KD seminar by prof. Line-Gry Hørup
w. Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister

Artist books created by students of HfG and Kunstakademie Karlsruhe

26.4 – 18.7 2024

Attending the graduation show of the Staatliche Akademie der Künste(AKA), I speculated on reasons as to why there aren’t any prosperous connections between Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe(HfG) and AKA.

The seminar attempted to make new connections across the bridge between art and design, and prompt genuine alternatives of the designer’s range in a colophon.

A precursor was a workshop by designer and editor, Matthew Stuart titled: To Bookmark / To Table / To Triangulate. Together with studio and editing partner Andrew Walsh–Lister, they hosted a day of mid-critiques.

Andrew was part of the curatorial team for the current exhibition: Lily Greenham: An Art of Living, at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe. A two-day symposium on the exhibition was part of the seminar, so was a guided tour of Kunstakademie Karlsruhe and critique sessions by The Swedish Method.

Catalogue:

Act — Mara Olschowka

Mara’s studio is her workspace where she writes and paints yet it’s the space where all her finished paintings are kept. The paintings are stacked upside down on the wall so that they don’t distract her from the works she’s currently working on. When I visited Mara in her studio I asked her if I could take a look at her stored paintings – that’s when she started the act.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Jana Trampert 

Format: 11 x 21 cm
Pages: 88
Language: English
Edition: 1

2024 © Paintings and texts by
Mara Olschowka

Photos by
Lucia Böhm and Jana Trampert 

Co-editing by
Neele Seidel 

Binding by
Mara Olschowka and Jana Trampert 

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

Format: 24 x 28,5 cm
Pages: 100
Language: German
Edition: 9 (Screen Print Edition)

2024 © Work by
Robin Ogunmuyiwa and Jakob Seckinger

Photography by
Jakob Seckinger and Jesse Schmeller

Proofreading by
Marlon Olbrich

Printed and bound at
HfG Karlsruhe, Tjark Schönfeld

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

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Am Ende des Tages — Robin Ogunmuyiwa, Jakob Seckinger

Robin Ogunmuyiwa has written all contributions specifically for this book. Each text is routed in one corresponding work of Jakob Seckinger but becomes autonomous yet sometimes traces are still attributable. At the end of the day image and text are in dialogue and on equal footing. 

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Jesse Schmeller

But it is now time to depart – for me to die, for you to live — Ivana Heckmanns

Three works by Ivana Heckmanns are brought together in the form of a publication. The images, which are already subdivided in her artistic process, are framed anew. The reproduction centers on the details of the paintings, while folds reveal parts of the original composition.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Nils Bergmann

Format: 28,7 x 20,5 cm
Pages: 30
Language: English
Edition: 10

2024 © Artworks by
Ivana Heckmanns.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

Format: 20 x 28,7 cm
Pages: 59
Language: English
Edition: 2

2024 © Artworks by
Raeyoung Kim.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

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I’mmortal — Raeyoung Kim

I visited the place I’ll be moving into. And I met Raeyoung there. She is about to graduate and soon leave for South Korea. I recorded conversations about her life and artwork, and archived her artworks into a book.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Minjung Kim

Flatware — Paul F. Millet

This artist’s book is the result of a reflection on the non-representation of objects and research during an exhibition. This « anti-catalogue » illustrates the stages antecedents and preceding a work of art. Here we can contemplate portraits of transport crates made by the artist himself, named as fermentation boxes. This photographic series by Julian Jaffé is complemented by a documentation of around thirty collages and photography by Paul F. Millet, revealing a few clues about the contents of these wooden quadrilaterals.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Julian Jaffé

Format: 28,3 x 20,3 cm
Pages: 176
Language: French, English
Edition: 12

2024 © All images courtesy of
Paul F. Millet and Julian Jaffé.

Artworks by
Paul F. Millet

Photography by
Julian Jaffé

Binding by
Julian Jaffé and Paul F. Millet

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

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Format: 11 x 21 cm
Pages: 88
Language: English
Edition: 1

2024 © Artworks by
Areum Yoon.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

Dialogue — Areum Yoon

This book records two types of conversations we had. We talked about spaces, particularly the concept of home. At the same time, we engaged in abstract conversations composed solely of fragments of images and text. This book focuses on the interactions within each conversation and between the two types of conversations.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Jinhyung Hur

Hinges On Our Stillness — MuMa

Hinges On Our Stillness is a poetry book through which still unpublished poems by the Italian artist and writer MuMa, Martina Musio, travelled from Rome to Karlsruhe, morphing to intertwine with a new place, context and language. This newly composed text opens a space for critical reflection on contemporary events, language and societal constructs. Furthermore, the writing voice monologues about building a new collectivity over institutionalised alterity, whilst a narrator guides the English- and German-speaking reader into a pathway parallel to the Italian text.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Isabella Panigada

Format: 13 x 23 cm
Pages: 30
Language: English, German, Italian
Edition: 2

2024 © Text and concept by
Martina Musio and Isabella Panigada.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

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Format: 15 x 21 cm
Pages: 88
Language: English
Edition: 4

2024 © All artworks by
Nao Kikuchi.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

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a.f.a.i.r. (as far as I remember) — Nao Kikuchi

This publication is an exhibition in form of a booklet curated by Dshamilja Tükerek and Nao Kikuchi, presenting Kikuchi’s works produced between 2021 and 2024, along with her own photographs of architectural motifs as a source of inspiration. Her work reinterprets the spatiality of architecture through various dimensions and levels of development. From digital photographs, shot by the gaze of a flâneur, the street fragment travels out of the material world into the internal, into the drawing, and finds its way back into the world as a ceramic object.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Dshamilja Tükerek

o.T. — Clara Vivian Stang

The publication contains a collection of painted faces. All the images are cut to the portraits in order to make drastically visible what can hardly be hidden – a face and its facial expressions. What happens is a revelation of the inner being and an opening up of questions to which there are almost no answers.

Design, Concept, Edit, Printing — Paula Klotzki

Format: 17 x 22 cm
Pages: 186
Language: German
Edition: 3

2024 © Paintings and Poems by
Clara Vivian Stang.

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024

monumental circles — Sarah Albrecht & Ines Bohnert

The work deals with spaces of memory and how different generation-specific groups deal with them: What is repeated? What remains in the moment? Is remembering a cycle or a sequence?

Size: 60 x 80 cm
Material: birch wood, polypropylen, silk
Language: German
Edition: 1

2024 © Artistic work by
Sarah Albrecht and Ines Bohnert 

Texts by
Sarah Albrecht

Photography by
Sarah Albrecht and Ines Bohnert 

Wood construction by
Ines Bohnert and Susanne Schmitt 

Roof construction by
Ines Bohnert and Lukas Clark

1. Edition
HfG Karlsruhe, 2024