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NEW: BOOM! 7 JAHRE NOVA SPACE / 7 YEARS OF NOVA SPACE 💥 7 years nova space: the gallery of Weimar’s Bauhaus-Universität looks back at an eventful chapter From 2019 to 2025, nova space, @bauhaus_uni Weimar’s university gallery put up 21 projects, which this volume documents in image and text. As both an experimentation field and meeting place, nova connected international artists, students, faculty, and the public under the enthusiastic direction of curator Katharina Wendler. Her essay provides insight into the unique history of this mobile and interdisciplinary gallery, its program as well as the continuous development of new curatorial formats. The 21st act of nova is an exhibition in book form, for which artists, architects, designers, typographers, and filmmakers were invited to create work that freely associates around the theme of BOOM!—inspired by the image of the supernova. Artists: a.o. Laura Aberham, Margrét H. Blöndal, Zuzanna Czebatul, Björn Dahlem, David Diao, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Nadine Fecht, Liam Gillick, Jana Gunstheimer, Nschotschi Haslinger, Stef Heidhues, Judith Hopf, Verena Issel, Christin Kaiser, Ian Kiaer, Ragnar Kjartansson, Vera Kox, Schirin Kretschmann, Yutaka Makino, Stefan Marx, Eric Meier, Ad Minoliti, Bruce Nauman, Prinz Gholam, Hannah Rath, Karin Sander, Fette Sans, Katrin Steiger, Jan Tichy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ignacio Uriarte, Robin Waart, Young Boy Dancing Group, Francis Zeischegg, Karla Zipfel And Many More Editor: Katharina Wendler @kaa___mii Authors: a.o. Katharina Wendler, Sophia Scherer jamplemousse, @janagunstheimer , @bjorndahlem , @brunnosilva , Jasmine Grace Wenzel jasemiotics Design: Elfi Handina Murandu @uschielfi , Vivien Flavia Maria Sorrentino @virtualviv_ Photos: Jannis Uffrecht @jannisuffrecht – Texts in German & English – 🛒 Available on our webshop, links on images SAVE THE DATE: 19 June 2026 Book release & curator’s talk 6 pm Hansabibliothek, Berlin #boom #novaspace #bauhausuniversitaetweimar #dcv #drcantzscheverlagsgesellschaft

BOOM! an exhibition in a book MARCEL SAIDOV (*1992 Sinsheim, lives and works in Munich and Weimar) studied Type Design at the ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne/Switzerland and is currently an Artistic Associate at the Chair of Typography and Type Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar @bauhaus.typography . In his work as a typographer and type designer, he focuses on a clear and contemporary aesthetic and develops research-based solutions in type and book design. For ‘BOOM!’ Saidov developed the typeface ‘BOOM.OTF’ which, true to the exhibition theme, appears in bold letters out of nowhere, remains for the flick of a page, and is then no longer used or distributed.   BOOM.OTF, 2025, typeface, 90 pt Courtesy of the artist #boom #exhibitioninabook #marcelsaidov #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book RICHARD SCHÖTT (*1994 Bad Salzungen, lives and works in Leipzig) is studying Visual Communication at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. As a documentary photographer, he tells stories of people and places, complemented with creative elements such as composition, color, grain and structure. For ‘BOOM!’ he created two double-page collages in which excerpts from his extensive photographic series ‘Geschleift’ (Razed) have been rearranged. The analog photographs show places along the former inner-German border that were destroyed — „razed“ — by the SED dictatorship in an act of oppressing the population. The images tell of places where violent intervention took place in the name of ideology, remaining marked by it to this day. At the same time, they recall the sudden and no less powerful collapse of the German Democratic Republic, the end of a state and a system that was maintained by all means until the very end. The places and objects depicted appear as markers of a border that no longer exists, as relics of the past, as an “architecture of the no longer.“   Geschleift, 2024, analog photographs, dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist #boom #exhibitioninabook #richardschött #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book RAISA BOSICH (*1988 Santiago de Chile/Chile, lives and works in Weimar) is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her artistic work encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installation, with a particular focus on textiles. Inspired by Latin American textile traditions, she explores the medium as language: As systems that transmit knowledge, structure thoughts, to be reinterpreted through their materiality. The thread becomes both a physical and conceptual link that connects stories, processes and intercultural narratives. Her drawings ‘Spatial and Temporal Patterns I & II’ form a kind of network whose lines undulate like fabric, suggesting terrain and tension, and depicting a changing space. The title refers to the close interconnection of space and time, which is expressed here in a reduced grid. The structure is in flux — expanding, compressing and contracting, unstable and fluid, but also flexible and adaptable.   