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Shara Hughes (geb. 1981 in Atlanta, lebt und arbeitet in New York) bezeichnet ihre Bilder und Zeichnungen als psychologische oder erfundene Landschaften. Ihre Steilküsten, Flussläufe, Sonnenuntergänge und üppigen Gärten, die oft von abstrakten Mustern eingerahmt werden, zeugen von märchenhaften Orten und paradiesischen Stimmungen. Die Gemälde nutzen, wie der New Yorker schrieb, "alle möglichen Tricks, um zu verführen, und schaffen es dennoch, als arglose Visionen von gar nicht so fernen Welten zu erscheinen". Mit Ölfarbe, Pinsel, Spachtel und Spray zelebriert die Künstlerin die Malerei an sich und zitiert dabei nicht selten die Meister anderer Kunstepochen.

THE COLLECTION OF THE NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, BERLINThe Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the last building designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been closed a full six years for refurbishment. To mark its reopening the museum is presenting the highlights of its classical modernist collection under the title "The Art of Society, 1900-1945". Visionary, critical, resigned or utopian, the paintings and sculptures bear witness to art's dialogue with prevailing social conditions - from the German Empire to the First World War, the Weimar Republic and ultimately National Socialism. The catalogue documenting all works in the exhibition traces the major artistic tendencies during the first half of the 20th century in thirteen chapters. "The Art of Society, 1900-1945" offers a renewed encounter with works by Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tamara de Lempicka, Lotte Laserstein, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and many others that is as captivating as it is illuminating.

The sculptor and object artist Liam Gillick (b. Aylesbury, UK, 1964; lives and works in New York) has created an intervention titled Filtered Time for the historic galleries of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Projections of light and color and acoustic effects condense six thousand years of cultural history into an immersive spatial experience. Gillick initiates a conversation between the iconic Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, the monumental sculptures of Tell Halaf, and other exhibits, engendering new layers of meaning across all historical periods. The first joint project of the Vorderasiatisches Museum and the Hamburger Bahnhof-Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart makes for a singular visual and sensory experience. Designed by the artist himself, the publication not only documents the richly colorful production, but also provides insight into the eventful history of the museum, which is approaching its centennial.Liam Gillick studied at the Hertfordshire College of Art in 1983-1984 and at Goldsmiths, University of London from 1984 until 1987. Gillick is a prolific published writer as well, producing essays, reviews, fiction, and theatrical scenarios.

Ever since his studies with Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich, since his first exhibitions - for instance at 'Kippenberger's Office' in 1979 - Meuser (b. Essen 1947, lives and works in Karlsruhe) has been a solitaire. His sculptures are unyielding and unruly, just as much as they are vulnerable and tender. They are witty and heart-touchingly charming.Meuser finds his material in the scrapyard. Confidently and empathically, he reinstates form and dignity to the remnants and vestiges of industrial society. As a romantic, he grants things a life of their own and turns them into self-reliant protagonists, once more. Unwaveringly, he works to re-poetize a standardized and maltreated world.The lavishly designed monograph is published on the occasion of Meuser's 75th birthday, presenting works and exhibitions from the past ten years. Eight international authors and scholars create a dazzling mosaic and reveal how Meuser boldly holds his own in face of Duchamp, Minimalism, and Social Sculpture. An open-ended outlook.Meuser studied 1968-1976 at Art Academy, Düsseldorf with Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich. 1991 he received the ars viva award. 1992-2015 professorship at Academy of Fine Art, Karlsruhe.Since 1976, numerous institutional solo and group exhibitions and works in international collections: Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; documenta IX / Fridericianum, Kassel; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Joanneum, Graz; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul; Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels; ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe.

