Vera Molnar

Bilingual edition: German, English

The catalog "Monotony, Symmetry, Surprise" offers an immersion into the world of Vera Molnar, whose rigorous and poetic practice explores the tension between order and variation, between system and accident. Through a selection of emblematic and recent works, the book traces half a century of artistic research based on geometry, repetition, and the slightest disturbance of structures.

The title of the catalog sums up the essence of Molnar's work: the monotony of protocol, the symmetry of the formal framework, and surprise as a visual event. The exhibition and the book highlight the aesthetic challenges of an art that combines the intelligence of code with the sensitivity of the gaze.

The book brings together texts by Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff Wielk, who offer both a historical and critical reading of the work. The essays are accompanied by numerous color reproductions, archival documents, and notes by the artist, including excerpts from his notebooks and visual journals.

This catalog is part of an effort to highlight artists who, since the 1960s, have worked to radically redefine forms and creative processes. It marks an important milestone in the institutional recognition of Vera Molnar's fundamental role in the history of contemporary art and digital creation.

This catalog accompanied the exhibition presented at the Kunsthalle in Bremen from May 23 to August 13, 2006. Organized on the occasion of the presentation of the d.velop digital art award [ddaa] 2005 to Vera Molnar.