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Isabel Pauer (born 1965, Master student of Katharina Grosse, lives in Berlin) draws momentary scenes as if they were film stills: there is a before and an after. Every individual experience in the present is shaped by associations with the past and a projected future. Pauer brings all of this into the image simultaneously, thus opening her compositions in multiple directions. These exquisite new prints on Hahnemühle paper, Sehen, was kommt (Seeing What’s Coming) and Vier Richtungen (Four Directions), are based on Pauer’s signature pencil drawings on oil.

Limited artist's edition, fine art print on Hahnemühle

Von 2019 bis 2025 fanden im nova space, der Universitätsgalerie der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 21 Projekte statt, die in diesem Band in Bild und Text dokumentiert sind. Als Experimentierfeld und Begegnungsraum verband nova internationale Künstler:innen, Studierende, Lehrende und Öffentlichkeit unter der enthusiastischen Regie der Kuratorin Katharina Wendler. Deren Essay gibt Einblick in die spezifische Geschichte dieser mobilen und interdisziplinären Galerie, ihr Programm sowie die fortlaufende Entwicklung neuer kuratorischer Formate. Der 21. Akt von nova space ist eine Ausstellung in Buchform, zu der Künstler:innen, Architekt:innen, Gestalter:innen,Typograf:innen und Regisseur:innen eingeladen wurden, zum Thema BOOM! – Inspiration war das Motiv der Supernova – frei zu assoziieren.

KÜNSTLER:INNEN: U. A. LAURA ABERHAM, MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL, ZUZANNA CZEBATUL, BJÖRN DAHLEM, DAVID DIAO, HANNAH SOPHIE DUNKELBERG, NADINE FECHT, LIAM GILLICK, JANA GUNSTHEIMER, NSCHOTSCHI HASLINGER, STEF HEIDHUES, JUDITH HOPF, VERENA ISSEL, CHRISTIN KAISER, IAN KIAER, RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, VERA KOX, SCHIRIN KRETSCHMANN, YUTAKA MAKINO, STEFAN MARX, ERIC MEIER, AD MINOLITI, BRUCE NAUMAN, PRINZ GHOLAM, HANNAH RATH, KARIN SANDER, FETTE SANS, KATRIN STEIGER, JAN TICHY, WOLFGANG TILLMANS, IGNACIO URIARTE, ROBIN WAART, YOUNG BOY DANCING GROUP, FRANCIS ZEISCHEGG, KARLA ZIPFEL U. V. M.

LONGLIST „Schönste Deutsche Bücher 2026“ der Stiftung Buchkunst

Buchpräsentation & Kuratorinnengespräch am 19. Juni 2026 um 18 Uhr in der Hansabibliothek Berlin

The German sculptor Bettina Buck (1974-2018) called attention to herself with her “performative sculptures,” which she often presented vis-à-vis museal objects. Buck’s preferred materials came from the hardware store: corrugated cardboard, ceramic tiles, pressed foam, or plastic foil, which are all not meant to last. Out of these materials she created a kind of changeable and transient “protagonists,” who didn’t have a final form but rather emphasized the actual process of finding form (as well as losing form). In a provocative action in 2014, Buck dragged an oversized foam bloc through a museum collection and let it rest next to famous artworks, which gained a new dynamic in this interplay. Buck herself said once that her works were meant to “simultaneously attract and alienate the viewer.” In the exhibition space the objects should “create a tremor, a vibration and a conversation with its surroundings.”

Finding Form, a posthumous monograph, presents Bucks complete sculptural works on over 300 pages and contains texts by Phyllida Barlow, Paolo Icaro, Cecilia Canziani, and Andrea Maria Popelka. The book was conceived and published by the artist’s estate, Bureau Bettina Buck.

Bettina Buck is be featured in 2026 with a work in Chiara Camoni’s presentation at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

Isabel Pauer (born 1965, Master student of Katharina Grosse, lives in Berlin) draws momentary scenes as if they were film stills: there is a before and an after. Every individual experience in the present is shaped by associations with the past and a projected future. Pauer brings all of this into the image simultaneously, thus opening her compositions in multiple directions. These exquisite new prints on Hahnemühle paper, Sehen, was kommt (Seeing What’s Coming) and Vier Richtungen (Four Directions), are based on Pauer’s signature pencil drawings on oil.

Limited artist's edition, fine art print on Hahnemühle

The Austrian artist Stefan Reiterer (born 1988, lives in Vienna) transfers digital maps and satellite images into analog physical space through abstract painting. He manipulates data from sources such as Google Earth or NASA, transforming them into illusory topologies and pseudo-cartographies to challenge our perception. What is recognized, discovered, rejected? Where is the viewer’s location? Andrea Kopranovic writes of Reiterer’s painted emptiness as a “pitting” and projection surface “for glitches, black holes, and abysses” and a metaphor for potential “interpretations, enrichments, and yet unimagined spaces of possibility.” This richly illustrated book documents Reiterer’s 2025 exhibition at the Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf.