Up and Coming: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2022

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Up and Coming: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2022
Verena Mack, Artmann&Duvoisin, Ondine Pannet (Bureau Est), Aleksandar Živković

July 14 - August 20, 2022 

Vernissage⎢Thurs. July 14, 18 - 22 hr 
Conversation with the award jurors Kristina Hilse and Sven Lindhorst-Emme

In cooperation with Stiftung Buchkunst 

einBuch.haus and Stiftung Buchkunst (German foundation for book design) launch new cooperation with an exhibition on the winners of the 2022 Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design.

The designers Verena Mack, Ondine Pannet together with Artmann&Duvoisin and Aleksandar Živković, who were awarded the 2022 Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, will be honoured with an exhibition.

The three award-winning works, associated performance videos, choreography drawings, photographic works and art prints as well as award-winning sponsorship prize projects from previous years will be on display.
Each a strong design statement in its own right, the works of this year's awardees invite a change of perspective through their interplay:

Verena Mack
Nonbinary Future

Artmann&Duvoisin, Gestaltung: Ondine Pannet (Bureau Est)
Umzug in eine vergleichbare Lage

Aleksandar Živković
Was bleibt vom Opelaner ohne Opel-Werk?

Nonbinary Future // Verena Mack
Free gender expression: plausible option, hopeful aspiration or genuine need? In this experimental large-format publication at least, a colour-saturated, organic-looking Utopian vision is brought vividly to life. The world isn’t just made up of zeros and ones, black and white, A and B, man and woman. It is a diverse mix of different shades, of all which have equal rights. Hierarchical forms and gender dominance need to be called into question. It’s a work that celebrates the non-binary and visualises the breaking down of boundaries.

Umzug in eine vergleichbare Lage // Artmann&Duvoisin, Gestaltung: Ondine Pannet (Bureau Est)
A four-piece ensemble translates radio news from the first spring of the pandemic into physical movement. They are transcripts of news reports, brief descriptions of stage settings plus commentaries and footnotes. If this dance and spoken word performance was a critical examination of current events via actual news bulletins and the body’s physical responses to them, then you could say the accompanying booklet explores the performative possibilities of the double-page spread, the two-dimensional stage as it were.

Was bleibt vom Opelaner ohne Opel-Werk? // Aleksandar Žišković
“The abiding impression is of a global corporation beating a surreptitious retreat.” GM’s axeing of its Opel plants in Bochum was a long and drawn-out saga, dragging on for several years before they were shut down completely in 2014, by which time demolition had already begun. This book sets out to explore the frame of mind of those who, after decades of loyal service, were left feeling disillusioned with their employer. A particularly key section is the interviews with former employees. Headed “Gartengespräche” (“Garden Conversations”) and accompanied by photographic portraits

PRESS RELEASE

Exhibition View: Up and Coming: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2022, einBuch.haus, 2022 (Photo: Olivia Kwok)