Joseph Beuys
Ich kenne kein Weekend

1971

EB32

Reclam book, Maggi bottle (14,5 x 5 cm)

Planned edition of 95, 65 exemplars realized, signed in the book

4.800 Euro (with estate stamp)
9.400 (signed)

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part of portfolio Weekend more editions by Joseph Beuys
Multiple by the artist Joseph Beuys, consisting of a Maggi bottle and the Reclam book Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, stamped in red ink with BEUYS: ich kenne kein weekend. The bottle and book are mounted on the lid of a black suitcase.
Multiple by the artist Joseph Beuys consisting of a bottle of Maggi staning next to the reclam book Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, that is stamped with BEUYS: ich kenne kein weekend in red ink.
Multiple by the artist Joseph Beuys consisting of a bottle of Maggi staning next to the reclam book Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, that is stamped with BEUYS: ich kenne kein weekend in red ink.

    With the title Ich kenne kein Weekend (I don’t know a Weekend), Beuys responds directly to the concept of the edition Weekend (EB32). For his contribution in the form of a readymade, he stamped “BEUYS: ich kenne kein Weekend” on a Reclam edition of Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft and combined it with a standard Maggi bottle. Both objects are attached to the lid of the suitcase, the Maggi bottle with a metal clip on the neck of the bottle, the book with two wide rubber bands. The object can be shown in the open case. Around 65 of the planned edition of 95 copies of the case were produced. In 2017, an additional ten copies of Ich kenne kein Weekend were produced in a black wooden case with the same dimensions as the original suitcase.
    In exemplars from 1980 onwards, Beuys’ contribution uses a Maggi bottle with a different manufacturer’s label; from 1986 onwards, Wenzel Beuys signed the Reclam book in the imprint and it also bears an estate stamp from the Beuys Estate.
    Text: Birgit Eusterschulte