Kerber Verlag

20/12/2024

PLATTENBAU: FLUCH UND MYTHOS
Diskussion und offizielle Präsentation des neuen Fotobuchs von Christoph Montebelli
„Plattenbau Promenades. Berlin | Havana | Hong Kong | Zanzibar“
Mit Dr. Philipp Meuser, Dr. Patricia Wruuck und Christoph Montebelli, Moderation: Peter Baranowski
📅 Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2025, 19:30 Uhr
📍Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Nicht nur in Berlin waren Plattenbauten nach dem Krieg ein fast schon mythisches Allheilmittel zur Lösung der Wohnungsnot. Heute gelten sie vielerorts als städtebaulicher Fluch. Der Fotokünstler Christoph Montebelli hat Plattenbauviertel in vier Städten auf vier Kontinenten porträtiert: Berlin, Havanna, Hong Kong und Sansibar. Die Arbeiten sind im Herbst als Buch im Kerber Verlag erschienen. Zusammen mit dem Architekten und Autor Prof. Dr. Philipp Meuser und der Sozialwissenschaftlerin Dr. Patricia Wruuck erörtert der Autor in der Diskussionsrunde, wie es dazu kommen konnte, dass viele dieser „Städte der Zukunft“ zu Sinnbildern gescheiterter Utopien wurden, und was gemacht werden kann, um Plattenbauviertel wieder lebenswert zu gestalten.

19/12/2024

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Kerber Verlag! We wish you peace, happiness and health for 2025!
Thank you very much for the trusting collaboration, the inspiring conversations and the wonderful encounters!
Image from the upcoming publication: Xenia Nikolskaya, “Plastic Jesus”, ISBN 978-3-7356-1022-5
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28/11/2024

XU YONG. HUTONG
Book Presentation and Exhibition Opening
Friday, 6 December, 2024, 6 pm
Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne
We are very pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening and book presentation Xu Yong. Hutong at Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne.
In its exhibition Xu Yong. Hutong, Galerie Julian Sander is showing a selection of motifs from the extensive series 101 Portraits of Hutong by Chinese photographer Xu Yong. In his series, created in 1989/90, he focuses on the history of Beijing’s traditional residential areas with their centuries-old houses, backyards and narrow alleyways, the so-called hutongs.
Xu Yong was one of the first photographers to go beyond political glamorization and ideological whitewashing and focus on everyday life in modern China. Many of the neighborhoods he documented have since fallen victim to radical modernization efforts and have been demolished. Xu Yong’s black and white photographs document the ups and downs, the heyday and decline of the hutongs in the face of the rapid changes in Chinese society since the end of the Qing dynasty. With his elegiac series, Xu Yong has created a monument to Beijing’s old alleyway districts, expressing both their poetic beauty and the sadness of their disappearance. In his melancholy photographs, he captures fragments of a vanishing reality and the fleeting charm of the old alleyways.

12/11/2024

LISA SEEBACH. EARTHY LIQUIDS AND HEAVY METAL [HYPERSLEEP]
Abstract and mysterious, Lisa Seebach’s (b. 1981) sculptures are reminiscent of industrial objects like gas cylinders or oil drums, which she transforms into autonomous actors in a poetically enigmatic staging filled with associative meta-narratives. In the labyrinth of post-apocalyptic science fiction, dark utopia, and post-human aesthetics, they point to potential threats in the face of dystopian escalation and explore ways of escaping them. “Earthy Liquids and Heavy Metal [Hypersleep]” is Lisa Seebach’s largest solo museum exhibition to date and shows numerous works from the last ten years alongside works specially conceived for the exhibition space at the Lechner Museum. The publication of the same name brings together numerous images of the installation and accompanying texts.
The exhibition is on view until 9 March 2025.
Lisa Seebach will present her book 21 November, 8 pm , Berlin.
ISBN 978-3-7356-1012-6
23 × 30 cm
96 pages
46 colored illustrations
Gatefold Brochure
Languages: German, English
Editor: Dominik Bais, Alf Lechner Stiftung
Texts by: Dominik Bais, Olga Hohmann
Design by: Lukas Schimpfhauser, München

07/11/2024

For all those who are in Paris right now: Join , and at their book presentations during and . Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the photographers, hear the stories behind the creation of the books and get your signed copies.
Thursday, November 7, 6 pm
Florence Montmare, “Scenes from an Island”
Thursday, November 7, 6 pm
José Giribás Marambio, “Chile. Memories of my battered country”
Friday, November 8, 6 pm
THE OPÉRA XII. ÆTHERUM

