Boeklancering - Doppelgänger

The city is full of symbols: buildings and monuments that convincingly remind us of who we are, what our history is, and who we are supposed to honor. But these objects are less immutable than they seem. Esper Postma breathes life into the dormant side of their identity, the qualities they prefer not to show. His work reveals that every building, monument, and artifact has a doppelganger: an inner alter ego that demands attention.

Join us for an evening of performance-lectures and presentations by Jasmijn Visser , Sebastián Diaz Morales and Esper Postma , marking the launch of Postma's first major publication: Doppelgänger, designed by mainstudio/ Edwin van Gelder .

Program

Esper Postma , Doppelgänger , The Double Lives of Monuments

Jasmine Visser , The city as a cultural model

Sebastián Diaz Morales , Smashing Monuments

About the artist

Esper Postma is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam and Berlin. He participated in the BPA// Berlin Program for Artists (2020) and was a research fellow at Villa Romana in Florence and the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (2021). He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at venues including Canary Test (Los Angeles), EIGEN + ART Lab (Berlin), Villa Romana (Florence), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster), Stadtmuseum Lindau, Moira (Utrecht), and P/////AKT (Amsterdam). He has also participated in international group exhibitions at venues including KINDL (Berlin), Kunstverein Braunschweig, ArtVerona, Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2014 he received the DAAD Prize and in 2017 he was nominated for the Future of Europe Prize.