New Publications Fall 2021 by Kerber Verlag

New Publications Fall 2021

HIGHLIGHTS

Nähe

Ways of Seeing Abstraction

Dominik Schmitt

Joseph Beuys and Lothar Wolleh

TnoA—The Nature of Abstraction

Mihai Olos

Ilya Kabakov

Emily Gernild

PHOTO

Marc Brandenburg

Facing the Balkans

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke

MOMENTA Biennale de l’image

Jackie Nickerson

SPRING BESTSELLERS

COLLECTOR’S EDITION

Spring 2021

Image Credits

Distribution and Representation

Index

ART Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis

London Underground Extension

Nachume Miller

Ibrahim Mahama

Elín Jakobsdóttir

Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko

Michael Johansson

Sabine Groß

Claire Morgan

Don’t Call It Art!

Re-Art

Carola Ernst

Bei uns. Bei Euch!

Yafeng Duan

Simone Zaugg

Patrick Kaufmann

Niina Lehtonen Braun

> 1000 Words

Szilard Huszank

Elisabeth Mehrl

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Dear Bibliophiles, Dear Art Lovers, Our day-to-day life has already been taking place predominantly in the digital world for over a year. We have participated in numerous work-related video conferences, seen some friends and family members only on screen, and enjoyed art primarily through digital gallery or virtual museum tours. It is therefore all the more wonderful that we are once again able to present you with a series of fascinating, high-quality books that offer a welcome change from the digital reality. Now in particular, when our personal radius is so limited, the opportunity to immerse ourselves in unfamiliar, colorful, abstract, or philosophical worlds is more important than ever. You can, for instance, undertake a wonderful dive with the new edition of The Unterwasserbuch-Project by Joseph Beuys and Lothar Wolleh. Beuys organized his first big international exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1971 and was accompanied in this endeavor by the Düsseldorf-based photographer Lothar Wolleh. The photos thus created resulted in a joint artists’ book that we are now able to make accessible to everyone again in the year of the hundredth anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth. The Deutsche Bank Collection’s catalogue for its exhibition Ways of Seeing Abstraction documents the entire spectrum of the abstract art of today. Paintings, print graphics, drawings, and photographs from 51 countries provide an impressive panorama of abstract positions. The work of the emerging Danish painter Emily Gernild is also positioned between

abstraction and figuration. With great sensitivity, she creates still lifes whose motifs in part merge entirely in form and color. A presentation of everyday things is also found in the work of Marc Brandenburg. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the Deutsche Bank at the PalaisPopulaire shows his pencil drawings of the past 25 years inverted into the negative, and it forms another high point in our program. The extensive monograph of the Romanian artist Mihai Olos, whose outstanding significance was first recognized posthumously, closes a big gap and facilitates comprehensive access to this multilayered oeuvre. The journals of Elisabeth ErdmannMacke, which are now being published in their entirety for the first time, are also a small sensation and open up a personal look at the surroundings of Der Blaue Reiter as well as the entire twentieth century. We are also particularly pleased to be publishing the fourth part of Ilya Kabakov’s catalogue raisonné. It includes the paintings of the past years, which once again substantiate his international renown. Even if personal contact has recently been possible only rarely, our publications have nevertheless been created in close cooperation with the artists and institutions. We thus continue to attach great importance to individual design, exclusive features, and first-class printing. We hope you enjoy your journey of discovery through our program.

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Christof Kerber

HIGHLIGHTS

Abstract Contemporary Art

Ways of Seeing Abstraction Editor: Deutsche Bank AG / PalaisPopulaire Texts by: Anna Herrhausen, Friedhelm Hütte, Jan Kedves, Oliver Koerner von Gustorf Graphic design: NODE, Berlin / Oslo 20 ∞ 27 cm, 256 pp., numerous col. ills. Softcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0775-1 German | English Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Exhibition: Ways of Seeing Abstraction – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, 27.3.2021–7.2.2022, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin

Artists: Markus Amm, Rana Begum, Otto Boll, Kerstin Brätsch, Cabrita, Ernst Caramelle, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Adriana Czernin, Helmut Federle, Günther Förg, Günter Fruhtrunk, Franziska Furter, Rupprecht Geiger, Katharina Grosse, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Erwin Heerich, Bernhard Härtter, Daniel Hunziker, Sh ōichi Ida, Jürgen Jansen, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Jennie C. Jones, Kapwani Kiwanga, Imi Knoebel, Norbert Kricke, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Thomas Locher, Fabian Marti, Bernd Minnich, Wilhelm Müller, Nima Nabavi, Albert Oehlen, Susanne Paesler, Blinky Palermo, Jorge Pardo, Georg Karl Pfahler, Charlotte Posenenske, Lothar Quinte, Gerhard Richter, Peter Roehr, Ulrich Rückriem, Fred Sandback, Karin Sander, Kai Schiemenz, Richard Serra, Dieuwke Spaans, Ulrich Wendland, Claudia Wieser, Beat Zoderer

Abstract art was never dead. Since its revolutionary beginnings at the dawn of the twentieth century, it has repeatedly flourished and survived all animosities, even bans. And more than that: today in particular, artists and museums are increasingly devoting themselves to this theme, in the world’s most important art metropolises and in unprecedented diversity. Aspects of contemporary abstract art, coupled with historical reminiscences, are the focus of the third exhibition showcasing works from the Deutsche Bank Collection at the PalaisPopulaire. The selection includes about 180 works from 1959 to 2021. In keeping with the collection as a whole, the works on view are globally oriented, created by artists from 51 countries. Included are not only drawings and photographs but also, for the first time, significant paintings and prints. Including the latter medium in the show is particularly appropriate, as silk screen, with its industrial, anonymous color surfaces, is the ideal technique for implementing constructive or concrete pictorial ideas. Also in line with this theme is the work in series with geometric variations, changing perspectives, and color schemes.

Re-publication of a Unique Project

Joseph Beuys and Lothar Wolleh The Unterwasserbuch Project Editors: Antoon Melissen, Lothar Wolleh Raum, Berlin Texts by: Antoon Melissen Graphic design: Stephan Holitschke, Büro für Visuelle Identitäten, München 22.7 ∞ 22.7 cm, 2 books in slipcase, 64 pp. and 80 pp., 100 col. ills. isbn 978-3-7356-0769-0 German | English Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Exhibitions: Joseph Beuys. Der Raumkurator, 26.3.–18.7.2021 (with 26 works by Lothar Wolleh), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Das Unterwasserbuch-Projekt: Joseph Beuys und Lothar Wolleh, 16.4–23.10.2021, Lothar Wolleh Raum, Berlin „Wer nicht denken will fliegt raus!“ – Joseph Beuys and Lothar Wolleh, 6.5.–31.7.2021, Coppejans Gallery, Antwerp Lothar Wolleh – Intuition! Interaction!, 17.–30.5.2021, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

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

Collector’s Edition (p. 69)

5 420,– (D)

volumes, both in a single slipcase. The books tell the story of two soulmates, while also testifying to the creative discourse of the early 1970s.

Further available publications

Joseph Beuys and Italy 978-3-7356-0219-0 (D) 978-3-7356-0239-8 (E) £ 18,– $ 24,70

Beuys für alle! 978-3-86678-458-1 £ 21,50 $ 28,60

Monograph of the Romanian Multi-Talent

Mihai Olos Editor: MNAC Books, Olos Estate, Galeria Plan B Texts by: C ălin Dan, Helga Fessler, Julian Heynen, Anca Mihule ț , Ileana Pintilie, Magda Predescu, Liviu Rața Graphic design: Bogdan Ceausescu, Bucharest 23.5 ∞ 28 cm, approx. 496 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published September 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0783-6 English | Romanian Approx. £ 70,– $ 115,–

Mihai Olos (1940 –2015) was one of the most prominent Romanian artists of the 1970s. Being interested in various media—painting, sculpture, happenings, Land Art, and even literature—he developed a coherent conceptual system of modular morphologic structures (knots), ultimately leading him to his utopian project, the “universal city” of Olospolis. This monographic album is published as a follow-up to the exhibition The Ephemerist. A Mihai Olos Retrospective, organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest in 2016. The publication compiles a representative selection of artworks, photographs from the artist’s archive, which are being published for the first time, and essays on the oeuvre and life of Mihai Olos.

The Fourth Volume of the Catalogue Raisonné

Ilya Kabakov Paintings / Gemälde 2013–2021 Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. IV Editor: Emilia Kabakov Texts by: Nicolas Lucci-Goutnikov Graphic design: Ilya Kabakov and Polina Bazir, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 23 ∞ 30 cm, approx. 300 pp., approx. 248 col. ills. Hardcover, clothbound To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0786-7 English Approx. £ 78,– $ 127,–

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 recognized. Visual themes include, for example, the color 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.

Contemporary Painting— Colorful and Powerful

Emily Gernild Black Lemons Texts by: Milena Høgsberg, Grant Klarich Johnson Graphic design: Jeanne Betak, Copenhagen 21 ∞ 27 cm, 80 pp., 55 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0772-0 English Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

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, colorful 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, which allows 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.”

