The King's Beards or Hair. As a tribute to Elvis Presley on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death, Volker Renner stages the King as a collectible silhouette...
The book project “A Road Trip Redone” is based on Stephen Shore’s legendary A Road Trip Journal, which served as the matrix for the route, motifs, and layouts. Shore’s book...
The blurriness that pervades this artist's book by Volker Renner starts right with the title: the Dutch "aangeschoten" is colloquial for "tipsy" but, more literally, also means "wounded by a shot," alcoholic or otherwise....
The brown and slightly greasy patent-leather cover brings back memories of family albums that were antiquated long before we got old. Nowadays such heirlooms end up in the trash, at...
Der Grosse Preis Large golden graphical letters embossed into a hardback jacket made of gray book linen advertise the Grand Prize. “Hang on a second …,” many readers, at least...
“You don’t truly know what your homeland is to you until you’ve traveled to faraway places,” a German saying has it. In his artist’s book But Pedro’s a Pony, Volker...
Die Anderen This book—the title means The Others—presents eighty-seven found photographs, or more precisely speaking, slides. And yes, Volker Renner, who unearthed them, studied with Peter Piller, who works with...
A crack in a wall marked with black masking tape, four slices of restructured ham rolled up and laid side by side on a piece of paper towel, several knit...
Partial overview of meanings: denoting the people of Persia; Iranians (colloquial) short for: Persian carpet one of the great tragedies by the Greek poet Aeschylus Volker Renner's latest artist's book Die...
Volker Renner’s images play with our expectations of what a photograph does. The center of his pictures is often veiled or blank, the angles are unusual, a grand hotel’s back...
In his twenty-fifth artist’s book, Volker Renner adapts the courtroom drama genre. On the movie screen, the latter is defined by its heavy reliance on dialogue; Renner, by contrast, lets...
Call them readymades: plastic food replicas (manufactured for food photographers?) out of which Volker Renner has assembled a visual ode to German cuisine that may well ruin your appetite. The...
Gewinner is Volker Renner’s smallest book to date but, at 384 pages, not the slimmest. It’s coming out on occasion of the visual arts working fellowship from the City of...
Heldenteile Right on time for the 2018 football world cup, Volker Renner is bringing out his riposte to the conventional collectible card album. His artist’s book Heldenteile pays homage to...
Lindenstraße Index The Artificial World on Lindenstraße and Its Distinctions By Merle Radtke Lindenstraße has been lighting up television screens across Germany since December 8, 1985, making it the country’s...
Lindenstraße, Germany’s oldest soap opera and longest-running TV series, will be put to sleep by the end of 2019. A media phenomenon since it first hit the air - waves...
Pension Schlange Pension Schlange turns the mechanics of classic animal photography on its head. Instead of waiting for hours until the animal to be captured shows itself, this photographer hangs...
Volker Renner, the collector and recycler of found photographs, has tapped a new source: the website “Faces of the Riot,” which went online within weeks after the storming of the...
Created in 1952, Jackson Pollock’s “Convergence” is one of the American artist’s most famous drip paintings. It first came out as a jigsaw puzzle in 1964. Then one of the...
Bright frames before blue backgrounds. Rectilinear or, less frequently, curved. The view of the sky is unobstructed or crisscrossed by transverse struts; occasionally clouds gather. One, two, or three pillars...
For several days in early July 2017, the sky over Hamburg swarmed with dozens of helicopters. They ferried guests of state to the G20 summit and kept an eye on...
The project Sleep Tight represents a very different kind of search for clues that challenges the viewer to do his own detective work. Everyone knows Columbo, the slightly quirky American...
Wie war Las Vegas (What was Las Vegas like) is not the portrait of a city. Volker Renner doesn’t waste a single picture on the familiar motifs, and even avoids...
In Wo waren Sie, Herr Renner? Volker Renner returns to the scenes of his numerous travels over the past years and takes a trip down memory lane. The artist’s book is his...
