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3 different two colored screen prints on Bristol cardboard 308g
U6 — purple, U8 — blue, U9 — orange
signed and numbered
format: 60 x 60 cm / 23.6 x 23.6″
edition: 17 copies each
date of release: Dec 2022

The EXIT screen prints show opened emergency hatches of the Berlin underground railway system (U-Bahn).

The hatch — usually opened from inside the tunnel — represents a door that connects the underground metro system with the public space of the city. The playful intervention of opening the surveilled door to the underground subverts the notion of emergency - questioning order and security.

Leaving the actor and action out of the frame, the spectator remains with an empty stage, suspended in time, floating between what has happened and what might gonna happen.

The work has been shown the first time in an abandoned underground tunnel as part of the group exhibition “Dead End Gallery” in November 2022 in Berlin.

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OTA bound paperback with coloured edges, 304 pages, Duotone offset printing, 17 x 25,5 cm, 212 photographs

Essay by London-based artist, critic and art historian Lucy Soutter
Appendix featuring crucial texts and speeches about Brexit and EU-UK relations

First edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-91-984059-4-1

The book is part of the following public collections:
Martin Parr Foundation / Tate Library, main collection / Moderna Museet , Nationalmuseum Art Library / Musée de l'Elysée Library / Stedelijk Museum Library / Swedish public libraries

burningdownthehouse.de

signed and numbered, unique black slipcase signed by the writers of the book, signed inkjet print in 19x19cm, 3 possible images for choice in an edition of 10 each

edition of 30 + 8 artist copies, German and English, date of release: 2015
hardcover, original and historic S-Bahn Berlin upholstery binding, 21 x 26 cm, 424 pages, 218 images, four different paper types, thread stitching, 83 interviews, foreword by Amik, City, Limp.H, East, Exot and Duko, epilogue by Fach, Burn, Chika, Bmos, Soe and ...

printed in Germany, published by Seltmann+Söhne
ISBN 978-3-944721-23-1

exhibition catalogue, 2011 – 2012
edition of 500 copies, German, date of release: 2012
softcover, 18 x 25 cm, 32 pages, stitched binding, text by Daniel Klemm

printed in Germany, selfpublished

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In 2017-18, while living in London, the artist Norman Behrendt observed how tabloids were filled with accusations, polemical commentaries and abridged versions of complex political processes around the many unresolved issues concerning Brexit. Behrendt became particularly interested in the bizarre and irritating combination of headline and picture on the cover of the Evening Standard newspaper that is distributed for free in the public transport in London. He edited the cover pages of the tabloid by applying the cyanotype process as a masking tool—toning down irrelevant information in prussian blue and thereby highlighting Brexit related headlines and out of context imagery of celebrity gossip and junk food news. The incompatibility of the two layers of information exemplifies the absurdity of the theatre of Brexit and reflects on the complex withdrawal and uncertain transition period of the United Kingdom from the European Union after 47 years of membership.

The Collector’s edition of Blueprint 2017-20 includes the book housed in a slipcase, with hot foiled European Union logo with one star cut out, wrapped in unique cyanotyped tabloid newspaper sheet and an original A3 cyanotype print.

Cover: cyanotyped cover sheet of the Evening Standard newspaper. The laborious process of the production involved hand-coating newspaper sheets, exposing them in an ultraviolet light unit. The newspapers were dry mounted and finally used as a wrapping for the book. Every book cover is unique.

Inside: Blueprint 2017-20 book housed in a slipcase with hot foiled EU-logo with one star cut out / OTA bound paperback with coloured edges / 304 pages / duotone offset printing / 212 photographs / an essay by Lucy Soutter / an appendix featuring crucial texts and speeches about Brexit and EU-UK relations

Print: original A3 cyanotype print, handcrafted by me in Berlin. Three works each in edition of 10 unique reproductions, placed in a raw board folder. The selected works are:

Print 1: explosion, (the impossible becomes possible)
Print 2: demolition (cooling towers, Didcot power station, UK, 2019)
Print 3: tory power stance, (George Osborne)


Format: 17 x 25,5 cm / 6,7 x 10 inch
Edition: 30 unique copies, numbered and signed
published with kult books, November 2021

edition of 800 copies, date of release: 2017
17 postcards on grooved printed sheets, 11 x 13.6 cm, English, 2 different covers

printed in Germany, published by Hartmann Projects
ISBN 978-3-96070-013-5

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burningdownthehouse.de

edition of 750 copies, German and English, date of release: May 2015
hardcover, original BVG upholstery binding, 21 x 26 cm, 424 pages, 218 images
four different paper types, thread stitching, 83 interviews, foreword by Amik, City, Limp.h, East, Exot and Duko, epilogue by Fach, Burn, Chika, Bmos, Soe and ...

printed in Germany, published by Seltmann+Söhne
ISBN 978-3-944721-23-1

The book is part of the following public collections among others:
Martin Parr Photobook Collection, Tate Britain / The Library Project / Hellenic Centre for Photography / Aperture library, Aperture Foundation / Hochschulbibliothek der Fachhochschule Potsdams

theoretical work about my longterm project Burning Down The House, 2007-2012
edition of 3 copies, German, date of release: 2012
hardcover made of linen, embossed title, 13 x 19 cm, 192 pages, thread stitching

printed in Germany, self published

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