Friends with Books @ Hamburger Bahnhof
How many Friends with benefits have you had? I count on my behalf around 200. But, not misunderstand, instead of the classical 'benefits', the ones in my account are mostly books, magazines, periodicals and anything that on paper can be written and produced.Indeed 200 is the number of independent publishers participants at Friends with Books, the Berliner premiere festival in Europe of contemporary artists ' books, periodicals and art publishers. The precious Festival, now in its fourth edition, took place in the exhibition halls of the Hamburger Bahnhof. Free entry. The non-profit organization was founded by Vanessa Adler, Director & Co-Founder, Savannah Gorton, Curator & Co-Founder, Nora Gogl, Assistant Curator, Harriet Gibson, Managing Editor & Programme Coordinator, Nico Limo, Programme & Graphic Design Assistant, Olympe Silve, Programme Assistant, Franck Rausch, Installation Manager, Tobias Oettel, Finance Manager, Dr. Michael Lailach, Advisor, Erik Steinbrecher, Artist Advisor
Among the exhibitors there were also The Paper Channel, with a special selection of books with pages cut into reliefs, ActA, a collective of artists who presented a special edition of USBPen publication, AND Publishing by Eva Weinmayr and Rosalie Schwiker, the the ironic and irreverent publications by BOLO, Black Palm Berlin with a cat- artist calendar and Vegetable Lamb Press/ Wordpharmacy that offered special consultation with a specialist to suggest which 'words' you need to use more by Morten Søndergaard.The challenge that these independent publishers, writers and producers are not indifferent. In addition to the inevitable difficulties that every publication can meet, there is also the internet phagocytizer and self-publishing. But these publishers seem to have accepted the challenge and are constantly trying to renew themselves by partially absorbing these obstacles.Together with the stands of the various artists, publishers, writers, etc. there was also a space dedicated to children's space "Haven" by Zora Mann and Øyvind Renberg together with their mothers: a felt paintings that evolve around a pink staircase. The "kids space" also hosted an installation of Christoph Ruckhaeberle, "Untitled" (2018), a large curtains of festive dancing figures. The public program proposed discussions, readings, presentations, performances and works of art that focus on the meaning of public art today.you can read more about Friends with Books on the blog : http://friendswithbooksartbookfairberlin.blogspot.com/
exhibitors: *[asterisk], Aarhus, &: christophe daviet-thery, Paris »aftertomorrow», Moscow, About Books, Zurich, ActA, Berlin, adocs publishing, Hamburg, Ahorn Books, Berlin, Bettina Allamoda, Berlin, Anagram Books, Berlin/London, AND Publishing, London, Architecture for the Poor, Berlin, Archive Books, Berlin, Argobooks, Berlin, ARK, Aarhus, Artport Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Arts of the Working Class, Berlin, atelier iii, Paris/Tokyo, ATLAS Projectos, Lisbon, August Verlag, Berlin, back bone books, Berlin, Bartleby & Co., Brussels, berlinartbooks, Berlin, Beuys on Sale, Berlin, Anita Di Bianco, Berlin/New York, Bildband Berlin, Berlin, Black Palm, Berlin, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, BOLO Paper, Milan, BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, Berlin, Verlag der Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Andrea Brandão, Lisbon, Vibe Bredahl, Berlin/Copenhagen, Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, brumaria, Madrid, BuchKunst Berlin, Berlin, c8400, Frankfurt, Camera Austria International, Graz, ciconia ciconia Verlag, Berlin, Corraini Edizioni, Mantova, Cosima Pitz, Uffing, Damocle Edizioni, Venice, Verlag Galerie Horst Dietrich, Berlin, Discoteca Flaming Star, Berlin, DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, District