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Pictures Become Books The most beautiful exhibition catalogues of 2017 Bilder werden Bücher Die schönsten Ausstellungskataloge 2017

This selection of German titles is show-cased at book fairs all over the world on the German collective stands organized by the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2018.

______Photographs become Gurlitt: Status Report Pictures. Bestandsaufnahme Gurlitt Gerhard Richter Fotografien werden Bilder KUNST-UND AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE CHRISTOPH SCHREIER, MARTIN ENGLER DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND KUNSTMUSEUM BONN 2017, 256 pages, € 45.- GMBH, KUNSTMUSEUM BERN 2017, 128 pages, € 29.90 Hirmer Verlag, 978-3-7774-2773-7 2017, 348 pages, € 29.90 Hirmer Verlag, 978-3-7774-2897-0 Städel Museum, , Hirmer Verlag, 978-3-7774-2962-5 Kunstmuseum Bonn, 15/6–1/10/2017 27/4–13/8/2017 Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst 3/11/2017–11/3/2018, (S.M.A.K.) Gent, 21/10/2017–18/2/2018 World-famous artists Bernd and “Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences” Museum , 23/3–24/6/2018 Hilla Becher were the first people in Kunstmuseum Bern, Germany to teach photography as The exhibition in Bonn shows 25 2/11/2017–4/3/2018, an artistic medium. Since the 1980s, with which world renow- “” – confiscated and sold their teaching has been reflected ned Gerhard Richter laid the foun- in the work of internationally signi- The 1,500 works of art confiscated dations of his work from 1962 and ficant photographers, with large- from Cornelius Gurlitt in 2013 pose 1986. As such, they provide a key to format images showing networks of the question: are they or are they understanding his complete works. relationships, and forming concep- not looted art? The Bonn exhibition The images of curtains, windows tual series. The exhibition presents shows the findings of research into and doors are major pieces from about 200 photographs by Volker the origins of the works. Documents, New York, Budapest and Ghent, Döhne, Andreas Gursky, Candida photos and more tell the story of which play with the question of Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Jörg the art dealer , what shows us or hides Sasse, and Petra who was the procurer of art from us. And what of the depiction Wunderlich. for Hitler’s planned museum of art in in the medium and how this rela- . The Kunstmuseum Bern, which tes to the painted depiction of the is the inheritor of the Gurlitt collec- world, or how both these relate to tion, is showing works by Kirchner, reality? Nolde, Klee, Heckel and Dix, related to the story of the “Degenerate Art”. 1 ______New Chicago Splendour and Misery in The 14 Reader New Bauhaus Chicago the Der Reader From to Jeanne BAUHAUSARCHIV­ / Mammen QUINN LATIMER UND MUSEUM FÜR GESTALTUNG, Glanz und Elend in der ADAM SZYMCZYK 2017, 200 pages, € 39.90 Weimarer Republik 2017, 500 pages, € 49.80 Hirmer Verlag, 978-3-7774-2938-0 Verlag Walther König, Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design, INGRID PFEIFFER FÜR 978-3-96098-110-7 in Berlin, 15/11/2017–5/3/2018 SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT Athens and , 2017, 608 pages, € 49.90 11/4–17/9/2017 In 1937, László Moholy-Nagy foun- Hirmer Verlag, 978­-3­-7774­-2932­-8 ded the New Bauhaus in Chicago Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, The documenta 14 Reader con- and in so doing exerted a strong 27/10/2017–25/2/2018 tains essays, allegories, poems and influence on American photogra- historical legal documents addres- phy. In their first year, all the stu- This exhibition focuses on the era’s sing the concerns of the project, dents learned the basics of pho- hardships, which are evident in the including a reflection on sovereign tography and experimented with images and across the broad sty- national states, market economies, photomontage, photograms and listic spectrum. In these works, the democracy, and the communica- light painting. Famous teachers artists seem to have sensed the ine- tion of art. It should be taken as such as Harry Callahan, Aaron vitability of the failure of Germany’s a critical anthology that ponders Siskind and Arthur Siegel left their first democratic government. history in order to gain a clearer mark on generations of photogra- The varied themes addressed in this view of the present and reshape phers. The exhibition examines the exciting period – whose best known the future. The picture collections period from 1937 to 2001, and with representatives are Otto Dix, Georg illustrate the event’s broad tem- it a core aspect of the American Grosz and – include poral and geographical span, as contribution to post-war photo- a farewell to the , as delineated by the artists and other graphy. well as poverty, pleasure, emanci- actors. pation, the first economic miracle and a fascination with sport.

