kijk:papers 2011

From June 02 to 12 June 2011 we will show more than 80 books and editions of international artists at the art space Warte für Kunst in Kassel, Germany. In the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to explore the individual works in a relaxed atmosphere and talk to present participants. kijk:papers will be accompanied by book launches, lectures and artist talks.

June 02, 2011 – June 12, 2011

Warte für Kunst
Ausstellungsort und Experimentierfeld
für zeitgenössische Kunst
Frankfurter Straße 54
34121 Kassel / Germany

www.warte-kunst.de

kijk:papers is organized by Katrin Kamrau & Robert Schlotter / malenki.net in cooperation with Melanie Vogel / Warte für Kunst.

kijk:papers program

Sarah Carlier (BE) presenting her book ‘Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus’

Sarah Carlier studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL) and at the AKV | St. Joost in Breda (NL). She is using her medium to explore traditional ways of living together in the midst of our dynamic modern world. In her self-published book Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus she gives insight into the life of a family in Romania.

Thursday, June 02, 2011, 5pm

Marion Denis (DE) presenting her artist book ‘O.T.’

Marion Denis studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (DE). In 2010 she received a scholarship from the Arts Foundation of NRW. Marion is a member of the artist group kyep. O.T. is her first artist book published in an edition of 25 copies.

Thursday, June 02, 2011, 6pm

Talk with Maxwell Anderson (UK), Bruno Ceschel (UK), Anne Schwalbe (DE) and Laurence Vecten (FR)

On the occasion of the exhibition opening of kijk:papers Bruno Ceschel (Self Publish, Be Happy), Laurence Vecten (Lozen up / Publish it yourself), Anne Schwalbe (photographer) and Maxwell Anderson (photographer / Bemojake) discuss self-publishing from various perspectives.

Thursday, June 02, 2011, 7pm

Conrad Müller (DE) and Karsten Kronas (DE) are present

Conrad Müller studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (DE) and fine arts at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik. He currently lives in Berlin. Conrad’s work deals with the origins of things before their definition. His edition Fotografien 2006 – 2010 includes both figurative photographs such as still lifes and abstract pictures with a focus on color and space.

Karsten Kronas studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (DE) and at the Marmara University in Istanbul (TR). In 2009 he was assigned as city photographer in Koblenz, where he realized Schenkendorfstraße 1. Beyoğlu Blue, his atmospheric dense photographic narrative about Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district was published by Kehrer in 2010.

Friday, June 03, 2011, 3pm

Helena Schätzle (DE) presenting three book projects she realized in cooperation with the designers Lilly Nikolic and Eva Maria Kroder

Helena Schätzle studied visual communication and photography at the University of Kassel (DE) and at the University of Applied Sciences Hanover (DE). She is a laureate of gute aussichten – new german photography 2010/2011. With her handmade book Die Zeit dazwischen – 2621 Kilometer Erinnerung Helena was nominated for the International Photo Book Award 2011.

Friday, June 03, 2011, 4:30pm

Mitko Mitkov (BG) presenting books and upcoming projects of the 1%ofONE publishing house

The 1%ofONE publishing house was founded by Mitko Mitkov as a non-commercial publishing house in 2011. Mitko produces handmade artist books in very small editions and various printing techniques such as metal type or screen printing. Since 2009 he has been studying photography at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (DE).

Friday, June 03, 2011, 7pm

Marianne Hommersom (NL) is present

Marianne Hommersom studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent (BE). At the University of Antwerp (BE) she did a master in film theory. Scenes of wonder is her first artist book dedicated to her long-term project with the same name in which she examines the fragile interplay between man and nature.

Saturday, June 04, 2011, 3pm

Maarten Dings (NL) and Joachim Naudts (BE) presenting works and projects of the artist group RE:

Maarten Dings graduated from the KASK in Ghent (BE) with a Master degree in photography in 2008. With Joachim Naudts and Egon Van Herreweghe he founded the group RE: collective, in which the artists are working, publishing and curating shows together.

Saturday, June 04, 2011, 4pm

Debby Huysmans (BE) is present

Debby Huysmans studied photography at the KASK in Ghent (BE) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (BE). Sibir (2008 – 2010) is her fourth work realized on the edges of Europe. This self-published book documents the life and landscape near the rivers Yenisei and Lena in Siberia. In 2010 Debby Huysmans won the PDN Photo Annual Award, New York with Sibir.

Saturday, June 04, 2011, 4:30pm

Black coffee with malenki. Katrin Kamrau (DE) and Robert Schlotter (DE) presenting the platform malenki.net

Katrin Kamrau and Robert Schlotter both studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (DE). They founded the platform malenki.net in 2010.
Robert received scholarships of the DAAD and the Arts Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt for his project Beyond Cold War.
Katrin is a laureate of gute aussichten – new german photography 2010/2011. She currently lives in Antwerp (BE).

Sunday, June 05, 2011, 3:00 pm

Jezabel Baudo (DE) presenting her work ‘Gefühlte Acht Grad’

Jezabel Baudo studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (DE) and at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille (FR). In Gefühlte Acht Grad she works with photographs, self-written texts and found objects. The artist currently lives in Hamburg (DE).

Sunday, June 05, 2011, 4:00 pm

exhibition views

participants of the 2011 exhibition