Samen met de buren rond het Rijnhoutplein vieren we de zomer! Met een muzikale performance van stadsdichter Elfie Tromp, workshops, marktkramen met goodies uit de buurt, een foto booth en meer..
We staan op het plein met een selectie van onze publicaties en je kunt zelf een boekje maken met boekbind expert Gersande Schellinx.
Together with the neighbors around Rijnhoutplein, we are celebrating summer!
We will join the festival with a selection of our publications and we’ve invited bookbinding expert Gersande Schellinx to give a workshop.
With presentations by fair exhibitors Gloria Glitzer and Werkplaats Typografie
19.00-21.00
PrintRoom was delighted to visit Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair this April, followed by our participation in Offprint London in May. At both fairs we had wonderful exchanges with other artist-publishers, saw performances and lectures and found many new gems to bring back to Rotterdam.
We’re eager to share this year’s treasures from New York as well as our haul from London during an evening featuring presentations by two exhibitors from New York: Moritz Grünke from Gloria Glitzer (DE) and participants of Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem, NL).
Flyer by NM (studio)
Join the conversation between Mortitz Grünke from Gloria Glitzer and Karin de Jong on the book: The Future of Art Book Festivals — Formerly Known as Fairs, a short critical text by Moritz on his experiences as visitor, participant but also former long-time organizer of Europe’s biggest art book fair. The text was first published in Summit Up #1 (2023) by PrintRoom, Publishing-Household, ARTZINES & Gloria Glitzer. The text was developed over several years beginning with the talk “From Miss Read to an Utopian Art Book Festival” at the Unfold – Shanghai Art Book Fair in 2019, but also informed by the intense discussions at the books are Bridges Summit at PrintRoom Rotterdam in 2022.
Werkplaats Typografie will present its contribution to Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2024: The Ellipsis Foundation for targeted publishing.
Ellipsis is a research institution that uses a psychometric assessment process known as “targeting” to gather data on print consumers. While we cannot reveal the extent to which Ellipsis capitalizes on this data, we are permitted to say that sacrificing one’s personal information to Ellipsis is a fair exchange. This is because in return for participating in a targeting session, participants receive a personalized reader, the exploration of which greatly enhances one’s sense of self.
The Ellipsis Foundation for targeted publishing is a project by Maxim Preaux, Mika Kastner Johnson, Nick Sheeran and Victoria Lum.
NY Art Book Fair, books by: backbonebooks, Further Reading, Martha’s Quarterly, Institute For Studies On Latin American Art, Soberscove Press, homie house press, New Documents, nos:books, Wendy’s Subway, Bilna’es, GenderFail, Half Letter Press, Breakdown Break Down Press, Gato Negro Ediciones, Interference Archive, Justseeds, Gold Rain, Calipso Press, Chang Yuchen, Inventory Press, reliable copy, Alder & Frankia, Unity Press, Dreamer FTY, abC (art books in China), Pegacorn Press, Common Notions, Passenger Pigeon Press, Gabriella Hirst, te editions, Ugly Duckling Presse, Uranus Comics, Allied Productions, Inc. / Le Petit Versaille, Bananafish Books, Heather Benjamin, Printed Matter, Inc., Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Roma Publications, Kodoji Press, Stefan Marx & Liberty Adrien, Edition Taube a.o.
Offprint London, books by: Book Works, The London Centre for Book Arts, Mark Pawson / Disinfotainment, Xexoxial Editions, Bricks from the Kiln, Conveyor Editions, Conveyor Editions, The Laundry arts, Woman Cave Collective, Rehab Eldalil, Mophradat, Archive Books, Hato Press, Active Distribution, Worms Magazine, Esmat – Publishing List, Macaco Press, a.o .
Gloria Glitzer is the avatar of the artists Franziska Brandt and Moritz Grünke. Founded in 2007, Gloria Glitzer develops, creates, and publishes artzines and artists’ books. Gloria Glitzer also runs We make it a Risography and Graphics studio and the Herbarium Riso, a public archive dedicated to stencil printed matters.
From 2015 to 2022 Moritz Grünke organized, together with a team, the Miss Read Festival at HKW, Berlin.
