The Clock Wife (Exhibition booklet)
Published by A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 2025, 28 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €3

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Clock Wife at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, October 25, 2025 – January 25, 2026.

Accumulating over three months, The Clock Wife is an exhibition that focuses on artist estate management by presenting four estates through the eyes of the women overseeing them: Marja Bloem presenting her partner Seth Siegelaub; Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon presenting husband and father John Nixon; Johanna Monk presenting her beloved Vanita Monk; and Juf (Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra) presenting their peer Fran Herndon. At the core of the exhibition is the conflation of administrative and emotional labour inherent to this line of work. Yet an exhibition built around an acknowledgement of the invisibility of certain forms of labour—and an attempt to centre them in turn—has a paradox at heart: how do you make visible that which is not seen?

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

Designed by Maud Vervenne.

#2025 #ataleofatub #ephemera #isabellesully #johnnixon #marjabloem #maudvervenne #sethsiegelaub
stanley brouwn (card)
Published by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2005, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, Dutch
Price: €60

Produced on the occasion of stanley brouwn’s exhibition at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 22 January–April 4, 2005.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership and address sticker has been altered in documentation.

#2005 #ephemera #invitecard #stanleybrouwn #vanabbemuseum
It is Something Like / Putting Words in Your Mouth (green, yellow)
Louise Lawler
Published by the artist, 1988, 2 cards (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 10.8 cm, English
Price: €180

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Investigations 1988 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

It isn’t just in her photographic work that Lawler explores art’s economic regime down to its smallest, seemingly banal details. She also continues to produce ephemera including matchbooks, gift certificates, postcards, posters, and souvenirs such as drinking glasses or paperweights. Invoking her signature, subtle humour, she underscores how the art apparatus relies on a loose network of advertising materials and other articles that help determine how an artwork is recognized and valued.

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

#1988 #ephemera #invitecard #louiselawler
On Kawara (card)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, 1987, card (colour & b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, German
Price: €60

Produced on the occasion of On Kawara’s exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, 7 March–11 April, 1987.

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

#1987 #ephemera #invitecard #onkawara
Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975) (card)
Published by Art & Project, Amsterdam, 1985, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, Dutch
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

Invitation card produced on the occasion of the exhibition Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975) at Art & Project, Amsterdam, 29 January–23 February, 1985.

Bas Jan Ader was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist known for works exploring failure, loneliness, and the sublime, famously disappearing at sea in 1975 while attempting a transatlantic voyage as the final part of his trilogy, In Search of the Miraculous. His art, often using photography and film, featured self-performances of falling or emotional distress, linking life and art as metaphorical journeys, culminating in his mysterious final act of becoming part of his art.

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

#1985 #artampproject #basjanader #ephemera #invitecard
A Discussion (card)
Ian Wilson
Published by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2009, card (b/w ill.), 20.9 × 14.7 cm, Dutch/English
Price: €38 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Ian Wilson’s Discussion at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1 March, 2009.

Ian Wilson presented spoken language as his artistic medium, liberating art from its material form and opening it up to the unpredictability of verbal exchange. Through his Discussions, he engaged individuals in private and public conversations about verbal communication. Wilson views speech as dematerialized sculpture, believing that words enable one to “have the essential features of the object at your disposal.”

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

#2009 #ephemera #ianwilson #invitecard #vanabbemuseum