ArtsLibris
MACBA Barcelona
15/16/17 November 2024
ArtsLibris Barcelona, the International Fair for Artist Books, Photobooks, and Self-Publishing, will take place on November 15, 16, and 17 at the MACBA.
This year, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of ArtsLibris, we would like to invite you to participate in this very special edition.
ArtsLibris offers a unique opportunity to present your publishing project to the public and meet with colleagues in the professional sector, with the aim of establishing the necessary synergies to grow the cultural fabric of our environment.
The spaces where the stands will be located are the Capella, the Sala Gòtica, and the Auditori. The Seminar and Speakers Corner sessions will be held in the Auditori.
ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2024 schedule:
Thursday November 14: Seminar ‘Books to think about the contemporary image’ from 12pm to 8pm
Friday November 15: from 12pm to 8pm
Saturday November 16: from 11am to 8pm
Sunday November 17: from 11am to 6pm
Entrance is free.
LIST OF EXHIBITORS
ARTSLIBRIS BARCELONA 2024
13L edicions (Barcelona) · 42 Líneas – Escuela de Arte de Oviedo (Oviedo) · 51 Personae (Shanghai) · Actes Sud (Paris) · Àfriques Edicions (Sant Cugat del Vallès) · Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona) · Al-Tiba9 Contemporary (Barcelona) · Alejandra Morales (Barcelona) · Alias (Ciudad de México) Amagats (Barcelona) · Amen&Co (Portal Nous) · Amigos Eloi Gimeno (Barcelona) · ANCEL Franck (Paris) · Animales de Lorca (Valencia) · Arcàdia (Barcelona) · Archive Books (Berlín) · Artlecta (Guadalajara) · Artphilein Editions (Paradiso) · ArtsLibris Serie AL (Barcelona) · AVARIE | Labor Neunzehn (Paris) · Banc Sabadell (Barcelona) · Barcelona Llibres (Barcelona) · Bartlebooth (Lugo) · Bernard Gabriel Lafabrie (Paris) · Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona) · Bonart (Barcelona) · Bored Wolves (Cracovia) · By Publications (Barcelona) · Cadaqués Photo (Cadaqués) · Caja Negra Editora (Buenos Aires – Madrid) · Can Grapes & Bea Janer (Nevà) · Candelaria Magliano/Punto Rosso (Pontevedra) · Carmencita Editions X Book and sons (Valencia) · Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) · CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona) · Centre d’Art Tecla Sala (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat) · Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona) · Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove (A Coruña) · Cuscusian+s (Girona) · De La Pulcra Ceniza (Barcelona) · Dalpine (Madrid) · Delpire & CO (Paris) · DÈRIA (Barcelona) · Direcció de Serveis Editorials | Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona) · Écho 119 (Paris)· Ediciones Anómalas (Barcelona) · Ediciones Comisura (Madrid) · Ediciones Originales – Antonio Zúñiga (S.Mª Palautordera) · Ediciones Posibles (Barcelona) · Ediciones Raúl (Buenos Aires) · Edicions del bosc (Terrassa) · Editions Odyssée + Silvia Prió (Paris – Mallorca) · Editorial Concreta (Valencia) · Editorial RM (Barcelona) · EDIZIONI CASA FALCONIERI (Cagliari) · El Naufraguito (Barcelona) · escriptum (Valencia) · Escrito a lápiz (Madrid) · ESDAPC. Assignatura Disseny Editorial (Barcelona) · Espe Pons (Barcelona) · Eva Pujol (Vic) · EXIT (Madrid) · Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona i Fàbrica de Creació (Barcelona) · Fabulatorio Books (A Coruña) · Fundació Art i Paraula (Barcelona) · Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona) · Fundació Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona) · Fundació Vila Casas (Barcelona) · Fundación TBA21 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Madrid) · Gaspar Warehouse (Barcelona) · Georgina Aspa (El Masnou) · GHOST (Lisboa) · GRAF (Barcelona) · graphobios (Buenos Aires) · Greylock (Navarra) · Halfhouse + Lumbung Press (Barcelona) · Hangar Books (Lisboa) · hazdeplanos (Madrid) · HEADS TAKE AWAY (Mutilva) · HU editions / Carmen Hurtado Pérez (Barcelona) · IDEP Barcelona (Barcelona) · Jemima