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BLESS situation design in @gfzk.leipzig at @heidispecker’s DamenzimmerHerrenschnitt. Eine Hommage an Aenne Biermann.

Curated by Franciska Zólyom

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9–11
04107 Leipzig, Germany

The exhibition can be visited from now until January 10, 2027
Tue–Fri 2–7 pm, Sat–Sun, holidays 12–6 pm
Wed free admission

Heidi Specker’s exhibition marks the latest stage in her long-term artistic exploration of the life and work of the Jewish photographer Aenne Biermann (1898–1933). Based on public and private collections, the memories of descendants, as well as historical research into the Biermann family’s story of flight, Heidi Specker reconstructs a history shaped by the political upheavals of the twentieth century.
BLESS proposes a fragmented and contemporary interpretation of Aenne Biermanns Damenzimmer as a situation design szenography to welcome Heidis’ and Aennes’ photographic dialogue in a renaturalized atmosphere.

Dekolletéspiegel
This limited edition of 20pc, is showcasing a photograph by Heidi Specker printed on a mirror, assembled with BLESS N°12 Team-ups Jewellery ( every necklace is unique ) and an autonomous usb-c rechargeable light bulp.
The Dekolletéspiegel can be purchased directly at the Galerie https://gfzk.de/en/ or upon request at BLESS (shop@blessparis.com / shop@blessberlin.com).

Installation views by Alexandra Ivanciu ( picture 1 ) and Axel Babini ( pictures 2-7 )

#GfZKLeipzig by @bless_service

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BLESS HolidayT-SHIRTweek at BLESShome BERLIN 08.07. – 11.07.26 and BLESSshop PARIS 06.07. – 11.07.26.

On Friday, 10 July, between 5 and 7 pm, we will be serving cooling treats & drinks.

Meet a wide selection of holiday motives and contribute with your past or future travel pictures to the BLESS Holiday T-shirt collection to receive a store credit.

Bring your photo material to the store, prepared according to our manual (see slide).

Together we can review your images, evaluate their holiday qualities, and discuss the possibilities over a few cooling treats.

We are looking forward to seeing your results !

Images by @shujinino introduced by @aya_since1998 by @bless_service

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3 months ago

BLESS intervention @royalacademyantwerp Book launch + performances by Brandon LaBelle, Emilia Schupp and BLESS (Studio Stadswaag)

The space with no name as a corridor that rhythms brainwork, a vestibule to make work looking good, a hangar for grace, flip-flopping Antwerp and its Academy.
BLESS is happy to borrow a title: Workers delight.
The academies creative muscles will assure constant evolution.
B. will be there, with sit- and stirr-ups together.
Perpetually exercising fearlessness, now and then. taken in Antwerp, Belgium by @bless_service

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4 months ago

BLESS is part of the exhibition #industrialwitchcraft @diemoeglichkeiteinerinsel in Berlin. The group show (curated by @oliverkoerner) includes Marc Brandenburg, @ursula_doebereiner, Thomas Rehnert, @elizad0uglas, #harunfarocki, @stephanieklossowski, @longuemarteau, #coseyfannitutti, @bohemienine

It brings together industrial, precarious, pornographic, magical, modern looks with reflections on production conditions and (artistic) work. Industrial witchcraft is a reaction to the omnipresent pseudo-activist, pseudo-poetic -speak in contemporary art, with which we are fobbed off in a thoroughly passive-aggressive manner – and the systemic, affirmative zombie art talk that sounds as if you were in a spaceship or a tennis court in a nuclear bunker. As an improvised, experimental exhibition and fanzine, Industrial Witchcraft wants to move away from this virtuousness, and take a more precarious, “cheap,” insecure, vulgar position.

For Industrial Witchcraft, BLESS contributed BLESS N°41 Sparschweinmöbel (Piggybankchair), 2010. BLESS transformed a standard chair with plexiglass and acrylic mirror attachments into a hybrid seating/money box/container for small change or donations. Money can be inserted through a slot in the plexiglass tubes attached to the chair legs, causing it to become heavier with each coin and develop gravitas. The original chair combines post-war design influences with craftsmanship, folklore, and a hint of Puritanism. One can imagine children sliding back and forth on the hard straw weave and being punished at the dining table. Alternatively, one could also interrogate fictional handmaids or witches on this chair.

