Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck – författare

"The Ordinary Society for Kindness to All Animals in the Art World is a printed soft-cover version of the online Manifesto written by transdisciplinary artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck in 2024. This printed version includes new paintings.The Ordinary Society for Kindness to All Animals in the Art World is a pioneering declaration that urges artists, institutions, curators, critics, collectors, and audiences to reimagine their relationships with human and non-human beings who have long existed in the margins of creative culture.Gathering and forming an ever growing new collective of artists, writers, ethicists, and cultural workers, The Ordinary Society for Kindness to All Animals in the Art World seeks to elevate compassion as an active principle—not an afterthought. The Society’s newly published Manifesto outlines a vision for an art world where animals are treated not merely as materials, motifs, or metaphors, but as living individuals with intrinsic worth, setting a New Standard for Ethical Creativity.The Manifesto challenges long-standing norms within artistic production and exhibition practice. It encourages creators to critically re-examine how animals (humans and non-humans) appear—physically, symbolically, or structurally—in art spaces. The document calls for an end to exploitative practices and instead champions imaginative alternatives that celebrate life while respecting the autonomy of other species.This publication is an Invitation to the Global Art Community. It is a must-read for those interested in the more-than-human in the arts and culture.The publication was launched in November 2025 at Stroom Den Haag, an Art Centre in The Netherlands.Details:Softcover21 x 11 cmBlack and whitePrinted in Oxford20 pages + CoverLanguage: EnglishDesign by Sori NamLogo by 75W StudioISBN: 978 -1-0369-6287-6Inside paper by Lana PapierEdited by Johanna Tagada HoffbeckWith text and illustrations by Johanna Tagada HoffbeckIndividually hand-bound in the Poetic Pastel Press Studio, Oxfordshire"

“Noticing the minute level of detail in Jatinder’s work is often one of the viewer’s first responses. Jatinder works using a brush sourced from Rajasthan, northern India. The size of the hand tool means that each work takes a substantial amount of time to complete, often months. However, it is this slow, meditative process that Jatinder enjoys. For most of his work, he utilises natural stone pigments imported from the same region alongside precious materials, including gold leaf. " Growing Long, Growing Deep is the first publication dedicated to the practice of British Indian Sikh artist Jatinder Singh Durhailay (b. 1988, London, United Kingdom). Jatinder Singh Durhailay’s work is part of international public and private collections, including The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada) and The Museum of Art & Photography Bengaluru (India). This publication features a specially commissioned essay by Laurie Barron.

Créer avec la Nature is a book by international transdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck. Written in French and published by Editions Ulmer in 2023, this hard-cover book features 140 illustrations, including 63 full-page artworks and photographs, all printed with vegetable inks in Italy. Créer avec la Nature delves into the artist's memories growing up in rural Alsace close to the land and her grandparents, the foundations of her work, and the philosophies that nurture her practice. Across seven chapters, each inspired by a body of work part of Johanna's practice, the readers and viewers are invited to explore natural farming, permaculture, kindness, multiculturalism, and to slow down. This book is at once soothing and initiates profound reflection. The artist associates suspended moments and memories of small, simple pleasures found in gardening with essential conversations as she does in her visual works. In Créer avec la Nature, Johanna discusses compassion and food, growing up in France and discriminations beside the roots of The Gardening Drawing Club and the loving transnationalism that shapes her continuously as she shares pieces of her life in France, England, India and Japan.

In Analog Diary, her photographic series spanning 15 years (2010-present, 35mm color film), Johanna captures fleeting yet deeply intimate moments – glimpses of domestic rituals, gardens and fields in bloom and rest, as well as the subtle gestures that mark the passage of time. Rendered in soft colors and gentle light, her images invite us into a space of care and quiet attention, offering a celebration of the present, memory and the poetic rhythms of life, as well as a testament to the artist’s transnational life and ever-evolving identity.Photography by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck