BOOKS at BRUNETTE COLEMAN
11 July–8 August, 2025
opening: Friday, 11 July, 4–7pm

In July, the bookshop will pack up and temporarily relocate to Brunette Coleman in London, presenting a selection of books alongside artworks from past and future projects.

With works, books and ephemera from Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Stuart Sherman, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, gerlach en koop, Wyatt Niehaus, Ian Burn, Willem Oorebeek, Anna Daučíková, Seth Siegelaub’s International General imprint, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, a selection of publications around early abstract experimental Japanese photography by Kiyoshi Koishi, Ei-Q, Kiyoji Otsuji, Nakaji Yasui, Iwata Nakayama, Kansuke Yamamoto, Osamu Shiihara amongst others, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Barbara Bloom, Marian Zazeela, Eugene Carchesio, Anna Oppermann, Lili Dujourie, Cady Noland, Nasreen Mohamedi, Jason Dodge, Mladen Stilinović, Laurie Parsons, Kōshirō Onchi, Jochen Lempert, Atsuko Tanaka, Hans Bellmer, Gutai, readymades belong to everyone®, Philippe Thomas, Trisha Donnelly, Lucy McKenzie, Jef Geys, Ilke Gers, Henri Michaux, Kazuna Taguchi, Pierre Klossowski, Lutz Bacher, Etel Adnan, Zoe Leonard, Ian Wilson, David Robilliard, VALIE EXPORT, Ketty La Rocca, Michael Snow, Ibon Aranberri, Charlotte Posenenske, Běla Kolářová, Yvonne Rainer, stanley brouwn, Margaret Honda, Moyra Davey, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Sanja Iveković, Robert Filliou, Michael Krebber, Manfred Pernice, Ronald Jones, Ezio Gribaudo, Paul Sharits, On Kawara, Fiona Connor, Cinzia Ruggeri, Barbara T. Smith, Man Ray, Derek Jarman, Tetsumi Kudo, Guy Mees, Mária Bartuszová, Guy de Cointet, Kai Althoff, Christopher Williams, Richard Tuttle, Marie Laurencin, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Hanne Darboven, Francis Picabia, Simone Forti, Susan Howe, Algirdas Šeškus, Marcel Broodthaers, Dora Budor, Jack Goldstein, Alina Szapocznikow, Poul Gernes, John Knight, Tomio Miki, Chantal Akerman, Francesca Woodman, Sarah Rapson, Franz Erhard Walther, Vivian Suter and others.

Until August, the Amsterdam space will be open by appointment only and web orders will run as usual.

#2025 #brunettecoleman
Evaporation Essays
Nina Canell
Published by Distanz Verlag, 2012, 152 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €55

Evaporation Essays brings forth a number of reflections on the artist’s work, drawing from scientific experiments, intuitive logic, friendship, and the poetic potential in oddments of thought. The publication is the first extensive monograph on the artist and includes reproductions of sculptural works. Edited by Melanie Bono and Annette Hans. Texts by Xander Karskens, Caomhín Mac Giolla Léith, Pádraic E. Moore, and Chris Sharp.

#2012 #chrissharp #ninacanell
BILD, oder
Willem Oorebeek, Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Published by Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2004, 380 pp. (b/w ill.), 25.5 × 36 cm, English
Price: €80

Produced on the occasion of Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Willem Oorebeek’s exhibition Mit einem Fuß in der Realität at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 11 April–9 May, 2004.

The energy of BILD, oder comes from the associative dialogue between the two artists and the pooling of their respective archives: their own works, working notes, scraps, newspapers, posters, and other various sources preserved for various reasons. This accumulation of traces from their daily practice punctuates the flow of time.

#2004 #joelletuerlinckx #willemoorebeek
MONOLITH, between echo & HOPE
Willem Oorebeek
Published by With de With, Rotterdam, 1994, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25.5 cm, Dutch/English/German
Price: €100

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Willem Oorebeek – MONOLITH, lettered rock, at With de With, Rotterdam, 4 June–24 July, 1994.

Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek’s (1953) work is grounded in techniques from the graphic arts. He utilizes different printing processes in a special manner, fully employing the printing procedure’s inherent principles of juxtaposition and stratification in order to explore the themes of repetition, multiplication, seriality and order. Oorebeek is especially interested in how image and language can combine and lead to a unique cross of visibility and legibility. [exhibition press release]

#1994 #willemoorebeek
Monolith+++
Willem Oorebeek
Published by Culturgest, Lisbon, 2008, 196 pp. (b/w ill.), 19 × 25 cm, Portuguese/English
Price: €55

Produced on the occasion of Willem Oorebeek’s exhibition at Culturgest, Lisbon, 28 June–21 September, 2008.

Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek’s work is grounded in techniques from the graphic arts. He utilizes different printing processes in a special manner. He is especially interested in how image and language can combine and lead to a unique cross of visibility and legibility. Over the last ten years his production consisted mainly of a series of works in which he appropriates imagery drawn from printed matter that circulates in the public sphere. This catalogue from his 2008 exhibition in Lisbon documents his work and is accompanied by essays from Wouter Davidts and Camiel van Winkel.

#2008 #willemoorebeek
Bigger, Higher, Leader!
Willem Oorebeek
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, 2006, 64 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English/Dutch
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of Willem Oorebeek’s exhibition Bigger, Higher, Leader!, at S.M.A.K., Ghent, 6 May–30 July, 2006.

Willem Oorebeek’s work presents a reflection on the status of the image and more especially on what technical reproduction does to an image or a message. Over the last few years he has been working on his BLACKOUT series, in which he prints on existing printed matter by hand, using black ink. The images he uses are of various origins, but he appropriates them and by making them illegible also pays tribute to them. In a certain sense, Oorebeek’s work is akin to certain aspects of Pop Art, though his is more radical. [publisher’s text]

Designed by Luc Derycke & Willem Oorebeek.

#2006 #lucderycke #merpaperkunsthalle #willemoorebeek