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Nadine Redlich at Grafixx

Festival|Festival Opening 2025

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Poster Grafixx © Martha Verschaffel - Louis Reith

Grafixx Poster © Martha Verschaffel - Louis Reith

The 13th edition of Grafixx Festival will take place in Antwerp from 21 November 2025 and will focus on the theme of "Signs". Over three days, there will be workshops for all age groups, talks and readings by emerging and established creatives, animations and screenings, performances and exhibitions. Rounding out the program is a zine festival featuring unique and hard-to-find publications by visual storytellers from around the world.

In collaboration with Grafixx Festival and dasKULTURforum Antwerp, Goethe-Institut Belgium has invited Düsseldorf-based comic artist Nadine Redlich to exhibit. As part of the festival, she will be showing new works dealing with the figure of the Giant Baby. 

Redlich is renowned for putting humour, melancholy and subtle observations at the heart of her work: crying apples, talking stones and anthropomorphic figures joking or teasing each other are part of her unmistakable style. 

Since the publication of her groundbreaking "Ambient Comics" (published by Rotopol), many other books have followed: after her sensitive examination of the inner life of stones in "Stones", the emotional love letter "I Hate You – You Just Don’t Know It Yet", and her meditation on fear in "Paniktotem", Nadine Redlich dedicates her book "Doing the Work" to the struggles of everyday existence.

Her cartoons and comics can be found in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frieze Magazine, Le Monde and the Elbphilharmonie Magazine.

Nadine Redlich's exhibition within the Grafixx Festival also marks the conclusion of a four-week residency at MORPHO Antwerp, organised by the Goethe-Institut Belgium in cooperation with the KULTURforum Antwerp.


 

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