Artist booklet: THE AIR IN BETWEEN

THE AIR IN BETWEEN
Claudia Hausfeld and Detel Aurand

Published on the occasion of the exhibition with the same name
at Listsafnid á Akureyri / The Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
September 2024

Design: Kakkalakki Studio /Reykjavik
Texts: Katharina Wendler, Claudia Hausfeld, Detel Aurand
Concept: Detel Aurand, Claudia Hausfeld
Riso Print:Druck3000 / Berlin
English/German
24,5 x 30,5 cm, 128 pages, softcover 
first edition 150
ISBN 978–9935-25-617-1

THE AIR IN BETWEEN is an exhibition project based on an on-
going postal exchange of art works between Claudia Hausfeld
(*1980, East-Berlin) and Detel Aurand (*1958, West-Berlin). In
2017 the two artists started a conversation by sending each
other letters, drawings, paintings, collages, photographs and

objects via mail, addressing topics of (island) life here and there,
then and now. Over the years, this dialogue has meandered
through many colors, materials, and ideas. The exhibition at
the Akureyri Art Museum gathers traces of this exchange and
extends it to the visitors. By embedding selected works from
the recent years in a new installation on site, the exhibition

addresses questions of collective and individual artistic practice,

proximity and distance, center and periphery, commonality
and demarcation. (
Katharina Wendler)

The artists published a riso printed booklet that reproduces two

notebooks of collages they sent to each other, alongside their letters.

You can purchase the book at:Art Museum Akureyri or at
Nylistasafnid / Living Art Museum, Reykjavík
or contact: d.aurand@t-online.de

Text in Deutsch: Auszüge aus dem Briefwechsel
Detel Aurand & Claudia Hausfeld, 2018-2023, kombiniert
mit Passagen aus dem Gespräch: #29 Detel Aurand & Claudia Hausfeld
in conversation with Katharina Wendler
The Air in Between _Lesung Hansabibliothek 2025

Artist book: IN DER STILLE RASENDER WINDE

Detel Aurand’s artist book In the Silence of Rushing Winds

combines works from the past five years with descriptions
of her dreams.The artist’s dreams are so naturally interwoven
with her visual work that the border between real and
imaginary space—if it ever existed—seems to dissolve
completely. In this way, her dreams are intimately
connected to her visual language, perhaps even providing
the foundation for her artistic oeuvre, which always contains
a spiritual component, transcending the visual world to
encompass so much more.
(Shortened version of the cover text from Katharina Wendler.)

Hrg./Ed.: Galerie Parterre
Concept: Detel Aurand
Design: Louise Borinski
Text: Detel Aurand (English/German)
96 pages | 51 illustrations | Swiss Brochure
190 mm x 260 mm
Edition: 700
ISBN 978-3-943244-63-2
2023/24
25 €

You can purchase the book at: Galerie parterre
or at BücherBogen Berlin
or contact: d.aurand@t-online.de

Artist book: WE ARE HERE

We Are here, explores beginning and end, inhale and exhale,
black and white, young and old and everything in between –
ties, often imperceptible to the human eye. The book brings

together artistic works created over the past twenty years,
photos from the artist’s personal collection, and an autobio-
graphical text about the love between Aurand and her partner
Jón Sigurgeirsson, between Iceland and Berlin. As hinted by
the title, We are Here deals with our perception of time. Are
we able to see into the now? What is visible, what stays hidden?
It is an intimate and equally universal work about the simultaneity

of all things and about how ostensible boundaries and borders

dissolve when we encounter timeless beauty.

Concept: Detel Aurand
Graphic Design: Detel Aurand, Katharina Fiedler
Publisher: MMKoehn
Text: Detel Aurand (German/English)
164 Pages | 94 illustrations
190 mm x 260 mm
Edition: 750
ISBN 978-3-944903-47-7
2018
36 €

You can purchase the book through publisher here
or at any bookstore
or contact: d.aurand@t-online.de

Publication: DRAW LINES – KEEP AN EYE OUT

download PDF Linien ziehen Ausschau halten_Detel Aurand

Hrg./Ed.: Goldrausch Künsterinnenprojekt, Berlin
Text: Marie T. Martin, Detel Aurand,
German, 20 pages, offset print
Graphic Design: Rimini Berlin

2015