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2015
SC / 384 pages / 27,9 × 21,6 cm
Published by
Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent & MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Language
EN/NL
Authors
Roland Jooris, Wim Van Mulders, Nicola Setari, Frederik Leen, Christel Stalpaert, Patrick Van Rossem, Rik Pinxten, Ulrich Loock, Silvano Manganaro, Francesco Poli, Tommaso Trini, Cornelia Lauf, Francis Smets, George E. Lewis, Philippe Van Cauteren
Design
Studio Luc Derycke
Print
KOPA, Litouwen
ISBN
978 94 9232 100 8
Price
39.00 euros

Between 2013 and 2014 CC Strombeek displayed several works from the collection of S.M.A.K., Ghent. By joining forces with this internationally acclaimed museum of contemporary art and private collectors; the cultural centre of Strombeek, located close to Brussels, was able to show an impressive body of work by established and up-and-coming international artists. In no less than ten project exhibitions, CC Strombeek gathered work by such artists as Franz West, Daniel Buren, Raoul De Keyser, Honoré ∂’O, Willy De Sauter, Jef Gheys, Ann-Veronica Janssens, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and many more. Focussing on art from the sixties until this day, the exhibition program of curators Luk Lambrecht and Lieze Eneman opens art practice from the last five decades. The book contains a full complement of exhibition views with an impressive body of accompanying essays.

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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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