Berlin, Berlin, Ursula Döbereiner, Berlin, Florian Dombois, Zurich, Doooogs, Beijing, Brad Downey, Berlin, Drucken Heften Laden, Berlin, Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers (DIABP), Amsterdam, edition metzel, Munich, Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne, Entkunstung, Vienna, Erratum Galerie, Berlin, Jesper Fabricius, Copenhagen, Fantôme Verlag, Berlin, FLANEUR MAGAZINE, Berlin, Fluens Forlag / Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Copenhagen, frieze, London, FUKT, Berlin, GHOST Editions, Lisbon, GLORIA Books, Auckland/Berlin, Goodbye Books, Tel Aviv, GROVE Journal, Weimar, Hakuin Verlag, Zurich, HAND ART PUBLISHER, Basel, handpicked Tokyo/Berlin, Tokyo/Berlin, Helene Nathan Verlag, Berlin, Hochschule Mainz, Kommunikationsdesign, Mainz, Homeparkpress, Hamburg, Humboldt Books, Milan, hurricane publishing, Copenhagen, IF Publications, Barcelona, Institut für Buchgestaltung Bielefeld, Bielefeld, InterViews, Berlin, JB. Institute, Berlin, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Copenhagen, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Leipzig/Los Angeles, Miriam Jung, Berlin, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, LES ÉDITIONS KMD, Cully, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, kookbooks, Berlin, KUNSTFORUM International, Cologne, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Ikuru Kuwajima, Moscow, KWER Magazine, Berlin, La Plaque Tournante, Berlin, Lady Liberty Press, Berlin/Vienna, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Lapin-Canard, Paris, Annika Larsson, Berlin, Lendroit éditions, Rennes, Libri Finti Clandestini, Milan, Look Back and Laugh Books, Ljubljana, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, London, The Many Headed Hydra, Berlin, Materialverlag (HFBK), Hamburg, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Berlin/Hamburg, mono.kultur, Berlin, Monroe Books, Berlin, Montez Press, London, Multinational Enterprises, Oslo, Mundo Azul, Berlin, NANSEN Magazine, Berlin, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, (nGbK), Berlin, Occulto, Berlin, Jürgen O. Olbrich/NO-INSTITUTE, Kassel, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Tanja Ostojić, Berlin, OUTER SPACE PRESS, Berlin, The Paper Channel, Tel Aviv, PogoBooks, Berlin, possible books, Berlin, Raf Projects, Berlin/Tehran, rakete.co, Berlin, Ran Dian Magazine, Beijing/Hong Kong/Shanghai, randnummer literaturhefte, Berlin, Zahra Rashid, Olso/Tehran, RAUM Italic, Berlin, Red Sphinx, Berlin, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Risotop Verlag, Leipzig, Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Salon Verlag & Edition, Cologne, SAN ROCCO Magazine, Milan, Julie Sass, Copenhagen, Joachim Schmid, Berlin, Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin, School of Observation, Berlin, Anne Schwalbe, Berlin, SKINNERBOOX, Jesi, SKULPI / Roman Schramm, Slavs and Tatars, Berlin, SOFA MAGAZINE, Berlin, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Heidi Specker, Berlin, Starship, Berlin, Erik Steinbrecher, Berlin, Sternberg Press, Berlin, STILL Magazine, Berlin/New York, Sverres Zine, Berlin, THE GREEN BOX, Berlin, Luca Trevisani, Palermo
Triest Verlag für Architektur, Design und Typografie, Zurich, Les Trois Ourses, Paris, Martina Vacheva, Plodiv, Vanilla Studios, Berlin, Vegetable Lamb Press, Malmö/Pietsantra/Stockholm, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, VEXER, St. Gallen, Vice Versa, Berlin, Sergej Vutuc, Heilbronn, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Berlin, Tobias Wenig and the Deutsche Wurst Archiv, Berlin, Weproductions, Yarrow, Westphalie Verlag, Vienna, Wordpharmacy, Pietrasanta, Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana, Zoopark Publishing, Ústí nad Labem, ztscrpt, Vienna
The Paper Channel
