murakamistuff:

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the sister-city arrangement between Cologne, Germany and Kyōto, the city of Haruki Murakami’s birth, the city of Cologne opened an exhibition in collaboration with Kat Menschik, Murakami’s illustrator.

Menschik illustrated several of Murakami’s short stories, published in various countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands, and is currently working on new illustrations for Murakami’s story 『ふしぎな図書館』 (“The Mysterious Library”), to be published in German language in Fall 2013.

The exhibition is open until July 6th and features illustrations from the Murakami story Sleep as well as his Bakery Attack series (among other Menschik works).

Where? — Kölner Zentralbibliothek

How much? — Free!

I wanna go!