Edition Block

Join us for the opening of “60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026” this Sunday, April 26, 11.30 am – 2 pm.

Throughout the years, René Block repeatedly published collective edition projects, most often in the form of print portfolios.
“En Bloc”, conceived for Galerie René Block’s fifth anniversary and first presented in 1969, is a special case: not a portfolio, but a tambour-door cabinet containing works by 19 artists who shaped the gallery’s program in its first years.
With its 19 very different contributions, “En Bloc” is an early example of Block’s ongoing interest in collective edition projects.

On view in “60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026”
29 April – 30 August 2026
Edition Block, Prager Straße 5, Berlin

Images: Dieter Roth, Familienbad; Cabinet „En Bloc“; KP Brehmer, Regenschachtel; Wolf Vostell, Radar Alarm; Booth of Edition Block at Fachmesse für Multiplizierte Kunst, Berlin 1972

Upcoming exhibition:

IN MEMORIAM
BEUYS
PAIK
MACIUNAS

29.1. – 19.4.26

KIF - KUNST IM FENSTER
Schaperstr. 11
10719 Berlin

Joseph Beuys died 40 years ago, on January 23, 1986.
Nam June Paik died 20 years ago, on January 29, 2006.
We are taking these anniversaries as an opportunity to commemorate the concert ‚In Memoriam George Maciunas‘ in July 1978 that both artists dedicated to their friend George Maciunas (1931–1978).
The concert for two pianos was performed in the auditorium of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf in memory of the artist and founder of the Fluxus movement.
“We set up two pianos,” Beuys describes the piano duet, ”he [Paik] does his thing, I do my thing, we haven’t agreed on what we do. In terms of sound. We meet at this particular point, neither of us knows what the other is doing; the only thing we know and have agreed on is the time.” (Joseph Beuys) After exactly 74 minutes, the concert ended with an alarm clock ringing. George Maciunas died at the age of 47.
Edition Block published, among other things, a recording of the piano duet as a double LP (EB48b) and an enlarged invitation card to the concert as a silkscreen print on canvas (EB48a).

EXTENDED

Pravdoliub Ivanov
Vehicles Dream and other Dreams
until April 12

Edition Block
Prager Str. 5
10779 Berlin



The exhibition brings together works by Pravdoliub Ivanov (born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1964) from the past three decades. His installation Vehicles Dream, created in New York in 1998, takes the centre stage. The city that ‘never sleeps’ was the setting for Ivanov’s photographs of people sleeping in subway cars, exhausted by the rhythm of the city that they themselves help to maintain. By mounting the images on small wheels scattered throughout the space, he allowed visitors to rearrange them. Moving around in this way, the portraits appear as a symbol of collective exhaustion. The social metaphor of these alienated and isolated figures, created more than 25 years ago, has gained unexpected political relevance today, visible in their silent paralysis and metaphysical helplessness.
In addition to the work Vehicles Dream, the artist’s objects and drawings explore the interplay between everyday life, perception and imagination. With subtle, often humorous interventions, seemingly familiar things are called into question.
Pravdoliub Ivanov lives and works in Sofia. He studied at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and, together with Ivan Moudov and Stefan Nikolaev, represented Bulgaria at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Previously, he participated in the 4th Istanbul Biennale (1995), Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana (2003) and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006). His works have also been shown in important overview exhibitions such as In den Schluchten des Balkan (2003) at the Fridericianum in Kassel and Blut & Honig – Zukunft ist am Balkan (2003) at the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg. His works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, among others.