This monograph is published to document the residency of Germain Kkoh in the International Studio Programme at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, as the 2004/2005 gratee of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.

'Art is endangered by the banality of glamorous facades with half-baked content. Instead of the theatricality of rapid effect, it should reflect upon itself and cultivate the delaying contradiction. The minimalism of ready immediacy might then be curable through the minimalism of the well-considered interruption. Precisely this is Germaine Koh's program.'

(Abstract from an essay by Gerrit Gohlke)

This monograph is published to document the residency of Germain Kkoh in the International Studio Programme at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, as the 2004/2005 gratee of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.

'Art is endangered by the banality of glamorous facades with half-baked content. Instead of the theatricality of rapid effect, it should reflect upon itself and cultivate the delaying contradiction. The minimalism of ready immediacy might then be curable through the minimalism of the well-considered interruption. Precisely this is Germaine Koh's program.'

(Abstract from an essay by Gerrit Gohlke)