As a continuation of BLESS N°81 Soziusierung, BLESS has developed a new currency to inform about the Industrial Witchcraft show: den Informierenden Euro (the Informative Euro). It is attached as a limited to the fanzine that accompanies the exhibition. The Euro contains information about the opening as well as a traditional Wicca greeting.

The Industrial Witchcraft fanzine, a limited edition featuring the Informative Euro, can be purchased @diemoeglichkeiteinerinsel, @bless_home_berlin and at the BLESS Shop in Paris.

#berlinartweek taken in Berlin, Germany by @bless_service

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a year ago

The situational design developed for @phileas.art engages with the organization’s role as a mediator and reimagines the space as a place for encounter and exchange. Through interventions in the office environment and its furnishings, the concept of proximity is taken literally. It explores how much closeness and transparency is possible with testing the boundaries of personal comfort within work processes. The title refers to the Sozius—the passenger seated behind the driver—who looks over the driver’s shoulder and occupies a nuanced position between observation and participation, between being a spectator and a fellow traveller.

With special thanks to
@bernhard_derprototyp
@mosconemichele
Thomas Rußmann @strobel.cnc
Thomas Schneider @vitra
for delivering beyond limits.

Installation views by Kunst-Dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez

BLESS N°81 Soziusierung at Phileas
active until 13 September 2025
Opernring 17, 1010 Vienna taken in Vienna, Austria by @bless_service

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a year ago

For Spring 25, @ccaberlin ’s annual group exhibition, BLESS developed a site-specific installation tailored to the exhibition space located on historical Breitscheidplatz. The central element is the specially conceived N°29 Wallscape #40 Woodwonder CCA—a photographic snapshot of an interior space that has been temporarily furnished with products inspired by the Egon Eiermann interiors. Since the 2007 exhibition, BLESS N°00 – N°29: Retrospective Home Run, BLESS has used life-sized photographs of its products within exhibition contexts. The wallscape, mounted on a wall surface in the CCA, reflects and expands the space, complemented by two printed, semi-transparent curtains—the N°81 Woodwonder Curtains CCA. Various N°81 Woodified Objects leave the picture and find their way into the building as usable objects. The situation design alternates between everyday reality and its subtle irritation; it picks up on existing spatial situations and reinterprets them by shifting perspectives and spatial superimposition. Image surfaces merge with real space and create a multi-layered structure in a dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality, anchored in the language of the Egon-Eiermann-Bau.

Curated by Dounia Biedermann, Mathis Neuhaus, Fabian Schöneich and Nan Xi and can be visited from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 AM to 6 PM until June 21st.

Spring 25, Installation view, CCA Berlin, 2025. Photo 1–3: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin.

Detail first Photo:
BLESS N°81 Woodwonder Curtains CCA, 2025 (left), BLESS N°29 Wallscape #40 Woodwonder CCA, 2025 (middle top), BLESS N°26 Cable Jewelry: Woodsleeve Multiplug 1,4 m, 2025 (right), and Farah Al Qasimi, Alone in a Crowd (King of Joy), 2022 (middle bottom), in: Spring 25, Installation view, CCA Berlin, 2025. Photo: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin. Courtesy the artists and The Third Line. taken in Berlin, Germany by @bless_service

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a year ago

Manuel Raeder and BLESS were invited to speak about their collaboration on the third BLESS book N°42–N°74 Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS at the 12th edition of REDO Prishtina 2024, an annual conference for graphic design and visual arts. Instead of speaking on stage, the public was involved by reading from BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE and by wearing BLESS items they found on their seats, which introduced them directly to the other guests.

With many thanks to Bardhi Haliti for the openness to new grounds, and to all who joyfully participated in this experiment.

