3 Days
90 Exhibitors
25 Workshops, Talks & Performances
After two successful editions in 2023 and 2024, Between Books will take place for the third time at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from September 19 to 21 2025!
Independent art book publishers, artists, independent publishing/DIY collectives, organisations, associations, zines and magazines will present themselves to a wide audience in the exhibition rooms of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and show how versatile, exciting and contemporary the medium of books can be.
The focus will be on the local and regional publishing scene, but protagonists from all over Germany and neighbouring European countries will also be represented.
This year, for the first time, the exhibitors were selected by a jury consisting of: Stefan Marx (artist), Lea Szramek (Kettler publishing house), Daniel Seemayer (Department of Typography, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences), Juliane Hoffmanns (curation & exhibition realisation, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf) and Alicia Holthausen (acting artistic director, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf).
The art book fair is accompanied by an exciting and interactive supporting programme:
In numerous workshops, visitors can create their own zines, learn how a Riso printer works, bind a notebook, learn writing techniques or make their own stickers. Performances and talks will reveal how beautiful books are created, how to start your own publishing house, the connection between music and words, and what rebellious publishing means.
And at the Between Books Bar in the Salon des Amateurs, visitors can browse through their latest acquisitions while enjoying music and drinks or chatting with other book enthusiasts.
Between Books is both a meeting place for discourse on (art) books, alternative forms of publication and publishing as a practice, as well as a place to discover, browse and get to know each other.
Opening hours Between Books:
Friday, 19 September 2025, 3 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday, 21 September 2025, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Admission and participation in the supporting programme are free of charge.
The art book fair is accompanied by an exciting and interactive supporting program with book presentations, lectures, talks, performances and workshops.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Lea Giesecke
Notebook Binding
StudioWithin 15 to 20 minutes, you will bind a notebook using the 3-stitch thread knot binding technique. You will get a feel for working with paper by hand and learn about folding and binding techniques so that you can bind more notebooks at home. No prior knowledge is necessary.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
DIY Screen Printing
SeitenlichtsaalScreen printing is a game of permeability: where the fabric remains free, the ink flows through; where it is blocked, a void is created. In this workshop, the process is demystified and reinvented at the same time, with simple materials, open motifs and plenty of room for experimentation. Paper, fabric found objects – almost anything can become a medium for your prints.
3 p.m. – 6 p.m. / 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Banana Copy
Hello Riso
AtelierThe best way to familiarise yourself with the printing process is to try it out.
In this workshop, you will receive an introduction to the basics of risography and design the artwork for your own 2-colour riso print. We will collage, draw or stamp and then print together on the riso.Advance registration possible:
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. / 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Setting Traps – Writing Workshop with Author Thea Mantwill
SeitenlichtsaalTogether, we will get into writing by first losing our respect, then playing in the mud (metaphorically, of course) and finally collecting. The goal is to understand words as material and thus find our own beginning. No prior knowledge is required.
7.30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
z.art_Kollektiv (Lina & Maribel)
Create a Mini-Zine
StudioThe Mini-Zine workshop is open to everyone, regardless of age or prior knowledge! No registration is required; simply visit the foyer of the Kunsthalle and get started. We will provide various materials and explain how to use them. With drawings, text or mixed media techniques, anything is possible.
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
UN/SEEN – Women in Graphic Design to the Bauhaus
Salon des AmateursWhy are so many great female graphic designers still invisible?
Is there such a thing as a canon in graphic design? Who determines it?
Where did graphic design begin professionally in Germany? Where have all the women in graphic design gone? The UN/SEEN research project provides answers and brings unknown female graphic designers to light.6 – 7 p.m.
FELDER BOOKS BERLIN
1-2-3-4 Pogo
Salon des AmateursWinnes Rademächers presents his new zine POGO. He draws on the energy that drove music, art and anarchic punk dance in the early 1980s. A short, intense era, fuelled by a radical DIY mentality. He has dug through the archives of his former zine and cassette distribution company, shows his discoveries and reveals why Düsseldorf is the perfect place for POGO’s premiere.
7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Christian Odzuck and Frank-Thorsten Moll
Expanded books in the artistic field – Exhibiting artists’ books
Salon des AmateursThe book as a tool and structuring element in the artistic process. How could this process be reflected in the context of an exhibition? Frank-Thorsten Moll (director of IKOB) and Christian Odzuck (artist) begin their conversation with this question.
8–9 p.m.
