Kathrin Böhm: Art on the scale of life

with The Showroom, London and PUBLICS, Helsinki, University of Gothenburg, Sternberg Press
2023

Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life provides a comprehensive overview of Böhm’s multifaceted, deeply collaborative and durational practice, and brings together critical dialogue and reflection by internationally acclaimed contributors. Photographic, diagrammatic and typographic imagery run through the book, demonstrating the confident, joyful visual and spatial languages embedded in Böhm’s work.

Edited by Gerrie van Noord, Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson, and realised through a collaboration between The Showroom London, PUBLICS Helsinki, the University of Gothenburg, and co-published with Sternberg Press. Design by An Endless Supply.

Contributors including: Dave Beech, Céline Condorelli, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Wapke Feenstra, Katherine Gibson, Joon-Lynn Goh, Lily Hall, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Grace Ndiritu, Gerrie van Noord, Paul O’Neill, Doina Petrescu, Gregory Sholette and THEMM!!, Kuba Szreder, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson, Stephen Wright, and Franciska Zólyom.

The book follows COMPOST at The Showroom London, which started a public process of sieving through, assessing, archiving and reformulating Böhm’s practice by making use of her methods of production – working one-to-one, collaboratively and in public. Art on the Scale of Life emerges as a key outcome of this process and offers a significant addition to debates on contemporary art and architecture, social action and public culture.

Launch events 2023/24 include:

The Showroom London, May 2023
Kadist Space, organised by Afield, Paris, January 2024
La Foresta Community Academy, Roveretto, February 2024
Valand Academy, Gothenburg, March 2024
Pro qm, Berlin, March 2024
Museum of Contemporray Art, Warsaw, March 2024
PUBLICS, Helsinki, May 2024
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, May 2024
Kunsthal Gent, November 2024

Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life, photos: Cesare di Giglio, courtesy of The Showroom London