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2024, 1966–2022, with editions by KP Brehmer, James Lee Byars, Giuseppe Chiari, Sunah Choi, Ayşe Erkmen, Ludwig Gosewitz, K.H. Hödicke, Imi Knoebel, Arthur Köpcke, Tomas Schmit, Wolf Vostell
Edition of 12
Price 1.200 € / 980 € (Member)
2024, 1966–2022, with editions by KP Brehmer, James Lee Byars, Giuseppe Chiari, Sunah Choi, Ayşe Erkmen, Ludwig Gosewitz, Imi Knoebel, Arthur Köpcke, Jarosław Kozłowski, Christine Moldrickx, Sigmar Polke, Tomas Schmit, Stefan Wewerka
Edition of 7
Price 2.800 € / 2.400 € (Member)
René Block, Drei Hubwagen und ein Blatt Papier
In 1964, René Block opened his gallery in West Berlin, showcasing artists who were revitalizing traditional graphic art by incorporating social, political, and economic perspectives. The first exhibition Neodada, Pop, Decollage, Kapitalistischer Realismus has become legendary, several exhibitions on Fluxus soon followed. In 1966, Edition Block was founded, which offered Fluxus objects and which continues to produce and distribute edition art today. Over the past six decades, Edition Block’s artistic reach has continuously evolved and expanded, as have the mediums it works with, embracing not only prints and multiples but also records, videos, books, CDs, and more. Taken as a whole, the Edition Block collection reflects the art history of postwar modernism.
In honor of René Block’s 80th birthday, Neues Museum Nürnberg is hosting a retrospective of his multiple editions, titled Drei Hubwagen und ein Blatt Papier (Three Pallet Jacks and a Sheet of Paper). This exhibition will be presented across three museums in the Lower Rhein region, in Goch, Kleve, and Moyland in 2024. This accompanying publication serves as a comprehensive catalogue, listing and annotating all of the editions produced by Edition Block for the first time.
In 2015, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presented the exhibition Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, which presented the manifold and interdisciplinary work of the gallery owner and exhibition organizer. n.b.k. is now offering Drei Hubwagen und ein Blatt Papier as well as two special editions of this catalogue containing both original prints from the Edition's archive and specially created works. n.b.k. members can purchase both the book and the special editions at a special price.
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Ich kenne kein Weekend Aus René Blocks Archiv und Sammlung
Curator: Marius Babias
Co-Curator: Annelie Lütgens
In cooperation with Berlinische Galerie
With the exhibition Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), in cooperation with Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, is dedicating a show to the manifold and interdisciplinary work of gallery owner and exhibition […]
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KP Brehmer
Klaus Peter Brehmer (*1938 in Berlin, †1997 in Hamburg), KP Brehmer for short, is an important representative of European pop art and in his art also made his mark by engaging in cultural politics. In the 1960s, Brehmer experimented withphotomechanical reproduction techniques and combined and reproduced images from advertising and the media. Through unlimited or incorrectly declared editions, proofs and […]
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Tomas Schmit
Tomas Schmit (*1943 in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, †2006 in Berlin) had a major influence on the radical challenge of bourgeois art and the approaches to a new aesthetic within the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and is regarded as one of its pioneers. In his artistic practice, which after the Fluxus actions from 1970 onwards comprises drawings in particular, he […]
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Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke (*1941 in Oels, †2010 in Cologne) is one of the most significant post-war German artists. In 1963, together with Manfred Kuttner, Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg, he called for “capitalist realism” – as an answer to the Socialist Realism of Eastern Europe. Polke's work is distinguished by a subtle irony and a critique of the burgeoning consumer society […]
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