Hatje Cantz

27/02/2025

Behind every painted masterpiece is a palette of some kind. From traditional wooden boards with thumb holes to ceramic plates and from plastic paint pots to the surfaces of a studio, each palette and the colors that remain on its surface provide a vital – but often historically neglected – insight into an artist and their individual process. Alexandra Loske skilfully analyzes each artist’s color palette and brushstrokes to reveal not only exactly how they used color in their work but also to tell the story of their journey with color and the influence of their approach on the wider culture to which they belonged.

In 'Die Farben der Kunst', more than 50 unique palettes are presented alongside stunning paintings by the celebrated artists who used them, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anselm Kiefer.

Die Farben der Kunst
Malpaletten aus fünf Jahrhunderten
Author: Alexandra Loske
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5816-1

🎨 Munch Museum, Oslo. Acc. No: MM.I.00994. Photo courtesy Munchmuseet. Edvard Munch’s palette, Undated, Paint on wood 43 × 29 cm (17 x 11 1/2 in.).

🖼️ The National Museum, Oslo. Gift from Olaf Schou 1909. Acc. No: NG.M.00844. The Girls on the Bridge, Edvard Munch, 1901. Oil on canvas, 136 x 125 cm (53 5/8 x 49 1/4 in.).

23/02/2025

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Die Geschichte des deutschen Films in 12 Kapiteln! Der reich bebilderte Band erzählt anhand der Sammlungsbestände der Deutschen Kinemathek die deutsche Filmgeschichte von 1895 bis heute. Mit über 2.700 Archivobjekten – viele erstmals veröffentlicht! Das Buch ist auf Deutsch und Englisch erhältlich – sowohl als gedruckte Ausgabe als auch als E-Book!

Teilnahmebedingungen: Gewinnspiel- und Teilnahmeende ist der 23.2.2025, 23:59. Dieses Gewinnspiel steht in keinem Zusammenhang mit Instagram. Die*der Gewinner*in wird nach dem Zufallsprinzip ermittelt und ab dem 24.2.2025 per Direktnachricht benachrichtigt.⁠ Das Buch kann nur innerhalb Deutschlands per Post versendet werden.

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The history of German cinema in 12 chapters! This richly illustrated volume tells the story of German film from 1895 to the present, based on the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Featuring over 2,700 archival objects – many published for the first time! The book is available in English and German, both in print and as an e-book!

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21/02/2025

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Teilnahmebedingungen: Gewinnspiel- und Teilnahmeende ist der 23.2.2025, 23:59. Dieses Gewinnspiel steht in keinem Zusammenhang mit Instagram. Die*der Gewinner*in wird nach dem Zufallsprinzip ermittelt und ab dem 24.2.2025 per Direktnachricht benachrichtigt.⁠ Das Buch kann nur innerhalb Deutschlands per Post versendet werden.

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21/02/2025

Rather than a monograph, a drawing of one, Alia Ali presents with this book a multi-graph, a drawing of many. Ali deconstructs artificial binaries to examine inherited political narratives—diaspora, identity, borders—through the lens of photography, language, textile, and architectural installations. A map of patterns emerges, interwoven with artist statements, research images, exchanges with collaborators, and fragments of her journals. Words and images draw us simultaneously into the micro musings of the artist’s mind and zoom out to a macro reflection of the global and communal nature of the artist’s practice. Ali’s multi-graph is a textural experience in which each page is folded upon itself, leaving one wondering at what is invisible in plain sight. .ali.art

📚 alia ali... One Of Many
Edited by: Kristi Jones
Texts by: Alia Ali, Allison Young, Zan Zeller .k.young .jpg
Graphic Design: Studio Lin
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5945-8

📸 Alia Ali © Najma Zemmour

20/02/2025

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20/02/2025

'FLOW' is a first monograph dedicated to the Hungarian artist Ilona Keserü who celebrated her 90th birthday in 2023. With a career extending over seventy years, Keserü is one of the most significant post-war female abstract artists. Her distinctive approach combines references to Hungarian folk culture and European modern art history. The artist’s organic abstract style developed after the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Her liberal use of forms and bold palette expressed a refusal to conform to Soviet ideals. In the second half of the 1960s, Ilona Keserü began experimenting more intensively with different materials and techniques. It was then that motifs alluding to her female identity were given increasing emphasis in her art – before and independently of the emerging second-wave feminism. Keserü’s sensual abstractions hinge on the edge of figuration. The use of bright and vibrant colours, her name is inextricably linked to, has always been the result of scientific and artistic experiments.

