MER. Books

MER. Books (formerly MER. Paper Kunsthalle) was established in 2005 in order to examine the possibilities and position of books as places to exhibit art. Since their incipience, art books often developed as rigid catalogues or aide-mémoires. They were seldom considered as genuine spaces to exhibit living art. However, from Dada onwards artists have always thought of books as independent exhibiting spaces. From its creation onwards, MER keeps building further on this specific artistic practice.
One of MER. Books' main focuses therefore is to provide this singular exhibiting space to artists, by creating an institutional platform that publishes art books in a different fashion. MER. calls itself a Paper Kunsthalle; because it initiates, develops and supports art exhibiting within the medium book.
In 2018 MER. Books entrusted its book publishing activities to Borgerhoff & Lambrigts NV, where it continues its programme under the MER. Imprint.

Ghent

www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/mer

61 titles

Jacqueline Mesmaeker
Quelle Aventure !

2021

trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)

Reference monograph on the work of one of Belgium's most discreet, yet most important, female artists.

Béatrice Balcou
Cérémonies

2021

bilingual edition (English / French)

The complete Ceremonies (2013-2020) by Béatrice Balcou, testing our visual and experiential approach to artworks, confronting us with the basic status of material objects before actually revealing their identity.

Richard Tuttle
Stories I-XX

2021

English edition

Discover Richard Tuttle as story teller and writer: first publication of 44 short stories by the artist paired with 22 sculptural works from the "Stories" Series.

$Jean Chauvin - L\'ombre atomique$

Jean Chauvin
L'ombre atomique

2020

bilingual edition (English / French)

A selection of around 60 rarely shown photographs by French artist Jean Chauvin (1889-1976), one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture of the early 20th century.

Matt Mullican
The Meaning of Things

2020

English edition

(last copies available!)

This artist's book is the book-form of a work by Matt Mullican, "The Meaning of Things (who feels the most pain?)" (2014), con sisting of 676 collages and texts on sheets of standard printing paper.

Richard Tuttle
The Role of the Story Teller

2020

English edition

currently out of stock

Richard Tuttle and color.

Daniel Buren
Libretto – Daniel Buren : une fresque (box set)

2016

French edition

The journal/catalogue conceived by Daniel Buren for his retrospective at BOZAR.

Buero Kofink Schels
Buero Kofink Schels In Practice – T.I.A. House 1+2

2021

English edition

sold out

In this book, Matthie Wellner and Buero Kofink Schels (architects Simon Jüttner and Sebastian Kofin) unfold the design process of T.I.A. House 1+2, a project they developed and built in the city of Almeria on the southern Spanish coast.

Valérian Goalec
Elements–03 – From Their Desk

2020

bilingual edition (English / French)

sold out

Artist's book.

Yayoi Kusama
Love Forever

2020

French edition

sold out

The first publication to provide an overview of Kusama's early performative activities, with unpublished photos and forgotten works from private collections.

Philippe Van Der Maren, Richard Venlet
Philippe Vander Maren & Richard Venlet In Practice

2020

English edition

sold out

In this book, together with Pierre Chabard, Philippe Vander Maren and Richard Venlet explore and explicit the design process of House D through a set of unpublished work documents such as sketches, scale models, series of annotated plans, collages and pictures.

Thierry De Cordier
Dieu

2017

French edition

sold out

As stated in the preface to this volume, the artist endeavoured to uncover the absolute absurdity that would be God and started one day to collect all affirmations of his being, whatever their character or source, contradictory or not. (...) The result is a 284 pages compendium buffering even the most avid reader.

$E. L. T. Mesens - L\'alphabet d\'étoiles d\'E.L.T. Mesens - Dada & le surréalisme à Bruxelles, Paris & Londres$

E. L. T. Mesens
L'alphabet d'étoiles d'E.L.T. Mesens – Dada & le surréalisme à Bruxelles, Paris & Londres

2013

French edition

sold out

The catalogue of the Ostend exhibition, a reference publication on Dada and Surrealism around the figure of E.L.T. Mesens, a pillar of the surrealist movement in Belgium.