Book launch: Doppelgänger

The city is full of symbols; buildings and monuments that confidently remind us who we are, what our history is and whom we should honour. But these objects are not as stable as they seem. Esper Postma breathes life into the dormant side of their identity, the qualities they would rather keep from view. His works show that every building, monument and artefact has a doppelgänger; an inner alter ego that is vying for attention.

Join us for a night of performative lectures and presentations by Jasmijn Visser, Sebastian Diaz Morales, and Esper Postma, at the occasion of Postma’s first comprehensive publication: Doppelgänger, designed by mainstudio/ Edwin van Gelder.

Program

Esper Postma, Doppelgänger, The Double Lives of Monuments

Jasmijn Visser, The city as a cultural model

Sebastián Diaz Morales, Smashing Monuments

About the author:

Esper Postma is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. He was a participant of the BPA// Berlin program for artists (2020) and 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. Postma has had solo exhibitions at Canary Test, Los Angeles; EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin; Villa Romana, Florence; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Stadtmuseum Lindau; Moira, Utrecht and P/////AKT, Amsterdam. He has participated in international group exhibitions at KINDL, Berlin; Kunstverein Braunschweig; ArtVerona; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, among others. He received the DAAD prize in 2014 and was nominated for the Future of Europe Prize in 2017.