Charrett-Dykes (Southsea) · Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies (Barcelona) · KBB (Barcelona – Buenos Aires) · Kit Caníbal (Madrid) · King Koala Press (Milan) · KörperMagazine (Barcelona) · L’ull a la mà, microedicions (Tarragona) · La Capella (Barcelona) · La Documental edicions (València) · La Escocesa (Barcelona) · La Fábrica (Madrid) · La Mirada Creadora (Madrid) · La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona) · La Zúa (Cuenca) · Lanipsebooks (Barcelona) · LAPISLÀTZULI (Barcelona) · Livraria Editora Madalena (São Paulo) · Libros del Zorro Rojo (Barcelona) · LOOP Festival (Barcelona) · MACBA (Barcelona) · Madame Rose Gold (Sant Pere de Ribes) · MAKERMAKER (Jung-gu) · Malas Impresiones & MJPXA (Barcelona) · Manifesta 15 (Barcelona) · Marina Lanera (Mallorca) · Martin Bonadeo (Barcelona) · Mercè Soler (Barcelona) · Mia Martí (Sentmenat) · Moreno&Soria (Terrassa) · MOUSSE MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHING (Milan) · multistudiobooks (Barcelona) · Museu del disseny de Barcelona – Disseny Hub (Barcelona) · Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (Barcelona) · Museu Marès (Barcelona) · Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona) · Museu Picasso Barcelona (Barcelona) · Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona (Tarragona) · NATASHA CHRISTIA CURATORIAL PROJECTS (Barcelona) · NOGUERA. Edicions singulars (Barcelona) · non finito (Madrid) · Overlapse (London) · Paint it Black (Torino) · per(r)ucho risograph (Valencia) · Planabooks Editores (Barcelona) · Poncho Martínez / DEEP edicions (Barcelona) · La Maleta de Portbou (Barcelona) · Ojos de Buey (Barcelona) · PULL D’EDICIONS (Sant Cugat del Vallés) · Raiña Lupa (Barcelona) · Roberto Equisoain (1+1=1) (Zaragosa) · RocioSantaCruz (Barcelona) · Roser Sales Noguera Estudio (Barcelona) · Sendero Nocturno (Sant Adrià del Besòs) · Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn) · Silvia Pagliano (Barcelona) · STILE.BOOKS (San Miguel) · Sud Sud (Lisboa) · Temblores Publicaciones (Ciudad de México) · Tenov (Barcelona) · The Arch (Barcelona) · Tinta Invisible edicions (Barcelona) · TINTAMOTORA (Barcelona) · Tunica Studio (Nueva York) · URUCUM (Lisboa) · Wunderkammer (Girona) · Xavier Manrique (Barcelona)
November 14h 2024
ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2024 Seminar
Books for Reflecting on the Contemporary Image
12:00 – 13:30 / PANEL 1: Editin and design.
Tifanny Jones. Founder of Overlapse, a photobook publisher based in London that began in 2015 while researching the “Photobook Market Dynamics” for her Master’s in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
Alex Llovet. Founder and editor of Ediciones Posibles, publishing house specialised in photobooks. He studied Humanities at UAB, film directing, and photography at IEFC. He has published seven photobooks and a novel, which have garnered numerous national and international awards.
Moderator Natasha Christia. Photographer and Director of Kowasa Gallery. She is a film researcher and audiovisual programmer.
16:30 – 18:00 / PANEL 2: Thought and image.
Ingrid Guardiola. Holds a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University, a professor at the University of Girona, essayist, audiovisual producer, and cultural researcher. Since May 2021, she has been the Director of Bòlit – Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona.
Jose Luis Neves. Photobook expert, curator of the Belfast Exposed Gallery in Northern Ireland, and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Northampton and Ulster University, UK. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked at the Wilson Centre for Photography in London as an assistant curator.
Moderator: Ángela Molina. Philologist and art historian, with a degree in Spanish Philology and a PhD in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She specialises in feminist theory and gender studies.
18:30-20:00 / PANEL 3: Images to Be Dialogued. Performative Lecture.