📚 Ilona Keserü: FLOW
Edited by Agata Jakubowska & Mónika Zsikla
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5930-4

EXHIBITION
Muzeum Susch, CH
December 13, 2024–October 26, 2025

📸 Fábri Zsuzsa

17/02/2025

"By annotating parts of the archive and leaving the notes visible, I make the documents my own. The hand notations reveal my research process and discoveries; they can clarify something written in another language, though I also like the enigma of not understanding. My annotations connect me to the document, and I become a part of it." – Loli Kantor

Read an excerpt on our website from an interview between Loli Kantor, an Israeli-American photographer, and her daughter, Danna Heller, a curator and art historian, that offers an intimate exploration of memory, loss, and artistic legacy. Kantor has spent over twenty years creating a body of work centered on personal and cultural memory, particularly through her book Call Me Lola. In this moving photo essay, Kantor delves into her family’s history, focusing on her mother, Lola, who passed away shortly after her birth. The conversation between mother and daughter sheds light on how these themes of displacement, trauma, and identity are interwoven into both their lives and artistic practices, while also highlighting the profound impact of their shared visual language. Together, they reflect on the intersections of memory, art and family heritage.

🔗 Read the interview on our website!

📚 Loli Kantor: Call me Lola
�In Search of Mother�(english)
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5774-4

📸 Dana Heller & Loli Kantor ©Yoav Pichersky

17/02/2025

Die aktuelle Sonderausstellung des deutschen Künstler Sven Drühl baut Bezüge zum Luzerner Maler, Grafiker und Bildhauer Hans Erni auf.

Über den Jahreswechsel zeigt das Hans Erni Museum die schweizweit erste institutionelle Einzelausstellung des renommierten Berliner Künstlers. Der Grund für die Präsentation dieser zeitgenössischen Position ist, dass Drühl ähnlich vielseitig ist wie Hans Erni: Bekanntermassen hat der an Wissenschaft und Technik, Musik und Literatur interessierte Erni nicht nur gemalt und gezeichnet und Skulpturen geschaffen, sondern auch Bücher illustriert und Plakate für unterschiedlichste Anlässe entworfen.

Sonderausstellung | Sven Drühl | Hans Erni Museum | 21. November 2024 bis 30. März 2025

Die aktuelle Sonderausstellung des deutschen Künstler Sven Drühl baut Bezüge zum Luzerner Maler, Grafiker und Bildhauer Hans Erni auf.

14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day, dears! ❤️

Hatje Cantz Edition © Stefan Marx, I Love You Lots More Than You Know, 2020.

11/02/2025

Janaina Tschäpe is a German-Brazilian artist whose multidisciplinary body of work has encompassed painting, drawing, photography, video, and sculpture. Her photography and performance often involve the artist, or other bodies, interacting with or depict the coastal and riparian landscapes of Brazil. In her paintings, Tschäpe takes inspiration from her memories of these spaces to create her large-scale abstract paintings.

’s dreamlike, abstract landscapes blur the line between aquatic, plant, and human forms, referencing not only the landscapes Tschäpe draws upon for inspiration, but also her interest in myth, morphology, and the mysteries of aquatic states. There is a dynamic interplay, too, between the liquidity of the casein, watercolor, and oil from which Tschäpe builds up her surfaces, and the precise systems of marking in colored pencil, pastel, and oil which are layered atop them. Tschäpe’s paintings develop a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic motifs are imbued with a remarkable luminosity.

