Edited by Marius Babias and Michaela Richter. With a greeting by Klaus Lederer, a preface by Marius Babias and texts by Krisztina Hunya, Alan Pauls, Michaela Richter, and Melanie Roumiguière

2021

Publisher

NBK and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

n.b.k. Berlin Vol. 13 – Step Out of the Strange Light

Edited by Marius Babias and Michaela Richter. With a greeting by Klaus Lederer, a preface by Marius Babias and texts by Krisztina Hunya, Alan Pauls, Michaela Richter, and Melanie Roumiguière.

And with Larissa Fassler, Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré, Bettina Hutschek, Rajkamal Kahlon, Musquiqui Chihying, Mandla Reuter, Padraig Robinson, Setareh Shahbazi, Pauł Sochacki, Adnan and Nina Softić, Clarissa Thieme in collaboration with Charlotte Eifler

180 pages, color illustrations, softcover, German / English, 19,80 Euro / 15,00 Euro (members), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2021, ISBN 978-3-7533-0108-2

Step Out of the Strange Light presents artists who have been awarded the Berlin Senate’s work stipends in the visual arts. At the heart of many of the contributions is an examination of real and imagined places, shaped both by ideological implications and collective practices. Several artists in the exhibition use archives and institutional forms of remembering as a starting point to uncover shortcomings and critically intervene in existing mechanisms of power. A common aspect is the impulse to reveal and question structures that are inscribed in, yet often hidden behind, forms of emergence and transformation of the social condition.

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Step Out of the Strange Light.