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16/12/2024

✨ Judith Raum: Otti Berger!

Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Working closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun, she designed upholstery and wall tapestries, curtains and floor coverings that responded to novel types of use and production methods, and thereby redefined the relationship between aesthetics and function―with fascinating results. To date Berger’s textile work has only been explored in fragments. This book is the first comprehensive study of its complexity and beauty and makes her hitherto unpublished treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible. Raum’s research offers an entirely new perspective on Berger’s oeuvre.

📚 Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Edited by: Judith Raum, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin / Museum für Gestaltung
Graphic Design: Lamm & Kirch

(English/German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5500-9 / ISBN: 978-3-7757-5641-9

📸 © Uta Neumann © Florian de Brün

15/12/2024

Creating works of art that are indistinguishable from reality has always been a challenge. With around 150 works from the Old Masters to the present day, this exhibition spanning different eras shows that "illusion" means far more than just deceiving the eye. In view of the power of illusionist images, it also sheds light on our society against the backdrop of fake news and artificial intelligence. The catalog examines the different facets of the term "illusion". In addition to four essays, the exhibited works are commented on in detail. Literary excerpts and quotes, for example from Ovid, William Shakespeare, André Breton, Bertolt Brecht and Jean Baudrillard, underline the positions and emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the topic.

EXHIBITIONkunsthalle
December 6, 2024 – April 6, 2025

📚 ILLUSION: Traum – Identität – Wirklichkeit
Edited by: Sandra Pisot & Johanna Hornauer
Graphic Design: Margarethe Hausstätter
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5845-1

15/12/2024

✨ Jamie McGregor Smith: Sacred Modernity!

Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was still relevant to the modern world, this was the period when the church married the atheist architect, and bore a child of pure form. Among these structures, some exude a joyful antagonism, while others emanate a cold minimalism. Boldly designed, outrageous and provocative for their time, the aesthetic of this period still ignites great debate between modernists and traditionalists.

Half a century on, this study traces how their materials and ideals have matured and patinated. Remaining amongst the most unique buildings within our public sphere, they are future visions from the near past that seem to anticipate societies current shift away from organized religion towards an individual spirituality.

The book represents the first attempt by a photographer to collate the religious architecture of the mid-century high modern years that took many forms, from Brutalism to Structural Expressionism, under a singular artistic vision.

📚 Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
(English/German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5646-4

14/12/2024

On December 14, starting at around 5:30 PM, Frau Henker, owner of the enchanting and inspiring bookstore, stationery, and nature shop Hortus Conclusus in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, invites you to a special reading event: artist .artz will present her latest children’s book project, which tells the life story of the renowned naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian! On this Saturday afternoon, Sophie Artz will share insights about the making of the book and will, of course, sign copies – a perfect gift idea!

Maria Sibylla Merian, who discovered a passion for insects in the 17th century, embarked on an adventurous journey to Suriname at the age of 50 to study its flora and fauna. Her masterful botanical illustrations remain an invaluable resource for natural sciences, as well as the arts and humanities, to this day.

Sophie Artz, who works in the fields of drawing and illustration, weaves science, fiction, and art into an impressive narrative. Her recently published biography of Maria Sibylla Merian with Hatje Cantz combines poetic images in an anachronistic comic style with handwritten, diary-like texts, allowing the protagonist to speak in her own voice. A truly unique developmental story set in the 17th century!

📍 Hortus Conclusus, Wörther Str. 27, Berlin!

📚 Maria Sibylla Merian: Ein Leben mit Pinsel, Lupe und Papier
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5819-2

14/12/2024

✨ Sophie Artz: Maria Sibylla Merian!

In this captivating illustrated biography, Sophie Artz tells the life story of the naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717). At a time when most people regarded insects as devilish and unclean, Merian ignited a passion for these fascinating creatures, which she captured in breathtaking drawings and prints. At the age of fifty, she sold her possessions and embarked on an adventurous journey to Suriname with her daughter to explore the flora and fauna there. Sophie Artz revives the stages of Merian's life as an entomologist, world traveler, businesswoman and artist in sensitive, poetic imagery and a precise narrative style. .artz

📚 Maria Sibylla Merian: Ein Leben mit Pinsel, Lupe und Papier
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5819-2

📸 © Sophie Artz

13/12/2024

In the 1990s, q***r youth, outcasts and artists, flocked to San Francisco to find one another and to experiment with art, self-expression, style, and gender. Rent was affordable, paving the way for q***r bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafes, bookstores, and women-owned businesses to emerge. A new wave of feminism embraced gender bending, and butch/femme culture flourished. The Mission District was the center of this q***r cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community was palpable. Chloe Sherman was both a member of this community and an ardent visual chronicler. Her documentary photographic work on 35mm film stems from a commitment to capturing the vibrancy, tenderness, individuality, resilience, and joy within this subculture that was derided by mainstream society. Distilling the spirit of the time, her debut monograph is a candid portrait of a vibrant era that connects current and future generations to the pulse of San Francisco at a pivotal chapter in q***r history.