A Visual Essay on Representations

Marc Brandenburg Hirnsturm II Editor: Deutsche Bank AG / PalaisPopulaire Texts by: Sara Bernshausen, Marc Brandenburg, Anna Herrhausen, Oliver Koerner von Gustorf Graphic design: Fabienne Alexopoulos, faible, Frankfurt am Main 20 ∞ 24.5 cm, 200 pp., 80 col. ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0764-5 German | English £ 39,– $ 60,–

Marc Brandenburg (*1965) strolls through cities, photographing his impressions and then drawing them “like a human photocopier.” In this almost meditative process, he finds beauty in social conditions. His pencil drawings, reversed into negatives, capture everyday, ephemeral motifs. Brandenburg is interested in moments when inner and outer states unite, when human beings merge with their costumes, their clothing, or their dwellings. Formal Exhibition: Marc Brandenburg: Hirnsturm II, 14.4. – 23.8.2021, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin

and conceptual aspects of drawing, as well as a fundamental examination of representation, are more important to him than the motifs themselves. The publication Hirnsturm II accompanies the exhibition of the same name, a visual essay that combines drawings from a period of over 25 years with more recent works such as his video installation Camouflage Pullover (2018).

Published for the First Time—Sensational and Touching!

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke Tagebücher 1905–1948 Editors: Margarethe Jochimsen, Hildegard Reinhardt Texts by: Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, Margarethe Jochimsen, Hildegard Reinhardt Graphic design: Polina Bazir, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 17 ∞ 24 cm, 632 pp., 70 b&w and 30 col. ills. Hardcover with CD inserted To be published May/June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0664-8 German

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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (1888–1978) chronicled her eventful life for 43 years: the brief marriage to August Macke, the marriage to the journalist Lothar Erdmann, the turbulent 1920s in Bonn and Berlin, the seizure of power and Erdmann’s gruesome death at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the years of the war, and the return to Bonn. As executor of Macke’s estate, she wrote a bestseller in 1962 entitled Erinnerung an August Macke, and her Begegnungen was published posthumously in 2009. Her touching Tagebücher, which are now being published for the first time, are a minor sensation. A complete transcript of the text also accompanies the book in the form of a CD.

ART

Superheroes, Comic Characters and Love Figures

Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis Your dream is dead— Georg Oskar’s painting Editor: Lu Mei, Migrant Bird Space Texts by: Eva Morawietz, Kristian Skylstad Graphic design: Siyu Mao 16.5 ∞ 23 cm, 148 pp., 1 b&w and 102 col. ills. Softcover with belly band isbn 978-3-7356-0743-0 English | Chinese £ 33,– $ 55,–

Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis’s (*1985) practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and people. His works are composed in a unique manner to allow multiple entry points for viewers, prompting them to reflect on the complexities of contemporary life. Infused with a distinct twist, his narratives are often sarcastic, but always offer genuine observations of his lived and built environment. A sense of levity and innocence is located within his narratives and the murkiness of his palette, to operate as a “psychological counteract” that enables him to maintain a bemused distance from the profane, the dark, and the obscene.

Art on the Underground

London Underground Extension: Alexandre da Cunha & Samara Scott New works for the Northern Line Editor: Art on the Underground Texts by: Eleanor Pinfield 21 ∞ 25 cm, approx. 180 pp., approx. 200 col. ills. Hardcover To be published September 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0771-3 English Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

The Northern Line Extension creates two new stations for London’s Underground network on the South Bank of the River Thames. The focus of a rapidly changing landscape, the new Tube stations will be anchors for millions of Londoners. Commissioning ground-breaking new artworks by the artists Alexandre da Cunha and Samara Scott for these stations, the organization Art on the Underground brings ambitious art to millions of people. With texts and essays about the artists, this publication marks these major new additions to London’s public art scene. At Battersea Power Station, Alexandre de Cunha punctuates the ticket hall with a monumental kinetic sculpture. Along the river at Nine Elms station, Samara Scott’s work will take the form of a network of richly colored pools embedded in the station architecture. Exhibition: on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Line Extension, Transport for London, Fall 2021

A Body of Work, an Artist, a Life—Rediscovered!

Nachume Miller Behind the Painting Graphic design: Danny Miller & Caleb Van Dyke, High Tide, New York 16.5 ∞ 23.5 cm, approx. 176 pp., approx. 128 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0776-8 English

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Nachume Miller (1949–1998) was a German-born artist who made a name for himself on the American modern art scene after immigrating to New York City in 1974. Identified as a rising star, Miller’s first major exhibition was the Guggenheim’s Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition, where he became the youngest artist ever to present work at the museum. Throughout his career, he kept an almost daily record of his creative process. This monograph is a collection of pages from his sketchbooks spanning the years 1976 to 1998 and providing insight into his life, work, and inventive practices. Meticulously dated, the sketchbooks are filled with plans and ideas for potential paintings, expressive watercolors and drawings, diary entries about family life, commentary on the art world, notes to himself, and simple to-do lists. More than sketchbooks, they reveal an intimate look inside the mind of a prolific and masterful artist.

New Works by the Documenta Artist

Ibrahim Mahama Vanishing Points 2014–2020 Editor: Torsten Reiter, Alexander Bär Texts by: Ibrahim Mahama, Dominikus Müller Graphic design: Studio Pandan, Berlin 21 ∞ 29.7 cm, approx. 68 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published September 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0778-2 English Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

With the exhibition Vanishing Points 2014–2020 at REITER, the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama (*1987) has his first solo show in a German gallery. For his large, site-specific installation, the artist has arranged a hundred old wheelbarrows, which he collected from workers in Ghana, giving them new ones in return. The rusty, worn wheelbarrows bear the obvious marks of daily hard labor and can be understood as a symbol of that. They also represent the construction that manifests in architecture throughout the history of the artist’s homeland. At the same time the work can also be regarded in the context of his project Parliament of Ghosts, which was on display in Tamale, Ghana, in 2020. It is a forum for debate that also continues with the idea of social sculpture. Both projects in Tamale and Exhibition: Vanishing Points 2014–2020, 2021, REITER, Leipzig

Leipzig are documented in the book.

A Search for Traces in Iceland

Elín Jakobsdóttir In the First Place Editors: Christine Nippe and the Department of Culture Steglitz-Zehlendorf Texts by: Elín Jakobsdóttir, Christine Nippe, Eva Scharrer Graphic design: Wolfgang Hückel 17 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 96 pp., approx. 141 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0797-3 German | English Approx. £ 31,– $ 50,–

As a book, Elín Jakobsdóttir—In the First Place is like a hunt for the sources of artistic creativity: the Icelandic artist’s (*1968) childhood home was buried under the ashes of a volcanic eruption. Themes that touch upon the power and beauty of nature are woven into her works of art. Her translocal references to Iceland, Scotland, and Berlin not only reflect these diverse places, but also make up the depth of her work. Jakobsdóttir’s oeuvre is characterized by a strong lyricism and intensity, with allusions to the subconscious.

Exhibition: Elín Jakobsdóttir—In the First Place, 4.6.–31.10.2021, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin

Installations That Are Telling History

Marta & Slava Selected projects 2009–2020 Editors: Marta Volkova, Slava Shevelenko Texts by: Guus Beumer, Stijn Huijts, Floor van Luijk, Marente de Moor, Marta & Slava, Yves Randaxhe Graphic design: Buro Marcel van der Heyden, Heerlen, The Netherlands 21 ∞ 28 cm, approx. 120 pp., numerous col. ills. Softcover with flaps To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0785-0 English Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

Marta Volkova (*1955) and Slava Shevelenko (*1953) were born in the Soviet Union—that faraway land which seems to exist only in history books—and all of their work appears to stem from these legendary beginnings. In an age of fabulists, perfidious disseminators of alternative facts, and malicious inventors of fake news, Volkova and Shevelenko are like storytellers whose work is expressed in vast narrative installations. Their rich, multifaceted projects explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. The artists use themes from collective mythology—the Yeti or the so-called Tunguska meteroid in Siberia—and interweave them with moral, social, philosophical, or political metaphors, which in turn resonate with the realities of today’s world. This publication presents a series of selected projects produced by Volkova and Shevelenko between 2009 and 2020.

New Works by the Swedish Artist

Michael Johansson Flip Texts by: Mika Hannula Graphic design: Ariane Spanier, Ariane Spanier Design, Berlin 17 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 152 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0794-2 English Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Michael Johansson (*1975) is best known for his color-coordinated, Tetris-inspired sculptures and installations made out of everyday objects, with results ranging from smaller, free-standing sculptures to larger, site-specific installations. In recent years, Johansson has shifted his focus to work based on a more or less prominent, repetitive effect, a kind of palindromic ambiguity. Flip features a selection of sculptures and installations from this series. Just as color coordination and reversibility thread throughout his work, the book has found a similar structure.