2 ______documenta 14: Daybook Gabriele Münter Wolfgang Tillmans documenta 14: Daybook Gabriele Münter Wolfgang Tillmans

QUINN LATIMER UND GABRIELE MÜNTER- UND JOHANNES WOLFGANG TILLMANS FÜR DIE ADAM SZYMCZYK EICHNER-STIFTUNG UND STÄDTISCHE FONDATION BEYELER, RIEHEN/BASEL 2017, 344 pages, € 35.- GALERIE IM LENBACHHAUS MÜNCHEN 2017, 304 pages, € 58.- Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5654-9 2017, 256 pages, € 39.95 Hatje Cantz Verlag, 978-3-7757-4328-0 Athens and Kassel, Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5704-1 The Beyeler Foundation, Riehen/Basel, 11/4–17/9/2017 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus 28/5–1/10/2017 und Kunstbau, Munich, 31/10/2017–8/4/2018 The Daybook imitates the diary This exhibition shows around 200 form, with each artist having been The Lenbachhaus is presenting the photographs taken between 1989 allotted a day in the calendar. most extensive exhibition of Gabriele and 2017 – almost three decades From the start of the documenta Münter’s work for 25 years. More than of work that counts among the in Athens till the final day in Kassel, half of the 130 paintings on show most important of contemporary documenta 14’s participants are have never been seen publicly, or only art. Tillmans was the first photo- introduced in poetic texts. The- in her own lifetime. And for the first grapher to win the Turner Prize se are accompanied by pictures time, her paintings are complemen- (2000), and the first to whom the selected by the artists, as well as ted with around 200 photographs Beyeler Foundation has devoted their recollections of events impor- which she took in 1899 and 1900, on an exhibition. He rapidly became tant for their work. As such, it is a her visit to the USA. Just twenty-two popular in the early 1990s with many-layered universe of artists at the time, she demonstrated an im- works that were seen as historical through whose letters and associ- pressive feeling for complex compo- documents of an adolescence ative words we can read our way sitions. These images and composi- and a feeling of youth. These were into the minds of the documenta tions were a precursor to many of the followed by experiments with and makers. things for which Münter later became without a camera, and with a pho- acclaimed. tocopier. ______Matisse – Bonnard Anita Rée Matisse – Bonnard Paul Klee Retrospektive

FELIX KRÄMER FÜR ANNA SZECH FÜR DIE FONDATION KARIN SCHICK, HAMBURGER STÄDEL MUSEUM, FRANKFURT BEYELER, RIEHEN/BASEL KUNSTHALLE 2017, 240 pages, € 49.95 2017, 200 pages, € 58.- 2017, 204 pages, € 39.95 Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5631-0 Hatje Cantz Verlag, 978-3-7757-4330-3 Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5710-2 Städel Museum, Frankfurt, The Beyeler Foundation, Riehen/Basel, Kunsthalle, 6/10/2017–4/2/2018 9/13/2017–1/14/2018 1/10/2017–21/1/2018 The Hamburg Kunsthalle is coun- Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard Paul Klee was one of the most influ- tering the myths surrounding Anita were two of the most famous re- ential painters of European moder- Rée with a retrospective encom- presentatives of French modernism. nism. His works have been shown in passing 200 works. Her dark repu- The friendship between these fellow many exhibitions, but this is the first tation stems from pictorial analyses artists lasted for over 40 years. Each to deal comprehensively with Klee’s as well as the biographical detail took an intense approach to the approach to abstraction. Four the- that she took her own life before same themes: interiors, , land- mes contribute to a common thread she was 50. Hard to pin down, her scapes and above all female nudes. through Klee’s art. These are nature, style is a mixture of traditional and With 120 canvasses filled with light architecture, painting and alphabe- modern, borrowing as much from and colours, as well as , tic characters, and their forms vary New Objectivity and as drawings and graphic works, the between the semi-figurative and from the early Renaissance. This exhibition brings the two painters abstract. In these, new links emerge, exhibition rehabilitates an artist into a dialogue, vividly demonstra- both to Klee’s contemporaries and who is interesting and diverse as ting their mutual influence. to later generations. well as curious and intellectual. 3 ______Thomas Struth – Axel Hütte James Rosenquist Figure Ground Axel Hütte James Rosenquist

