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20.09.19
Our tria books are at the MoMA during the New York artbookfair this weekend together with Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books! 📚👋🏼
6.9.19
We are in Hamburg at the Indiecon Publishing Festival this weekend! Come and have a look at our publications and of our friends from Boabooks, Jungle Books and edition fink 📚👋🏼
23.11.18
We and our friends Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books are taking part in the fifth edition of VOLUMES – Independent Art Publishing Fair – which takes place on Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of November at the Kunsthalle in Zürich
8.11.18
We are in Paris at Offprint Artbookfair this weekend! Come and enjoy this beautiful building of Beaux Arts and have a look at our publications and of our friends from Boabooks Jungle Books and edition fink 📚👋🏼
17.09.18
Our publication 100% Renaissance of artist Maria Pomiansky finally arrived in Zurich after a long journey half way around the world! ⛵️🌊📚 now available at tria Zurich and tria Beijing 🎉
6.9.–9.9.
We are at Bangkok Art Book Fair this weekend 📚🎉 Come and say hi to Antonie and Ketty who are also representing our friends Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books!
6.7.
Zurich West in Zurich Tagesanzeiger – in form of our newest tria publication 100% Renaissance of artist Maria Pomiansky: «Sie hängt die Stadt an die Wand»
5.7.
Please join us for the Beijing presentation of Maria Pomiansky: 100% Renaissance at tria Beijing / I:project space, at 7pm. Accompanied by a talk between the Zurich architects Philippe Jorisch, Stefan Oeschger (JOM Architects), artist Vadim Levin and Maria Pomiansky.
29.6.–1.7.
We are at abc Artbookfair in Beijing this weekend! Come and join us at MWoods and have a look at the books of Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books, of course our tria books and some specialties of our friends from TLTRPress.
15.5.18
Presentation of Maria Pomiansky: 100% Renaissance, within the conversation with Cathérine Hug (Kunsthaus Zurich) on the occasion of Maria Pomiansky's exhibition "Züri West" at Gallery Alex Schlesinger, Zurich.
27.–29.4.2018
Meet us in Moscow this weekend at the ground zine fest which takes place at Ground Peschanaya Gallery. Next to the books of Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books and our tria books, we are presenting our new book "100% Renaissance" of artist Maria Pomiansky.
22.–24.9.2017
We are at New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 this weekend as well as in Berlin at the art book fair Friends with Books! Only possible through a little help of our friends of edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books!
11.–13.8.2017
We are at abc artbookfair in Shanghai this weekend! Come and say hi to Antonie and Michiko who are also representing edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books!
26.–28.5.2017
Our books are in Paris this weekend at Multiple Art Days – a new art fair devoted to a wide range of contemporary art editions. If in Paris please visit our table we are sharing with boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books.
19.–21.5.2017
We are at the OFFPRINT art book fair in London this weekend! Travelling together with Jungle Books we are also bringing books of edition fink and Boabooks with us.
25.03.17
Our books are in Leipzig at the independent publishing fair It's a book! They are travelling together with edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books.
23.01.2017
Antonie and Anna are talking at UDK Berlin about I:project space and the tria books.
18.12.2016
Booklaunch of the first 3 tria books at OOR saloon with fink+friends
24.11.2016
Sonja is talking about books at the FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria.
20.09.19
Our tria books are at the MoMA during the New York artbookfair this weekend together with Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books! 📚👋🏼
6.9.19
We are in Hamburg at the Indiecon Publishing Festival this weekend! Come and have a look at our publications and of our friends from Boabooks, Jungle Books and edition fink 📚👋🏼
23.11.18
We and our friends Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books are taking part in the fifth edition of VOLUMES – Independent Art Publishing Fair – which takes place on Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of November at the Kunsthalle in Zürich
8.11.18
We are in Paris at Offprint Artbookfair this weekend! Come and enjoy this beautiful building of Beaux Arts and have a look at our publications and of our friends from Boabooks Jungle Books and edition fink 📚👋🏼
17.09.18
Our publication 100% Renaissance of artist Maria Pomiansky finally arrived in Zurich after a long journey half way around the world! ⛵️🌊📚 now available at tria Zurich and tria Beijing 🎉
6.9.–9.9.