📚 Chloe Sherman: Renegades. San Francisco: The 1990s
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5517-7

13/12/2024

✨ Dirk Boll: Art and its Market!

The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the changing role of museums and art criticism, new forces from influencers to NFTs: Hardly any market system has evolved as profoundly in the last decade as the distribution of art.

With 25 years of experience in the art industry, Dirk Boll acts as a continuous chronicler and seasonal commentator of these pervasive developments. His handbook Art and its Market is a reliable source of in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of global art market systems. How do auctions, the network of galleries, and fairs work? How are prices being made, and how do trends both in the production of art as well as its collection emerge? What is more, this edition provides comprehensive information on the practical issues of art acquisition: What are the customs and pitfalls, the economic interdependencies between the artists, buyers and other market players, and the legal regulations governing the trade with art? .boll

📚 Dirk Boll: Art and its Market
(English / German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5454-5 / ISBN: 978-3-7757-5453-8

📸 © Dirk Boll

12/12/2024

“I have made this drawing several times—never remembering that I had made it before—and not knowing where the idea came from,” wrote Georgia O’Keeffe in 1916 about her method of working on paper. A variety of her works were produced as series in charcoal, watercolors, pastels, or pencil. Paper offered her room to experiment freely. Through repetition she created a repertoire of motifs and continued developing her formal vocabulary, blurring the boundary between objectivity and abstraction, sheet by sheet.

Featuring an outstanding selection of works from over four decades, this volume is the first to take a comprehensive look at O’Keeffe’s works on paper, from the organic abstracts, nudes, and natural cycles of her early creative phase, to the flowers, portraits, and aerial views of the following decades. In their essays, Samantha Friedman and Laura Neufeld show how working with paper influenced this great artist’s oeuvre and also elucidate her extraordinary position in American modernism.

📚 Georgia O'Keeffe: Sehen braucht Zeit
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5488-0

12/12/2024

✨ Stefan Draschan: Double Take!

After the success of Coincidences at Museums, Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan has continued to work on his various photographic series―and time and time again he has succeeded in finding eye-catching moments. It is therefore high time for a new book that presents his staged series for the first time, shows a selction from the previously unpublished series Cars Matching Homes, and above all presents new highlights from his museum series, which have become increasingly diverse. Draschan’s work has inspired a wide audience to identify patterns and joyful compositions in everyday life. This beautifully designed book shows just how many visual surprises and unusual perspectives this master of the unexpected moment has to offer.

📚 Stefan Draschan: Double Take
(English / German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5543-6

📸 © Stefan Draschan

11/12/2024

Since the late 1970s, the Canadian artist Jeff Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as an autonomous medium, and is regarded as one of the key vanguards of “staged photography”. Referring to his approach as “near documentary”, his images resemble documentary photographs in style and manner, but instead are meticulously composed, multilayered compositions. Synthesizing photography with elements from other art forms such as painting, cinema, and literature—in a complex mode that he calls “cinematography”—his deeply intellectual work stages fictional realities, memories and past experiences in an elaborate process.

📚 Jeff Wall
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5629-7

11/12/2024

✨ Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind!

Yoko Ono is a pioneer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician and a formidable campaigner for world peace. MUSIC OF THE MIND spans seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to the present day. Conceived in close collaboration with Ono’s studio, the exhibition features more than 200 works, including instructions and scores, installations, films, music and photographs, and highlights Ono’s radical approach to language, art and participation, which continues to have an impact today.

📚 Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5716-4

📸 Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer 1967 from HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. Photograph © Clay Perry / Artwork © Yoko Ono

10/12/2024

Frans Hals is one of the most important portrait painters of all time. Like Rembrandt, the famous Dutch Baroque master’s striking portraits of the bourgeoisie and social outsiders are distinguished by their extraordinary vividness and accurate depiction. His sketch-like paintings, executed with bold brushstrokes, had a decisive influence on modernist painting. This comprehensive publication coincides with the first major survey exhibition of Hals’ oeuvre in more than thirty years.

📚 Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5750-8

10/12/2024

✨ Gerhard Richter: Verborgene Schätze!