Toni Amengual. Independent photographer, conceptual artist, and photobook editor.
Joana Hurtado. Art and film critic and independent curator.
ARTS LIBRIS MACBA BARCELONA — NOVEMBER 15/16/17
SPEAKERS’ CORNER
A dynamic and flexible space for discussion, dissemination and exchange of authors, publishers and the general public.
SPEAKERS’ CORNER PROGRAM
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Presentation of the book PICASSO-BARCELONA. Una cartografía, by Claustre Rafart i Planas, awarded in the previous edition of the Ministry of Culture’s Best Edited Book Prize. Presented by Mª José Gálvez, Director General of Books, Emmanuel Guigon, director of the Picasso Museum, Maribel López, director of Arco, and Rocío Santa Cruz, director of ArtsLibris.
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Presentation of Hangar’s Text Collection, a support program amplifying artistic practices through the creation of a fund of monographic texts by residents. Led by Carolina Jiménez, head of research at Hangar, and three of the Collection’s authors: Vera Martín Zelich, curator and independent writer; Ericka Flórez, curator and artistic director of lugar a dudas (Cali); and Marta Sesé, independent curator and editorial coordinator at MACBA.
3:40 pm – 4:10 pm
Presentation of the catalog of Teresa Solar Abboud’s exhibition, Sueño máquina de pájaro. Presented by Teresa Solar and Clàudia Segura.
4:20 pm – 5:00 pm
Presentation of the book Avec Plaisir by Fina Miralles. Published as part of the AL series for the 15th edition of ArtsLibris.
5:10 pm – 5:50 pm
Presentation of the catalog of the exhibition Mari Chordà… and Many Other Things, with Mari Chordà in conversation with Claudia Elies and Teresa Grandas. Moderated by Marta Sesé.
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Presentation of the publication Eivissa 1953. Photographs by Palmira Puig and Marcel Giró. Presented by Toni Ricart, Jesús Navarro, and Rocío Santa Cruz.
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Presentation of the publication El radar americano. Dialogue between Vicenç Altaió, Huc Malla, Marc Arnal, Antoni Miralda, and Antoni Muntadas.
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Presentation of the book El Fotolibro en Portugal, with Jose Luis Neves, Horacio Fernández, and David-Alexandre Guéniot (Ghost Editions).
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Presentation of Muros de viento, sarcófagos cristalinos (Editorial Concreta, 2014), by María Garcia Ruiz. Presented by the author in conversation with Andrea Soto Calderón and Antonio Gagliano.
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Presentation of the artist’s book Inviting Life, an intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion by students of the Master’s Degree in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces at Elisava (MEATS), led by professors Stella Rahola Matutes and Roger Paez. Stella Rahola, Roger Paez, graphic designer Albert Romagosa, and photographer Aleix Plademunt will discuss translating Pavilion research into a publication that also includes a poem by Vicenç Altaió and an article by Ona Bros.
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Presentation of the book Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics (Sternberg Press, 2024), a richly illustrated book that traces the TBA21–Academy fellowship program of the same name, curated by Sofia Lemos between 2021–23. The book untangles the histories of the Guadalquivir Valley and engages with it as a site of social and environmental change. Presented by the author in conversation with the artist, Rosa Tharrats and transformational researcher, Ora Özer.
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Presentation The Editorial Project in Artistic Education. A space to introduce academic research on the evolution of the Editorial Design course taught by Montse Noguera at ESDAPC Campus Llotja.
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Presentation of publications by Ivan de la Nuez. Presented by the author and Max de Esteban.
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Presentation Greetings from the USA with Cristina Arribas and Juan José Lahuerta.
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Dialogue on the publication of Ecocidios by Dionisio Cañas and the exhibition of the same name at Rocio Santa Cruz Gallery. Led by Dionisio Cañas and Manuel Borja-Villel.
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Of the Unseen, the Silent. Photographer Espe Pons will discuss her artistic proposals and how her projects address photobooks, visual storytelling, archival research, and the intersections between history and memory. The artist will also present her new photobook, Portraits, confronting an opaque reality of society and landscapes that oppress us.
