Bierke

Bierke Verlag, based in Berlin, publishes in the fields of photography and art, architecture, design and theory
 
Berlin
 
22 titles
 
Walter Benjamin - Dreams
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Though published during his lifetime, Walter Benjamin's dream notes and theoretical reflections on dreams are collected here for the first time in a single volume.
Liz Johnson Artur - PDA
2025
English edition
forthcoming
For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.
 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
no text
forthcoming
Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects. Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.
Key Operators - Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography (box set)
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
The links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages: a very special publication including a softcover book and 19 booklets with artists' imagery in a box. Accompanying the exhibition curated by Maurin Dietrich and Gloria Hasnay at Kunstverein München.
Vaginal Davis - On Dangerous Ground
2025
English edition
Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angles and Berlin.
Bruno Zhu -
2025
English edition
Artist Bruno Zhu's project on the perception of migratory phenomena and the creation of identity and nationalist narratives.
Teri Wehn Damisch - Transatlantic Crossings Between the Arts
2025
French edition
Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
2025
English edition
currently out of stock
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Jimmy Robert - The Man Who Envied Women
2024
English edition
Retrospective monograph.
Peter Wollen - Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later / 40 Jahre später
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."
Jimmy Robert - Call and Response (vinyl LP)
2023
The artist record Call and Response brings together pieces created in connection with performances and exhibitions by Jimmy Robert, including a booklet wrapped around the record.
Skip Norman - On Africa
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
The reprint of a document containing the script of Skip Norman's film On Africa (1970).
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - What I Do Not Recognize Yet, Now at This Very Moment / Was ich noch nicht erkenne, jetzt in diesem Moment
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Natascha Sadr Haghighian charts modes of strategic ignorance and recognition that operate in structural racism.
Hanns Zischler - Heiner Müller – The Battle/Tractor / Die Schlacht/Traktor - Basel 1976
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
A look back at the collaboration and intellectual exchanges between Harun Farocki, Hanns Zischler and Heiner Müller.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa - Hiding in Plain Sight / Über Ici et ailleurs
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography.
Harun Farocki - On the History of Labor / Zur Geschichte der Arbeit
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
A glimpse into the genesis of Harun Farocki's film IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR (1988), which evolved from the unrealized project "On the History of Labor" between 1985 and 1988.
Nadira Husain -
2020
texts in English, French, Farsi, Arabic
Nadira Husain's comprehensive work is brought together in this monograph for the first time in its breadth and complexity and shows over 100 works from the past six years.
Gerhard Theuring - Escape Route to Marseilles / Fluchtweg nach Marseille
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
An essay that extends Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring's movie.
Harun Farocki - On Ici et ailleurs / Über Ici et ailleurs
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
An unpublished talk given by Harun Farocki in 1987 at the event "Films that Think in Images" at the Akademie der Künste, West Berlin. The typescript was found among Farocki's papers after his death.
Pippa Garner - Act Like You Know Me
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
The Palliative Turn Number 1
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
Dedicated to the activities of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT), The Palliative Turn Number 1 proposes a fundamental shift in our attitude towards art and culture, informed by the practices of palliative medicine and care.
2025
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
filters:


 top of page