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Only until Sunday, October 22, 2023! We are pleased to partner with Magnum Photos and the World Press Photo Foundation for their Square Print Sale: Written by Light, which will take place this week. As limited-edition prints, the images will never be available in this format again outside of the week-long sale window. Priced at €120,00 they offer a unique way to own work by your favourite photographer. More than 75 Magnum photographers and estates are joined by an additional 31 World Press Photo awarded photographers from around the world, and together they seek to celebrate the medium of photography through a collaborative curation of over 100 images. Each image will be available for purchase as a limited-edition museum-quality print. But be quick, this offer ends on Sunday, October 22, 23:59 EST. Link -> https://bit.ly/3PIIlMk https://www.hatjecantz.com/blogs/news/magnum-square-print-sale Inspired by the growing number of conversations around the use of artificially-generated images online and the lack of regulation surrounding text-to-image generators, the curation for this sale seeks to celebrate the fundamental difference between the practice of these photographers and AI-generated images: the use of light. #MagnumPhotos #WorldPressPhoto #SquarePrintSale #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzPhotogrphy #Photography #PhotographyEdition

Out Now! Through his expansive exploration of the possibilities of still images, the internationally renowned artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time; pictures that are meticulously crafted and deeply thought-provoking, familiar yet tantalisingly ambiguous. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is a comprehensive survey of work produced over the past five decades, featuring selections from all of Sugimoto’s major photographic series, as well as lesser-known works that illuminate his innovative, conceptually-driven approach to making pictures. Texts by a collection of international writers, artists and scholars―including James Attlee, Geoffrey Batchen, Allie Biswas, David Chipperfield, Edmund de Waal, Mami Kataoka, Ralph Rugoff, Lara Strongman and Margaret Wertheim―will highlight his work’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into the nature of representation and art, our understanding of time and memory, and the paradoxical character of photography as a medium suited to both documenting and invention. hiroshisugimotoart Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine Texts by: James Attlee, Geoffrey Batchen, Allie Biswas, David Chipperfield, Edmund de Waal, Mami Kataoka, Ralph Rugoff, Lara Strongman, Margaret Wertheim Graphic Design: Graphic Thought Facility In English, 2023, 216 Pages Hardcover 296mm x 274mm ISBN: 978-3-7757-5532-0 © Hiroshi Sugimoto #HiroshiSugimoto #TimeMachine #JamesAttlee #GeoffreyBatchen #AllieBiswas #DavidChipperfield #EdmunddeWaal #MamiKataoka #RalphRugoff #LaraStrongman #MargaretWertheim #Photographer #PhotographyBook #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzBook

We are pleased to partner withMagnum Photos and the World Press Photo Foundation for their Square Print Sale: Written by Light, which takes place this week. More than 75 Magnum photographers and estates are joined by an additional 31 World Press Photo awarded photographers from around the world, and together they seek to celebrate the medium of photography through a collaborative curation of over 100 images. Each image will be available for purchase as a limited-edition museum-quality print. But be quick, this offer ends on Sunday, October 22, 23:59 EST. -> https://bit.ly/3PIIlMk Inspired by the growing number of conversations around the use of artificially-generated images online and the lack of regulation surrounding text-to-image generators, the curation for this sale seeks to celebrate the fundamental difference between the practice of these photographers and AI-generated images: the use of light. #MagnumPhotos #WorldPressPhoto #SquarePrintSale #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzPhotogrphy #Photography #PhotographyEdition

Don’t miss the chance to get a signed copy of Stefan Marx’s book “Reading the News” (2023)! 🍋🍏🍒 @stefanmarx Until Sunday September 17, you can get a special signed copy of Marx’s latest artist’s book for the friendly price of 30€. Order the special edition at edition-hatjecantz.de, add it to your shopping basket and simply indicate (before payment) the desired name in the Bestellhinweise box. We look forward to receiving your order! https://edition-hatjecantz.de/products/werk-53345?_pos=2&_psq=stefan&_ss=e&_v=1.0&fbclid=IwAR1JqkoAV1gQzzjb0DoA5wo_G9xxa3isdsOR6GRcNrLQALr3-SZy-vyun7M Stefan Marx: Reading the News - personalisierte Ausgabe Hardcover, individually edited by the artist, 2023 320mm x 240mm 16 pages signed, limited edition In 2019, Berlin-based artist Stefan Marx created a series of drawings for a daily column in The New York Times. Now, Marx has turned his ‚Reading the News‘ series into quite a unique board book. Whether you think of it as an artist’s book, a coloring book, or an inspiring children’s book, it opens up unusual spaces for our imaginations. With just a few concise lines, he cheerful fruit and veg will change your frame of mind about reading the news. #Signedbook #stefanmarx #editionhatjecantz #hatjecantz #readingthenews