A Dialogue Between Contemporary Art and Archaeology

Sabine Groß Show Time—Eine Archäologie der Zukunft Editor: Andrea Jahn, Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz Texts by: Andrea Jahn, Sabine Groß, Thomas Martin Graphic design: Heimann + Schwantes, Berlin 21 ∞ 27 cm, approx. 120 pp., approx. 60 col. ills. Softcover To be published July 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0790-4 German | English Approx. £ 31,– $ 50,–

SHOW TIME initially awakens thoughts of glittering entertainment, shiny surfaces, and fancy stunts—a world that does not really belong in a museum. But here the title is associated with something more literal: time being shown to us. In Sabine Groß‘s (*1961) exhibition at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Saarbrücken, Exhibition: Sabine Groß. Show Time—Eine Archäologie der Zukunft, 11.12.2020–7.11.2021, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Saarbrücken

archaeological finds meet contemporary art for the first time. As a professor of sculpture, Groß has specialized for many years in this type of confrontation, practicing a kind of “archaeology of the future” in which she presents recent significant works of art as potential archaeological objects.

Nature vs. Culture

Claire Morgan Joy in the Pain Editor: Andrea Jahn, Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz Texts by: Chris Fite-Wassilak, Andrea Jahn, George Vasey Graphic design: Nico Zupfer, Stuttgart 24 ∞ 30 cm, approx. 160 pp., approx. 80 col. ills. Softcover To be published July 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0788-1 German | English Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

Claire Morgan’s (*1980) sculptures shake up our notion of a world neatly separated into nature and culture. She allows nature to break into the context of art by creating minimalist arrangements of plastic bits, seeds, and corpses. The artist uses taxidermy animals to fracture this supposed geometrical clarity, intermingling the artificial and the constructed with Exhibition: Claire Morgan—Joy in the Pain, 10.7.2021– 6.1.2022, Saarlandmuseum, Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken

life and death. With her spaces and eco-poetic sculptures, Morgan creates a refuge for nature as still life, deftly bringing us closer to the endangered beauty and fragility of her fauna.

Collector’s Edition is in the making

Contemporary Art from Vietnam

Don’t Call It Art! Contemporary Art in Vietnam 1993–1999 Editors: Annette Bhagwati, Veronika Radulovic Texts by: Eva Bentcheva, Annette Bhagwati, Pamela N. Corey, Veronika Radulovic Graphic design: Dagmar Dunkelau, Berlin 17.5 ∞ 23 cm, approx. 432 pp., approx. 1387 col. ills. Hardcover To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0791-1 English Approx. £ 52,– $ 85,–

Karaoke bars and noisy motorbikes, AIDS and capitalism, Buddhism and homosexuality, the allure of Western brands and a worn-out country marked by war—the works of Vietnamese artists Truong Tan, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Nguyen Quang Huy, and Nguyen Van Cuong are both blunt and introspective, marked by fury and tenderness. Their work stands for a society on the brink of change—and they mark the beginning of a new art, the onset of contemporary art in Vietnam. Their unconventional works, their art performances and installations— the first ever in Vietnam—have established these artists as the most important protagonists of a free young art scene that emerged in Hanoi in the early 1990s. Their works have found their place not only in the collections of leading museums such as the Singapore Art Museum and the National Gallery Singapore, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York or the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; even recent art historical surveys in Vietnam itself now honor their names as ground-breaking artists. Four extensive artist sections are the core of the book. The archive of German artist Veronika Radulovic enables us to make these radical works accessible for the first time. Don’t Call it Art! tells the initial story of four artists and thereby bridge a gap in Vietnamese art history of the twentieth century.

Art from Recycled Plastic

Re-Art Readymade recycelt Editor: Oliver Zybok, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Texts by: Louis Bindernagel, Dave Hakkens, Florian Hamer, Lucas Langhoff, Raimar Stange, Oliver Zybok Graphic design: Ulrich Pester, Cologne 24 ∞ 30.5 cm, approx. 128 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0799-7 German | English Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

We encounter plastic everywhere in the world, in every situation in life. It can take on practically any form, fulfill any function, and is available in every color. Still, plastic’s dark side is becoming ever more obvious. Since 2013 the Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has been trying to draw attention to the problem of plastic waste through his recycling project, Precious Plastic, in which he raises awareness about plastic as a resource for (industrial) production. He has devised four machines capable of recycling plastic at the local level and has published Artists: Monica Bonvicini, Birte Bosse, J. Georg Brandt, Mandy El-Sayegh, Janine Gerber, Dave Hakkens, Jeppe Hein, Yngve Holen, Dorota Jurczak, Joep van Liefland, Dan Peterman, Andreas Pfeiffer, Thomas Rentmeister, and Pae White

the building plans on the Internet. In the exhibition Re-Art. Readymade recycelt at the Overbeck-Gesellschaft, these machines could be used by visitors during workshops. Additionally, artists were invited to submit designs for objects that could be manufactured as part of the show. The individual designs were for unique, limited edition objects, as each was made according to individual specifications. Furthermore, interested visitors were invited to bring ideas for their own objects and make them, too.

The Complexity of the Manifold

Carola Ernst Editor: Oliver Zybok, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Texts by: Rosa Bindernagel, Yannick Courbès, Oliver Zybok Graphic design: Bobby Fleisch, Hamburg 24 ∞ 30.5 cm, approx. 128 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published Fall 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0798-0 German | English Approx. £ 31,– $ 50,–

Carola Ernst’s work, which takes the form of diverse media, plays with many visual layers— and hence, with many layers of perception. Most of her motives, which deal with illusions, hallucinations, and physiological as well as psychological sides of sight, can be traced back to visual spectacles and works of art. Accordingly, complex arcs of tension pervade Ernst’s work, which fluctuates between the classic categories of painting, sculpture, and drawing. The basis for the show at St. Petri’s in Lübeck is the group of works known as Axes of Psychophysics, which the artist has been working on for more than ten years. Exhibition: Carola Ernst. Dioptric Land, 2020, St. Petri zu Lübeck/Overbeck-Gesellschaft

In her pictorial compositions, Ernst’s work shifts between borrowings from Expressionism and the different varieties of Informalism, developing an independent, inimitable formal vocabulary out of these variations. Music, from classical to breakcore, is also an influence on her creative process. The publication, which features essays by Rosa Bindernagel, Jannyck Courbés, and Oliver Zybok, provides an overview of Ernst’s work from the past decade.

Insights into the Art Scene of the Capital of Culture Chemnitz

Bei uns. Bei Euch! Ein Chemnitz Berlin Kontinuum Editor: Alexander Ochs Texts by: Alexander Ochs, Anja Richter Graphic design: Frederik Foert, Berlin/Beijing/Vienna 12.5 ∞ 18.5 cm, approx. 108 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published July 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0793-5 German Approx. £ 29,– $ 48,–

Last fall the industrial city of Chemnitz was selected as Europe’s Cultural Capital of 2025. Since then, at least the German art scene has looked with astonishment at the city in Saxony, discredited by the German right wing. It found a vital art scene that was already non-conformist even during the GDR era, and that includes the collective AG Geige and Exhibition: Bei uns. Bei Euch! Ein Chemnitz Berlin Kontinuum, 1.4.–23.7.2021, Galerie Alexander Ochs, Berlin

the Gruppe Clara Mosch, founded in 1977 in and around what was then known as Karl Marx City. Today, the tradition of collective work continues, through groups such as Bikini Kommando. The exhibition Bei uns. Bei euch! is the first to document encounters between Berlin and Chemnitz artists.

Painterly Non-Spaces. New Works of the Chinese Artist

Yafeng Duan Editor: Alexander Ochs Texts by: Harald F. Theiss Interview between: Yafeng Duan and Alexander Ochs Graphic design: Frederik Foert, Berlin/Beijing/Vienna 21 ∞ 27 cm, approx. 96 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published September 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0800-0 German | English | Chinese Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

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.

A Monograph with Podcasts

Simone Zaugg Thoughts to Go Editor: Kanton Bern, WERK-BUCH / ŒUVRE D’ARTISTE Texts by: Deborah Keller, Bernard Vienat, Simone Zaugg Graphic design: Judith Zaugg, Bern 17 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 224 pp., approx. 120 col. ills. Hardcover To be published November 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0773-7 German | English Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

Simone Zaugg—Thoughts to Go is a monograph with podcasts that provides an overview of the diverse situative and context-related, interdisiplinary 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.

Exhibition: Cantonale Berne Jura 2021/2022, 5.12.2021–16.1.2022, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/CH

Essence in Blue

Patrick Kaufmann Frequencies Editor: textkurve, Baumgartner & Annaheim, Zurich Texts by: Judith Annaheim Graphic design: textkurve, Baumgartner & Annaheim, Zurich 23 ∞ 29 cm, 216 pp., 224 col. ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0770-6 German | English £ 42,– $ 68,–

From endless spaces to interiors, from ultramarine to cobalt blue: this book traces the development of Patrick Kaufmann’s (*1971) art over several cycles of paintings, all of which revolve around the theme of space. This comprehensive monograph also reflects his study of materials and their qualities, which leads ever closer to the essence in which spirit and material meet. More than any other, blue proves to be the color that demands the presence of the artist, meaning a deep immersion in the self. It is the color of transformation, which turns the process of painting into a simultaneous exploration of consciousness.

