{"product_id":"wolf-kahlen-bilder-keiner-ausstellung-ruine-der-kunste-berlin-2000","title":"WOLF KAHLEN, Bilder (k)einer Ausstellung, Ruine der Künste, Berlin, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolf Kahlen\u003cbr\u003eBilder (k)einer Ausstellung\u003cbr\u003eRuine der Künste \/ Edition Ruine der Künste, Berlin, 2000\u003cbr\u003eArtist postcard and exhibition invitation · 10.5 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003ePrinted card stock, recto and verso\u003cbr\u003eSigned by the artist in ink to recto\u003cbr\u003eArtist-issued\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the first part of Kahlen’s ten-part, three-year retrospective \u003cem\u003eBilder (k)einer Ausstellung\u003c\/em\u003e (2000–2003), opening at Ruine der Künste, Berlin, on 7 January 2000 — Kahlen’s 60th birthday. The recto reproduces his photographic work \u003cem\u003eSelbstversuch II\u003c\/em\u003e (1969), a four-part photo-canvas piece showing an inverted self-portrait with a positive print layered over the chest, Kahlen’s signature running vertically at the right edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe verso announces both the exhibition and \u003cem\u003eSelbst-los \/ Self-less\u003c\/em\u003e, an interactive internet work launched simultaneously and made available worldwide for visitors to print from the web. Its inclusion here — website address, email and fax contact printed alongside — gives the card an inadvertent historical precision: a document of the moment when artist-run spaces and early web distribution briefly occupied the same printed surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKahlen had worked with film, video, photography, performance and installation since the late 1960s and is an early figure in German video art. He co-initiated the Video Forum at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and later founded Ruine der Künste as an artist-run exhibition and publishing space. The ten-part retrospective it hosted between 2000 and 2003 is independently documented as a sustained self-examination across four decades of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe card connects several layers of Kahlen’s work at once: a 1969 photographic self-image, a 2000 retrospective, the artist-run institution and an early web-distributed work — all on a single piece of printed ephemera, signed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling consistent with age; signed to recto. Verso bears a later pink rubber-stamp addition (\"täglich 15–19 Uhr\" \/ daily 3–7pm) giving the exhibition's regular viewing hours, applied after printing..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edition Ruine der Künste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54751047778642,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kahlen_Wolf._Artist_postcard_and_exhibition_invite._2000.jpg?v=1789593669","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/wolf-kahlen-bilder-keiner-ausstellung-ruine-der-kunste-berlin-2000","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}