We are at Bangkok Art Book Fair this weekend 📚🎉 Come and say hi to Antonie and Ketty who are also representing our friends Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books!
6.7.
Zurich West in Zurich Tagesanzeiger – in form of our newest tria publication 100% Renaissance of artist Maria Pomiansky: «Sie hängt die Stadt an die Wand»
5.7.
Please join us for the Beijing presentation of Maria Pomiansky: 100% Renaissance at tria Beijing / I:project space, at 7pm. Accompanied by a talk between the Zurich architects Philippe Jorisch, Stefan Oeschger (JOM Architects), artist Vadim Levin and Maria Pomiansky.
29.6.–1.7.
We are at abc Artbookfair in Beijing this weekend! Come and join us at MWoods and have a look at the books of Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books, of course our tria books and some specialties of our friends from TLTRPress.
15.5.18
Presentation of Maria Pomiansky: 100% Renaissance, within the conversation with Cathérine Hug (Kunsthaus Zurich) on the occasion of Maria Pomiansky's exhibition "Züri West" at Gallery Alex Schlesinger, Zurich.
27.–29.4.2018
Meet us in Moscow this weekend at the ground zine fest which takes place at Ground Peschanaya Gallery. Next to the books of Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books and our tria books, we are presenting our new book "100% Renaissance" of artist Maria Pomiansky.
22.–24.9.2017
We are at New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 this weekend as well as in Berlin at the art book fair Friends with Books! Only possible through a little help of our friends of edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books!
11.–13.8.2017
We are at abc artbookfair in Shanghai this weekend! Come and say hi to Antonie and Michiko who are also representing edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books!
26.–28.5.2017
Our books are in Paris this weekend at Multiple Art Days – a new art fair devoted to a wide range of contemporary art editions. If in Paris please visit our table we are sharing with boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books.
19.–21.5.2017
We are at the OFFPRINT art book fair in London this weekend! Travelling together with Jungle Books we are also bringing books of edition fink and Boabooks with us.
25.03.17
Our books are in Leipzig at the independent publishing fair It's a book! They are travelling together with edition fink, Boabooks and Jungle Books.
23.01.2017
Antonie and Anna are talking at UDK Berlin about I:project space and the tria books.
18.12.2016
Booklaunch of the first 3 tria books at OOR saloon with fink+friends
24.11.2016
Sonja is talking about books at the FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria.
about
tria is an independent publishing platform based in Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich.
We mediate and exchange young and contemporary art positions between Asia and Europe.
tria publishing platform was started by curators and art critics Antonie Angerer, Anna-Viktoria Eschbach and graphic designer Sonja Zagermann in 2015.
tria publishing platform ist part of the collective Fair Enough – together with Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books we are travelling to artbookfairs around the world.
Since autumn 2022 we are under the roof of House of Books and part of the project. House of Books is a space for research, exchange, and presentation, and promotes questioning and exploring the nature of books.
tria is an independent publishing platform based in Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich.
We mediate and exchange young and contemporary art positions between Asia and Europe.
tria publishing platform was started by curators and art critics Antonie Angerer, Anna-Viktoria Eschbach and graphic designer Sonja Zagermann in 2015.
tria publishing platform ist part of the collective Fair Enough – together with Boabooks, edition fink and Jungle Books we are travelling to artbookfairs around the world.
