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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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01/07/2025

We are very happy to announce this new title:

Vaginal Davis: On Dangerous Ground

The artist Vaginal Davis certainly moves on dangerous ground with her transgressive shuffling of gender and genre boundaries. The self-described “sexual repulsive,” founded various and sundry art bands in her expansive 40-year-plus career.

In this book, Miss Davis turns her quirky hairy eyeball to the collective practice of making music in the saucy underground scenes of Los Angeles and Berlin. In their contributions longtime collaborators Bibbe Hansen (artist and Warhol Silver Factory habitué) and Felix Knoke (guest performer for The Hidden Cameras and band members of Tenderloin) rave about joint performances and rehearsals, divulging sacred secrets and rifts. Bruce “Judy” LaBruce, Glen Meadmore and Lisa “Suckdog” Carver make surprise guest appearances.

Texts: Vaginal Davis, Bibbe Hansen, Felix Knoke
Editors: Jenny Schlenzka & Julia Grosse
ISBN: 978-3-948546-33-5
12 x 16 cm
€10/$12

The second edition from the series The Practice by Gropius Bau (German edition also available)

26/05/2025

What great news!

German Pavilion 2026: Henrike Baumann & Sung Tieu

Kathleen Reinhardt has nominated Sung Tieu and Henrike Naumann for the German Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

"With their conceptual and sculptural work, Sung Tieu and Henrike Naumann pose questions about historical responsibility. They examine the role of individual and collective agency from the perspective of a young generation that situates the major themes of the German Pavilion in a completely different coordinate system."

This is very exciting!

We just recently released with Henrike Naumann her substantial publication CONCEPTS, 10 years of work and research in 855 pages and more than 400 images, in a stainless steelbinder, which allows to gain a deep insight into her conceptual practice.

We look very much forward to 2026!
reinhardt

de .visualarts

Photo: Victoria Tomaschko

25/05/2025

We are very happy to announce the release of this new great title:

Key Operators: Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography

edited by Gloria Hasny , Kunstverein München

contributions by: Claire L. Evans, Elsi Giauque, Johanna Gonschorek, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Pati Hill, Charlotte Johannesson, Lotus L. Kang, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Lynn Hershman Leeson, James Tilly Matthews, Katrin Mayer, Sadie Plant, Johannes Porsch, Lucie Pia, Radical Software, Bea Schlingelhoff, Marilou Schultz, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Iris Touliatouhg

with texts by: Lucie Pia, Chris Reitz, Lea Vajda, Gloria Hasny
design:

box, 20x25 cm, 80 pages (bound), and 19 booklets (unbound)
German/English
ISBN 978-3-948546-26-7

The publication serves as a record(ing), of sorts, of the comprehensive project Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography. Packed neatly in a box, the bound pages—along with nineteen unbound brochures—offer a reflection on the group exhibition, its accompanying program of events, and the featured contributors.
The book is not an aside to the exhibition, but rather a translation of its concerns, questions, and structure into the printed form(at). Much like the exhibition, it functions both as information memory and information medium. Its open composition follows the composition follows the intents of its spatial predecessor and is thus a transmission of its processuality, non-linearity, and multiplicity. While the bound section centers on the visual documentation of the exhibition, the works, and the various spatial relations, the unbound brochures are each dedicated to—and in several cases conceived by—the individual contributors.

03/05/2025

We are happy to announce the release of

Bruno Zhu

FICTION NON FICTION
Cahier I

edited by Anne-Claire Schmitz and Bruno Zhu
with texts by Irit Rogoff, Liesbeth Minnaard, Bambi Ceuppens and Bruno Zhu

paperback, 14,85 x 20 cm, 64 pages
design: Enver Hadzijaj with Antoine Begon
co-published by M HKA, to accompany the exhibition Bruno Zhu ‘Out’ at M HKA, 25.01.2025-11.05.25
€8

FICTION NON FICTION is a series of readers that pairs voices engaged in literary criticism with the material histories of labour, gender and race. Each publication proposes a close reading of fictitious and theoretical works to understand how identity politics have been narrativized by liberal institutions across space and time.

Cahier I, published on the occasion of 'Out', Bruno Zhu’s commission at M HKA, Antwerp, addresses the fictioning of the migrant subject. Liesbeth Minnaard highlights the several movements embedded in the writing and publishing of Moroccan-Dutch writer Hafid Bouazza’s short story ‘De oversteek’. Bambi Ceuppens recounts the presence of autochthony discourses in Flanders and how they embolden the refusal to share welfare resources with immigrants.

Featuring an introduction by Irit Rogoff that articulates ‘propositionality’ as a paradigm shift, Cahier I departs from Dutch-speaking world to unpack nationalist tendencies set off by the arrival of the migrant.

available through our distributors and in our webshop!