Hagen Verleger
Making Books: Four Approaches
Salon des AmateursAuthorship, media specificity, translation, citation – the lecture explores four strategies for “making” books for or with artists. These approaches are illustrated using selected book designs and embedded in book and media studies discourse.
9 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Sonic Acts Press
Echoes Off The Page
Salon des AmateursA listening session and dialogue on resonance, spatial perception and acoustic memory, hosted by Sonic Acts Press. Editor Hannah Pezzack and Düsseldorf-based artist Lilli Lake will guide the audience through a curated selection of recordings, including works by Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Catherine Christer Hennix and Christina Kubisch, artists who intersect with Sonic Acts through books, albums and past programmes.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
We’ll never know what hit us
Salon des AmateursOver three days, the Between Books Bar will present a diverse programme of sounds in the Salon des Amateurs – live on site and streamed on Callshop Radio. Artists, musicians and DJs will come together in their time-based practices, opening up a space between concentrated listening, collective perception and situational intensity.
With We’ll never know what hit us., The Social Lover, Private Sphere, Hannah Pezzack, Time is Away, Alex Tackenberg & Grischerr, Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow, Orson, Nikolai Szymanski and Bufiman.
Curated by George Popov
11:10 am – 1:10 pm
malenki.net
Discuss your Book. Individual Counselling
Meeting Point: Salon des AmateursAre you planning to publish an artist’s book? Perhaps even self-publishing? Are you looking for collegial feedback from an artistic perspective? Meet Katrin Kamrau from malenki.net. Katrin is an excellent consultant for questions relating to self-publishing, self-organisation and book distribution in the field of independent publishing in Germany and Benelux.
Registration required:
Languages available: German, English, Dutch12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Banana Copy & Manuel Boden
Strahlung 2
AtelierTogether, we will create a publication that is the result of creative exchange and individual contributions from all participants. We will print our work in small quantities directly on site using a Risograph. We will work entirely analogously and experiment with drawing, collage and text. It would be ideal if you could bring visual material and thoughts on the topic of ‘radiation’ with you. Together, we will go through the entire process of creating an edition and take our own copies home with us at the end.
Advance registration possible:
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
lukas thein x heenngrimm
Late Summer Flowers – Cut-Out Collage
SeitenlichtsaalInspired by late summer flowers, colourful collages are created. Using scissors and scalpels, participants cut fine silhouettes out of coloured paper. Artist Lukas Thein also provides insight into his book projects, which focus on cut-out collages.
Advance registration possible:
2:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
HSD PBSA Illustration
Mini Magic and Big Ideas: Your Own Zine
SeitenlichtsaalWould you like to design your own little magazine? In this workshop, you will discover the creative world of zines – one of the smallest but most exciting forms of the medium ‘book’. Whether drawings, short texts, poems or collages of images and words – there are no limits to your imagination! You will receive tips from a design student at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
At the end, you will hold your own zine in your hands and take away lots of new ideas and experiences. No prior knowledge is required, just curiosity and a desire to try something new.5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Lea Giesecke
Folding & Designing – Experimental Publications
StudioWithin two hours, you will learn various folding techniques to fold and design one or more mini magazines, also known as zines. This form of publication gets to the heart of a topic in a concise and succinct manner. You will gain a feel for working with paper so that you can design more zines at home. No prior knowledge is necessary.
3 – 4 p.m.
Strzelecki Books
How to… Make (Art)Books
Salon des AmateursOutline of the practical and creative process of producing (art) books based on the following points:
- Idea
- Concept and design
- Production / printing
- Publication and distribution
- Introduction to publishing work / examples of books / processing and equipment5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Time is Away
Salon des AmateursTime is Away is the open-ended collaboration between artist Jack Rollo and historian Elaine Tierney. Their work together encompasses research, sound artworks and a long-running residency on NTS Radio. In the form of an ‘annotated DJ set’, Time is Away will continue their ongoing exploration of the slippery relationship between time, place and power.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m
Salon des Amateurs11am–1pm The Social Lover
1–2 p.m. Private Sphere
2–3 p.m. Hannah Pezzack
5-6 p.m. Time is away4 – 5 p.m.
Museum for Photocopying
40 Years of Unruly Publishing. With Klaus Urbons & Therese Schuleit
Salon des AmateursFounded in 1985 by Klaus Urbons, the Museum for Photocopying is dedicated to the art and technology of the photocopier. Rebellious Publishing traces the museum’s four decades of history and the rebellious spirit of creativity that flourished thanks to freely accessible reproduction technologies.