12th edition of REDO Prishtina 2024
Manuel Raeder / BLESS

@redoprishtina
@studiomanuelraeder
@bomdiabooks taken in Prishtinë, Kosovo by @bless_service

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2 years ago

Following requests of interest in a viewing of the integrity of video traces of BLESS activities during the last 25 years,
we propose on October 1st an intimate movie salle de séjour, where 40 documents of presentations, exhibitions, readings and projects from 1998 until 2023 will be shown.

BLESSkino N°00—N°73
October 1st
6pm - 10.30pm
BLESS Shop Paris
14 Rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris

There will be very limited seats, we recommend to email press@blessparis.com for your specific 30 minutes slot to secure a seat in a quiet indoor atmosphere. Below you will find an overview of the slots we offer. There will be 5 minutes breaks in between the slots.

Slot 1: 6:00pm — 6:29pm, N°00-04 — N°09
Slot 2: 6:34pm — 7:05pm, N°10 — N°18
Slot 3: 7:10pm — 7:42pm, N°20 — N°27
Slot 4: 7:46pm — 8:19pm, N°28 — N°34
Slot 5: 8:24pm — 8:51pm, N°36 — N°42
Slot 6: 8:56pm — 9:20pm, N°42 — N°43
Slot 7: 9:25pm — 9:55pm, N°43 — N°50
Slot 8: 10:00pm — 10:23pm, N°54 — N°73

Continuous outdoor projection & snack kiosk with movie related goodies on sale.
Please note that this is not a fashion event or party, but rather a quiet gathering for those in town that are truly interested.

With videos by Ink Agop, Vesna Baricic, Lilli Berger, BLESS, Mark Borthwick, Cécile Bortoletti, Marc Comes, Sarah Cunnigham, Discipline, Exoterika, Valentine Faure, Marina Faust, Jonathan Frantini, Yasmine Gauster, Adrien Genty, Mauricio Guillen, Dustin Helgeson, Hendrik Hellige, Sébastien Jamain, Mark Jansen, Stefan Korte, Marcello Krasilcic, Duc Liao, Armin Linke, Monia Lippi, Adrian Parvulescu, Despina Papadopoulos, Heinz Peter Knes, Ravelin, Jörg Todtenbier, Nicolas Trembley, David TV and Paul Wünsche taken in Paris, France by @bless_service

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2 years ago

During the third annual arts and culture festival MANIFESTO, BLESS provided a lounge environment. This installation featured seating devices such as Chairwear b’s, Seatpaddings, Slit/Lapcushions, and Blankets, as well as a new concrete iteration of the Cablejewellery, all designed in direct reflection of the location.
Organized by GOAT, a global platform dedicated to the past, present, and future of the arts, and curated by Kaleidoscope, the Milan-based, “almanac of contemporary aesthetics,” MANIFESTO took place in the stunning Espace Niemeyer in Paris from June 20 to June 22, 2024.
This BLESS service is a continuation of the “take away architecture” projects that enable the public to engage with remarkable buildings around the world. This particular building originated in 1965 when the French Communist Party (PCF) commissioned Oscar Niemeyer to design an inspirational headquarters from which they envisioned leading the anticipated Leftist future.

All seating devices were seamlessly integrated with the building’s original furniture, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. These pieces are upholstered with a woven 100% cotton fabric that illustrates various concealed aspects of the building that are normally rather hidden to the public. They are available in a limited edition of 60, along with the Holiday Niemeyer T-shirt, which features the hilly rooftop terrace landscape providing a breathtaking view of the entire city of Paris.

Some of these products are currently available through GOAT, while others will become available within the next six months through BLESS retailers and our own shops and homes.

With special thanks to everyone involved
@kaleidoscopemagazine
@goat
@twotwenty_production
@__giovanni__di__stefano
@pcfparticommunistefrancais

as well as to our current Paris team
Camille Courtinat, Marie Dechery, Yuri Han, Joseph Inga, Hansol Kim, Teresa Meier, Haruki Shirota, Damien Troadec, Luis Wormser, Nataliia Zauholnikova
and in particular Xinyi Pan, who came along by chance and performed wonders within this tight schedule.

