There was a time when a person would pick up an instrument to compose yet another song for a loved one. A sad figure humming into a microphone, pronouncing the most basic words and forms to convey quantity, quality, fact,

We see women looking at art, everything an exhibition has to offer: paintings, sculptures, installations. If we’re women, then one could say they’re women looking at women looking at art.

Georg Frauenschuh (geb. 1979) verbindet in seiner Malerei einen persönlichen Standpunkt mit einer diskursiven Herangehensweise. In seinem bis 2015 vorwiegend abstrakten Œuvre tauchen in jüngster Zeit vermehrt figurative Sujets auf.

Lieselott Beschorner blickt auf gut 70 Jahre künstlerisches Schaffen und auf eine fast ebenso lange Mitgliedschaft in der Wiener Secession zurück, in die sie 1951 als eine der ersten Frauen aufgenommen wurde.

"For my artist's book for the Secession, I reproduced my diary calendar from 1986, the year I was eighteen. The calendar is full of dense handwritten entries that obsessively revolve around questions of my identity. Finding myself was what it was about.
"Als Künstlerbuch für die Secession reproduziere ich meinen Tagebuchkalender von 1986, aus dem Jahr, in dem ich 18 war. Der Kalender ist eng handschriftlich beschrieben und verhandelt Fragen zu meiner Identität im Dauerloop.


Which man? Daniel, Olli, Arnd? My math teacher? No one? Passages that now strike me as too private were blacked out in the process. Today's digital trace masks the analogue trace from decades ago. The censorship becomes a graphical addition, a drawing that pulls together the two different periods of time, separated by thirty-three years." (Alexandra Bircken)
Die Suche war das Thema. Welcher Mann? Daniel, Olli, Arnd? Mein Mathelehrer? Keiner? Subjektiv als zu privat empfundene Passagen wurden im Prozess nachträglich geschwärzt. Die digitale Spur von heute legt sich über die analoge von damals. Die Zensur wird zu einem zeichenhaften Zusatz, einer Zeichnung, der die beiden Zeitebenen, die 33 Jahre auseinander liegen, zusammenzurrt." (Alexandra Bircken)
Berlin 2019, 216 pages, 11 x 15,5 cm, Flexocover, English

QUEER TIME — ASYMPTOPES OF ARTICULATION is about moving through queer time and language, modular and folding, communities, communal, traces, memories, collapsing and building.

Kate Newby’s works celebrate the moments in which they are created and presented; at the same time, they are open to change. Drawn from impressions collected when navigating cities and landscapes, her sculptures and interventions foreground process:

Die antikolonialen und antirassistischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts gingen mit künstlerischen und theoretischen Gegenentwürfen zur Exklusivität der westlichen Moderne einher.

Ein Buch über 1971 und die Zeit davor, Freiheit als Bild, die Materialität eines Übergangs, Musik, Sexualität und was ein aus Italien kommender, in Kairo geborener crooner in Berlin verliert: Ricky Shayne

Body. Listening. Book. Library. Institution. How can art libraries be generative resources and sites of action for all who identify as queer, as women, as Black, as Indigenous, as people of colour? What does it mean to consider the art library as a collective practice that spans multiple scales?

In the Making: In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After. A Research-Based Practice is about the working method of the artist and exhibition maker Marion von Osten.

Tabea Blumenschein (1952–2020), Hilka Nordhausen (1949–1993) und Rabe perplexum (1956–1996) waren exzentrische Künstler*innen der achtziger Jahre – sie agierten abweichend von Normen und außerhalb des Zentrums im subkulturellen Milieu.

A Female Gaze explores the paintings and drawings of contemporary artist Caroline Walker through the lens of Laura Knight, arguably Nottingham's most famous artist and the first woman to be elected a Royal Academian.

"If it is somehow identifiable as part of a referential system, we immediately understand the meaning of a line on a piece of paper. A horizontal line will be easily read as a minus, an em dash or a way on a map, no matter how sloppily it is written or drawn."

"In a house you wanted to intrude, searching for a narrative you've detected between a character, images and photographs. I remember bumping against a floor lamp, causing its glow to waver briefly. Trying to ascertain the transmissions while already standing in front of objects that demand to be looked at."

The apparent primary goal of Eric’s treatise is to define something called ‘the Real’, with the help of a patchwork of theoretical materials drawn from contemporary mathematics, mathematical physics, ‘neurophysics’ and continental theory. Other topics in the text,

Forked Apologies gathers twenty-five texts by Michael Van den Abeele, all but two written on invitation by fellow artists and architects in the course of the last ten years. Drawings by Michael Van den Abeele of the concerned works and exhibitions accompany the texts. In fiction or description,

Surreal arrangements of artifacts from skulls and teapots to fried eggs and dirty socks by Théo Mercier. Théo Mercier (born 1984) employs found objects in his photography and sculpture to subvert viewers’ expectations. His inaugural monograph reveals the impressive scope of his oeuvre.

“Erasure is a visual depiction of the modernist erasure of graffiti. It is authored by X, the artist, and I merely the conceptual constructor of what X had innocently, non-artistically performed.” – Eldon Garnet

arbitrary presents the third in the “Black Box” series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.