Publications
The Akademie der Künste publishes its own publications in connection with exhibitions and special events, as well as new acquisitions in the archives. These include exhibition catalogues, symposia documentation, monographs on individual artists, as well as publications on thematic main focuses and on selected archival collections.
Our publications can be ordered by phone or email, and you can visit our bookstore on Hanseatenweg in Berlin, which has access to all of the Akademie der Künste’s available books and antiquarian rarities.
Sinn und Form
Every two months, the Akademie der Künste also issues the “Sinn und Form” (Purpose and Form) journal.
Founded in 1949 by Johannes R. Becher and Paul Wiegler, the cultural magazine Sinn und Form (Purpose and Form), published by the Akademie der Künste, is one of the most influential of its kind in Germany. Originally addressed to a literary audience in particular, the journal today is also a venue for philosophical, aesthetic, and social issues, for the meeting of art and science, poetry and anthropology, and is thus a key publication for many Academy members. The ambitious programme has an international focus and comprises selected letters and conversations, essays, poems, and narratives. Findings from the extensive Academy Archive continue to be presented.
Current Publications
Journal der Künste 7
Published four times a year(German/English),
available free of charge
ISSN (Print) 2510-5221
ISSN (Online) 2512-9082
To the online edition: https://issuu.com/journalderkuenste
The Journal der Künste 7 with contributions of: Moshe Zimmermann, Micha Ullman and Matthias Flügge, Francis Kéré, Mathias Greffrath, Kathrin Röggla, Michael Ruetz, Christian Bommarius, László F. Földényi, Karin Sander, Eran Schaerf, Helmut Draxler, Christina Weiss, and much more.
To order the print edition: info@adk.de
GDR Posters
Calendar 2019
Akademie der Künste / KV&H Verlag, Weingarten, 2018
Wall calendar
German
Best.-Nr. 1186
€ 16,99
Winter Service, "Haferkakao" (oat cocoa), Baltic Sea Week and Tanning Cream! In the 1950s, design and advertising content were as varied as the product range of the planned economy was manageable. Twelve more motifs from the poster collection of the Akademie der Künste with short texts by Matthias Biskupek offer insights into the world of GDR advertising graphics.
Carsten Krohn
Hans Scharoun. Buildings and Projects
Birkhäuser in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Basel, 2018
208 pp., 350 ill.
English edition 978-3-0356-0691-1
€ 59,95
The book is the first to document in text and image all the well-known buildings designed by Hans Scharoun, including his early work in East Prussia. Photographs specially taken by Carsten Krohn, historical photographs and plans from the Hans-Scharoun-Archiv at the Akademie provide a new perspective on this expressive, organic architecture.
JUNGE AKADEMIE – Dokumentation 2017
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2018
German, 128 pp., 222 ill.
ISBN 978-3-88331-228-6
Best.-Nr. 1182
€ 6
This richly illustrated publication presents the special events of the JUNGE AKADEMIE in 2017, including many encounters with Akademie members and new partners. Under the rubric "RetroProSpekt MODERNE", Akademie fellows examined Modernism less as a style fixed in time than as an artistic position. They raised questions about what remains unfulfilled in Modernism, about sustainability and necessary reforms.
Dénes Krusovszky
Benjamin Stölzel
Poems
Sculptures
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2018
German/English/Hungarian
48 pp., 30 ill.
ISBN 978-3-88331-229-3
Best.-Nr. 7015
€ 10
As part of the Berlin Fellowship awarded by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Dénes Krusovszky (Literature Fellow) and Benjamin Stölzel (Visual Arts Fellow) got to know each other in spring 2017. The poems in this book by Dénes Krusovszky were written as a reaction to selected sculptures by Benjamin Stölzel.