Unica Zürn: Albums – Books and Sketchbooks offers an intimate view into the working universe of Unica Zürn, focusing on her notebooks, albums, and sketchbooks

rather than on finished, isolated works. These materials reveal a practice in which drawing, writing, and notation are inseparably intertwined.

Zürn’s albums function as autonomous artistic spaces where image and language unfold in parallel. Dense line drawings, symbolic figures, and rhythmic patterns coexist with handwritten texts, fragments, and annotations. The pages document processes of automatism, repetition, and transformation, reflecting Zürn’s sustained engagement with Surrealist strategies and with the act of drawing as a form of psychic and poetic articulation.

Rather than presenting a linear narrative, the publication foregrounds the album as a site of continuous production and self-observation. Zürn’s sketchbooks emerge as places of concentration and intensity, where form, thought, and gesture are negotiated in real time. By bringing together these rarely accessible materials, the book provides insight into Zürn’s artistic methodology and underscores the central role of the album in her work as both process and artwork.