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Intensive Care Unit
ISBN: HB: 9783954762125, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2017
192 pp., 32x29 cm, 237 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
Space is a valuable resource in the working world with vast unrecognized and untapped potential. Deutsche Telekom AG, working with the communications agency Orange Council, has demonstrated that there is a different way. Within just a few months, its...
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£37,50
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Alicja Kwade
ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German
Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...
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Central Berlin DDR Limited
ISBN: HB: 9783954761869, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
224 pp., 28x21 cm, 174 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
Built between 1952 and 1958, Karl-Marx-Allee was socialist East Berlin's showcase boulevard. Well over a mile long, the wide street from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor is lined with seven- to nine-storey apartment blocks, the most extensive po...
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Rainer Fetting
ISBN: HB: 9783954761999, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 27x22 cm, 57 colour illus., language: English / German
If Berliners have heard of Rainer Fetting (b. Wilhelmshaven, 1949; lives and works in Berlin and Sylt), it is probably for his larger-than-life bronze statue of Willy Brandt at the Social Democratic Party's headquarters. But Fetting is actually best...
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Boros Collection Bunker Berlin, No. 3
ISBN: HB: 9783954761500, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
256 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour illus., language: English / German
The Boros Collection's third presentation in the former Reichsbahn bunker showcases recently acquired works in dialogue with pieces from the 1990s and 2000s. Visitors from all over the world are invited to explore the creative positions set out acros...
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Ikemura und Nolde
ISBN: HB: 9783954762002, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
112 pp., 31x23 cm, 90 colour illus., language: English / German
Leiko Ikemura (b. 1951 Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan; lives and works in Berlin and Cologne) has carefully studied various positions in classic European modernism, including the art of Odilon Redon and Emil Nolde. She has long been fascinated by Nolde's...
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Metamorphosis
ISBN: HB: 9783954761920, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2017
80 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 50 colour illus., language: English / German
"Metamorphosis" means transformation, modification, mutation. Ovid's epic poem of the same title (ca. 8 CE) recounts stories of the transformations of gods, heroes, humans, plants, and animals. The book Metamorphosis presents works by five internat...
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Abend ohne Land / Westward no World
ISBN: HB: 9783954761821, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2017
120 pp., 31x24 cm, 75 colour illus., language: English / German
The pictures that form the painterly universe of Filip Zorzor (b. Bucharest, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) synthesize his perceptions with the intuitions of his keen senses. They are paintings of human existence, social, political, rich in timbre...
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Wustungen
ISBN: HB: 9783954761814, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2017
176 pp., 28x20.5 cm, 120 colour illus., language: English / German
In their book "Wustungen," Anne Heinlein (b. 1977) and Goran Gnaudschun (b. 1971) delve deep into recent German history. Between 1952 and 1988, the authorities razed more than a hundred villages, farms, hamlets, and homesteads on East German territor...
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AMMO Unter Waffen. Fire & Forget 2
ISBN: PB: 9783954761739, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / German
Guns exert an ambivalent fascination. Embodiments of power and dominance, they also signify pain and death. Whether they help maintain public order, are used to exercise individual or collective violence, provide personal safety, or are sports or pro...
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