Striking and Poetic— Questioned Role Models

Niina Lehtonen Braun Let Go Girl Texts by: Christine Nippe Graphic design: Patrick Beier, Berlin 16.8 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 112 pp., approx. 90 col. ills. Softcover To be published November 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0789-8 German | English Approx. £ 29,– $ 48,–

The third in the series of art books by Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mädchen lass los/Let Go Girl, examines the theme of the various roles and tasks of women and the enormous pressure they bring with them. What kinds of expectations do women have of themselves, and which ones come from society itself? How do they deal with the fear of failure? Between 2017 and 2021, the artist created more than 500 collages that gave a voice to mothers, daughters, partners, friends, and artists, which remains warm and humorous despite all Exhibition: Family Affairs, 5.11.2021–9.1.2022, Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Berlin

of the exigencies. The book contains a selection of these works and a companion essay by Dr. Christine Nippe.

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Niina Lehtonen Braun Mother Said 978-3-86678-846-6 £ 23,– $ 31,20

Niina Lehtonen Braun These Foolish Things Remind Me of You 978-3-7356-0291-6 £ 26,– $ 36,40

Painted Narratives

> 1000 Words Editor: Galerie Rothamel Texts by: Annekathrin Kohout, Ina Peter, Jörk Rothamel, Christian Weihrauch, Alexander Wendt Graphic design: Svenja Philipsen, design 21, Groß-Umstadt 24 ∞ 30 cm, 72 pp., 33 col. ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0781-2 German | English Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

A quiet revolution is going on in contemporary painting; young artists are ignoring the taboos of modernism and delving into figurative painting. The exhibition > 1000 Words at the Galerie Rothamel is staying abreast of this development. For five centuries European painting depicted histories, faces, and legends. As development Exhibition: > 1000 Words, 9.1.–12.6.2021, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt

began speeding up, modernism broke with this tradition and shifted the artistic snapshot, the shock, the emotional overwhelm, into focus. The longing for stories remained. The painters in the exhibition > 1000 Words took up the challenge. Their narratives are complex, virtuoso—

Artists: Ellen Akimoto, Undine Bandelin, Ivana de Vivanco, Jonathan Kraus, Nguyen Xuan Huy, Marten Schädlich

and astoundingly traditional.

Colorful Picturescapes

Szilard Huszank I Just Keep Painting Editor: Robert Drees Texts by: Katharina Hoins, Hajo Schiff Graphic design: Christoph Straube, Nuremberg 21 ∞ 28 cm, 120 pp., 93 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0748-5 German | English Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

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 color palettes of classic modernism, yet far from using parody, he has developed an inimitable canon of color and a formal vocabulary all his own. Always gliding into abstract solutions, the colors and content demand the eye’s attention.

Too Beautiful to Be True

Elisabeth Mehrl Dem Schönen Editor: Walter Stolz Texts by: Elke Keiper, Stefan Lindl, Björn Vedder Graphic design: Elisabeth Mehrl, Martin Weiand, fineartservice, Rosenheim 28 ∞ 21 cm, 104 pp., 85 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0779-9 German Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

Exhibitions: Elisabeth Mehrl—Kosmos der Möglichkeiten, 23.1.–27.2.2022, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg Elisabeth Mehrl—immer und alle, 27.8.–26.9.2021, Städtische Galerie Schwabach Elisabeth Mehrl—schöner, 2020, Neuer Kunstverein Regensburg Elisabeth Mehrl—Grammatik des Schönen, 2020, Kunstverein Landshut

For many years Elisabeth Mehrl (*1955) has been negotiating the longing for beauty, sensuality, and opulence in her conceptual painting. She uses exaggeratedly large pieces of jewelry as visual motifs, alluringly lovely and created in a highly elaborate process of painting. In her paintings, Mehrl consistently depicts the moment of auratic charge, as she strips her pictorial objects of any kind of specific context and presents them without any sort of narrative accessories. Mehrl’s paintings are multi-layered and reflective—they tend toward autonomy, leading to the open-endedness of potential meaning. The suggestive quality of this painting, which is difficult to evade, evokes a broad spectrum of emotions and philosophical questions that predominate over any supposed unambiguity. This richly illustrated monograph provides a comprehensive view of some of Mehrl’s most important work cycles of recent years.

The Ambivalences of Touch

Nähe berühren – spüren – verführen Editors: Sabine Kampmann, Torsten Obrist/Galerie Obrist Texts by: Hannes Böhringer, Anja Herrmann, Sabine Kampmann, Joachim Landkammer, Torsten Obrist, Annette Pehnt, Frank Schmidt, Liane Schüller, Wolfgang Ullrich Graphic design: Johanna Unterberg and Roland Wulfftange, smile Visuelle Kommunikation, Essen 20 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 128 pp., approx. 70 col. ills. Hardcover To be published June 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0780-5 German Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Exhibition: Nähe #1—berühren, 19.3.–2.5.2021, Nähe #2—spüren, 7.5.–12.6.2021, Nähe #3—verführen, 18.6.–28.8.2021, Galerie Obrist, Essen

Intimacy is an ambivalent phenomenon—and not just since social distancing has become part of our everyday lives. Closeness has become part of yearning, while distance is considered something to overcome. This notion, however, falls short: art demonstrates to us that ambivalence has always determined the metaphors for proximity and distance. This book compiles works of art that look at the (nude) body and its surfaces, seeing the

Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

skin as a barrier as well as a point of contact between interior and exterior. The artists are on the hunt for closeness among friends, strangers, family members, and couples, as well as a sense of intimacy with oneself. Under rubrics such as “Touch,” “ Feel,” and “Seduce,” the publication examines the dimensions of intimacy as a feeling, an event, and a condition, as a physical, emotional, and spiritual phenomenon in photography, video, performance, drawing, and painting.

Virtuously Painted Self-Exploration

Dominik Schmitt ironisch ikonisch Editor: Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach am Main Preface by: Ingrid Walter Graphic design: Dominik Schmitt, Landau in der Pfalz 17 ∞ 21 cm, approx. 120 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published July 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0784-3 German | English Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Dominik Schmitt (*1983) is primarily interested in philosophical and biological questions about the self and the unimaginably vast network of causes and effects to which everything in life is subject. Through his mixed-media technique, involving acrylics, oils, and pencils on collaged canvas, he combines the human and the animal, depicting their organs with allusions to the aesthetics of biological illustrations of bodies. Schmitt’s images are dominated by a dark, almost gloomy color palette. This publication provides an overview of Schmitt’s recent paintings. Exhibition: Balsam, 15.5.–3.7.21, Dominik Schmitt and Benjamin Burkard, Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach am Main

Abstract Tendencies from the Rhineland

TnoA—The Nature of Abstraction Texts by: Jan Holthoff Graphic design: Jan Holthoff 20 ∞ 30 cm, approx. 84 pp., approx. 75 col. ills. Hardcover To be published July 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0777-5 German | English Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

The catalogue for the group exhibition The Nature of Abstraction combines seven artistic positions in abstract-gestural painting from the Rhineland. On display are artists who have dedicated themselves to abstract painting. Their self-referential work fluctuates between the poles of dissolution and development of form. Despite their formal precision, the process of creating the paintings can be seen in the marks left behind on the canvases. Thus, an affinity Exhibitions: TNoA—The Nature of Abstraction, 4.7.–17.7.2021, TNoA—Kunstwerk Köln 17.10–17.11.2021, TNoA—RUIMTE P60 ASSEN, Niederlande

to Informalism, Tachism, or Abstract Expressionism from the post-war period becomes apparent. However, these references are not directly cited, but rather updated and reflected through contemporary strategies. We find ourselves in an era when individual expression of freedom is threatened by powerful systems of authoritarian control and the digital availability of individual data and profiles. The kind of painting that favors a subjective gesture and thus

Artists: Laura Aberham, Max Frintrop, Ina Gerken, Jan Holthoff, Jan Kolata, Becker Schmitz, Sabine Tress

mirrors humanistic values of individuality might be an answer.

