Automatik
Margaret Raspé
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2023, 224 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.4 × 23.5 cm, English / German
Price: €30

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Margaret Raspé: Automatik at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the Berlin-based artist. Over the past five decades, Raspé has created a significant body of work in the immediate vicinity of the institution, developing an idiosyncratic artistic language that considers life and art, and their everyday conditions, in unison. In addition to her acclaimed film works from the 1970s and 80s, Raspé’s oeuvre consists of performances, photo series, sound works, and large-scale installations in both indoor and outdoor settings.

With contributions from Karolin Meunier, Kollektiv Florida, Ghislaine Leung, Kari Rittenbach, Emily LaBarge, Anna Gritz & Eva Wilson. Design by HIT & Veronika de Haas.

#annagritz #evawilson #ghislaineleung #hit #margaretraspe #veronikadehaas
F.R. David: “Zeros and Ones”
Will Holder, Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, Ghislaine Leung (eds.)
Published by Uh Books, Brussels and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Spring 2023, 180 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 19 cm, English
Price: €11

Riffing off the title, this volume includes an interview with Carolyn Lazard—an artist whose conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full amplitude of relation—by Catherine Damman, plus a feature on New York-based contemporary artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the “embodiment of technology”, and contributions by time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung. Including the work of Lutz Bacher, stanley brouwn, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Hanne Darboven, Jef Geys, Tishan Hsu, Pope L., Louise Lawler, Carolyn Lazard, Ghislaine Leung, Lee Lozano, Henrik Olesen, Sarah Rapson, Margaret Raspé, Ketty La Rocca, Sturtevant, Martin Wong and Octavia E. Butler.

#2023 #annagritz #carolynlazard #frdavid #ghislaineleung #hannedarboven #henrikolesen #jaychungandqtakekimaeda #jefgeys #kathrinbentele #kettylarocca #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #leelozano #louiselawler #lutzbacher #margaretraspe #martinwong #octaviaebutler #popel #sarahrapson #stanleybrouwn #sturtevant #tishanhsu #uhbooks
The Making of Husbands
Christina Ramberg
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.4 × 28.8 cm, English
Price: €30

“Containing, restraining, reforming, hurting, compressing, binding, transforming a lumpy shape into a clean smooth line,” is how American artist Christina Ramberg once described the drawings of corsets in her sketchbooks. Ramberg was one of the most intriguing painters to emerge within a generation of Chicago Imagists. She left a significant body of comic, formally elegant, erotically sinister paintings.

Produced on the occasion of The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 14 September, 2019–5 January 2020. Christina Ramberg’s work was shown alongside of other artistic positions such as Alexandra Bircken, Sara Deraedt, Gaylen Gerber, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Konrad Klapheck, Ghislaine Leung, Hans-Christian Lotz, Senga Nengudi, Ana Pellicer, Richard Rezac, Diane Simpson, Terre Thaemlitz, Kathleen White.

With texts from Dodie Bellamy, Kathrin Bentele, Jen George, Larne Abse Gogarty, Anna Gritz, Judith Russi Kirshner & Léon Kruijswijk.

#alexandrabircken #chicagoimagists #christinaramberg #dianesimpson #dodiebellamy #ghislaineleung #kathrinbentele #konradklapheck #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #saraderaedt #senganengudi #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Portraits
Ghislaine Leung
Published by Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2021, box containing 3 A4 stapled documents, 6 cards, fluorescent lamp, usb cord, instructions and object (colour & b/w ill.), 16.3 × 20.7 cm, English / German
Price: €54

Produced on the occasion of Portraits a solo exhibition by Ghislaine Leung displayed at Museum Abteiberg from 3 June–24 October, 2021, curated by Susanne Titz and Haris Giannouras. The exhibition comprised of works commissioned by Museum Abteiberg and produced over the duration of a year from 2020–21. The catalogue references the legendary box catalogues developed by previous museum director Johannes Cladders with Joseph Beuys in 1967. With essays from Bruce Hainley and Eleanor Ivory Weber.

You can see a round table discussion of the exhibition featuring Bruce Hainley, Fatima Hellberg & Susanne Titz and Haris Giannouras here.

#2021 #brucehainley #eleanorivoryweber #ghislaineleung #harisgiannouras #johannescladders #museumabteiberg #susannetitz
On Property
International Institute of Social History, Ghislaine Leung, Remco Torenbosch
Published by Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, 2020, card, 14.8 × 14.8 cm, English
Price: €2

Invitation produced on the occasion of On Property, International Institute of Social History, Ghislaine Leung, Remco Torenbosch at Cargo in Context, Amsterdam.

On Property is set against the backdrop of one of the most speculative construction sites in Amsterdam: de Houthavens. This former port area (also the location where Cargo is located) is exemplary of how urban expansion is used as a means for speculation of property, with all its socio-economic consequences. On Property focuses on the subcutaneous and invisible lines of the idea of ownership, a concept that forces separations from public and private and that produces an unequal distribution of collective values.

More information on the project can be found here and here.

#2020 #ephemera #ghislaineleung #remcotorenbosch
Ghislaine Leung
Published by Cell Projects, London, 2018, 146 pages, 13.8 × 20.8 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)
Artist and writer Ghislaine Leung, lives and works in London and Brussels. Recent solo projects include; CONSTITUTION, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany & Chisenhale, London, UK, Violets 3, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium, ESSEX STREET, New York, New York and group projects; The Making of Husbands, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK Contains texts such as 'Approximations', 'Complicity, Fetish, Agency', 'OUT', 'In Extrinsics', '29042017' amongst others.
#2018 #ghislaineleung