Don’t miss Yahon Chang’s performance ‘Floating Poetry’ on Saturday, 29. April 2023 at 6pm in the St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin! In his paintings the Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang brings together traditional Chinese ink-wash painting and Western forms of artistic expression to produce a synthesis of East and West. Typically standing on large sheets of linen or Xuan paper and wielding a brush almost as long as he is tall, Chang creates works imbued with performative energy and characterized by large, sweeping brushstrokes. Drawing on Chinese literati and Zen (Chan) Buddhist traditions, the artist understands painting as an activity that connects body and mind. His entire body functions as an axis for these expressive paintings and is influenced by his training in calligraphy. This publication offers the first insight into the artist’s extensive oeuvre and includes exhibition views as well as accompanying texts. Yahon Chang Painting as Performance Ed. Britta Erickson, Nadine Barth, texts by Maria Rus Bojan, Britta Erickson, Antony Gormley, Maya Kóvskaya, Manu Park, RoseLee Goldberg, graphic design by Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt ISBN 978-3-7757-4919-0 Yahon Chang, Performa 19 Biennial, 2019 © Yahon Chang #YahonChang #PaintingasPerformance #Painting #Performance #Taiwan #Brushstroke #PaintingPerformance #ArtBook #HatjeCantz #hatjecantzart

It’s day three of our book highlight series for Gallery Weekend Berlin, and today we’re featuring a fascinating publication from our collection and upcoming exhibition. For nearly two decades, Jorinde Voigt’s philosophically inflected artistic practice has engaged questions of consciousness, sensation, and presence to articulate graphic systems that sort her impressions of the world. Whether taking the form of frenetic ink markings on graph paper or smooth washes of oil crayon and pencil, her works share an investment in making an idea or a mood tangible and visible—and therefore traversing the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds. Don’t miss out Voigt’s solo exhibition « Trade Area » at KLOSTERFELDE EDITION, which assembles approximately sixty works made between 2005 and 2020 that trace the development of her diagrammatic explorations of perception and observation. Exhibition: Jorinde Voigt, ‘Trade Area‘, 29 April - 29 July 2023, at KLOSTERFELDE EDITION Jorinde Voigt: On Reality Hrsg. Studio Jorinde Voigt, Moody Center for the Arts, Text(e) von Jorinde Voigt, Erin Manning, Gestaltung von Studio Marek Polewski ISBN 978-3-7757-5404-0 #JorindeVoigt #KLOSTERFELDEEDITION #GalleryWeekendBerlin #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt

Join us Wednesday, April 26, at 7pm, for AROTIN & SERGHEI Opening and Book Presentation at Kraftwerk Berlin! @arotin_serghei @kraftwerkberlinofficial @prussia_foundation For the first time in Germany the large-scale installation „Infinite Screen“ by artists duo AROTIN & SERGHEI will be shown at Kraftwerk Berlin. The immersive audiovisual art installation has been shown in changing form and contexts at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, the Fondation Beyeler, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and the Center Pompidou in Paris. Each time the modular artwork has been recomposed creating a dialogue with the collective memory of the specific place. Beginning with artistic recreations of the smallest components of digital pixels – the red, green and blue „light cells“, the artist duo questions the DNA of today’s imagery and the principle of transformation. Exhibition: April 26-30.2023 daily from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. https://kraftwerkberlin.de/en/programme AROTIN & SERGHEI – Infinite Screen From Light Cells to Monumental Installations at Centre Pompidou Ed. AROTIN & SERGHEI, texts (English) by AROTIN & SERGHEI, Ivan Fedele, Sabine Haag, Ulf Küster, Marie-Eve Lafontaine, Marie-Claudine Llamas, Frank Madlener, Martina Mazzotta, Caroline Messensee, Monika Robescu, Günter Schönberger, Gerfried Stocker, Karine Tissot, Bertrand du Vignaud ISBN 978-3-7757-4545-1 https://www.hatjecantz.de/arotin-und-serghei-7452-1.html credits : Film produced by Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation 2022 with an interview filmed by Nikolai Saoulski and exhibition views of Infinite Screen 2012-2022 direction and editing: AROTIN & SERGHEI 2022 #AROTINSERGHEI #InfiniteScreen #KraftwerkBerlin #Opening #BookPresentation #Berlin #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt

To celebrate Gallery Weekend in Berlin, we are highlighting a series of books from our collection by artists who will have exhibitions opening in some of the city’s great galleries. First up, we are pleased to feature ‘Wripped Scripped’ by Slavs and Tatars, a thought-provoking and visually stunning book exploring the intricacies of language and identity. This week, Slavs and Tatars will open the solo exhibition ‘Hang Don’t Cut’ at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Gallery, presenting a new series of work and captivating audiences with their unique style and powerful messages. Slavs and Tatars Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Gallery Weekend Berlin https://www.k-t-z.com/artists/37-slavs-and-tatars/ Slavs and Tatars: Wripped Scripped Texts (German, English) by Slavs and Tatars, graphic design by Stan de Natris / Slavs and Tatars ISBN 978-3-7757-4472-0 https://www.hatjecantz.de/slavs-and-tatars-7311-1.html #GalleryWeekendBerlin #HangDontCut #SlavsandTatars #WrippedScripped #BookRecommendations #ArtExhibition #HatjeCantz #hatjecantzart

This year we celebrated International Children’s Book Day with a special spotlight on our latest publication: Alte Zachen! 🧡 Illustrated with charming wit, this graphic novel builds a bridge from generation to generation, between today and the past. We follow eleven-year-old Benni and his grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, through Brooklyn and Manhattan as they do the shopping for Friday’s pre-Shabbat dinner. This very sensitive and seemingly simple story tells of Jewish identity in a vibrant, big city; at the same time, it is about change, letting go, and finding each other. Bubbe Rosa’s relationship to the city is complex—nothing is as she remembers it, and she looks grimly at the world around her. Through little Benni’s open, kindly gaze, the city and his grandmother seem very different. As they walk, snippets of Bubbe’s memories of her childhood in Germany and her arrival in nineteen-fifties’ Brooklyn come to light. Piece by piece, a picture of Bubbe’s life emerges from the scraps of memory, explaining why she is so grumpy. The story culminates in a reunion with her first love, Gershon the baker. On their way home to dinner, Bubbe Rosa and her grandson Benni find a new and wonderful approach to each other’s lives and the opportunity to talk about them. Ziggy Hanaor is an author and publisher of children’s books. This is her first graphic novel. She lives in London. From his studio in Hastings, Benjamin Phillips works as an illustrator and artist in a variety of media. In addition to illustrating books, he has produced drawings for The New York Times and the British Council. Alte Zachen Benni und seine jüdische Großmutter gehen einkaufen Texts (German) by Ziggy Hanaor, illustrated by Benjamin Phillips ISBN 978-3-7757-5391-3 Alte Zachen © BenjaminPhillips #internationalchildrenbookday #AlteZachen #ChildrenBook #KinderBuch #kinderbücher #Kinder #ZiggyHanaor #illustrated #BenjaminPhillips #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzChildren #drawingsketch

In seiner Jugend war Daniel Richter in der Hamburger Hausbesetzerszene aktiv, heute ist er ein Star der internationalen Kunstwelt. Seine Bilder werden auf der ganzen Welt gekauft, gesammelt und gehandelt. Doch im Herzen ist er ein Rebell, ein zutiefst politischer Mensch. "Das ungewöhnliche Porträt ist ein filmischer und ästhetischer Genuss … und noch mehr: ein unterhaltsamer und spannender Film über Kunst, Politik, Philosophie und das Kleine im Großen." programmkino.de DANIEL RICHTER – Ab 2.2. im Kino 🧑🎨 Jetzt Tickets sichern unter https://www.kino-zeit.de/kinoprogramm/film/55741 Vorbestelle Daniel Richters Buch 'Bilder von früh bis heute' auf unserer Website! https://www.hatjecantz.de/daniel-richter-8419-0.html #Kino #Trailer #DanielRichterFilm #DanielRichter #Kunst #Weltkino #DFFF #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt @b14film @moinfilmfoerderung @gretchenfilm @rbb @arte.tv @medienboard @grimmgallery @thaddaeusropac @hatjecantzverlag @pepedanquart

