We’re going to start blogging here again – about books, exhibitions, events, publications, and whatever is happening at Motto.

Words by Nancy Li

We need stories like this in self-absorbed days to inspire us on strength, persistence, pain, solitude and to conclude, absurd action. If pilgrims in Tibet are known to tread through mountains and rivers to preach towards an invisible future. Then what is Anton’s purpose? Crossing borders of seven countries, reaching the ever strange lands. What is the profoundest philosophy he might have gained throughout his journey about giving up and starting again.

After all, there is tomorrow after another tomorrow. Facing wrinkled sea may you forget about time vanishing behind us. Walking on the forthcoming road may you see light dimming brightly over horse’s back. Further away from modern living, he was measuring the ever so abstract notions of freedom and uncertainty by steps, one heavy with question, after another light with acceptance.

When Anton walked into our store, he looked like someone with stories to tell. We sat down together outside over sporadic silence and shared passion for poetry and black and white photography. Needless to say more, you will find his personality shone briskly through the frames of moments that he thoughtfully captured with his lens – ever lasting until his next unplanned journey.

STREUNER by Anton Gartung is a photo collection documenting Anton Gartung’s three-month walk from Berlin to Athens. Every copy is numbered and signed by Anton himself with a photograph available to gift to any friend who is in vain

Poem by Ferdinan Uth in both German and English

Available at Motto Berlin and online

A collaboration between photographer Vrettos and art collective ANOSIA, which “brings to the fore the intervening body which breaks into the confounds of a ‘normal’ functioning constitution of public space and disrupts civility.”

Full-colour reproduced photographs of riotous bodies in surreal, often provocative scenes staged in abandoned public spaces where the naked, often painted or masked figures blend together into a violent, erotic and carnivalesque mass of flesh.

With an introduction by Gertrude Liebfraumilch, who also provides an impish play script, a poem by Nikos Branidis, another poem by Tanya Varveri, and a text by Yorgia Karidi.

Text in English and/or Greek.

Available at

@ Motto Berlin

and online!

AI MUST DIE is a short zine that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2026.

Available at

@ Motto Berlin

@ Motto Paris

and for online order!

Eric Pougeau

@motto_paris

Launch, Thursday 27 August, 6pm

Motto Paris @ Ofr Edition

6 rue des Filles du Calvaire

75003 Paris

Hugo Capablanca
@motto_paris
Saturday 22 August from 6pm

Collage works on canvas

• a live sound performance (8pm)
• archive sale

Motto Paris
Summer residence @ Ofr Editions
6 rue des filles du calvaire
75003 Paris

Motto Paris @ Ofr Editions

Summer residency

6 rue des Filles du Calvaire

75003 Paris

Daily 12-8pm

Motto Paris

38 rue du Vertbois

75003 Paris