Bless

 
Bless is a provocative collaborative project by Desiree Heiss (born 1971 in Freiburg, Germany) and Ines Kaag (born 1970 in Fürth, Germany) generating products in the fields of fashion accessories, design and fine art.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st Berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2003), Goethe-Institut, Tokyo (2005), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006)...

(external link : www.bless-service.de)
 
 Bless - Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS N°42–N°74
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Written and visual documentation of the German stylist-designer duo's projects from 2010 to 2022.
 Bless - Lookbook Collaborations
2011
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A limited edition containing twelve selected Bless lookbook-magazines ('SUP MAGAZINE, Capricious Magazine, mono.kultur, Paris-La, Purple Magazine, Textfield, etc.) held together by a Bless n° 43 Handle.
 Bless - Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.
 Bless - Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness - Video Compilation (DVD)
2006
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
A compilation of videos by the collaborative fashion, design and fine art project.
 Bless - Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness - n° 00 – n° 29
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless' activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.


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