Catalogue for the exhibition “Die Mauer, Vorher, Nachher, Ost & West / The Wall, Before, After, East & West about art from both sides of the German Wall before and after the fall of the wall in 1989 at Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin.
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
2024
Art direction and design of the catalog and exhibition graphics for “Where The Wild Lines Are / Wo die wilden Strichen wohnen” - an exhibition on children’s books at Neue Sammlung of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Wall drawings and book cover & opener illustrations in the book by Christoph Niemann
2024
Die Neue Sammlung Pinakothek der Moderne
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Book design: Stephie Becker
Illustrations: Christoph Niemann
Exhibition architecture: Carina Deuschl
Fukt magazine for Drawing #22
The Nature Issue
In our latest edition, we're exploring the timeless bond between drawing and the natural world. This issue brings together artists from six continents who capture nature from different perspectives. You'll find conversations on queer ecology, stories of pioneering female botanists, and reflections on how drawing can deepen our connection to the environment.
We also share personal memories tied to nature and discuss the urgent need to preserve our planet's diverse ecosystems. From the forests of the Amazon to prairies and landscapes shaped by wind and fire, this issue invites you to reconnect with the beauty and significance of the world around us.
Featuring:
Abel Rodríguez, Aerocene & Tomás Saraceno, Bjørn Lie, Charmaine Watkiss, Cy Twombly, Dane Mitchell, Devra Fox, Diana Baltag, Erin Wiersma, Erwin Lichtenegger, Gabriela Albergaria, Gizem Vural, Hannelie Coetzee, Jitish Kallat, José Gomes, Julie Brook, Katie Holten, Merete Joelsen Aune, Michael Amery, Nicole Wendel, Nohemí Pérez, Per Adolfsen, Petrit Halilaj, Piet Oudolf, Rikuo Ueda, Sarah Davidson, Sixto-Juan Zavala, Sonja Hinrichsen, Sylvain Le Corre, Tacita Dean, Wangechi Mutu, Yaneli Montiel, Zheng Bo
256 pages
softcover with die-cut
Fukt Magazine
2024
Book celebrating 10 years of the festival “Firstborn Girl” for feminist culture, which aims to promote diverse approaches in deliberating and (re)presenting gender in the art and critical practices, Skopje, North Macedonia.
Tiiiitinc.com, Skopje
2023
FUKT Issue #21 ventures into the realms of the Unknown. Featuring drawings by 29 contemporary artists from 18 countries around the world, we explore the uncertainties that inundate our everyday lives, the mysteries that are lurking in the shadows, and the vast potential of life beyond our own universe.
2023
Book design for Norwegian painter Meta Norheim on the occasion of her retrospective exhibition “Between Pearls & Potatoes” at Telemarkkunstsenter.
Creative direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Client: Telemarkkunstsenter
Photos: Istvan Virag
2024
As part of the Tegnetriennalen 2023 / Drawing Triennial, this book features the results of a Chinese Whispers - Drawing game between drawing artists and writers, words and drawing corresponding to each other.
Client: Tegnerforbundet
2023
Doctor without hat - design of a book written by my mother in law Gunilla Hegardt. Her father was the local doctor in Strömstad, Sweden for many years and he had written a diary from 1939 on - and kept going for 40 years. Its a story about life in rural Sweden, North and Westcoast, personal notes, burning ships and the times of war. Its a daughter - father story - her being a doctor herself. He loved the caprifule flowers that grow a lot around the family’s summerhouse. They became a cover flower and i cyano typed them for the endpapers.
2023
A yearly planner on the topic of courage, change, anger, politics and activism with daily tasks on how to become more courageous and how to take action on subjects that matter to you.
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Lisa Hexamer
Client: Radikale Töchter
2022
A visual history of all things video games, this book provides the reader with an overview of the gaming industry, from the very first game created around the mid-twentieth century, right through to the present day. Particular focus is given to advances within the industry during this time, such as new technologies, innovative gameplay, never-before-seen graphics, and design.
client: phaidon
2023
Book design for artist Marilyn Ann Owens on the occasion of her retrospective exhibition at Telemarkkunstsenter in Norway.
