Jonas von Lenthe works as archivist, publisher, and curator. He is the founder of the Berlin-based publishing house Wirklichkeit Books, where he edited various publications, including most recently the German translation of Enzo Traverso’s Gaza Faces History (2024), Hierarchies of Solidarity (2024) and English in Berlin – Exclusions in a Cosmopolitan Society (2022) by Moshtari Hilal and Sinthujan Varatharajah, as well as Rejected. Designs for the European Flag (2020). From 2022 to 2024 he held the position of the head archivist at Kunstverein München together with Johanna Klingler.
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15 & 16 October 2026
Workshops, talks, and conversations with Shivangi Mariam Raj, Erin Honeycutt, Eric Otieno Sumba, Magda Tyżlik-Carver, Qingyi Ren, Jisoo Lim, Benedikt Reichenbach, T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault, Jonas von Lenthe, Lucie Kolb, Helen V. Pritchard.
What role can publishing play in organizing critique today? This series in the open access journal Brand-New-Life looks at historical and contemporary practices that approach publishing as an infrastructure for political organization, collective knowledge production, and the formation of counter-publics.
«What Is Critical Publishing?» is edited by Lucie Kolb and Jonas von Lenthe as an outlet of the Make/Sense PhD Program at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
11–13 March 2026
Annual gathering of members of the Make/Sense PhD programme.
Public events include the inaugural lecture Towards a Bibliography of Critical Publishing and the screening programme Program – 23.
Invited by the Make/Sense PhD programme at CML, researcher and publisher Sezgin Boynik will be a guest in the Atelier Mondial residency program in January.
11 & 12 June 2025, HGK Basel
With Jackie Wang, Cassandra Troyan, مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal), சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah), Sarah E. Truman, fantastic little splash (Lera Malchenko & Oleksandr Hants), and Délphine Chapuis-Schmitz.