Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art, 2016
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Art & Language, Portraits and a Dream, 2009, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Michael Dean, this (Working Title) / LB (Working Title), 2014, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Isabella Kohlhuber, Aus dem Gesetz, 2016, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Sue Tompkins, New Trances 10, 2016, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Natalie Czech, A poem by repetition by Robert Creeley, 2013, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Georg Oberhumer, Beistrich, 2014, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art
Ewa Partum, Active Poetry, 1971–1973, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, photo: Markus Krottendorfer

Natalie Häusler, we are getting a little bit too close here (still life), 2012
digital print on habotai silk, metal frames for desks, tabletops, wood, fruit, dimensions variable, courtesy Supportico Lopez, Berlin

Nanni Balestrini, Ecco l'uomo, 1962
collage, framed, 27 x 18 cm, courtesy Paolo Lamberti

Cerith Wyn Evans, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 2008
neon, metal, cable, plexiglass, 20 x 185 cm , courtesy the artist & Galerie Neu, Berlin

Michael Riedel, Meckert Hörbuch, 2009
publication 400 p., cont. ill., softbound, wrapped, iPod, 26.8 x 26.4 cm, courtesy the artist

Alison Knowles, Untitled, undated
mixed media, 228.60 × 60.96 cm, courtesy James Fuentes, New York

Shannon Ebner, Autoexpoesis, 2014
3 Epson prints, framed, 162.5 × 109 cm each, courtesy the artist & kaufmann repetto, Milano/New York, photo: Andrea Rossetti

Shannon Ebner, Autoexpoesis, 2014
Epson inkjet print, strobo light, courtesy the artist & kaufmann repetto, Milano/New York, photo: Andrea Rossetti

Ewa Partum, Active Poetry, 1971-1973
8 mm film transferred to DVD, b/w, 5:45 min, courtesy the artist & Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin © Ewa Partum

Isabella Kohlhuber, B+0066 – B+0090, 2016
animation, 16 min, courtesy the artist