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With "Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' Books as Statements (1960-2022)" the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum shows a representative selection of international positions dedicated to the blank book as an artistic medium. The number of 259 artists' books on display, among others by Michael Asher, Luciano Bartolini, Irma Blank, Marcel Broodthaers, Ulises Carrión, Olafur Eliasson, Ryan Gander, Dora Garcia, Martin Kippenberger, Sara MacKillop, Piero Manzoni, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nicolai, Ed Ruscha, Simon Starling, and Heimo Zobernig refers to the legendary exhibition "Book as Artwork 1960/72" curated by Germano Celant and Lynda Morris, but the selection focuses exclusively on the qualities of blank, raw, illegible, empty, unprinted, tautological, hermetic, dysfunctional, and mysterious.

Curated by curator, editor, and collector Moritz Küng, the exhibition explores how contemporary artists and artist collectives exploit and activate the conceptual potential of a blank sheet of paper or a book with empty pages for their artistic practice. In the process, the empty, non-existent, and invisible become meaningful, and the refusal of legibility in the conventional sense becomes a telling statement. A seemingly absent content reveals a multitude of unexpected perspectives on conventions of communication and themes of speechlessness, origin, and disappearance. Starting with a significant exploration by artist Herman de Vries of the designation of the color white, the exhibition opens up the diversity of artistic concepts in reflecting on emptiness, purity, and raw material in relation to the formal and functional criteria of books in 15 chapters, the headings of each of which are taken from one of their book titles.

Participating artists:
Åbäke, Ignasí Aballi, Bill Adler, Kasper Andreasen, anonym [3], Federico Antonini & Alessio D’Ellena, Michael Asher, Fiona Banner, Robert Barry, Luciano Bartolini, Alexis Beauclair, Walter Beckers, Jérémie Bennequin, Pierre Bismuth, Irma Blank, Barbara Bloom, Doro Boehme & Eric Baskauskas, Marinus Boezem, Christian Boltanski, Iñaki Bonillas & Roger Willems, Hans Bossmann, Heinz Brand, George Brecht, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Evelin Brosi, Joan Brossa, stanley brouwn, Stefan Brüggemann, James Lee Byars, Patrice Caillet, Adam David & Matthieu Saladin, Ulises Carrión, Mariana Castillo Deball, Les Coleman, Mathieu Copeland, Sebastian Cremers, Cremers/Prill/Vieceli, Nicolás Cuestas, Noëlle Cuppens, Simon Cutts, Char Daley, Hanne Darboven, Raúl Dávila & Giulia Paradell, Jeremy Deller & Fraser Muggeridge, Mirtha Dermisache, Arnaud Desjardin, herman de vries, Jason Dodge, Eric Doeringer, Enrique Doza, Hugo Duchateau, Mette Edvardsen & Sonia Si Ahmed, Olafur Eliasson, Paul Elliman, Pieter Engels, Roberto Equisoain, Leif Eriksson, Joseph Ernst, Experimental Jetset, Enric Farrés-Duran, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michel François, Ken Friedman, Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin, Maxime Gambus, Ryan Gander, Heinz Gappmayr, Dora García, Kendell Geers, Nicolas Geiser, Jef Geys, Michael Gibbs, Gloria Glitzer, Keith Godard, Fernanda Gomes, Kristján Gudmundsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Bruce Harris, Paul Heimbach, Jochem Hendricks, Anne Heyvaert, Åke Hodell, Parker Ito, I.T.U. – International Typographical Union, Peter Johansson, Ana Jotta, Jean Keller, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Michael J. Knowles, J.H. Kocman, Katsumi Komagata, Joseph Kosuth, Jarosław Kozłowski, Moritz Küng, Mikko Kuorinki, Frédéric Laé, Paul Laidler, Jürg Lehni, Lemonodo, Jochen Lempert, Craig Leonard, Jeffrey Lew, Sol LeWitt, Micah Lexier, Christos Lialios & Katerina Vazoura, Camille Llobet, Richard Long, Anne Lydiat, George Maciunas, Sara MacKillop, Ilan Manouach, Piero Manzoni, John McDowall, Christian Megert, Felix Meyer, Jonathan Monk, François Morellet, Maurizio Nannucci, Jaime Narváez, Bruce Nauman, Julien Nédélec, Olaf Nicolai, Øystein Wyller Odden, Richard Olson, Willem Oorebeek, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Mark Pawson, A.R. Penck, Ximena Pérez-Grobet, Sergio Pesutic, Michalis Pichler, Simon Popper, Lukas Richarz, Childe Roland, Dieter Roth, Francesc Ruiz, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Claude Rutault, Colin Sackett, Emil Salto, Karin Sander, Ed Sanders, Sarkis, Klaus Scherübel, Adrian Schiess, Martin Bruno Schmid, Tomas Schmit, Yann Sérandour, Ariadna Serrahima, Idries Shah, Rachel Mari Simkover, Jessica Smith, Ettore Spalletti, Veronika Spierenburg, Diana Sprenger & Euan Williams, David Stairs, Simon Starling, Mladen Stilinović, Derek Sullivan, Super Terrain, Christophe Terlinden, Nik Thoenen & Lorenzo le kou Meyr, Elisabeth Tonnard, Endre Tót, Timm Ulrichs, Jiří Valoch, Paul van Dijk, Richard Venlet, Oriol Vilanova, Bernard Villers, Martin Vitaliti, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Robin Waart, Dan Walsh, Eric Watier, Russell Weekes, Christiaan Wikkerink, Karen Willey, Ian Wilson, WT Papier, Cerith Wyn Evans, Heimo Zobernig, Rahel Zoller