✨ Dec. 23 ✨ Hatje Cantz’s editor of the Art and Editions program Lena Kiessler presents Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy! Server farms are to the digital world what castles used to be: the seat of power. If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Together with students from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Niklas Maak shows what the future of the most important new building typology of the twenty-first century might look like—and what new collective places a city needs in the age of digitalization. “This is a historic moment. Data has become the most valuable commodity in the world. We can’t leave it to a handful of tech giants. We must conceive of it as a public good and a critical public infrastructure, alongside roads, electricity, water, and clean air. To that end, we need what Niklas Maak calls a ‘Centre Pompidou for the digital age.’” — Francesca Bria Server Manifesto Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy By Niklas Maak, graphic design by Neil Holt, contributions by Karsten Spengler Series: Hatje Cantz Text English, 2022. 112 pp., 60 ills. ISBN 978-3-7757-5070-7 © Lena Kiessler / Hatje Cantz 
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✨ Dec. 22 ✨ András Szántó presents Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects! Following on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York–based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó turns his attention to architects. The conclusion of The Future of the Museum was that the conceptual structure of art museums has evolved; it follows that the physical structure of the art museum must also change. Szántó’s conversations with architects survey the thinking in the field, engaging architects who have built some of the world’s most iconic institutions and an emerging global generation that is destined to leave its mark on the museum of the future. Architects include: Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), David Adjaye (Adjaye Associates), Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso & Carlos Alberto Maciel (Arquitetos Associados), David Chipperfield (David Chipperfield Architects), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Frida Escobedo, Sou Fujimoto (Sou Fujimoto Architects), Lina Ghotmeh (Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture), Bjarke Ingels (BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group), Kabage Karanja & Stella Mutegi (Cave_bureau), Li Hu & Huang Wenjing (OPEN), Jing Liu & Florian Idenburg (SO – IL), Yansong Ma (MAD Architects), Winy Maas (MVRDV), Roth – Eduardo Neira (Roth Architecture), Stephan Schütz (gmp Architekten), Kerstin Thompson (_KTA), Xu Tiantian (DnA Design and Architecture), Kulapat Yantrasast (WHY) and Liam Young (SCI-Arc). András Szántó. Imagining the Future Museum 21 Dialogues with Architects Texts von András Szántó, Gestaltung von Neil Holt Englisch ISBN 978-3-7757-5276-3 © András Szántó / Hatje Cantz 
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✨ Dec. 21 ✨ Katharina Chrubasik presents Die Oper ist tot – Es lebe die Oper! 
Like no other genre, opera appeals to our senses: combining art with artisanry, it creates a spectacular gesamtkunstwerk. It transcends the boundaries of reality, thrives on dramatic extremes, the magical and the irrational, and creates an event that is unique and ephemeral. This book offers a kaleidoscopic panorama of different forms of opera. Drawing on the example of famous opera houses such as La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera or the New York Met, as well as a selection of paintings and costumes, posters and stage design models, caricatures and programmes, it traces the growth and change of the institution in the 19th and 20th century. Portraying the people who cast their vision in the sumptuous form of opera, it tells known and unknown stories of an institution that is constantly reinventing itself. OPERA IS DEAD – LONG LIVE OPERA! 30 September 2022 to 5 February 2023 @bundeskunsthalle Bonn ISBN 978-3-7757-5378-4 © Katharina Chrubasik / HatjeCantz #OPERAISDEADLONGLIVEOPERA #BundeskunsthalleBonn #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #artbook #bookoftheday

Adventurer Paul and his brave friend Lily set off on a journey in their big ship. Along the way they discover a wandering island, a giant sea monster, a star ship and sailing cities. They dive into the depths of the ocean and encounter dancing fish, submarine cities and sunken islands. They learn about a golden fish and a lazy fish, the secret of the sea slug king and much more! Boris Friedewald can tell a story and he has a very good eye - and he has a particularly good eye for the art of Paul Klee. Friedewald finds a magically cohesive world of motifs in the extensive oeuvre of this great 20th century artist. In this book, he brings together works on the theme of the sea, fish, the underwater world, and tells a stirring story along the lines of this wonderful art. Pauls Reise zu den Fischen Eine Abenteuergeschichte vom Meer mit Bildern von Paul Klee By Boris Friedewald German, 2022. 64 pp., 33 ills. ISBN 978-3-7757-5333-3 Thank you for the beautiful video collaboration @herz-und.blut ❤️ © Herz und Blut #PaulsReisezudenFischen #PaulKlee #ChildrenBook #Herzundblut #hatjecantzchildrenbook

✨ Dec. 20 ✨ Frieda and Lily von Wild presents Sibylle Bergemann: Stadt Land Hund. Photographs 1966–2010. 
In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from fashion and portrait photographs to literary reportages and atmospheric series—her focus remaining always on people. In the GDR, Bergemann worked both freelance as well as continuously for various art and culture magazines. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she co-founded the self-administered photographer’s agency OSTKREUZ, and worked for leading German as well as international magazines such as GEO, Die Zeit, Stern or New York Times Magazine. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition at Berlinische Galerie approaches the unique visual universe of one of Germany’s most famous photographers on several narrative levels. It includes more than 200 photographs from the museum’s own collection as well as from the photographer’s estate, and shows selected images from her early work for the first time. @sibyllebergemann.estate 

