mess and memory, the first artist monograph of Peles Duo published last January to mark the duo's twentieth anniversary, is now available in Korea.
Spanning over two decades of practice, the publication brings together an archival overview of the artists' body of work — including collaborations with fellow artists, exhibitions, site-specific commissioned works, and salon histories since 2005 — making it an especially significant document of their career to date. It features essays by Hana Janečková and Kirsty Bell, and a conversation between Kyla McDonald and the artists.
Peles Duo (Katharina Stöver & Barbara Wolff) first formed as an artist duo with the opening of an illegal bar in Frankfurt's red-light district. Their name references Peleș Castle — the erstwhile summer residence of Romania's royal family, now a tourism hotspot and Hollywood movie backdrop — whose interiors are an eclectic mix of furniture and works of art. Taking inspiration from this imbrication of eras in the history of styles, the two artists use it as the point of departure for their process of sampling and quotation, deliberately blurring the distinction between original and copy.
Spanning over two decades of practice, the publication brings together an archival overview of the artists' body of work — including collaborations with fellow artists, exhibitions, site-specific commissioned works, and salon histories since 2005 — making it an especially significant document of their career to date. It features essays by Hana Janečková and Kirsty Bell, and a conversation between Kyla McDonald and the artists.
Peles Duo (Katharina Stöver & Barbara Wolff) first formed as an artist duo with the opening of an illegal bar in Frankfurt's red-light district. Their name references Peleș Castle — the erstwhile summer residence of Romania's royal family, now a tourism hotspot and Hollywood movie backdrop — whose interiors are an eclectic mix of furniture and works of art. Taking inspiration from this imbrication of eras in the history of styles, the two artists use it as the point of departure for their process of sampling and quotation, deliberately blurring the distinction between original and copy.
March 23, 2026