News
Our handmade paper cards are now available to purchase through Love Books, Melville! Pop by the much beloved book store at 53 Rustenberg Rd Melville, Joburg.
The edition ~ verso studio was thrilled to work with Thandi Loewenson and Huda Tayob in relation to their initiative titled ‘The House We Must Build.’ Thandi and Huda spent time in the studio to think through paper, relief and topography on printing surfaces.
The House We Must Build / Musha Watinofanira Kuvaka / البيت الذي يجب ان يبني is a scaffold for art and architectural research, a testbed for curricula, a platform for publication and a space of gathering that draws on anti-imperial world-making practices to build and broadcast narratives of how we might forge other architectures together. Under its eaves, the project draws attention to economies and ecologies of spectral matter, celestial debris, watery archives and toxic ether, as deep space - sites to work with and work through architecture, as a collective, material, speculative, trans-generational and political practice.
A selection of edition ~ verso paper products has been included in the NURU African Collective Showroom the first iteration in Cape Town, during art and design week, celebrating unity in community, excellent craftsmanship, and endless creatively through a curated showroom and a booth at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (18-24 February). Located in the Mutual Heights Building, NURU showcases a collection of local sustainable designers.
Galerie Tschudi (Zurich) was host to donna Kukama’s exhibition, in living memory... (16 November 2024 – 18 January 2025) which included two etchings made in the edition ~ verso studio. For more information see donna’s page here and Galerie Tschudi here
Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg) in partnership with FNB Art Joburg and The BMW Young Collectors Co. hosted artist Gabrielle Goliath and printmaker/founder of edition ~ verso, Sara-Aimee Verity for a wonderful morning of converstaion, ‘On printmaking with Gabrielle Goliath & Sara-Aimee Verity’ (30 november, 2024).
Edition ~ verso along with PULP Paperworks are pleased to present, All Materials Provided, a presentation in our pop-up shop PULP ~ VERSO at 44 Stanley Ave., Joburg - showcasing our paper-making collaboration over the coure of three years.
Edition ~ verso is thrilled to share news of artist, Gabrielle Goliath’s solo exhibition, Elegy at Galleria Raffaella Cortese (april 5 – june 30, 2024).
See here for more information.
The show will include two series of photogravure prints, printed and published by edition ~ verso, Cycle I & II of the lifelong body of work, Beloved. The prints were previously shown at Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg).
View a selection of Gabrielle’s drawings and prints at Goodman Gallery here.
Gabrielle is participating as a selected artist on this year’s Venice Biennale and at Kunsthauss Baselland.
For the 2024 FNB Art Joburg edition ~ verso together with PULP Paperworks, Viviers Studio and artist Marlene Hettie Steyn, produced and published a seven piece installation, YGGDRASIL in the Glass House (Viviers) alongside Viviers’ Spring/Summer 25/26 collection, DISCLOSURE.
Prints (traditional and wearable) and pulped objects from this collaboration will be previewed during the Art Fair.
Edition ~ verso and PULP Paperworks have set up a six-month pop up space at 44 Stanley Avenue (Joburg).
Come and say hi, see our respective products; books, prints and all things paper. We will be there until February 2025.