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Presentation of the book Darrere des taulell published by Cadaqués Foto. Presented by José Ignacio Piris with the presence of the Mayor of Cadaqués, Mrs. Maria Pia Seriñana Torrents.
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Presentation of the issue The Active Composition of Presence, with Jara Rocha, Nicolas Malevé, and Jose Iglesias García-Arenal, joined by Laura Vallés Vílchez, representing Concreta.
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Presentation of the publication awarded with the III Eloi Gimeno Prize.
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Presentation of the editorial imprint Malas Impresiones, with collaborative editing projects. Led by Txuma Sánchez, Raquel Muñoz, and Montse Carreño.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Presentation of the catalog for 10 Years of The Blueproject Foundation. A review of all proposals organized by the institution, from its beginnings in 2013 in its iconic Born space to its commemorative exhibition during Gallery Weekend 2023. Presented by Renato Della Poeta, Aurélien Le Genissel, and Pedro Torres.
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Presentation of the book Spain is different (in postcards) by Joan Rabascall. Created as a project by Ediciones Originales in co-publishing with the Complutense University of Madrid. Presented by Joan Rabascall, Isabel Valverde, and Antonio Zúñiga.
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Presentation of the book ÉL S.A. A project by Miquel Mont, published by the Antoine de Galbert Foundation and RocioSantaCruz Gallery. Presented by Miquel Mont, Eugenia Mont, and Alex Gifreu, graphic designer of the publication.
ArtsLibris Award
Banco Sabadell
Every year, ArtsLibris awards the ArtsLibris Banc Sabadell Award. This prize consists of the acquisition and incorporation into the Col·lecció d’Art del Banc Sabadell of the editions selected by jury. The award seeks to donate support to publications that propose an original connection between ideas and visual contingents, that work with innovative publishing formats and that propose innovative aesthetic and conceptual contingents.
The jury for the 2024 Banc Sabadell Foundation ArtsLibris Award is made up of: Antonio Alcaraz, Montserrat Corominas, Pepe Font de Mora, Moritz Kung, Ángela Molina and Marta Vega.
Eloi Gimeno Award
to the best Photobook
This year, for the sthird time, ArtsLibris, together with the Foto Colectania Foundation and in collaboration with the Friends of Eloi Gimeno Association, will award the Eloi Gimeno Award for the best Photobook among the contestants at the ArtsLibris Barcelona 2024 fair. The career of this artist revitalized Spanish photography through through photobooks, assuming aesthetic risks, self-publishing, elegantly working on the design of their books and launching processes of collective creation.
AL Series
The AL Series is a collection of artist’s books produced and edited by ArtsLibris.
It was launched with the aim of promoting the publication of new work by artists who have shown, in their previous production, a clear interest in the field of artist’s books.
This year, the artist chosen for the publication of the AL Series is Fina Miralles (Sabadell, 1990) with her book Avec Plaisir, which brings together poems and photos by the artist and has been designed by Alex Gifreu.
So far, the award-winning artists have been Oriol Vilanova (Manresa, 1980), Iñaki Bonillas (Mexico City, 1981), Martín Vitaliti (Buenos Aires, 1978), Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza, 1964), Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, 1978), Mariana Cast (Mexico City, 1975), Itziar Okariz (San Sebastian, 1965) and Mabel Palacín (Barcelona, 1965)
ArtsLibris Editions
ArtsLibris expands its collection of gloves with the creation of Mari Chordà (Amposta, 1942).
This year the cotton bags are a tribute to Colita.
Exhibition
This Story Will Never Get Finished
by Natasha Christia
The Mediterranean occupies a central position in This Story Will Never Get Finished. The exhibition, which brings together some thirty International photobooks, operates as a living trace of narratives, imaginaries, voices or even autobiographical memories about the Mediterranean Sea, its cultural and human trace.
Exhibition produced by the Museu de l’Art Modern de Tarragona (MAMT) as part of SCAN International Photography Festival 2023.
Laura Ben Hayoun
Loop Festival will be present at the ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2024 Fair. The video art piece by artist Aurélien Froment ‘L’adaptation Manifeste’ (2008) will be on display.
Aurélien Froment, L’adaptation Manifeste
Still frame
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