Salon für Kunstbuch

Handmade is an ecstatic archive of synthetic handmade Artist’s books. Sequenced in no particular order, the project searches for meaning in the future tense through time, text, and touch. Using a combination of images and descriptions, the book chronicles not only a series of material proposals but also a visual discussion between the authors. Constructed entirely from text to AI generated images, the book works with collage at the granular level, speculating on what the form of a book might become when drawn from an impossibly broad archive of digital images.

What is the color of Milk? Is it white? Or almost white? The images in this book show forty colors of human milk. They have been drawn from found footage images representing breast milk and human milk.

The essay by Romana Sammern is addressing “Colors of Milk” in art history, Meredith Stone comments the film “Almost White” based on the colors of milk and the concept of “almost” and motherhood, and Anna Kathrin Bleuler and Michael Brauer reflect the meaning of white food in “Diner en blanc: The art of white dining dining in medieval and early modern aristocratic culture”. The “Milk Poem” by Irini Athanassakis is a result of her visit of the historic Milk Kitchen « Milchküche » in the legendary Semmelweis Frauenklinik in Vienna, one of the early «lactarium » institutions and questions milk as part of the human body transformed into a commodity.

Books not only describe their own content, but also the eras in which they were created.
Conceived as a color inventory, this publication brings together a selection of titles that I have worked with, exhibited and produced since the early 2000s. Many of these books came to me; I didn't look for them, I gave them a home. For me, books are an archive of ideas and their materialization, a representation of my engagement with the material world.
I value objects that can be held, exchanged and hidden. They allow me to view, negotiate and share art without having to search for the fetish of the original.
The collection does not display the most beautiful or best books of their time. It consists of art books on themes, colors and production techniques that have all piqued my interest in one way or another.
The objects in this book were collected, exhibited and re-contextualized in various forms as part of my long-term project Salon für Kunstbuch.
Some of them I have read, others have served as models for new works. I tracked them down, cataloged them, wove tapestries from their bindings and marked their ownership.
Books are objects that lead their own unique lives. (Edition of 100)

Queer Publishing - A Family Tree: The Queer Tree of Life maps the landscape of queer LGBTQ publishing between 1880 and 2019 in an international context.

Queer Publishing - A Family Tree:

Over 400 examples document the wealth of ideas in print of a culture that was clandestine until the 1970s.
The selected examples focus on identity and image constructions of queer lifestyles. Fanzines, self-publishing, academic discourse, research, porn, and artist books are presented as pioneers of a non-heteronormative self-understanding.

What happens to us and to our identity when we are forced into exile by hostility of any form, living conditions or armed conflict? Which psychosocial outcomes and cognitive dissonances are triggered by migration? What happens to us and to our identity when we are forced into exile by hostility of any form, living conditions or armed conflict? Which psychosocial outcomes and cognitive dissonances are triggered by migration?

THE OTHER IS ONESELF is a kaleidoscope of texts and images about the issues of escape and exile. The publication brings together literary testimonies, interviews, factual reports and, poetic, philosophical and socially critical writing on the subject and sheds light on the complexity of the phenomenon of migration and its impact upon individuals and society with the help of entirely personal perspectives from a range of periods and places.
The book forms part of a cultural initiative that was established in 2019 by the artist Sébastien de Ganay and that includes an exhibition, a film programme, a conference and an auction, the proceeds from which are supporting the work of Hilfswerk International with Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
A cooperation between artists, filmmakers, philosophers, academics, an NGO and civil society, THE OTHER IS ONESELF is an intellectual and cognitive community dedicated to cultural exchange, which reflects upon the fact that we all need the other, the alien, in order to exist as ourselves. The Other is Oneself!