Eleanor Vonne Brown, Claudia de la Torre, The Infinite Library, Michalis Pichler, Yann Serandour, John Stezaker 

VERNISSAGE: May 31st 2023, 7:30 pm

FINISSAGE: June 28th 6:00—8:00 pm

EXHIBITION VIEWING HOURS:

Monday—Saturday 1:00—8:00 pm

Hopscotch Reading Room

Kurfürstenstraße 14b, 10785 Berlin

curated by Claude Closky

with Auteurs anonymes, aalliicceelleessccaannnnee&ssoonniiaaddeerrzzyyppoollsskkii, Martine Aballéa, Etel Adnan, Carla Adra, Laurence Aëgerter, Céline Ahond, Madeleine Aktypi, Jean-Michel Alberola, Roberta Allen, Roberto Altmann, Ghada Amer, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Luc André, Ianna Andréadis, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Félicia Atkinson, Gábor Attalai, Michel Aubry, John Baldessari, Gianfranco Baruchello, Lolly Batty, Didier Bay, David Bellingham, Jean-Marc Berguel, Suzanne Bernard, John Bevis, Biefer & Zgraggen, Julien Jonas Bismuth, Julien Blaine, Irma Blank, Barbara Bloom, Raphaël Boccanfuso, Alighiero Boetti, Marinus Boezem, Marie Boivent, Christian Boltanski, Jean-François Bory, George Brecht, Anne Brégeaut, Denis Briand, Samuel Buckman, Bureau d’études, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Stefano Calligaro, Ernst Caramelle, Janet Cardiff, Ulises Carrión, Lourdes Castro, Philippe Cazal, Joaquim Chancho, Yves Chaudouët, Alex Chevalier, Henri Chopin, Laurie Clark, Magali Claude, Philippe Clerc, Iris Clert, Claude Closky, Bob Cobbing, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Anne Colomes, Vaast Colson, Coum, Muriel Couteau, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Crass, Simon Cutts, Alba D’Urbano, Hanne Darboven, Moyra Davey, Franck David, Guy de Cointet, Jacqueline de Jong, Karin de Jong, Joëlle de la Casinière, herman de vries, Rafaella Della Olga, Wim Delvoye, Christine Demias, Agnes Denes, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Mirtha Dermisache, Devonian Press, Damien Dion, Thea Djordjadze, Ursula Döbereiner, Antje Dorn, Double Fly Art Center, Helen Douglas, Peter Downsbrough, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Amélie Dubois, Anne Durez, Céline Duval, Dysfunction, Maria Eichhorn, Ernest T, Erró, Ninar Esber, Amelia Etlinger, Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gerald Ferguson, Francesca Ferreri, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Enrico Floriddia, Fred Forest, Julie C. Fortier, Estelle Fredet, Anne Frémy, JaZoN Frings, Aurélien Froment, Hamish Fulton, Ellen Gallagher, Antonio Gallego, Ryan Gander, Heinz Gappmayr, Dora Garcia, Hélène Garcia, Pierre Garnier, Ilse Garnier, Anne-Valérie Gasc, Jacob Gautel, General Idea, Jochen Gerz, Paul-Armand Gette, Ghazel, Ingo Giezendanner, Gilbert & George, Nicolas Giraud, Lena Goarnisson, Mathias Goeritz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Fernanda Gomes, Eugen Gomringer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Group Material, Grupa Kart, Juli Gudehus, Guerrilla Girls, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Fabrice Gygi, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Irena Haiduk, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Margaret Harrison, Cynthia Harthaway, Bernard Heidsieck, Jochem Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Pati Hill, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Saskia Holmkvist, Karl Holmqvist, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, David Horvitz, Véronique Hubert, Zoë Irvine, Ernst Jandl, Françoise Janicot, Véronique Joumard, Michel Journiac, Valérie Jouve, Florence Jung, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, Kennard – Phillipps, Farah Khelil, Per Kirkeby, Sharon Kivland, Alison