Client: Telemarkkunstsenter
Art Direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Photography: KUNSTDOK / Istvan Virag for Telemark Art Centre
2023
Book design of the monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever published.
Client: Phaidon
2023
While creating portraits is as old as humanity, what does that mean today, especially in the age of selfies and social media? After the years of a global pandemic and people hidden behind masks FUKT Issue #20 explores and celebrates the human face. We delve into the world of portraiture and the face in contemporary art. Inside the magazine, you’ll discover a range of perspectives and topics, from face blindness, courtroom drawings and lockdown portraits to facial recognition – a selection of drawing positions that present a unique take on the face.
The cover comes in variations of 24 different printed faces. When unwrapped, that loose sheet of paper reveals an empty face on the cover. The reader is invited to draw a portrait and share on socialmedia.
fuktmagazine.com
Catalog for the exhibition 1+1=3 The art worlds of Mary Bauermeister at Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Bauermeister has made a living from art since selling her first painting in 1955, and despite huge success in the New York art scene in the 1960s, has remained unknown to a wide audience.
Art direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Lara Gessner
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2022
Book design featuring more than 200 designers from more than 50 countries, including icons and trailblazers past and present such as Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, Florence Knoll, Ilse Crawford, Faye Toogood, Nathalie du Pasquier, it records and illuminates the fascinating and overlooked history of women preeminent in the field. This A-Z survey shines a vital spotlight on the most extraordinary objects made by women designers.
2021
Client: Phaidon
Book design for the exhibition “Amazons of Pop - Women artists, superheroines, icons 1961–1973” at the Kunshalle zu Kiel and a 2nd exhibition period at Kunsthaus Graz.
Client: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthaus Graz
2021–2022
A tiny book about a dream in the family of icelandic artist Erla Haraldsdottir in 5 languages.
2021
Design for artist Christoph Niemann’s book on a trip to the zoo during the a pandemic lockdown in Berlin, featuring drawings, photos and linocuts.
2021
Client: Christoph Niemann
Book design for Norwegian textile artist Brita Been „Patterns Unlimited“ accompanying a solo exhibition / retrospective at Telemarkkunstsenter edited by Hilde Tørdal.
Photos of the book by Istvan Virag
Telemark kunstsenter
440 pages strong book showcasing 100 emerging chefs selected by 20 culinary masters.
A custom handwriting typeface was created for this book.
2021
client: Phaidon publishers
This new release of Fukt magazine for Drawing, created during the COVID-19 pandemic looks at the art of narration in drawing.
You can expect a myriad of illuminating stories to unfold both through drawings and interviews. Contributions from established artists Chris Ware, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Brian Rea as well as emerging artists Maria Paz and Xiyu Tomorrow among many others make up this issue.
The storyline has been interrogated in a number of ways throughout the edition, taking the reader on a journey from the mythical, to the sequential and the storyboard. For editor Björn Hegardt, the thread that unites all of the featured artists is that “above all, they are people who create drawings with beautiful, surprising, funny or sad stories. Like always in our magazine, everything revolves around our beloved practice of drawing.”
Artists in #19:
Adéla Marie Jirků, Bjørn Bjarre, Brian Rea, Byun Young Geun, Chris Ware, Colin Matthes, Danielle Morgan, Davor Gromilović, Emma Talbot, Gareth Fuller, Jana Gunstheimer, Johannes Høie, Maria Medem, Maria Paz, Marie-Louise Ekman, Miodrag Manojlović, Océane Moussé, Ori Toor, Sakubei Yamamoto, Shuvinai Ashoona, Toyin Ojih Odutola, WOSHIBAI, Xiyu Tomorrow, Yuichi Yokoyama
2020
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Catalogue design for Norwegian Greenlightdistrict’s art festival Skog (forest), an exhibition focussing on nature, art and human impact.
2021
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Client: Greenlightdistrict
Muscle, Beefsteak… Beafsteak Run Amok
Artist publication for artist Mariken Kramer, including a custom cover typography.
published by Multipress Forlag
2020
Design for a book by artist Christoph Niemann on the struggle of learning the piano.
