Catalog

“Catalog” is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. It’s an artist’s book in serial form, published since 2016, currently on its 23rd issue. Issues of “Catalog” have been published to coincide with events, exhibitions and performances at San Serriffe Amsterdam, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Plan B Amsterdam, Colorama Berlin, IIIAA Berlin, Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, Offcourse Brussels, *rile Brussels, Offprint Paris, Tallinn Art Hall…

Lieven Lahaye (1985, Belgium) is an artist and publisher, interested in the value of ephemeral information and amateur practices. He produces printed matter, texts, objects and performances with the aim of cataloging, reactivating, highlighting and sharing information. He was an artist in residence at Air Berlin Alexanderplatz (2022) and WIELS (2023).

Ott Metusala (1988, Estonia) is a graphic designer with a focus on typography, book design and publishing. In addition to various self-initiated and commissioned projects, he is also co-managing the Bookbinding Workshop at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

Catalog 20 'Hard Sun', 2022

Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This is Catalog issue 20, ‘Hard Sun’, it’s part of a sub-series on near invisibility. Images in this Catalog were produced by exposure: to the sunlight of Athens, Brussels and Tallinn, and to the heat inside a Berlin apartment, between September 2021 and May 2022. Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Penny in the Fountain’ at VBKÖ, Vienna in July 2022.

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Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This is Catalog issue 17, ‘Introduction’, it’s part of a sub-series, researching the life, work and near invisibility of writer Duncan Smith (1954–1991).

‘Everybody wants exposure’ by Duncan Smith. Originally published in BOMB Magazine, Issue 10, Fall 1984. Republished in The Age of Oil (Slate Press, 1987). Reprinted here with permission.

‘Tracing Overexposure’ by Joke Robaard. Archive images selected and mapped in collaboration with Line Arngaard.

‘Impressed’ by Lieven Lahaye. Versions of this text were presented at IIIAA (Berlin, July 2019), Gerrit Rietveld Academie Library (Amsterdam, January 2020), Lugemik-Hulda Bookshop (Tallinn, July 2020), Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin, August 2020).

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