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Kerber Verlag

International publisher of books on contemporary art, photography, culture and architecture

We have been publishing books on contemporary and modern art and photography as well as on art and cultural history since 1985. At our headquarters in Bielefeld and our publishing house office with showroom in Berlin, sophisticated monographs and exhibition catalogues are created in close collaboration with artists, photographers, museums, foundations, galleries, collectors, and designers. High-qu

ality artists’ books and collectors’ editions with both artists of international renown and young emerging artists are an established part of our commitment. As a result of our in-house production, we possess sophisticated technical knowhow and many years of experience in realizing individually designed publications. Our new titles are presented at numerous book and art fairs, in social media, our bilingual publishing house preview, and at additional targeted events. Our global distribution network makes it possible to obtain our books in all well-stocked bookshops—in over forty countries—and naturally everywhere in digital commerce.

30/06/2026

OUR NEW PUBLISHING PREVIEW IS OUT! 💫
Autumn / Winter 2026

We‘re happy to share our new catalogue with you.

Discover our upcoming titles in Art, Photography and Culture, a season shaped by remarkable artists, inspiring collaborations and stories that invite us to look a little closer.

A heartfelt thank you to all the artists, authors, editors, curators, designers, translators, proofreaders and everyone who contributed to bringing these books to life. Your dedication, trust and creativity make every new season possible.

Cover image: Suna Ozankan, Untitled, 2024. The accompanying monograph is forthcoming this summer.

Browse the full preview via link in our bio.

Kate Waters
GRIMMWELT Kassel
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Daniel Engelberg

Jen Tiger
Antje Majewski
Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Stefano Cagol
Irena Lagator Pejovic
Jelena Micić
MEHRAN CONTEMPORARY
HAUS. KUNST. MITTE. ozankan

melis
&Benjamin Reding
& LWL-Museum Hellerlecht
&Henning Bertram
& Albert Scopin

09/03/2026

Scopin. Chelsea Hotel
Book release and exhibition at the FWR Galerie, Berlin
Exhibition: 14.03. – 04.04.2026
Opening: 14.03.2026 | 6 – 9 pm
FWR Galerie
Jägerstraße 5
10117 Berlin
Artist talk and book presentation: 24.03.2026, 7 pm
with Albert Scopin and Michael Biedowicz
Considered lost for over four decades, the rediscovered photographs taken by Albert Scopin between 1969 and 1971 at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York are now being published in a photo book and presented in an exhibition for the first time. The FWR Gallery in Berlin is presenting this extraordinary series in a comprehensive exhibition and is also hosting the official book launch.
The Chelsea Hotel in New York has been an iconic spot for the art and music scene since the 1960s. From 1969 to 1971, the artist Albert Scopin, who was, at the time, an assistant to photographers Mikel Avedon and Bill King, also lived there.
The hotel was always abuzz with activity and everyone who lived there seemed to be searching for something. What the young Scopin was searching for was an unfiltered view of the people who came and went. To capture the lively goings-on as discreetly as possible, he often didn’t even look through the viewfinder of his Kodak Instamatic.
The resulting images depict an as-yet unknown Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe as a fledgling couple, both individuals on their path to fame; film directors Wim Wenders, Rosa von Praunheim, Milos Forman and Jonas Mekas are there; the Warhol crowd performs a play; the hotel staff throw a crazy party in the basement; up on the roof, people contemplate what the future might hold, looking down on a city just waiting to be conquered.
Brief accompanying texts by the artist as well as an interview complete the volume, which provides an unusually intimate look behind the façade of what is perhaps the most famous hotel in the world.

03/03/2026

Please join for her book presentation at rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst im Ratskeller, Berlin!