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The Many Faces of the Balkans

Facing the Balkans Südosteuropa in Fotografien von Harald Schmitt Editor: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Texts by: Ulf Brunnbauer, Klaus Ceynowa, Caroline Finkeldey, Heike Karge, Edvin Pezo, Manuel Sarrazin, Gudrun Wirtz

Preliminary cover

Graphic design: Polina Bazir, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 28 ∞ 23 cm, approx. 208 pp., approx. 100 col. ills. Hardcover To be published November 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0774-4 German Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

What does southeastern Europe look like, apart from our clichés of the Balkans? This question intrigued Harald Schmitt, formerly a photographer for stern magazine and a six-time winner of the World Press Photo Awards. Between 2015 and 2019 he visited there five times. His pictures show us a region caught up in a state of flux, between religious diversity and innovative entrepreneurship and the area’s complicated past. The book Facing the Balkans is a companion to the Bavarian State Library’s annual exhibition in 2021 and presents a hundred photographs from eleven Balkan countries. Accompanying the pictures are essays by renowned scholars who invite readers to take on a new perspective of southeastern Europe. Exhibition: Facing the Balkans—Südosteuropa in Fotografien von Harald Schmitt, 11.11.2021–6.3.2022, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

The Catalogue of the 17th Biennial in Montreal

MOMENTA Biennale de l’image Sensing Nature / Quand la nature ressent Editor: MOMENTA Biennale de l’image Texts by: Jen Bervin, Anne-Marie Dubois, Léuli Eshr āghi, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Stefanie Hessler, Maude Johnson, Alexis Rider, Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt, Himali Singh Soin Graphic design: Jean-François Proulx, Balistique.ca, Montreal 21.9 ∞ 29.2 cm, approx. 164 pp., numerous col. ills. Hardcover To be published September 2021 isbn 978-3-7356-0787-4 English isbn 978-3-7356-0795-9 French Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

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A longing for togetherness, for love, echoes insistently in this 17th edition of MOMENTA, Biennale de l’image. The artists and authors invite us to forge intimate kinships with

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spheres of nonhuman life. They propose that we listen to, observe, smell, touch, and speak to the land, the water, and the air—not with the aim of understanding or comprehending them from a distance, nor for the purpose of exploitation—but to resonate, to vibrate, to

Exhibition: 17th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal, 8.9.–24.10.2021

be together. Or, perhaps, with no goal in mind at all. The artists make room for stories that dwell within the blurred boundaries between technology and ancestral lore, incorporating both human and nonhuman modes of knowing. They celebrate the fact that we have a

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MOMENTA Biennale de l’image The life of things 978-3-7356-0607-5 (E) 978-3-7356-0608-2 (F) £ 36,– $ 49,40

MOMENTA Biennale de l’image What does the image stand for? 978-3-7356-0377-7 (E) 978-3-7356-0401-9 (F) £ 36,– $ 49,40

relationship with nature, that we are of nature.

Artists: Frances Adair Mckenzie, Abbas Akhavan, alaska B, BUSH Gallery (Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Peter Morin, Tania Willard), Scott Benesiinaabandan, Jen Bervin, Anna Binta Diallo, Charlotte Brathwaite, Carolina Caycedo, Julien Creuzet, Léuli Eshr āghi, Maryse Goudreau, Ayesha Hameed, Taloi Havini, Tsēmā Igharas, Lisa Jackson, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Hamedine Kane, Kama La Mackerel, Candice Lin, Ange Loft, Chloë Lum and Yannick

Desranleau, Malik McKoy, Alex McLeod, Caroline Monnet, Sandra Mujinga, Faye Mullen, New Red Order (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Kite, and Jackson Polys), Thao Nguyen Phan, Laura Ortman, Sabrina Ratté, Tabita Rezaire, Jamilah Sabur, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Susan Schuppli, Tejal Shah, Erin Siddall, Miriam Simun, P. Staff, Eve Tagny, Joce Two-Crows Tremblay, Susanne M. Winterling, T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss

A Photographic Exploration of the Possibilities of Portraiture

Jackie Nickerson Salvage Texts by: Jackie Nickerson Graphic design: Kevin Gurry, County Louth, Irland 24 ∞ 30 cm, 96 pp., 16 b&w and 100 col. ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0755-3 English Approx. £ 40,– $ 65,–

Salvage: The title alludes to the reused and recycled content of Jackie Nickerson’s (*1960) 2020 series of studio portraits that explore the homogeneity of portraiture—balance, similarity, proportions, size—that characterize the genre. With her photographic examination of Old Masters and modern paintings, Nickerson illuminates the way in which artists over centuries interpret the observed world in their own way by using common visual techniques and means of expression in different media.

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Jackie Nickerson Field Test 978-3-7356-0734-8 5 35,– (D) £ 33,– $ 45,50

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Visionary Architectures

Anything Goes? Berlin Architecture in the 1980s Editor: Ursula Müller, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin 23 ∞ 27 cm, 232 pp., 42 b&w and 188 col. ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0695-2 German isbn 978-3-7356-0700-3 English £ 47,– $ 75,–

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In 1987, Berlin as a whole became a laboratory for architecture. A wide range of notable buildings with a unique density was created in the East and the West in connection with the

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city’s 750th anniversary. While the buildings were vilified at the time, they now appear as important witnesses to a “postmodern” era of building, which called the traditional architecture of the modern living environment into question. Today, the buildings have disappeared, been modified, or are threatened with demolition. For the first time, an exhibition and publication examine the significance of the architectural visions developed in East and West

Architects: Hinrich and Inken Baller, Christian Enzmann and Bernd Ettel, John Hejduk with Moritz Müller, Josef Paul Kleihues, Michael Kny and Thomas Weber, Hans Kollhoff, Dorothea Krause, Rob Krier, Peter Meyer, Frei Otto with Hermann Kendel, Martin Küenzlin and Günther Ludewig, Manfred Prasser, Günter Stahn, Helmut Stingl, James Stirling and Michael Wilford, Peter Stürzebecher, Kjell Nylund and Christof Puttfarken, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Solweig Steller-Wendland et al.

Berlin in the final decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Exhibition: Anything Goes? Berliner Architekturen der 1980er Jahre, 17.3.–16.8.2021, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin

100 Years of Save the Children

I Am Alive (2nd Edition) How Children Survived a Century of Wars Photographs by: Dominic Nahr Texts by: Mayte Carrasco, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Martina Dase, Bertram Job, Anna Kerber, Ban Ki-moon, Aishe Malekshahi, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gerd Müller, Wole Soyinka, Jon Swain, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Margrethe Vestager, Anne Watts, Ingo Zamperoni Based on interviews and reportage by: Anna Mayumi Kerber Graphic design: Harri Kuhn, mischen, Berlin 22 ∞ 26.5 cm, 324 pp., 60 b&w and 102 col. ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0632-7 German isbn 978-3-7356-0635-8 English £ 43,– $ 58,50

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Today, 426 million children are growing up in war zones. Since 1919, Save the Children has been protecting and promoting the well-being of children in more than 110 countries.

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For its hundredth anniversary, this large global independent children’s rights organization has teamed up with the Swiss photojournalist Dominic Nahr to present the stories of ten children and a “baby of hope,” all of whom survived the wars of the past century. This touching illustrated volume tells of their fates, of everyday life in war, of escape and persecution, but also how they found hope and their own paths, despite the adversity they faced.

Digital Imaginaries African Positions Beyond Binaries Editors: Oulimata Gueye, Julien McHardy, Richard Rottenburg, Philipp Ziegler on behalf of Kër Thiossane, Wits Art Museum, ZKM | Karlsruhe Texts by: Bethlehem Anteneh, Younes Baba-Ali / Aude Tournaye, Tegan Bristow, Mehdi Derfoufi, Mamadou Diallo / Judith Rottenburg, Sunny Dolat / Njoki Ngumi (The Nest Collective), Oulimata Gueye, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Francois Knoetze, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou / Manuel Bürger, Bettina Korintenberg, Siri Lamoureaux / Enrico Ille / Amal Hassan Fadlalla / Timm Sureau, Achille Mbembe, Maurice Mbikayi, Julien McHardy, Christopher McMichael, Jamal Nxedlana, Lex Trickett, Themba Konela (Bubblegum Club), Marcus Neustetter, Nanjala Nyabola, DK Osseo-Asare / Yasmine Abbas, Tabita Rezaire, Richard Rottenburg, Joseph Tonda, Michel Wahome, Philipp Ziegler Graphic design: Manuel Bürger, Berlin 15.5 ∞ 24 cm, 432 pp. (D) and 408 pp. (E), 31 b&w and 217 col. ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0656-3 German isbn 978-3-7356-0657-0 English £ 37,– $ 59,95

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The two-year, three-city exhibition and research project Digital Imaginaries brought together artists, makers, architects, and social scientists to examine digital futures on the African conArtists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou / L’Africaine d’architecture, Younes Baba-Ali, Tegan Bristow / Alex Coelho / Russel Hlongwane / João Roxo, Kombo Chapfika, Joshua Chiundiza, CUSS Group, Milumbe Haimbe aka ArtisTrophe, Olalekan Jeyifous & Wale Lawal, Wanuri Kahiu, Isaac Kariuki, Francois Knoetze, Maurice Mbikayi, DK Osseo-Asare & Yasmine Abbas / Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), Marcus Neustetter, Tabita Rezaire, The Nest Collective, Competences and Visions for Digitization in Africa, The Making of Digital Africas

tinent. This book presents the resulting artistic and scholarly productions alongside additional works. The contributions in this volume deal with diverse digital phenomena: from the continued impact of toxic histories and the conflict-ridden extraction of minerals critical to the digital economy to video games, experimental architecture, the reappropriation of smart city and innovation practices, the commoning of resources, attempts to digitize voter trust, calls for digital resistance and decolonial healing, the relationships between humans and technics, utopia and dystopia, and the limits of reason. The contributions articulate imaginaries and agendas capable of staving off the domination of market interests, state surveillance, and postcolonial hegemonies. Starting from positions on the African continent and in the African diaspora, the works collated here contribute to the global struggle for more diverse and inclusive digital futures.

