Books, signed on request, and a small group of framed editions in limited numbers. Ordering is simple: the link under each item opens an email to the studio with the item already filled in; you receive a confirmation with shipping cost and payment details (bank transfer or PayPal). Prices in EUR; shipping added at cost.
Books
Nowhere to Be Found
Mathias Kessler. Hatje Cantz, 2015. Hardcover, English.
Survey of ten years of work, published with the Kunsthal Rotterdam exhibition. Edited by Dieter Buchhart, with texts by Stephan Berg, Hartmut Böhme, David Brooks, Terry Castle, Mark Dion, Arnaud Gerspacher, Klara Hobza, Franklin Sirmans and Jovana Stokic, among others.
Planetary Forest
Clemens Finkelstein, Claudia Hartl, Mathias Kessler. DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, January 2024. Softcover, 80 pages, 20 × 27.5 cm, German/English. ISBN 978-3-95476-632-1.
The book of the participatory art-science project Planetary Forest: Bring the Forest into the Garden: forest material from a bark-beetle clear-cut in the Rosbach city forest, rebuilt as a living sculpture in the Botanical Garden Giessen. Four “forest walks” with texts by Claus Leggewie, Claudia Hartl, Clemens Finkelstein, Chiara Juriatti and Mathias Kessler, Liza B. Bauer and Frederic Hanusch, Holger Laake and Volker Wissemann; 34 colour images.
The Year Without a Summer
Mathias Kessler. Distanz Verlag, 2025. Softcover, English.
Light Phenomena: the airbrush paintings after Turner, Friedrich and Degas, read against two centuries of atmospheric data. With texts by Christos Zerefos, Michael Wang, Chiara Juratti and Mathias Kessler.
Editions — Light Phenomena, art board edition 2026
Airbrush on art board, framed with passe-partout and oak frame. Each work is unique within a small numbered edition; edition number and certificate signed by the artist.
After Caspar David Friedrich: Sea Beach in the Fog (photo), 2025
Airbrush on art board, unframed or framed.
25 × 35 cm · edition of 4
After Caspar David Friedrich: Winter Landscape (photo), 2023
Airbrush on art board, unframed or framed.
25 × 35 cm · edition of 4
After Edgar Degas: Racehorses in a Landscape (photo), 2025
Airbrush on art board, unframed or framed.
25 × 35 cm · edition of 4
After Caspar David Friedrich: Greifswald in Moonlight (photo), 2025
Airbrush on art board, unframed or framed.
50 × 70 cm · edition of 2
After Caspar David Friedrich: Winter Landscape with Church (photo), 2025
Airbrush on art board, unframed or framed.
50 × 70 cm · edition of 2
Storm over Widderstein, 2024
Airbrush on Reflex art board, each one painted by hand — not a print. Unframed or framed with oak frame, passe-partout and museum glass.
30 × 40 cm · edition of 10
Editions — Photographs
Crocker Land – Nowhere to Be Found_01, New York, 2010
Silver gelatin print, unframed or framed.
24 × 30 cm · edition of 30
Crocker Land – Nowhere to Be Found_02, New York, 2010
Silver gelatin print, unframed or framed.
24 × 30 cm · edition of 30
Ilulissat 01 002-#10, Greenland, 2007
Digital C-print, unframed or framed.
23 × 57 cm · edition of 30
Ilulissat 001X, Greenland, 2007
Digital C-print, mounted behind non-reflective gallery acrylic with back brace.
100 × 50 cm · edition of 6
Ilulissat 011_3, Greenland, 2007
Digital C-print, mounted behind non-reflective gallery acrylic with back brace.
100 × 50 cm · edition of 6