Since autumn 2022 we are under the roof of House of Books and part of the project. House of Books is a space for research, exchange, and presentation, and promotes questioning and exploring the nature of books.
contact
Anwandstrasse 30
8004 Zürich
zurich@tria.ch +41767672758
Sonja Zagermann
beijing@tria.ch
+8615210852620
Antonie Angerer,
Anna-Viktoria Eschbach
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Anwandstrasse 30
8004 Zürich
zurich@tria.ch +41767672758
Sonja Zagermann
beijing@tria.ch
+8615210852620
Antonie Angerer,
Anna-Viktoria Eschbach
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Books on Books
various formats
various sizes
various binding
dust jacket
32 images as loose reproductions
2 sheets of text in English and Chinese with an essay by Anna-Viktoria Eschbach
Translation: Xiaojie Chang
tria publishing platform, 2026
ISBN 978-3-906899-13-8
CHF 35, € 35, RMB 250
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Books on Books by Liang Hao brings together 32 paintings in which the artist explores books both as a subject and as a medium – tracing how the book becomes a vehicle for social relationships and intellectual connection. The images are inserted as loose reproductions into various donated blank volumes from other projects and are accompanied by a sheet containing an essay by Anna-Viktoria Eschbach in English and Chinese. The volumes, varying in size and thickness, are bound in individually folded dust jackets and together mirror the variability of a library. No two copies are alike.
In Liang Hao’s work, the book reappears not as a straightforward symbol of scholarship, but as a site where different artistic and cultural traditions intersect. His treatment of objects frequently recalls the contemplative stillness of classical still life painting. When they appear, books are endowed with a tangible weight and presence, occupying space with a quiet gravity. They lie on tables, rest against surfaces or hover within the pictorial field, as if suspended between objecthood and ideality. Yet Liang Hao’s paintings also introduce another dimension to this motif, one that is distinctly contemporary. The books that appear in his works are not anonymous scholarly volumes, but, in many cases, texts that circulated within his own artistic community. Some are borrowed, others have been exchanged among friends and yet others carry the names of artists or thinkers from his circle.
With thanks to all friends, designers, collaborators, publishers, printers, and bookbinders who made this project possible by providing us with unused sample books. We are very grateful for your generosity. Notably to Boabooks, Bonbon, Christine Stricker, Claudius Hog, DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, edition fink, gta Verlag, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, Jungle Books, Offsetdruckerei Grammlich, Reinhard Schmidt, Studio NOI, and all who will support this project in the future.
A special thanks to Georg Rutishauser for his advice and support.
Made possible with the generous support of BANK, Shanghai
Silent Pink
114×169mm
368 pages,
thread stitching
dust jacket with perforation
English/Chinese with texts by:
Dr. Isabel Balzer, Diyi Mergenthaler,
Chongyin Yuan, Nici Jost
tria publishing platform, 2025
ISBN 978-3-906899-12-1
CHF 25, € 25
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With Silent Pink, artist Nici Jost presents her second publication dedicated to the colour pink — a natural continuation of her long-term artistic investigation into this multifaceted hue.
Pink holds a central place in Jost’s artistic and personal universe. Over the years, she has systematically investigated the colour’s cultural, social and historical layers, assembling an ever-growing archive of pink objects and articulating its aesthetic complexity through the development of her Pink Colour System. During a research residency in Shanghai in 2018, Jost deepened her inquiry into the perception, use and linguistic nuances of pink in China, expanding her system with two new shades first conceived in 2016: Peach Pink and Silent Pink.
The publication shows photographic sequences in which collected objects and urban observations enter into precise yet intuitive constellations. Some relationships reveal themselves through tonal proximity; others emerge from the productive friction of seemingly unrelated elements. Pink here becomes a taxonomy — a principle that categorises, indexes, and connects. Between the images, personal reflections by Diyi Mergenthaler and Chinese artist Chongyin Yuan deepen the readers’s understanding of Chinese culture and the reception of pink.
In her contribution A Picture Is Always a Picture of a Picture, Dr. Isabel Balzer reflects on Jost’s research in China and the compositional narrative of this publication — the juxtaposition of image pairs and the introduction of the newly defined hues Silent Pink and Peach Pink — situating these recent additions within the broader framework of Jost’s oeuvre.