Exhibitions: Afropixel#6: Digital Imaginaries: Non-Aligned Utopias, 2018, Kër Thiossane, Dakar Digital Imaginaries: Premonition, 2018, Wits Art Museum (WAM), Johannesburg Digital Imaginaries: Competences and Visions for Digitization in Africa, 2018, Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, Johannesburg Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production, 2018–2019, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe

Touching: A Farewell

Fabian Zapatka Vater Text by: Eckhart Nickel Graphic design: Thomas Kartsolis, München 17 ∞ 24 cm, 96 pp., 68 col. ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0739-3 German | English £ 26,– $ 40,–

In 2019 Manfred Zapatka ended his more than 50-year-long career in the theater at the Residenz Theater in Munich. An outstanding actor, he represents a generation of Germanlanguage ensemble theatermakers that has recently been retiring. The photographer Fabian Zapatka (*1978) decided to accompany his father as he bid his farewell. His photographic piece Vater (Father) starts in the world of the Munich theater. The end of their journey is marked by his father’s retreat to his parents’ home in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, where he spent his childhood. The old house in the old hometown, which stood empty for nearly thirty years, will become his new home.

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Edition 100 Jahre Beuys, 2021 Lothar Wolleh Estate Facsimile baryte print Pigment print on Hahnemühle baryte paper each 37.8 ∞ 37.8 cm Sheet each 42 ∞ 42 cm Edition: 1/40–40/40 numbered, with estate stamp £ 403,– $ 546,–

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Berlin Architecture in the 1980s

Afrikanische Positionen jenseits des Binären

African Positions Beyond Binaries

Ed. Ursula Müller, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin

Ed. Richard Rottenburg, Oulimata Gueye, Julien McHardy, Philipp Ziegler on behalf of Kër Thiossane, Wits Art Museum, ZKM | Karlsruhe

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Wie Kinder Kriege überstehen. Ein Jahrhundertporträt.

How Children Survived a Century of Wars

Ed. Save the Children

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Christian Jankowski Sender and Receiver

Ed. James Cohan 24 ∞ 30 cm, 188 pp., 113 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0752-2 English

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Von der Idee zur Form

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Matriarchinnen / Matriarchs

Domeau & Pérès. Dialoge zwischen Design und Handwerk

Make It Newer!

23 ∞ 30 cm, 164 pp., 211 ills. Hardcover

Ed. Katia Baudin, Kunstmuseen Krefeld

isbn 978-3-7356-0704-1 German | English

21 ∞ 24.5 cm, 192 pp., 169 ills. Hardcover

£ 47,– $ 75,–

isbn 978-3-7356-0545-0 German | French

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Ed. Florian Matzner

Ed. Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V.

24 ∞ 35 cm, 144 pp., 110 ills. Hardcover

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Myriam Holme

£ 40,– $ 65,–

Leiko Ikemura

Linus Riepler

In Praise of Light

After the Excitement

Ed. Hannes Langbein and Alexander Ochs for Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin 21 ∞ 27 cm, 96 pp., 50 ills. Softcover

21 ∞ 26 cm, 176 pp., 262 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0737-9 German | English

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2010–2020 19.1 ∞ 26 cm, 128 pp., 84 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0767-6 German | English

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Adrian Sauer

Sebastian Acker

Miklós Onucsán

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Foto Arbeiten

Traces of Other Places

Touchable

Ed. Gertrude Wagenfeld-Pleister, Oldenburger Kunstverein and Galerie Klemm’s, Berlin

17 ∞ 24 cm, 112 pp., 60 ills. Hardcover

Therefore white is black worn away for good and black is white worn away for good

18.7 ∞ 25.7 cm, 256 pp., 701 ills. Hardcover

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Ed. Mădălina Brașoveanu, Mihnea Mircan, Galeria Plan B, Cluj / Berlin 23 ∞ 26.5 cm, 336 pp., 465 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0753-9 English | Romanian

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Uta Zaumseil

Sador Weinsčlucker

Nachtflüge

der weg nach innen und aussen

Ed. Martin Schick, Städtische Galerie Backnang and Kai Uwe Schierz, Angermuseum Erfurt 28 ∞ 21 cm, 80 pp., 51 ills. Hardcover

27.5 ∞ 32 cm, 96 pp., 68 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0768-3 German | English

£ 57,– $ 75,–

Rudolf Zwirner Jakob Mattner On the Mystery of Timelessness and the Miracle of Transcendence Ed. Michael Haas, Anna Maigler 17 ∞ 24 cm, 72 pp., 64 ills. Softcover

isbn 978-3-7356-0740-9 German | English

isbn 978-3-7356-0742-3 German | English

£ 28,– $ 42,–

£ 27,– $ 39,95

Valérie Favre Valery / Plattform 1 / Exil Ed. Annette Tietz, Galerie Pankow, Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin 19.7 ∞ 21 cm, 96 pp., 456 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0711-9 German | English

£ 26,– $ 40,–

new publications spring 2021

Wald. Wolf. Wildnis.

Mentagramm IV

Willem Julius Müller

Lubomir Typlt

Apocalypse as Beginning

Somnambul

Ed. Ute Bopp-Schumacher and the Dr.-Hanns-Simon-Stiftung Bitburg

THE SECRET GARDEN, THE VIENNESE PIANO VARIATIONS AND THE ART INTELLIGENCE OF KD-L47

Ed. Junge Kunst Berlin

Ed. Christiane Bühling-Schultz, C & K Galerie Berlin

16.8 ∞ 23 cm, 160 pp., 106 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0746-1 German

£ 29,– $ 45,–

Ed. Neoprojektionstheaters Wien 16.5 ∞ 24 cm, 308 pp., 64 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-7356-0729-4 German | English | Japanese

24 ∞ 30 cm, 136 pp., 85 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0736-2 German | English

£ 39,90 $ 65,–

23 ∞ 31.5 cm, 84 pp., 83 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0747-8 German | English

£ 28,– $ 42,–

£ 33,– $ 45,50

Tor Seidel In Uncharted Territories

Tor Seidel In

Uncharted Territories Essay by Jay Hetrick

Claus Clément

Tor Seidel

Fabian Zapatka

Anja Engelke

CultureCUTScollagen III

In Uncharted Territories

Vater

Room 125

Ed. CC-Projekt

Ed. Tor Seidel / Maraya Art Center Sharjah

17 ∞ 24 cm, 96 pp., 68 ills. Softcover

17 ∞ 22 cm, 56 pp., 25 ills. Hardcover

21 ∞ 24 cm, 80 pp., 44 ills. Hardcover

isbn 978-3-7356-0739-3 German | English

isbn 978-3-7356-0730-0 German | English

isbn 978-3-7356-0733-1 German | English

£ 26,– $ 40,–

£ 29,– $ 39,95

24 ∞ 30.5 cm, 176 pp., 176 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0744-7 German

£ 42,– $ 68,–

£ 31,– $ 50,–

new publications spring 2021

Jackie Nickerson

Chuck Samuels (E)

Chuck Samuels (F)

Field Test

Becoming Photography

Devenir la photographie

Grüner Himmel, blaues Gras (D)

24 ∞ 30 cm, 104 pp., 130 ills. Hardcover

Ed. Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Plein sud, centre d’exposition en art actuel à Longueuil

Ed. Matthias Claudius Hofmann, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main

23.5 ∞ 28.6 cm, 136 pp., 154 ills. Hardcover

16.8 ∞ 23 cm, 256 pp., 116 ills. Softcover

isbn 978-3-7356-0732-4 English

isbn 978-3-7356-0731-7 Französisch

isbn 978-3-7356-0750-8 German

£ 39,95 $ 65,–

£ 31,– $ 50,–

Green Sky, Blue Grass (E)

Mulan River—Cuò

Anja Nitz

Colour Coding Worlds

Ed. Chen Yujun, Fang Zhiling

Farben ordnen Welten

isbn 978-3-7356-0734-8 English

£ 33,– $ 45,50

Ed. Matthias Claudius Hofmann, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main 16.8 ∞ 23 cm, 256 pp., 116 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0751-5 English

£ 31,– $ 50,–

Depot 23.8 ∞ 28.5 cm, 208 pp., 142 ills. Hardcover

Ed. GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig

isbn 978-3-7356-0727-0 English | Chinesisch

20 ∞ 28 cm, 144 pp., 101 ills. Hardcover

£ 44,– $ 70,–

isbn 978-3-7356-0754-6 German | English

£ 42,– $ 68,–

Announced—not yet been published

Neu Sehen

Welt—Bühne—Traum

Clara Brörmann

Die Fotografie der 20er und 30er Jahre

Die „Brücke“ im Atelier

Kopfbilder

Ed. Kristina Lemke, Städel Museum

Ed. Andrea Jahn, Saarlandmuseum, Moderne Galerie

Texts by Kito Nedo

Ed. Beatriz Morales, Zombori Art Media

To be published June 2021

To be published Fall 2021

21 ∞ 27 cm, approx. 96 pp. Hardcover

21 ∞ 28 cm, approx. 150 pp. Hardcover

isbn 978-3-7356-0763-8 German | English

isbn 978-3-7356-0766-9 German | English

Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Claudia Schmitz Invisyllables

