Shonandai - Exposing The World
Itsuko Hasegawa
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2025, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English
Price: €39

An in-depth look at the Shonandai Cultural Centre, one of the groundbreaking buildings in 1980s Japan and the masterpiece of Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa, presented in photographs and technical drawings. The Shonandai Cultural Centre was the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. Shonandai belongs to a different time – the 1980s – and a different place, Japan, but it shares the desire of earlier generations to “overcome” modernism. Hasegawa achieves this in the most outlandish way, possible perhaps only in Japan in the 1980s. This is where the 1960s techno avant-garde comes full circle. Illustrated with photographs by Stefano Graziani, this book is part of the Everything without Content series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis and successor to previous books on Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo.

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Ilke Gers
Published by Ilke Gers, Rotterdam, 2025, 28 pp. (b/w ill.), 6 × 5 cm, English
Price: €200

Hand-drawn artist’s book by Rotterdam-based artist Ilke Gers. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Gers works with text, drawing, and publishing to explore the connections between the body, movement, and language.

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Index
Ilke Gers
Published by Ilke Gers, Rotterdam, 2025, 112 pp. (b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €19

A document of Ilke Gers’s work Index (2024–25). Produced on the occasion of the group exhibition Bold and Gritty at Stedelik Museum Schiedam, curated by Linda van der Vleuten and Bruce Tsar-Meu-Chong, 24 May–9 November, 2025. Edition of 200.

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Ship of Fools/The Dockers' Museum
Allan Sekula
Published by Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2015, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 23 cm, English
Price: €35 (Out of stock)

Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life. The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks.

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Gebauchpinselt (card)
Daniel Spoerri
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €8

Card 9 of 10 from the series Serie 67 Daniel Spoerri 1961–1982. Featuring the work Gebauchpinselt, 1965.

*Please note these items are secondhand and have some traces of previous ownership.

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Tableau piège (card)
Daniel Spoerri
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, 2010, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €8

Featuring the work Tableau piège, 1972.

*Please note these items are secondhand and have some traces of previous ownership.

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