THOMAS WESKI U. ULRICH WILMES BEAT WISMER FÜR MUSEUM KUNST- STEPHAN DIEDERICH, FÜR HAUS DER KUNST MÜNCHEN PALAST DÜSSELDORF/ YILMAZ DZIEWIOR 2017, 320 pages, € 68.- MUSEUM QUADRAT BOTTROP 2017, 336 pages, € 49.95 Schirmer/Mosel, 978-3-8296-0810-7 2017, 368 pages, € 68.- Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5723-2 Haus der Kunst, Munich, Verlag Walther König, 978-3-96098-242-5 Museum Ludwig, , 5/5/2017–7/1/2018 Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, 18/8/2017– 18/11/2017–4/3/2018 7/1/2018 (An exhibition by the Art Library ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, The photographic artist captures of the Berlin State Museums) Dates uncertain 14/4–19/8 2018 aspects of reality that we rarely see – from primeval forests to high-tech Axel Hütte is one of the most impor- The museum presents the work research – in giant format photos. tant representatives of the Dusseldorf of this important American pop Hardly any other contemporary Ger- School of Photography. Architecture artist including some material that man photographer has such a broad and landscapes form the core of has not previously been exhibi- range of subject matter. This show in his work. He finds his subject matter ted. The room installation F-111, an Munich, with about 130 photos and in the urban character of big cities, icon of the era, underlines two video installations, is his biggest among glaciers and in the South Rosenquist’s interest in the social retrospective to date. For the first American rainforest. The first exhibi- and political events of his time. In time, it brings together unseen early tion shows 70 large-format photo- this, he places the F-111 jet fighter, photos with archive material that graphs created between 1995 and which was still being developed at underscores the longstanding ideas 2017. In part, these are new night and the time, next to pictures of eve- behind his work and shows the pro- day images being presented for the ryday American consumerism. The cess of creation. first time. The Early Works exhibition, work envelops the viewer on all meanwhile, shows portraits of his col- sides such that they plunge into the leagues from the years following 1978. picture. ______Working on History Otto Dix Art for All Arbeiten in Geschichte Otto Dix Kunst für alle

LUDGER DERENTHAL, YU ZHANG FÜR KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN- TOBIAS G. NATTER, MAX HOLLEIN, DAS MUSEUM FÜR FOTOGRAFIE BERLIN WESTFALEN, K 20 DÜSSELDORF KLAUS ALBRECHT SCHRÖDER 2017, 160 pages, € 38.- 2017, 240 pages, € 49,95 2016, 416 pages, € 50.- Kerber Verlag, 978-3-7356-0385-2 Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5630-3 Taschen Verlag, 978-3-8365-3921-0 Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, 18/8/2017– Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 6/7–3/10/2016 7/1/2018 (An exhibition by the Art Library K20, Dusseldorf, 11/2–28/5/2017 (extended) Due to the fascination with Japa- of the Berlin State Museums) Tate Liverpool, 23/6–15/10/2017 nese coloured , this oldest The Cultural Revolution left its mark Otto Dix, famous painter and infamous of printing processes experienced on half a century of . terror of the middle classes, spent three a renaissance around 1900, espe- This exhibition shows the event intensively creative years in Dusseldorf, cially in Vienna. The artists who took through the prism of historical and from the autumn of 1922 until November to the technique with enthusiasm contemporary photographs. The 1925. As a member of the revolutiona- and modernised it included many former provide a picture of the ry art school „Das Junge Rheinland“ members of the Viennese Secession Cultural Revolution and its reper- (Young Rhineland), he developed the movement. Because of its replicabi- cussions, while at the same time critical style that makes him unmistaka- lity and easy availability, woodblock illustrating photography as a me- ble in 20th century . The first printing was ideally suited to their dium of propaganda by revealing monographic exhibition on this period concept of “Art for All”. This contri- censorship and photomontage. contains around 200 paintings, water buted much to the development colours and graphic works taken from of a new imagery which already German and international collections. pointed towards . 4 ______Ulay Photography Workshop Ulay Katharina Sieverding Werkstatt für Photographie

