DISTANZ

DISTANZ DISTANZ is a publishing company based in Berlin under the management of Matthias Kliefoth and Christian Boros.

DISTANZ releases books on the visual arts as well as photography, architecture, design and fashion.

NEW ART EDITION⁠By Dörte Eißfeldt ⁠⁠Coming from painting and filmmaking, Dörte Eißfeldt increasingly dedicated herself t...
02/10/2025

NEW ART EDITION⁠
By Dörte Eißfeldt ⁠
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Coming from painting and filmmaking, Dörte Eißfeldt increasingly dedicated herself to photography from the mid-1970s onward. The artist explains that working with this medium means working with fragments of reality, and so her photo montages, multiple exposures, and experimental series refer not so much to a reality existing outside them as to their own photographic genesis. ⁠
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The limited edition “Tageslicht” illustrates Eißfeldt’s experimental handling of light and light-sensitive photographic papers. Light is photography’s primary matter and establishes the open, uncoded and immediate connection between human being and world. The photogram — reproduced as a high-end pigment print — reveals how light becomes the subject of a picture before existing as a motif.⁠
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Tageslicht (Daylight), 2025⁠
Archival inkjet print on Awagami Bamboo⁠
42 × 29.7 cm⁠
Numbered and signed on the back ⁠
Edition 10 + 3 AP⁠
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Do not miss the exhibition at Galerie Thomas Fischer , running until November 1, 2025⁠. ⁠
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For more information about the edition and the book, visit our website. ⁠
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NEW ON OUR SHELVES⁠⁠ ⁠Rolf Sachs is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice includes sculpture, photograp...
30/09/2025

NEW ON OUR SHELVES⁠
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Rolf Sachs is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice includes sculpture, photography, painting, design, as well as architectural projects and set designs for opera and ballet.⁠
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This first complete monograph, edited by Coralie Malissard and Salvatore Lacagnina, designed by London-based studio Kellenberger–White, reflects the multidisciplinary practice of the artist, showcasing work from the 1990s to the present. The book proposes a non-linear approach, tracing the artist’s oeuvre in a non-chronological way to reveal visual, conceptual, and formal connections. With essays by Volker Albus, Gabrielle Ammann, Helen Chislett, Wilfried Dickhoff, Bill Kouwenhoven, Salvatore Lacagnina, Claudio Lazzarini and Carl Pickering, Otto and Maximilian Letze, Coralie Malissard, Mirja Sick, Valerie von Bechtolsheim, Betony Vernon as well as an interview with the artist.⁠
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Do not miss the chance to visit his survey exhibition .schweinfurt running until October 5, 2025.⁠
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INVITATION⁠Book presentation “The Non-Statistical Body” and video screening⁠ by Chan Sook Choi⁠⁠October 8, 2025, 5.30–9 ...
29/09/2025

INVITATION⁠
Book presentation “The Non-Statistical Body” and video screening⁠ by Chan Sook Choi⁠
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October 8, 2025, 5.30–9 pm⁠
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Alte Jakobstrasse 124–128⁠
10969 Berlin⁠
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On the occasion of the release of “The Non-Statistical Body”, we cordially invite you to a conversation between the artist and contributors to the book Siegfried Zielinski, Yung Bin Kwak, Jesi Khadivi, and Sooyon Lee, moderated by Zoe Chun. ⁠The talk will be held in English.⁠
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The video work „qbit to adam” will be screened during the event, along with others.⁠
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Please register via ⁠the link below or on our website.⁠
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https://forms.gle/smf6BF6YLfco9Ua67⁠
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THANK YOU! ⁠⁠On Saturday, Thea Djordjadze, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and DISTANZ celebrated the release of Djordjadze’s ...
29/09/2025

THANK YOU! ⁠
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On Saturday, Thea Djordjadze, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and DISTANZ celebrated the release of Djordjadze’s new book at Between Bridges. ⁠
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Thank you all for joining us at this wonderful event! ⁠
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Visit our website for more information about the book.⁠
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.kunsthalle .zone

NEW ON OUR SHELVES⁠⁠Rebecco Ann Tess’s photographic oeuvre grapples with the capitalist mechanisms of exploitation and s...
26/09/2025

NEW ON OUR SHELVES⁠
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Rebecco Ann Tess’s photographic oeuvre grapples with the capitalist mechanisms of exploitation and structures of dominance that shape our cities and their peripheries. ⁠
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The monograph „lpha++ Models / rendered lives in global cities” portrays the aesthetic of neoliberalism and its political repercussions in the global economic centers amid the jarring dynamic of gleaming tower façades, vast construction sites, cookie-cutter greenspace designs, and neighborhoods threatened by impending demolition and gentrification. The extensive plate section is complemented by essays by Gregor Hens, Carlos Kong, Grégory Salle, Anna Voswinckel, and InYoung Yeo that offer an introduction to Tess’s practice.⁠
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For more information about the book visit our website! ⁠
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SAVE THE DATE ⁠BOOK LAUNCH | THEA DJORDJADZE⁠⁠September 27, 2025, 4–6 pm⁠⁠In celebration of Thea Djordjadze’s new book, ...
18/09/2025

