Atlas of Voids by Kathleen Alisch

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Without emptiness, matter does not exist. But what if the void itself contains all the meanings we seek?

In her book Atlas of Void, German artist Kathleen Alisch offers us a tangible and hypnotic proof of how space—interior, exterior, and other—is synonymous with infinite possibilities. The ninety-six page book, published by L’Artiere in 2022, collects images that seem to come from our everyday world and at the same time from places we swear we’ve seen in a dream, or perhaps in other dimensions. Black, silver, present, absent: each photograph draws us into the boundary between reality and perception, creating a silent rhythm that does not need words—and gives viewers the time to find their own. A map of the void was possible all along.

ART CITY Bologna 2025
From February 6 to 16, 2025, the 13th edition of ART CITY Bologna returns—a program of exhibitions, events, and initiatives promoted by the City of Bologna in collaboration with BolognaFiere (February 7–9, 2025) on the occasion of Arte Fiera. The event is coordinated by the Bologna Civic Museums | Modern and Contemporary Art Area under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Balbi.

The Special Program of ART CITY Bologna 2025, titled The Gates of the City, focuses on the gateways— not only physical but also symbolic—to the city. It features a circuit of artworks and installations connected to the ten surviving city gates and their eight-kilometer ring around the center. Each gate will host a dedicated artistic project, inviting the public to explore, step by step, contemporary art languages alongside the city’s rich history. The Main Sponsor for 2025 is Banca di Bologna, which, between 2007 and 2009, sponsored a restoration campaign specifically for the city gates.

Kathleen Alisch
Kathleen Alisch is a German visual artist, photography is her main tool. In her work, inspired by philosphical and scientific enquiry, she explores and questions the nature of reality and society and reflects our everyday habits of perception. Her images are abstract representations of inner and outer landscapes in which she negotiates models and constructions for the perception of space, time and matter.

The artist received a working grant of the Senate Administration for Culture, Berlin, Germany in 2020. She was awarded the Photo Award and artist residency at the Fundación Goethe, Madrid, Spain and was shortlisted for the Aenne-Biermann Award, Germany in 2013. She was granted with the IBB Award for Photography, the Vattenfall Award for Photography and was nominated for the Paul Huf Award, Netherlands in 2010.

Kathleen Alisch studied Visual Communication & Photography at the University of the Arts Berlin, Germany, granted with a distinction for a master class in 2009.
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Cedric Roux: Before Rebirth

By Cedric Roux

Publisher : ODYSSEE

2024 | 96 pages

Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.

Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..

In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..

In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.

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John Divola: San Fernando Valley

By John Divola

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2024 | 60 pages

From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

By Cig Harvey

Publisher : The Monacelli Press

2025 | 224 pages

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

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Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin

By Helmut Newton

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 244 pages

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated. In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation. This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.

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