistic work by the painter Henning Bertram (b. 1962). Many in the Rhineland know him through his large-scale charcoal drawings of seemingly archaic fragments of architecture. This book provides for the first-time insight into Bertram’s early work and the spectrum of his artistic career— an unremittingly explorative path, switching between the abstract and the figurative, culminating in a surprising corporeality evident in his current work. Text in English and German.
£36.00
Kerber Verlag Ines Doujak: Nichtsdestoweniger. Nevertheless
In her art, Ines Doujak (b. 1959) examines complex interrelationships and goes directly to the heart of explosive issues. From a queer-feminist perspective, she unsparingly analyses the mechanisms and ramifications of the neoliberal market economy and the relationship between production and consumption, capital and exploitation, colonialism and neocolonial rule, racism and gender roles. For the very first time, Nevertheless provides an overview of Doujak’s artistic oeuvre from the last 30 years, encompassing a multitude of different media. The extensive plate section is supplemented by autobiographical fragments and quotations relating to the pictures. Text in English and German.
£33.30
Kerber Verlag Kunsthalle Bega Box
In the past three years, the Kunsthalle Bega Box in Timișoara, Romania, successively became a laboratory and experimental space for young and mid-career Romanian artists, showcasing comprehensive projects involving research and representation and engaging the audience in a phenomenological cultural experience. The book offers an overview of the projects that have taken place at Kunsthalle Bega Box since its opening. Texts by the curators and artists provide insights into the theoretical discourses underlying the exhibitions. Artists: Dorian Bolca, Irina Bujor, Dreaming About my Unborn Child Group, Oláh Gyárfás, Tijana Kačarević, Lera Kelemen, Bogdan Matei, Mihai Mihalcea, Adrian Oncu, Teo Papadopol, Gavril Pop, Laurian Popa, Nicoló Filippo Rosso, George Roșu, Șerban Savu, Ioana Maria Sisea, Ana Maria Szöllösi, Ioana Terheș, Miki Velciov, Dan Vezentan, Mihai Zgondoiu. Text by Horea Avram, Kilobase Bucharest, Alina Cristescu, Dana Diminescu, Anca Verona Mihuleț, Iris Ordean, Mihai Pop, Laurian Popa, Maria Orosan Telea, Dan Vezentan. Text in English and Romanian.
£23.85
Kerber Verlag Tom Nagy: SOLITAIRE: Faces of Antarctica
Two things resonate in Tom Nagy’s photographic portraits of icebergs and Antarctic landscapes: the untameable, irrepressible energies of nature and the fragility of its jagged shapes, which are minimalistic and narrative, static and mobile, majestic and delicate all at the same time. Nagy’s photographs enable us to experience this ephemeral nature becoming a picture and thus prevent them from vanishing for good. In his portraits of icebergs, they become ephemeral sculptures, which drift in the solitary silence of the Antarctic waters like artworks, to then ultimately dissolve completely. From the perspective of the photographer, the Antarctic landscape encourages us to contemplate the cycle of life and to sense our own impermanence. Text in English and German.
£56.70
Kerber Verlag Sven Drühl: Die Aufregung II - 20 years later
The first institutional presentation with works by Sven Drühl took place in 2002 under the title Die Aufregung at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen. The rooms in which the museum presented the then young positions have been used by the Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich e. V. for many years. Sven Drühl, who is known for his artistic adaptations and remixes, has now returned to this location with his new landscape paintings, which are based purely on virtual models. In the place where his artistic career began, the artist is now showing paintings and bronzes from the past six years. Text in English and German.
£26.10
Kerber Verlag Roland Fischer: Written in an Image | In ein Bild geschrieben
Roland Fischer (*1958) is a conceptual photo artist who works in series and is active internationally. With his series of large-format works, he has been part of the photographic avant-garde since the 1980s. In his oeuvre, Fischer concentrates on two complexes of works: people and architecture. All of the conceptual series on these two themes are presented in the catalogue. Matter-of-fact, very precisely exposed faces are central to series such as Nuns and Monks, Los Angeles Portraits, and Chinese Pool Portraits. The artist deals with architecture amongst other topics in the work series Cathedrals, Alhambra, and New Architectures. What interests Roland Fischer, therefore, is not the documentary character of photography. His concentrated photo works of famous buildings and façades are pictorial creations with an autonomous character. Text in English and German.