André Butzer (geb. 1973 in Stuttgart, lebt und arbeitet in Rangsdorf bei Berlin) wurde durch seine von ihm selbst als "Science-Fiction-Expressionismus" bezeichneten Bilder bekannt. Sie sind in verschiedene Gattungen eingeteilt, so malt er "Friedens-Siemense" oder "Schande-Menschen", aber auch komplett abstrakte Kompositionen. Als seine Vorbilder nennt er Walt Disney, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Friedrich Hölderlin und Henry Ford. Butzers utopischer künstlerischer Entwurf ist in dem fiktiven Ort "Nasaheim" ("N"), einer Art Wallfahrtsort im Weltraum, angesiedelt. Seine Gemälde sind aber keinesfalls Umsetzungen narrativer Strukturen, sondern bringen etwas zur Sprache, was vorher nicht gesagt werden konnte. Gleichnishaft verkörpern sie die immer wiederkehrenden Extreme der Geschichte als Sinnbilder der menschlichen Existenz.

Since 2018, the American painter and sculptor Austin Eddy (b. Boston, 1986; lives and works in Brooklyn) has probed the manifestations of modern painting in a world between abstraction and figuration. As a child and teenager, Eddy immersed himself in the imageries of comics, cartoons, and record covers. In the early 2010s, he studied in Chicago with Barbara Rossi, who had been one of the Chicago Imagists in the 1960s. The deconstruction of everyday objects into innumerable forms and hues became his central theme. Eddy's works play with luminous colors, overlaid textures, animated bird motifs, and abstract planes of light while grappling with a human existence defined by loss and the passage of time. Situated on the margins of reality, his paintings and sculptures are like visual poems, celebrating the evanescent instant that exists only for a second before fading into the past.Austin Eddy completed a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.

Vanessa Henn's (b. Stuttgart, 1970; lives and works in Berlin) objects and installations blend formal reduction with playful comedy. The handrails she makes out of a wide variety of materials run along walls, project into rooms, trace spirals, mark lines or arcs, and often solicit our active engagement. Besides banisters, her oeuvre, which straddles the line between architecture and sculpture, also comprises bridges, stairs, and fences. All her creations are energized by the tension between the static work of art and its dynamic environment, which the artist resolves by integrating her works into the goings-on of everyday life. A guardrail that runs perpendicular to a flight of stairs or abruptly ends in the ceiling or floor is relieved of its function; rather than helping us go where we are going, it is a companion who invites us on a stroll into the imaginary and uncertain. And that is what makes Vanessa Henn's art so alluring.Vanessa Henn studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (1992-2001) and at Edinburgh College of Art (1995-1996) and completed a Master of Fine Art at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Art in Christchurch, New Zealand (1999-2000).

Secundino Hernández's (b. Madrid, 1975; lives and works in Madrid und Berlin) paintings and works on paper blend figuration and abstraction, the linearity of drawing and exuberant color, minimalism and gesture. Slowly and methodically moving across the canvas, Hernández sets down sinuous lines and marks, using a brush or applying the paint straight from the tube before rinsing and scratching off the surfaces. The resulting compositions feel organized yet charged with explosive energy and evince manifold references: a physicality reminiscent of Action Painting, cartoon-style terse figuration, and passages that bring to mind Old Masters and especially the Spaniards El Greco and Velázquez. As Hernández observes, his works "may look like Action Painting or Expressionism, but they represent a profound and painstaking scrutiny of these visual idioms, a way of articulating my own contemporary perspective on certain aesthetic movements."Secundino Hernández studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid from 1995 until 2000 and at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome in 2005-2006.

The effect of odor is immediate. Smells arouse feelings in us, put us in moods, awaken recollections. They color the other senses and shape our perceptions more profoundly than we are aware. Scents create closeness and distance at the same time. They become imprinted on our memories and consolidate our experiences. And yet their existence in the world of three dimensions remains invisible, and the act of picking up a scent is fleeting.The publication Odor-Immaterial Sculptures zooms in on the power of smells. Contributions from curators, artists, scientists, and scholars frame a variety of perspectives on this evanescent phenomenon, examining the olfactory sense and the qualities of the immaterial. Full-page plates conceived by the artists provide additional information, imagery, and contexts around the individual works, which put odor as an olfactory and spatial experience at the center of the engagement with art. The works operate between the poles of time and space, individual and community, consciousness and the subconscious, visibility and invisibility, the everyday and the miraculous, the sense of self and the perceptions of others, presence and absence, life and death.Artists : Jason Dodge, Carsten Höller, Koo Jeong A, Oswaldo Maciá, Teresa Margolles, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sissel Tolaas, Clara Ursitti, Luca Vitone

