Vera Palme will be reading a text made up and arranged of texts by Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Ellen Yeon Kim, Marta Riniker-Radich, Elif Saydam, Dominik Sittig, Geraldine Tedder, and Nadim Vardag.
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Vera Palme (b. 1983, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin; Bizarro, Copenhagen and New Toni, Berlin. In 2023, she self-published Nuts, a collection of short writings.
Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff (b. 1990, Lünen, Germany) lives and works in Zurich. She has worked as curator and educator and served as co-director of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg from 2021 to 2025. She is currently working on her first novel and studying writing and translation in Bern and Paris.
Ellen Yeon Kim (b. 1985) lives and works in Berlin. Kim works across sound, installation, text, and performance. Her practice investigates suffering through fragmented narratives and spatial arrangements. Following the onset of illness, Kim took time off and has resumed her practice in limited capacity. Kim studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main and the Slade School of Art, London. She participated in the Kölnischer Kunstverein Atelier Program and was awarded the Peter Mertes Stipendium from Bonner Kunstverein.
Marta Riniker-Radich (1982, Bern) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. She has a long-standing drawing practice, which unfolds in series of small, hyperrealistic pencil drawings. Language is a fundamental part of her practice and manifests both in her works and in fictional texts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Swiss Institute NY and Istituto Svizzero Milano. She was the recipient of the Swiss Art Award, the Manor Preis Aargau and the Prix de la Fondation Lélo Fiaux.
Elif Saydam (b. 1985, Canada) lives and works between Berlin, DE and Izmir, TR. Saydam is the co-author of the body-horror novel Colt Jonner's Desecration of Descent (2018), with Vera Palme, and frequently collaborates on interdisciplinary text-based projects with other artists and writers. Saydam was the recipient of the Hessische Kulturstiftung Atelier in NYC for 2024/25, and is currently working on a monograph with Ursula Pürrer, Rosen Eveleigh, François Pisapia and José Segebre.
Dominik Sittig (b. 1975, Nuremberg, Germany) is an artist and writer. He lives and works in Berlin since 2007. Solo exhibitions: The Pompeii Paradigm (2023), MEMORIORAMA (2018), Die anwesenden Eltern (2015). Group exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein (2024), Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg (2022), Kunsthalle Bern (2021). From February 2017 to April 2023, he wrote the autobiographical novel Monkey Memoir, which has not yet been published.
Geraldine Tedder (b. 1986, lives in Zurich) is director of Kunsthalle Winterthur. She has written and published texts such as You Are Probably Completely Oblivious That This Text Actually Is About You (2020).
Nadim Vardag (b. 1980, Regensburg, Germany) is an artist living and working in Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include Facciata / Facade / Fassade at Spazio Orr, Brescia (2024), Condition at Galerie Lombardi-Kargl, Vienna (2023), Promo at Stations, Berlin (2022) and Speicher at New Toni, Berlin (2021). He is also the founder of Schleuse, an artist space in Vienna operating since 2018.
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The reading will be in English. The event is free of charge.