For the event, we’re taking over the new Café Tiergarten in Berlin’s modernist Hanseviertel for the whole Gallery Weekend, with a launch party starting at 4pm on May 2nd. We hope to see you there!

the event

ABC Stefan is our upcoming handwriting font — as well as the title of our new specimen-artist-interview-book hybrid designed by Simon Merz and veryes. The book examines what it means to take something as personal as an artist’s handwriting and make it accessible for others to use, with 2.5m of glyphs, an A—Z of drawings, an essay by design writer and curator Billie Muraben and a poem-artwork by the grandfather of zine-making, AA Bronson.

At 6pm, Stefan and Johannes Breyer will perform a flip-chart spectacle touching on handwriting and type making. Kristin Krause has organized a small exhibition, drinks, cake by Anaïs Nyffeler, a DJ set by Michael Satter, and a pop-up Dinamo Editions/Stefan Marx bookshop — the ABC Reading Room — which will be open all weekend (May 2-4). Stefan will also paint a mural.

Café Tiergarten is the new project by our friends Leonie Herweg and Simon Freund from GROTTO, a cafe and event space that the team have been renovating in preparation for this special release (you can follow along with the renovations via Simon’s YouTube diary).

about stefan marx

Over the past 20 years, contemporary artist Stefan Marx has lent his unique handwriting to a variety of media: paper, canvas, porcelain, and textiles. He publishes artists’ books and zines, designs record covers for various labels, and shows his work in international exhibitions, at book fairs, and galleries. You might know him for his zines with Nieves, or his Lousy Livin’ company, or his recent Art Basel Miami installations. Stefan lives and works in Berlin.

ps

We often share links to upcoming events, launches, and things we’ve been enjoying on the internet lately. This time, Stefan shares his recent recommendations with us:

• A conversation I like to read at least once a year is between Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Sarah Crowner, and Christoph Keller. It’s from Dot Dot Dot and called ‘Right to Burn.’
• “To this day I wake up early and I have to get to my desk to write almost immediately. I mean fast. Before the demons get me.” This chat with Jerry Saltz for Longform is another one that I regularly return to.
• After the whole Super Bowl hype I came across this video of Kendrick performing at Best Buy at Union Square, from many moons ago, and it’s great to see, especially the security person. I think it shows so much.
• Flightradar24 is one of my favorite websites.
• Very often but at definitely every last day of the year, on Dec 31st, I listen to this album by Maher Shahal Hash Baz
• If you are in Hamburg on the 27th of April, come by the new exhibition of mine organized by Gallery Karin Guenther. 
• If you are in Berlin before August 18th, It’s a Matter of Time is a beautiful show about temporality curated by Liberty Adrien and Carina Bukuts.
• Right now, I’m listening to the new Yo La Tango album a lot, the soundtrack to the movie Old Joy.

Love,
Dinamo + Stefan x