Throughout their careers, the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, b. Copenhagen, Denmark, 1961, and Ingar Dragset, b. Trondheim, Norway, 1969, live and work in Berlin) have eschewed the traditional "White Cube" exhibition format by creating large-scale installations and staging narrative situations in which autobiographical quotes blend with fictional stories and cultural references. For the solo exhibition READ, Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed Kunsthalle Praha into a minimalist version of a modern public library to prompt reflections on our relationship with physical books and knowledge in the age of digital media. With new works by Elmgreen & Dragset as well as performances, videos, collages, paintings, and sculptures by other artists, READ also probes the relation between books and the making of art.This richly illustrated publication documents the dynamic interaction between language, books, and art. With contributions from renowned scholars and a curatorial text by Elmgreen & Dragset.

The legendary producer-run gallery Clara Mosch and the artists' group of the same title that gathered around it were founded in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today's Chemnitz) in 1977 and existed until 1982. The catchy name was an acronym of the contributors' last names: CLA = Carlfriedrich Claus, RA = Thomas Ranft and Dagmar Ranft-Schinke, MO = Michael Morgner, SCH = Gregor-Torsten Schade. As the founders of the first producers' gallery in the GDR and creators of diverse oeuvres, the group's artists rank among the foremost exponents of avant-garde art in East Germany. The book presents works of art, limited editions, and posters as well as photographs from the Ralf-Rainer Wasse archive in the collections of the Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg. One thematic focus is on Clara Mosch's land-art happenings and plein-air pieces. The unconventional actions attest to the group's stated objective of building greater awareness of the ongoing devastation of the local environment. Forty years after the fact, Clara Mosch's work has lost none of its relevance and urgency.

In her multidisciplinary work, Ivonne Thein (born 1979 in Meiningen, lives and works in Berlin) addresses the current body images of a digital culture that is undergoing fundamental change due to extensive technologization. Today, new technologies are profoundly shaping both the physical body and its virtual representations in the visual culture of our time. Thein works with AI systems for her installations and places the question of the problem of imitating nature, and thus the relationship between art, technology and body, at the center of her artistic work. To do this, she combines digital techniques with sculptures that she creates by hand from silicone. Thein thereby evokes an intrusive closeness in the exhibition space, as the images generated with the AI no longer remain just a pure data set on the screen. The book presents works from 2020-2023.

Toni Mauersberg (b. Hannover, 1989; lives and works in Berlin) is interested in the different layers of a picture's signification: there is, in the first instance, what it depicts; then the larger tradition in which it is grounded; and finally, the conditions of its genesis. She employs a range of painterly strategies and techniques to uncover the potentials of paintings as a medium of understanding, insight, and storytelling. The question that animates her art is how it is possible, in this post-religious, post-rational, and post-individual age, to be one's own person. In her most recent series, Pas de Deux, Mauersberg investigates the complex visual language of abstract painting, which originated in part in a quest for new ways of representing spirituality and emancipation. Combining nonrepresentational pictures with portraits, she draws attention to how both are products of "making," composed of nothing but color, while enlarging their interpretative ambits. The dialogue between the paintings is meant to help the beholders chart their own course as they unlock what appear to be hidden laws encoded in pictures.Toni Mauersberg studied Jewish studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2008-2012 and fine arts with Leiko Ikemura at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009. In 2017, she was Michael Müller's master student.

