The Retraction of Things was an exhibition series curated by Lukas Töpfer. It dealt with various aspects of exhibiting: the institution, the curator, the collector, the public, the work, the canon etc. The exhibitions took place at 3½,a small room between the third and fourth floor of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, from September 2014 to January 2015. Their duration variedfrom one day to one month. The fourth publication in the series KW Pocket is published as a tin can containing 25 cards documenting parts of the exhibition series. Design: Felix Kiessling; the series KW Pocket was developed by Studio Quentin Walesh

Lukas Töpfer (?* 1988, Schwalmstadt, Germany) works as a curator in Berlin. He has organized a number of different exhibitions: Das Übrige: Der Rest eines Vorschlags, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2014; The Missing, or One Thing Next to Another, Kunstsaele, Berlin, 2014; One Place Next to Another, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2014.