£36.00
Kerber Verlag Wolfgang Strassl: Arcadian Sketchbook
Arcadia – a utopian land where man lives in harmony with nature, where war, worry and disease are absent, where tranquillity, solidarity and happiness are everlasting – has a long tradition stretching back to antiquity. Originally a remote landscape in the Peloponnese, said within ancient Greek mythology to be inhabited by the gods and spirits of nature, this earthly paradise was transformed into an imaginary idyll by the Roman poet Virgil in his pastoral poems, and has lived on in Western art, intellectual history, and the imagination ever since. In Arcadian Sketchbook – photographed between 2020-2021 – Wolfgang Strassl wanders along his nearby river in search of peace of mind, amongst many others who were seeking the same at the time. As he explains, “I looked for Arcadia, simply on my own doorstep, and I found it there.”
£27.90
Kerber Verlag Back into the Light: Four Women Artists – Their Works, Their Paths
With the exhibition catalogue Back into the Light: Four Women Artists – Their Works, Their Paths, the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt has dedicated itself to four rediscovered women artists. Erna Pinner (1890–1987), Rosy Lilienfeld (1896–1942), Amalie Seckbach (1870–1944), and Ruth Cahn (1875–1966) shaped the artistic life of the 1920s in Frankfurt am Main and were also noticed supra-regionally. National Socialist rule brought an end not only to the cosmopolitan way of life that they cultivated, but also threatened their work and their lives. Renowned art historians examine the works of the four artists in essays for the catalogue. Numerous illustrations and hitherto unpublished documents and letters accompany these texts. The various historical contexts of their individual lives and fate are also presented in cultural studies essays by international experts.
£42.30
Kerber Verlag Andrea Wilmsen: B.ODE
Berlin and Chicago-based photographer Andrea Wilmsen challenges our perception of interiors in her photographs of the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany. Her focus varies from fragmented views of architectural details to carefully composed close-up details of empty walls, creating unique portraits of the museum. Wilmsen is inspired by the American philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto and his book titled The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, which questions what makes an object a work of art. Yet, she takes the question further and is driven to uncover what makes art spaces special stages for prestigious artworks. Wilmsen is driven by how we prioritise certain works of art over others, and further, where the boundaries lie between what we consider art and what is visible outside of the works that are established as art in a museum. Text in English and German.
£34.20
Kerber Verlag Jonathan Monk: Exhibit Model Four - plus invited guests
Jonathan Monk (*1969) is known for his witty appropriation of art history, his re-staging of conceptual and minimalist art works, his critique of both the exhibition circus and the aesthetic category of originality. Exhibit Model is an installation of photo-papers, depicting his works in different exhibition contexts. Site-specifically modified, it has been shown before in Muttenz, Copenhagen, and Montreal. For its fourth iteration, at KINDL Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin, he combined it with works by fellow artists, the 'invited guests'. Text in English and German.
£24.30
Kerber Verlag Caline Aoun: seeing is believing: Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
The transition from the analogue to the digital age has radically changed our present. The global flow of data shapes social systems, but the circulation and processing of data does not seem to be linked to the reality of our lives. As Deutsche Bank's 'Artist of the Year', young Lebanese artist Caline Aoun (*1983) reveals how data manifests itself materially and how inseparable the real and the virtual world have become. For her, the permanent flood of images and data resembles 'noise' that dominates our lives. Instead of further intensifying this media noise, she lends it a material dimension in order to create new experiences, forms of silence, and empty spaces, and to show otherwise scarcely tangible connections. Text in English and German.
£32.40
Kerber Verlag Riccardo Fregoso: Adriatico
In Adriatico, the photographer Riccardo Fregoso (*1981) seeks out places where he spent vacations in his childhood and youth. For this, he travelled the coasts of the Abruzzo and the Molise, to then focus his gaze northwards to the Marche and southwards to Apulia. The Adriatic coast, which is an almost heavenly place in Fregoso’s memories, consists in reality of an endless stringing together of concrete buildings, which were hastily erected during the economic boom in Italy. In his photos, Fregoso captures the region shaped by mass tourism, with all its contradictions and its particular light. Adriatico is a homage to summer, the vacation atmosphere, and the photographs of Luigi Ghirri. Text in English and Italian.
£33.30
Kerber Verlag Andreas Trogisch: Eight Days A Week. Seven And One Iteration
Photography creates worlds — or at least first of all mountains of pictures. Eight Days A Week tries to make the world emerge from these mountains by putting the motifs in a sort of sequence of natural history. Seven attempts at this are undertaken — starting from the suspicion that the divine creation also perhaps does not succeed on the first try. More precisely, there are seven plus one attempts, and in each of them, the world is no longer created in seven days, but instead along with one additional day. After the original creation is completed each time punctually for the Sabbath, the Anthropocene dawns on Day 7+. Text in English and German.