Werkplaats Typografie
Werkplaats Typografie is a two-year experimental Master’s programme in graphic design. It functions as a research environment wherein participants define the content, aims and conditions of their international independent design practice, and develop their artistic, visual, discursive and practical qualities. Being part of a questioning community, they learn how to interact with their ambitions and skills, positioning themselves in the field while pushing its limits.
PrintRoom table at Offprint London (Tate Modern)
Overview Offprint London Tate ModernPrinting Plates Bookpresentation Rose Nordin and Karin de Jong
Offprint London returns to Tate Modern’s for its eighth edition!
From Friday 17th to Sunday 19th May 2024, the book fair will host independent experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of arts, architecture, design, humanities, and visual culture.
Book presentation: Sunday 19.05.24 from 15.40 -16.10
McAulay Studio, Tate Modern
Printing Plates, Books for Bread Stories and visuals of heritage and resistance through baking and sharing of bread by Rose Nordin, in conversation with Karin de Jong (PrintRoom)
Initially for PrintRoom’s Leesmap, Rose conceptualised, gathered and designed the publication Printing Plates: Books for Bread, a zine about baking bread in times of siege. Today we present the special edition, bound in bread bags, of which the proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, a book by Eva Posas and to introduce you to our new Publisher in Residence Loraine Furter!!
Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, delves into Eva’s long-term research on language, mother tongues and decolonial transmission practices through different generations and geographies.
The book explores in seven chapters the human as a turtle, the turtle as a human and the environment that intertwines Binnizá cosmologies with poetry, dreams, lullabies, migration policies, children books, family wounds, language resistance and its modes of becoming in this epistolary narrative.
Eva invited artist Valentina Jager to join this adventure with translation as an artistic practice and artist Alan Sierra, accompanies with his illustrations as a lyrical interpretation of the reading.
Design by Dongyoung Lee, printed and published by PrintRoom
Join us for a festive reading of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues and conversation in the warmth of chocolate oaxaqueño
Loraine Furter at our Books are Bridges Fabulous Art Book Fest, July 2023
Let us introduce to you: Loraine Furter! who dreams of a publishing project as a liant (“binding agent” in cooking and chemistry) across difference — books that speak to divergent sensibilities, that can bring together the very old and the very young, that make you want to learn minored languages, alliances between typographers and illiterates, … a laboratory to imagine a publishing shelter for projects that are hard to find in regular bookshelves and that can circulate in surprising ways ♥
At PrintRoom, Loraine hopes to engage in conversations with neighbouring local projects and their communities, share experiences and desires, dive into PrintRoom’s publications archive and organise book-making and binding workshops.If you recognize yourself (or a friend) in this desire for a type of book that is hard to find in regular bookshelves, please get in touch with us.
More information Eva Posas is a curator, writer, and editor living between Mexico and the Netherlands. Her work addresses the politics of language, (forgotten) identities, and intergenerational memory as a form of aesthetic reflection at the crossroads of her Binnizá heritage.
Eva Posas reads from her contribution to Leesmap – which contains a section of her new book
Loraine Furter is a Brussels-based graphic designer and researcher interested in storytelling and empowerment through different forms of publishing.In the next months, Loraine will frequently be at PrintRoom for research, workshops, presentations and to meet people. Please get in touch if you’d like to meet her or join parts of the programme.
Last November, PrintRoom joined the Tokyo Art Book Fair. We’ve finally unpacked the suitcases to share our picks with you.
Friday 15 March 2024 7 – 9 pm (doors open at 18.30)
Book presentations: 1. Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing by Fotobook DUMMIES Day, with author Lin Junye (online) and Matt Johnston, author of the foreword 2. The Oldest Thing by Ruth van Beek, our TABF travel companion who signed her book at the fair. 3. 50 selected books from Asia by Common Imprint (Berlin/Seoul) with Sam Kim.
Presented publications: ~PrintRoom’s picks from the TABF 2023 (see publishers list below) ~A selection of publications from the Fotobook DUMMIES Daycollection
Soup and snacks will be crafted by Erika Hirose (WAKEAT)!
