Hours
Friday, May 4, 5–9pm with events by Takashi Homma, Bruno Latour, e-Flux and an opening party
Saturday, May 5, 12–7pm
Sunday, May 6, 12–7pm
Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Festival is celebrating the tenth year of its existence by bringing together 267 exhibitors and with the publishing of an anthology called Publishing Manifestos.
Publishing Manifestos features key texts of critical engagement with publishing from protagonists of the field, including Tauba Auerbach, Michael Baers, Derek Beaulieu, Riccardo Boglione, Ulises Carrión, John Holten & Ida Bencke, Gloria Glitzer, Lisa Holzer & David Jourdan, Ray Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Kione Kochi, Alessandro Ludovico, Sara MacKillop, Steve McCaffery & bp Nichol, Jonathan Monk, Aurélie Noury, Adrian Piper, Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman, Seth Price, León Muñoz Santini, Joachim Schmid, Paul Soulellis, Matthew Stadler, Mladen Stilinović, Temporary Services, Elisabeth Tonnard, Erik van der Weijde, Lawrence Weiner, Eva Weinmayr, Jan Wenzel, Stephen Willats and others.
Publishing Manifestos also features a comprehensive who-is-who of publishers, as they showed up in 10 years at Miss Read, with 600 separate entries, as well as information about activities of Miss Read since its inception in 2009.
The Berlin Art Book Fair Miss Read 2018 will take place between May 4 and 6, 2018 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Throughout the weekend, a wide selection of some 267 international publishers, art periodicals, artists and authors will be featured.
The list of exhibitors can be found here
;paranoia (Tartu)
5b (Berlin)
A Book Edition & Eclectic (Berlin)
Adam Gallagher (London)
adocs (Hamburg)
Afterall (London)
AG Architektur in Gebrauch (Berlin)
Ahorn Books (Berlin)
AKV (Berlin)
Albert Coers (Berlin)
Alexander-Verlag (Berlin)
Alt Går Bra (Bergen)
AMBruno (London)
Anagram Books (London)
Anarchive (Paris)
Anne Schwalbe (Berlin)
Anyone Corporation & Log (New York)
APA-B e.V. (Berlin)
ARCH+ (Berlin)
Archive Books (Berlin)
Artfridge (Berlin)
Åse Eg Jørgensen (Copenhagen)
atelier iii /Tamami Iinuma (Tokyo & Leipzig)
ATLAS Projectos (Lisbon & Berlin)
August Verlag (Berlin)
b_books (Berlin)
Back Bone Books (Berlin & Mexico City)
Bebe Books (Ghent)
Berlin Quarterly (Berlin)
Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt (Berlin)
BLEK (Berlin, Leipzig & Köln)
BOATBOOK / <usus> (Offenbach)
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (Berlin)
Bon-Gah (Teheran)
Books People Places (Berlin)
Botopress (Berlin)
Brinkmann&Bose (Berlin)
Broken Dimanche Press (Berlin)
Bücherbogen (Berlin)
c.off (Stockholm)
Cabinet (Brooklyn)
Camera Austria (Graz)
Casa De Balneario (Montevideo)
Casa en Blanco (Santiago de Chile)
Case Publishing (Tokyo & Rotterdam)
Christophe Daviet-Thery (Paris)
ciconia ciconia (Berlin)
Clara Bahlsen (Berlin)
clinic (York)
COLLAGE (Berlin)
colorama (Berlin)
Columbia Books (New York)
commune press (Tokyo)
control magazine (London)
Corraini Edizioni (Mantua)
Corvo Records (Berlin)
Cosima Pitz (Blaues Land)
crevasse (Ibaraki)
Crooked Fagazine (Montreal)
Cube Art Editions (Athens)
Damocle Edizioni (Venice)
The Ragga Press (Manchester)
Dan Szor (London)
Daniela Comani (Berlin)
Delere Press (Singapore)
Diaphanes (Berlin)
DIE EPILOG (Berlin)
Doooogs (Beijing/Berlin)
Drittel Books (Berlin)
Drucken Heften Laden (Berlin)
DS-DOCUMENTS (Odenthal)
e-flux (New York)
Ediciones Popolet (Santiago de Chile & NYC & Amsterdam)
Edit e.V. (Leipzig)
Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich)
edition metzel (Munich)
Edition Taube (Zurich & Munich)
edition.nord (Niigata)
Éditions CPG (Geneva)
Edizione Multicolore (Leipzig)
EE! (Tokyo)
Einer Books (Oslo)
Einstein Studio (Tokyo)
elisabeth tonnard (Leerdam)
Errant Bodies Press (Berlin)
Fachhochschule Dortmund (Dortmund)
Fantôme Verlag (Berlin)
