Forthcoming

Henrike Naumann: CONCEPTS

fall 2023

Central to her practice, creating a concept always marks the start to develop a new work. Informed by her dense and exceptional research, these conceptual ‘papers’ function as the critical ‘work-ground’, before they turn into sculptures, installations and artistic interventions. They further expand, become working notes, project proposals or discursive statements.

Developed by Naumann as an artist book, this massive (sic) publication brings together almost 400 images and 100 concepts in her own words, ranging from the beginning of her practice to the latest installations. With many unrealized or never published project ‚papers‘, CONCEPTS also developed into a rare record and documentation of Naumann’s critical thought, writing and working process.

design by Johannes Büttner

Walter Benjamin: Dreams

Feb 2024

Edited with text by Burkhardt Lindner

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 It is a comprehensive and chronological collection of Benjamin’s transcriptions of his own dreams and includes unpublished manuscript materials.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.

Viscose 05: Retail
(distribution collaboration)

Oct 2023

Co-edited with Camila Palomino
Co-published by Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC)

contributions by Leah Pires, Jeppe Ugelvig, Leah Weirer, Luis Ortega, Anastasia Howe Bukowski, Rhonda Lieberman, Museum of Modern Shopping, Ignacio Gatica, Harun Farocki, Marge Monko, Michael Bullock, Cheuk Ng, Andreas Petrossiants, Christian Hincapié, Alice Sarmiento, Canal Street Research, Sean Vegezzi, Dennis Brzek, Matthew Linde, Felix Burrichter, Juje Hsiung and Noah Dillon, Anna Franceschini, ILFR, Evie Ward and Jessica Kwok

Viscose is an ad-free journal for genre- defying fashion thinking.
The fifth issue of Viscose explores fashion’s multifaceted retail spaces and cultures. With the evolution of shopping in the long 20th century as its focus, the issue looks at the shop as a central nexus where communities are continuously produced and re-imagined through commerce, and always in response to larger societal changes.

With a special attention to the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics (particularly relating to gentrification and surveillance), the issue seeks out histories of projects—often developed with or by artists—that have embraced the shop as a medium of both possibility and contestation.

school: Object #10 

fall 2023

In celebration of more than ten years of work, the space and collective school is releasing Object #10, a very special book/LP set with dear artists.

Thinking about a format that would translate the performativity of school‘s events rather than illustrate what has happened, they decided to focus on the voice as an important performative tool and as a live messenger of text. The series of interviews and conversations they initiated stems from their believe in the importance of strangers talking to each other.

As queer-feminist strategies, post-colonial conditions and possibilities of sustainable activism are school‘s cornerstones that nourish their political and private lives, the outcome of the conversations resulted in important and particular exchanges, no matter if on a completely personal or political level.

with Nadir Souirgi, Stanya Kahn, Tyler Cala, Wally Salner, Anahita Asadifar, Pille-Riin Jaik, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, Freedom Gospel Club, Firas Shehadeh, Raed Yassin, Phillip Sollmann, Yasmina Haddad, Pope Sangreta, Scott Mou, A group of Iranian artists, Roozbeh Gholami, Julia Grosse, Hanna Schwarz, Nils Amadeus Lange, Philipp Furtenbach

ed. by Yasmina Haddad and Andrea Lumplecker, design by Johnny Graf

Jimmy Robert: Call and Response

fall 2023

The artist record Call and Response brings together sound works which were developed around Jimmy Robert’s performances and exhibitions. Created by him, but also in collaboration with Ain Bailey, Emma Hedditch, Jane Ellison, Rosa Barba, they give insights in the particularity of sound in his work, while also extend the exhibition and site-specific format.

The record was conceived by Nadja Quante and the Künstlerhaus Bremen following the exhibition la musique dans la chambre, which took place there in 2022. It addressed the question of how his performance works can continue to be shown apart from being performed again in exhibitions: How can one approach a performance work anew without re-staging it?

The exhibition focused particularly on sound and brought together videos, works on paper, as well as sculptural elements and sound created in the framework of his performances. Call and Response gives now the opportunity to experience some of these elements in other settings and expands what a spatial exhibition set-up can offer. 

with work by Ain Bailey, Emma Hedditch, Jane Ellison, Rosa Barba, Jimmy Robert, an introduction by Nadja Quante and an essay by Mason Leaver-Yap

released in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Bremen and Apparent Extent, design by Wolfe Hall