📆 4 March, 2026, 7 pm
📍 Möllendorffstraße 6, 10367 Berlin

The publication “Clausnitzer. My Sweet Demon” brings together 66 images of oil paintings by the artist, most of them large-scale, and provides a comprehensive insight into her work. Over five chapters, this book presents key cycles of her work, which explores the fragmentation and overlaying of identities. Doubled and mirrored storylines unfold on various pictorial levels: figures interact across timelines and genres, transcending the boundaries between the physical and the spiritual, between the sublime and the mundane. Motifs from the collective visual memory, from the history of art and cinema together with elements from newspaper photographs combine to create complex pictorial worlds. The title hints at the simultaneity of light and dark, good and evil, of this world and the Hereafter, and shapes the works both in terms of content and form. An in-depth interview provides deeper insights into the artist’s working process, while an accompanying text by Ludwig Seyfarth situates her work in an art-historical context.

09/02/2026

Please join .sachs and for the presentation of “was geschehen und nie geschehen ist”.

📅 Friday, 13.2.2026, 7 pm
📍 NS-Dokumentationszentrum München

In the GDR, several hundred to several thousand children (the figure varies depending on the source) were separated from their parents and put up for adoption. The actual number is unknown to the present day. The family code of the GDR stipulated that parents should raise their children “to be active builders of socialism”. They had to “respect labour”, “love the Soviet Union” and “defend the borders—by force of arms if necessary”. If parents failed to follow these guidelines, the state had the power to revoke their right to raise their children. The issue of forced adoption remains controversial to this day, and the process of coming to terms with GDR injustice is ongoing.
“Was geschehen und nie geschehen ist” (what happened and never happened) is a photographic-documentary exploration of the topic by photographers Paulina Metzscher and Amelie Sachs, together with the author and filmmaker Eva Gemmer. In it, they address the family histories of those affected in. What is left behind? Grief? Loss? Hope? The publication combines a selection of artistic photographs and archive material with factual and poetic texts.

05/02/2026

Exhibition and Book Presentation
Frizzi Krella DAMASKUS
Exhibition
6.2.-6.3.2026
Opening: 6.2.2026, 7 pm
Book Presentation and Artist Talk
26.2.2026, 7 pm
GOLDA books and more
Anklamer Str. 39 | 10115 Berlin
Layers of ancient culture and religion overlap with the present day in Damascus. Frizzi Krella depicts this vibrant city in all its ambivalence in her black-and-white and color photographs. She focuses on everyday life scarred by war and views the city and its inhabitants with empathy and tenderness. Krella’s photographs create a poetic proximity that reveals a unique snapshot of Damascus shortly before the fall of the Assad regime: a backyard ladder that seems to grow skywards; a conversation at the market, between open sacks of spices; a satellite disk on a rooftop. The assumed contradictions of past and present merge into a sensual oneness in Krella’s photographs, which do not conceal the ugly or the dreadful yet never lose sight of the dignity of those living here.

02/02/2026

Zur Unterstützung unseres Teams in Berlin suchen wir zu sofort eine(n) Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) für Presse-, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Social Media (20-25 h/Woche).

14/01/2026

OUR NEW PUBLISHING PREVIEW IS OUT! ✨
Spring / Summer 2026
We are happy to share with you our brand-new catalogue! Here you will find all new publications in the fields of Art and Photography.
A big thank you to all the artists, editors, curators, writers, designers, translators and proofreaders!
Cover image by Albert Scopin Schöpflin. The book „Chelsea Hotel“ will be published in March.

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05/01/2026

Zur Unterstützung unseres Teams in Berlin suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Medienkaufmann/-frau (m/w/d) // in Vollzeit.

Bewerbt euch bis zum 15.01.2026!

22/12/2025

Season’s greetings from all of us at Kerber Verlag! 🎄

Thank you for being part of our year, and for your trust, ideas and inspiring conversations.
We wish you peaceful holidays and a New Year filled with health, success and happiness!✨

Image from: Sandro Livio Straube, Berge bleichen / Whitening Heights, ISBN 978-3-7356-1060-7

16/12/2025

Zur Unterstützung unseres Teams in Berlin suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Projektmanager*in (m/w/d) // 28–32 h wöchentlich.

Bewerbt euch bis zum 11.01.2026!

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