Inaugural show
The Museum Problem
curated by Chris Fitzpatrick

Featuring works by: Nina Beier, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris,
Dalia Dūdėnaitė & Elena Narbutaitė, France Fiction, Antanas Gerlikas,
Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Chosil Kil, Juozas Laivys, Stephen Lichty,
Lauren Marsden, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Gizela Mickiewicz,
Rosalind Nashashibi, Brandon Walls Olsen, Post Brothers, Chadwick Rantanen,
Will Rogan, Iza Tarasewicz, Suzanne Treister, and Amy Yao.

Edition of 200

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Abstract Ilona. Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Sixty-eight-page catalog documenting the Abstract Ilona exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Berlin. Complete with over 48 color reproductions and introductory essay by gallery director Marc LeBlanc.

With work by: Tim Berresheim, Henry Butzer, Henning Strassburger, Aribert von Ostrowski.

Designed by Enver Hadzijaj and printed in 2012.

English / German

Edition of 500.

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Friday, February 17 @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

Apeirophobia is a new publication by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry exploring the processes of translating an artwork into book format, an extension of a theme in Kihlberg and Henry’s work of things changing form through processes such as memory and recall, documentation and revisiting histories and possible futures.

At the Berlin launch Kihlberg and Henry will present a short video screening of three works (including a video of the launching and shooting of 30 copies of the book) which will be followed by an informal discussion by Kihlberg and Henry, designer and co-editor James Langdon, and Dominique Hurth from The Reading Room, concerning the issues of artists books and publishing.

Apeirophobia, by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, designed and co-etided by James Langdon, includes texts by: Emma Cocker / Brian Dillon / Mladen Dolar / Eli Noé

Apeirophobia is a 128 pages paperback B/W
Priced £10/€13 with a special launch night price of £7.50/€10

Karin Kihlberg (SE) and Reuben Henry (UK) lead a collaborative artist practice and are based in London. They worked as researchers at the Jan van Eyck Academy between 2008-10 and initiated and led the international production residency, Springhill Institute between 2004-08. Their practice spans from video, performance to drawing and writing. They are the 2012 recipients of the Great North Run moving image commission in Newcastle.
More info on – www.karinkihlberg-reubenhenry.org

The Reading Room is a project based in private spaces in Berlin, with the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. The project presents a curated selection of over 60 artist’s publications (books, zines, magazines and newspapers) and related projects (such as fold-out posters or published audio projects), from a range of internationally based artists, both established and emerging.
The Reading Room is an initiative of artists Ciarán Walsh and Dominique Hurth.
www.thereadingroom-index.com

Wazony. Robert Maciejuk. Morava Books.

Robert Maciejuk is a painter. As a painter, he is sensitive to the colour and texture of paint. He is a painter with a rare sense of humour and, an even greater rarity, an awareness of his skill. Robert Maciejuk knows how to paint and it is his intuition which leads him to the subject of his painting. Still, Robert Maciejuk is no potter and in the world of ceramics he fumbles about in the dark, making the mistakes all beginners make. Yet it is, in fact, a series of ceramics and vases that appear to be the protagonists of a meticulously designed portfolio. Why ceramics, then? Is it really all about ceramics? The precise compositions made up of groups of vases invoke associations with the still-life oeuvre of masters from the Netherlands and Spain. The colours of the objects, the garish yellow background of a wall, the cold tiles and the earth-tone vases might have served as basic motifs for any of the Colourists or Capists. The form of a publication is the perfect framework for a series of photographs of such objects as what counts most for the artist is a memorable image captured on paper. After all, Robert Maciejuk is only, and as much as, a painter.

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BUS. Uri Aran. Morava Books.

The works of New York based artist Uri Aran take on the character of a many-layered collection of poems. Uri’s drawing technique is based on the precise repetition of a particular series of gestures: drawing-scanning-printing. The book “BUS” is simply the next phase in reproducing the “original”. Uri’s first artbook is full of images, but really it traces the “poetry of the road”.
As we open the book, hopping on the “BUS and settling into a seat in the back, the reader starts to take note of the images and messages that appear, observing from a distance. Heroes come and go, we hear fragments of private stories and bits of news from around the world. At every stop, absurd situations take place at a regular pace, but eventually the initial chaos is ordered into a multitude of meanings.

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Echo Park. Agnieszka Grodzińska. Morava Books.

Agnieszki Grodzińska’s latest book is a subjective research book of sorts, containing visual references that, to a greater or less degree, pertain to the broad concept of Abstract Painting, with an emphasis on the AbEx – Abstract Expressionism – phenomenon in the U.S. In five colour-coded chapters, she puts her materials in a certain order, making note of connections and themes made apparent among the photographs and reproductions. In the process, she unmasks details of who might have borrowed what from whom. The reader strolls Grodzińska’s „Echo Park” as through a museum, where all background details have been removed and all that remains are the paintings themselves. His or her sense of bewilderment compounded perhaps by the thought echoing within the subconscious: are THESE the original paintings or mere copies? An integral part of the book is made up of three short stories by Anna Miczko on a particular painting / reproduction of the painting / ruminations on the painting.

