Walter Benjamin: Dreams

Spring 2026

Edited with text by Burkhardt Lindner
With a preface by Caroline Adler and Jacob Bard-Rosenberg

Though published during his lifetime, Walter Benjamin’s dream notes and theoretical reflections on dreams are collected here for the first time in a single volume.

Dreams highlights a dimension of Benjamin’s thinking that was invaluable for his writing and thought but which has thus far received little attention. It is a comprehensive and chronological collection of Benjamin’s transcriptions of his own dreams and includes unpublished manuscript materials. The publication also features his theoretical reflections on dreams, ranging from short aphorisms and longer analyses of dream literature and the history of dreams to the political conception of a “dreaming collective” and its awakening.

Editor Burkhardt Lindner describes Benjamin’s literary approach to his own dreams in the epilogue and gives a sketch of Benjamin’s own definition of the dream sphere, independent of and in contrast to Surrealism and Freud’s interpretation of dreams.

design: Benedikt Reichenbach

Jack O’Brien: Cue the Cue

January 2026

with texts by Patricia L. Boyd and Josephine Pryde

ed. A. Wilmschen, Kestner Gesellschaft, to accompany the exhibition ‘Cue the Cue’

This publication accompanying the exhibition is Jack O’Brien’s first monograph. Conceived by the artist himself, it complements the exhibition in both form and content, and transfers his engaging practice into a different medium. O’Brien deals with themes such as staging, visibility, queer identity and the circular dynamic between consumption, body and performance. The title refers to the English “cue” – a theatrical cue – and at the same time to its repetition. This double meaning reflects O’Brien’s working method, in which material, form and gesture continually oscillate between suggestion and withdrawal, presence and dissolution.

The result is a monograph that was conceptually developed as an artist’s book and formally works with the moments of controlled instability that are so striking in the exhibition: floating, supported and warped.

design: Dan Solbach

Marina Abramović: On the Erotic

Spring 2026

with texts by Agnes Gryczkowska, Svetlana Racanovic, Silvia Federici, Audre Lorde, Mithu M. Sanyal, Elizabeth M. Stephens, Annie M. Sprinkle

part of the series The Practice by Gropius Bau

Erotik ist für Marina Abramović keineswegs auf die romantische Beziehung zwischen zwei Menschen beschränkt, sondern wirkt als kollektivie Kraft in viele Bereiche des Lebens hinein. Für die Performancekünstlerin muss erotische Energie durch künstlerische und politische Praxen zu einer öffentlichen Form finden, um nicht zu Gewalt und Krieg zu führen. In diesem Buch spricht Abramović über weibliche Sexualität nach der Menopause, über die Erotik des Masse und ihre Liebe zum Planeten.

design: Stoodio Santiago da Silva