Book Launch: Prem Krishnamurthy Past Words

 Krist Gruijthuijsen, former director of KW, will interview Prem Krishnamurthy about exhibition making, language, and time. They will also be in conversation with Ann Richter of Studio Pandan, the Berlin-based graphic design studio who designed the experimental KW section of the book. Expect dialogue, digressions, design, and display—along with, possibly, karaoke afterwards!

 

Prem Krishnamurthy runs Department of Transformation, an artist-organized group that explores art as an agent of transformation for individuals, communities, and institutions. His multidisciplinary work manifests itself in books, exhibitions, images, performances, publications, systems, talks, texts, and workshops (+ karaoke!). He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year With…” residency fellowship in 2018.

He has curated several large-scale exhibitions including FRONT International 2022: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows. His book-length epistolary essay, On Letters, was published in 2022. Having previously founded Project Projects and P!, he is currently a partner in the design studio Wkshps.

 

Ann Richter is a designer and co-founder of Studio Pandan, where she weaves many organizational threads and incorporates her inventiveness and systematic thinking into various design media. Studio Pandan is a creative studio that emphasizes strong concepts, surprising visual form and a love of detail in typography. With Studio Pandan she designs visual identities, publications and digital products for clients such as the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or the ETH Zurich. She is also one half of A.R. practice, which operates at the interface between design and curatorial practice; the duo’s work has been shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and published by Onomatopee, among others. In addition to questions of current visual culture, she is concerned with feminism and her Southeast Asian roots, e.g. how to prepare the best Puto.