"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 exhibition with 31 artist's books out of over 230 from 50 years of Women's Studio Workshop, including my ‘The Angel is my Watermark’ has moved on from the Center for the Books in San Francisco and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, which published the catalogue, to the Women's Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY. Further stops 16. 1. - 29. 10. 2025 at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis and in autumn 2025 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
2024 Anthology ten years Turn the Page artist's books in Norwich, UK. 2017 I was Invited Artist