Follow Me Behind the Mirror –
Positions of the Wemhöner Collection

Editor
Philipp Bollmann

Authors
Philipp Bollmann, Heike Höcherl

Design
Neue Gestaltung

Publisher
Distanz Verlag

Format
27.5 x 23 cm

Features
404 pages, approx. 335 color illustrations, hardcover

ISBN
978-3-95476-769-4

Publication
August 2025

Kaufen

A dialogical perspective on the multifaceted Wemhöner Collection

Over the past 25 years, Heiner Wemhöner has built a collection of approximately 1,800 works with great expertise, curiosity, and openness, encompassing painting, sculpture, object art, photography, and film and video art.

The extensive and richly illustrated volume Follow Me Behind the Mirror. Positions of the Wemhöner Collection presents the diversity of this collection. Instead of a linear order, Philipp Bollmann opts for an open, associative structure. With his approach of comparative viewing, he deliberately places works in new constellations, reveals interdependencies, and opens up unusual perspectives on the collection.

In his introductory essay Dialogue and Perception, Bollmann further develops this concept and invites readers to question existing patterns of perception. The volume is complemented by Heike Höcherl’s contribution C’est mon plaisir – Collecting Art, Sharing Passion, which situates the Wemhöner Collection within the history of private art collections. The essay shows how private collecting enables cultural participation and, at the same time, acknowledges Heiner Wemhöner’s commitment to continuing and developing this tradition in today’s art context.

With works by Marina Abramović, Nevin Aladag, Kader Attia, Georg Baselitz, Hans Op de Beeck, Monica Bonvicini, Julian Charrière, Tony Cragg, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nan Goldin, Antony Gormley, Secundino Hernández, Leiko Ikemura, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Bianca Kennedy, Alicja Kwade, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ernesto Neto, Helmut Newton, Laure Prouvost, Michael Sailstorfer, Yang Fudong, Tobias Zielony, among others.