The third publication of the Paris and Berlin based situation designers encompasses their collection and projects from 2010 until 2022, with written reflections on their innovative and witty work by Douglas Fogle & Hanneke Skerath, Anna Gritz & Krist Gruijthuijsen, Nakako Hayashi, Tom McCarthy and Jeppe Ugelvig.
2022 marked the 25th anniversary of BLESS. Since 1997, Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag have been working together on numerous transdisciplinary projects. Dubbing themselves 'situation designers,' their products blend fashion, art, design, architecture, business and social practice, always aiming to create an equilibrium between mental and physical exertion. Driven by the ambition to create objects for everyday use, BLESS defines her practice and products as a way of life—based on the firm belief that one can shape life today in a way that creates a future worth living in.
The third publication of the Paris and Berlin based designers is one of the three outcomes of the project A Year with… BLESS N° 72 BLESSlet, with which KW Institute for Contemporary Art honored the anniversary. The publication encompasses BLESS's collection and projects from 2010 until 2022, with written reflections on their innovative and witty work by Douglas Fogle & Hanneke Skerath, Anna Gritz & Krist Gruijthuijsen, Nakako Hayashi, Tom McCarthy and Jeppe Ugelvig.
Bless is a provocative collaborative project by Desiree Heiss (born 1971 in Freiburg, Germany) and Ines Kaag (born 1970 in Fürth, Germany) generating products in the fields of fashion accessories, design and fine art.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st Berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2003), Goethe-Institut, Tokyo (2005), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006)...
『BLESS. Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS N°42–N°74.』는 2022년에 블레스 BLESS 창립 25주년을 기념하며 독일 베를린에 위치한 KW 현대 미술 연구소 KW Institute for Contemporary Art에서 진행한 프로젝트 ≪A Year with… BLESS N°72 BLESSlet≫ 이후 1년 뒤에 출간되었습니다. 이 책은 블레스의 디자이너인 데지레 하이스 Desiree Heiss와 이네스 카 Ines Kaag가 2010년부터 2022년까지 진행한 컬렉션과 프로젝트를 다룬 세 번째 책으로, 그들의 혁신적이고 재치 있는 작품을 더글라스 포글 Douglas Fogle, 해네케 스케라트 Hanneke Skerath, 안나 그리츠 Anna Gritz, 크리스트 그루이트하위선 Krist Gruijthuijsen, 나카코 하야시 Nakako Hayashi, 톰 매카시 Tom McCarthy, 예뻬 우겔비그 Jeppe Ugelvig의 글과 함께 소개합니다.
400pages
18.5×25cm
Softcover
English
November 2023
ISBN 9783964360694
