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21/03/2026

JUST RELEASED

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama
by A Maior

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama is A Maior’s second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in February 2025.

Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, and speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and setting in real time. The cohort featured James Albers, Kathy Feng, Manon Fraser, Fiona Glen, Tiziana La Melia, Ben Lickerman, Trey Le, August Mesic, Nina Ortiz, Paige Smid, Kiel Torres, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora.

Once upon a time there was a strip mall in South Vancouver, on Granville Street across from the big Safeway, just next to the public library, and not far from the Fraser River. On the morning of January 3, a dead woman was found in the parking lot with two suspicious incisions on her neck. A thin trail of blood mixed with a sinister green substance bewildered the patrons and shopkeepers. Bernadette stumbled upon a bloodied corkscrew. lurked around with their phone. Sheila clutched onto her tinctures. And then, Pest Detective Star dropped from the sky…

A Maior is a clothing and home goods store located in the outskirts of Viseu, Portugal. Since 2016, an eponymous exhibition program has been hosted within the shopping environment. A Maior is managed by the staff, the artist Bruno Zhu, and his family.

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama
by A Maior

paperback
11 cm x 16 cm
160 pages
edited by Trey Le and Kiel Torres (with the support of Janine Armin)
Design: Elisabeth Klement

workshop participants: James Albers, Kathy Feng, Manon Fraser, Fiona Glen, Tiziana La Melia, Ben Lickerman, Trey Le, August Mesic, Nina Ortiz, Paige Smid, Kiel Torres, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

ISBN 978-3-948546-49-6

co-published with and

25/02/2026

Join us at one of the forthcoming launches of our new title:

Jack O'Brien: Cue the Cue

Fr 27.2., 3pm
Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover
Goseriede 11, Hannover

Fr 28.02., 4pm
Hackbarths Berlin
Auguststr. 49a, Berlin

Thu 5.03., 6pm
Tenderbooks
6 Cecile Court, London

published with and in connection with the exhibitions: 'Jack O’Brien: Cue the Cue' at Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover. Supported by Galerie Capital Pretzel, and Galerie Gisela Capitain.

This publication is conceived by the artist himself, and transfers his practice into another medium.
Developed as an artist’s book it stands in direct relation to the magazine collages in the exhibition and also documents his work from 2021-2025. The torn book cover, perforated paper pages, and a shoelace sealed under cellophane make the publication itself a sculptural gesture.

O’Brien negotiates themes such as staging, visibility, q***r identity, and the circular dynamic between consumption, body, and performance. The title refers to the English “cue”—a theatrical cue—and at the same time to its repetition. This double meaning reflects O’Brien’s working method, in which material, form, and gesture continually oscillate between suggestion and withdrawal, presence and dissolution.

The result is a monograph which also formally works with the moments of controlled instability that are so striking in the exhibition: floating, supported and warped.

with texts by Alexander Wilmschen, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Juliette Desorgue and a conversation between Jeppe Ugelvig and Jack O'Brien.

Jack O’Brien: Cue the Cue

paperback
23 x 30 cm
240 pages
design: Dan Solbach

ISBN 978-3-948546-37-3
€39

wilmschen

24/02/2026

💔 Farewell Henrike

08/01/2026

BOOKLAUNCH & SIGNING

It is out! Please join us next week in London to celebrate

Liz Johnson Artur - PDA

January 15
6-8pm

at Climax Books HQ
8a Herbal Hill
London EC1R 5EJ

The publication is a timely glimpse into the spaces around which the London club night PDA was created. Documenting the community it birthed, this book captures the spirit and strength of various interwoven stories in the nuanced sensitive narrative that is Johnson Artur’s photography.

Since its inception, PDA, established by Mischa Mafia, Ms. Carrie Stacks, Akinola Davies Jr and Siobhan Bell, prepared London’s underground for a new wave of experimental Black and Brown q***r club culture. Offering a space where joy, care, and self-expression could flourish, the Hackney-based function built a platform where raw talent could be celebrated.

Combining the glamour and the spirit of chaos that would ensue on any given night, PDA offered a world away from systems upheld in UK’s patriarchal imperialism. At the function, liberation was not contained, as same day fashioned opulent wears, high-heels, and hair, were paraded to a soundtrack of experimental genre bending audio. A stairway for their wildest ideas.