Special concrete cable development in collaboration with Romain Chevet Spanjersberg and Ieva Vinogradova taken in Espace Niemeyer - Siège du Parti communiste Français by @bless_service

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2 years ago

Following Agustin Acevedo Landaluce’s invitation for the Apartaco project as part of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024, BLESS built a permanent installation, the so-called Utility Room II. Formerly covered by a curtain to hide cleaning devices, cleaning products, and extra light bulbs, the niche was decorated with BLESS products photographed in their original arrangement to create a “Wallscape.” A further intervention included a BLESS clean-up service, the application of the created wallpaper and a reorganization of the items to be stored. The old curtain was replaced with a thin, transparent curtain showing the print of the decorated corner before it was cleaned out.

We were delighted to participate in this exhibition proposed by the Weitenfeld Landaluce Gallery in Berlin.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the installation and visited Apartaco, in particular to Shota Mitsuoka, HongJi Yan and the BLESS Berlin team!

Thank you @wlgb.io for the presentation of the installation and @ludgerpaffrath for capturing the installation with pictures.

BLESS N°78 Backfrontals
Utility Room II Apartaco Berlin
#blessberlin
#apartacoberlin
#galleryweekendberlin taken in Berlin, Germany by @bless_service

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2 years ago

25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS
9/2/24 – 12/5/24

MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Via Nizza 138, 00198 Roma
museomacro.it / @macromuseoroma

Making of: @bless_home_berlin
Photography: Agnese Bedini, DSL Studio
Curator: Chiara Siravo
Director: Luca Lo Pinto
Exhibition production: Maria Elena Ciullo
Production Assistant: Marco Lo Giudice
Production and Fabrication: Fabio Pennacchia
Design Consultant: Etienne Descloux
Wallscape Photography: Ludger Paffrath
Art Handlers: Fabio Pennacchia, Matteo Pompili
Tailoring Assistant: NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti: Matteo Battisti, Alessandro Meli taken in MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma by @bless_service

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3 years ago

#ARITMICI #ARRHYTHMICS
BLESS
25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS
9/2/24 – 12/5/24

MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Via Nizza 138, 00198 Roma
museomacro.it / @macromuseoroma

Constituting the first institutional show in Italy dedicated to the work of the designers, the presentation alludes to over 25 years of products, situations, and collaborations, all set in a newly conceived environment, that reflects a 360° of all the shiny and the shady sides of always stress with Bless. The entrance to the museum space is occupied by the duo’s latest installation project, N° 78, Macrobackfrontal, a hybrid paravent structure with a dual nature. One side is furnished with elements and materials that mirror MACRO’s interiors and previous exhibitions. The shelving hosts the Bless library and archive of publications. On the flip side: N° 29 Wallscapes #38 A BLESShome kitchen, a life size photograph of the label’s home acts as displacing two-dimensional living environment furnished with a series of accessories that hang from the structure. The suspended products are the actors that represent a human being that is absent in this image, adding a third dimension to a still-life picture. The back wall of the space features N° 78, Blown Reality Curtain, Macrowindowview, a lightweight fabric screen concealing the absence of a window in the space and printed with a photograph of the view from the outer façade of the room where an actual, boarded up, window can be glimpsed. Just outside, a small cinema hosts Bless’ video-work archive: a moving image tour made up of a total of 21 films, produced between 1998 and 2023. Overall, the installation is intended by Bless as a living portrait of their story.

Curatrice / Curator
Chiara Siravo
Produzione mostra / Exhibition production
Maria Elena Ciullo
Assistente produzione / Production Assistant
Marco Lo Giudice
Produzione e realizzazione / Production and Fabrication
Fabio Pennacchia
Allestitori / Art Handlers
Fabio Pennacchia, Matteo Pompili
Assistenti sartoria / Tailoring Assistant
Xxx (NABA)

Un sentito ringraziamento a / Heartfelt thank you to
Sandro Magliano, Simon Parris, Sara Cattaneo taken in MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma by @bless_service

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3 years ago