The book and exhibition present works from the first two decades of the twentieth century from the Kunstmuseum Bonn's collection in dialogue with contemporary creative positions. What the works have in common across the distance of a century is their genesis in, and reflection on, a time of major social and political crisis. Back then, life had been profoundly changed by the industrial revolution; nowadays, climate change, wars, and the rising political power of right-wing ideologies are transforming the life of our communities. The presentation conceives art as a tool that lets us interrogate the world and imparts fresh intellectual impulses, and so also plays an active part in our societies. The title Menschheitsdämmerung - Dawn of Humanity - is borrowed from the poetry anthology of the same title released by Kurt Pinthus in 1919, which samples the Expressionist lyric poetry of the young century in four chapters: "Downfall and Outcry"; "Love Human Beings"; "Awakening of the Heart"; "Entreaty and Indignation." Florian Illies, who already wrote an afterword for the 2019 centenary edition of Menschheitsdämmerung - the bestselling poetry anthology in the history of German literature - contributed the keynote essay in the book.Artists: Nevin Aladag, Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Rebekka Benzenberg, Monica Bonvicini, Andrea Bowers, Heinrich Campendonk, Louisa Clement, Max Ernst, Georg Herold, Franz M. Jansen, Alexej von Jawlensky, Käthe Kollwitz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Max Liebermann, August Macke, Helmuth Macke, Goshka Macuga, Marie von Malachowski-Nauen, Carlo Mense, Zanele Muholi, Heinrich Nauen, Grace Ndiritu, Anys Reimann, Deborah Roberts, Daniel Scislowski, Paul Adolf Seehaus, Tschabalala Self, Monika Sosnowska, William Straube, Emma Talbot, Hans Thuar, Lawrence Weiner

Maria Braune's (b. Berlin, 1988; lives and works in Munich and Bamberg) work revolves around a material she developed; named Migma, it consists of eight different renewable natural resources. She heats it, then casts and molds it in a process that continues for weeks. The resulting sculptures and installations sprawl throughout the space like sensuous organisms. Associations of growth and symbiosis emerge, but discontinuities and disintegration come into view as well. Braune's creative process is part of an ecosystem and thoroughly anchored in the now. Her material is a vitally alive substance to which she responds in an immediate engagement, connecting it to mythological and narrative significations and setting it in relation to her own world.Maria Braune studied woodcarving at the Fachhochschule für Bildhauerei in Berchtesgaden, Germany, in 2009-2011, then fine arts with Hermann Pitz at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she graduated in 2017.

Agostino Iacurci's (b. Foggia, Italy, 1986; lives and works in Berlin) paintings, sculptures, installations, and murals are based on vegetal forms and botanical subjects. Lucid compositions in radiant colors unfurl fantastical ornaments that transcend the division between figuration and abstraction and the hierarchical distinctions of applied art, design, fine art, and folk art. His central theme is the painted garden, in which he stages plants, humans, architecture, geometry, and decoration in a fashionably theatrical landscape. In Iacurci, the interpenetration of nature and civilization is real, integrating mythological motifs from across the history of art and culture, from antiquity to futurism and postmodernism, into his singular style.Agostino Iacurci studied fine arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Since 2009, he has realized numerous large-format murals and installations for public and private institutions. He has also worked with international brands including Apple, Adidas, Hermès, and Starbucks.

Die Scherenschnitte von Sonja Yakovleva (geb. 1989 in Potsdam, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt am Main) sind von einem sex-positivem Feminismus geprägt. In ihnen finden sich gleichermaßen Pornografie und kunstgeschichtliche Verweise, volkstümliche Motive, Märchen und Mythen wieder, mit denen seit dem Mittelalter misogyne, rassistische und homophobe Ideologien in das kollektive Bewusstsein eingeschrieben wurden. Deren Verbreitung wurde durch Scherenschnitte begünstigt, weil sie grafisch vereinfachende Darstellungen nutzten und als häuslich und weiblich galten. Yakovleva bezweckt mit dieser Technik jedoch das Gegenteil. In ihren flirrenden Papierschnitten werden Geschichten von Frauen, prekäre Grauzonen, Machtverhältnisse, Repräsentation, Sexualität und Gewalt neu verhandelt.Der Titel der ersten Monografie von Sonja Yakovleva Soaplands verweist auf japanische Badehäuser, in denen Männer sich einseifen und massieren lassen und die auch als Bordelle fungieren. Neuerdings gibt es auch Soaplands für Frauen mit männlichen Prostituierten. So haben in den gezeigten - zwischen 2018 und 2023 entstandenen - Papierschnitten Frauen das sexuelle Regime übernommen und unterwerfen das patriarchale System. Ohne Scham benutzen sie Männer als Objekte zur Befriedigung ihrer Lust.