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Luca Thiel
Typewriter Poetry
(khd-grey) on the move at the KunsthalleAs part of this theme, you will have the opportunity to create a piece of writing on site with the poet LucaThiel. He will write you a poem on his typewriter. Choose three terms as inspiration – you can then take the poem home with you as a souvenir.
11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
The Rapid Publisher #34
StudioThe Rapid Publisher means: A room full of people, drinks all night long, your brain meets the copy machine, creates publications with your hands!
The Rapid Publisher is a participatory publishing event at the interface of performance, installation, DIY publishing, copy art and art books.
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Studio Violatipia
Draw (Print) A BookHow to draw (print) a book. The workshop will use simple materials: natural materials found in the area (flowers, plants, paper etc) and simple printmaking techniques to print on paper, I will bring my 3D printmaking press and 3D typography letterings to use to build a book.
Language: English
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lea Giesecke
Zine Fold – The Mini Magazine
StudioWithin 15 to 20 minutes, you will fold and design a mini magazine, also known as a zine, using a template. A zine is a small publication that summarises a topic in a concise and succinct manner. You will gain a feel for working with paper, enabling you to design further zines at home. No prior knowledge is necessary.
11:10 am – 1:10 pm
malenki.net
Discuss your Book. Individual Counselling
Meeting Point: Salon des AmateursAre you planning to publish an artist’s book? Perhaps even self-publishing? Are you looking for collegial feedback from an artistic perspective? Meet Katrin Kamrau from malenki.net. Katrin is an excellent consultant for questions relating to self-publishing, self-organisation and book distribution in the field of independent publishing in Germany and Benelux.
Registration required:
Languages available: German, English, Dutch11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Hello Riso
AtelierThe best way to familiarise yourself with the printing process is to try it out.
In this workshop, you will receive an introduction to the basics of risography and design the artwork for your own 2-colour riso print. We will collage, draw or stamp and then print together on the riso.Advance registration possible:
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Linocut Print
StudioIn linocut printing, motifs are cut into a plate and then printed onto paper. Clear contrasts, bold areas and fine lines are created through the interplay of light and dark. The process requires concentration and precision, but also leaves plenty of room for personal expression. Step by step, you create your own print – striking, graphic and distinctive.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
To Be Cooked
Food Untold – Food Observing
SeitenlichtsaalFood Untold – Food Observing is a playful workshop organised by the collective To Be Cooked. Participants are invited to observe food through creative processes such as photographing, drawing, creating collages, etc. The workshop focuses on using “observation” as a method to reflect on our memories and cultures.
Advance registration possible:
3:30 – 5 p.m
z.art_Kollektiv (Lina & Maribel)
Make your own stickers
StudioThe sticker workshop is open to people of all ages who want to create their own stickers. We provide various materials and explain how they can be used to make individual stickers. If you like, you can bring your ideas as well as photos, magazines etc.
3 – 4 p.m.
Lui Kohlmann
Comic Reading: Questionable Parenting Concepts
Salon des AmateursAuthoritarian parenting leads to misanthropy, at least in zombies. The evil nightmare fairy doesn’t help you fall asleep either.
The list of questionable parenting concepts is long – Lui Kohlmann plays everyday and unusual situations to absurd extremes in her comics.4 – 5 p.m.
Banana Copy
Riso Express
StudioShort presentation on risography. Here, imperfection is perfection. What is risography and how does it work? What do I need to consider when planning a zine project? Romana Nowroth from the Banana Copy printing studio will show examples of prints and explain the special features of risography. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to ask questions.
4 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Accidental Interest Books
It’s the Hottest Day of the Year and Everyone is Fucking Upset
Salon des AmateursA tour de force through screen-shots from Hollywood classics turned European teenage fan fiction of American dreams. A short story meticulously describing a single day, which will be extended into a novella. This reading will include additional work-in-progress material and a slide show.
4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
DIABP
A Google-generated spoken word musical performance by the two Dutch visual artists Louis Reith and Bas Fontein
Salon des AmateursTwo members of the Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers (DIABP) collective will deliver a hypnotic spoken word performance, accompanied by music and sound. The starting point for this setup is a text generated by Google, using the title of the book fair as a search term in three different languages (German, English and Dutch). If you attend this show with an open mind, there’s a fairly big chance you’ll make a journey through all the books you can think of.