Richly illustrated, with superb reproductions of Tschäpe’s work, alongside installation images of her museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, this monograph documents a prolific period of creativity and boundary-pushing use of media. A new essay by art historian Joachim Pissarro delves into the literary and historical references that shape and inform Tschäpe’s approach to painting.

📚 Janaina Tschäpe
Edited by Jeffrey Grove
(English) ISBN: 978-3

📸 Janaina Tschäpe by Bruno Jansen, Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York / Los Angeles

03/02/2025

In 'Shadow Paintings', Adrian Ghenie brings Egon Schiele's lost works, which are only known through black and white photographs, back to life. These untraceable or destroyed paintings, which deal with themes such as death, sexuality and melancholy, are brought back to life by Ghenie, who dissolves the boundaries between reality and abstraction. The exhibition, which can be seen at the , invites visitors on a metaphysical journey through decay and re-creation. .ghenie

🔗 Read the conversation between artist Adrian Ghenie and art theorist and curator Klaus Speidel on our website!

EXHIBITION
Adrian Ghenie: Shadow Paintings
October 11, 2024–March 2, 2025


📚 Adrian Ghenie – Schattenbilder
Artist: Egon Schiele, Adrian Ghenie / Edited by: Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Adrian Ciprian Barsan / Graphic Design: Bureau Borsche
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5861-1

📸 Adrian Ghenie, Berlin, 2014 © Oliver Mark

24/01/2025

'Baudelaire’s poem is the starting point of the exhibition. However, we are not trying to illustrate the poem through Matisse’s works. Rather, it’s about a loose thread and a fundamental mood. We believe that the themes and aesthetics of the poem partially reflect the essence of Matisse’s aesthetics and choice of artistic themes.' – Raphaël Bouvier

Raphaël Bouvier is an art historian and curator at the Fondation Beyeler. This year, he is dedicating himself to a very special project: an exhibition and a comprehensive catalog on the French painter Henri Matisse. Under the title 'Invitation to the Voyage', both famous and lesser-known works of this influential master of color and form, and pioneer of Fauvism, are showcased. In conversation with Hatje Cantz, Raphaël Bouvier discusses the creation of the project and contemporary perspectives on Matisse’s work.

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EXHIBITION
Matisse – Invitation au voyage
22 SEPTEMBRE 2024 AU 26 JANVIER 2025


📸 Raphaël Bouvier Credit: Henri Matisse: Les Acanthes, 1953, Mit Gouache bemalte und ausgeschnittene Papiere, Kohlezeichnung, auf weiss bemaltem Papier auf Leinwand, 311,7 x 351,8 cm, Beyeler Museum AG, Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler, © Succession H. Matisse / 2024, ProLitteris, Zürich; Photo: Matthias Willi

24/01/2025

The Japanese artist Yosh*tomo Nara achieved international fame with his so-called 'Angry Girls'. His highly stylized depictions of girls, whose large heads and captivating eyes often appear threatening, defiant and angry, or melancholy and insecure, have become his trademark. Even if Nara's characters evoke the aesthetics of manga, his figures, animals, and hybrid creatures are above all a reflection of himself, through which he expresses his feelings and thoughts. His deep-rooted memories of his childhood, which was characterized by loneliness due to his working parents, his love of music and literature, his knowledge of Japanese and European art history as well as his encounters with people and other cultures serve as sources of inspiration. The 'Yosh*tomo Nara' catalog shows his works from four decades.

Yosh*tomo Nara
Edited by: Daniel Zamani
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5929-8

19/01/2025

Every city shows its history, its geography, its economic and social realities in its streetscape. Anyone who pays attention will be able to perceive all of this. In principle, the elements are always the same: architecture, streets, cafés, parks, gardens, stores, industry, wasteland . . . However, they are always put together differently, resulting in rather diverse visions for each city.

'Ansichten von K.' explores the specifics of Kaiserslautern. Elisabeth Neudörfl has photographed them, thereby removing them from their urban context so that they emerge in a novel way. The series begins with the archaeological finds in the city center, which mark the site of the medieval imperial palace, and continues through the various layers of architectural history to the traces of the US armed forces, visible both in the streets and through the air traffic in the sky.