The Rhineland was the ideal environment in which Gerhard Richter’s work could unfold after his move from Dresden in 1961. Here he met like-minded people such as Sigmar Polke and Konrad Lueg, role models and stimulating figures such as Joseph Beuys and, finally, a curious and enterprising collector community that had formed around the young galleries in Düsseldorf and Cologne. In this large-format magnificent volume, around 100 works from 40 private collections provide an insight into all of the artist’s groups of works, from the early paintings based on photographic models to the later abstract paintings with which Gerhard Richter concluded his painterly oeuvre in 2017. With essays by Dietmar Elger, Markus Heinzelmann and Heike van den Valentyn. .richter

📚 Gerhard Richter: Verborgene Schätze. Werke aus rheinischen Privatsammlungen!
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5799-7

📸 © David Pinzer

09/12/2024

After the success of Coincidences at Museums, Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan has continued to work on his various photographic series―and time and time again he has succeeded in finding eye-catching moments. It is therefore high time for a new book that presents his staged series for the first time, shows a selction from the previously unpublished series Cars Matching Homes, and above all presents new highlights from his museum series, which have become increasingly diverse. Draschan’s work has inspired a wide audience to identify patterns and joyful compositions in everyday life. This beautifully designed book shows just how many visual surprises and unusual perspectives this master of the unexpected moment has to offer.

📚 Stefan Draschan: Double Take
(English/German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5543-6

09/12/2024

✨ Meredith Monk. Calling!

To say that Meredith Monk is an outstanding singer, composer, choreographer and filmmaker says a lot and yet too little. Monk works seamlessly across disciplines—pushing the boundaries of music, theater, dance, video, and installation, and is considered a pioneer of site-specific performance. At the center of her oeuvre is the suggestive power of the human voice: the body becomes a resonating space for a universal language for which there are no words. Monk was the first artist to create a performance for the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, she performed in public car parks and on opera stages. This catalogue presents the first career encompassing, in-depth analysis of her work. Featuring never-before-published archival material, musical notations, drawings, and photographs, as well as an insightful conversation with the artist, the essays underscore Monk’s lasting influence and affirm the relevance of her work for the present.

📚 Meredith Monk. Calling
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5481-1

📸 © Jesse Frohman

08/12/2024

In central Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of what is today the Radisson Collection Hotel’s Royal Copenhagen, one single room contains a microcosmos of design history. Room 606 is the last surviving original interior of the SAS Royal Hotel designed by the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen.

Complete in 1960, this modernist icon marks the acme of his influence. Jacobsen himself designed each and every detail, from the green and blue color palette and new furniture such as the legendary egg and swan chairs, to fabrics, lamps, and even dining utensils. This book offers a unique view of Jacobsen’s work, with the time capsule of room 606 as the lens through which the entire span of his career can be observed and the connections to his other works can be traced. A lost mid-century masterpiece is reconstructed here, using hundreds of archival photos as well as original drawings and sketches.

📚 Arne Jacobsen. Room 606
Architektur und Design für das SAS House
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5556-6

08/12/2024

✨ Sind wir schon da? by Sven Völker

A long journey teaches Bear that there are more important things than goals. After his long hibernation, Bear wakes up and sets off on a journey with his friend Butterfly. "Where are we going?" asks Bear. "All journeys have secret destinations," says Butterfly. On their journey together through the forest, over the mountains and across a large river, Butterfly talks about her insights into life's hardships, how fears can be overcome and how precious a moment can be. Bear's natural impatience gradually gives way to an acceptance of the world around him. As the seasons pass, the friends meet again in front of the bear's cave. Landscapes look different through different eyes, and the end of one journey is the beginning of another. This is a heart-warming book about the cycle and cycles of life and existence. A gentle and inspiring way to introduce young readers to Buddhist philosophy and its values.

📚 Sind wir schon da?
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5806-2

📸 © Sven Völker

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07/12/2024

With cry me a river, Ugo Rondinone returns to his roots. This monograph, published in conjunction with his retrospective at Kunstmuseum Luzern, brings together works inspired by natural forces, weather phenomena and the sublimity of the mountains. Ugo Rondinone's work has been shaped by the overwhelming beauty of the landscape in which he grew up in. The artist draws on his origins with love and humor: a thunderstorm, snow flurries or a school of fish inspire his sculptural creations. His installations are instantly recognizable, with a quality that derives from their simplicity.

