C. R. McBerny

C. R. McBerny is a collaborative project that explores how contemporary painting, performance and writing might produce overtly emotional and demonstrative forms of discourse between intimate communities of artists and writers predominantly in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.

This limited-edition artists’ book and its related exhibition (28 April to 13 May 2018 at Zinglistrasse 4, Moabit, Berlin) was produced with a relaxed, informal, easy aestheticism in and mind, one conducive to the warm non-institutional semi-domestic nature of each venue.

Performances, lectures, workshops and concerts were also included in C. R.
McBerny’s activities, with the publication launch in March 2019 at Yum Yum in Manchester.

Featuring the work of over sixty international artists, C. R. McBerny is a playful acronym of the cities Berlin, Manchester and New York. Published after the exhibition, C. R. McBerny at Manchester Central Library (5 December 2018 to 28 February 2019).

C. R. McBerny includes work by Rosa Aiello, Abel Auer, Kamilla Bischof, Juliette Blightman, Zac Bradley, Max Brand, Kerstin Brätsch, Tim Brennan, Matt Copson, Jeffrey Dennis, Martin Ebner, Jenny Eden, Ida Ekblad, Exael, Peter Friel, Jonathan Gean, Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Gondry, Doris Guo, Hacienda Books, Ian Hartshorne, Donna Huddleston, Yannic Joray, Shelby Jackson, Marie Karlberg, Allison Katz, Yuki Kishino, Kitty Kraus, Veit Laurent Kurz, Zarah Landes, Matt Langan-Peck, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Jonas Lipps, Alastair MacKinven, Liz Magor, Roger Malbert, Lin May Saeed, Dawn Mellor, Alexandra Metcalf, Ariane Müller, Mike Nelson, David Osbaldeston,
Krista Peters, Seth Pick, Leah Pires, Michael Pollard, Magnus Quaife, Eileen Quinlan, Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe, Benjamin Saurer, Max Schmidtlein, Ben Schumacher, Taketo Shimada, Eric Sidner, Amy Sillman, Brook Sinkinson Withrow, Julian Stalbohm, Harry Stevenson Miller, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stefan Thater, Hanna Törnudd, Myna Trustram, Miriam Vicsaczki, Ellie de Verdier, David Weiss, Issy Wood, and Amelie von Wulffen.

Edited by Andrew Hunt and Veit Laurent Kurz.

Designed by Sarah Cashman.

Hardback, 136 pages, 93 colour illustrations, 244mm x 172mm

ISBN 9781910516089