We Never Sleep by Cristina Ricupero, Alexandra Midal, Katharina Dohm

We Never Sleep

by Cristina Ricupero, Alexandra Midal, Katharina Dohm
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft (for Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt) · 2020 · Softcover with flaps

We Never Sleep is the bilingual catalogue of a 2020 group exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on espionage and the artists drawn to it. It takes in surveillance, paranoia, cryptography and Cold War secrecy.

The exhibition ran from 24 September 2020 to 10 January 2021. Cristina Ricupero and Alexandra Midal initiated and conceived it. Around 40 artists took part, including Thomas Demand, Simon Denny, Stan Douglas, Charles and Ray Eames, Forensic Architecture, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon and Suzanne Treister. Works from the Cold War "golden age" of spying sit beside pieces on digital surveillance, leaks and whistleblowing. The show also drew on spy novel covers and film posters. The title points to spies living undercover, always on the move with no time to rest.

Ricupero, Midal and Katharina Dohm edited the 184-page paperback with flaps. It carries about 100 colour illustrations and texts by Jörg Heiser, Jelena Martinovic, Ricupero, Noam Toran, Marina Otero Verzier and Wladimir Velminski, in English and German. Snoeck of Cologne published it for the Schirn in 2020.

Details

Publisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft (for Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt)
Archive schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2020/we_never_sleep
Year 2020
ISBN 9783864423185
Format Softcover with flaps
Pages 184
Dimensions 27cm × 20cm
Language English, German

Notes

Source of subject headings, editors, pagination and 27 cm height: Getty Research Institute catalogue via Alma SRU (record 9934000802801551), saved as getty.xml. No single author: three editors listed in authors[] with Ricupero primary (filename/sort key). authors[].url null (no official sites researched; edited catalogue). Snoeck lists 'out of print'. Schirn's own shop page (schirn.ticketfritz.de/en/Shop/Detail/9340) returns 'Article not found', so publisher.url is the Snoeck product page. Snoeck states 27 x 20 cm; Getty gives 27 cm height, so height 27 / width 20. Cover is Snoeck's 800x800 RGBA PNG mock-up composited on white and cropped to the front face (556x750). Subjects (LOC): Surveillance in art -- Exhibitions; Paranoia in art -- Exhibitions; Cold War in art -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

Contributors

Editor Cristina Ricupero, Alexandra Midal, Katharina Dohm
Contributors Jörg Heiser (Essay); Jelena Martinovic (Essay); Noam Toran (Essay); Marina Otero Verzier (Essay); Wladimir Velminski (Essay)

Tags

Art Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalog Espionage Surveillance Cold War
From the record Exhibition Catalog Published in the 2020s