To be published July 2021 24 ∞ 28 cm, approx. 300 pp., approx. 148 ills. Hardcover isbn 978-3-7356-0745-4 German | English text appendix Approx. £ 52,– $ 80,–

To be published June 2021 17 ∞ 24 cm, approx. 224 pp., approx. 140 ills. Softcover isbn 978-3-7356-0759-1 German

Beatriz Morales

Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

Tony Franz

Anthony Curri

Mirjana Vrbaški

2006–2020

Atlas Moksha

odd time

Ed. Sören Fischer

Texts by Anthony Curri

Texts by: Koen Potgieter

To be published June 2021

To be published May 2021

19.5 ∞ 25 cm, 152 pp. Softcover

24 ∞ 30 cm, approx. 128 pp., approx. 157 ills. Hardcover

17 ∞ 22.2 cm, approx. 64 pp., approx. 24 ills. Hardcover

To be published October 2021

isbn 978-3-7356-0760-7 German | English

isbn 978-3-7356-0762-1 English

isbn 978-3-7356-0765-2 English

21 ∞ 28 cm, approx. 120 pp. Hardcover

Approx. £ 37,– $ 60,–

Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

£ 29,– $ 45,–

isbn 978-3-7356-0555-9 German | English | Spanish

Bild | Luft | Linie Texts by: Nicola L. Hein, Dong-Yeon Koh, Jaeyong Park, Lee Yoo

Approx. £ 42,– $ 68,–

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Image Credits

2–3 Photo: Kapwani Kiwanga Counter-Illumination #2, 2020, C-Print on glossy paper, 80 ∞ 120 cm, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 4–5 Fabian Marti Untitled, 2011, silver gelatine print (photogram), unique, 180 ∞ 145 cm, © Fabian Marti Adriana Czernin Ibn Tulun 98, 2018, acrylic, colored pencil, pencil, crayon on paper, 115 ∞ 115 cm, courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Wien Rana Begum WP 412, 2020, drawing with transfer paper, 45 ∞ 70 cm, courtesy Begum Studio & Jhaveri Contemporary 6–7 Lothar Wolleh Untitled (Joseph Beuys in Moderna Museet, in front of his work Plastischer Fuß Elastischer Fuß, 1969), 1971, © Joseph Beuys / Oliver Wolleh, Berlin, for Lothar Wolleh Untitled (Joseph Beuys in Moderna Museet, in front of his work Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet, 1964), 1971, © Joseph Beuys / Oliver Wolleh, Berlin, for Lothar Wolleh Untitled (Joseph Beuys in Moderna Museet, in front of his work Das Rudel, 1969), 1971, © Joseph Beuys / Oliver Wolleh, Berlin, for Lothar Wolleh Untitled (Joseph Beuys in Moderna Museet, Stockholm), 1971, © Joseph Beuys / Oliver Wolleh, Berlin, for Lothar Wolleh 8–9 Mihai Olos Rhythms / Growing Knot, 1977, acacia wood, 51 ∞ 51 ∞ 51 cm, © Olos Estate and Plan B Cluj, Berlin Untitled, undated, rose twigs, thread, 14 ∞ 18 ∞ 18 cm, © Olos Estate and Plan B Cluj, Berlin Portrait of Mihai Olos, © Olos Estate Untitled, 1988, wood, 34.5 ∞ 35.5 ∞ 37.5 cm, © Olos Estate and Plan B Cluj, Berlin Universal Town / Urban structure project (overlapped on a drawing of Le Corbusier), 1970, gouache on paper, 116 ∞ 115.6 cm, © Olos Estate and Plan B Cluj, Berlin Untitled (Bulgari de sare / Lumps of Salt), 1988, oak wood, small stones inside, pencil marks on the sides, 65 ∞ 65 ∞ 65 cm, © Olos Estate and Plan B Cluj, Berlin 10–11 Ilya Kabakov The Six Paintings about the Temporary Loss of Eyesight (They are Painting the Boat), 2015, oil on canvas, 112 ∞ 196 cm, private collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

The Six Paintings about the Temporary Loss of Eyesight (The Scene at the Square), 2015, oil on canvas, 112 ∞ 196 cm, private collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 The Movement of Darkness # 1, 2017, oil on canvas, 284.5 ∞ 211 cm, © Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 At The Studio Nr. 1 , 2018, oil on canvas, 209 ∞ 275 cm, © Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Two Times Nr. 20, 2016, oil on canvas, 212 ∞ 284,5 cm, © Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 12–13 Emily Gernild Below the ground, 2020, rabbit-skin glue and pigment on canvas, 240 ∞ 190 cm, © Emily Gernild and Schwarz contemporary, Berlin and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Spirited, 2021, oil on canvas, 240 ∞ 190 cm, © Emily Gernild and Schwarz contemporary, Berlin and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Blood, Night sweat, Tears, 2020, rabbit-skin glue and pigment on canvas, 180 ∞ 470 cm (each panel 180 ∞ 150 cm), © Emily Gernild and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 14–15 Marc Brandenburg Der Tod, eine Treppe herabsteigend, 2017, graphite on paper, 69 ∞ 45.5 cm, private collection, Paris, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Untitled, 2019, graphite on paper, 35 ∞ 28.7 cm, courtesy Kim and Daniel Liebig, © VG BildKunst, Bonn 2021 Untitled, 2007, graphite on paper, 50 ∞ 50 cm, private collection Berlin, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Untitled, 2019, graphite on paper, 31.3 ∞ 33 cm, private collection Munich, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 16–17 August Macke Elisabeth Gerhardt auf grünem Stuhl, 1908, oil on cardboard, 18 ∞ 14.5 cm, Kunstmuseum Bonn, permanent loan from a private collection August and Elisabeth Macke with their children Walter and Wolfgang in Bonn, Summer 1913, Museum August-Macke-Haus, Bonn Dietrich Erdmann, 14 days old, with Lothar and Elisabeth Erdmann, August 1917, Museum August-Macke-Haus, Bonn Photo: Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, Berlin 1943, private collection 18–19 Szilard Huszank LC #66, 2017–2018, oil on canvas, 150 ∞ 180 cm, © Szilard Huszank

20 Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis Happiness You are Dead to Me, 2020, oil on canvas, 140 ∞ 120 cm, © Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis Untitled, 2020, oil pastel on paper, 30 ∞ 24 cm, © Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis The Disney Couple, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 100 ∞ 85 cm, © Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis 21 Alexandre da Cunha Public Sculpture (Pouff VII), 2018, concrete, 180 ∞ 180 ∞ 60 cm, photo: Isabelle Arthuis, © Alexandre da Cunha, courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery Samara Scott Visualization, Samara Scott at Nine Elms station, commissioned by Art on the Underground, © Art on the Underground Samara Scott Belt and Road, Tramway, Glasgow, 2018, mixed media, size variable, photo: Keith Hunter, © Samara Scott, courtesy The Sunday Painter Alexandre da Cunha Visualisation of Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset, Alexandre da Cunha at Battersea Power Station. Ticket hall view of the North Wall. Commissioned by Art on the Underground, © Art on the Underground 22–23

24–25 Ibrahim Mahama Sketch for the Parliament of Ghosts as the central building part of Red Clay in Tamale, Ghana, © Ibrahim Mahama Parliament of Ghosts, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, Manchester International Festival 2019, © Ibrahim Mahama The shell construction of the Parliament of Ghosts, 2020, Tamale, Ghana, © Ibrahim Mahama Parliament of Ghosts shortly before completion, 2020, Tamale, Ghana, © Ibrahim Mahama 26 Elín Jakobsdóttir The End of Things, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 ∞ 180 cm, © Elín Jakobsdóttir In the First Place, 2021, film stills, © Elín Jakobsdóttir 27 Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko About space and love, © Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko The Altai files, © Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko

28–29 Michael Johansson Never Odd or Even, 2018, mixed media: trailers, ordinary items, 3.7 ∞ 3 ∞ 1.2 m, © Michael Johansson and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Flip Shelf—Mirrored, 2018, mixed media, shelf system, ordinary items, 100 ∞ 75 ∞ 30 cm, 100 ∞ 75 ∞ 30 cm, © Michael Johansson and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Tetris—Cheongju, 2019, mixed media: furniture, ordinary items, 8 ∞ 3.5 m, © Michael Johansson and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 This Side Up, 2017, mixed media: ordinary items, detail, © Michael Johansson and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Concrete Reflections, 2019, mixed media: ordinary items, 64 ∞ 64 ∞ 64 cm, © Michael Johansson and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 30 Sabine Groß Progressosaurus, 2020, installation view Show Time—Eine Archäologie der Zukunft in Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Saarbrücken, Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, polymerized plaster, acrylic paint, pigments, stain, photo: Tom Gundelwein / Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Installation view Show Time—Eine Archäologie der Zukunft in Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Saarbrücken,Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, photo: Tom Gundelwein / Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Graue Eminenz, 2020, installation view Show Time—Eine Archäologie der Zukunft in Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Saarbrücken, Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, polymerized plaster, varnish, acrylic paint, graphite, metal rods, photo: Tom Gundelwein / Foundation Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 31 Claire Morgan By the Skin of the Teeth, 2019, fox, polyethylene, nylon threads, acrylic, 167 ∞ 36 ∞ 36 cm, © Claire Morgan, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris / Cologne / St. Moritz Here is the End of all Things, 2011, barn owl (taxidermy), thistle seeds, flies, nylon threads, acrylic, lead, 4 parts, each 240 ∞ 150 ∞ 150 cm, © Claire Morgan, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris / Cologne / St. Moritz Snake, 2018, drawing, graphite and pastel on paper, 183 ∞ 183 cm, © Claire Morgan, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris / Cologne / St. Moritz The Owl and the Pussycat, 2014, barn owl and domestic cat (taxidermy), polyethylene, nylon threads, lead, 300 ∞ 150 ∞ 150 cm, © Claire Morgan, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris / Cologne / St. Moritz

