KHB Bücherregal

The mobile KHB bookshelf (Das KHB Bücherregal)

The KHB bookshelf is an open format curated by the Kunsthalle Below and is located in the KHBstudios Berlin.The KHB Kunsthalle Below also organises residency programmes, art exhibitions, art education events and conferences and is a project by visual artist Stefie Steden. Since 2024, book artists have had the opportunity to permanently exhibit and sell their artist books at KHBstudios Berlin. Various artist books are selected from the current shelf contents and sent on tour as a mobile KHB bookshelf. All works are self-published books in small print runs. The publications deal with political iconography, spatial conflicts and visual politics. New spaces for public discourse are opened up through artistic exchange.

The travelling artist books are by:
Ayumi Rahn, Hagen Klennert, Jiya You, Juliane Winkler, Kathrin Wildner, Keyun Tu, Laura Mahnke, Mirjam Winkler, N. Grindell, Yuki Jungesblut.

The mobile KHB bookshelf is represented by book artists Mirjam Winkler and Juliane Winkler.

Juliane Winkler, Tatsächlich/In fact, self-published, 2025, © Juliane Winkler

In fact. Documentary images and cut-ups from news channels. Selected, transformed and reassembled. Familiar and blurred between fact and fiction.

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Mirjam Winkler, Nach 45, self-published, 2025, © Mirjam Winkler

Images are generally regarded as a means of conveying content. Photographs that have become ingrained in the collective memory over the years sometimes become frozen as pure icons. They become smooth and impenetrable. Unshakeable.

The period after 1945 was marked by upheaval and the dismantling of entrenched structures. In my series ‘nach 45’ (after 45), I work with selected historical photographs, which I translate into drawings. This brings into focus not only “what” the image tells us, but also ‘how’ it does so, the personal expression. It opens up the narrative and offers space for reflection.

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While mapmaking is on everyone's lips as mapping, map reading has so far played hardly any role in the critical analysis of urban spaces. Yet reading maps is central to the production of spatial knowledge. What does it mean to read existing maps together? How can cartographic discourses be dismantled and new meanings created in the process?

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