The Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of Kay Rosen in Europe. Ever since the 1970s, the American artist (*1943 in Corpus Christi, Texas; lives in New York City and Gary, Indiana) has been using language as artistic material. She is internationally known above all for wall works which render individual words, sentences or series of letters, often in massive dimensions. Coming together here in an impressive manner are minimalist form, aesthetic impact and intelligent contents.

The internationally active collector, gallery owner, publisher, essayist, filmmaker and producer of radio programs Guy Schraenen had, as a freelance curator, a formative influence on the development of today’s Centre for Artists’ Publications at the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst. The Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) which he established in Antwerpen in 1974 served as the basis for the foundation in 1999 of this centre at the Weserburg, today the only one of its kind throughout Europe. Over more than ten years, Schraenen presented around thirty exhibitions at the Weserburg.