£63.00
Kerber Verlag ars viva 2022: Tamina Amadyar, Lewis Hammond, Mooni Perry
Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft has awarded the ars viva prize to outstanding young artists based in Germany. The award honours work that demonstrates a distinct language of form and an awareness of contemporary issues. This year’s award includes exhibitions at Brücke-Museum, Berlin and the Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia. The ars viva prize 2022 will be awarded to Tamina Amadyar (*1989), Lewis Hammond (*1987) and Mooni Perry (*1990). Text in English and German.
£36.00
Kerber Verlag Visions Fashion
£34.20
Kerber Verlag Neumarkt: with photographs by Frank Schinski
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.
£63.00
Kerber Verlag Sebastian Jung: Bio Bio SUV
How will we deal with manmade climate change? Can the bioeconomy, whose foundation is no longer fossil — but rather bio-based raw materials, play a key role in coping with the climate crisis? Must we not instead scrutinise our social mentalities themselves? The art project Bio Bio SUV of Sebastian Jung and the research group flumen addresses these questions. The starting point for the artistic research is Sebastian Jung’s series of drawings of a car stunt show. The possibilities and impossibilities of a new economy are outlined by an eight-person think tank. In the interventions Jeder Vogel hat ein Auto (Every Bird Has a Car) and Die Pinguine am Starnberger See sind beinahe ausgestorben (The Penguins on Lake Starnberg Have Almost Become Extinct) Sebastian Jung devotes himself to the human view of nature and home. He creates productive irritations and invites viewers to interact with them. Texts by Viola Bronsema, Dennis Eversberg, Holger Gerdes, Alex Giurca, Franz-Theo Gottwald, Christiane Grefe, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Sebastian Jung, Zoritza Kiresiewa, Monica Navas Males, Sophia Pietryga, Ulrich Schurr. Text in English and German.
£20.70
Kerber Verlag Insex: Alex Stoddard
INSEX is the debut monograph by the American photographer Alex Stoddard (*1993), in which he explores the parallels between metamorphosis in the natural world and human coming-of-age. Through staged, highly stylised images, Stoddard invites viewers into a colourfully dark world of budding sexuality and crawling insects. The previously unreleased series of 70 images paints a surreal picture of adolescence in a glorious frenzy of buzzing hormones and sprouting wings. Each scene features a youthful subject — often Stoddard himself — in a state of change or paired with a many-legged counterpart. INSEX marks the artist’s first cohesive collection of work.
£37.80
Kerber Verlag The Opéra: Volume X
As an anniversary edition The Opéra is reinventing itself with its tenth edition and yet has remained true to its attitude: the classic and modern interpretation of the human body in all its facets, perspectives, forms and interpretations. What's new? For the first time, a male title motif questions the boundaries and definitions of masculinity and femininity. The magazine is divided into a classic and a contemporary act, which are separated by the so-called intermezzo. The classic part has numerous black and white stretches with very sensitive body contemplations, while the contemporary part is extraordinarily colourful - almost loudly designed. For the first time, a woman was in charge of the design: Christina Rollny, who is only 22 years old, gives Volume X an experimental and at the same time refreshingly young look.
£42.30
Kerber Verlag Gisela Erlacher: Superblocks
With the municipal buildings of “Red Vienna,” the utopia of enabling weaker individuals in society to also have a good life was realised. Originally erected in the 1920s to provide affordable living space for the working class as well as urban infrastructure, communal ownership of housing also makes it possible today to integrate people who would otherwise have limited opportunities in neoliberal society. The relevance of municipal ownership to the current situation consists as well of the possibility to exert an attenuating influence on real estate speculation and rising rents. With her camera, Gisela Erlacher (*1956) follows the parcourse through the archways of superblocks such as the Sandleiten-Hof, Goethe-Hof, and Karl-Marx-Hof. She portrays residents and visitors in all their diversity and gives them space to present themselves beyond stereotyped depictions. Text in English and German.
£37.80
Kerber Verlag Hans Thomann: Human - Body - Figure
The figure is a constant in the work of Hans Thomann (*1957). The sculptor is interested in the question of how people present and perceive themselves. Thomann sounds out cultural conceptions, which quite often turn out to be fragile illusions, in life-size human sculptures of figures from Superman and dwarves to Jesus. Ambivalence, just like humour, is one of the artist’s constant companions. With his works, which include numerous installations in public spaces and commercial premises, Hans Thomann continuously reflects on human existence. His examinations also comprise sacred spaces, in which he realises critical or provocative interventions. Text in English and German.
£54.45