boa - basedonart
material as language

14.11.2025 - 10.01.2026

John Baldessari, Michael Buthe, Jennifer Eckert, Dunja Evers, Paul Heimbach, Hokusai, Birgit Jensen, Stefan Kürten, Sol LeWitt, Heike Pallanca, Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, Josef Schiefer, Monika Schiefer, Inge Schmidt, Takeo Takei, Andrea Tippel and Richard Tuttle

How can material be read? What language does it speak – beyond script and symbols? The exhibition material as language addresses these questions through the medium of the artist’s book, presenting works in which material itself becomes a bearer of meaning.

Since the 20th century, artist’s books have been spaces of radical freedom, enabling thinking between image and text, concept and gesture, and between artwork and everyday object.

material as language reveals a wide range of artistic strategies, from objects recognized as books only by their titles to travel journals in watercolor. Thematically, the works range from reflections on personal mortality to symbolic systems, number mysticism, and playful experiments, extending to fundamental questions about the nature of the book itself. In this open field between form, structure, and intuition, the book becomes a laboratory for artistic reflection. The exhibition brings together positions ranging from conceptual rigor to poetic-sensual gestures, making the polyphony of this unique medium perceptible.




Opening 14.11.2025 | 6-9 pm
open 15.11. 2025 – 10.01.2026 | Thu - Fri  2 - 6 pm | Sat 12 - 4 pm and by appointment.

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