As the drawings are obviously all by the artist, as well as the custom hand writing fonts - my position as designer in this type of job is one of the “editor-eye” or “art director” - contributing my view on the rhythm of images in the story telling, size, use of color, production details regarding materials and a little bit of typographic solutions here and there. I constantly learn a lot from our conversations on images, sequences and what they tell by the way we show them.
Christoph Niemann
2020
Catalogue for an exhibition of multi media artist Rachel Maclean at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. A wide landscape format with a padded cover showcasing her cute and seductive yet disturbing art in uninterrupted widescreen stills of her video works. Referencing some elements of fairy tales this book gives the impression of a childrens book, but as you look closer its anything but that.
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2020
An English/Macedonian catalogue for Macedonian artists Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska for their exhibition at the Museum of contemporary art Skopje showing works of a series of 3 exhibtions in 3 places. The experimental typeface was created by Hristina Ivanoska referencing Oskar Hansens open form theory.
Clients: Hristina Ivanoska & Yane Calovski, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
2020
A book for artist Inken Reinert, showing her beautiful series of installations and interventions constructed out of east german furniture. She picked these up from private households in post wall Berlin when people wanted to get rid of their GDR wall units.
Client: Inken Reinert
2020
The paper is a book by artist Christoph Niemann: “A wordless book about the joy of reading magazines and newspapers”.
Christoph: “The world is facing countless pressing issues. I don’t know how to solve them, but I’m convinced that in order to find out, we need a press that can ask the relevant questions, without fear of threats, persecution and violence. We need to protect reporters who take risks to shine light into the darkest corners of the world and to bring us the truth about sensitive subjects involving our health, our safety and our geopolitical environment. RSF is fighting for this since 1985.” All the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Christoph Niemann
2019
Cookbook for renowned Slovenian chef Ana Ros, who runs Hisa Franko in Kobarid, Slovenia.
client: Phaidon
2019
Issue No. 18 Systems is focussing on artistic methods, rules and critical views on systems in the field of drawing. The cover is interactive and includes 3 paper discs that break up the title.
The issue received the “cover of the year” award at the stack awards.
Buy it here
2019
Book of results for the 15th edition of the architecture competition Europan Norway - Productive Cities 2.
Europan Norway
Design direction: Ariane Spanier
Book Design: Sarah Discours
2020
The book showcases more than 80 contemporary floral designers who are extending the boundaries of their art.
Year: 2019
Client: Phaidon
Design of an artist Book by Swedish artist Erik Bünger.
Based on a lecture performance that revolves around the role the animal plays in human language as a name for that speechlessness from which speech once took off. A creature that does not speak; a creature you cannot speak of.
Client: Erik Bünger
2018
published by: Galerie m29
Artist book on a story on how artist and illustrator Christoph Niemann met David Hockney in Los Angeles.
Client: Christoph Niemann
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2018
Book design on New York’s Lower Eastside restaurants Contra and Wildair by wunderkind chefs Fabián van Hauske and Jeremiah Stone for Phaidon publishers.
client: Phaidon
2018
A book for Swedish Artists Björn Hegardt & Theo Ågren about their artistic research on the subject of gravity and levitation.
How did the Tibetan monks levitate heavy boulders? What is barophobia and who was Qamar Ali? How did Ann Hodges' life turn out, the only human on earth hit by a meteorite?
This book is more than simply a guide or glossary, it responds to the colossal themes of levitation and free fall through an artistic lens. It contains scientific, artistic and mystical examples, reflections and fictional stories by different authors on the phenomena and history of gravity, weightlessness, levitation and their antithesis: the art of falling. It is a collage, a summary of the artists own experiments and investigations, that will take the reader on a journey that straddles the fictional and the real. The book contains stories in which for example humans, frogs and objects are capable of floating freely through space, be it through magic, cheap tricks, advanced technology or other, more imaginative methods.
Available here
Year: 2019
Clients: www.bjornandtheo.net
client: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
Creative Direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
2018
Catalog for the exhibition “Tenthaus for sale - Art Market” at Tenthaus Oslo.
Client: Tenthaus
2020
Fukt Magazine for contemporary drawing issue No. 17 The Words Issue - Written Drawings, 2018
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Stock Fiction - a meta story!
A typographic story using only stock photo language. The beauty of unintended poetry.