Knowles, Koo Jeong-a, Jaroslaw Koslowski, Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Ferdinand Kriwet, Shigeko Kubota, Edmund Kuppel, Louise Lawler, Robert Lax, Pascal Le Coq, Jean Le Gac, Christian Lebrat, Antoine Lefebvre & Minkyung Song, Lefevre Jean Claude, Hélène Leflaive, Steven Leiber, Yuri Leiderman, Maurice Lemaître, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Les Éts. Decoux Éditeurs, Mehryl Levisse, Sol LeWitt, Micah Lexier, Hanne Lippard, Peter Liversidge, Richard Long, Ken Lum, Urs Lüthi, Jackson Mac Low, Françoise Mairey, Christian Marclay, Laurent Marissal, Olive Martin, Roberto Martinez, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Sara MacKillop, Cildo Meireles, Albert Mertz, Annette Messager, Michèle Métail, Gustav Metzger, Nanne Meyer, Aleksandra Mir, Marianne Mispelaëre, Christiane Möbus, Manfred Mohr, Greta Monach, Nelly Monnier, Linda Montano, Antoine Moreau, Julie Morel, François Morellet, Jean-Luc Moulène, Tania Mouraud, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Nauman, Julien Nédélec, Marylène Negro, Angeline Neveu, Olaf Nicolai, Seiichi Niikuni, Richard Nonas, Maria Nordman, Sophie Nys, Bernadette O’Toole, Antoinette Ohannessian, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Kristin Oppenheim, Marie Orensanz, Erica Overmeer, Clémente Padín, Gianpaolo Pagni, Giulio Paolini, Mark Pawson, Marine Peixoto, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Dan Perjovschi, Nicole Peyrafitte, Friederike Pezold, Anne-Emilie Philippe, Estelle Pianet, Lil Picard, Michalis Pichler, Cesare Pietroiusti, Peter Piller, Guillaume Pinard, Adrian Piper, Melana Pizani, Louis Porter, Présence Panchounette, Laure Prouvost, Lucy Pullen & Sandy Plotnikoff, Hanna Putz & Sophie Thun, Walid Raad, Babeth Rambault, Jo Ray, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Hubert Renard, Pierre-Lin Renié, Magali Reus, Amanda Riffo, Bridget Riley, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Francesc Ruiz, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Claude Rutault, Collin Sackett, Takako Saito, Matthieu Saladin, Karin Sander, Sarenco, Aram Saroyan, Karen Savage, Katharina Schmidt, Andreas Schmidt, Carolee Schneemann, Dorothea Schulz, Elfi Seidel, Yann Sérandour, Cindy Sherman, Mieko Shiomi, Seth Siegelaub, Nicolas Simarik, Dayanita Singh, Sister Corita, Michael Snow, Mary Ellen Solt, Soussan Ltd, Carole Spearin McCauley, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Jan Steinbach, Jessica Stockholder, Ulrike Stoltz, Susanne Stövhase, Veit Stratmann, Derek Sullivan, Christine Sun Kim, Batia Suter, Eric Tabuchi, Athena Tacha, Triin Tamm, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Nick Thurston, Elisabeth Tonnard, Niele Toroni, Endre Tót, Mathieu Tremblin, David Tremlett, Didier Trenet, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Timm Ulrichs, Unglee, Sebastian Utzni, Clement Valla, Jiří Valoch, Erik van der Weijde, Ger van Elk, Erica Van Horn, Marijke Van Warmerdam, Victor Vasarely, Ben Vautier, Bernar Venet, Christophe Viart, Vier5, Bernard Villers, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Luca Vitone, Dorothee von Windheim, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Wolf Vostel, Hans Waanders, Robin Waart, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Anne Waldman, Madeleine Walton, Andy Warhol, Eric Watier, Lawrence Weiner, David Fischli and Peter Weiss, Martina Wember, Elsa Werth, Stephen Willats, Emmett Williams, Ian Wilson, Millie Wilson, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Gil J. Wolman, Heidi Wood, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Erwin Wurm, La Monte Young, Louis Zerathe, etc.

