I make mostly one-off and small edition artist books, some few are also produced in open editions. You can purchase them directly through me, in my Etsy Shop, and a selection of books is also available from Vamp and Tramp (please check both the section miniature books and the section artist books) and Abecedarian Gallery. I am proud to present a selection here. Please click on an image if you are interested in seeing more. Some of them lead to their own page with more information. I am still working on completing the information, and for some all that will happen is that you are being led to an enlarged image. – But maybe that’s better than nothing. If you have questions about any of my works, please get into touch, I would love to tell you more about it!
In conversation
In conversation, installation book art by H. Kurzke 2018
346. A Journey While Staying As Still As Possible is a book about my experience in hospital being pregnant with twins. You see here a detail of the model which accompanies copy 1/10.
346. A Journey While Staying as Still as Possible is an artistbook by H. Kurzke, 2017, in which she shows her experience being pregnant in hospital. This is copy 1/10, showing the scroll and the accompaning model.
Dot-Dash. An alphabet book written in Ascii and Morse Code.
2016, H. Kurzke
This is bottle No. 72 of my ongoing art project Message in a Bottle. This is the first in my my Small World series featuring miniature furniture and items along with books. The book can be removed from the scene, it holds on to the bed with a magnet, and is of course fully functional and has content. The bottle has a diameter of approx. 5cm.
Artist Book Die Stadt/The City. Bilingual throughout, nonadhesive binding, sits in a altered matchbox. Pop-up Centre Panel.
Book by Hilke Kurzke
Detail of Bottle No. 78 of the ongoing Project Message in a Bottle. Message No 78 carries the title "Small World - The chair". There is a wall with photos behind a chair which and a book on top. The book is for course fully functional and contains a text. It is held on the chair with the help of a hidden magnet.
Artwork by Hilke Kurzke
To Touch and To Cut
To touch and to cut is an accordion folded strip of paper, attached to a cover such that when opened, to spreads open in a way that makes it impossible to leaf through the pages. There are several straight lines on the paper which seem random at first. But when to accordion is taken out from its cover, and held against the light as one block, it becomes apparent that all the lines are tangent to a circle. which thus becomes visible.
Artwork Hilke Kurzke
A sample page in my artist book Chasing Infinity through the Vanishing Point showing how a triangle on a screen casts different shadows as the light is moving up and down a line.
Artwork Hilke Kurzke
Chasing Infinity through the Vanishing Point. The binding is a made in reference to Stamp Pal V 1075 from the Vatikan Library as described by Monika Langwe Berg.
Artwork Hilke Kurzke
Erased is a poem that went into several different books in a collaboration with Zoranoske. This copy of was bound by me, using stitched together pieces of parchment for a wrapper. The poem istself ist written onto single pages. In this photo you can see the last page.
Absences
Absences is a flash fiction story by Hilke Kurzke.
Made into an open edition of handmade and handwritten books.
Project Message in a Bottle is an ongoing art project for which I fill bottles and set them free to be found by random observers.
