"Words I often imagine, are small houses with a cellar and attic. Common sense lives on the ground floor. Climbing up in the house of words means abstracting from level to level. To descend into the cellar is to dream." I have printed Gaston Bachelard's lines from his 'Poetics of Space' - together with engraved image fields - on my Correx. The new artist's book also features etchings and cyanotypes. The fold-out top of the middle of 15 layers becomes the roof of the pop-up synagogue that the architect Manuel Herz had built in Babyn Yar to commemorate the 1941 Shoah near Kiev in 2021. Under no circumstances was the earth allowed to be damaged by a basement excavation.
That is why the sacred building is located on a wooden platform that floats above the ground.
The foldable book structure is based on the fragility of this memorial site.
Click, to look around the House of the Words
15 - 17 November 2024 Book Art Days at the Lyrik Kabinett Munich
22 - 24 November 2024 artbook.berlin kunstquartier bethanien
23 November - 15 December 2024 ‘narrative’ „narrative“
in exhibition space 387 in the Kulturbahnhof-Südflügel, 1st floor, Franz-Ulrich-Str. 6, 34117 Kassel.
Aliaa Abou Khaddour, Barbara Beisinghoff, Vreneli Harborth, Olav Wahl, Eberhard Weyel
Opening: Fri 22 November 2024, 6 pm, open daily 2 - 6 pm - admission free.
Saturday, 30 November and Sunday, 3 pm Barbara Beisinghoff, artist's books
Moderated artist talk: Sunday, 15 December 2024, 2:30 pm
7 - 8 December 2024 10 am - 6 pm, 9th Biennale of Book Art Weimar,
Congress Centre Weimar Seminar Building, Unescoplatz 1
6 December 2024 to 30 March 2025 Printmaking No. 8
with Dagmar Menzel, Barbara Beisinghoff, Linde Kauert,Patrick Fauck and Andreas Hildebrandt
at Museum und Galerie Falkensee, Falkenhagener Straße 77, 14612 Falkensee,
opening Friday 6 December 2024, 7 pm
2024/2025 A RADICAL ALTERATION
opened in January 2024 at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The exhibition continued to the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington from June 15 - September 22, 2024, and is on-site in Rosendale, NY, at Women’s Studio Workshop between July 2024 - January 2025. Finally traveling to the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington DC between April 25 - Sept 28, 2025, and wrapping up at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts from August 16 - October 3, 2025.
2024 Anthology ten years Turn the Page artist's books in Norwich, UK. 2017 I was Invited Artist