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 12th TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR (below, TABF) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from Thursday, October 27 to Sunday, October 30, 2022 over a span of four days. This year’s fair features a lineup of approximately 200 different exhibitors – a collective of publishers, galleries, and artists each involved in creating their own unique art books and publications. At the fair, guests and exhibitors can connect in person and engage in discourse about the allure and charm of each of their creations. This year’s TABF will also be home to the sixth rendition of the Guest Country project – an endeavor that draws attention to the culture of publishing within a certain region or country. This year’s “Guest Country” will be France, and at the TABF we will be taking a multifaceted dive into the country’s rich tradition of art publishing through exhibits and other projects. Other notable undertakings include a lineup of special exhibitions by Bottega Veneta and Shiseido, together with a program shining light on risograph works – an artform quickly gathering attention in the art book scene as of late. Adding to this lineup is our rich repertoire of other events – workshops and talk events with special guests, book signings by artists and creators, and much more. Through this collection of art-book-focused endeavors, it’s our hope at the TABF to provide guests with a glance into the “now” of the continuously-evolving world of art books.

Fair Information |
Event Name: TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2022
Fair Period and Dates: Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Friday, October 28 / Saturday, October 29 / Sunday, October 30 every day from 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM
Fair Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Exhibition Gallery B2F, Entrance Hall and other areas
Address: 〒135-0022 Miyoshi 4-1-1, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Official Website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/

Exhibition Area

Venue:MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Special Exhibition Room B2F

Organized by: Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Français Japon

Public Booth Area |

Venue: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Entrance Hall and other areas

Organized by: Tokyo Art Book Fair / Special assistance provided by: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Français Japon

Sponsored by: Bottega Veneta Japan, Shiseido, agnès b. Japan, Inuuiq Co., Ltd., Riso Kagaku Corporation
With Support From: Villa Kujoyama, Bureau international de l’édition française (International Bureau of French Publishers, Business France (Embassy of France in Japan’s Agency of Trade and Investment), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, ArtSticker (The Chain Museum Inc.), Hand Saw Press, Karimoku Furniture Inc., FUKUINKAN SHOTEN PUBLISHERS INC., KODOMONOBUNKA-FUKYUKYOKAI CO.,LTD
Grants Provided By: Institut Français Japon’s Agency of Culture Paris, Mondrian Fund, “ARTS for the future! 2” program

Entrance Fee: General Admission 1,000 JPY (tax included, must be purchased in advance)
*Ticket sales to the Fair are slotted to begin in October 14. Please check our official website and social media outlets for further information.

MULTIPLE ART DAYS

THE ART FAIR DEVOTED TO A WIDE RANGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART EDITIONS

For its seventh edition, MAD returns to the FIMINCO Foundation in Romainville, on the outskirts of Paris, easily accessible by metro. This monumental, 14-meter-high factory room, now transformed into an enormous exhibition space measuring 1000m², is ideal for presenting a wide spectrum of contemporary editions, from zines to rare objects: prints, multiples, artists' books, videos, vinyls...