SAVE THE DATE ⁠
BOOK LAUNCH | THEA DJORDJADZE⁠
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September 27, 2025, 4–6 pm⁠
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In celebration of Thea Djordjadze’s new book, the artist, Hamburger Kunsthalle, and DISTANZ invite you to join us for a get-together at Between Bridges. We look forward to seeing you there.⁠
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Between Bridges⁠
Ursuppe, entrance via:⁠
Adalbertstraße 44⁠
10179 Berlin⁠
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.kunsthalle .zone ⁠

OUR BOOKS FOR THE BERLIN ART WEEK⁠ 2025⁠⁠On the occasion of the Berlin Art Week, we hope to inspire with selected public...
10/09/2025

OUR BOOKS FOR THE BERLIN ART WEEK⁠ 2025⁠
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On the occasion of the Berlin Art Week, we hope to inspire with selected publications by participating artists.
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⁠LYGIA CLARK⁠
Retrospektive⁠
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DÖRTE EIßFELDT⁠
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OKKA-ESTHER HUNGERBÜHLER⁠
Creature⁠
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YALDA AFSAH (group show)⁠
Trans_plantationen⁠
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KÄTHE KRUSE⁠
nähen nähen nähen⁠
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BETTINA POUSTTCHI⁠
Horizons⁠
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ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ⁠ (group show)⁠
Why We Do What We Do⁠
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ANDREA P⁠ICHL ⁠
Eric Meier Andrea Pichl⁠
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ANNABEL DAOU⁠ (group show)⁠
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CAROLINE KRYZECKI⁠
(Non)sense⁠
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GRIT RICHTER⁠ (group show)⁠
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THOMAS ZIPP⁠
Profondeville⁠
⁠zipp⁠
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BRUCE NAUMAN⁠
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For more information about the artists and books visit our website.⁠
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THEA DJORDJADZE – IN DETAILToday we want to highlight the work of Thea Djordjadze, whose sculptures and environments eng...
13/08/2025

THEA DJORDJADZE – IN DETAIL

Today we want to highlight the work of Thea Djordjadze, whose sculptures and environments engage with the exhibition space in experimental ways. In the afterword to the publication “THEA DJORDJADZE”, the curator Corinne Diserens offers insight into the approach of the artist, who “never sees an exhibition as a singular thing but always considers it as part of what was before and what comes after”:

“[Djordjadze] often uses old pieces as additions to do something new. The systematic incompleteness of her sculptures isn’t based solely on the temporariness of their realisation in the space. They’re also designed to dissolve in one way or another. She always considers the sculpture’s potential as vacant space or void. The result is unstable. It is fragile even when she uses solid material. And sometimes the pieces can jump out, fall, or break until the right point of tension is found.”

“Thea Djordjadze constructs a model of the exhibition space but doesn’t use it apart from as a point of reference not to forget, to see the space, and to understand what is given to her. The artist is involved with the exhibition as a medium, a landscape where everything is in flux and being stirred by an artistic language that slowly deploys its beauty. […] An exhibition is like a portrait, a kind of translation, of the artist’s state of being in that moment, it is ephemeral and related to the Geist, the soul.”

Don’t miss Djordjadze’s current exhibition at .kunsthalle, open until October 5, 2025.⁠

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1, 5: “o potio n”. Installation views, Portrikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2018. Photos: Diana Pfammatter
2, 3: “one is so public, and the other, so private.” Installation views, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 2019. Photos: Reto Kaufmann
4: “the ceiling of a courtyard.” Installation view, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 2023-2024. Photo: We document Art

For more information about the book, visit our website.

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AUS DER FUNDUS-BIBLIOTHEK⁠⁠Wir präsentieren fortlaufend Highlights der Buchreihe FUNDUS, die DISTANZ seit Sommer 2024 ve...
08/08/2025

AUS DER FUNDUS-BIBLIOTHEK⁠
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Wir präsentieren fortlaufend Highlights der Buchreihe FUNDUS, die DISTANZ seit Sommer 2024 verlegt. ⁠
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Clement Greenberg⁠
Die Essenz der Moderne⁠
Ausgewählte Essays und Kritiken⁠
BAND 133⁠
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Als Berater von Künstler*innen und Galerist*innen sowie als Kurator zahlreicher Ausstellungen griff Clement Greenberg nachhaltig in das Geschehen ein und beeinflusste die Entstehung und Präsentation der sich nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs neu entwickelnden Kunstlandschaft. New York wurde auch Dank Greenbergs radikal formulierter Kunstauffassung zum neuen Zentrum der Moderne. Maler wie u. a. Jackson Po***ck, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis und Kenneth Noland bestimmten durch Greenbergs Fähigkeit, seiner radikalen Verweigerung alles Gegenständlichen und dem rigorosen Interesse am faktisch Vorhandenen eine Stimme zu verleihen, die private und öffentliche Sammlungstätigkeit jener Zeit.⁠
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Herausgegeben von Karlheinz Lüdeking versammelt das Buch ausgewählte Essays und Kritiken von 1939 bis 1981. ⁠
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Seit 1959 sind über 150 FUNDUS-Bände erschienen. Die traditionsreiche Buchreihe umfasst Texte zu Entwicklungen der Kunst und Aspekten der Kunstgeschichte, Kulturtheorie und Philosophie.⁠ Der Kern der Reihe wird bleiben und viele neue Autor*innen und Bücher zu Fragen der Gegenwart, Ästhetik und Kultur hinzukommen.⁠
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WORK IN PROGRESS⁠⁠Combining photography with virtual reality, film, and performance, the artist and activist Poulomi Bas...
30/07/2025

