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17/07/2026

BOOKLAUNCH
Come along 👐🏾👐🏾👐🏾

Tuesday, 21.07., 7pm
at After8Books
7 Rue Jarry, Paris

Lucy McKenzie
The Tenant/La locataire
by Marie Canet

The Tenant/La locataire' is a monographic critical essay by Marie Canet. It is the first text to directly address the connections between McKenzie’s work, po*******hy, and special effects. The title refers to the way the artist moves through different periods and aesthetic spaces, appropriating their codes in order to construct new visual fictions. The book is infused with post- feminist thinking, alternative uses of biography, reflections on the art world, and contemporary debates surrounding appropriation, embodiment, and the status of the artwork.

Canet is a writer, lecturer and curator and worked with McKenzie on the exhibition and catalogue of Atelier E.B: Passer-by, as well as the book 'Pervert or Detective', a conversation between Lucy McKenzie and artist Reba Maybury. 'The Tenant/La locataire' is released in connection to the collaboration on the current exhibition 'Plastic Newspaper' at CRAC Sète.

softcover
12 x 16,8 cm
172 pages
English and French edition available
€15

Texts by Marie Canet and Lucy McKenzie
Design: HIT, Berlin

published in connection with the exhibition Lucy McKenzie, Plastic Newspaper, at Crac Occitanie, Centre régional d‘art contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée à Sète, 21.03.-06.09.26

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13/07/2026

BOOK LAUNCH

this Thursday 16.7., 7pm

at KVOST
Leipzigerstrasse 47
Berlin

Henrike Naumann
Die Innere Front - The Home Front

spiral bound, 22 x 30 cm, 436 pages
German/English
with texts by Henrike Naumann, Clemens Villinger, Kerstin Stakemeier
design by Johannes Büttner
printed by DZA, Druckerei zu Altenburg
ISBN 978-3-948546-70-0

Come along and pick up a copy

10/07/2026

OUT NOW!

Henrike Naumann: The Home Front - Die Innere Front

436 pages, texts by Henrikes Naumann, Kerstin Stakemeier and Clemens Villinger, ringbound
€38

This publication is an independently released collection of materials relating to Naumann’s contribution to the exhibition RUIN in the German Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale (Curator: Dr. Kathleen Reinhardt, Artists: Henrike Naumann, Sung Tieu).

It has no clear beginning or end. As one ‘forever’ turns the pages along the spiral binding, new connections emerge, fragments and meanings shift, and what has been seen appears different in repetitions.

Clear interpretations elude the reader. The compiled material is both contextualizing and bewildering at the same time. It is ‘uncomfortable’, much as Henrike Naumann described her work in the pavilion.

What emerges is a dense artistic practice that could not be consciously brought to a close, but is instead defined by an abrupt ending.

As a collection of material, including the hieroglyphs, which Henrike Naumann described as a glossary and a sign system in her own right, partly accompanied by texts by Clemens Villinger.

Added to this is the extensive ‘masterplan.key’, a document that she constantly updated, and began working on over a year ago to collect ideas and connections.

It helped her to develop conceptual approaches and disruptions, as well as to visualise her notes and thought processes drawn from the sketches and her intensive research. Among these is the first conceptual draft from the application procedure.

Much like her practice of ‘concept papers’, Henrike used ‘masterplan.key’ as an internal conceptual document in which she developed collages and manipulations to bring the material and the overlapping contexts ‘under control’.

The page size of the document is based on the laptop screen in front of which one sat with her whilst she clicked through one of her Keynote presentations to explain the artistic process in a project.

The collection also includes Naumann’s conceptual text sketches and a text by Kerstin Stakemeier

In addition, there are i

07/07/2026

Last week Angela Merkel presented her portrait painted by Jérémie Queyras for the chancellor gallery in the Kanzleramt. (photo: Sarah Alberti)

Henrike Naumann wrote a letter to Merkel in 2021, in which she proposed to be commissioned by her to produce this portrait.

"In den 16 Jahren ihrer Amtszeit habe ich täglich daran gearbeitet, Bilder und Sprache für die Fragen unserer Zeit zu finden. Es wäre mir eine grosse Ehre, all das in einem Portrait zum Ausdrucken zu bringen."

Naumann's offer was rejected in a letter she received back shortly afterwards.

Both letters are part of her artist book CONCEPTS (2004), which contains almost 100 concept papers of realised and unrealised works from 2012 to 2023.

15/06/2026

Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today

hc, 21x26 cm, 176 pages
ed. Melanie Bühler

texts by Hannah Black, Melanie Bühler, Judith Butler, Maurits de Bruijn, Amanda van Hesteren, Gianni Jetzer, Tetsumi Kudo, Reba Maybury, Sands Murray-Wassink, Asa Seresin, Rein Wolfs & Bruno Zhu

published with Stedelijk Museu & Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

What does masculinity mean today? This question has gained renewed urgency with the rise of the “manosphere,” a loose network of online spaces where a dominant, misogynistic masculinity is asserted that, to many, feels threatening. Fueled by the spread of Trumpism, this brand of masculinity has become increasingly mainstream.

This patriarchal, heterosexual masculinity is not new. It’s old. There was a moment when the identification of masculinity with expressions of power seemed to be receding. But as the countercurrents now appear to be losing some of their momentum, masculinity of the status-quo-affirming and domineering type has, it seems, simply “stuck around". Now that it’s in the ascendant, the return of this kind of masculinity is being redefined as progress and mobilized to capitalist and fascist ends.

Judith Butler says in a conversation incl. in the publication: “There could be no debate on masculinity unless there were various forms of masculinity, various ways of living manhood or masculinity. It is not only that forms of masculinity have emerged in recent decades that are feminist and anti-militarist, but that gay, trans men, and butch le****ns have all delivered challenges to the very definition of manhood, often allying masculinity with progressive freedom movements and new forms of embodied life.

with: Arlette, Karimah Ashadu, Sophie Calle, Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Sam Durant, Hans Eijkelboom, EMIRHAKIN, Hamishi Farah, Sylvie Fleury, Julio Galán, Solomon Garçon, Sven Gex, Jasmine Gregory, Zhana Ivanova, Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, Tetsumi Kudo, Basir Mahmood, Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie, Melle, John Miller, Marlie Mul, Sands Murray-Wassink, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paul Pfeiffer, Pope.L, Sara Sadik, P. Staff, Diamond Stingily, SoiL Thornton, Salman Toor, Amanda van Hesteren, Alex Vivian,Bruno Zhu, Selina Zürrer

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

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