Hot off the press! Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja’s new book in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
In Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja navigates between magic and rationalism, celebrating diverse knowledge forms. Through captivating site-specific work and reflections from eight distinguished authors, the book explores how ethical and aesthetic experiences shape social and political worlds, embracing complexity and multiple perspectives.
Hot off the press! Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja’s new book in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
With texts and photography by Santiago Borja, reflective texts by Michel Blancsubé, Clémentine Déliss, Philippe Descola, Maria Antonia González Valerio, Catalina Lozano, and Spyros Papapetros, as well as a conversation between Santiago Borja, Anna-Sophie Springer, and Etienne Turpin. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.
K. book table & outdoor screening with Assaf Gruber, 15 September at our studio compound
Join us for “another sunday afternoon,” a day of collective programming at FAHRBEREITSCHAFT during Berlin Art Week. We’ll have a book table and are contributing an outdoor screening of Match Point (2006), an early short film by Assaf Gruber, artist, dear friend, and one of our authors. The film will be shown on a loop in the outdoor cinema from 2:30–4:00 pm. The afternoon will feature more art, music, and conversations. Also, we'll have a book table with our latest publications.
Out now! Veil of Nature, by Justine Blau in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
Artist Justine Blau delves into the mysteries of de-extinction through the lens of Sicyos villosus, a plant once endemic to the Galapagos and collected by Charles Darwin, now known only from a single preserved specimen. Blau’s artistic journey, from herbaria and seed banks to the Galapagos Islands, uncovers the contradictions within modern scientific conservation. As she explores the desire to bring species back to life, her work challenges the rational ambitions of science, revealing nature’s elusive and enigmatic potency.
News: 2024 K. preview catalog
As we launch our new website, we’re delighted to present our most recent program preview booklet, the 2024 K.atalog. Included in every order, it opens with introductions to two publications launched at this year’s Biennale Arte di Venezia and expands the Processing Process series. Continuing the flip-book format, this print booklet’s reverse side features a special interview with the artist and K. author Mercedes Azpilicueta.
Latest releases
Bestiary Of Tonguelets
The trilingual edition, Bestiary of Tonguelets / Bestiario de Lengüitas / Bestiare des petites langues is Mercedes Azpilicueta’s so-far most comprehensive—and still evolving—project. It began in dialogue with curator Virginie Bobin in Paris in 2017 and follows the thread of a script written for a performance that has yet to take place. Using local, obsolete knowledge systems, “neobarroso” poems, failed translations, and ambiguous ingredients, Bestiario de Lengüitas stages a choir of grotesque characters who try to maintain chaos and excess in a world calling for order, efficiency, and transparency. Azpilicueta pays a tribute to “proto-scientific” knowledge primarily disseminated among women—such as midwives and witches—before religion, capitalism, and modern medicine silenced them. The uncanny contaminations that occur between plants and bodies were fed by several encounters in the streets of Paris, the Botanical garden of Madrid, and the magical forests of Bolzano—thus generating a new embodied cartography of knowledge that transpires through scripts, drawings, and artworks by mobilizing storytelling, fables, and the reactivation of ancient rituals.
Mercedes Azpilicueta is a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice brings together various characters from the past and the present, who manifest as voices, shapes, texts, traces, and memories into her multi-layered works. Calling herself a “dishonest researcher,” Azpilicueta navigates through multiple references and fields of knowledge, from art history to popular music, from literature to street culture, falling in love with dissident figures and trajectories—feminist, queer, migrant, exiled individuals—who haunt her scripts, performances, and videos. Yet, her work never indulges into cold reverence or archival fascination. By engaging the body with all its flaws and potentials—her own body, that of her muses and collaborators, that of the spectators, but also fantasized ones—Azpilicueta embraces its fragility as well as its capacity for care and resistance. She was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2015–16, and received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Göttingen (2023); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2022); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2022); Gasworks, London (2021); CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2021); Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2019); CentroCentro, Madrid (2019); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2018); and Móvil, Buenos Aires (2015). Azpilicueta was nominated for the Prix de Rome 2021.
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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!