Published in the bookseries 100 for 10 by melvilledesign
and available for purchase here:
100for10.com/product/ariane-spanierstock-fiction/
Year: 2018
Catalogue for the final degree show for Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) the cover comes with a sanding paper feel.
Year: 2018
Art direction: Ariane Spanier
Design: Romain Fontaine
Catalogue for Kwade’s exhibition AMBO at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel.
Year: 2018
Editor: Anette Hüsch
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Over 230 self- and rewritten sayings, truths, and mind boggling lines on the topic of "Borders", collected in a 236 pages book, A6, self published.
Year: 2017
3 publications for the 11th Shanghai Biennale "Why Not Ask Again". A guide book: Blueprint, an image book Mise-en-scéne and a book for a side project "51 personae" where visitors could book appointment for encounters with citizens of Shanghai.
Year: 2016 – 2017
Client: Powerstation of Art
Editing: Shveta Sarda
Programmes, brochures and all related seasonal promotional materials.
Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater Orchesters Mannheim
Year: 20167-2018
Creative direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
A publication for a planned theatre for kids and young people in Oslo, Norway. "Kloden" means "world".
www.kloden.no
Year: 2017
Client: Scenekunstbruket
Fukt # 16 Dirty Drawings - The Sex Issue
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.
Year: 2016
Creative direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Christoph Niemann /
Abrams Books /
Knesebeck Verlag
Year: 2016
A publication on art and artists spaces in the city.
Client: Transborder Studio
Year: 2017
The reader is one of 2 publications for the Nordic Biennale of contemporary Art Momentum 8 Tunnel Vision. A bottle with a scent of Tunnel Vision created by artist Sissel Tolaas was inserted into the books spine.
Year: 2015
published by
Mousse publishing
Client: Momentum / Punkt ø
Poster, Invitation, Banners and catalogue for the exhibition "Dritte Welle – Die Gruppe SPUR, der Pop und die Politik" at Kunsthalle Kiel. The cover has 4 circled cut outs, through which the four artists porträts are visible.
Year: 2013
Art Direction & Design:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing. Watch a teaser video here.
Year: 2016
Creative direction & design: Ariane Spanier
Video: Áine Gibbons
A book about a project on artistic process and restrictions by Erla Haraldsdottir and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Umeå University, Sweden and School of Fine Arts Reykjavik, Iceland.
The book is designed with many fold out pages that display tasks the participants were giving to eachother and revealing the art works created by these rules. Hot foil stamping on the cover. Published by Crymogea.
Erla Haraldsdottir & Academy of Fine Arts Umeå University
Year: 2014
Art Direction:
Ariane Spanier
Design: tephie Becker
A hand book on art and artist's practice in schools, edited and published Tenthaus Oslo. See the elements animated here.
Year: 2016
The exhibition focuses on notions about nets and webs, mounting work not only exploring those naturally woven nets, such as spiders’ webs, but also the terms and entities we associate with webs and nets, such as data in diagram structures or using the flexible data we find in the Internet.
The book comprises an introductory essay as well as comments on the artworks and an associative glossary around the term net with 49 contributions by different authors.
Within these texts, the titles are all linked with each other through a coordinating system of dots and lines that spans around the book. It is printed in 2 languages, each turned 180 to each other, being a book with 2 covers.
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
published by KERBER VERLAG
Year: 2014
Editor: Anette Hüsch
Art Direction & Design: Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker, Maria Nogueira
A publication accompanying a retrospective exhibition on German artist Ludger Gerdes (1954-2008) at Kunstmuseen Krefeld in 2016 and Kunsthalle Kiel in 2017.
Kunstmuseen Krefeld &
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Year: 2016
Creative direction:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Publication showing photographs of installations by Swedish artist Michael Johansson. The always appear with the second half of the image in black and white, when taking them apart, they are all single posters, with a black and white backside. 31 x 47 cm.
Year: 2014
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.
For this issue there are 4 ball chains attached that alter the shapes of the letters of the magazines name with each movement. Additionally there was a custom typeface designed for the interior of the mag.
Watch the teaser here.
Year: 2015
Book design for Icelandic artist Erla Haraldsdóttir's paintings and her process of giving herself tasks.
