Born in 1951, Villiger trained in sculpture but discovered photography at the end of the 1970s. From 1981 until her death in 1997 she concentrated on taking photographs of herself. She emphatically believed in the power of the body even though, or rather because, she was already coping with the isolation caused by tuberculosis, which she had contracted at the age of 29. She believed not only in a life lived to excess, but also in the idea that photography can somehow renew the physical self.

With texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann and Niklaus Oberholzer.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

ABR Stuttgart emerged in 1983 from the archive of founders René Straub, Ulrich Bernhardt, Gerrit Hoogerbeets and Harrry Walter.

Décor de la Vie, was produced in 1986 by the Württembergischer Kunstverein for the first solo exhibition in a public institution of ABR Stuttgart. The book contains an overview of previous activities and also includes work that can be assigned to Gerrit Hoogerbeets or René Straub. In the exhibition, these pieces were presented, wrapped in bubble film, leaning against the wall as if they had been decommissioned.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Guillaume Bijl, Lili Dujourie, Raoul de Keyser, Jan Vercruysse, at Kunsthalle Bern, 25 October–23 November, 1986. With texts by Jef Lambrecht, Leo Van Damme, Harald Szeemann, Alain Cueff, Saskia Bos, Bart Cassiman and Ulrich Loock.

Produced on the occasion of Ernst Caramelle’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern, 4 August–14 September, 1986.

Ernst Caramelle’s work combines both abstraction and emblematic figuration—up to the point of floral formlessness. Formats vary from miniatures to large-scale wall paintings. Thematically, these works in many different media explore perception, the nature of space, media representation, artistic productivity, and the role of the artist and his embroilment in the market and with the museum.—MUMOK, Vienna press release