The Sleeping Hippopotamus and the Missing Eskimo

by Anselm Franke (Contributor), João Maria Gusmão (Text), Madeleine Schuppli (Foreword)

The films, sculptures, photographs and installations of Portugese duo Joao Maria Gusmao (born 1979) and Pedro Paiva (born 1977) capture magical everyday moments. This book includes previously unseen works.

176 pages, Paperback

Published September 27, 2016

About the author

Anselm Franke lives and works in Berlin as a curator and author. He has been the head of the Department of Visual Arts and Film at Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2013. He previously worked as a curator at KW Berlin and as director of the Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. In 2005 he and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus founded the Forum Expanded for the Berlin International Film Festival of which he has been co-curator since. He was the chief curator of the Taipei Biennial in 2012 and of the Shanghai Biennale in 2014. His exhibition project Animism was shown from 2009 until 2014 in collaboration with various partners in Antwerp, Berne, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut. Franke received his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, London.