Presentation runs from15.03 until 13.04.2024 Thursday, Friday & Saturday 12:00—18:00
PrintRoom’s Picks from the TABF, publications by:
Audrey Fondecave / Too Much Magazine (Japan), Bananafish Books (China), Calaca press (Mexico/UK), Common Imprint (Germany/ South Korea), Chang Wen-hsuan (Taiwan), dmp editions (Taiwan), EBOOKS: Rio Ebato / Yumiko Tashiro (Japan), Fotobook DUMMIES Day (Taiwan), Gudskul Ekosistem (Indonesia), Hand Saw Press (Japan), Katja Lee Eliad (France), Knuckles & Notch (Singapore), Mulu Office (Taiwan), Le Lin (China), Loneliness Books (Japan), Neutral Colours (Japan), nos:books (Taiwan), Oven Universe (Japan), Satellite 82 (South Korea), Stay With Tuesday (China), Terry Bleu (Netherlands), The Book Society/Mediabus (South Korea), understructures (Ukraine), Yi-Chin Chen (Taiwan), Among others
More information:
The TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo gathers more than 350 independent publishers, gallery presses, bookshops as well as individual artists and groups, from Japan and abroad. It attracts more than 20,000 visitors each year. With various events including special exhibitions, talks/panel discussions and film screenings, TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR aims to champion and lead art publishing culture in the region, and create the ideal opportunity for visitors to experience the ever evolving, vibrant arena of arts publishing.
Erika Hirose joined us in Tokyo to present and sign her book Making Miso, published by Twofold Press and PrintRoom.
The Tropical Reading presentation and Fotobook DUMMIES Days selection is organised in collaboration with Jhen Chen / Limestone Books (Maastricht). Thank you Jhen for making the selection and the connection!
Flyer: Dongyoung Lee
PrintRoom’s participation in the TABF was supported by the Mondrian Fund. Our programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the City of Rotterdam
On the occasion of Museumnight010 , we will activate our branch of the Protest Banner Lending Library, a project initiated by Aram Han Sifuentes (US).
You can join the banner making workshop through the night, from 8 to 12 pm – Aram will join us online at 9 pm!
We join forces ones more with Patricia Fonseca Monteiro / Invalid Atelier, our neighbour, located at Rijnhoutplein. On both locations, visitors are invited to jump in the banner making process and see their slogans become part of the Protest Banner Lending Library.
The Protest Banner Lending Library was created by US-based artist, writer and educator, and former artist in residence at PrintRoom Aram Han Sifuentes (she/they), in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The project emerges from Aram’s interest in the subversive and socio-political potentialities of skill-sharing. PrintRoom is a permanent branch of Protest Banner Lending Library, currently the only such branch in the Netherlands. Banners can be loaned free of charge for a variety of occasions—including demonstrations, rallies, parades and in-door events.
Images: Creating and demonstrating the Protest Banner Library Branche at PrintRoom with Aram Han Sifuentes, artists, activists and neighbours (2021, ongoing).
Your slogan can address various personal, environmental, social or political topics, like the housing crisis, social injustice issues, support for refugees, LGBTQIA+ solidarity. The Protest Banner Lending Library branch at PrintRoom will be activated as a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal making space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests. The workshop does not require prior knowledge of sewing.
Step by step, a small group of participants will be guided to bind blank papers to a mix of repurposed misprints from our riso workshop.
French link stitch is one of the safest ways to make scattered prints or papers come together as a whole. Sewn sections are the (usually) most hidden craft at the core of many bindings. It is the perfect method to learn a wide range of steps towards bookmaking.
One can get familiar with basic bookbinding tools and techniques while making this one object (folding, punching holes, sewing, cutting, etc.) This process also introduces how one can map out prints for a publication, being mindful of the format of your materials and the potential of pattern-making on your (note)book’s spine.
No book is indestructible, but sewn sections are one of the most durable bindings in the publishing world.
From 18:30 to 21:30 Participation fee: 25 euro / 20 euro (students)
Launch of PrintRoom’s Leesmap of artist publishing & Bebe Books x PrintRoom x Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva Calendar 2024 Saturday 16 December 18:00 – 21:00 at PrintRoom
An evening with artist presentations, wet-off-the-press-zines and a cheeky calendar. We welcome you with mulled wine and spicy soup!
Just in time for the holidays, we will launch our first edition of Leesmap!
It playfully gathers a range of (maga)zines by artists and publishing platforms, and will be distributed to multiple places: from the hairdresser and dentist to the art space, laundromat, library and (your?) living room.