WORK IN PROGRESS⁠
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Combining photography with virtual reality, film, and performance, the artist and activist Poulomi Basu explores the close interweaving of ecological and feminist issues as well as the stories of women who, like her, have their origins in the Global South and are pushed to the margins of society. ⁠
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“Phantasmagoria” is the first book to provide an overview of central bodies of Poulomi’s work. Published in conjunction with her debut institutional solo exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur, the book is accompanied by essays by the scholar Breanne Fahs, the cultural commentator and writer Ann Mbuti, and the author and cultural scholar Mithu Sanyal. In a conversation with the curator Bindi Vora, the artist discusses self-love as emancipatory practice, menstruation as a political act, and the conception of docu-fiction. A glossary by Indian sociologist Moubani Maitra contextualizes key terms and offers further access to Poulomi Basu’s work and focal points. ⁠
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Stay tuned for the upcoming release and the exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur opening on October 25.⁠
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Photo: Sibel Beyer and Rebecca Wilton checking the proofs of the book.⁠
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For more information about the publication, visit our website.⁠
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Design by Sibel Beyer

LYGIA CLARK & FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER – IN DETAIL⁠⁠⁠On the occasion of the retrospective on Lygia Clark at , we want to hig...
16/07/2025

LYGIA CLARK & FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER – IN DETAIL⁠
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⁠On the occasion of the retrospective on Lygia Clark at , we want to highlight the artistic practices of Clark and Franz Erhard Walther, featured in the publication “Action as Sculpture”. Although the two artists never met personally, their artistic practices especially from the 1960s reveal fundamental similarities. ⁠
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“Lygia Clark’s and Franz Erhard Walther’s approaches are essentially original and atemporal transdisciplinary creations, far from the figurative art of an earlier age. [...] The objects of both artists, whose constituent elements are constantly re-signified, become tools to be used and activated, which, in turn, activate the inside and outside of those who manipulate them. The action forms, which in Walther’s work refer to the present moment, as in Clark’s actions aimed at formal dissolution and self-abandonment, stimulate collectivity as well as introspection. They create tension, relaxation, cause alienation, contact, recognition, trust, connection, relationships with the context and—finally—set the imagination free.”⁠
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Excerpt from “Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther: Sculpture-Body and Work-Act” by Daniela Labra⁠
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Images: ⁠
1. Aktivation of Franz Erhard Walther, “Für Zwei” [For Two], 1967, no. 31 from “1. Werksatz” [First Work Set], 1963–69, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1969, Archive Franz Walther Foundation ⁠
2. Activation of Lygia Clark, “Diálogo de Óculos” [Goggles – Dialogue], 1968, Associação Cultural Lygia Clark
3. Activation of Franz Erhard Walther, “Sehkanal” [Channel of Sight], 1968, no. 46 from “1. Werksatz” [First Work Set], 1963–69, in the exhibition “Spaces”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 1970, Archive Franz Walther Foundation⁠
4. Activation of Lygia Clark, “Óculos” [Goggles], 1966, Associação Cultural Lygia Clark
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Graphic design by Harald Pridgar

ONE OF THE BEST AUSTRIAN BOOK DESIGNS⁠⁠We are delighted that Sophie Thun’s book “Between Light and Wall” has been awarde...
14/07/2025

ONE OF THE BEST AUSTRIAN BOOK DESIGNS⁠
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We are delighted that Sophie Thun’s book “Between Light and Wall” has been awarded one of the Most Beautiful Books of Austria! We would like to thank the expert jury and especially the artist Sophie Thun, the designer Marie Artaker, the editors Harald Krejci and Marijana Schneider as well as all other contributors for the successful cooperation.⁠
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For more information about the book and the limited art edition “Ufer, 17-27.02.2019-13-14.11.2022”, visit our website. ⁠
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.at .harald ⁠
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DISTANZ is an international fine art publisher directed by Matthias Kliefoth and Christian Boros. Working with renowned as well as emerging artists and writers, DISTANZ produces monographs and books on contemporary art and photography. DISTANZ also regularly publishes exhibition catalogues in cooperation with leading museums and institutions in Germany and abroad. Other fields surveyed by DISTANZ’s publishing program include twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, design, and fashion and life in Berlin.