EXHIBITION

Art Book Fair Berlin 2014

Café Moskau, Berlin, Berlin, 12/13/2014 - 12/14/2014

Karl-Marx-Allee 34

ABOUT

December  2014,  Berlin—FRIENDS  WITH  BOOKS:  ART  BOOK  FAIR  BERLIN  2014 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.

 

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Ulrike Mohr

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