Spatial and Temporal Patterns I & II, 2018, ink and gouache on paper, 40 x 30 cm each Courtesy of the artist #boom #exhibitioninabook #raisabosich #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book AUGUST GUCCIONE (*1999 Dresden, lives and works in Weimar) is studying Visual Communication at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In his work as a graphic designer, he translates inputs such as video, sound and data sets into dynamic visual systems. He places a particular focus on the representation of audio impulses, striving to synthesize different analog and digital media. In his work ‘BOOM,’ developed for the exhibition, he approaches the eponymous concept through the intertwining of typography and sound. To this end, Guccione has intensively explored experimental type design and the systematic translation of sound into written forms. Based on audio inputs, he generates a typography in which each letter can be understood as a small program whose principle could be flexibly extended to entire typefaces.   BOOM, 2025, typeface with sound, dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist https://youtu.be/lA_-GP7otA8?is=FpIUxAf7g7lor-7Q #boom #exhibitioninabook #augustguccione #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book LIZA LIPPERT (*2001 Munich, lives and works in Weimar) is studying Visual Communication at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her contribution to ‘BOOM!’ comprises a material collage from her multidimensional project ‘Monotonologe’, in which Lippert explores the (il)legibility of graphic systems and typefaces (e.g., graffiti), intuitive drawing and writing and spirals of thought within monologues. In a kind of fragmented and rearranged language system of her own, Lippert combines intuitive sketches with photographs, scans and handwritten fragments, experimenting with materials such as paper, textiles and latex. The haptics and formal language of the materials and signs take precedence over legibility. The rearrangement of the various material levels results in empty spaces and transparencies as well as breaks, seams and overlaps that allow for diverse associations to continually re-explore the relationship between line, sign, surface and space.   Monotonologe, 2023-2024, excerpts and material studies, dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist #boom #exhibitioninabook #lizalippert #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book LEON HENRI VOß (*1996 Lippstadt, lives and works in Weimar) is studying Fine Art at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the class for Art and Social Terrain. He understands his practice as experimental research in the medium of drawing: Process, spatial design, physicality and documentation are at the forefront, while the final product recedes into the background. His drawings emerge as records of predetermined experimental setups in which errors are not excluded but deliberately allowed and reflected upon. The central material is writing — whether his own handwriting or typewriter text, which he translates into drawing techniques. The work ‘Pat Olliffe & Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt are making out. It’s underwhelming.’ combines classic comic aesthetics with the tradition of typewriting art. The title hints at the meeting of two artistic positions: Pat Olliffe, an American comic artist, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, a pioneer of typewriting art in the GDR. Formally, the drawing is reminiscent of a comic sequence showing a comet striking a planet. The planet dissolves and disintegrates — literally — into thousands upon thousands of plus signs and dots. Voß translates the cosmic explosion into typographic imagery. The boom appears here not only as a motif, but also as a method: As a sudden shift from language to image, from order to chaos, from structure to fragments. His drawings reflect how energy, destruction and new beginnings can be condensed in the medium of writing, making the moment both visible and tangible.   Pat Olliffe & Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt are making out. It’s underwhelming., 2025, digital collage of text pages, edited with a TWEN T 180 DS electronic typewriter, 24 x 34 cm Courtesy of the artist #boom #exhibitioninabook #leonhenrivoß #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

thank you all for coming to our book launch and celebrating 7 years of nova space with us 💗 Photos: Benedict Thiele @benedict2 #boomjoy #boom #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book STEFAN MARX (*1979 Schwalmstadt, lives and works in Berlin) is an artist who works primarily with the media of drawing and painting. His characteristic works — mostly in black and white, but also partly in color — contain concise terms, song lyrics, sayings or quotations. The text becomes an image, the image a surface, through the artist’s unmistakable handwriting, which is sometimes more legible, sometimes less. Marx’s works can be found on paper and canvas as well as on posters, house walls and record covers of various labels, and in artist books, some of which he publishes himself. In addition to participating in numerous international exhibitions and art book fairs, he wrote a daily column for the New York Times in the summer of 2019.  ‘BOOM!’ shows his work ‘Heaven‘, divided into two parts, at the beginning and end of the exhibition. Similar to the white bubbles that seem to float in the dark airless space, all of the artistic contributions included in the exhibition are framed by this work. At the same time, its division into two parts hints at the spatial expansion of the publication: To fully comprehend ‘Heaven’, two copies of the book are required, which are opened and placed on top of each other.   Heaven, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 160 x 120 cm Courtesy of the artist Slide 3 @dcv_books Slide 4 @jannisuffrecht #boom #exhibitioninabook #stefanmarx #novaspace #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM! an exhibition in a book 2025, now published @dcv_books BOOM! — our 21st project — is an exhibition that nova space developed specifically for the publication of the same name. For this, we invited artists, designers, photographers, architects, and filmmakers to freely explore their associations with the term “Boom.”   The contributions demonstrate in diverse ways the potential of a term that may seem bold and loud at first glance. They deal—logically—with the bang and the explosion, but also with the spatial qualities of a boom, such as expansion, superimposition, and inversion; with cosmic phenomena; with the suddenness of events; and with social and political upheavals or turning points in personal development.   The exhibition is preceded by a fictional conversation that curator Katharina Wendler conducted with several AI models. It explores the author’s thoughts on the term “boom” while simultaneously documenting the responses of a technology that is itself in the process of growing and rapidly evolving: KW: “[…] to what extent can a book become a space or the vehicle for a “BOOM!“?   AI: “A book is perhaps even the prototypical „BOOM!“ space — it exists in a permanent state of liminality between what has already been read and what has yet to come. Every page turned is a small transition, every sentence bears the possibility of changing everything. […] Then the end of the book becomes the ultimate „BOOM!“ — the moment when this temporary world collapses and you return to reality, engrained with all the thoughts and images that have irreversibly become part of your own memory.”   Artists: Raisa Bosich, Solweig de Barry, Marcel Frey, August Guccione, Thibaut Henz, Antonia Hirsch, Sam Hodge, Pablo Kaes, Marleen Kölmel, Liza Lippard, Stefan Marx, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Richard Schött, Ben Thiele, Emily Thomas, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Sophie Charlotte von Rintelen, Leon Henri Voss, Zoller & Porter   Curator: Katharina Wendler Team: Marleen Kölmel, Annika Schallenberg, Benedict Thiele Graphic Design: Elfi Handina Murandu, Vivien Flavia Maria Sorrentino #boom #exhibitioninabook #novaspace #universitygallery #bauhausuniversitätweimar

BOOM is out! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the release with us! 🩶 Edited by @kaa___mii Published by @dcv_books Designed by @uschielfi & @virtualviv_ Photos (mostly) by @jannisuffrecht Made possible by @bauhaus_uni Who’s baby? Of course @nova_artspace We love to finally share this big project with all of you! Want a copy? Link in bio. Photos: 1) happy director Katharina Wendler, 📸 Florian Hesselbarth 2-4) book launch set-up 5) amazing nova team @benedict2 @marleenkoelmel @annikaschallenberg 6) proud book parents @jannisuffrecht @virtualviv_ @uschielfi @kaa___mii 7) loveliest people to work with 8) 📸 Jannis Uffrecht 9) boom flowers thank you @dcv_books #boomjoy #boom #novaspace #bauhausuniversität #universitygallery

A warm invitation to the exhibition opening and book release of BOOM! 7 Years of nova space Tuesday, April 14, 2026 6:00 p.m. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Room HP05, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 7, 99423 Weimar This publication brings together 20 exhibitions and projects that took place at the nova space University Gallery between 2019 and 2025. It honors more than 250 artists who exhibited their work, as well as countless others who contributed to these events. Published by @dcv_books , Berlin. As its 21st project, nova presents ‘BOOM! – an exhibition in a book.’ For this project, we invited artists, designers, writers and architects to freely associate ideas with the term “Boom.” BOOM! – an exhibition in a book Artists: Raisa Bosich, Solweig de Barry, Marcel Frey, August Guccione, Thibaut Henz, Antonia Hirsch, Sam Hodge, Pablo Kaes, Marleen Kölmel, Liza Lippert, Stefan Marx, Marcel Saidov, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Richard Schött, Ben Thiele, Emily Thomas, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Sophie Charlotte von Rintelen, Leon Henri Voß, Zoller & Porter Curated by Katharina Wendler @kaa___mii We are thrilled to celebrate the book with you – and the exhibition it contains! Graphic: @uschielfi @virtualviv_ #boom #publication #exhibition #release #novaspace