Year: 2016
Client: Erla Haraldsdóttir
Publication for the art exhibition INSERT 2014 in New Delhi in Jan/Feb 2014. The cover of the publication carries various sized stickers in the shape of brackets, taking them off, every user can create their own cover design in terms of the white spaces left when a sticker is gone.
insert2014.in
Client:
Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Year: 2012–2014
Artistic Directors of INSERT2014:
raqs media collective
Publication:
Art Direction & Design:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Book of results of the architecture competition Europan 12 in Norway, themed Adaptable City. The Book has index cuts which lead the viewer to the 3 chapters – the sites in the Oslo region.
Client: Europan Norway
Year: 2013
Art Direction & Design:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
The folded cover of the
catalog for the Norwegian representatives at the architecture competition "Europan" is printed on transparent paper. The title logo is only readable when wrapped around the book, as one opens it, the letters and numbers dissolve into abstract shapes.
Client: Europan Norway
Year: 2011
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009
This book was the result of a collaborative effort to discuss selected key cities and urban phenomena in the Barents Region, containing the northernmost areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and of Northwest Russia.
Client: 0047, Oslo
Year: 2009
Collaborators: Tanja Bergquist, Espen Røyseland, Øystein Rø
Catalogue design for the norwegian results of the European architecture contest “Europan”, 10th edition.
The letters of the names of the 3 Norwegian sites – Oslo, Trondheim and Vardø - are placed on the fore edges of the book. Those black elements are influencing the design on each page, they grow into black boxes, provide underlining of titles, or serve for the statistics of the competition. The typography on the outside of the book grows to the inside.
Client: Europan Norway
Year: 2010
Results publication for the Norwegian section of the EUROPAN Competition for young architects.
Client: Europan Norway
Year: 2015
Creative Direction:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing, published annually and presenting a fine selection of international artists practices in the realm of drawing.
Year: 2014
Creative Direction:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Ariane Spanier,
Maria Nogueira,
Stephanie Roden
Teaser: Maria Nogueira
Book design for Macedonian artists Yane Calovski’s and Hristina Ivanoska’s project about Oskar Hansen, a Finnish/Polish architect who, back in the 1960’s, had made a proposal for the new building of the museum of contemporary art in Skopje, Macedonia. His concept included an architectural structure based on hexagon shaped modules, which could modify the exhibition space according to the exhibit. His proposal was rejected and never realized.
Calovski and Ivanoska play with the idea of what would have happened if Hansens museum had been built. Which exhibitions and artists would have been on display?
I used the hexagons in colorful for the cover and as black and white elements for the content. A quote from an interview of Ivanoska reads “If You don’t know about something it does not mean it does not exist”, this quote fills a number of spreads throughout the book.
Client: Yane Calovski/Hristina Ivanoska and Gallery Kronika, Bytom, Poland
Year: 2007
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing showcasing the work of international artists working with drawing.
The design and format of the annual publication changes with each issue.
Year: 2013
Art Direction & Design:
Ariane Spanier
Design: Stephie Becker
Cover collaborator:
Maria Nogueira
Book design for a research project by German artists Ulrike Mohr and Susanne Weck about a panoramic Russian painting which was removed from a former russian military base outside Berlin after the fall of the Berlin wall. The empty spot which the painting had left behind brought the two artists to go on an expedition to search for it. This trip lead them to Moscow and Shukov, Russia.
The book tells the story of their search, their travel, as well as their unexpected success. They found the painting and the painter, and even the roll used to transport the painting back from Berlin in the 1990’s.
The cover and book ends show a map of their project in 3 languages (German, English and Russian) linking all the persons and locations they had contact with during this 4 year project.
Client: U.Mohr / S. Weck / Museum Karlshorst, Germany
Year: 2006
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing. The design and format of the annual publication changes with each issue.
Client: Fukt Magazine
Year: 2008
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing. The design and format of the annual publication changes with each issue.
Client: Fukt Magazine
Year: 2009
Fukt – a magazine for contemporary drawing. The design and format of the annual publication changes with each issue.
Client: Fukt Magazine
Year: 2010
Informational brochure for the Weissensee School of Art.
Year: 2008
Client: Weissensee School of Art
