Book arts in Europe?

[Kelly O'Brien]

I'll be moving to Germany in April due to my husband's job transfer. We plan
to be there for approximately 3 years. Am very interested in connecting with
the book arts world over there, ­both in Germany and Europe. I'd like to
continue studying with excellent instructors, attending conferences/fairs,
perhaps exhibiting my work, and ­ideally ­find a studio with the equipment
that I am leaving behind (I currently work out of Pyramid Atlantic and a
printmaker's coop at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA).
 
I've been doing some research already, but I'd love some experienced input.
Any leads, advice, or resources that folks in this forum are willing to share
with me would be much appreciated.
 
I'll be there Jan. 24 - Feb. 7 house-hunting. It would be helpful to know,
in general, where book arts centers/resources/folks are before we narrow
down our location to live. We'll most likely be focused on the
Frankfurt/Stuttgart/Munich range of locations, with Heidelberg a current
front-runner.
 
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

[Hasan Temiztürk]

Hallo guten Tag Frau OBrien schöne grüße aus Offenbach, haben Sie zb den Klingspormuseum in Offenbach besucht. Gerne an art book networking sehr interesiert. Beste Grüße HTemiztürk.

 

[Kelly O'Brien]

Thanks Sarah! I look forward to digging into this info...

[Sarah Bodman]

 

Barbara Wien  

Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher 

Linienstraße 158, D-10115 Berlin / Mitte, Germany 

Tel: [phone] 

www.barbarawien.de 

[e-mail] 

Artists’ books gallery with regular exhibitions. In the bookshop weoffer artists’ books from the 60s onwards, selected catalogues and texts byartists.

 

Bongout  

Torstraße 110, 10119 Berlin, Germany  

www.bongout.org 

Over the last 15 years, Gfeller and Hellsgård have been running ascreenprint workshop and graphic design studio. Inside this atelier, the tworegularly join forces with artists and designers to create limited edition,handprinted artists’ books. Bongout Gallery opened in 2008 in Berlin’s Mitte, aplace where contemporary art meets graphic, chance and underground art as wellas numerous forms of sound and visual cultures.

 

Research Centre for Artists’ Publications (ASPC) 

Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst

Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany

www.weserberg.de

[e-mail]

The Research Centre for Artists’ Publications covers severalcollections with approximately more than 80.000 publications from around

the world.

 

Research Centre for Artists’ Publications (ASPC)

Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst

Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany

www.weserberg.de

[e-mail]

The Research Centre for Artists’ Publications covers severalcollections with approximately more than 80.000 publications from around

the world.

 

Forum Book Art

Körnerstraße 24, D-22301 Hamburg, Germany

Tel. [phone]

www.forumbookart.com

[e-mail]

Contact: Heinz Stefan Bartkowiak

Bartkowiaks forum book art was established in 1988 as a privateinitiative with the purpose of providing publicity for contemporary book art throughpublications and exhibitions. Forum book art maintains an archive of works ofcontemporary book art containing about 1400 fine prints, artists’ books,painterly books and book objects.

 

Klingspor Museum

Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main Germany

www.klingspor-museum.de

A rich collection of literature on the art of book production, historyof letterpress printing, typography and calligraphy, graphic techniques andartists’ books. Permanent and changing exhibitions.

 

CTL-Presse

Borselstraße 9-11, 22765 Hamburg, Germany

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

www.ctl-presse.de

CTL-Presse specialises in publishing in four main formats: Edizioni CTL- artists’ books in collaboration, and artists’ books by Clemens-Tobias Lange.CTL-Presse - fine printed illustrated editions, and livres d’artistes. Libretti- small, ctl-designed editions and artists’ books, and a camàsce - poetrypublications in Italian.

 

despalles éditions

16 rue Sainte-Anastase, F - 75003 Paris, France

Kirchstrasse 44, D - 55124 Mainz, Germany

www.despalles.com

despalles éditions, editor, distributor - established 1982,and based in France and Germany, uniting

the work of artists and contemporary poets.

The publications cross aesthetic categories, cultural borders andlinguistics, between German and French in particular. The bilingualvisualisation of poetic texts and the choice of the typography as a means ofexpression and experimentation, characterise these limited editions.

 

Annette C. Dißlin, Germany

Buchdruckatelier bleikloetzle

Artists’ books, hand printing.

www.bleikloetzle-goes-british.de

 

Mainzer Minipressen Messe (Small Press Fair) Germany.Bi-annual small press and artist’s book fair, originally set up as analternative to the Frankfurt Book Fair and now reknown in its own right.Organised and hosted by the Gutenberg Museum. www.minipresse.de

 

Norddeutsche Handpressenmesse

Hand Press Fair, a bi-annual artist’s book fair, organisedby the association BuchDruckKunst e.V. (www.buchdruckkunst.de) and hosted bythe

Museum der Arbeit at Wiesendamm 3, 22305 Hamburg, Germany.www.museum-der-arbeit.de

Dear Kelly

 

 

Here are a few people and places in Germany that might help. Not all in the area you want to be in but worth visiting or talking to for connections to others that might be nearer.

Best wishes

Sarah