A partial compendium of the different modes of being that inhabit exhibitions.

These different modes of being, often placed outside the realm of art objects proper, are described and activated here as crucial players in the world of contemporary art.

Maximizing a poetic resourcefulness, The Standard Book of Noun-Verb Exhibition Grammar proposes the exhibition as an ecology full of things that are infinitely more dimensional than their ascribed functionality would lead us to believe, and creates a space where species meet, where ontological and epistemological registers clash, overlap, and contaminate each other, where the living and inert, organic and inorganic exchange properties, qualities, and performances.

Ultimately this book aims to show that what revolves around, within, and beyond any given system resolves to be just as serious and important as what that system aims to convey.

Text and afterword by Timotheus Vermeulen

Edited and with text by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

Designed by Sonia Dominguez

Published by Onomatopee, 2018

Softcover, 182 pages, 31 b&w images, 6 × 8 inches

ISBN: 978-9-49-167774-8