Preview: PAPER PROUD – a mail art project by Detel Aurand and Isabelle Dyckerhoff

Mail art as artistic exchange: How do you stay in touch when you no longer live in the same place? When you can't travel, as in times of pandemic? Artists Detel Aurand and Isabelle Dyckerhoff have dedicated themselves to art by mail and collaboration, developing a cycle of works on mail art: a silent conversation on paper that, parallel to their own artistic work, brings with it different approaches and challenges. Mail art was a means of communication across borders in Eastern Europe during the Cold War and an artistic component in the work of On Kawara, Ray Johnson, and Robert Rehfeldt. With PAPER PROUD, Detel Aurand and Isabelle Dyckerhoff are reviving this form of communication and drawing attention to the importance of paper and media such as daily newspapers.

Opening Reception Sunday, June 15, 11 am | June 15 –July 12, 2025, opening hours Friday/Saturday 2–5 pm

Review: From May 1 - 4, 2025, the ninth edition of paper positions berlin took place for the first time in the large main hall of the iconic Berlin-Tempelhof airport. augsburg contemporary showed new works by Isabelle Dyckerhoff, Bettina Hutschek and Angela Stauber directly at the entrance to the art fair at wall #55. 

With ceramic positions, the organizers were focusing on another artistic material for the first time - ceramics! The curated special exhibition showed selected artistic positions in this medium, including 2 works by Isabelle Dyckerhoff, and opened up a contrasting dialog with the works on paper in the main part of the fair.

You will find the artworks, which are still available, in our Online-Shop via the button!