Between The Light and Darkness.  Yan Kallen. Mosses

Posted in photography on April 11th, 2023
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Atelier Antwerp. Ilja Keizer

Posted in photography, Self published on April 8th, 2023
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Atelier Antwerp is a portraits collection of contemporary Belgian Artists.

Featuring Sarah Neutkens – Porcelain id – Melody Van Gompel – Misha Demoustier – Nora El Koussour – Sam de Nef – Thibaud Frank Dooms – Lisa – Koo Gautama – Roosbeef- Kleine Crack – Gijs & Lisa – the Visual – Willem Ardui – Noa Lee – The Haunted Youth – Whispering Sons.

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THE AFOREMENTIONED. Viktor Chen-Yuan.

Posted in photography, Self published on April 6th, 2023
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The Aforementioned examines the dynamic relationship between object and human usage. It’s a collection of images that document the objects we encounter in daily life, in a personal yet archival manner.

This collection provides a soulful / geometric interpretation of the linkage between the object and the user. Some object stands oddly intruding from its environment, some sits quietly hidden from any attention, whether artificial or natural, object serves a purpose to someone or something at one point in time. From a cut opened steel fence to mystery hands at an intersection, they are seemingly unrelated yet deeply connected. The sequence reflects on the randomness of a daily encounter giving each occurrence a voice of its own.

Designed by Louis Kang
Introduction by Valarie Frost
Printed with Sensations Print in Taipei

Edition of 100

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STEPPUBLISHER – HO KING MAN – 04.04.23 @ Motto Berlin

Posted in Uncategorized on April 1st, 2023

STEPPUBLISHER – HO KING MAN

OPENING 4/4 2023 FROM 6PM

TWO FINGERS IN & OUT

ZOOM

W/UNFINISHED/DRAFTING/ONGOING/RECREATING/MISSING

A LETTER A

A LADDER A

AAA A

AAAAA

AAAAAAA

A SLIP

A WORD

A STORY

A POSTER

A SOUND

A LETTER

FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF WATT

Works by BHKM, Casey Robbins, Ho King Man, Jyugam, mafmadmaf, Xiaowu, and WATT

Weekly Watt Chapters

4/10 (? – tbc)

4/17 (? – tbc)

4/24 mafmadmaf

EXHIBITION 4/5 – 4/29

Motto Berlin

Skalitzer Str. 68

10997, Berlin

V Magazine #70 (yellow cover). Stephen Gan (Ed.). V magazine

Posted in Fashion, magazines, writing on April 1st, 2023
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Special 70th edition “THE STAR POWER ISSUE” (yellow cover).

THE BITCH IS BACK! See the return of pop’s most perennially talked about legend, Britney Spears, photographed by Mario Testino for our starpower issue. Plus: Joan Smalls by Alasdair McLellan, Carolyn Murphy by Danielle and Iango, and the best of spring fashion.

Contents:

Britney Spears photographed by Mario Testino
Celine Dion
Giselle Bündchen
Stevie Wonder
Liberace
Lea T
Zahia Dehar
Power Agents
Hollywood Legends
L.A. Infamy

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Healing The Museum. Grace Ndiritu. Motto Books

Posted in Exhibitions, Monograph, Motto Books, politics, research, writing on March 31st, 2023
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“Healing The Museum” is a mid-career monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years, which encompasses performance, film, shamanism, social actions, painting, publications, textile work, and collection research. The large selection of artworks included in the publication are in a dialogue with each other, further enriched by in-depth conversations with Brook Andrew, Gareth Bell-Jones, and Philippe Van Cauteren, and written contributions from Ifeanyi Awachie, Ann Hoste, and Hammad Nasar. The monograph’s publication coincides with the eponymous exhibition at S.M.A.K.–Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent.

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Landscape. Stefan Marx. Nieves

Posted in Zines on March 30th, 2023
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Stefan Marx (*1979) is a Hamburg based artist. His T-shirt label The Lousy Livincompany is a platform for his drawings published on T-shirts. He has worked for numerous skateboard and T-shirt labels worldwide. His artist books are published by Nieves, Rollo-Press, and Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier – beside these releases he publishes regulary by himself. All Smallville Records releases are visually defined by Marx’ drawings. Smallville Records is also the label of his band The Dead Sea. He has lectured widely in Germany and taught Drawing at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Dissolvè / Scillions. Antoine Hubineau. arbitrary

Posted in music, Vinyl, vinyl on March 29th, 2023
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arbitrary presents Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau. Derived from the same series of compositions, Dissolvè and Scillions are drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.