11 a.m. – 3 p.m. / 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Salon des Amateurs11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Orson
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Nikolai Szymanski
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Bufiman1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Get-together
Salon des AmateursBook Release MUR BRUT 13–32 (published by StrzeleckiBooks)
With music and drinks in the Between Books Bar in the Salon des Amateurs, we celebrate the release of the book MUR BRUT 12–32. Following the publication of a publication on projects 1–12 of the MUR BRUT series in the parking garage of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2018, the second volume now brings together the exhibitions 13–32 to mark the tenth anniversary.11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Luca Thiel
Typewriter Poetry
(khd-grey) on the move at the KunsthalleAs part of this theme, you will have the opportunity to create a piece of writing on site with the poet LucaThiel. He will write you a poem on his typewriter. Choose three terms as inspiration – you can then take the poem home with you as a souvenir.
Participating exhibitors
15 Week Beans / Hochschule Rhein-Waal
A platform for students to learn independent publishing, 15 Week Beans is a collective of design students from editorial design classes led by artist-designer Lai Ping So at Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Kamp-Lintfort. Their research publications explore themes of ‘time’ and ‘identity’.
51 Personae
51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, placing special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Global South, as well as marginalised voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions. Photo: Chen Yun
Accidental Interest Books
Accidental Interest Books (AIB) is a micro-publishing house dedicated to the absurd, the coincidental and the surprising. Despite the greatest care in concept and design, it intentionally resists a comprehensive publishing strategy through its deliberately small print runs. AIB happily serves the niche. Photo: Moritz Appich
adocs Produktion und Verlag
adocs publishes in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design theory, visual culture and sound, artistic research and literature. The publications deal with experimental forms of design, conceptual positioning and practices of everyday use. Photo: Oliver Gemballa
AG Minimales Reisen
AG Minimales Reisen is an ephemeral collective. As an anti-elitist artists’ initiative, it develops and pursues concepts that bring together diverse people and their realities, making them visible.
Main focus: performative book art and experimental hospitality.
Antonio Menchen
Collection 1 is a publishing project that Antonio Menchen has been working on since 2021. So far, he has printed four volumes. This collection consists of printed images, including advertisements and newspaper clippings from different sources. Photo: Maru Serrano
ARCH+ Verlag
ARCH+ is the leading magazine for architecture and urbanism. Photo: David von Becker
Archive Books
Archive is a platform for cultural research and debate. Archive Books produces readers, monographs and artists’ books as well as journals focusing on contemporary cultural production.
ARTIC Magazin
ARTIC is different. From the outside, the inside, and altogether: each issue gathers previously unpublished texts and images around a unique, changing theme. A specially designed layout, handmade cover, and “designed pages” complete this interdisciplinary experience. Design and photot: Andreas Drewer
Bebe Books
Bebe Books is an ongoing collective experiment that operates through shared agency in creative labour, care and friendship in the field of communication design and publishing.
bleu.
bleu. is a contemporary art project created in 2021 by Nemo Ripoll. It has published a triptych of books (Cycles/Script/Air) written by J.J. Zana, designed by Alan Bolumar, printed by Che Huber (Noir sur Noir, Geneva) and translated into English as well as edited by Anna Magavern and Kathleen Archer.
books no demand
books no demand, as the reverse of books on demand, describes both our working method and the books we create: artist books in small editions that require time to produce. The collective consists of artists Paula Schneider, Anna Egerter, Maire Siewert, and Paulina Brunner.
Boxhorn
We are Boxhorn Magazine, a student-run publication from the Design Department of FH Aachen, published annually since 1998. This year’s 41st issue focuses on the concept of a ‘pit stop’, which is explored editorially in various symbolic ways.
Buchgalerie/Buchbinderei Mergemeier GmbH
The gallery represents artists locally, online and at fairs who primarily work with the medium of the book.
Buchhandlung Walther König
Walther König is a publishing house and bookshop with an affiliated antiquarian bookshop, headquartered in Cologne. Its areas of expertise are art and art history, theory, architecture, arts and crafts, design, fashion, film and photography, as well as exhibition catalogues.
copyshop—
copyshop— supports artists by reclaiming publishing as a space of care, experimentation, and refusal. We center the artist’s practice, produce books by hand, and challenge hierarchical, profit-driven models—offering an alternative, collective infrastructure. Photo: copyshop—
Daniel Stubenvoll
Published between publishers and off-spaces, represented at international art book fairs. The works revolve around work environments, urban structures, and the invisible spaces in between – found footage, original images, text, and narration intertwine to create dense visual essays. Photo: House of Books Zürich
designkrefeld edition
The Design Department of Hochschule Niederrhein offers students a wide range of artistic opportunities. The designkrefeld edition showcases exciting and experimental works, many of which are realised in the department’s well-equipped printmaking studios, which serve as a creative laboratory.
Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers (DIABP)
DIABP is a collective of small independent Dutch publishers specialised in art, photography and artist books. We are artists and photographers who publish books independently. The collective was founded in Amsterdam in 2016. Photo: DIABP
Edition Dryade
Edition Dryade – a series of hand-numbered booklets in small editions. About deeper perception, nature, and the atmosphere of places. Photo: Edition Dryade
EECLECTIC
EECLECTIC is a publishing project for digital publications in the field of visual culture in Berlin. Since 2018, we have been creating e-books that intertwine art, photography, city, politics, society, feminism and film.
Fantôme Verlag
Fantôme stands for subtle interactions and fluid transitions between visual art, research, film, photography, literature, cultural studies, music, media history and pop culture.
FELDER BOOKS BERLIN
FELDER BOOKS BERLIN is an independent publisher of art books, graphic design, picture books, comics and zines, founded in September 2022 in Berlin.
Friederike von Hellermann
Friederike von Hellermann is an artist who creates unique images and original graphic books in very limited editions, mostly using her signature stencil technique. Photo: Friederike von Hellermann
gallus-gallus
gallus gallus Press is a self-publishing studio based in Berlin. Treating the book as a medium in its own right, the studio deconstructs imposed meanings and reconnects disparate elements of conceptual constructs to spark new interpretations.
Hand-Bücher
The ‘Hand-Books’ explore questions surrounding the ‘dissolution’ of the classic book form. How can the book as a medium be further developed by incorporating the third dimension to create new ways of handling, beyond the usual page-turning?
Hfg of Books
Hfg of Books is a platform originating from the book workshop at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach that enables students to present their book projects to a wider audience.
HSD PBSA
The Peter Behrens School of Arts at HSD Düsseldorf is presenting a diverse range of student works in book design, typography, illustration, and fine art printing for the first time at Between Books—shaped by the current discourse in design and architecture. Photo: Tim Eglinski
HSD PBSA Illustration
Students from the Illustration department of the Design faculty at HSD present a cross-section of student projects, some of which were also produced by the students themselves using screen printing and risograph printing in the faculty’s own workshops.
Ilona Murzenko / Spalax Magazine
Spalax is a magazine about art as an experience. Each issue explores a theme through a central question, which artists answer in their own way — with images, texts, sketches. It’s about perspectives, inspiration and dialogue. Spalax is not an ordinary magazine, but a creative experiment.
Institut für Buchgestaltung | HSBI
The Institut für Buchgestaltung (IFB) was founded in 2006 with the aim of researching, promoting and publishing editorial design projects, as well as intensifying the Institute’s interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation with publishers, companies, institutions and universities. Photo: Malte Michels
INTERVALLVERLAG
Literature. Art. Sound. These are the three wide-ranging
territories explored by INTERVALLVERLAG, founded in
Cologne in 2021. We are particularly interested in the
spaces between, the intervals and overlaps between
these areas. Metaphors that give voice to the unseen.
Visual languages that make the unspeakable visible.
Notations that give voice to the sonic dimension. All this
in carefully edited and designed publications. Photo: INTERVALLVERLAG
J&J
J&J met as fellow students at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, sharing many interests in common, such as photography, writing, and publishing. Our interests glide in and outside of us, making our conversations fruitful. We’d like to share our subtle echoes throughout our works and life. Photo: Jeongan Choi
Jennifer Eckert
In her artist’s books, Jennifer Eckert references the book as a concept and space, exploring the resulting possibilities of conveying language with reference to time, process, and combinatorics in relation to its form.
Jubel Seele Licht
We come from China and living in Germany. The projects and works we show this time are all from our own artistic creations. Just like our studio name, it contains three words, namely jubel, seele, licht, which symbolises a happy soul walking in the place where the light shines in.
Karpav0li
Kerber Verlag is an independent, international art book publisher based in Berlin. Since 1985, we have been publishing high-quality, sophisticated, and distinctive publications on contemporary and modern art, as well as photography, architecture, and cultural history.