The dust jacket, printed in these two new shades, functions simultaneously as a material extension of the Pink Colour System — transforming the book into both document and specimen.
170 × 240 mm
180 pages
thread stitching
English, Chinese
Concept: Anna-Viktoria Eschbach, Antonie Angerer, Jannis Schulze
Design: Jannis Schulze
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2022
ISBN 978-3-906899-10-7
CHF 16, RMB 110
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The publication Speculative Grounds is presenting the outcome of all the research projects by combining conversational, artistic, and essayistic contributions with scientific articles by scholars that Beijing22 invited to react to various questions and findings. Readers are invited to leaf through the collection or to immerse themselves deeper into the articles.
The associative, artistic, performative, and academic research have found a continuity in both the contents of the book and in the book itself as a tangible artefact. Divided into three parts that are separated by a stream of images that represents the constant flow of images and renderings that build the urban fabric of Beijing.
Artistic contribution: Ute Adamczewski, Beijing Dystopia (Li Pengfei, Songyi, Jing Y.), Chen Si’an, Lengyue + Xiaoxiao, Gongyu + Feng Zhixuan, Mirror Collective, John Monteith, Jannis Schulze, Wang Jiani, Wu Kaifeng, Sun Haoxi, Walls and Walnuts (Maj Horn, Yang Jialin, Liu Zhangbolong), Sponge Gourd Collective (Beatrix Chu, Daphne Xu, Diane Zhou)
Text contribution: Antonie Angerer, Giorgia Cestaro, Anna-Viktoria Eschbach, Florence Graezer Bideau, Gao Xiaoxue, Rania Ho, Samuel Kay, Jeroen de Kloet, Annie Malcolm, Liu Yiqiu, Helena Roux, Thierry Theurillat, Lu Xian, Zhang Mengke, Zhang Weili
210 × 297 mm
and 148 × 210
88 pages
English, Chinese Texts: Katrin Hornek
Shuang Li
Anna Zett
Rachele Maistrello
Musquiqui Chihying
Geocinema
Alessandro Rolandi
Salote Tawale
Gabriela Löffel
Lotte Meret Effinger
Ani Schulze
Alexander Tillegreen
boihugo
Zhuxin Wang
Jialin Yang and Maj Horn
Ted Whitaker
Jovana Reisinger
Anahita Razmi
Jing Y.and Meng Yu
Juliet Carpenter and Valerie Franco
Lisa Biedlingmaier
Concept Series: Anna-Viktoria Eschbach, Antonie Angerer, Sonja Zagermann
Design: Sonja Zagermann
Production: fink/tria studios
Artist edition: Lotte Meret Effinger
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2020
ISBN 978-3-906899-09-1
CHF 25, € 25, RMB 880
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Spreadsheet is a collection of artist’s writings reflecting on the present moment. Spreadsheet brings together artists from across the globe to give glimpses into their research and thought processes; how these current global conditions can be understood and analyzed, and how to potentially overcome certain disruptive aspects of a hyper-connected time created. The series of writings was published throughout the year 2020 from different modes of isolation via tria’s website to download and print at home. Spreadsheet #1–21 brings together the collection of all 21 publications with an exclusive artist edition by Lotte Meret Effinger.Spreadsheet grew out of what feels like an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, amplified precarity, resurgent nationalism and national mindsets, and little or no assurance of what our collective futures might entail. By assembling multiple, overlapping voices, we are creating a collective voice of this time. We must listen together in and out of this time.
Anti-MEs / Serenity / Family Tree / Addiction / Collective Memory / Intolerance
243 × 335 mm
72 pages
(loose picture sheets)
160 × 210 mm
48 pages
(textbook)
German, French, English
Text: Didem Yasici
Conversation: Elke aus dem Moore and Lisa Biedlingmaier
160 × 210 mm
24 pages
(picture booklet)
Design and typesetting: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2020
ISBN 978-3-906899-07-7
CHF 38, RMB 280
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The publication by Lisa Biedlingmaier entitled: "Anti-MEs / Serenity / Family Tree / Addiction / Collective Memory / Intolerance" is being published on the occasion of her 3-month residency at the Centre Europeene d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC) in Strasbourg.
