biography
Ines von Ketelhodt studied ‘Visual Communication’ at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach/Germany. Since 1986 she works in the fields of photography, typography, artists’ books and graphic design (www.k-und-m-design.de). She was co-founder of the artists collective ‘Unica T’ (1986 to 2001). From 1997 to 2006 she worked together with Peter Malutzki on the fifty volumes book art project ‘Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön’ (www.tloen-enzyklopaedie.de). In 2001 she opened a joint workshop with Peter Malutzki (www.peter-malutzki.de) in Flörsheim/Germany. From 2011 to 2013 she worked on the project ‘farbwechsel’. Her main interests include: experimental typography; experimental photography (such as long exposure time, taking photographs by chance); combination of photography and typography; combination of old and new techniques (such as letterpress, original photographic prints, offset and digital printing).
awards and prizes
Finalist for the MCBA Prize, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN (2011 + 2017)
Best German Book Design, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt, DE (1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003)
The Walter Tiemann Prize, Open Book Society, Leipzig, DE (1992, 2000)
Best Book Design from all over the World, Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig, DE (1997)
Sponsorship Prize for young Book Design, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt, DE (1989)
work in public collections
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Bibliothek, Wien (AT)
Albertina, Bibliothek, Wien (AT)
Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, Sydney (AU)
Bibliothèque Municipale, Saint-Quentin (FR)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (FR)
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Bibliothèque, Montréal (CA)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Bibliothèque, Paris (FR)
Helsingin Kaupunginkirjasto, Helsinki (FI)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Collectie Koopman, Den Haag (NL)
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Bibliothek, Wien (AT)
Museum Meermanno, Huis van het Boek, Den Haag (NL)
Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel (CH)
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien (AT)
Oxford Brookes University, Libraries, Oxford (GB)
Robundo Publishing Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Tate Library and Archive, London (GB)
The Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (ZA)
The University of Melbourne, Library, Melbourne (AU)
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden (NL)
Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Bibliothek, Wien (AT)
University of Alberta, Bruce Peel Special Collections, Edmonton (CA)
Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library, London (GB)
Wienbibliothek, Wien (AT)
Baylor University, Moody Memorial Library, Waco, TX
Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, ME
California Polytechnic State University, Kennedy Library, San Luis Obispo, CA
Carleton College, Laurence McKinley Gould Library, Northfield, MN
Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Florida Atlantic University, S.E. Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, FL
George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC
Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Fine Arts Library,
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Indiana University, Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN
Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Easton, PA
Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY
Mills College, F.W. Olin Library, Oakland, CA
MoMA Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
MOMA Museum of Modern Art Library, San Francisco, CA
Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ
Public Library, George Arents Collection, Spencer Collection, New York, NY
Reed College Library, Portland, OR
Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY
Smith College, Neilson Library, Northampton, MA
Stanford University, Green Library, Stanford, CA
Swarthmore College, McCabe Library, Swarthmore, PA
Temple University, Paley Library, Philadelphia, PA
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT
Toledo Museum of Art, Bareiss Collection, Toledo, OH
Tufts University, Tisch Library, Medford, MA
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ
University of California, Bancroft Library,
Environmental Design Library, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Davidson Library, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California, McHenry Library, Santa Cruz, CA
University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL
University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, CT
University of Delaware, Hugh M. Morris Library, Newark, DE
University of Georgia, Hargrett Library, Athens, GA
University of Louisville, Bridwell Art Library, Louisville, KY
University of Pittsburgh, Frick Fine Arts Library, Pittsburgh, PA
University of the Arts Libraries, Philadelphia, PA
University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI
Walker Art Center Archives and Library, Minneapolis, MN
Washington University, Olin Library, St. Louis, MO
Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley, MA
Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Middletown, CT
Yale University, Birren Collection of Books on Color,
Art and Architecture Library, Arts of the Book Collection, New Haven, CT
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig
Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Fachhochschule, Bibliothek, Mainz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek,
Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Hannover
Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz
Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar
Historische Bibliothek, Rudolstadt
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain, Wiesbaden
Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Köln
Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Rheinische Landesbibliothek, Koblenz
Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, Hamburg
Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus
Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, München
Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst,
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Bremen
exhibitions (selection)
2023 Alphabets Alive! Curated by Robert Bolick, University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (GB)
2022 Materialia Lumina – Artists’ Books from the Codex Book Fair, Stanford Libraries, CA (US)
2022 Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (LU)
2019 Labyrinth der Farben, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (DE)
2019 In the Light of Space and Time – Ines von Ketelhodt, Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach (DE)
2018 Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA (US)
2018 50 Years of the Photographic Artists’ Book, School of Art, Tucson, AZ (US)
2018 Freud on the Couch – Psyche in the Book, CBA: New York, San Francisco & Minneapolis (US)
2017 The MCBA Prize 2017 Finalists, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN (US)
2016 Historic Futures – Artists Reinvent the Book, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (US)
2016 Artists & Others, National Library of the Netherlands, The Grolier Club, New York, NY (US)
2016 The Authority of the Book, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC (US)
2016 Artists’ Books by Ines von Ketelhodt, Altes Rathaus Rudolstadt (DE)
2014 Éloge de la rareté, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (FR)
2013 Seductive Alchemy: Books by Artists, TWU Gallery, Denton, TX (US)
2012 Diamond Leaves – Brilliant Artist Books from around the World, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (CN)
2012 Buchkunst Total, Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt (DE)
2011 The MCBA Prize 2011 Finalists, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN (US)
2010 Object Focus: The Book, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR (US)
2008 Tweede encyclopedie van Tlön, Museum Meermanno, Huis van het Boek, The Hague (NL)
2007 Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön, Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz (DE)
2006 13+ Contemporary Artists’ Books from Germany, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota (JP)
2004 Initiale: Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön, Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt (DE)
2002 Einblicke – Insights: Artists’ Books from Germany, Takeo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
2001 Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (DE)
1996 Unica T – Ten Years of Artists’ Books, Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt (DE)
list of references (selection)
The V&A Book of Colour in Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2020 + 2022
Materialia Lumina – Artists’ Books from the Codex Book Fair, Berkeley, Stanford 2022
For the Love of Letterpress, London, New York, New Delhi, Sydney 2019
Enzyklopädische Phantasien, Hildesheim 2019
Labyrinth der Farben, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern 2019
Wendebücher – Spiegelbücher, Über Kodexarchitekturen in der Buchliteratur, Berlin 2018
Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2018
Freud on the Couch – Psyche in the Book, CBA, Minneapolis, San Francisco, New York 2018
172 neue Buchobjekte, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2017
Artists & Others, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague 2016
Seductive Alchemy – Books by Artists, Texas Woman’s University, Denton 2015
Éloge de la rareté, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2014
book art object 2, The Codex Foundation, Berkeley 2013
Diamond Leaves: Artist Books from around the World, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing 2012
Masters: Book Arts. Major Works by Leading Artists, New York 2011
book art object, The Codex Foundation, Berkeley 2008
Das Malerbuch des 20. Jahrhunderts, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Wiesbaden 2004
Splendid Pages, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 2003
Livres illustrés et livres d’artiste, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2002
Typophilie – Typolemik, Mainz 2000
International Corporate Identity 2. Evolution Graphics, Robundo, Tokyo 1992