26.–28.6.2026, Silent Green, Berlin
Table: A01
Albert Coers is visual artist, author, editor. At MISS READ, he shows artist’s publications with a focus on installations with found objects and linguistic material. He has self-published books and zines but also collaborates with other artists and smaller as well bigger publishers, o.a. with Kerber, Revolver, Salon, Walther König, De Gruyter, Icon(Hubert Kretschmer), and Hatje Cantz. He not only produces and publishes artist’s books, but also has reflected on them in texts and lectures.
He will bring to Miss Read his latest book, “Street Names Lights – a Monument to the Mann Family”, to accompany a Public Art project in memory of Thomas Mann and his family he completed in 2025. The book, edited by Florian Matzner, is published by Kerber.
Albert Coers incorporates street signs bearing the names of various members of the Mann family, along with streetlamps from cities of particular importance to the family, including Munich, Lübeck, Nida, Rome, New York, São Paulo, and Zurich. The memorial conveys experiences of a life in exile, of internationality, and the family’s charisma while simultaneously exploring the global reception of their work. This publication documents the creation of the memorial, together with the research behind it; interviews, texts, and images round out the volume with extensive background information.
“Books to Do” (Hatje Cantz, 2022) is not the usual monograph, but a meta-book about already realized and yet to be realized book projects by Albert Coers in the form of a to-do list. It is a collection of ideas and subjects, a self-documentation, self-stimulation, and a joyfully utopian agenda at the same time.
Another recent publication,“Who is / Chi è […] Wer ist […] Albert Coers?”(Salon Verlag, 2024) plays with truth and fiction, with the expectations of an artist’s biography, by asking AI about his own person.
“Wer ist Albert?” (2021/25), a self published zine, evolves round the research on personages with his own first name, “Albert”, by cut-out quotations from novels.
“Salon Magazin #28” (2025), edited by Gerhard Theewen, features visual essays by Albert Coers, Uwe Esser, Moritz Frei, Stephan Hörnig, Andreas Keil, Kocheisen & Hullmann, Mischa Kuball, Kristina Lenz & Alex Simon Klug, Ana Mendes, Hartmut Neumann, Patrick Niemann, Volker Renner, Anne Schwalbe, Knut Sennekamp, Marco Zumbé.
Albert Coers participates with “Aufschrift” (inscription), a collage of photographs from the cellar of the house he grew up.
“Ab hier” (icon, 2025) is an artist booklet that features photos from an archive at Haus der Kunst, combined in an associative, playful manner.
Among other recent publications are: BREDA, 2022, Englisch-Wörter, 1990/2020, Salon, 2020; Albert Coers / Carsten Lisecki: TT, Icon 2021; Schöppinger Schläger, Salon, 2021; SACRED DISTANCING, Argobooks, 2021; MUSTEREXEMPLAR, 2022