In recent years, a Wagnerian night has settled over Brandon Lipchik's (b. Erie, PA, 1993; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Berlin) pictures. Moons rise; beasts and titans populate a homogeneous world of swimming pools, white picket fences, and neatly mowed lawns. Synthesized on a computer screen and then transferred to canvas by hand, the artist's paintings revolve around the backyard as a mythically fraught scene of popular culture. The garishly lit multiperspectival pictures replicate characteristic shots from 1980s gay porn films and quote a clean American Apparel look. Lipchik subjects men's bodies, spaces, plants, objects, and animals to digital deconstruction, obtaining rudimentary and abstract shapes. Staring at smartphones or gazing on water surfaces, his characters recall early digital animations and seem oddly hollow, like empty avatars waiting to be filled with new speculative content.

Die Arbeiten von Anna Virnich sind wie eine spekulative Erzählung. Seit ihrer Kindheit sammelt die Künstlerin Stoffe, Kleider und Decken, die sie zerschneidet, der Witterung aussetzt, bleicht, einfärbt und auch bemalt, um daraus Bilder und Räume zu konstruieren. Ihre Werke sind Gemälde und Objekte zugleich, extrem körperlich, aber auch geisterhaft leer. Alles in Virnichs Kunst ist Hülle oder Membran, durch die etwas hinein- oder hinausgeht. Zusammen ergeben die Textilien eine abstrakte Narration von Werden, Vergehen, Malerei, Geburt, Künstlichkeit und Science-Fiction.

Simone Haack macht in ihrer Malerei von jeher das Innere an der äußeren Erscheinung ihrer Figuren lesbar. So auch in ihrem Werkblock der gleichnamigen Ausstellung Hair. Bereits im ausgehenden 17. Jahrhundert wurden Magie undAberglauben dem Haar zugeschrieben. In ihm vermutete man die ganze Kraft der Seele. Die in derMalerei-Klasse von Katharina Grosse und Karin Kneffel ausgebildete Künstlerin legt durch ihremitunter makroskopisch ins Bild gerückten Haarlandschaften im Geiste eines Neuen MagischenRealismus symbolhaft die Fragilität der DNA menschlichen Wesens offen. Dabei erzählt ihre begleitende Ausstellungspublikation immer auch vom Spannungsdreieck physischer wie psychischerExistenz, die bei ihr die malerische Psychoanalyse durchläuft.

The events captured in Filip Henin's (b. Mayen, 1986; lives and works in Berlin) paintings are set in a world beyond time and place, as though on an empty stage prepared for a Samuel Beckett production. It is virtually impossible to say whether a picture shows a coastal region or a craggy slope up in the mountains, whether a field of blue represents the sea or a band of open sky. Henin strips landscapes down no less than human figures, subtracting specific features to isolate basic forms that might be found in the hill country around his hometown in western Germany or in Tuscany. His work integrates quotations from antiquity, Romantic landscape painting, and postmodernism as well as Italian Transavanguardia, the mysticism of Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia, and the figurative painting of the 1990s. Without veering into drama or pathos, he harnesses two utterly antithetical energies: the reflection on painting and the history of art and the need to be simple.