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Expothesis No2 – Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Participation

Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is an amalgam of thirty-seven contributions that constitute a true space of conflict, questioning, disproving, endorsing and taking further the critical participatory practice suggested in The Nightmare of Participation. It opens up a much wider field of discussion, including the question of the outsider, disciplinarity, democracy, political correctness, institutional critique and more. Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is the epilogue to Miessen’s trilogy on participation.

edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen

D 20 €

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The Great Subtraction.Gabriele Guercio. ASA Publishers

Since the 1960s artists from various countries have positioned themselves increasingly within a system of art that, although established in Western Europe and the United States, is now global in its reach. However, Italian artists in particular have, with some exceptions, resisted expressing a certain putative artistic “Italian-ness,” thus undermining the global system’s tendency to identify artists, artworks, and movements according to nationality. By the same token, Italian artists have rarely endorsed global styles or concerns, effectively subverting the system’s attempt to establish unifying criteria of form or content. This unusual volume, by turns theoretical treatise, catalogue raisonné, art-historical survey, and virtual exhibit, offers fresh insight into the dynamic of subtraction that characterizes a significant body of works by Italian artists such as Giovanni Anselmo, Elisabetta Benassi, Gino De Dominicis, Francesco Matarrese, Marisa Merz, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Emilio Prini.

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Dust #2: Roots

DUST is a new refreshing fashion & art magazine. With a biannual publishing frequency, Dust was born in early 2010 with the desire to provide a new and different point of view to the fashion magazine market.

We feel the need of filling the gaps that the rest of magazines leave, fighting in a certain way, against the increasingly stronger elitist spirit of the publishing world.

We bet and support artist’s collaborations, whether they are anonymous or upcoming ones, we’d like to search new talents, since we are interested on the real quality of their work, and not only on the name of the people who made it.
We want artists to feel completely free to develop and vent their own needs so they can create their works without any fear or vain censures. We will go deep into the artist’s world, interviewing and meeting them, in order to get a real knowledge of their creations and personality. We want fashion to become something much closer to an artistic point of view than to a commercial atmosphere, as we consider it as a path for creation and not the opposite.

That’s why we are not interested in the collection’s date, or the suitable time for promotion since we consider that art and fashion are always contemporary. DUST is a London based magazine, even if it’s made and produced in different cities around the world, such as New York, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Paris by a specific team of creative minds that want to renew the current situation with this new thriving project.

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Wandering # 1

Wandering is a bilangual publication – german and english – about hiking in cities and the countryside.

Over 50 artists, critics, poets, writers and other people were invited to talk about wandering. The outcome is an almost 250 page collection of interviews, chats and dialougues.

Contributions by Airen, Jean du Arc, David Aylers, Tenzing Barshee, Daniel Baumann, Bill Berkson, Bomec, Juliette Bonneviot, Max Brand, Stefan Buck, Caroline Busta, Kerstin Cmelka, Ann Cotten, Dari, Iris Därmann, Nikola Eschenbach, Fredi Fischli, Gregory Fong, Lars Erik Frank, Nina Franz, Dillon de Give, Lena Henke, Viggo Julsgard Jensen, Julia Jung, Nuri Koerfer, Wolf von Kries, Quinn Latimer, David Lieske, Ariane Müller, Silvio Do Nascimento, Eckhart Nickel, Niels Olsen, Aude Pariset, Danica Phelps, Sam Pulitzer, Roy Radich, Marta Riniker-Radich, Michele Robecchi, Jörg Harlan Rohleder, Sarah Colony Rose, Andreas Rosenfelder, Emanuel Rossetti, Vanessa Safavi, Emily Segal, Brandon Shimoda, Martin Schmitz, Chris Sharp, Queen of Sheba, Fabrice Stroun, Kate Sutton, Greg Parma Smith, Mark Soo, Julian Stalbohm, Rui Tenreiro, Uvid, Stewart Uoo, Hendrik Weber, Jean-Michel Wicker, Amelie von Wulffen, Adolf Wölfli, Dena Yago, Amy Yao, Anicka Yi.”

“Herausgeberin: Pierrette Schlettwein
Verleger: Tenzing Barshee, Dan Solbach

Redaktion: Tenzing Barshee
Grafik: Dan Solbach

Lektorat: Pippin Wigglesworth
Korrektorat: Michael Ladner, Patrick Schär

Druck: Druckerei Schwabe, Muttenz
Umschlagillustration: Rui Tenreiro, Stockholm
Schriften: New Fournier, Suisse Int’l, B+P Swiss Typefaces

12€

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