About K. Verlag
K. Verlag is a Berlin-based publishing atelier advancing new forms of the book-as-exhibition. We collaborate internationally with artists, authors, and institutions to develop publications whose conceptual rigor and experimental design open radical aesthetic and discursive interventions. Our synthetic editorial-design process insists on the mutuality of content and form, allowing us to concurrently rethink and reshape contemporary political, ecological, and theoretical ambitions and expectations from the perspective of art and printed matter. In 2022, we launched a new series of artist monographs, Processing Process, as our first serial sextet, the intercalations: paginated exhibition series—commissioned by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of Das Anthropozän Projekt—came to a close with the release of its final volume: intercalations 6 – These Birds of Temptation.
In July 2023, K. Verlag was named a recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Verlagspreis (previously in 2020), which is awarded annually to honor outstanding small and independent publishers by the Federal Ministry of Culture. In addition, K. also received a special award on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Kurt Wolff Stiftung for small and independent publishers, and has moreover been recognized for various individual publications, including Dora García’s On Reconciliation / Über Versöhnung, named one of the Most Beautiful Books of 2018 by the German Stiftung Buchkunst, as well as The Work of Wind: Land (co-published with The Blackwood Gallery of the University of Toronto Mississauga), which received the 2019 Book Design Award of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Over the last decade, K. Verlag has developed a series of publications that explore issues at the intersections of the current planetary crisis; together with their authors we see these endeavors as a way to build a more vibrant, feminist, and ecologically-responsible world.
K. Verlag was initially co-founded in 2011 by Dr. Anna-Sophie Springer and Charles Stankievech. Since 2015, Anna-Sophie has been the sole operator, director, and manager of K. Verlag from her studio in Berlin-Lichtenberg and the publishing atelier does not hold any subsidiaries or offices in other locations.