FIBRA – casa fibra (Buenos Aires)
Flash Art Magazine (Milan)
folksverlag & Folkwang UdK (Essen)
force de vente (Rouen)
Fotograf (Prague)
Francis Benefiz (Berlin)
Free Berlin (Berlin)
Fresh Prints | University of the Arts in Bremen (Bremen)
Fukt (Berlin)
Für Dich Verlag (Borgerhout)
GAGARIN (Antwerp)
Galerie Andreas Schmidt (Berlin)
Galerie Neu (Berlin)
Gato Negro (Mexico City)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam)
Gloria Glitzer (Berlin)
Good Neighbour (Santiago de Chile)
GRRRR (Zurich)
Hakuin-Verlag (Zurich)
Handpicked (Tokyo & Berlin)
Hank Schmidt in der Beek (Berlin)
Hard Mag (London)
HeHe (Tokyo)
HFGK Bookboy & 2b12b (Karlsruhe)
Hiroshi Takizawa (Saitama)
HKW (Berlin)
hurricane publishing (Vejby)
IKREK (São Paulo)
Inês Martins (Berlin & Évora)
information as material (Old York)
Ink Press (Zurich)
Inpatient Press (New York)
InterViews (Berlin)
Japan Focus Library
Japanese Contemporary (Tokyo)
JB. Institute (Berlin)
Jean Boîte Éditions (Paris)
Jenseits der Trampelpfade (Berlin)
Jessie Churchill (Leeds)
joachim schmid (Berlin)
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (Leipzig)
JRP | Ringier (Zurich)
Karsenti (Hégenheim)
KG Weltformat (Berlin)
Kitschic (Barcelona & Bogotá)
KLD Repro (Copenhagen)
Knust at Extrapool (Nijmegen)
Kultur & Gespenster (Hamburg)
Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin)
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo — KHiO (Oslo)
Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (Copenhagen & Berlin)
Lage Egal (Berlin)
Lars Müller Publishers (Zurich)
LibroArte (Tokyo)
Lodret Vandret (Copenhagen)
Look Back and Laugh Books (Ljubljana)
Loose Joints (London)
Lubok Verlag (Leipzig)
Ma Bibliotheque (London)
Mack (London)
MAGNETIC 5 (Seoul)
malenki.net (Bielefeld)
Maro Verlag (Augsburg)
Martian Press (Los Angeles)
Masanao Hirayama – Himaa (Tokyo)
maycec (Paris)
MD 72 (Berlin)
MER. Paper Kunsthalle (Ghent)
Merve (Berlin)
Michael Baers + Friends (Berlin)
Michalis Pichler & „greatest hits“ (Berlin)
MIT Press (Cambridge)
Montez Press (New York)
Multiple Spirits (Tokyo)
Mute (Berlin)
nano editora (Rio de Janeiro)
Naranja Ediciones (Santiago de Chile)
nbk (Berlin)
nGbK (Berlin)
Nina Prader & LadyLibertyPress (Berlin)
Nomada Ediciones (Bogota)
NoRoutineBooks (Vilnius)
Nos:books (Taipei)
nozomi yamashita (Osaka)
NXS World (Amsterdam)
O Book Publisher (Amsterdam)
Occasional Papers (London)
Occulto (Berlin)
OCR (London)
Oficyna Peryferie (Warsaw)
Onomatopee (Eindhoven)
Or Gallery (Vancouver)
Other Forms (Chicago)
ottoGraphic (Marshfield)
PAF Edition (Olomouc)
PageFive (Prague)
Park Gallery (Tokyo)
Partners (Tokyo)
Pauline Barzilaï (Montreuil)
Pequeño Pato Salvaje Editorial (Lima)
PHILE Magazine (Toronto & New York)
PogoBooks (Berlin)
Popper Publishing (Riga)
Present Books (Berlin)
PrintRoom (Rotterdam)
PUNCH (Bucharest)
Punctum Books (Brooklyn)
Pure Fiction | Städelschule (Frankfurt)
Ramsdam Books (Ghent & Leipzig)
randnummer literaturhefte (Berlin)
Re:Surgo! (Berlin)
Red Sphinx (Berlin & London)
Reflektor M (Munich)
Revolver Publishing (Berlin)
Ricochet (Leipzig)
Risiko Press (Borgerhout)
Risotop (Leipzig)
Rollo Press (Zurich)
Roma (Amsterdam)
Rondade (Tokyo)
Salon für Kunstbuch (Vienna)
Salon Verlag (Cologne)
Samopal Books (Moscow)
SAND (Berlin)
Sara MacKillop (London)
Seigensha Art Publishing (Kyoto)
Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn)
Sholem Krishtalka (Berlin)
SOVA (Berlin)
Space Poetry (Copenhagen)
Spector Books (Leipzig)
Spike Art Quarterly (Berlin & Vienna)
springerin (Vienna)
Sta Rosa Editora (Buenos Aires)
Starship (Berlin)
Stefan Marx (Hamburg)
Stefanie Leinhos (Leipzig)
STEREOEDITIONS (Dublin & Marseille)
Sternberg Press (Berlin)
STILL Magazine (Berlin)
Stolen Books (Lisboa)
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in der Weserburg (Bremen)
SUPER LABO (Kanagawa)
Susanne Bürner & Monroe Books (Berlin)
T&M Projects (Tokyo)