The publication reflects in its richness and complexity the abundance of materials, ropes and cords that Lisa Biedlingmaier combines in her works. The loose sheets allow individual constellations, entanglements and preferences. Inserted between the sheets is a booklet with a text by Didem Yazici and a conversation between Elke aus dem Moore and Lisa Biedlingmaier, as well as a picture booklet with documentary studio photographs, which are referred to in the conversation.
SAFARI
163 × 240 mm
112 pages
thread stitching
Concept and idea: Lucas Herzig, Francesca Benini, Enea Toldo
Images: Mattia Angelini
Text: Francesca Benini, Lucas Herzig
Italian, English
Design: Enea Toldo, Sara Frigero, Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2022
ISBN 978-3-906899-11-4
CHF 28, € 26, RMB 200
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The publication «Safari» was published on the occasion of Lucas Herzig’s exhibition «e spesso intendo sempre» as the Manor Art Prize of Ticino 2022 at MasiLugano.
The publication takes the reader on a journey through Switzerland – together with the curator Francesca Benini and photographer Mattia Angelini the artist visits several places which played an important role in his life. The journey is accompanied by a conversation between Lucas Herzig and Francesca Benini, in which we learn more about the artist and his practice which is mainly shaped by discovering and collecting.
Again and again the journey is interrupted by objects which Lucas collected and preserved by scanning.
Printed only on grey paper, the publication invites us not just to look and read but to discover.
I haven’t been everywhere but it’s ok
315 × 312 mm
12" vinyl,
45:58 min
Images: 4 of 9 Flat Fantasy Landscapes
Record sleeve with text in:
Chinese, English
Text: Antonie Angerer
Translation: Shan Zhao
Design and typesetting: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2020
ISBN 978-3-906899-06-0
CHF 32, RMB 200
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Daniel Stubenvoll:
Beyond Limits
80 × 120 mm
72 pages
paperback
English
Text: Naz Cuguoglu
Design: Daniel Stubenvoll
Production: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2020
ISBN 978-3-906899-08-4
CHF 8, € 8, RMB 50
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Beyond Limits brings together the latest series of digital line drawings and found images by Daniel Stubenvoll. The text accompanying this series by Naz Cuguoglu is a speculative fiction attempt to echo the practice of Stubenvoll in the form of writing.
Beyond Limits
80 × 120 mm
72 pages
paperback
English
Text: Naz Cuguoglu
Design: Daniel Stubenvoll
Production: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2020
ISBN 978-3-906899-08-4
CHF 8, € 8, RMB 50
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Beyond Limits brings together the latest series of digital line drawings and found images by Daniel Stubenvoll. The text accompanying this series by Naz Cuguoglu is a speculative fiction attempt to echo the practice of Stubenvoll in the form of writing.
100% Renaissance
240×335mm
188 pages,
thread stitching
German, English, Russian
editor: Maria Pomiansky, Antonie Angerer, Anna-Viktoria Eschbach, Sonja Zagermann
design and typesetting: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2018
ISBN 978-3-906899-04-6
CHF 58, RMB 380
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In the work cycle 100% Renaissance, to which the present publication is dedicated, Maria Pomiansky takes us on a tour of the neighborhood as she perceives and experiences it today. She created her urban portraits of Zurich West between 2013 and 2018. It is a part of town that is full of viaducts, logistics facilities and infrastructures, and at the same time it is in transformation, seeing the emergence of glamorous new buildings. Viewing the large-format paintings, the drawings and pastels, we become immersed in an exploration of the immediate urban and social context of her practice.
