Preview: June 12th, 2024, 15:00 - 18:00
Fair / Exhibition: June 13th - 16th 2024, 11:00 - 18:00

In late October 2023 Miss Read was approached by the head of the library of Goethe-Institut China, asking for advise in order to start a collection of the “Indie-print Szene/Zine-Szene”, which were to be permanently exhibited in the space of Goethe-Institute, located
in the art quarter 798 in Beijing.

One of the strong networks that have appeared in the 21st century are Art Book Fairs. Eventually, we agreed, that Miss Read would tap into its network and invite recent exhibitors at the fair, who could qualify or even had self-declared as Zine makers.

Our working definition of Zine is: a publication that is stapled and that is rather inexpensive. And often self-published and within the realm of cultural activism. With zines, legal control over the distribution, exhibition, and exchange of artworks is less left to art dealers or book distributors. On the contrary, in autonomous publishing, especially indie publishing and zine culture, this division of labor is reversed, with artists and authors taking on a variety of different and related roles: creators, designers, producers, printers, publishers, and distributors.
Our definition of Zines also includes publishers, artists or collectives, who self-define their practice to lay within the realm of zines.

Curated by Michalis Pichler and coordinated by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider for Miss Read.