PrintRoom’s Leesmap is inspired by the traditional Dutch ‘leesmap’, a file with mainstream magazines. Popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the leesmap was (and still is) a way for people to read a variety of magazines, and to have access to tabloids or erotica that one would hesitate to buy in a shop. The magazines, as well as the folder that holds them, come in an anonymous cover.
Our Leesmap will contain a women’s zine, a queer zine, an architecture zine, a children’s zine, a zine on parenthood and one on baking.
With contributions by Ruth van Beek, Basje Boer, MonoRhetorik/Matt Plezier, Jizz Taco, Czar Kristoff, Rose Nordin, Sarmad Platform/Alireza Abbasy, Priya Jay, Yusser Salih, Ulufer Çelik, Alaa Abu Asad, Claudia de la Torre, Eva Posas, Marie Déhé, Yuliya Gwilym, Happy Potato Press, Teuntje Fleur, José Quintanar, Cengiz Mengüç, Nicole Martens, Dongyoung Lee, and others.
* Artists and designers will present their contributions. * Join the baking of traditional date cookies with Alaa Abu Asad. * Purchase a special limited edition of Printing Plates: Books for Bread. Profit goes to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Back by dope demand: the Bebe Books x PrintRoom Calendar, this year by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva.
Bebe Books, PrintRoom and Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva collaborated on a 2024 explicit wonder. This year’s Calendar will focus on longing, a daily reminder to connect with our bodies, to play with it and pleasure it, which can come in a myriad of different ways and forms.
Treat your eyes and soul and get your copy tonight!
Throughout 2023, artist and graphic designer Rose Nordin (UK) was one of our Publishers-in-Residence.
Through her practice and research, Rose is interested in the publication as a site of exchange and collaboration, print technologies as tools for union, and letterforms as modes of magic. The residency at PrintRoom was marked by three projects, spread over time.
In April, we invited a group of publishing friends to join us at the archive of the Institute of Social History (ISSG) in Amsterdam, for a new edition of our project Holiday in the Archive. Rose was one of the participants that conducted research in the archive.
During the Books Are Bridges Publishing Summit, in July 2023, Rose was part of the curatorial team of the public programme of talks, and a participant in the Fabulous Art Book Fest. During several days, at PrintRoom and the SNV community gardens, she contributed to conversations and workshops about collective publishing practices and printmaking.
For PrintRoom’s Leesmap, Rose conceptualised, gathered and designed the publication Printing Plates: Books for Bread, a zine about baking bread in times of siege. She also developed a special edition, bound in bread bags, of which the proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The Leesmap is launched on the 16th of December in a public event and artist presentation at PrintRoom.
Recently, Rose was an artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios London and Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, where she developed work on the divine qualities of printed letterforms and alphabets under the project title: The talisman of the written word and the talking leaves. As a designer, Rose primarily makes artist books and printed matter. This extends to exhibition and custom type design.
Distant Intimacy, An evening on Self-Help and Co-Creation
With Marie Déhé and Haydée Touitou
19:30 – 21:00 Doors open at 19:00
Presentation of publications & film screening at PrintRoom
Artist Marie Déhé and writer Haydée Touitou will present their publications and engage in a public conversation about what it means to co-create as artists – without being an artist duo. In a situation of distant intimacy, they found themselves working together, again and again. The screening of their video Self-Help is part of tonight’s programme.
In a round table conversation, moderated by Alexandre Furtado Melville, Marie and Haydée will reflect on ways to support one another in collective practices. They will touch upon shared correspondence, the wider family, spaces of residence, and the meaning of place.
Haydée Touitou is an author and translator who works with poetry. Publications: In Constant Hilarity published by Thoughts of Me Still Life Poems / Poèmes Nature Morte published by Pois.é
Marie Déhé is an artist and publisher. Publications: Distant Intimacy published by Art Paper Editions Correspondance self-published as Asiro éditions
Together, they have published: We Have Been Meaning To published by Art Paper Editions Self-Help poster self-published as Asiro éditions
Alexandre Furtado Melville is initiator of this event. He is a creative director and partner at Concrete Blossom.
The visit of Haydée Touitou and Marie Déhé is made possible by the International Visitors Programme of Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
