Art Book Fair Berlin
dal 12/12/2014 al 13/12/2014
Segnalato da
12/12/2014
Art Book Fair Berlin
Cafe Moskau, Berlin
Art Book Fair Berlin as Europe's premier festival for contemporary artists' books and periodicals by artists and art publishers. Featuring 100 international participants and a series of public programmes: discussions, readings, presentations, performances, and artists' interventions that explore the perimeters of today's art publishing.
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin
takes place on the weekend of 13 and 14 December, 2014, at Café Moskau as Europe’s
premier festival for contemporary artists’ books and periodicals by artists and art publishers.
Featuring 100+ international participants and a series of public programmes: discussions,
readings, presentations, performances, and artists' interventions that explore the perimeters
of today’s art publishing. Admission is free.
In 2014, artists and art publishers are invited whose primary focus is on the artists’ book and
alternative art publishing. This overview includes both veterans of publishing since the 1960s,
as well as young and promising artist book activists.
Artists’ books continue to enjoy fresh interest, enthusiasm, and creative production, despite
the widespread woes of the book, magazine, and newspaper publishing establishment. In
recent years, more and more young contemporary art publishing initiatives have been
successfully founded.
This new art book culture demonstrates that the book is indeed more alive than ever, and
that there are always new possibilities to explore how a book may be experienced. As the
borders between art publications and works of art continue to become blurred, so do
divisions between artists’ books, catalogues, and theoretical readers. Artist and publisher
often merge to become one and the same.
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin 2014 is hosted by Café Moskau, a landmark of East
Berlin architecture in the Mitte district, renovated according to preservation guidelines in
2009. Now a congress centre, Café Moskau first opened in 1961, as part of the first GDR
socialist complex on Karl-Marx-Allee.
Are You…Friends with Books? is the fair's public programming series featuring lectures, talks, conversations, readings, and presentations by Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto, Diedrich Diederichsen, Metahaven, Hito Steyerl, and others (e-flux journal); Dr. Sophie Berrebi and Susanne Kriemann (Valiz); Charlotte Birnbaum and Daniel Birnbaum (Sternberg Press); Paul Hendrikse and Freek Lomme (Onomatopee projects); Adam Kleinman (Witte de With Review); Thomas Hvid Kromann and Jesper Fabricius, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Morten Søndergaard and Jasper Sebastian Stürup (Møller and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König); Ines Lechleitner and Ana Teixeira Pinto (Sternberg Press); Rebecca Partridge and Lauren Reid (Broken Dimanche Press), and others.
Artists' interventions, performances, and projects:
Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD/DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program presents Chitti Kasemkitvatana with a new, "live" Berlin version of Messy Sky Magazine.
Friends with Books presents Good Times & Nocturnal News (Egle Kulbokaite and Carl Palm) with an installation featuring the first two magazine editions and dripping ice moon, and an accompanying music/performance event at Kosmetiksalon Babette on Saturday, 13 December, 7pm till late.
The Liberated Page presents artists' interventions by Louise Guerra and Claudia de la Torre. As a satellite project of The Liberated Page Biennial at Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva, the artists explore poetic and structural practices in art book production that concern the renewal of the book format.
pro qm presents an installation of the Architectural Association's Fulcrum by books people places and schneideroelsen.
Books and Friends features book launches and signings by Dr. Sophie Berrebi (Valiz); Susanne Bürner; Yuji Hamada and Shinji Otani (atelier iii); Kevin Kemter (AKV); Zora Mann (Chert Gallery/Motto Books); Suzana Milevska (Archive Books); Rebecca Partridge (Broken Dimanche Press); Tadej Pogačar (Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.); Patricia Reed (Onomatopee projects); Ulrike Mohr and Lise Harlev (THE GREEN BOX); and Kirstine Roepstorff (argobooks/Kunstverein Göttingen).
Press Contact:
Emily Rocher, pr@friendswithbooks.org
The public programmes schedule is available here:
http://www.friendswithbooks.org
Opening: Saturday, 13 December, 7pm–late
Kosmetiksalon Babette, with Good Times & Nocturnal News and guests
Café Moskau
Karl-Marx-Allee 34
10178 Berlin
Germany
Hours: 11am–7pm, free