 Sibylle Bergemann
Stadt Land Hund. Photographs 1966–2010
 Edited by Berlinische Galerie, text(s) by Susanne Altmann, Bertram Kaschek, Anne Pfautsch, Katia Reich, Jan Wenzel, Frieda von Wild, Lily von Wild, graphic design by Büro Otto Sauhaus German, English ISBN 978-3-7757-5207-7

 © Frieda and Lily von Wild / Hatje Cantz 

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✨ Dec. 19 ✨ Chief Curator of Modern Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne Dr. Oliver Kase presents Max Beckmann, DEPARTURE! The large-scale monographic exhibition at Die Pinakotheken is initially dedicated to the theme of travel, which was of existential importance to Max Beckmann (1884–1950) in both a biographical and symbolic sense. His life was marked by tragic experiences of war and uprooting, transit and exile, but also by glamorous vacations, the urge for freedom and the longing to travel. Around 70 loans from important private and public Beckmann collections in Europe and the USA, such as the first triptych DEPARTURE from MoMA, show the enormous range of travel-oriented pictorial motifs and concepts and complement the largest European collection of Beckmann paintings from the Modern Art Collection. Through a donation from Max Beckmann’s family estate to the Max Beckmann Archive of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) in 2015, numerous previously unknown materials and documents such as photo albums and films are presented for the first time, providing a new and up-to-date view of the artist. Curated by Oliver Kase and Christiane Zeiller with Sarah Louisa Henn MAX BECKMANN DEPARTURE 25/11/2022 - 12/03/2023 @pinakothekdermoderne ISBN 978-3-7757-5245-9 © Oliver Kase / Hatje Cantz #OliverKase #PinakothekderModerne #HatjeCantz #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #hatjecantzart

✨ Dec. 18 ✨ Elizaveta Porodina presents UN/MASKED! Un/Masked is artist Elizaveta Porodina’s first book and features text by art director and editor Fabien Baron. The extensive selection of Porodina’s experimental fashion and fine art photography showcases her uncanny ability to extract the underlying emotions in her entrancing productions. She plays with melancholic symbolism—establishing associations that are sometimes ambiguous, other times stark in their clarity—through cinematic and documentary-style imagery. Whether in dramatic black and white or vividly colored artworks, the photographer dramatically “unmasks” her subjects—which is to say, herself—time and time again. Elizaveta Porodina: UN/MASKED Edited by Nadine Barth, texts by Fabien Baron Graphic design by Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt In English ISBN 978-3-7757-5246-6 © Elizaveta Porodina / Hatje Cantz #ElizavetaPorodina #UNMASKED #HatjeCantz #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzArt

Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, film director, author and producer Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Björk, Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Christo, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, Jim Jarmusch, Shirin Neshat, David Bowie and many more of the most influential creatives of our time, identifying the stimuli as well as the beta blockers, the killers of creativity: spirituality, sex, money, fear, nurture, ambition versus censorship, self-censorship, bureaucracy, compromise, distraction, gatekeepers. But often it is these very blockages, the threat to creativity that makes it thrive. Today, as we are facing an existential threat to our planet, it is time to come up with new ideas, to be more creative than ever. The Dialectic of Creativity explores creativity in all its facets—artistic, intellectual, philosophical and scientific. @why.are.we.creative The Dialectic of Creativity Ed. Hermann Vaske, texts by Hermann Vaske, Max Kaplan, drawings by Jonathan Meese, graphic design by Johannes Fuchs, Fabio Holub, Valérie Pirson, Raban Ruddigkeit, Teresa Spöckner In English ISBN 978-3-7757-5292-3 © Hermann Vaske / Hatje Cantz #HermannVaske #TheDialecticofCreativity #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks #hatjecantzphotography

✨ Dec. 17 ✨ Hatje Cantz Program Director Richard Viktor Hageman presents Niki de Saint Phalle! iki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) gained worldwide fame with her ‘Nanas’, which exemplify the seemingly carefree cheerfulness typically associated with the artist. Yet there is much more to her than that. Her output is surprisingly multifaceted – eccentric, emotional, dark and brutal, humorous, enigmatic and often challenging. Its remarkably broad spectrum ranges from painting and drawing to assemblages, actions and large-format sculptures, and even theatre, film and architecture. She was intensely concerned with social and political issues, challenging institutions and established societal roles in ways that give her work an enduring and contemporary relevance. With her legendary ‘Shooting Paintings’, created in provocative actions as far back as the 1960s, Niki de Saint Phalle made a pivotal contribution to the art of performance that is so topical today. Against this backdrop, retracing her artistic career casts a different light on many of her works, especially the ‘Nanas’ and the large installations in the public space. The selection of works for the exhibition offers an insight into the complex and highly interesting career of this exceptional artist – and, of course, a colourful and diverse visual treat that Christoph Becker has curated as his final exhibition for the Kunsthaus. Niki de Saint Phalle Kunsthaus Zürich @kunsthauszuerich 2 septembre – 8 janvier 2023 ISBN 978-3-7757-5300-5 © Richard Viktor Hageman / Hatje Cantz #NikideSaintPhalle #KunsthausZürich #HatjeCantz #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzArt

✨ Dec. 16 ✨ Curator Guido Messling presents Cranach A-Z! Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton, and in his position as court painter to Frederick the Wise, Cranach quickly became one of the most sought-after painters of the Reformation. At the same time, Cranach was the first to translate the Italian Renaissance tradition of the life-size nude into art north of the Alps; his lascivious, barely veiled depiction of Venus, the goddess of love, bears witness to this. On the occasion of the epochal Cranach exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, curated by Guido Messling, the Austrian novelist Teresa Präauer explores the work of this busy prince of painters from A to Z. She focuses both on Cranach's art and on the society that surrounded him, the subjects he painted and the events that shaped his development. Lucas Cranach: A–Z 
By Teresa Präauer, translated by Shaun Whiteside, graphic design by Torsten Köchlin und Joana Katte. In English. ISBN 978-3-7757-5180-3 © Guido Messling / Hatje Cantz #GuidoMessling #LucasCranach #CranachAZ #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzClassicArt

✨ Dec. 15 ✨ Sebastian Cramer presents Two Views on Plants! 3D technology is not uncommon—we encounter it in cinema and in the virtual reality of video games. But even though creating an optical illusion of spatial depth, where there is none, is one of the oldest techniques in photography, stereoscopy receives little attention in contemporary photography. Unjustly so, as Sebastian Cramer’s timelessly fascinating works show. It is a unique aesthetic experience that these seemingly alien plants in cyan and red have to offer, which—when viewed through the enclosed 3D glasses—unfold into voluminous photo- graphic sculptures. Two Views on Plants is a book about our visual perception of space that is fundamental to our human experience. Two Views on Plants is a Tête-bêche book and comes with two 3D glasses. Sebastian Cramer is a German director, cinematographer, and photographer. An acclaimed 3D expert, he has worked on several major film productions with directors like Wim Wenders and Michel Comte. He has received numerous awards for his artistic works and technical inventions. In 2013 Cramer began the Two Views project, a contemporary expression of traditional stereo photography. Sebastian Cramer Two Views on Plants Texts by Wim Wenders, Sebastian Cramer, David Campany, Susanne S. Renner, Tanja M. Schuster, Stefan Dressler, Birgit Kanz and Christian Printzen Graphic design by Julia Wagner ISBN 978-3-7757-5382-1 © Sebastian Cramer / HatjeCantz #SebastianCramer #TwoViewsonPlants #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #hatjecantzphotography

✨ Dec. 14 ✨ Waleria Dorogova presents Maison Sonia Delaunay! The interdisciplinary artist Sonia Delaunay (1885, Odessa–1979, Paris) early merged her ambitions in painting and design while creating an artistic framework for life in collaboration with other visionaries. „Sonia Delaunay introduces living art into the everyday“ stated an advertisement for Delaunay’s fashion and interior design workshop in 1926. As a sought-after universal artist, she designed textiles, fashion and interiors and turned her name into an internationally successful brand. Maison Sonia is dedicated to the artist’s role as a mediator between artistic innovation and the beauty of everyday life, as a designer, an entrepreneur and a passionate observer of modern life. Exhibits from the areas of fashion, textiles, furniture, commercial and book art, film and photography are presented compellingly at Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange. At the heart of the exhibition stands an important group of textile design drawings by Delaunay, acquired for the collection of Kunstmuseen Krefeld in 2019, which is now being shown for the first time alongside major international loans. Maison Sonia Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané Oct 23, 2022–Feb 26, 2023 @kunstmuseen_krefeld, Museum Haus Lange ISBN 978-3-7757-5379-1 © Waleria Dorogova / HatjeCantz #SoniaDelaunay #MaisonSonia #AtelierSimultané #WaleriaDorogova #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #hatjecantzart rt