Co-curated by Sylvie Boulanger, director of the cneai=, and printer-publisher Michael Woolworth, Atelier Woolworth, MAD will invite visitors to discover one hundred international art publishers and thousands of artworks and publications, talks and performances, as well as the seventh edition of ADAGP × MAD’s Revelation Artist’s Book Award.

Much more than a fair, MAD revolves around the figure of the publisher, the most independent and versatile actor in today's art world: 100 international publishers, selected for the quality of their prospectus; in an original setting designed by Roch Deniau.

OPENING HOURS
Friday, September 9 from 12pm to 9pm
Opening – Free entrance from 6pm to 9pm
Saturday, September 10 from 12pm to 6pm
Sunday, September 11 from 11am to 6pm

Full price: 5€
Free admission: Visitors 18 and under, students, unemployed individuals.

with: 

• Kasper Andreasen
• Fiona Banner
• Bia Bittencourt
• Christiane Blattmann
• H.P. Blavatsky
• Stefano Calligaro
• Claude Closky
• Lars Dyrendom
• Sabrina Fernández
• Thomas Geiger
• Roger Guaus
• David Horvitz
• Sveinn Fannar Johannsson
• Florence Jung
• Liao Qianyao
• Omri Livne
• Sara Mackillop
• Hammann von Mier
• Ceel Mogami de Haas
• Lisa Mühleisen
• Ulrich Nausner
• Yoshinori Niwa
• Nusserglazova
• Sophie Nys
• Michalis Pichler
• Louis Porter
• Jenny Rova
• Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
• Slow Reading Club
• Jan Steinbach
• Studio for Propositional Cinema
• Sun Ra
• Cassie Thornton
• Elisabeth Tonnard
• Claudia de la Torre
• Juan Diego Valera
• Martijn in't Veld
• Villa Design Group
• Elsa Werth
• Rahel Zoller

Curated by Jan Steinbach

11 January-23 March 2022

Bibliothèque de l'ESADHaR 2 Rue Giuseppe Verdi / 76000 Rouen, France

ARTISTS

antoine lefebvre editions (+ Cannelle TANC, Lawrence WEINER), Jérémie BENNEQUIN, Mariana CASTILLO DEBALL, Julien CRÉPIEUX, Ryan GANDER, Dominique HURTH, Jonathan MONK, MOREpublishers (+ Jason DODGE, Dora GARCIA, Liam GILLICK, Jonathan MONK, Olaf NICOLAI, Yann SÉRANDOUR, Johannes WOHNSEIFER), Camila OLIVEIRA FAIRCLOUGH, Michalis PICHLER, Joachim SCHMID, Bérénice SERRA

Anlässlich der Ausstellung Enjoy. Die mumok Sammlung im Wandel präsentiert die mumok Bibliothek Künstlerbücher, die während der letzten zehn Jahre erworben wurden, und setzt diese in Dialog mit historischen Exemplaren, die sich schon länger in der Bibliothekssammlung befinden.

Von Simone Moser

# 1 Ed Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963

Manche Künstlerbücher schreiben Geschichte, wie Twentysix Gasoline Stations von Ed Ruscha. Und manche Künstlerbücher werden von anderen zitiert, interpretiert und appropriiert, wie ebendieses.

Exposition du programme "Déjouer Flaubert" conçu par le Frac dans le cadre du bicentenaire de la naissance de Gustave Flaubert.

Vernissage vendredi 17 septembre à 18h

Non loin de Rouen, la commune de Canteleu conserve une gravure de 1635 de Jacques Callot illustrant La Tentation de Saint-Antoine. À l’appui de l’ouvrage de Flaubert, de cette gravure, et de la collection de livres d’artiste du Frac, Ludovic Burel, commissaire, artiste et éditeur, propose de relire ce poème en prose sous l’angle de la désacralisation, en prenant pour point de départ les sept péchés capitaux.

The global publishing industry is still dominated by gatekeepers in the Global North. To what extent does the colonial gaze shape the art book market? How is it possible to decolonize the art book industry? The evening centers around two recently published publications: Decolonizing Art Book Fairs – Publishing Practices from the Souths is a workbook with primarily newly commissioned texts and interviews with artists, authors and publishers.