Tuesday, 24 February 2026
7 – 10 pm
Admission + snack: 4 euros
in German language
Lisa Röing Baer
Der Boden knirscht unter meinen Füßen
KERBER, 2025
ISBN 978-3-7356-1043-0
While the promise of a bright future in the petro-modern era evaporates into thin air, our everyday lives remain seemingly unchanged – and yet they bear the traces of a profound transformation. This book captures it: a world that continues to exist in familiar images, yet has been shaken to its core.
In her first monograph, Der Boden knirscht unter meinen Füßen, Lisa Röing Baer (born 1994) presents a selection from fifteen years of analogue photography, depicting an era that is drawing to a close. Here, the everyday and the political often intertwine, hopes and disappointments stand side by side in images in which the past is inscribed only as a fading memory and the future appears uncertain. Light-flooded street scenes, consumer worlds, landscapes – only when viewed together does it become clear that Baer’s photographs do not provide a coherent narrative, but are interwoven as a visual matrix of tension-filled associations that question any form of linear belief in progress.
Lisa Röing Baer will give insights into the book during an evening reading.
Inessa Emmer
Mash up
Self-published, 2025
The publication Mash up brings together works from two exhibitions by Inessa Emmer at the Museum Kloster Bentlage and the Städtische Galerie Schloss Donzdorf. It presents a multi-layered cross-section of her artistic work, ranging from woodcuts and graphic art to painting. The catalogue highlights how Emmer’s works oscillate between the precision of printmaking and the freedom of painting.
As part of the presentation, Inessa Emmer will talk to Dr Alexander Grönert (Deputy Artistic Director, Museum Schloss Moyland) about her working methods, materials and the development of the groups of works on display.
Julika Rudelius
…in the days of the bullies
StrzeleckiBooks, 2025
ISBN 978-3-910298-26-2
Julika Rudelius’s work deals with phenomena that originate in power structures. Using video and photography, Rudelius examines the influence of power on human behaviour: from the staging of archetypal individuals to the analysis of systemic problems and the processing of social conditions. Following her solo exhibition …in the days of the bullies at Villa Merkel in 2023, a publication of the same name is now being released in collaboration with Céline Wouters (graphic design) and Johannes Kaufmann (curator of the exhibition, City of Esslingen). Based on the joint selection of images, a combination of stills, detail and installation views, new associations and pictorial narratives emerge that go beyond the themes of the works in the exhibition and assert an independent thematic and visual exploration.
A conversation with Johannes Kaufmann (curator, City of Esslingen) will take place about the exhibition of the same name by Julika Rudelius …in the days of the bullies (2023) at Villa Merkel, for which the catalogue was published by StrzeleckiBooks in 2025.
Nikola Ukić
About the Sense of Possibilities
Publisher: MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Editor, Ms Branka Bencic, Editor, Ms Sabina Salamon.
SNOEK, 2026
ISBN 978-3-86442-468-7
In his practice, Ukić explores processes of emergence and decay as well as the boundaries between nature and culture, life and matter. He takes up concepts from the 1960s, when sculpture broke away from representative forms, and develops a critical reinterpretation of sculptural strategies. His works reflect on form as an independent entity and open up a coexistence of different states without standardising them. The publication About the Sense of Possibilities documents more than two decades of his work with texts by Sabina Salamon, Vladimir Vidmar, Thorsten Schneider and Rolf Hengesbach.
In the evening, there will be an artist talk with Branka Benčić (museum director, MMSU Rijeka), Sabina Salamon (curator, MMSU Rijeka) and Rolf Hengesbach (gallery owner), including a presentation of excerpts from the book.