✨ Dec. 13 ✨ Nanne Meyer presents Meyers Handbuch über das Weltall! @nannemeyer Nanne Meyer’s new works revolve around nothing less than the universe. Guided by the question, « where am I (in the world)? », she encircles our planet in her drawings. The works address transformation, processes of becoming and disappearing, necessity and chance, vulnerability, uncertainty, and the limits of understanding. With titles such as Lumps and Globes, Free Fall, Quantum Foam, Plate Rotation, or Not Yet More, the artist provides insight into different groups of works and unfolds an aesthetic of wonder and ambiguity. Meyer draws with pencil, wax and oil crayon, ballpoint pen, acrylic and ink, pastel, gouache and emulsion paint. In this book, she shows the full range of what drawing can do. Nanne Meyer Meyers Handbuch über das Weltall Edited by Jutta Moster-Hoos Texts by Sibylle Anderl and Jutta Moster-Hoos (In German) Graphic design by Patrizia Bach ISBN 978-3-7757-5164-3 © Nanne Meyer / Hatje Cantz #NanneMeyer #MeyersHandbuchüberdasWeltall #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzArt #staffpicks #SibylleAnderl #JuttaMosterHoos #patriziabambi

✨ Dec. 12 ✨ Spencer Ostrander presents Times Square in the Rain! On one of Spencer Ostrander’s early visits to Times Square, the rain began to fall. The people in the crowd, suddenly draped in plastic, were transformed into abstract, brilliant reflections of the massive advertising that surrounded them. Designed to entrap the consumer with illusions of status, the good life, and happiness by product, the vast LED light boards turned visitors into walking ads for MTV, Coca-Cola, and The Lion King. And when the flickering LEDs hit his camera’s sensor, they created streaks of color and lines that don’t exist, but are part of the photos, a technical mirage that perfectly suits Ostrander’s subject—the empty allure of late capitalism. Moving among the people with his camera, Ostrander began to see sorrow, tenderness, despair—a hidden story that starts to reveal itself in his photographs. Spencer Ostrander Times Square in the Rain Text(s) by Siri Hustvedt, graphic design by Bonnie Briant In English ISBN 978-3-7757-5305-0 © Spencer Ostrander / Hatje Cantz #SpencerOstrander #TimesSquareintheRain #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzArt #staffpicks #PhotographyBook #HatjeCantzPhotography

✨ Dec. 11 ✨ Stefan Mary presents his edition Sad Generation with happy Pictures! Stefan Marx The type works, for which Stefan Marx uses a variety of grounds, from paper to porcelain, from walls to textiles, are usually drawn in black and white, while the whites are left empty, and only the black backgrounds are painted. Sad Generation with Happy Pictures is the title of the newest edition, which according to the reverse screen printing process exists in two versions, one in black, and one in fluorescent magenta, dark and light, happy and sad. Stefan Marx Sad Generation with happy Pictures (Black), 2022 Silkscreen on St. Cuthberts Somerset Satin, 300g/sm 35x50 cm Signed and numbered Edition of 68 © Stefan Marx / Hatje Cantz #StefanMarx Sad generation with happy pictures #Abenteuergeschichte #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #HatjeCantzArt #staffpicks #PhotographyBook #HatjeCantzPhotography

✨ Dec. 10 ✨ Tom Hegen presents Salt Works! Salt’s ionic lattices are one of the central elements of organic life. But even though the extraction of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human landscaping, we rarely ask where salt comes from and how it is produced. Sea salt production sites are found all over the world, usually located around shallow shorelines. Tom Hegen has explored these magical landscapes from the air and obtained spectacular images in the process. This gorgeously illustrated book shows how the landscape has been shaped by salt mining and how the mining process has created structures that take on an almost painterly, abstract quality in Hegen's photographs. Salt Works is a study of color and geometry, an ode to beauty of the everyday. Tom Hegen: Salt Works Ed. Nadine Barth, text(s) by Annalena Erhardt, Tom Hegen, Mark Kurlansky, Sabine Schwarzfischer, graphic design by Tom Hegen In English ISBN 978-3-7757-5403-3 © Tom Hegen / Hatje Cantz #TomHegen #Saltworks #Abenteuergeschichte #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks #PhotographyBook #HatjeCantzPhotography