26/10/2024

ELGER ESSER. DIE ENGEN WASSER
Elger Esser (b. 1967) works mainly in the medium of photography and is one of the most important members of the Becher School from Dusseldorf. From early in his career, he explored historic landscape photography, which has had, and continues to have, a huge influence on his work. For the most part, the analog images that he subsequently subjects to further processing, are taken by the sea or by rivers, most of them in France. Often, his images are dominated by imposing cloud formations. “Elger Esser. The Narrow Waters” presents more than sixty depictions of river landscapes created by Esser over the last twenty-five years. Again and again, the artist traces the literary trail of famous writers such as Proust, Maupassant, and Flaubert. Several of the images show the Èvre, a tributary of the Loire, which French author Julien Gracq (1910-2007) described in his essay collection The Narrow Waters. Selected passages from his writings are presented alongside Essers’ post-romantic landscapes.
The exhibition is on view at Haus Beda Bitburg until 12 January 2025.
ISBN 978-3-7356-1005-8
23 × 16,8 cm
120 pages
63 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: German
Editor: Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Dr.-Hanns-Simon-Stiftung, Neue Galerie, Haus Beda, Bitburg
Texts by: Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Julien Gracq, Stephanie Kaak
Design by
Monika Malsy Kommunikationsdesign, Düsseldorfesser

15/10/2024

MATTHIAS FORSTER. METROPOLIS SUNDAY. HONG KONG SERIES
„Metropolis Sunday“ by Matthias Forster takes the audience on an expedition behind the gleaming skyscrapers of Hong Kong. The photographer finds the light in the darkness, the beauty in the unsightly, and the divine in the mundane. Metropolis, the mother city, is the epitome of a cosmopolitan city. Sunday is the day of rest par excellence. Forster’s images reveal the opposite poles of a hectic and stimulus-laden society. Away from the noise of the congested streets, almost deserted squares are revealed. Here, the city takes a breath and comes to rest. Space and time become relative.
The iconic high-rise buildings with their smooth-as-glass façades serve as a mirror image of modern urban society: while their impressive exterior extols orderliness and precision, behind it, the informality and improvisation of urban life emerge in countless permutations.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0989-2
17 × 20 cm
88 pages
63 colored illustrations
Languages: English
Texts by
Matthias Forster, Alberto Gerosa Volontè
Design by
Hannah Feldmeier

10/10/2024

We are looking forward to seeing you this weekend! We will present a nice selection of our recent publications. Drop by and say hello! 👋
Opening Hours
Friday, 11 October, 5-7 pm
Saturday, 12 October, 12-7 pm
Sunday, 13 October, 12-7 pm

26/09/2024

We are delighted to announce the nomination of two of our books for the German Photo Book Award.
Many thanks to the jury for the nomination as well as to the photographers and everyone else involved in the making of the books.
📚Rainer Zerback. The World Without Us
What would happen if humankind were to disappear? What would planet earth look like without us? In his monograph “The World Without Us”, Rainer Zerback shows us such a world—in quiet images, shimmering with heat but without any trace of apocalyptic bluster.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0949-6
📚Piet Niemann. Expo 2000 – 20 Years Later
Piet Niemann revisited the Expo site and documented its current state in a comprehensive body of work, twenty years after the world fair took place. Sustainability and the successful development of the exhibition site into a “city of the future” are often promised by politicians. The documentary work enables a reflective view of the past, and ideally initiates reflection on responsible action in the future.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0917-5

24/09/2024

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06/09/2024

Book Presentation and Artist Talk
Dieter Mammel. LIFELINE

September 14, 2024, 6 p.m.
Kerber Verlag
Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 26
10969 Berlin
We are pleased to invite you to a book presentation and artist talk with Dieter Mammel and Tamás Szalay, director of .ulm.

In 2015, Dieter Mammel witnessed the arrival of the first Syrian refugees on the Greek island of Kos. In the years that followed, the Berlin-based painter explored the story of his own family’s flight, the sense of displacement that came with it, and the new beginning in another country. The exhibition tour LIFELINE, which traces the course of the family’s life, with the accompanying catalogue shows the pictures created as part of this exploration and examines the themes of origin, flight, and memory as timeless constants of human experience.

