ArtsLibris ARCOlisboa 2026
28 — 31 may 2026
The 8th edition of ArtsLibris ARCOlisboa, the International Fair of Artist’s Books, Photobooks, and Self-Publishing, brings together more than 60 publishers this year.
ArtsLibris is a meeting place and forum for exchange between the publishing and artistic communities, showcasing the value and possibilities of printed materials containing writing, photography, drawing, printmaking, and other artistic expressions as a creative medium in themselves.
Dialogue, experimentation, and innovation are the hallmarks of the ArtsLibris fair, a project that holds a special place at ARCOlisboa because it is simultaneously a celebration of these publications as an artistic medium. This is achieved through the Forum, a section featuring debates and presentations.
The artist’s book is a democratic and empathetic way to access contemporary art. In its collaboration with ARCO, the project has established itself as a way to bring art closer to the general public, especially younger generations, fostering collecting through a diverse and rigorous publishing community. It creates new points of convergence between art and society through publications—artifacts that reflect artistic practices.
These dialogues have united a multitude of voices and renowned critics, artists, collectors, and specialists, who champion the diversity of artistic languages and continually renew perspectives on the creative and commercial processes of the publishing sector. Since its inception, it has brought together more than 350 publishers, reflecting the future potential of publications in these formats.
ArtsLibris was founded in 2009 in Barcelona as a publishing fair specializing in artists’ books, photobooks, contemporary thought, and self-publishing. In 2026, in addition to its presence at the MACBA in Barcelona, ARCOmadrid, and ARCOlisboa, it will also be featured at the FIL, the Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico).
In this way, it becomes the leading fair specializing in artists’ publications, and the only Spanish fair dedicated to this publishing sector in the Ibero-American context.
Since 2020, ArtsLibris has featured a digital bookstore and a permanent, vibrant, and innovative space: the ArtsLibris bookstore in Barcelona (www.artslibris.cat).
ArtsLibris ARCOlisboa 2026
42 Líneas Ediciones de Arte. Escuela de Arte de Oviedo (Oviedo), Actes Sud (Paris), Al-Tiba9 Contemporary (Barcelona), Alias Editorial (Ciudad de México), AMAGATS (Barcelona), Amen&Co (Portals Nous), ARCO Ediciones (Madrid / Lisboa), Archivo Colita Fotografía / La bombilla roja (Barcelona), Arrebato Libros (Madrid), Artist’s Book Collective (London), Artforum (New York), Artlecta (Guadalajara), ArtsLibris Serie AL (Barcelona), Bartlebooth (Lugo), Biel Books (Barcelona / New York), Bleu (Berlin), Bonart (Girona / Barcelona), Casa Falconieri Edizioni (Cagliari), CENDEAC Instituto de Industrias Culturales y de la Artes (Murcia), Centres d’Arts Visuals de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove (A Coruña), Club del Prado (Barcelona), Concreta (València), Contemporânea (Lisboa), Culturgest (Lisboa), Ediciones Posibles (Barcelona), Ediciones Réplica (Bogotá), Editora Madalena (São Paulo), Electra (Lisboa), EXIT Publicaciones (Madrid), Felina Press (Bogotá), Fontanar Ediciones (Riaza), GHOST (Lisboa), Hambre Libros (Bogotá), Hangar Books (Lisboa), Imprensa Nacional (Lisboa), Impronta Casa Editora (Guadalajara), Jardín Publicaciones (Bogotá), Jorge Conde (Barcelona), Kikuyo (Quito), KWY (Lima), MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona), Marisma Magazine (Sevilla), Maumaus (Lisboa), MeelPress (Lisboa), MORERA Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Lleida (Lleida), Mousse Magazine & Publishing (Milano), Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona (Tarragona), Paloma Ediciones (Bogotá), Puro Chile (Santiago de Chile), Quetzal Art Center (Vidigueira), RocíoSantaCruz / Raíña Lupa (Barcelona), Roser Sales Estudio (Barcelona), Salvaje Publicaciones (Bogotá), Spector Books (Leipzig), STET (Lisboa), Taller de ediciones económicas (Guadalajara), Taller de Gráfica de Comala (Guadalajara), Temblores (Ciudad de México), Teor/ética (San José), The Art of Seeing (Berlin), The Sea Urchins Container (Jávea), Tinta Invisible edicions (Barcelona), Turner (Madrid), UMBIGO (Lisboa)
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