Artist’s book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse’s paintings, as well as several drawings. The book includes a prose poem by Jan Koslowski, and an essay by Fid. Fischer which situates Kirmse’s work within contemporary painting.

Maximilian Kirmse was born in Berlin in 1986, where he now lives and works. Kirsme studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig and at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. Kirmse has exhibited his works at numerous venues, including Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin; James Fuentes OVR, New York; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; and Kunsthalle Bozen, Bolzano, among other places.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of Kirmse’s exhibition Emozoni (Sept. 3 – Oct. 23, 2021), at Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin.