Childhood never lets go of anyone. For many artists it was the trigger for making art in the
first place and still is what drives them today. For Dream On Baby Gesine Borcherdt asked 33
artists including Ai Weiwei Marina Abramovic Lynda Benglis Vaginal Davis Marcel Dzama
Mona Hatoum Jeff Koons Gregor Schneider and Jordan Wolfson about their memories of
childhood. The result is an anthology of deeply personal sometimes tragic sometimes funny
often heartbreaking and always surprising stories. Accompanied by never-before-seen childhood
photographs and drawings this book sheds new light on what it means to make art. GESINE
BORCHERDT (*1976 Braunschweig) is a Berlin-based curator art critic and author for Art Review
Ursula Welt am Sonntag ART and AD Germany . Recent exhibitions include Dream Baby Dream
(2020) revolving around childhood fantasies and traumas and Home Is Where You're Happy (2023)
at Haus Mödrath in Kerpen Germany.
