Catalogues

Published on the occasion of BLOCKEN / Further Reductions, Nina Könnemann’s exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist’s work. BLOCKEN explores vision as a situated practice within the temporality of real-time. In choreographed live-filmmaking-performances, multiple camera perspectives generate a layered visual field, shaped by overlays, collective decision-making, and the tension between control and improvisation. Further Reductions engages a sculptural approach that applies prehistoric flintknapping techniques to industrial sanitary ceramics. The resulting objects emerge from a deliberate interplay of precision and chance—oscillating between tool, fragment, and sign, and articulated through a gesture that reflects cultural imaginaries of origin and history with both critical distance and speculative resonance. Together, the publications offer insight into a cross-media practice that negotiates the relationship between perception, materiality, and mediality—between fleeting presence and temporal depth.

Published by: Beatrice Hilke, Haus am Waldsee
With texts by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Maria Stavrinaki
Design: HIT
Bierke Verlag, Berlin, 2025
2 volumes, each 60 pages, paperback
German / English
Width: 17 cm
Length: 23 cm 

Edited by Beatrice Hilke. With texts by Josephine Pryde and Beatrice Hilke.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2025.
German / English
91 pages, with 51 mostly coloured, partly full-page illustrations, paperback
23,2 x 28 cm

In her sensitive photographs, Estelle Hanania captures highly charged, violent moments in the works of artist and choreographer Gisèle Vienne, moments that are at the same time both fragile and poetic. In her complex oeuvre, Vienne develops systems of signs, new languages in which perceptual frames are called into question. The images of the props, scenes, stage sets, and protagonists are condensed into tense, concentrated snapshots of the groundbreaking stage plays Crowd, Extra Life, and L’Étang as well as the puppets created by Vienne for many of her productions. Together, Vienne and Hanania present the photographic documentation as artistic material in and of itself and allow the medium of the book to be experienced as a choreographic space. The semiotics of both the bodies and photographs transform into a common language. An introductory text by curator Anna Gritz and a new extensive essay by philosopher Elsa Dorlin are dedicated to Vienne’s progressive and multifaceted work in the context of her exhibition at Haus am Waldsee (Berlin).

With texts by Elsa Dorlin and Anna Gritz 
Edited by Gisèle Vienne, Estelle Hanania & Anna Gritz 
Managing Editor: Eva Wilson

Spector Books Leipzig, 2024
169 pages with flaps
152 color illustrations
thread-sewn hardcover
Languages: English, French, German
Width: 30 cm
Length: 30 cm

Special price (on site) at Haus am Waldsee and Georg Kolbe Museum:
49 Euros

Co-published by Mousse Publishing, Haus am Waldsee, and Villa Arson Nice, the gallery Air de Paris and the estate of Bruno Pélassy, this book—the very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy—features all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.

Texts by Florence Bonnefous, Marie Canet, Laura Cottingham, and Baptiste Pinteaux

Mousse Publishing, 2024
English / French
208 pages + 32 pages insert
Softcover, 21 × 27 cm
Special price at Haus am Waldsee on-site: 35 Euro

Edited by Anna Gritz. With texts by Anna Gritz and Ivan Gaytan. 

120 pages, with 27 coloured and b/w images, texts in German and English, designed by Benedikt Reichenbach, Spector Books, 2024.

Edited by Beatrice Hilke. With texts by Beatrice Hilke and Naomi Pearce. 

120 pages, with 48 coloured images, texts in German and English, designed by Benedikt Reichenbach, Spector Books, 2024.

Edited by Anna Gritz and Eva Wilson. With texts by Anna Gritz, Florida, Emily LaBarge, Ghislaine Leung, Karolin Meunier, Kari Rittenbach, and Eva Wilson.

224 pages, with coloured and b/w images, texts in German and English, designed by HIT, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2023.

With texts by Vaginal Davis and Diamond Stingily, design by Leila Hekmat.

Zine, 34 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2022

Edited by Markus Jeschauning and Haus am Waldsee. With texts by Markus Jeschaunig, Daniel Farinotti and Barbara Steiner.

Paperback, 128 pages, with 13 b/w and 100 coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln 2022.

