PRE-ORDER. Ships 23. April, 2026
Capacity takes its point of departure in Asta Lynge’s first solo exhibition in Germany, presented at Overbeck-Gesellschaft in Lübeck. The publication offers the first comprehensive insight into Lynge’s practice and unfolds as a document of her work within an international context.
Centering on the installation Audience, shown in its largest iteration to date, the book traces Lynge’s ongoing investigation of symbolically charged everyday objects. Presented as a site-specific work spanning approximately 30 meters, Audience deconstructs the Chesterfield sofa—an enduring emblem of wealth and social prestige since 18th-century Britain. The series exposes the sofa’s underlying structure, stripping it of function and rendering it as a skeletal framework. This gesture of revealing, dismantling, and reconfiguring is carried through into the publication itself, where the design reflects the conceptual concerns of the works.
Alongside documentation of the exhibition, the book brings together research and material developed over the past three years, offering a deeper understanding of Lynge’s process. A series of texts expands the scope of the publication. Paula Komoss situates Lynge’s work within broader art historical and socio-political contexts, while Line Ebert reflects on the symbolic dimensions of everyday objects and shifting cultural notions of value. A text by Oliver Corino unfolds as a parallel narrative to the exhibition. The publication concludes with a conversation between Lynge and Komoss, addressing a new body of work centered on cultured pearls as a metaphor for human intervention in natural processes—opening reflections on artificiality, control, and the reproduction of nature.
11,5 cm × 24 cm
184 pages
Softcover with dust jacket
Designed by Sophie Keij
Co-published with Overbeck-Gesellschaft April 2026
ISBN 97887-85336-11-8
PRE-ORDER. Ships 23. April, 2026
Capacity takes its point of departure in Asta Lynge’s first solo exhibition in Germany, presented at Overbeck-Gesellschaft in Lübeck. The publication offers the first comprehensive insight into Lynge’s practice and unfolds as a document of her work within an international context.
Centering on the installation Audience, shown in its largest iteration to date, the book traces Lynge’s ongoing investigation of symbolically charged everyday objects. Presented as a site-specific work spanning approximately 30 meters, Audience deconstructs the Chesterfield sofa—an enduring emblem of wealth and social prestige since 18th-century Britain. The series exposes the sofa’s underlying structure, stripping it of function and rendering it as a skeletal framework. This gesture of revealing, dismantling, and reconfiguring is carried through into the publication itself, where the design reflects the conceptual concerns of the works.
Alongside documentation of the exhibition, the book brings together research and material developed over the past three years, offering a deeper understanding of Lynge’s process. A series of texts expands the scope of the publication. Paula Komoss situates Lynge’s work within broader art historical and socio-political contexts, while Line Ebert reflects on the symbolic dimensions of everyday objects and shifting cultural notions of value. A text by Oliver Corino unfolds as a parallel narrative to the exhibition. The publication concludes with a conversation between Lynge and Komoss, addressing a new body of work centered on cultured pearls as a metaphor for human intervention in natural processes—opening reflections on artificiality, control, and the reproduction of nature.
11,5 cm × 24 cm
184 pages
Softcover with dust jacket
Designed by Sophie Keij
Co-published with Overbeck-Gesellschaft April 2026
ISBN 97887-85336-11-8
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