Kerber Verlag
Kerber Verlag is an independent, international art book publisher based in Berlin. Since 1985, we have been publishing high-quality, sophisticated, and distinctive publications on contemporary and modern art, as well as photography, architecture, and cultural history. Photo: Kerber Verlag
KHB Bücherregal
The KHB Bookshelf is an open format by Kunsthalle Below that offers book artists permanent exhibition opportunities in the KHBstudios Berlin. From the current shelf contents, various artist books have been selected to travel as a mobile KHB Bookshelf.
Kirsten Radermacher – 3R.art.in.books
3R.art.in.books are books and boxes developed and crafted by the artist Kirsten Radermacher. The delicate artist books are produced in very small editions—from concept and printing to the hand-binding—entirely in her studio. She showcases an impressive variety of her works. Photo: Kirsten Radermacher
Klara Paterok
Klara Paterok (*1983 in Emmerich) studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Vienna. At Between Books, she presents, alongside her own project, three books by other artists that also exhibit distinctly sculptural qualities.
KRAUTin Verlag, Hilbert und Zellerhof GbR
KRAUTin is the new kind of publisher for artists and photographers.
Founded in 2019, KRAUTin has since been committed to making the publication of inspiring works easier and more affordable. To date, more than 200 titles from all areas of visual arts have been published by KRAUTin.
Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen
For over a century, the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf has been publishing catalogues, artist’s books, collected writings and monographs of both established and emerging artists to accompany exhibitions.
La Felce
La Felce presents, alongside the curated exhibitions, selected book presentations. Here too, the exhibition medium is the focus: How are book contents presented ‘on the wall’? How is the atmosphere of an artist’s book conveyed into the space? Foto: Manuel Boden
Lärm & Gestalt
Lärm & Gestalt is an independent publisher based in Berlin focusing on the peripheries of pop culture.
Our ambition is to produce accessible, well-crafted zines and books.
Lubok Verlag
Publisher of original graphic artist books, photo books, zines, and catalogues from the fields of painting, graphics, installation, and more.
Lui Kohlmann
Lui Kohlmann employs absurdity and humour as coping mechanisms within a patriarchal society and collapsing ecology. Style and media range from shabby DIY Zines to high-gloss magazine aesthetics. Photo: Jasmin Richter
lukas thein x heenngrimm
lukas thein x heenngrimm work as artist friends on book projects in Germany and South Korea. Their interest in flowers, vases, and everyday life is reflected in arranging flowers. The book flowers-spring presents Thein’s works in correspondence with those of fellow artists. Photo: Hwayoun Lee
M BOOKS
M BOOKS is an independent publisher, bookstore and gallery focusing on architecture and related fields. We are committed to an understanding of architecture as a form of ‘public art’, aiming to disseminate expert knowledge gained through research and practical design to a broader public. Photo: Florian Mahrenbach
MA ED Master Editorial Design, FH Dortmund FB Design
The master’s programme in Editorial Design at FH Dortmund/Department of Design showcases student book projects with an explicit focus on questions of authorship in design and in the media-specific discourse of editorial design. Photo: Kim Jahnke und Ellen Schule | Plural Kollaborativ
malenki.net
Malenki.net is a platform founded in 2010 by Katrin Kamrau and Robert Schlotter for multilingual artists’ publications and small-edition releases, with a focus on contemporary photography, visual art, and self-publishing. Photo: Katrin Kamrau
Manuel Boden
Manuel Boden is an artist and collector. He publishes works both through self-publishing and in collaboration with small publishers. His playful practice focuses on photography, the compilation of images, obscure archives and the exploration of collective memory culture.
MaroVerlag
Prose, poetry, novels, stories, MaroHefte with essays and illustrations: True to the motto ‘Independent. Unexpected. Unwavering.’, Maro publishes authors from around the world, especially from Germany, the USA and Latin America, and since 2022 also the German-Chinese science fiction magazine Kapsel. Photo: Lena Dernai
Museum für Fotokopie
The Museum für Fotokopie (M.F.F.; Museum of Photocopy) is an artistic-technical platform and sees itself as a forum for the theory and practice of copying and its diverse influences on society, communication media and art. Photo: Therese Schuleit
Nomad Papaya Books
Nomad Papaya BOOKS is an art book and zine publishing house focusing on transition of culture(s) and identit(ies), based in Taiwan and Germany.
What is changing when you cross the border, leaving your own history/home behind?
Can encounter form new identities?
