OTOBONG NKANGA, Crumbling Through Powdery Air, 2015
80 x 59 cm
digital print, poster, laser cut
signed, numbered
edition 50
mint, unframed
published by Portikus, Frankfurt / am Main, Germany
€ 50,- For purchase visit: https://www.portikus.de/en/editions/728_crumbling_through_powdery_air_poster_edition
Added information:
This edition is made from the regular poster announcing the exhibition of Otobong Nkanga at Portikus. With the applied laser technique the lower part of the poster is cut off completely.
‘In 1875 a prospector scouting the land described Green Hill, an area so rich in ore minerals that it radiated the bright green colour of oxidised copper. The Green Hill would become legendary as having the highest concentration and diversity of minerals in Namibia. Yet what Nkanga came upon was a cavernous hole. The extraction of the minerals malachite and azurite had mined the hill into oblivion. The copper had been processed, transported and erected elsewhere with no tangible connection to its origins in Tsumeb. The closed mine, abandoned miners’ houses and disused railway buildings that Nkanga encountered languish – ruins and debris of places that once bustled and bristled with desire.’
From the website of Portikus.
History of price:
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany June 2025 € 50,-
BERT MCLEAN, What does it do?, 2024
ca 20 x 12 cm, various sizes
signed and dated on each of 6 hand made paper bags, on date June 2025
series of 40 unique patches, numbered 1-40
In order to install this floor sculpture one may throw these patches one after each other down on a floor. Surprisingly, these always drop down in a completely right way. Yet, one may still ask: “What does it do”.
ANSELM KIEFER, Watercolours 1970 – 1982, 1983
29 x 33,6 cm
HC, linen bound, 90 pp., unpaginated, 32 illustrations
signed, numbered 272
edition 850
condition: couver slightly scuffed on left part, inside splendid
published by Anthony d’Offay, London, UK
€ 200,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AKie 000-pr
pages 17, 19 and 21:
History of prices:
Amazon-brookb, Brooklyn, New York, USA March 2025 US$ 510.- (aged couver)
Walgenbach Art & Books, Rotterdam, Netherlands March 2025 € 485
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam 23 June 2023 € 460,- (hammer price)
Lost & Found, invitation, 3 juli [2009]
21 x 14,8 cm
card
creased for easy folding
published by Stichting Lost & Found, Amsterdam
€ 50,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.L&F 000-pr
For this event on 3 July 2009 the following artists made selections for the evening: Constant Dullaart, Katja Mater, Julia van Mourik.
Lost & Found, 1997 – 2018
various sizes and printing techniques
numerous invitation cards and posters in folders extremely rare as a collection
all published by Stichting Lost & Found, Amsterdam
inv.L&F 000-pr
It is unclear whether this collection is complete, but for a very large part it certainly is.
Invitation card, 2009:
Lost & Found, 2009
23 x 17,8 cm
invitation card
published by Stichting Lost & Found, Amsterdam
PATTI SMITH, Seventh Heaven, 1979
18 x 12 cm
SC, 48 pp.
uncommon, i.e. this 1979 version with different type font
excellent condition
published by Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen, Germany
€ 45,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.PSm 855-pr
The photo on the front was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
This book contains all 22 poems, including Patti’s tributes to Edie Sedgwick and Marianne Faithfull.
A separate version (paperback, 48 pp.) was published by Expanded Media Editions, Bonn, Germany in 1979. See image above.
Additional information
The first publication from 1972 included 50 signed and numbered copies.
History of price:
2e Hands-ebbo, Belgium, February 2025 € 75,-
MAARTEN PLOEG, invitation card, 1987
15,3 x 10,6 cm
offset
published by Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
splendid condition
€ 45,- + € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MPlo 000-pr
MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Nightsea crossing, 1984
invitation card
10,5 x 15,5 cm
mint
published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
€ 65,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 813-814-pr
This invitation card was issued on behalf of the exhibition “Gemeenteaankopen 1981/82” at Museum Fodor in Amsterdam. The Municipality of Amsterdam bought the performance Nightsea crossing as a ‘dream’, meaning that the documentation of this piece was part of the purchase. Today this material is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Added:
4 newspaper snippets
3 photo copies newspaper snippets
1 report 13-04-1982 (private archive KvG) on ‘Films van Marina Abramovic/Ulay’
1 form (private archive KvG)
1 letter to committee members of a BKR-projectteam
TWAN JANSSEN, Stage Property #97118 “Untitled goodwill multiple”, 1997
30 x 24 x 1 cm
water colour block, enamel, canvas, cardboard
signed, numbered, dated
edition 5, here 2/5
published by the artist
inv.TJ 799-pr
JAAP KRONEMAN / MIRJAM KUITENBROUWER, Over het anachronisme, 1996
31 x 40,5 cm
SC, 74 pp, stapled, Dutch language
various kinds of pages, computer matrix prints, photo copies
edition 100
published by De Gele Ruiter, Arnhem, Netherlands
inv.JK 518-pr
This is a magazine-like publication with various contributions, photo copied newspaper clippings, matrix printed texts, statements and tipped-in booklet.
Contributors: Jaap Kroneman, Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer, Jeroen Teunissen, Raoul Teulings, Marion de Boo (NRC Handelsblad), Rein Gerritsen (NRC Handelsblad), Elli Slegten, Hendrik Spiering (NRC Handelsblad), F.A. Muller (NRC Handelsblad), Wilma Sommers, Daniëlle Spierenberg, Dirk Lauwaert (De Witte Raaf) en Marc Leijendekker (NRC Handelsblad)