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32–33 Nguyen Quang Huy Untitled, 1998, ink and watercolor on Vietnamese paper, 70 ∞ 52 cm, courtesy Veronika Radulovic Nguyen Minh Thanh Untitled, 1998, ink and watercolor on Vietnamese paper, 41 ∞ 60 cm, courtesy Veronika Radulovic 34 Re-Art. Readymade recycelt, exhibition views Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 19.6.–30.8.2020, photo: Fred Dott 35 Carola Ernst Wandering Minds, 2020, mixed media on canvas, 201 ∞ 251 cm, photo: Carola Ernst Dioptric Land, exhibition view St. Petri zu Lübeck, 9.10.–7.11.2020, a cooperation of the Overbeck Society and the St. Petri Curatorship, photo: Fred Dott 36 Jan Kummer Untitled, 1988, mixed media on hard fiber, 78 ∞ 58 cm, courtesy Alexander Ochs Via Lewandowsky In guten Händen / In Good Hands, 2021, glass, lacquered, 45 ∞ 30 ∞ 50 cm, photo: Thomas Bruns, courtesy Alexander Ochs, © VG BildKunst, Bonn 2021 Nina Kummer Ich habe großen Durst, 2020, linocut, 33 ∞ 23 cm, courtesy Alexander Ochs 37 Yafeng Duan Untitled Nr. 4, 2019, oil on canvas, 80 ∞ 60 cm, courtesy Alexander Ochs Untitled Nr. 22, 2019, oil on canvas, 200 ∞ 150 cm, courtesy Alexander Ochs Untitled Nr. 18, 2019, mixed media, 80 ∞ 60 cm, courtesy Alexander Ochs 38 Simone Zaugg Backgrounds, 2020, photo, C-Print, laminated on Aludibond, 60 ∞ 40 cm, © Simone Zaugg and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Schaukel, 2003, video still, © Simone Zaugg and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Minenspiel, 2019, Video, 12 min. 50 sec., © Simone Zaugg and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 39 Patrick Kaufmann Aeronauten, 2009, oil on linen, 30 ∞ 48 cm, © Patrick Kaufmann / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 120 ∞ 115 cm, © Patrick Kaufmann / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Totem, 2003, oil on cotton, 160 ∞ 180 cm, © Patrick Kaufmann / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

40–41 Niina Lehtonen Braun Untitled, from the series Mädchen lass los, 2019, collage, ink, watercolor and gouache on paper, 28 ∞ 40 cm, © Niina Lehtonen Braun and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Angst. Wir sind wie immer glücklich I, 2020, collage, ink and watercolor on paper, 29.5 ∞ 21 cm, © Niina Lehtonen Braun and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Angst. Wir sind wie immer glücklich II, 2020, collage, ink and acrylic on paper, 42 ∞ 59 cm, © Niina Lehtonen Braun and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 42 Undine Bandelin Der Triumph, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 ∞ 140 cm, courtesy Galerie Rothamel Ellen Akimoto Being Natural, 2019, oil on canvas, 110 ∞ 130 cm, courtesy Galerie Rothamel Marten Schädlich Kokon, 2020, oil and egg tempera on mdf, 31 ∞ 46 cm, courtesy Galerie Rothamel 43 Szilard Huszank LC #84, 2019, oil on canvas, 180 ∞ 150 cm, © Szilard Huszank LC #105, 2019, oil on canvas, 100 ∞ 100 cm, courtesy Galerie Robert Drees, © Szilard Huszank LC #110, 2019, oil on canvas, 100 ∞ 100 cm, © Szilard Huszank 44 Elisabeth Mehrl Es wird einmal, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 180 ∞ 190 cm, © Elisabeth Mehrl and VG BildKunst, Bonn 2021

Status quo vadis in veritas ananas, 2020, solo show, Gallery Thomas Hühsam, photo: Dominik Schmitt Status quo vadis in veritas ananas, 2020, solo show, Gallery Thomas Hühsam, photo: Dominik Schmitt 47 Jan Holthoff No. 136, 2015, pigment, acrylic on canvas, 150 ∞ 190 cm, © Jan Holthoff Max Frintrop Untitled (ever fallen), 2021, ink pigments on canvas, 130 ∞ 180 cm, © Max Frintrop

50–51 Harald Schmitt Romania: Transylvanian Saxons, 2015, digital photo, 4896 ∞ 3264 px, © BSB München / Harald Schmitt North Macedonia: central square in Skopje, 2016, digital photo, 7087 ∞ 4725 px, © BSB München / Harald Schmitt Montenegro: goat herder, 2018, digital photo, 8256 ∞ 5504 px, © BSB München / Harald Schmitt Northern Macedonia: border fence with Greece, 2016, digital photo, 7087 ∞ 4725 px, © BSB München / Harald Schmitt Albania: birthday party, 2016, digital photo, 5542 ∞ 3695 px, © BSB München / Harald Schmitt

Susan Schuppli Learning from Ice: Ice Cores, 2019, HD Video,

operation project planning Friedrichstraße North, Spree Terraces by Karl-Ernst Swora – view Spree, 1987, © Berlinische Galerie, digitization: Anja Elisabeth Witte Hinrich and Inken Baller Detail of a Torhaus (Gate House) on Fraenkelufer, 1984, photo: Reinhard Friedrich, © Archiv Hinrich and Inken Baller

58–59 Building Directorate Capital Berlin (East) VEB Berlin-Projekt, model workshop IHB,

45 Marcela Böhm Der Schwan, 2016, oil on canvas, 110 ∞ 160 cm, © Marcela Böhm / Galerie Obrist and VG BildKunst, Bonn 2021

56–57 Daniel Libeskind Berlin City Edge, projection of Berlin psychocybernetics, urban concept and detail of the structure, 1988, laser reproduction on photo paper, 100.5 ∞ 101 cm, collection Frac Centre-Val de Loire

Rajiya, 15 days old, born in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh José David Ríos (name changed), 17 years old, survivor of the Colombian conflict, 1964/66–2016 (in 2016 a peace treaty was signed, but the fighting is still going on) Erich Karl, 107 years old, survivor of the First World War (1914–1918) 62–63 Maurice Mbikayi Self-portrait 3, 2015, photo Francois Knoetze Core Dump Karlsruhe, performance. ZKM | Karlsruhe (DE), November 16, 2018 Marcus Neustetter Lead the Way – Speculative Scapes, performance with Lamine Kora Kouyaté and Fatou Cissé. Afropixel #6, Kër Thiossane, Dakar (SN), May 7, 2018

54–55 Jackie Nickerson Dinosaurs and Flowers, 2020, © Jackie Nickerson Women with Flowers and Dinosaurs, 2020, © Jackie Nickerson Head Dress, 2020, © Jackie Nickerson Round Head, 2020, © Jackie Nickerson

Vater Mutter, 2019, negative film, 35 ∞ 50 cm, © Fabian Zapatka Vater am Fenster, 2019, negative film, 47 ∞ 32 cm, © Fabian Zapatka 66–67 Claire Morgan Snake (detail), 2018, drawing, graphite and pastel on paper, 183 ∞ 183 cm, © Claire Morgan, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris / Cologne / St. Moritz

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Index

> 1000 Words Anything Goes? Bei uns. Bei Euch! Beuys, Joseph Brandenburg, Marc

58–59 36 7, 68–69 14–15

Kaufmann, Patrick

Lehtonen Braun, Niina 40–41 London Underground Extension: Alexandre da Cunha & Samara Scott 21

Don’t Call It Art! Duan, Yafeng

32–33 37

Mahama, Ibrahim Mehrl, Elisabeth Miller, Nachume MOMENTA Biennale de l’image Morgan, Claire

Erdmann-Macke, Elisabeth Ernst, Carola

16–17 35

Nähe Nickerson, Jackie

Facing the Balkans

50–51

Re-Art. Readymade recycelt

Gernild, Emily Giannakoudakis, Georg Óskar Digital Imaginaries Groß, Sabine

12–13 20 62–63 30

Schmitt, Dominik Shevelenko, Slava Székessy, Karin

46 27 68

TnoA—The Nature of Abstraction

Volkova, Marta

Huszank, Szilard

24–25 44 22–23 52–53 31 45 54–55

I Am Alive. Save the Children

60–61

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