Photo: Kenneth Lin
Onomatopee
Onomatopee is a publishing house based in Eindhoven with a focus on multi-voiced publications on relevant contemporary topics in the art and design world. We don’t just let the commonly heard voices be heard, but rather give space to the less heard ones. Photo: Onomatopee
P+4 Publications
P+4 Publications is a small-size publishing programme dedicated to Romanian art, photography and architecture. We aim to generate transversal connections that open up less known narratives to international audiences in a close collaboration with artists and designers.
Palm Press Publishing
Palm Press was founded in 2017 as an imprint of ad/ad – Project Space. In addition to publications related to the ad/ad exhibition programme, Palm Press collaborates with artists, authors, institutions and galleries on interdisciplinary small-run publication projects.
Papertrail
Papertrail is an experimental publishing project that seeks to provoke critical thinking about the ways in which obfuscated layers of infrastructural power shape spatial dynamics and visual expressions in the contemporary public sphere. Foto: Livio Liechti
Prima.Publikationen
Prima.Publikationen poetise everyday life and condense it into book artworks. Each book is conceived as an overall project with accompanying formats such as exhibitions, interventions in public spaces or performative readings. We create worlds on paper and foster exchange beyond that.
Reinier Vrancken
Reinier Vrancken (b. 1992, NL) lives and works in Rotterdam. Foto: Janou Munnik
Ribes Books
For Ribes Books, the book is also a sculpture, the fingers flipping between the pages, the smells the paper brings. We try to combine the technology of the book, the unique material and the content of the text or images in the book to bring a different soul to each book.
Risofort / SofortBooks
SofortBooks is a Hamburg-based small-scale publishing outlet. Tied to our own print studio Risofort, we work on books from start to finish, printing and producing everything in-house. Risofort is our print studio, also based in Hamburg.
Rollo Press
Rollo Press is a publishing project founded by Urs Lehni in Zürich at the end of 2007, more or less accidentally after purchasing a risograph from Ebay. Since then, roughly 80 titles have been published under this imprint. Photo: John Baldessari
RpB Verlag Köln / Galerie M29 Richter
Galerie M29 was founded in 2002 as an experimental project space and publisher. In addition to its traditional role as a gallery, it serves as a venue for exhibitions, publications, readings and film screenings. An associative dialogue emerges between art, science, literature, philosophy and film. Photo: RpB Verlag
Set Margins’ publications
Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforce the voices of marginalised cultural agendas.
Silke Brösskamp, Heike Herold, Katrin Stangl
Silke Brösskamp, Heike Herold and Katrin Stangl create very diverse artists’ books and small editions that navigate the intersection between art and illustration. Photo: Heike Herold
Sonic Acts Press
Sonic Acts Press publishes at the intersection of sound art, technology, theory and ecology. An offshoot of Sonic Acts, the Amsterdam-based organisation and Biennial, our books, magazines and music merge research with experimental narratives. Photo: Pieter Kers
SO-RI
SO-RI is a small publishing house and print studio, based in Antwerp.
Spruehling689
Spruehling is an illustrator from Offenbach whose narrative comics mediate between everyday life, space and installation. His works invite viewers to immerse themselves in drawn worlds and to experience comics as a spatial form of expression. Photo: Felix Kleinwächter
Squash x Fanart
Squash and Fanart are two Leipzig-based artist collectives working in the fields of comic, drawing and bookmaking. We organise and host the annual comic festival Snail Eye Leipzig as well as the comic and art space Jelly. The collectives have published three comic anthologies to date.
St. Patrick’s Zine Library
The St. Patrick’s Zine Library is a collection of zines, comics and self-published works. The selection is based on the collection of Patrick Rieve, a Cologne-based artist. Foto: Patrick Rieve
Stift Touché
Stift Touché is a collective that explores comic-artistic methods each week, creating zines and single-page works scribbled with modern myths, because the world seems no longer explainable otherwise. They surf the trivialities and shamelessness of the present, using drawing as a life buoy. Foto: Therese Schuleit
StrzeleckiBooks
Books, Non-Books & Music with Love.
studio salt, pepper and peace
studio salt, pepper, and peace is a graphic design duo based in Amsterdam. Through their self-initiated graphic design practice, Özgür Deniz Koldaş and Minhu Jun utilise publishing as methodology for artistic research and experimentation. Photo: studio salt, pepper and peace
Studio Violatipia
Tzu Ning Chiang (Viola Chiang) was born in Taipei and lives and works in Venice. Her personal Studio Violatipia in Fondamenta San Giacomo 212/C 30133 Giudecca Redentore, Venice, Italy is an experimental and creative space between printmaking and photography to realise different books.
stürz bücher
stürz bücher is a Berlin-based publisher of artists’ books. It uses the book as a platform for the production and distribution of book-based artworks.