📚 Elisabeth Neudörfl: Ansichten von K.
Texts by: Annette Spellerberg
Graphic Design: Nicola Reiter
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5924-3

📸 © Elisabeth Neudörfl

16/01/2025

“I don’t understand how you can walk past a tree without being happy,” says Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel 'The Idiot'. Perhaps this thought may explain the motif of women in trees, which was popular between the 1920s and 1950s but has not yet been addressed in any book. The enthusiastic collector of anonymous photography Jochen Raiß (1969–2022) discovered these motifs on flea markets. From boxes containing numerous snapshots of other people’s lives, wildly jumbled together, he pulled out black-and-white photographs of women gazing into the camera’s eye from dizzying heights and in surprising poses. This new edition of the two previous titles brings together gorgeous photos that Jochen Raiß collected over twenty-five years.

📚 Women in Trees by Jochen Raiß
Texts by: Johanna Adorjan
Graphic Design: Rutger Fuchs
(English/German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5834-5

12/01/2025

With the final weeks of Lars Eidinger’s exhibition 'O Mensch' at K21 upon us, we’re happy to offer signed copies of his photography books 'O Mensch' and 'Autistic Disco'—available now on our website!

The is hosting the first monographic museum exhibition dedicated to the actor and artist Lars Eidinger at K21. The exhibition 'O Mensch' presents a selection of photographs and videos, mainly created between 2018 and 2024, with a few exceptions dating back to 2006. The images, mostly taken on the road with a smartphone or a single-lens reflex camera, provide an insight into the worldview of the much-traveled actor. Whether at the site of a guest performance or at film locations such as London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, New York, or in his hometown of Berlin, Eidinger directs our gaze to remote, inconspicuous details and magnifies them. Seemingly trivial situations are captured in all their contradictions, both tenderly and unsparingly.

EXHIBITION
Lars Eidinger: O Mensch
Aug 31, 2024 — Jan 26, 2025


Lars Eidinger: O Mensch (Signed)
(English/German) ISBN: 978-6-0000-3246-3

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07/01/2025

'Before, I used to think about things a lot more and then follow through with my plan. Nowadays I still have an underlying idea, but I also just let things happen. Between my brain and the canvas there’s still my hand, the brush and the paint—there’s a lot going on there, and I tap into all that to achieve my purpose. I collect pictures that I think might help me move forward. I take lots of photos of things I see, a facial expression, a movement, dirt on the tarmac. I have a hundred and forty thousand photos on my mobile phone, in all sorts of folders: by year, by various artists’ work, old black-and-white pictures, a folder with “creatures,” one with hands and feet, etc. Sometimes I take screenshots of films I find interesting. And then I get going.' –

✍️ In conversation with Austrian supermodel and journalist Cordula Reyer, Eva Beresin talks about new approaches in her artistic production, her growing success as an artist and what Instagram has to do with it. You can find an extract of the interview in our website, and the entire piece in our publication Eva Beresin - Thick Air. The Wedding of Humour and Horror.

📚 'Thick Air' brings together a new body of work by Hungarian-born artist Eva Beresin in which she offers a radical and intimate exploration of her life. The paintings can be seen as the culmination of a decade in which Beresin’s art has gained both speed and inventiveness. Her paintings of the carnivalesque are animated by a genuine interest in the intricacies of the soul. Grotesquely uneasy and playfully bold, the compositions capture her personal history as well as universal human themes.

🔗 Eva Beresin
Thick Air. The Wedding of Humor and Horror
(English, German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5714-0

05/01/2025

✨ Wishing you a Happy New Year from all of us at Hatje Cantz! 🎉 As we step into 2025, we look forward to sharing inspiring stories and exploring endless possibilities together!

Image credit © Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, um 1817, Öl auf Leinwand, 94,8 x 74,8 cm, SHK/Hamburger Kunsthalle. 🔗 Find out more about our publications on Caspar David Friedrich on our website!

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