In the kunsthaus kannen shop you will find postcards (0,50€) and our well - liked writing pads (2€) with depictions of our artists and exhibitions.  The yearly produced desk pad is also available in the shop.  Moreover you can shop all our publications and many other exciting little things on the subject of art brut, outsider art, art and psychiatry

The 2x2 forum for Outsider Art held in October 2013 and 2015 as well as in September 2017 again offered a European platform for studios, galleries, museums and institutions which deal with artistic works by mentally disabled or ill people. The book presents the 47 participants of the past three forums and their current concepts. Some lectures of Jörg Scheller, Hans Körner, Britta Peters and Thomas Röske, discussions and contacts are gathered in the German/English documentation. This includes numerous illustrations, photos and a film.

publisher: Alexianer GmbH; Year of publication: 2018; 204 pages, 200 color illustrations and film; format: 23,5 x 21,0 cm; german/english; ISBN: 3-930330-26-1; 18€

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Book of the international artfair "2x2 Forum for Outsider Art" of the years 2009 and 2011. The 44 participating ateliers, museums, galleries and art-projects are presented with a brief description plus foto and contact-data. On top of that all Lectures and Speakers: Angelica Bäumer, Lisa Niederreiter, Monika Jagdfeld, Pierre Muylle, Christian Berst, Ivana Baši?evi?, Wolfram Voigtländer, Marian Giordano and the panel discussions: Thomas Röske, Carine Fol, Bruno Malveira, John Maizels, Sepp Hiekisch-Picard. With further life histories of the speakers. DVD with a 20 min. film, which contains exhibits and interviews with artists, speakers as well as directors of museums.

Art projects in the Psychiatry. Documentation of the project ALLES BLEIBT ANDERS in the Alexianer Münster with an exhibition at Kunsthaus Kannen in 2012.

Artists: Lela Budde, Dorothee Burgemeister, Senta Connert, Hans Emmerich, Elisabeth Enßlin, Sonja Güllich, Franziska Haider, Kilian Ihler, Elzemieke de Tiège, Tanja Weirauch

Publisher:  Lisa Inckmann, Senta Connert
Preface: Klaus Telger
Articles: Katja Bonnländer, Senta Connert, Christopher Kirchhoff

The catalogue is a detailed documentation of the end-of-years Sales Exhibition which presents the artists of Kunsthaus Kannen and other german and european artists. With black-and-white photographies of the artworks and informations on the exhibition.

The book gives writing a hold, it concentrates the numerous texts, poems, scetches, thoughts and drawings. 40 authors with psychiatric experience from Westphalia are going to be presented, who transfered their thoughts and experiences. 12 scientific essays, newspapers of patients and information of working in creative writing-workshops are represented as well as an AudioCD with 24 authors reading their texts and poems is contained. 286 pages, 80 Illustrations,

Off we go- is the title on an artproject with participants from three different institutions, who have a discussion by painting and writing. The painting- and writing-project which is hold as a ping-pong match between the artists of Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, some participants from the art Brut course of the adult aducation centre Duisburg and the "Mal-zeitlern", a painting group of the social welfare work Duisburg GmbH, field of social-psychiatrie, brought some astonishments.

A park is constantly in a transformation. The cycle of the seasons and in the course of the years. At the beginning there are small trees and bushes that are meanwhile big and impressive. In a pleasant kind the park  turned into a not directly managable place, that invites the visitors to a journey of discovery.   

The publication includes a foreword of the executive chief of medicine Dr. Klaus Telger, as well as professional contributions of the following authors: Hugo Kükelhaus, Gabriele Andrea , Ilse Copak, Gerald Kienecker, Martin Schofer, Klaus Telger und numerous illustrations. 

CD- ROM and Publication
Documentation of the poject
"Was fang ich an im grünen Bereich"- an art project
in the psychiatrie with a following exhibition.

Since his childhood Robert Burda (born 1942) is detailly documentating his everyday life and his life-suituations via drawings, paintings and throughout letters to his family. Especially buses and trains from his home town Bremen-Blumenthal and supervisions of interiors are depicted in the artist's works. In his pictures Burda describes his experiences like walks, holiday trips or hospital stays as well as everyday life-objects, like a bathing-bag, a shaver or a pyjama.

In 2004 he recived the European Artprice EUWARD, an international award for mentally disabled artists.

This is the catalogue of his first Single-Exhibition in Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster with the title "Heute ist ein nagelneuer Tag" ("Today is a brand-new day"), which gives an overwiev of his ouevre.

Chalk drawings and watercolor paintings. Since 1984 F. W. Koch paints and draws regulary in a painting-group of the arthous. He belonged to the first members of the Kunsthaus Kannen artists. Since 1996 the group has got their own working spaces in the studio of Kunsthaus Kannen. This booklet shows the bold style of Koch.