Edmund de Waal

Writing

The catalogue essay for Edmund de Waal’s first solo show in Berlin which took place across two gallery spaces of Galerie Max Hetzler in Charlottenburg. Based on the writings of Walter Benjamin, the exhibition title was taken from his concept of the art of getting lost, the art of noticing what has been disregarded.

This text accompanied the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, which was made up of what Edmund de Waal described as a ‘series of detours’ through the work of Robert Walser, the modernist Swiss writer, whose literary output was the central inspiration behind the exhibition.