Dissolvè is a mosaic which is in constant motion. The inner details are guided by an outer structure which act as a kind of rhythmic subtraction. It is destabilised to the point where it fractures, from the macro to the micro level; abstracting a filigree from the original rhythm.

Scillions breaks an initial path into several directions which create new paths. Directional blur in harmonic motion makes it difficult to predict the outcomes. Contrary movements, synchronisation and desynchronisation build and break the relations between these new paths. Finally, altered versions of these new directions give some familiarity, while adding to the ambient disorder.

Based in Latillé (France), Antoine Hubineau works in the electronic music field, as a composer, musician, teacher and co-founder of the Sillages residency. His practice is focused on sound synthesis, which become alternately pseudo-acoustic instruments, abstract matter and surreal spaces. In his compositions, he makes the most of the cracks between free pulsation and collateral rhythms, between harmonic stability and sound spectrum tearings.

Written & produced by Antoine Hubineau, Saint-Etienne (France), 2020. Tombak recordings: thanks to Cinna Peyghamy. Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin. Cover artwork by Morgan Cuinet. Layout by Mads Emil Nielsen.

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Die Aufstellung. Rebekka Bauer. Verlag Marian Arnd

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, history, photography, writing on March 28th, 2023
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Die Aufstellung thematisiert die Weitergabe von Traumata des 2. Weltkriegs im Wohnhaus meiner Familie. Ausgangspunkt ist ein Archiv von 500 Metallobjekten, die mein Großvater, ein ehemaliger Wehrmachtssoldat, über mehrere Jahrzehnte im Keller unseres gemeinsamen Wohnhauses fertigte. Die Objekte werden in der handwerklichen Routine zu Trägern des Traumas. Um den Einfluss der unausgesprochenen Kriegserlebnisse auf den Familienalltag zu zeigen, setze ich die Metallgegenstände sowohl mit Kriegsfotografien als auch Familienfotos ins Verhältnis, die Ausschnitte aus dem Alltag meiner Familie bis in die frühen 2000er Jahre zeigen.

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31.03 from 6 pm: “Merci Danke Grazie” reading and talk with Sophia Eisenhut, Olga Hohmann, Simon Freund, Leonie Herweg, Paul Jürgens @ Motto Berlin

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event on March 27th, 2023
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Dear friends,

Motto is pleased to invite you to the book presentation of

Merci Danke Grazie
by Sophia Eisenhut, Olga Hohmann, Simon Freund, Leonie Herweg, Paul Jürgens
Published by windpark books, 2022

Reading & talk with the authors and designers

Friday 31 March 2023
from 6 pm

Motto (im Hinterhaus)
Skalitzer Str. 68 
10997 Berlin

Merci Danke Grazie
Authors: Sophia Eisenhut, Olga Hohmann, Simon Freund, Leonie Herweg, Paul Jürgens
Publisher: windpark books
Year: 2022
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 10.5 x 16 cm
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-949363-99-3

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ca. 100 dog bags collected by Simon Freund, curated by Leonie Herweg, typeset by Paul Jürgens, with texts by Sophia Eisenhut and Olga Hohmann, published by windpark books.

Sophia Eisenhut is an artist and author of theory and prose. In 2021, her volume EXERCITIA S. Catarinae de Manresa: Anorexia and the State of God was published by Merve Verlag.

Olga Hohmann writes essays, short stories, columns and texts for performances. She lives and works in Berlin.

Simon Freund, lives and works without a permanent residence. Freund’s work is available free of charge to all, especially online at simonfreund.xyz. Freund is supported by several patrons with 1€ per month, no more – no less.

Leonie Herweg studied International Relations in Geneva and Tokyo. She participated in various curatorial projects.

Paul Jürgens is a designer who lives and works in Vienna and Cologne.

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Olga Hohmann
Simon Freund
Leonie Herweg
Olga Hohmann
Paul Jürgens
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