📚 Ugo Rondinone: Cry me a River
(German, English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5805-5

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Today, we commemorates the German reunification ✨❤️ In celebration of this significant day, we spotlight two incredible photographers who have captured life during and after the division of Germany through their powerful lenses! 📷 For more than 40 years, Nelly Rau-Häring wandered the streets of both East and West Berlin, depicting its residents, its shop windows, its architecture. This volume gathers these works on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. 📚 (German, English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-4686-1 https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/52766-nelly-rauhaering?srsltid=AfmBOoowfEBLCE9MU8Xm6rqP-0i4zOmaWPey9whapMWXS1kJewjrvzns 📷 Christine Fenzl documents the living conditions of young people in the peripheral neighborhoods of Berlin, such as Hellersdorf, Hohenschönhausen, Lichtenberg, Marzahn and Treptow, for whom the Berlin Wall is an almost unimaginable thing of the past. 📚 (German / English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-4609-0 https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/51357-christine-fenzl?variant=43256408867024&_pos=5&_psq=christine&_ss=e&_v=1.0 #GermanReunification #UteMahler #ChristineFenzl #Photography #PhotographyBook #HatjeCantzPhotography

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Art in Public Space! 🌳 The Emscherkunstweg (Emscher Art Trail) currently comprises 23 works of public art on the banks of the Emscher River in the heart of the Ruhr region in western Germany. Once the most polluted river in Europe, the Emscher has been dramatically transformed from a drainage system into a natural river landscape. Between 2010 and 2016, three Emscher art exhibitions accompanied this ecological tour de force. Since 2019, the permanent works of art resulting from these exhibitions have formed the starting point for the expansion into the Emscher Art Trail.�� This volume is the first to offer an overview of all the works, in particular the new works by Julius von Bismarck/Marta Dyachenko, David Jablonowski, Markus Jeschaunig, Sofía Táboas and Nicole Wermers. It also addresses questions surrounding the preservation and potential of art in public space and its relationship to the region’s industrial culture. 📚 English: ISBN: 978-3-7757-5571-9 📚 German: ISBN: 978-3-7757-5569-6 � 🔗 Find out more about the publication on our website! https://www.hatjecantz.de/products/65427-emscherkunstweg?variant=45526290858248&_pos=2&_psq=em&_ss=e&_v=1.0 #Emscherkunstweg #EmscherArtTrail #PublicArt #PublicSpace # Ruhrgebiet #Ruhrregion #JuliusvonBismarck #MartaDyachenko #DavidJablonowski #MarkusJeschaunig #SofíaTáboas #NicoleWermers #ArtPublicSpace #Art #ContemporaryArt #ArtBook #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt

Congratulations to Mounira Al Solh for her installation “A Dance with her Myth” presented at the Lebanese Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale! Her monumental installation, comprising forty-one pieces, focuses on the abduction of the Phoenician princess Europa by the god Zeus, who took the form of a white bull. Revisited by the artist, the myth highlights the issues and challenges facing women today, using contemporary artistic and visual means. We are pleased to have worked on the catalog! #LebanesePavilionVenice2024 Artist: #MouniraAlSolh Commissioner and Curator: @nadaghandour1 Associate Curator: @dina_biz Architect: @karimbekdachestudio 📚 In English & Arabic: ISBN: 978-3-7757-5734-8 🔗 Find out more about the publication our website! #MouniraAlSolh #LebanesePavilion #VeniceBiennale #Biennaledivenezia #MohamedIssamElMortada #NadaGhandour #KarimBekdache #NathalieBondil #JeanFrançoisCharnier #NadaGhandour #DirkSnauwaert #NadaGhandour #DinaBizri #ADancewithherMyth #Europa #Zeus #ContemporaryArt #HatjeCantz #HatjeCantzArt #LebanonInVenice2024 #BiennaleArte2024

‘Kunst um 1800’ was a nine-part exhibition held between 1974 and 1981 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle under the direction of Werner Hofmann. It focused on the profound social, industrial and scientific changes of the early 19th century, bringing about a new understanding of European art history, curatorial practice and the impact of art on society. At the center of the exhibition were artists who broke with the conventions of their time, such as Ossian, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, William Blake, Johan Tobias Sergel, William Turner, Philipp Otto Runge, John Flaxman and Francisco Goya. In this comprehensive publication, scholars from art history, cultural and curatorial studies take a critical look at the post-1968 period, offering new perspectives on a influential decade of experimentation while shedding light on this influential exhibition. 📚 ISBN: 978-3-7757-5617-4 📚 Ebook: ISBN: 978-3-7757-5760-7 🔗 Find out more: https://www.hatjecantz.de/products/65949-kunst-um-1800?_pos=1&_psq=kunst+um&_ss=e&_v=1.0

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