Publications

Notes on Uecker – Print

The bilingual (German/English) publication series Notizen zu Uecker [Notes on Uecker] makes the research of the international scholars funded by the Günther Uecker Institute accessible to the public in both analogueand digital form. The focus of this platform is a lively, discursive examination of Günther Uecker’s work.

Volume 1 · 2022

Katrin Nahidi: Man’s Inhumanity

Günther Uecker’s Conceptual History Paintings – In this first volume of Notizen zu Uecker [Notes on Uecker], art historian and historian of the Middle East Katrin Nahidi analyzes Uecker’s work Implement (On Words).

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Volume 3 · 2024

Nick Böhnke: The Withdrawn Touch

The Withdrawn Touch: Structure, Temporality, and Haptics of Painterly Action in Günther Uecker’s Early Structural Reliefs – Nick Böhnke’s investigation for Volume 3 of Notes on Uecker,, entitled Penetrations of Space: Reflections on Iconic Formal Processes in the Ground of Günther Uecker’s Painterly Reliefs of the Late 1950s expands the concept of ‘action’.

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Special edition ZERO · 2025

The Condition of Experience

Workshop Manuscripts – The special volume ZERO of the series Notes on Uecker brings together lecture manuscripts from the workshop “The State of Experience.” This workshop adressed pressing discursive questions surrounding artistic action […]

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Notes on Uecker – Digital

Contribution 1 · 2024

Katja Gentric: “Southern” Perspektive

Works of Günther Uecker, Willem Boshoff and Mbali Khoza in dialogue. – How does one deal with the unspeakable? And what about the responsibility to not conceal injustice and suffering, and to face the task of articulating it? On the other hand, […]

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Zweierlei

Zweierlei ist die Publikationsreihe des Instituts für Umwelt und Gestaltung (IUG) mit einem Fokus auf zeitgenössische Kunstwissenschaft und künstlerische Forschung. Sie ist auf die Kunst und Kultur der DDR ausgerichtet.