PDA lives on as the principal reference point for many and a catalyst that continues to maintain long-lasting connections. Johnson Artur’s images – all shot in analogue – observe shared camaraderie, intimacy, anticipation of the night to come, as well as games people play to prolong its end.

Liz Johnson Artur - PDA
hardback
110 s/w and 97 col.images
23.5 x 26 cm
224 pages

Project coordination: Alx Dabo
Design: Mario Horne

ISBN 978-3-948546-12-0
£45

23/11/2025

OUT NOW!!!

P. Staff: Minimum World

On the occasion of P. Staff’s solo exhibition 'Durchdringung' at Bonner Kunstverein, a first collection of their poetry entitled Minimum World has been published. Collating texts written between 2018 and 2025, the publication highlights Staff’s visual and concrete poetics, experiments in typography, and obsessive linguistic tics.

paperback
10,6 cm x 17,7 cm
120 pages
design: Björn Giesecke, Sean Yendrys

€15

15/11/2025

OUT NOW

Silke Otto-Knapp: Bühnenbilder

This volume assembles texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Verwoert, Tomas Percival, Milan Ther and Saim Demircan that both commemorate Silke Otto-Knapp (1970–2022), and reflect and negotiate the relationship between choreography, stage, and pictorial space in her painting practice. They reflect on Otto-Knapp's representation and embodiment, and open up both art historical and personal perspectives on her oeuvre.

The exhibition Bühnenbilder centred on Otto-Knapp’s cycle of works Versammlung (2022), which was created for the Kunstverein in Hamburg during the artist’s lifetime. Focusing on forms of ritualised gathering on stage, she explored the history of theatre, dance and film. Versammlung was placed in dialogue with her works from the last ten years.

This explored the formal development from individual works to panel paintings to painting as architecture in a space-filling, wall-less choreography that the artist had developed for the Kunstverein.

edited by Milan Ther and Martin Karcher
with texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Jan Verwoert, Tomas Percival, Saim Demircan and Milan Ther

hardback
21 cm x 28 cm
176 pages
design: Hanna Osen, Caspar Reuss, Thomas Spallek

08/11/2025

OUT NOW

Beverly Buchanan:

Hope This Helps You Survive Your Gallery Visit, n.d.

The Artist - A Visual Journey, ca. 1997

Lilas's Story, 2001

On the occasion of the current exhibition 'Beverly Buchanan. Weathering' Haus am Waldsee reissued three of Buchanan’s artist zines in collaboration with us. In these simple, self-produced publications, Buchanan’s humorous yet incisive view of both the urban art world and her immediate surroundings in the rural American South comes to the fore. Through comic-like sketches and hastily scribbled text fragments, she creates brief, anecdotal stories of everyday life.

While Buchanan is best known for her sculptures of shacks and her architectural fragmentations, she always kept a deep practice producing various forms of printed matter.

Personal notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, artist statements, clippings, photographic materials, illustrations, business cards and various zines, all were integral in her multi-layered oeuvre and are essential in understanding how she navigated between the various elements of impermanence, control, and the monumental. They also show how she used wit and fragility as a method or even a force of emotion.

reissued in collaboration with , and

with special thanks to Jane Bridges, Elizabeth White and the estate of Beverly Buchanan

16/10/2025

OUT NOW!!

Viscose Journal 08: SOUND

Co-Edited by Bill Kouligas, Thomas Laprade, Stacy Skolnik and Jeppe Ugelvig
Published in partnership with Montez Press Radio

The eighth issue of Viscose examines the myriad of music and sound cultures of fashion.
Entirely untethered from materiality and image, sound is the proof that fashion operates just as vividly in the purely atmospheric. From the artfully curated musical narratives of the runway to the ambient sonic environment of shops, fashion both emits sounds and seeks to associate itself with it for its own advancement.

Music in particular asserts fashion’s existential relationship to time: it aesthetically time-keeps fashion media and confirms sartorial novelty by mirroring it rhythmically. To a public consciousness, the intimate relationship between fashion and music is obvious and at times even understood as one and the same. Sound glues material such as clothes to wider zeitgeists and mediated lifestyles, and as such, to cultural memory itself.

