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Polonica

Die Spuren

Balka Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9783954762330, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
132 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / German

Miroslaw Balka (born 1958 in Warsaw, lives and works in Otwock, Poland) doesn't shy away from emptiness, nothingness, and death. With his existential questions, Balka counts among the internationally bestknown Polish artists of his generation. Along...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Landscapes between Eternities

Zybura Sylwana, Toth Tomas C.

ISBN: PB: 9783954762279, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
112 pp., 32x22.5 cm, 96 colour illus., language: English

The artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth have teamed up under the moniker crosslucid. Their shared undertaking is to develop "a prototype of the new world they long for". Yet this objective requires a variety of tests and experiments. What they e...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade

Lorenz Ulrike

ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...

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Contemporary Art

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Marlena Kudlicka

ISBN: HB: 9783954761722, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 40 colour illus., language: English

The roots of early modernism are palpable in the works of Marlena Kudlicka (b. Tomaszow Lubelski, 1973; lives and works in Berlin). She adopts the narrative register of the avant-garde to transpose it into a realm that lies beyond anonymous and stand...

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Contemporary Art

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De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans

Loock Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish

United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...

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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit

Martin Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...

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Europe

Polonica

Midnight Train to Siberia A Polish Family's Courage in Surviving the Wartime Hell Created by Stalin

Radomska Teresa, Goral Alicja

ISBN: PB: 9781909544765, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, March 2013
182 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They w...

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Alicja Kwade Materia Prima

ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...

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Poetry

Jewish Studies

Last Goodbye Holocaust Paintings & Poems

Hofmann Edith

ISBN: PB: 9781908223876, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, February 2012
64 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

"The Last Goodbye" is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War II in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. De...

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Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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