Dear members, dear friends of art,
the Kunstverein Tiergarten is pleased to be able to offer you two new annual editions as well as the editions of previous years.
In times of dramatic budget cuts in the art and culture sector, art associations and artists are more dependent than ever on support. And what could be better than being able to enjoy this support at home in the long term or to give it to your loved ones as a gift, for example in the form of a ceramic object or a colour drawing?
Since 2011, we have been offering outstanding quality art at affordable prices with our ‘Edition Nord’ annual editions. The high-quality graphics, photos, or objects in small editions as well as unique pieces come from selected artists who are active in the Kunstverein Tiergarten or have participated in exhibitions at Galerie Nord.
Every purchase of an annual edition supports both the charitable work of the Kunstverein and the work of the artists themselves.
The new editions are being presented in the Kabinett of Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten. Editions from 2011-2024 can be found here.
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Stephan Kurr
Bedeutungsebene
Photocopy on transparent paper, sawn pine plywood, woodcut on Japanese paper, folder with clips
Unique pieces, 8+2 AP, signed and numbered, 45.6×60.8×0.5 cm
price: 370 €
Under the title Level of Meaning, Stephan Kurr’s annual gift to the Kunstverein Tiergarten explores the diverse connections between ornamentation, typeface and materiality. Kurr transfers the principle of Kufi script, often used in architectural ornamentation in the Arab world, in which characters and spaces, or rather the proportions of words and background, appear equal, to a compound noun; a term that combines several meanings. The components of each edition – a plywood template used as a printing template, the woodcut based on it, and a photocopy on transparent paper – can be combined individually. This opens up multi-layered perspectives on overlapping sign spaces and on the processual nature of signs and their legibility. Stephan Kurr, born in Nuremberg in 1961, studied art in Kassel and Nuremberg, was a master student and graduated with the Nuremberg Academy’s graduate prize. He often works dialogically and in participatory formats in public spaces or for art in architecture.
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Katharina Reich
Sophie an Fritz
Mixed media on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm, edition: 6 + 1 AP
320 € framed, 270 € unframed
Katharina Reich develops social sculptures using elements of kitsch, power phenomena and geometric bodies. In her works, she draws on private collections that have been given to her or that she has compiled herself, critically and sensitively negotiating objects and their histories as well as the value attributed to them. Reich’s edition Sophie to Fritz is based on her collection of manuscripts by historical figures, which she traces in various formats, thereby placing them in new contexts. Sophie to Fritz is based on a letter from Sophie Scholl to Fritz Hartnagel from 1937, the year in which the two got to know each other better. It is the first letter from Scholl to Hartnagel preserved in the estate papers in the Federal Archives (BArch, N 2370/1, p. 1). Katharina Reich (*1987 in Tyumen, Western Siberia) moved to Germany in 1996. She studied fine art at the Kassel Art Academy and was a master student of Prof. Norbert Radermacher (Art in Context class). Reich was a scholarship holder of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt (Gold Rush Women Artists Project) and is a winner of the Tisa von der Schulenburg Prize (2024) and the Neukölln Art Prize (2023).