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K. Verlag is delighted to celebrate the release of the second edition of Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin.
Praised for its honesty and intellectual rigor, Landscapes of Retreat has been recognized with the 2024 J.B. Jackson Book Award from the Landscape Studies Initiative at the University of Virginia. As the world grapples with the impact of both encroachment and abandonment—and their social and environmental consequences—this timely book invites readers to embrace retreat not as defeat but as a shared strategy for resilient futures.
K. Verlag is delighted to celebrate the release of the second edition of Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin.
“Landscapes of Retreat details what dealing with climate change actually looks like on the ground in five very different parts of the world. Elkin’s innovative research integrates the cultural, botanical, and geological aspects of the issue with a particular emphasis on 'how plants reflect and can modify these changes when people pay attention to what they are telling us about the environment.”
— Dr. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Ready to ship this month! Robert Zhao Renhui: Seeing Forest, Vol. 2 of 2, co-published with the Singapore Art Museum.
Expanding upon Zhao’s major exhibition project Seeing Forest, this book gathers newly commissioned essays and translations by leading writers and thinkers tracing alternate pathways through relational habitats, multispecies rhythms, and speculative futures. As pioneer trees stretch skyward and animals claim abandoned spaces, the forest becomes a repository of memory and transformation, a site where the wild and the urban converge in unexpected resonance.
Ready to ship this month! Robert Zhao Renhui: Seeing Forest, Vol. 2 of 2, co-published with the Singapore Art Museum.
With artwork by Robert Zhao Renhui and contributions by Michaela Büsse, Roland Ennos, Cal Flyn, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Mick Hennessy, Haeju Kim, Boaz Levin, Baptiste Morizot, Kang Min Ngo, Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin, Maya West, and Ying Zhou. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel and Katharina Tauer. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin.
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Invasive Links
In a world increasingly fractured by unending conflict, a stark division persists between those who endure the frontlines of war and disaster and those who observe these events from the comfort of digital screens in affluent enclaves. As the former seek ways to engage and involve the latter, conflicts are increasingly uploaded, relayed, and brought “home,” reshaping the hypermediated dynamics of modern warfare.
Through the medium of the technical picture, Berlin-based artist Michael Schäfer interrogates the role of the (digital) bystander in his series of photographic provocations, titled Invasive Links, that challenge the boundaries separating witnesses from participants. This timely new edition of K. Verlag’s Processing Process series includes a selection of critical texts that call for renewed moral courage to confront what we see—even when we would rather look away—and to grapple with the unsettling lessons of this emergent form of spectatorship.
Michael Schäfer is an artist living and working in Berlin. In his work he uses digital montage to combine current media images with images taken by himself. With his practice, he not only challenges the medium of the technical picture, but also takes up concrete social topics. Schäfer has a degree in artistic photography (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) and has lectured at various universities (HGB Leipzig; University of Hartford, Connecticut; and UdK Berlin). His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is part of important collections. In 2019, he founded the art space Villa Heike in Berlin.
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Processing Process
Unfolding at the intersection of the artist monograph, aesthetic manifesto, and solo exhibition, the series Processing Process celebrates artists’ pathbreaking forays into culture, history, science, ecology, and narrative technique. Buy three or more books and receive a 20% discount!