How to shoplift books
155×105mm
84 pages,
one color,
paperback
Chinese
in collaboration with Edition Taube
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2019
ISBN 978-3-906899-05-3
CHF 9, RMB 60
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The artists’ book “How to shoplift books” by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic.
“Hide the book inside a fake rock.”
This textbook is readable, but also shamelessly draws attention to its existence as an object, a conversation starter, a thing that can be acquired by fair means or foul. This is a book that turns a point of sale display into an intellectual and ethical adventure.
“Cook up some garlic in olive oil in the store. Exit with the book while everyone is caught in the ecstasy of the aroma.”
“Fill a bag with the books you want. Make it heavier than you can carry. Ask an employee to help you carry it outside.”
This project was initiated by David Horvitz and Edition Taube and is an ongoing translation and publishing work. For each language Edition Taube collaborated with a publisher from the corresponding language region.
A5
72 pages,
wire stitching
English/Chinese
editor: I: project space, Jannis Schulze, Sonja Zagermann
design: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2017
ISBN 978-3-906899-03-9
CHF 10, RMB 60
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During his residency in 2015 at I: project space Jannis Schulze collected photographic material that was the starting point for “Pangu”. The title refers to a Chinese creation myth: the giant Pangu (盘古), in contrast to Western mythologies, does not create the world out of nothing, but separates the earth from the heavens whilst growing taller and taller for 18,000 years. When he dies, his body, breath and voice become various parts of the terrestrial and cosmic world, and the fleas on his fur become animals and human beings. These elements of continuity and balance form the point of departure for Schulze’s exploration of the aesthetics of perception and his photographic practice.
“Pangu” is part of the residency publication series of I: project space.
Pangu
A5
72 pages,
wire stitching
English/Chinese
editor: I: project space, Jannis Schulze, Sonja Zagermann
design: Sonja Zagermann
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2017
ISBN 978-3-906899-03-9
CHF 10, RMB 60
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During his residency in 2015 at I: project space Jannis Schulze collected photographic material that was the starting point for “Pangu”. The title refers to a Chinese creation myth: the giant Pangu (盘古), in contrast to Western mythologies, does not create the world out of nothing, but separates the earth from the heavens whilst growing taller and taller for 18,000 years. When he dies, his body, breath and voice become various parts of the terrestrial and cosmic world, and the fleas on his fur become animals and human beings. These elements of continuity and balance form the point of departure for Schulze’s exploration of the aesthetics of perception and his photographic practice.
“Pangu” is part of the residency publication series of I: project space.
Just Fishing in the Nature
195×258mm
108 (144) pages,
thread stitching with open back,
English/Chinese with texts by:
Barbara Signer, Jiajia Zhang,
Anna-Viktoria Eschbach
and Liang Hao,
inserted diary sheet, hand-made
silkscreen by the artist
paper bag
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2016
ISBN 978-3-906899-02-2
CHF 50, RMB 400
(last copies)
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“Liang Hao: Just Fishing in the Nature” is a publication in close collaboration with the Chinese artist Liang Hao. It is the first publication highlighting his works as a video artist while putting into the context with his oeuvre as a painter. The publication stretches out on 108 pages all 20 second of the video “Just Fishing in the Nature”, that was shot during his residency in Iceland in 2015. By looking closer you will see pictures which appear at irregular intervals on the left pages of the book. The pictures are not fully visible, the reader will just see them shine through the paper. Through working with a special binding technique, the book consists of partly closed sheets. In every inside of these closed pages one of Liang Hao painting is printed. Thereby a poetic dialogue between the moments of “Just Fishing in the Nature” and the moments shown in Liang Hao's paintings arises – surrounded by Icelandic nature. Liang Hao was born 1988 in Guangdong and lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from The Fine Arts Department at the Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University in 2012. Two very influential residencies for Liang Hao were his stay in the “Island Iceland Offshore Project” in Seydisfjordur, Iceland in 2015 and his stay in New York at the “Omi International Arts Center” in 2016. Liang Hao was nominated for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016 and the Chinese New Painting Award in 2014. Besides his practice as an artist, he is one of the founders of the art space ON Space in Beijing.