In seinen Gemälden, Skulpturen und Installationen beschäftigt sich Jan Zöller (geb. 1992 in Haslach, lebt und arbeitet in Karlsruhe) mit dem Zwiespalt zwischen der wirtschaftlichen Produktion und der spirituellen, magischen Seite der Kunst. Das Künstlerbuch Ritual Believer gibt einen Überblick über die zwischen 2019 und 2023 entstandene Werkgruppe der sogenannten "Charcoal Paintings". Bei diesen Bildern wird mit Kohle direkt auf die ungrundierte Leinwand gemalt, was ein Ausbessern von "Fehlern" unmöglich macht. Außerdem verzichten sie weitgehend auf Farben und sind im Vergleich zu den sonst sehr farbintensiven Gemälden von Zöller eher reduziert. Neben den für sein Werk typischen Motiven von Vögeln und laufenden Beinen ist Schrift und Text ein wichtiges Element der "Charcoal Paintings". Dazu gehört auch, dass die Titel der Arbeiten eine zentrale Rolle spielen und fast als eigenständiger Teil betrachtet werden können. Für den Text im Buch hat der Künstler die Titel der gezeigten Werke an seinen Bruder geschickt, der daraus eine Erzählung geschrieben hat. Im hinteren Teil befindet sich zusätzlich gescanntes Archivmaterial. Notizbücher und Zines von Zöller aus den Jahren 2015-2017 geben interessante Verweise auf seine Bild- und Motivfindung.

Das Werk von Francesca Martí kreist um Themen wie Transformation, Kommunikation und Deformation, die Macht der Selbstbestimmung, die Instabilität des Gedächtnisses und die Auswirkungen von Chaos durch Migration und vonMigration aufgrund von Chaos. In einem kollaborativen Prozess tragen viele verschiedene Performer:innen, Tänzer:innen und Musiker:innen dazu bei, ihre Vision umzusetzen. Das Buch zeigtPerformances, Skulpturen und visuelle Arbeiten aus Francesca Martís wichtigsten Ausstellungenin Spanien, Deutschland, den Niederlanden, der Slowakei und China. Die verschiedenen Serien wieCocoon, Planet of Fusions, Migrant Angel, Dreamers & Believers, Copper and Flux, die die Künstlerinin den letzten zehn Jahren entwickelt hat, werden - ergänzt durch ihre Zeichnungen und Fotografien sowie Making-of-Bilder aus ihrem Atelier auf Mallorca - beschrieben.

Rainer Jacob (b. Jena, 1970; lives and works in Leipzig) has anonymously installed objects made of ice in public settings in cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Moscow, Oslo, Prague, and Budapest since 2013. He then allows them to dematerialize and records the process in photographs. Radiators, wall outlets, QR codes, and the Duchampian pissoir are among his recurrent motifs. The impermanence of the ice objects builds bridges to street art, Fluxus, and action art. Critical observations on the unequal distribution of resources and political power in contemporary society, his works reflect on our perceptions and question the idea of originality in art while also probing the outer limits of sculpture.The publication showcases the ice objects of the past ten years, embedding them in a decade that has marked a sea change in the life of humankind: JustICE captures an artist's distinctive perspective on societal processes.

Ossian Fraser (b. Edinburgh, 1983; lives in Munich and Berlin) molds and captures evanescent moments. Working with volatile materials such as water, dust, or light, the artist exposes the latent potentials of unremarkable situations in the urban fabric and natural scenes. A tunnel in a city, a rock face in the mountains become points of departure and elementary components of his site-specific interventions, which he records in photographs. The book is the first to offer comprehensive insight into Fraser's artistic practice. Series of pictures showcasing his conceptual and poetic pieces alternate with conversations that not only demarcate the framework in which his art operates, but also touch on the great issues of our time.Ossian Fraser studied fine arts and sculpture at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn, from 2006 until 2009 and at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, from 2009 until 2013, rounding out his education in Albrecht Schäfer's master class in 2013-2014.