Published and introduced by Anna Himmelsbach and Dagmar Schmengler. With a text by Eugen Blume.

Hardcover, 64 pages with 48 coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2022

Includes an interview between Ludwig Engel, Anna Himmelsbach and Konstantin Grcic.

Paperback, 64 pages with 48 coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2022

With a text by Katja Blomberg and an interview between John Wood and Tony Cragg.

Hardcover, 80 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2021

Including Texts by Katja Blomberg and Matilda Felix. 

Hardcover, 64 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2020.

With a text by Ludwig Engel and a conversation with Regine Leibinger, Frank Barkow and Ludwig Engel. 

Hardcover, 64 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2020.

Including a text by Björn Vedder and an interview between Florian Illies and Bernhard Martin. 

Hardcover, 80 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2020.

Including an essay by Annette Tietenberg.

Hardcover, 108 pages with coloured images, texts in German and English, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2020

Including a text by Elisa Tamaschke.

Hardcover, 64 pages, with coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019

Published by Katja Blomberg and Julia Wallner. With texts by Elisa Tamaschke, Julia Wallner, Natalie Weiland and Jon Wood.

Hardcover, 164 pages, 22 black-and-white and 88 coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2019.

With a text by Lena Maculan. 

86 pages, with coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019

Artist book with texts by Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham, Katja Blomberg, Suzanne Hudson, Eva Menasse, Karin Sander, John Waters, Harald Welzer.

456 pages, 320 coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019.

80 pages, text in German and English, publisher: Verlag Walther König, with kind support of S. Fischer Verlag

Published by Katja Blomberg and Michael Hering. With texts by Katja Blomberg, Michael Hering, Stefan Koldehoff, Roland März and Christian Welzbacher.

168 pages, 40 coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017

With a text by Martin Engler. 

80 pages, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016.

Including a text by Elena Esposito.

72 pages, 40 coloured images, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015.

Including a text by Wolfgang Ullrich.

80 pages, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016.

Including a text by Katja Blomberg.  

79 pages, 44 coloured images, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016.

Brochure introduced by Katja Blomberg. Including a text by Ludwig Engel.

German and English, Berlin 2016

Including texts by Hans Ottomeyer and Rüdiger Joppein.

96 pages, 30 coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015

Including a text by David Elliott.

96 pages, 51 coloured images, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015

Including texts by Susanna Pettersson and Carol Swords. 

71 pages, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014

Including a text by Barbara von Flüe. 

72 pages, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013.

Including a text by Reinhard Braun. 

96 pages, texts in German und English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014. 

Chronicle published by Katja Blomberg. Including texts by Katja Blomberg, Silke Spieler, Ursula-Blak Ulbrich, Irene Tobben and Kurt Johannson.

172 pages, texts in German, publisher: Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2012.

Including texts by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Boris Groys, Raimundas Malasauskas, Peter Tudvad. 

147 pages, texts in German und Danish, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013.

Including a text by Thomas Edelmann. 

104 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013.

Including texts by Annett Reckert and Annett Gröschner.

104 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012.

Including texts by Ludwig Engel and Ludwig Seyfarth.

90 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012.

Including a text by Birgit Szepanski.

96 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2011.

Including texts by Felix Laubscher, Dany von Brücke, Björn Vedder.

101 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2011.

Including a text by Konrad Bitterli.

104 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Berlin 2011.

Including a text by Filip Luyckx.

72 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010.

Introduced by Katja Blomberg.

107 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009.

Including texts by Andreas Höll, Sven Beckstette and Via Lewandowsky.

104 pages, publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009.

On behalf of the Hamburg business publisher Murmann, Katja Blomberg developed a comprehensive book on the current art market in Germany. It explains the oftentimes confusing art scene, especially for new collectors. 
Since 2008 the book is available in 3rd edition.

224 pages, text only in German

Catalogue is published and introduced by Katja Blomberg and Beate Kemfert. Including texts by Anita Feldman Bennet, Beate Kemfert and Irene Tobben.

128 pages, texts in German and English, publisher: DuMont Buchverlag, Berlin and Cologne 2007

Including texts by Sabine Bartelsheim and Euridice Arratia.

160 pages, texts in German and Englisch, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 2006.