Art Book Fair Berlin 2014
Café Moskau, Berlin, Berlin, 12/13/2014 - 12/14/2014
Karl-Marx-Allee 34
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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