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N°1

Props Promising Prompts
Lizzy Ellbrück & Louise Raspé

New

Props Promising Prompts is a piece built in fragments: obstacles, niche wanderers, props, fillers, flourishes, and wandering eyes. Figures appear as embedded characters in a spatial narrative, thinking in ciphers, speaking in curlicues, writing in parentheses. They are not theatrical in that sense, yet they emerge at the edge of a drama — within footnotes, in the traces of scenes and marginalia.

Paperback (DE/EN)
11 × 18 cm, 74 pages
14 b/w images
First Edition, 2025
ISBN 978-3-911828-08-6

About the authors

Lizzy Ellbrück and Louisa Raspé are artists, authors, designers, dramaturges, scenographers, accomplices and friends. They work artistically and speculatively, preferably in dialogue. Their studies and shared interests have fostered a rich and evolving complicity — an intensity they seek to deepen in Conceptual Conversations, meandering through new stories that unfold in several directions at once.

Further reading

Conceptual Conversation #12

€ 12.00

N°2

After the Show: 100 Art Museums reviewed
A Pocket Guide

After the Show reimagines the museum visit through its most habitual ritual: the post-exhibition coffee. This pocket-sized guide reviews one hundred museum cafés around the world—from the WMF bean-to-cup brews of major institutions to the perfectly pulled espressos of small-town collections. Part travelogue, part institutional critique, this publication maps (and ranks) the soft infrastructure of the art world.

Paperback (EN)
11 × 17.5 cm, 208 pages
RISO printed inlay
First Edition, 2026
ISBN 978-3-911828-09-3

€ 14.00