Page Bleed

The seminar »Das Fotobuch. Theorie & Praxis«, co-taught for two semesters by Cluster Member Dr. Mareike Stoll and photographer Andreas Rost at weißensee school of art and design berlin gathered students from all departments of weißensee, from Textile and Material Design, Visual Communication, to Painting and Sculpture. In the exhibition that opens on May 4th and runs through May 10th, students present their photobooks and works on paper, all examining the limitations, freedom, and possibilities both book and photography as medium and material hold. In projects that explore the forest as a place of storytelling and photosynthesis, make visible vestiges of oppression in Namibia, or that embrace the wish to hold on to the memory of the perfect summer, each of the artists found their way to interpret the photobook as tactile object anew. One project, featured on the invitation, tested the limits of the printing plate—calling for participation by the photographed subject, the photographic plate was in turn subjected to violence that renders it impossible to print.

You are cordially invited to put on white gloves and carefully leaf through the artist’s books on May 4th at the Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Gustav-Adolf-Str. 140, 13086 Berlin Weißensee, from 4 pm onwards.

In case you were wondering about the exhibition title: »Randabfallend« is a technical term used in book printing for an image that fills the whole page, where the edges are cut off, resulting in the outermost frame or border (also called »bleed«) falling off in the process.

Works exhibited by:

Gifty Amoateng
Joe Kotteck
Johannes Krenn
Ksenia Lapina
Susan Madsen
Tamara Margvelashvili
Flora Schliekmann
Leevke Succow
Araiké Treccani da Silva
Matthildur Valfells
Anna Zachariades