i:Cowboy
A5,
56 pages,
wire stitching,
English/Chinese
with a text by:
Anna-Viktoria Eschbach
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2016
ISBN 978-3-906899-01-5
CHF 10, RMB 60
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Daniel Stubenvoll took part in the residency program at I: project space in spring 2015. His stay in Beijing was extremely productive and next to shooting a video, he started an event series at a mahjong-place (Salon, breakfast, hoops), and realized a solo exhibition at I: project space. Daniel Stubenvoll’s working practice to analyze existing stereotypes especially in the field of gender identities and to reassemble them in his works was a red thread during his stay. One sentence Daniel Stubenvoll said during an artist talk within the context of his exhibition “i: Cowboy” puts that in a nutshell: “I don’t want to make everything right, I want to avoid as many mistakes as possible”. Within his show “i: Cowboy” Stubenvoll used a very precise and original way to mark the shift that happens when artists are working in a residency program and a cultural setting that is not their own.
The publication on the one hand is a documentation of his research and exhibition at I: project space, but it also let’s you “walk through” the exhibition and experience his stay in Beijing. Starting with a overview-look into the exhibition place, the image is zooming to works that were exhibited on the wall and show stills of the video. You can also become a guest at the artist talk which discusses elements of the exhibition but also gives an impression of his research in China. The easy, simple designand the uncut front side contribute to the fast and raw character of a documentation. The cover of the exhibition serves as a recognizable feature. «I: Cowboy» is part of the residency publication series of I: project space.
Daniel Stubenvoll was born 1984 in Giengen and currently lives and works in Frankfurt a. M., Germany. He studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel in the class of Prof. Bernhard Prinz and Prof. Bjørn Melhus and was a master student with Prof. Johanna Schaffer.
He was awarded with the Robert-Völker prize for his graduation work, 2014 with the «Gute Aussichten – Junge Deutsche Photographie» award and with the Charlotte-Prinz stipend for two years by the city of Darmstadt.
lin_ke
140×200mm
176 pages,
paperback
English/Chinese
with texts by:
Anna-Viktoria Eschbach,
Liu Pinyu
Additional bookmark
tria publishing platform,
Zurich–Beijing, 2016
ISBN 978-3-906899-00-8
CHF 30, RMB 200
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Mixing images he is finding on social media platform and electronic music, Lin Ke is creating videos where he is researching new forms of visual aesthetic in our daily use of computer operating systems. The publication was approaching the issue that the medium book always has issues to present video works in an appropriate way and this became even more obvious with the works of digital artists. Through using a layer of augmented reality on top of this book, it became possible to use the book as a documentation of Lin Ke's videos in chronological order from 2010 to 2016 and link it to the original videos itself. Via an free augmented reality App the reader can bring the files to life and watch the videos. The years are divided through text pages and pages with full-bled pictures from Lin Ke's videos which let the reader immerse into the artist’s world. This way of viewing Lin Ke's aesthetic universe is mimicking the intended way of viewing the videos and stresses the important aspect of manual movements in the work of the artist. It also allows the augmented reality content to be always updated and so stay in an ongoing exchange with technological development. The reader will be guided through the book with textmessages of the artist which will be displayed at the end of a video. With using the app the reader is also implementing a digital performance.
Lin Ke was born in 1984 in Wenzhou and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the New Media Arts department of the China Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. In his works Lin Ke is reusing found footage of the internet and computer operating systems. His video performances show his explorationsand findings on the aesthetics of daily use of computer operating systems. 2014 he was awarded with the OCAT – PIERRE HUBER ART PRIZE in 2014 and the ninth AAC art of the Chinese Youth Artist Award a year later. Lin Ke is also a member of the art group Double Fly Art Center.