03/05/2025

BOOKLAUNCH

Clubs of the Future: Common Spaces in Transitional Societies

ed. by Dorothee Albrecht
with texts by Dorothee Albrecht, Susanne Prinz, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Jochen Becker, Suza Husse, Mikhail Lylov, Elske Rosenfeld and Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
design: Till Sperrle, ITF Grafikdesign
paperback, 21x28 cm, 160 pages

Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 45, 10178 Berlin

Tuesday, May 6
6-9pm

The Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Bierke and the curators of CLUBS of the FUTURE (Dorothee Albrecht, Mikhail Lylov and Susanne Prinz) are pleased to invite you to the catalogue presentation!

We are celebrating the release as the official conclusion of the first concrete realisation of CLUBS of the FUTURE, with many thanks to all those involved and with the prospect of thinking together about further places and formats – ideally about sustainable exchange formats with projects in the countryside or in Eastern Europe.

'Clubs of the Future' departs from communal spaces in different parts of the world, in particular Houses of Culture across Europe and in the GDR, and opens up a space for reflection on current projects of collectivity, commoning and reform.
The project took place in a time of transition in which practices of collaboration, alternative economies, novel networks, shared civic spaces and societies are being renegotiated and put to the test.

How can we create a shared space among different entities, images, ideas and materials, identities, groups and communities – a space open to the public, a flexible in-between space, a space for experimentation and negotiation, spanning different perspectives without equalizing them?

With two exhibitions and numerous events and workshops, a visual-material-discursive-poetic space was created in the summer/autumn of 2024. It is open in diverse directions and can also continue to develop in a variety of ways.

/ITF Grafikdesign

08/03/2025

A new volume of the HaFI series by Harun Farocki Institut is out NOW!

HaFI 022: On Ingo Kratisch: A Logic of Images, a Logic of Things

editors: Daniel Eisenberg, Clio Nicastro, and Ellen Rothenberg
Paperback, 21 x 29,7 cm, 64 pages, English/German
ISBN 978-3-948546-25-0
€10

The booklet, edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Clio Nicastro, and Ellen Rothenberg, is dedicated to the work of the filmmaker and artist Ingo Kratisch, who was also responsible for the camera work in Harun Farocki’s films for more than three decades.

Beginning with the realization of a series of “workers’ films” (Arbeiterfilme) at the start of the 1970’s and then developing a personal poetic style emphasizing collaborative practices and the recuperation of culture, spent material, and artifacts, Ingo Kratisch's multivalent art practice has been prescient in anticipating many important trends in contemporary art: repair and reuse, city/rural community formation, and many lo-fi first-person documentary practices. Throughout, Kratisch worked collaboratively with many important filmmakers, artists, and writers, among them Harun Farocki, quietly influencing critically significant films and careers, while carving his own path outside the light of the projector.”

This volume introduces Kratisch’s work to a new generation of readers who may be unaware of his influence or generative esthetic principles. His work, actions of radical repair and reconstruction, model strategies for sustainable independent creative production.

daniel

17/01/2025

BOOK LAUNCH

We are very happy to be launching an new title this coming Monday:

Wenke Seemann: Utopie auf Platte

at
Werkbundarchiv
Museum der Dinge
Leipziger Straße 54
10117 Berlin

coming Monday 20.01. at 6pm
(film starts already 5:30)

The publication shows Wenke Seemann’s artistic search through the spatial and pictorial order of modernity, from the places of her childhood to the breaking points of social transformation, to the fissures in the objects of memory.

The work Archivdialoge #1 – Bauplan Zukunft (Archival Dialogues #1 – Blueprint Future) is a visual and narrative dialogue between contemporary historical material and her own biography that transcends genre and media boundaries. In a process of associative research and artistic appropriation, critical and aesthetic rearrangements have been created that relate and refer to each other as collages, drawings, montages, photographs and texts.

For Seemann, archive work is a process: of displacement, overwriting, deconstruction – not of facts, but of facticity, not of objects, but of objectivity. In the artistic confrontation with the historical image/material, the archive reshapes itself: What has been preserved and stored is activated, superimposed and translated. The image layers of the space are exposed, the simultaneity of history(ies) open.With an art-historical localization by Franziska Schmidt and a topo-biographical essay by Annett Gröschner.

Wenke Seemann
Utopie auf Platte

hardback
20 cm x 27 cm
152 pages
Deutsch/Englisch
with texts by .berlin
and
design: Sarah Thußbas

ISBN 978-3-948546-20-5
€36

17/10/2024

NEW TITLE

Sara MacKillop: Tischbuch

A book made out of a German wallpaper table. Through thinking about the display of books, the artist decided to make the table (which usually the book is displayed on) part of the publication itself.

The table becomes the book.

The printed element is a dust cover but also a table cloth, as the table still remains a table and can function as one.

wooden wallpaper table
with printed dustcover/tablecloth
metallclips
60x96cm (book)
60x300cm (table)
5 pages

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