MATTHIAS ULRICH KUNST- UND AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE FLORINA EBNER, MAX HOLLEIN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND FELIX HOFFMANN, INKA SCHUBE 2016, 274 pages, € 45.- 2016, 256 pages, € 45.- 2016, 392 pages, € 39.80 Spector Books, 978-3-9590-5111-8 Hirmer Verlag, 978-3-7774-2837-6 Walther König, 978-3-96098-043-8 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 13/10/2016–18/1/2017 11/3–16/7/2017 “The Rebellious Image”. Situation 1980: The Kreuzberg The Schirn is presenting the first Sieverding is one of the inter- “Photography Workshop” and the youth ever major overview this extraor- nationally renowned artists who scene of Folkwang, 9/12/2016–19/2/2017 dinary artist’s work. On show are rejuvenated photography at an C/O Berlin “Kreuzberg – America”. works specially conceived for the early stage through an unconven- The Berlin Photography Workshop exhibition, as well as many which tional selection of images. As one 1976–86, 10/12/2016–12/2/2017 have been held back for years and of the few women in the German Hannover, will be now seen for the first time. art scene, she has enjoyed success “And Suddenly this Distance”, Ulay prefers working with Polaroids. since the early 1970s. Large-format 10/12/2016–19/3/2017 The instant photos provide the ma- photography was a feature of her terial for his efforts at a representa- work, even before this became Through cooperation between the tion of life. With his former partner more widely used. Her photo series different cities these museums have Marina Abramović, he successfully are an expression of her reflections created a three-part exhibition on expanded performance art in a on identity, the individual and the the rise of photography. Based on way that today sets the standards situation of the world in general. the Berlin Photography Workshop, for that genre. whose 40th anniversary this show marks, as well as the young scene in Essen, the exhibition provides an ______answer to the success story of the Clemens von Wedemeyer Battle of the Sexes Dusseldorf School. It describes for Clemens von Wedemeyer Geschlechterkampf the first time the history, influence and impacts of the Berlin institution HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE, FELIX KRÄMER and its key figures, such as Otto HUBERTUS GASSNER, PETRA ROETTIG 2016, 336 pages, € 49.95 Steinert and Ute Eskildsen, in the 2016, 256 pages, € 34.- Prestel Verlag, 978-3-7913-5572-6 1970s and 1980s. Spectormag GbR, 978-3-95905-102-6 Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 30/9/2016–8/1/2017 24/11/2016–19/3/2017

The museum is showing the first ma- A timeless subject: the tense relations jor exhibition of this film and video between men and women, and the artist. Among other works presented artistic representations of this. The will be “Muster” (“Pattern”), his contri- curators examined the way art has bution to documenta 13, which heral- reflected changing gender roles, from ded his international breakthrough in the beginning of the first women’s mo- 2012. This documents the changing vement in the 19th century to the end history of the Benedictine monastery of the Second World War. In so doing of Breitenau, near Kassel. For the ins- they concentrate on the artistic schools tallation, as if in a journey through time, of symbolism and . Some 150 on three projection screens he melds paintings, photographs, sculptures and together images of the building’s past films address the themes of the femme uses as a cloister, prison, concentrati- fatale, seduction, emancipation, edu- on camp and labour camp for girls. cation and sexuality. 5 ______Gregor Schneider Kandinsky, Marc & Planning and Gregor Schneider organisation: Kandinsky, Marc & Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH ULRICH LOOCK Der Blaue Reiter Braubachstraße 16 2016, 272 pages, € 64.- D-60311 Frankfurt am Main Distanz Verlag, 978-3-95476-178-4 ULF KÜSTER FÜR DIE FONDATION book-fair.com Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, BEYELER buchmesse.de 2/12/2016–19/2/2017 2016, 188 pages, € 58.- ______Hatje Cantz Verlag, 978-3-7757-4168-2 Selection, title annotations: Schneider provokes. His fascinati- The Beyeler Foundation, Riehen/Basel, Caroline Keller, Leipzig on is for religious centres, prisons, 4/9/2016–22/1/2017 family homes, a death chamber. ______He replicates them and rearran- In Germany, modernism began in Translation: ges them; he contravenes self- Munich with Der Blaue Reiter Alastair Penny, Brussels perception and spatial perception. (The Blue Rider) at a time when the ______His installation for the in city was a hotspot of the artis- Design, setting: Venice, „Totes Haus u r Venedig tic avant-garde. In 1912, Wassily weirauch-mediadesign.de 2001“, earned him the Golden Lion. Kandinsky and publis- For this exhibition, he has designed hed their almanac under the same ______a course leading through his most name and organised a related With support from: important works, from early pain- exhibition. Now, 30 works from the Federal Foreign Office tings and action art from the 1980s, original show can be seen in one ______via “TOTES HAUS u r”, up to his room, together with the almanac Contact newer works based on culturally or and accompanied by other works For questions, please contact historically significant buildings. from major galleries, including Bärbel Becker, rarely seen masterpieces from the E-mail: [email protected], USA and Russia by Gabriele Münter, Phone: +49 (0) 69 2102 258 and Alexej book-fair.com/german_collective_stands von Jawlensky. ______© Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2018 No reproduction without prior per- mission of the publisher.

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