TABLOID Press (NYC & Berlin)
Tadej Vaukman (Ljubljana)
Takashi Homma (Tokyo)
TBOOKS COLOGNE (Cologne)
technologie und das unheimliche (Leipzig)
Tegel Media (Berlin)
Terranova (Barcelona)
Texte zur Kunst (Berlin)
Textem (Hamburg)
The Bettys (Fairview)
The everyday press (London)
The Photocopy club (London)
The postershop @Elgarafi (Berlin)
The Velvet Cell (Berlin)
TLTRPreß Frankfurt (Main)
Torpedo Press (Oslo)
TOTO (Tokyo)
True Ring (Tokyo)
TXTbooks (NY)
Ukigumo Books (Tokyo)
Undertone Collective (San Francisco)
Valiz (Amsterdam)
Vexer Verlag (St. Gallen & Berlin)
Vfmk Verlag für moderne Kunst (Vienna)
Vice Versa Distribution (Berlin)
Vice Versa Verlag/Parthas Verlag (Berlin)
Vleeshal (Middelburg)
von100 (Berlin)
Water With Water (Doha)
Westphalie (Vienna)
Yale School of Architecture (New Haven)
zero sharp (Berlin)
ZK/U Press (Berlin)
Zoopark Publishing (Prague)
ztscrpt (Berlin & Vienna)
With this year’s special focus on Japanese publishers, Miss Read will be composed of a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops, with the common mission of exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book.
On Friday, July 14, Miss Read Stage will host talks, a quiz show by himaa and Urs Lehni(Rollo Press), and present the mini-symposium SUPERHUMANITY organized by e-flux,featuring Simon Denny, Anselm Franke, Marion von Osten, Nick Axel and others. Aditionally, Bruno Latour will hold an Anthropocene Lecture, presenting his Terrestrian Manifest.
On Saturday, May 5, the 6th Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. The program will include readings, lectures, performances and book launches by Mariana Castillo Deball, Annette Gilbert, Karl Holmqvist, Simon Morris (Information as Material), Sharon Kivland (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE), David Desrimais (Jean Boîte Éditions), Hannes Bajohr (Suhrkamp) and others.
On Sunday, May 6, the Miss Read Stage will hold lectures, and panel discussions by Jonathan Monk, Luca LoPinto (Kunsthalle Wien), Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen), Jan Steinbach (edcat), Wilfried Huet (GAGARIN), Rüdiger Schaper, Christian von Borries, Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz), Miyuki Kawabe(commune press), Shin Akiyama (edition.nord), Jordan Coulombe (Crooked Fagazine) and others.
Japanese Focus of Miss Read
atelier iii /Tamami Iinuma (Tokyo & Leipzig) / Case Publishing (Tokyo & Rotterdam) / commune press (Tokyo) / crevasse (Ibaraki) / edition.nord (Niigata) / EE! (Tokyo) /Einstein Studio (Tokyo) / Elvis Press (Nagoya) / Handpicked (Tokyo & Berlin) / HeHe(Tokyo) / Hiroshi Takizawa (Saitama) / Japan Focus Library / Japanese Contemporary(Tokyo) / LibroArte (Tokyo) / Masanao Hirayama – Himaa (Tokyo) / Misaki Kawabe(Berlin & Tokyo) / Multiple Spirits (Tokyo) / Nozomi Yamashita (Osaka) / Partners(Tokyo) / Park Gallery (Tokyo) / Rondade (Tokyo) / Seigensha Art Publishing (Kyoto) / Stomachache (Tokyo) / SUPER LABO (Kanagawa) / Takashi Homma (Tokyo) / T&M Projects (Tokyo) / TOTO Publishing (Tokyo) / True Ring (Tokyo) / Ukigumo Books(Tokyo)
The poster of Miss Read 2018 was created by Karl Holmqvist.
The poster of Conceptual Poetics Day 2018 was created by Mariana Castillo Deball.
Founded in 2009, Miss Read is Europe´s Art Book Festival dedicated to building community and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice.
Miss Read 2018 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt is funded by Senatskanzlei Berlin – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten.
The Japanese Focus is supported by JaDe-Foundation.
The opening party is supported by Monkey 47.
Miss Read 2018 team
"Director": Michalis Pichler
Curators: Yaiza Camps, Moritz Grünke, Michalis Pichler
Coordinators: Yaiza Camps, Moritz Grünke
Party: Sascha Konrad
Graphic Design: Moritz Grünke
Interns: Raül Fernández Gil, Alexander Zondervan