Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee/Fotobuch

Over the course of two semesters 2023/2024 at weißensee school of art and design, the photographer Andreas Rost and the photobook-scholar Dr. Mareike Stoll were teaching a class on photobooks, using the schools bookbinding and print workshops. The participating students created fantastic books as a result, and we would like to present them to a larger audience at MISS READ. This would provide the students from various departments in the school with the opportunity to network and show their work, but to also expand their scope of contact: MISS READ would provide them with the opportunity to learn from indipendent publishers and see (and leaf through) books that they could otherwise not have access too. To be present as exhibitors would strengthen their agency and place in the publishing world. We intend to show 5-8 books created in the class.
The books all have a different focus, and many of them touch on the question of identity and artistic expression thereof, belonging to or being read as belonging to a so-called minority in our current society: the books cover research through photography in Namibia for a German-African student, memories of childhood and coming of age in a Russian-speaking country in the 1990s, the portrait of trees for a student who grew up in Iceland and explores the language of trees and roots and images, but also encompassing experimental printing techniques and expanding the boundaries of the book.