Contributors:
Max Alper, Arlette, Sigurd Bank, Lizzi Bougatsos, Ana Howe Bukowski, Upsana Das, Aisha Devi, Enantios Dromos, Ana Viktoria Dzinic, Dan Fox, Ryan Aguilar & Michel Gaubert, Theodore Jhang, Sowmya Krishnamurthy, Labour, Mark Leckey, Hanne Lippard, Project X Magazine, Chloé Maratta, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta & Michael Meeuwis, Ellen Schafer & Nicholas Miller, Ashland Mines, Women’s History Museum, Cheuk Ng, Christian Alborz Oldham, Pilooski, Yat Pit, Seth Price, Frédéric Sanchez, Hyein Seo, Carrie Stacks, Danny Taylor, Terre Thaemlitz, Valentina Triet, Jeppe Ugelvig, Aran Atsuo (Charlot Abhors A Void), Marley Wendt, Skype Williams

Creative Direction: Flip Samuel Berg
Art Direction Laura Silke

23 x 23 cm
196 pages
9788797480250

available for mailorder (link in bio) and trade

11/10/2025

WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE NOW AVAILABLE:

Atelier E.B Calendar 2026

paperback, 30 x 30 cm
design: HIT, Berlin

ISBN 978-3-948546-41-0
€30, £30, $45

Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which the designer Beca Lipscombe and the artist Lucy McKenzie sign their collaborative projects. The group was formed in 2007, and since 2011 the pair have operated as a fashion label which has used local production methods and alternative forms of distribution and display. Lipscombe and McKenzie place art and design on an equal footing, applying methodologies from both spheres.

Works to date include commissioned displays and interiors for public and private space, fashion, textiles, furniture, exhibitions, events and publishing.

This 2026 calendar is devoted to Atelier E.B’s spectacular window display works.

available in shops and through our website
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16/09/2025

Very excited to announce the forthcoming publication Liz Johnson Artur: PDA, presenting a series of photographs that offer a timely glimpse into the spaces around which the eponymous London club night was formed. Documenting the PDA community, this book captures the spirit and strength of its attendees’ interwoven stories in the nuanced and sensitive narrative style typical of Johnson Artur’s photography.

Between 2011 and 2021, PDA, established by Mischa Mafia, Ms. Carrie Stacks, Akinola Davies Jr and Siobhan Bell, paved the way for a new experimental Black and Brown q***r club culture in London’s underground scene. Offering a space where joy, care, and self-expression could flourish, the Hackney-based function created a platform for the celebration of raw talent.

Combining both glamour and a spirit of chaos, PDA offered a world away from the conventions and systems upheld by the UK’s patriarchal imperialism. At the function, liberation was expressed through boldly opulent outfits that had been fashioned that day – towering-heels and extravagant hairstyles were paraded to a soundtrack of experimental genre-bending audio – a platform for the party-goers' wildest ideas.

PDA lives on as the principal reference and catalyst for many long-lasting connections and new gatherings. Johnson Artur’s images – all shot in analogue – observe the shared camaraderie, intimacy, anticipation, and reluctant goodbyes, characteristic of PDA.

Liz Johnson Artur: PDA
Hardback
23,5 x 26 cm
224 pages
978-3-948546-12-0
Bierke Verlag
release date: 04.11.2025

19/07/2025

We are very happy to have just released a new publication with Haus am Waldsee:

Nina Könnemann:
BLOCKEN/Further Reductions

Published on the occasion of Könnemann's exhibition (still on view until 14.09.), curated by Beatrice Hilke, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist's work.

'BLOCKEN' explores vision as a situated practice within the temporality of real-time. In choreographed live-filmmaking-performances, multiple camera perspectives generate a layered visual field, shaped by overlays, collective decision-making, and the tension between control and improvisation.

'Further Reductions' engages a sculptural approach that applies prehistoric flintknapping techniques to industrial sanitary ceramics. The resulting objects emerge from a deliberate interplay of precision and chance—oscillating between tool, fragment, and sign, and articulated through a gesture that reflects cultural imaginaries of origin and history with both critical distance and speculative resonance.

Together, the publications offer insight into a cross-media practice that negotiates the relationship between perception, materiality, and mediality—between fleeting presence and temporal depth.

Nina Könnemann:
BLOCKEN/Further Reductions

ed. by Beatrice Hilke, Haus am Waldsee
with texts by: Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Maria Stavrinaki
paperback,17 x 23 cm
2 volumes, each 60 pages
English/German
design: HIT

to accompany the exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, which is still on view until 14.9.2025!
ISBN 978-3-948546-28-1
€24

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