Produced on the occasion of the exhibiting of Lutz Bacher’s work Elvis Moan (2008/2013, Sound, 5’ 13’) in the basement of Fridericianum, Kassel, from 3 April–5 September, 2021.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibiting of Lutz Bacher’s work Elvis Moan (2008/2013, Sound, 5’ 13’) in the basement of Fridericianum, Kassel, from 3 April–5 September, 2021.
This comprehensive monograph ventures a look at Vivian Suter’s complete works, bringing together early drawings, painterly wall reliefs from the 1980s, and her latest work from her studio in the tropical rainforest of Guatemala: loose canvases hanging lightly from the ceiling in atmospherically dense installations. The richly illustrated catalog illuminates the interplay between unpredictable natural influences as the paintings are left outside open to the elements and purposeful artistic work in Suter’s practice. Designed by Julia Born.
Myths and Manifestos is a compendium of dramatic and polemical texts written and released, by the artist entity Studio for Propositional Cinema between 2009 and 2021. Scripts for a play, a libretto, and an epic poem are punctuated by manifestos and public speeches that act as bridges between them. Together they reflect and warn of an encroaching ideological dark age in which our culture’s communicational forms are becoming increasingly endangered and alienated from our collective control, while making some modest proposals for how we can make space to relearn and retain them, if there is still enough time to do so.
Produced on the occasion of Christopher Williams, Werbung: Adapted for Use and Provisional Prop. A 48-Hour Display of Quality Framing Materials, 29 April–27 June, 2021, Strausberger Platz 19 & Kino international, Berlin; Werbung: Adapted for use, 29 April–24 June, 2021, Haubrok Foundation, Strausberger Platz 19, Berlin; Provisional Prop, screening: 25 June, 2021, 5.30 pm, Kino International, Berlin; Kochgeschirr: Adapted For Use, 28 April–17 July, 2021, Capitain Petzel, Berlin.
A video documenting the exhibition can be seen here.
In The Current Of The Situation is an email correspondence between artist Danae Io and curator Ioanna Gerakidi. The exchange started in 2017 and lasted over a year, creating a space to voice what could not be said in their daily phone calls. The correspondence is composed of diaristic poems written for their lovers but exchanged between one another. This continuous shift between addressee and the receiver generates a protective distance to articulate their vulnerabilities and examine the erotic. The correspondence has been presented as a performance at Kunstverein, Amsterdam in 2018 and is now published as a book by Dolce Publications with contributions in response by artist Jesse Darling.
Designed by Claes Storm.
Edition of 26 copies and 4 artist’s proofs, numbered and signed by the artist.
Although the title of this edition, Un jour sans pain* est un jour sans soleil [“A day without bread is a day without sun”], sounds like a typical French saying, it is simply a sentence glimpsed in a bakery where Ana Jotta used to go in Paris. But the asterisk complicates things a little: on the back of the leporello, the artist instructs us to read “pain” in the English, thus adding a sarcastic touch to this commercial motto.
The (absence of) sun and the umbrella, as well as the wallpaper designed for the presentation of the edition at Keijiban, can refer to the tsuyu, the rainy season during which they were exhibited, in the open air.