Kay Rosen nutzt seit den 1970erJahren Sprache als künstlerisches Material. International bekannt wurde sie durch Wandarbeiten,die einzelne Wörter, Sätze oder Buchstabenfolgen oft in gewaltiger Größe wiedergeben. Die Künstlerin gibt alltäglichen Begriffen und Wörtern durch deren Anordnung sowie typografische undfarbige Gestaltung irritierende Wendungen. Seien es Wortneuschöpfungen, Umdeutungen oderlautmalerische Erkundungen, Rosen legt immer wieder überraschende Bedeutungsebenen frei.Zum 80. Geburtstag ermöglicht die Publikation mit Wandarbeiten, Gemälden, Zeichnungen, Druckenund Videostills eine Neu- und Wiederentdeckung des vielschichtigen künstlerischen Werks, dashumorvolle Leichtigkeit und analytische Schärfe auf unverwechselbare Weise miteinander verbindet.

Stefan Knauf (geb. 1990 in München, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin)setzt sich mittels bestimmter Materialien wie Baustoffe oder Pflanzen mit der Historie der Botanik, der Migration, des Handels, derWissenschaft und der Architektur auseinander. Er kritisiert dabeiein idealisiertes, anthropozentrisches Naturverständnis, das immernoch vorherrschend ist. Seine Skulpturen, geometrisch-abstraktenBilder und Installationen, in denen Konstruktivismus und MinimalArt nachhallen, sind Kontaktzonen, in denen alles miteinander zutun hat: die menschliche und die nicht menschliche Geschichte,Natürliches und Künstliches, Ökologie und Ideologie.

Anna Leonhardt setzt sich in ihrer Malerei mit eigenen Erfahrungen und Stimmungen auseinander. Gleichzeitig bezieht sie sich auf Werke aus der Literatur und zitiert Phänomene aus der Geschichte der Malerei. In abstraktenFlächen, die durch eine Vielzahl an Schichtungen die zweidimensionalen Grenzen der Leinwandüberschreiten, entsteht ein physischer und imaginierter Raum. Die Publikation Touching Spacezeigt die neuesten Arbeiten von Anna Leonhardt. Ein Textkompendium zum Thema Raum desPhänomenologen Franz Xaver Baier und ein Briefwechsel zwischen der Künstlerin und der KuratorinSophia Pietryga ergänzen die eindrucksvollen Abbildungen. Sie erscheint begleitend zur gleichnamigen Einzelausstellung in der Galerie She BAM! Laetitia Gorsy in Leipzig.

Angelika J. Trojnarski (born 1979 in Mragowo/Polen; lives and works in Düsseldorf) examines facets of nature through an ecological, scientific, poetic study of their phenomena. Through a process centered on painting, her art articulates allegorical relationships between some of the most significant contentions of our time: humans and nature, strength and fragility, crisis and hope. She expresses a desire to understand nature by reproducing its workings, pointing to its incredible might while underscoring its increasing fragility. Trojnarski overlays raw canvases with paper fragments, employing brushwork and collage to apply materials like graphite or soot, generating a source of energy and suspense through color and contrast. The monograph offers an overview of the last decade of Trojnarski's work.Angelika J. Trojnarski 2006-2013 studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2006-2009 Painting with Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz and Herbert Brandl, from 2010 Free Art with Andreas Gursky.

Sam Falls gibt die Autorschaft für seine Arbeiten an die Phänomene der Natur ab. Indem er Trägermaterialien wie Leinwand, Aluminium oder Kacheln mit wasserreaktiven Trockenpigmenten und Pflanzenteilen versieht und über einen längeren Zeitraum den Einwirkungen von Sonne, Regen und Wind an einem bestimmten Ort überlässt, bezieht er bewusst den Zufallsmoment in sein Werk mit ein. Der spielerische und doch konzeptionell strenge Prozess ist eine Metapher für die Vergänglichkeit alles Körperlichen. Falls' symbiotische Arbeit mit der Natur und ihren Elementen macht Referenzen an die Technik des Fotogramms und an die Land Art deutlich. Damit verbindet er so verschiedene Medien wie Fotografie, Skulptur und Malerei und schließt die Kluft zwischen Künstler, Objekt und Betrachter.