✨ Dec. 9 ✨ Leander Zerwer presents Berlin baut: 1946 bis heute! This book is a rousing profile of seven decades of building history in Berlin. Starting in 1946, the architecture of the city is narrated and illustrated for each year based on one building. The young designer Leander Zerwer looks at Berlin's architecture with a fresh eye. He captures buildings in colorful portraits in comic style and provides facts in info boxes. The selection of buildings playfully tells a story of the city since the end of World War II, through East and West Berlin, and with the fall of the Wall to the reunited capital. Examples of reconstruction or architectural showpieces, witnesses to the building boom of the post-reunification period and recent projects demonstrate the constant change in building types, styles and functions. A clear city map in the inside flap invites you to take a stroll through our capital city. Berlin baut: 1946 bis heute By Leander Zerwer In German ISBN 978-3-7757-5335-7 © Leander Zerwer / Hatje Cantz #Berlinbaut #LeanderZerwer #Abenteuergeschichte #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks

✨ Dec. 8 ✨ Bastian Eclercy presents Guido Reni! @bastianeclercy Guido Reni was the star painter of the Italian Baroque, one of Europe’s most successful artists, sought after by prominent patrons. Whether his subject matter was the Christian heaven or the world of classical mythology, Guido Reni was unmatched in his ability to translate the beauty of the divine into painting, which earned him the name "il divino". Later misunderstood and sidelined, he deserves to be rediscovered. Drawing on new research findings, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Städel Museum provides insights into his artistic activities, but also his ambiguous personality. Bringing together his fascinating paintings, drawings, and etchings for the first time in more than thirty years, it offers a new perspective on one of the greatest names of Italian art. Guido Reni: Der Göttliche November 23, 2022–March 5, 2023 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main @staedelmuseum Book edited by Bastian Eclercy, Städel Museum, texts by Maria Aresin, Babette Bohn, Aoife Brady, Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Bastian Eclercy In German ISBN 978-3-7757-5256-5 © Bastian Eclercy / Hatje Cantz #DerGöttliche #GuidoReni #BastianEclercy #StädelMuseum #Abenteuergeschichte #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks #hatjecantzphotography

✨ Dec. 7 ✨ Boris Friedewald presents Pauls Reise zu den Fischen! Adventurer Paul and his brave friend Lily set off on a journey in their big ship. Along the way they discover a wandering island, a giant sea monster, a star ship and sailing cities. They dive into the depths of the ocean and encounter dancing fish, submarine cities and sunken islands. They learn about a golden fish and a lazy fish, the secret of the sea slug king and much more! Boris Friedewald can tell a story and he has a very good eye - and he has a particularly good eye for the art of Paul Klee. Friedewald finds a magically cohesive world of motifs in the extensive oeuvre of this great 20th century artist. In this book, he brings together works on the theme of the sea, fish, the underwater world, and tells a stirring story along the lines of this wonderful art. Pauls Reise zu den Fischen Eine Abenteuergeschichte vom Meer mit Bildern von Paul Klee By Boris Friedewald In German ISBN 978-3-7757-5333-3 © Boris Friedewald / Hatje Cantz #BorisFriedewald #PaulsReise #Abenteuergeschichte #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks #hatjecantzphotography

✨ Dec. 6 ✨ Hermann Vaske presents The Dialectic of Creativity! Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramović, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Björk, Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Christo, Yoko Ono, Oliviero Toscani, Damien Hirst, Jim Jarmusch, Shirin Neshat, David Bowie, and many more of the most influential creatives of our time, identifying the stimuli as well as the beta blockers, the killers of creativity: Spirituality, sex, money, fear, nurture, ambition versus censorship, self-censorship, bureaucracy, compromise, distraction, gatekeepers. Often it is those very blockages, the threats to creativity that allow it to thrive. A dialectical synthesis of opposites. Today, as we are facing an existential threat to our planet, it is time to come up with new ideas, more creative than ever. The Dialectic of Creativity explores all facets of creativity—artistic, intellectual, philosophical, and scientific. It is accompanied by a film trilogy and an exhibition. The Dialectic of Creativity Ed. Hermann Vaske, texts by Hermann Vaske, Max Kaplan, drawings by Jonathan Meese, graphic design by Johannes Fuchs, Fabio Holub, Valérie Pirson, Raban Ruddigkeit, Teresa Spöckner In English ISBN 978-3-7757-5292-3 © Hermann Vaske / Hatje Cantz #HermannVaske #TheDialecticofCreativity #adventcalendar #astorybehindabook #hatjecantz #artbook #bookoftheday #staffpicks