Category Archives: printed matter



OTOBONG NKANGA, Crumbling Through Powdery Air, 2015 [edition, signed, numbered]

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OTOBONG NKANGA, Crumbling Through Powdery Air, 2015
80 x 59 cm
digital print, poster, laser cut
signed, numbered
edition 50
mint, unframed
published by Portikus, Frankfurt / am Main, Germany
€ 50,- For purchase visit: https://www.portikus.de/en/editions/728_crumbling_through_powdery_air_poster_edition

Added information:
This edition is made from the regular poster announcing the exhibition of Otobong Nkanga at Portikus. With the applied laser technique the lower part of the poster is cut off completely.

‘In 1875 a prospector scouting the land described Green Hill, an area so rich in ore minerals that it radiated the bright green colour of oxidised copper. The Green Hill would become legendary as having the highest concentration and diversity of minerals in Namibia. Yet what Nkanga came upon was a cavernous hole. The extraction of the minerals malachite and azurite had mined the hill into oblivion. The copper had been processed, transported and erected elsewhere with no tangible connection to its origins in Tsumeb. The closed mine, abandoned miners’ houses and disused railway buildings that Nkanga encountered languish – ruins and debris of places that once bustled and bristled with desire.’
From the website of Portikus.

History of price:
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany June 2025 € 50,-

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996 [invitation card, inlay]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996
9,8 x 14,6 cm, invitation card with inlay (29,9 x 21,1 cm)
2 parts, screen prints, folded as issued
published by De Kunstbank VzW, Louvain, Belgium
mint
€ 35,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 892-pr

‘From an encounter between Voebe de Gruyter and Herman Labro [founder of Galerie Eve’n and Yet] arises a collaboration which, in 1996, results in De Gruyter’s second solo exhibition, Winterbeelden, this time in Louvain. Winterbeelden ultimately turns out not to be a true solo: curator Labro has one more ace up his sleeve, the Swiss photographer Peter Blatt and Lizz Kampe are also invited. However, there is no trace of De Gruyter’s co-exhibitors before or during the exhibition.

The 2020 encounter does not lead to a new joint project: De Gruyter declines. This happens against the backdrop of a relationship that becomes strained when, in 2015, De Gruyter discovers that the MOEV collective consists of no one other than Labro himself.’ Ref. “How It Functions – an introduction”, Rudi Salomon, May 2025

Moment to Moment, 2023 [The Thing Quarterly]

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The Thing Quarterly, 2023
newspaper format, 6 tomes
each 58 x 36 cm, ink stamped envelope, inserted card
published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, USA
comes in customized light weight box
€ 95,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.TTQ 47

“Moment to Moment” is a project that consists of commissioned online videos, text works, paintings, animated .gifs, photographs and essays. Some appeared on billboards, bus shelters and other outdoor advertising spaces in cities. In these 6 free printed newspapers the entire project is documented.
THE THING Quarterly is an object based publication produced by visual artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan.
Ref. https://www.kqed.org/arts/126027/good_things_require_money_the_thing_quarterlys_moment_to_moment

Lost & Found, 1997 – 2018 [invitations: cards, posters]

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Lost & Found, 1997 – 2018
various sizes and printing techniques
numerous invitation cards and posters in folders
extremely rare as a collection
all published by Stichting Lost & Found, Amsterdam
inv.L&F 000-pr

It is unclear whether this collection is complete, but for a very large part it certainly is.

Invitation card, 2009:

Lost & Found, 2009
23 x 17,8 cm
invitation card
published by Stichting Lost & Found, Amsterdam

PATTI SMITH, Seventh Heaven, 1979 [poetry]

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PATTI SMITH, Seventh Heaven, 1979
18 x 12 cm
SC, 48 pp.
uncommon, i.e. this 1979 version with different type font
excellent condition
published by Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen, Germany
€ 45,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.PSm 855-pr

The photo on the front was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
This book contains all 22 poems, including Patti’s tributes to Edie Sedgwick and Marianne Faithfull.

A separate version (paperback, 48 pp.) was published by Expanded Media Editions, Bonn, Germany in 1979. See image above.

Additional information
The first publication from 1972 included 50 signed and numbered copies.

History of price:
2e Hands-ebbo, Belgium, February 2025 € 75,-

FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Garbage in order to…, 1999 [set of 6 cards]

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FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Garbage in order to…, 1999
invitation cards in 6 different colours
each 10.1 x 15 cm
offset
mint
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 35,- plus € 12 Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.FBr 000-pr

Franck Bragigand has made two working methods he devised an essential part of his work. A visitor can approach him at any time with, for example, a chair or cupboard and ask to have it painted. The object taken can be painted monochrome or each surface is given a separate color using his method of ‘un plan, une couleur’, as he calls it. In the latter case, there is more work and the asking price is higher. After the painting method has been determined, a price is agreed. The 6-part invitation card from 1999 is printed in both monochrome and ‘each area, one color’. KvG

 

Additional information

FRANCK BRAGIGAND: PSS (Public Street Sculpture), 1999

The title of the exhibition “Garbage in order to…” refers to a recycling method. Franck Bragigand found all kinds of objects in the garbage on the street, which he cleaned, sanded, painted and exhibited as brand new in the gallery.
After the exhibition, the objects were thoughtfully placed back on the street – almost like an installation. The ‘consumer’ could take the originally discarded rubbish from the street back into his home, varnished and well. Bragigand brings street waste or second-hand goods back into circulation through various systems. KvG