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Between White
Raimund Girke

English edition When post-war art in Western Europe was characterised by happenings and installations, the artist Raimund Girke (1930–2002), born in Heinzendorf (today Poland, then Lower Silesia (Germany)), continued to regard art as a two-dimensional application of paint on canvas or paper... webshop

Was weiss das Weiss
Raimund Girke

German edition When post-war art in Western Europe was characterised by happenings and installations, the artist Raimund Girke (1930–2002), born in Heinzendorf (today Poland, then Lower Silesia (Germany)), continued to regard art as a two-dimensional application of paint on canvas or paper... webshop

Selected Works 1978–2021
Ria Bosman

Ria Bosman’s body of work spans four decades. Like all abstract art, her work does not depict anything other than its presence as an object... webshop

Firminy
Koen van den Broek

This book presents 11 paintings on paper and an in situ installation by renowned Belgian painter Koen van den Broek that were shown at Galerie Regent-Reychler, in Saignon, France... webshop

Rien, Presque
Michel Mazzoni

Abandonment is a possible catastrophe, when falls, breaks, sediments, abandonments, chaos, ruptures, a possible destruction, that announces, existence, memory, as long as there is nothing—the crack... webshop

MER. Paper Kunsthalle is a non-profit organisation that was founded to investigate the book medium as an art medium or as a place for exhibiting art. MER. is an initiative of Studio Luc Derycke. It has since 1998 been publishing books under the imprints LD, MERZ, MER., AsaMER, AraMER & MediuMER., and in 2018 entrusted its book publishing activities to Borgerhoff & Lambrigts,where it continues its programme under the MER. imprint.

MER Station is a series of nomadic curatorial experiments re-thinking artists' books for exhibiting in non-book spaces.

AudioMER is a recordlabel initiated by MER.Paper Kunsthalle that releases experimental music on vinyl with a focus on great artwork by contemporary visual artists.

ARA stands for Artistic Research Archives and is a platform to distribute and disseminate artistic research in printed media. ARA was initiated by MER. Paper Kunsthalle with the School of Arts, University College, Ghent; and is open for all institutions publishing artistic research.

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MER. Paper Kunsthalle foundation was established in 2005 in order to examine the possibilities and position of books as places to exhibit art. Since their incipience, art books often developed as rigid catalogues or aide-mémoires. They were seldom considered as genuine spaces to exhibit living art. However, from Dada onwards artists have always thought of books as independent exhibiting spaces. From its creation onwards, MER keeps building further on this specific artistic practice.

One of MER. Paper Kunsthalle’s main focuses therefore is to provide this singular exhibiting space to artists, by creating an institutional platform that publishes art books in a different fashion. MER. calls itself a Paper Kunsthalle; because it initiates, develops and supports art exhibiting within the medium book.

Since its launch MER. Paper Kunsthalle has produced, curated and published over 300 books with and by underserved to established artists. MER has also experimented with exhibiting artists' books as independent works of art, in artistic spaces. These nomadic, curatorial exhibitions go by the name MER. Station, and have been presented in a wide range of national and international artistic venues.

In 2018 MER. Paper Kunsthalle entrusted its book publishing activities to Borgerhoff & Lambrigts NV, where it continues its programme under the MER. Imprint.

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