20/08/2024

XU YONG. HUTONG 101 PHOTOS
Xu Yong (b. 1954, Shanghai) was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in modern China, free from political romanticization or ideological whitewashing. In Hutong 101 Photos, he traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways, the “Hutongs.” Many of these neighborhoods have since fallen victim to radical redevelopment and have been demolished. Xu Yong’s black-and-white images dating from 1989 bear witness to the rise and fall, the heyday and the decline, of the Hutongs—against the backdrop of the rapid societal change in China that followed the end of the Qing Dynasty. In this milestone of Chinese photography, which is now finally being published as a new edition in book form, Xu Yong has created an elegiac tribute to the old alleyways of Beijing, revealing both their poetic beauty and the sadness surrounding their demise.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0981-6
23,4 × 30,6 cm
160 pages
101 duplex illustrations
Hardcover linen-bound
Languages: English, Chinese
Editor: Xu Yong, He Hao
Text by: Xu Yong
Design by: He Hao, Beijing

04/08/2024

01/08/2024

KAREN IRMER. STATE OF CHANGE
The publication “State of Change” provides an overview of the artistic work of Karen Irmer. In her photographs and film installations, which are as poetic as they are analytical, Irmer reflects upon the relationship between illusion and reality, but also between the artwork and the viewer. Her work is characterized by atmospheric moods and pared-back visual language. The recurrent subject is landscape, in which she seeks contemplation and immersion – as an alternative to the overstimulated reality of modern life, in which it often appears these things are no longer possible.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0997-7
23,5 × 28,5 cm
144 pages
135 colored illustrations
Swiss brochure
Languages: German, English
Texts by: Thomas Elsen, Cornelia Gockel, Simone Kimmel, Christoph Stolz, Wolfgang Ullrich
Design by: Robert Strauch, Karen Irmer, Augsburg
Karen Irmer’s work is currently on view at , Bretagne, FR.
SAVE THE DATE:
Book Launch
September 8, 11 am
, Munich with Wolfgang Ullrich

23/07/2024

JAANA CASPARY. UMFORMUNG
“umformung” is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of the Wuppertal-based sculptor Jaana Caspary (b. 1988), whose abstract, monochrome sculptures made of cast acrylic resin, stone, or bronze have been causing a furor for several years now. Many of these sculptures, which are often accompanied by colored pencil drawings and photomontages, are characterized by the referencing of several related basic forms, each elaborate in itself. Jaana Caspary visualizes the presence of such modules in collective everyday life, but also in nature, repeatedly demonstrating the rich variety and complexity of their meanings.
With a particular focus on the most recent exhibitions, “umformung” presents the most important groups of works and key pieces from Caspary’s oeuvre of the last ten years.
ISBN 978-3-7356-0977-9
23 × 27,5 cm
272 pages
186 colored and 3 b/w illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: German, English
Editor: Jürgen Grölle
Texts by: Marlene Baum, Robert Fleck, Thomas Hirsch, Christina Irrgang
Design by: Klaus Untiet, Rob Fährmann, wppt:kommunikation, Wuppertal

12/07/2024

COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS. LAST REMAINING PIECES
An exclusive vinyl edition by Emeka Ogboh, an art print by Mel Ramos († 2018) signed by the artist himself, young painting and unique objects—discover treasures from our Collector’s Editions, that will soon be sold out.
These works are published in small, strictly limited editions and are only available via our publishing house. Please visit our website for more information.
Roger Ballen, “Hand Drawn Hearts”
Emeka Ogboh, “If Found Please Return to Lagos”
Mel Ramos, “Campbell’s Soup Blondes”
Adam Saks, Untitled
Anna Nero, “Elvis”
Inka & Niclas Lindergård, “The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth”
.nero .saks

09/07/2024

Back from Arles! Visited many fantastic exhibitions, had a few glasses of wine, saw many old friends and made some new ones. Thanks so much for stopping by and signing .leblanc.96558 and .mistler.

02/07/2024

We are very happy to take part in this year’s edition of Arles Books Fair and to present our latest publications to the public on site.
July 4-6, 2024
Collège Saint-Charles, 2 Rue de la Callade
Our book signings at Arles Books Fair:

Thursday, July 4, 2024,
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Karen Irmer. State of Change
Sylvie Leblanc. H2O-scapes .leblanc.96558
Julius Matuschik. Moin und Salam. Muslim Life in Germany .de
Eric Mistler. Sportives! .mistler