Südturm
Südturm publishes photobooks and magazines in small editions that explore the transience of industry, change and the urban periphery. Photo: Alexander Fröde, Copyright 2021
Tausend Editionen
Artistic, literary, poetic and theoretical book practices come together in the publishing project Tausend Editionen.
the missing O
34 different types of discarded packs of pink paper were used to produce the book. Some papers have waited decades until they found their destination in Coppens’ book. The Fibonacci sequence forms the backbone of this book: it determines all, from number of pages to number of copies.
To Be Cooked
To Be Cooked is a culinary collective based in Eindhoven, that focuses on 1) research-based design and publishing practices through the lens of food. 2) culinary experiences with various cuisines and their narratives behind. Photo: Ziyi Lian
Valiz
Valiz is an independent international publisher on contemporary art, theory, critique, design and urban affairs. Our books offer critical reflection, interdisciplinary inspiration and often establish a connection between cultural disciplines and socio-political questions. Photo: Raquel Echevarría
VKunsthochschule für Medien Köln
The publisher of the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln has been providing a publishing platform since 2014 for artistic projects, research initiatives and discourses in the field of media arts. Publications include, among others, artist publications, exhibition catalogues, lecture volumes and anthologies.
Verlag Kettler
Our programme is characterised by a diverse range. In addition to popular titles, we offer numerous young and emerging artists a publishing platform. Our books address socially relevant issues as well as niche topics. Photo: Victoria Jung
Verlag Peter Tedden powered by CAPRIBATTERIE e.V.
Since 2006, CAPRIBATTERIE e.V. has been managing the art exchange between Düsseldorf and Naples and has collaborated on numerous Italy-loving exhibition and publication projects with the gallery owner, collector and publisher Peter Tedden (Düsseldorf) and the legendary art printing house IL LABORATORIO/le edizioni (Nola/Naples).
Verlag Rotscheibe
Verlag Rotscheibe, founded in 2020 in Würzburg, is an economic venture by two young people with limited resources. We realise cultural projects with the aim of occupying space. We shape this space with our programme to promote a solidarity-based and diverse cultural scene. Photo: Florian Bötsch
Vibrational Semantics
Vibrational Semantics focuses on the creative use of voice and language in contemporary art practice. The publications explore the voice’s ability to shift seamlessly between signification and sonority, from speech sound to noise, and look at language’s relation to sense and meaning. Photo: Thor Brødreskift
VON WEIT HER (GEHOLT)
The works of the Bremen-based female artist duo VON WEIT HER draw inspiration from everyday life and pop culture. Through subtle interventions and absurd humor, familiar representations gain a fresh perspective. Also available at the stand: embroidered sausages, craft sheets, prints and much more.
Wai Lun Hsu, Lai Ping So / mmmmor studio
Visual artists Wai Lun Hsu and Lai Ping So collaborate as an artist collective and founded mmmmor studio. Their work focuses on artists’ books and artistic research, exploring themes like history, languages, power dynamics and censorship.
weko Pressure
weko Pressure is a self-publishing programme based in Hamburg & The Hague, organised by weko, pp, and their friends. Starting with comic zines, they are now expanding their focus to explore ideas and research programmes on paper, time-based media, materials and urban issues. Photo: weko Pressure
Zagava Books
Zagava focuses on fantasy literature and outsider art art books in limited editions and publishes books in English, most of which are bound in unusual materials. Photo: R. Ostermeier
Zamân Books & Curating
Zamân Books & Curating is dedicated to the study of Arab, African and Asian modernities, working towards the emergence of a transnational and postcolonial art history. Such new mappings of art histories develop through exhibitions, and different kinds of publications.
zines.cool
Since 2023, Jenni has been creating zines on a wide range of topics and bringing people together through regular zine exchange events. She shares her passion not only through her own zines but also via the zines.fm podcast – always with the goal of inspiring even more people to discover the world of zines. Photo: Sebastian Steimel
15 Week Beans / Hochschule Rhein-Waal
A platform for students to learn independent publishing, 15 Week Beans is a collective of design students from editorial design classes led by artist-designer Lai Ping So at Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Kamp-Lintfort. Their research publications explore themes of ‘time’ and ‘identity’.
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