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
Common Ruin
Win McCarthy
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.8 × 23.4 cm, English
Price: €20

In his work, McCarthy explores the dialectical relationships between subjects like city and citizen, friend and the stranger, and present and past. McCarthy’s work often testifies to the paradoxical emptiness experienced in a metropolis. Taking the city’s map as a metaphysical topography, the confluence of real estate, architecture, and urban planning become vocabulary for the construction of a self. Besides working with photography and text, McCarthy makes associative installations. His works appear to be images from memories, meeting viewers with a torrent of different emotions, ranging from amusement and admiration to aversion and fear. Designed by Lucas Quigley.

More information on the associated exhibition can be found here.

#2023 #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #lucasquigley #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #winmccarthy
Ausstellungen/Exhibitions 2018–2022
Amelie von Wulffen
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 176 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22.4 × 27.5 cm, German / English
Price: €28 (Temporarily out of stock)

This book documents Amelie von Wulffen’s exhibitions at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York; Gió Marconi, Milan; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Établissement d’en face, Brussels; Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien between 2018 and 2022. With texts from Helmut Draxler, Valérie Knoll & Tonio Kröner.

#2022 #amelievonwulffen #etablissementdenface #helmutdraxler #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #painting #reenaspaulingsfineart #toniokroner #valerieknoll #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
F.R. David: “Take, Eat”
Will Holder, Andrea di Serego Alighieri (eds.)
Published by Uh Books, Brussels and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Spring 2022, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 19 cm, English
Price: €11

This 21st issue of F.R. David is edited by Will Holder with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Seemingly more fragmented than usual, it includes contributions, quotes, found materials, and excerpts from Maggie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Octavia Butler, John Keats, Alice Notley, Paul Abbott, Bernadette Mayer, Fred Dewey, John Cage, Marion Keiner, Anne Carson, and others. An afterword by Nicolas Schoffer entitled “Microtime” concludes this wandering, inscrutable journey.

#2022 #alicenotley #andreadiseregoalighieri #annecarson #bernadettemayer #frdavid #freddewey #johncage #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #maggienelson #marionkeiner #octaviaebutler #uhbooks #willholder
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
Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief
Michael Stevenson
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2021, 2 volumes in cloth hardcover (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 32 cm, English
Price: €40

The exhibition Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief by the Berlin-based artist Michael Stevenson (born in 1964, NZ) presents an unconventional invocation of his practice over the past 35 years. Since the 1980s Stevenson has developed an artistic language that operates at the juncture of economy, technology, education, and faith, exploring the infrastructural systems that condition these disciplines and their entanglement. The exhibition marks Stevenson’s first institutional solo presentation in Berlin and presents a focused revision of his work, in which early paintings are brought into dialogue with more recent expansive installation.

Designed by Will Holder.

#2021 #kunstinstituutmelly #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #michaelstevenson #sternbergpress #willholder