Florian Matzner – författare

Janina Roider (*1986) is part of a young generation of painters whose work is positioned amid a fascination for technological progress, profound knowledge of art history, and a seismographic sensibility for current events. She confidently makes use of digital tools as well as gestural, analogue brushstrokes, which are equalised on the canvas. Fiction and reality blend on both contextual and formal levels.Make It Newer! is an ode to Günther Förg, the abstract artist whose spirit of invention she has adopted as a role model. The title is programmatic. The book’s dimensions transport the explosive force of her paintings, which collide with each other on a large scale. Featuring essays by Florian Matzner, Hans-Jörg Clement, and Johannes Ungelenk, as well as an interview with Birgit Sonna.Text in English and German.

In 2018, Albert Coers (b. 1975) won the competition to design a memorial to the Mann family at the centre of Salvatorplatz, a square in the heart of Munich. His proposal Straßen Namen Leuchten incorporates street signs bearing the names of various members of the Mann family, along with streetlamps from cities of particular importance to the family, including Munich, Lübeck, Nida, Rome, New York, São Paulo, and Zurich. The memorial conveys experiences of a life in exile, of internationality, and the family's charisma while simultaneously exploring the global reception of their work. This publication documents the creation of the memorial, together with the research behind it; interviews, texts, and images round out the volume with extensive background information. Texts by Albert Coers, Stanley Corngold, Tanja Graf, Dirk Heißerer, Kerstin Klein, Karolina Kühn, Florian Matzner, Holger Pils, Jörg Scheller.Text in English and German.

In her works, Nina Annabelle Märkl (b. 1979) develops permeable viewing spaces that lie at the interface between drawing, object, and installation. The viewers move through landscape-like settings in modular spatial installations, entering into various dialogues with the works. In addition, through the shift in perspective, they can experience the possibility of seeing themselves in their own observations and can question the structures of their perception.The monograph Scapes unites various strands of Nina Annabelle Märkl’s work in the diversity of their links and leaps between drawing and spatiality, which follow on from one another in the diversity of manifestation or interpenetrate one another in individual arrangements.Texts by Barbara Fischer, Cornelia Oßwald-Hoffmann, Nina Annabelle Märkl, Florian Matzner, Nadine Seligmann.Text in English and German.

New Ecologies: Gegenwarten | Presences II is the title of an ambitious public art project organised by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The open-air exhibition aims to examine perspectives on ecological sustainability, raise awareness of climate policy issues, and explore possible fields of practice. Artistic interventions by established and internationally renowned artists, as well as young artists and initiatives from Chemnitz, will highlight the impact of the climate crisis and encourage global discourse at the local level. New Ecologies marks the first art project in an urban space in Germany to address and discuss the problem of climate change and its environmental consequences. The exhibition thus also hopes to provide a practical contribution to a broad sociopolitical debate. The accompanying catalogue documents the artworks in public space and provides important background information in texts by leading authors.ARTISTS: Irwan Ahmet und Tita Salina, atelier le balto, Begehungen e.V., Claire Fontaine, Forensic Architecture, Tue Greenfort, Haubitz + Zoche, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Klub Solitaer e.V., Margrethe Pettersen, Pochen e.V., Ooze & Marjetica Potrc, Raumlabor, Gil Shachar, Simon Starling, Simon Weckert, Weltecho mit Oscar e.V.Text in English and German.