Wolfgang Scheppe

[1] Migropolis and the earlier Endcommercial study were formally innovative research projects extending over several years, which were dedicated to the crisis of the globalized city and carried out in collectives initiated and organized by Scheppe.

[3][4] Endcommercial a purely visual taxonomic study made over a period of five years, mainly in New York, and examining the crisis economy of the contemporary generic city, was included by Martin Parr in his canon The Photo book: A History, Vol I|.

To this end, it juxtaposed the central block of works by the conceptual artist Franco Vimercati with a sequence of forms conceived according to Kubler's theories, consisting of 99 bowls from all geographical provenances and eras.

While working as curator at large with the 15 museums in the system of the Dresden State Art Collections, Scheppe rediscovered a unique and long-forgotten treasure in the storage depot of the Water Palace of Schloss Pillnitz.

[14][15] Although this popular custom known as Joss paper in the designation of the western world or more accurately Zhǐzā has been politically opposed for most of its history, based only on oral tradition outside of any ecclesiastically codified religion, it is thoroughly integrated in daily life and has existed as an unbroken practice for 2,000 years – and today primarily represents the current hegemonic form of commodity fetishism.

The four-year research project on the scientific history of racism since the 18th century, focusing on the influential but unknown ethnologist and race theorist Bernhard Struck, resulted in a 2016 exhibition at the Lipsiusbau in Dresden and an extensive catalog distributed as a newspaper.

The presentation centered on Struck's obsessive image card index, which sought to prove racial alterity from the empiricism of perceptual evidence with a taxonomy of supposed phenotypes and their quantitative recording through metrical survey data.

Wolfgang Scheppe: Migropolis / Atlas of a Global Situation , 2 Vol., Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-4111-8
Done Book. Picturing the City of Society, The British Counci/Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2773-0
Wolfgang Scheppe: The Things of Life / The Life of Things , 3 Vol., Walther König, Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-550-0
Wolfgang Scheppe, Supermarket of the Dead: Burnt Offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption , 3 Vol., Walther König, Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-716-0
The Most Dangerous Game, Der Weg der Situationistischen Internationale in den Mai 68, (with Roberto Ohrt), Vol. 1 Documents, Vol. 2 Works Merve, Leipzig, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-019-2