ArtsLibris ARCOmadrid 2026
March 04 — 08 2026
ArtsLibris is the Spanish international fair dedicated to the artist’s book, the photobook, and self-publishing, which has become a leading reference in Southern Europe, where it has helped these publications come of age.
In this edition of ARCOmadrid 2026, it brings together more than 90 publishers, bookshops, and cultural agents from over 20 countries, making it the only international-scale fair on the Iberian Peninsula focused on this genre of publications within the Mediterranean and Ibero-American context.
The project originated in Barcelona (2009), where for the third consecutive year it will be hosted at MACBA. In addition to ARCOmadrid, ArtsLibris is also a section of ARCOlisboa and, since 2025, has presented its project at the FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico), the largest publishing gathering in the Spanish-speaking world, where its proposal is unique and pioneering in the field of artist publications.
In collaboration with ARCO, ArtsLibris has developed a format that facilitates access to collecting for younger generations.
Through its commitment to critical thinking, experimentation, and innovation, it also defines itself as a space for cultural activation through seminars, professional meetings, and interdisciplinary projects.
Since its inception, more than 350 publishers have participated in the project, which is supported by various public institutions and, since 2025, by a special collaboration with Fujifilm Spain.
Since 2020, ArtsLibris has maintained a permanent presence through a physical and digital bookshop in Barcelona.
ArtsLibris ARCOmadrid 2026
1+1=11 (Roberto Equisoain) (Zaragoza), 42 líneas. Escuela de arte de Oviedo (Oviedo), Al-Tiba9 Contemporary (Barcelona), Alejandra Morales (Barcelona), Alias Editorial (Ciudad de México), Amen&Co (Portals Nous), Anagrama (Barcelona), Animales de Lorca (València), Archivo Colita Fotografía / La bombilla roja (Barcelona), ARCO Ediciones (Madrid / Lisboa), Arrebato Libros (Madrid), Artist’s Book Collective (London), Artlecta (Guadalajara), ArtsLibris Serie AL (Barcelona), Arxiu Muntadas. Centre d’estudis i recerca (Barcelona), Ayuntamiento de Murcia (Murcia), Bego Amaré (Madrid), Benveniste Contemporary (Madrid), Bleu (Berlin), Blume (Barcelona), Bonart (Barcelona / Girona / Madrid), Bonito Editorial (Bilbao), Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), Casa Falconieri Edizioni (Cagliari), CENDEAC / Instituto de Industrias Culturales y de las Artes (Murcia), Centre d’Art La Capella (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove (A Coruña), Compás de Espera (Barcelona), Comptoir des Arts Franches Montagnes (Saint-Brais / Cernay), Dx5 Digital and Graphic Art_research (Pontevedra), DISTANZ (Berlin), Dom Fernández (Barcelona), Ediciones Réplica (Bogotá), Ediciones Vilaseco (A Coruña), Editorial Concreta (València), EXIT Publicaciones (Madrid / Ciudad de México), Felina Press (Bogotá), Fontanar Ediciones (Riaza), Fueradcarta (Madrid), FUJIFILM (Barcelona), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Fundació Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona), Gaspar Warehouse (Barcelona), Gobierno Vasco (Bilbao), Hambre Libros (Bogotá), Heads Take Away (Pamplona), Impronta Casa Editora (Guadalajara), Institut de Cultura, Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona), Jardín Publicaciones (Bogotá), KBB Kültur Buro (Barcelona / Buenos Aires), Kit Caníbal (Madrid), KWY (Lima), La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), La Litográfica (Madrid), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), La Zúa Ediciones (Cuenca), LALATA (Albacete), Lanipsebooks (Barcelona), Las Ciervas / Rubén Barroso (Sevilla), Librería L’Argine (Madrid), Los Demasiados Libros (Ciudad de México), MACBA (Barcelona), MAV (Madrid), Mia Martí (Sentmenat), Mónica Mena (Sevilla), moreno&soria (Terrassa), Muertedero (Albalate de Zorita), Multiple Editions (Madrid), MultistudioBooks (Barcelona), Museo Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona (Tarragona), non finito (Madrid), Ogami Press (Madrid), Paloma Ediciones (Bogotá), per(r)ucho risograph (València), Pily Estrada Lecaro (Guayaquil), Publicacions de la Universitat de València (València), Puro Chile (Santiago de Chile), Real Sociedad Fotográfica (Madrid), Residencia de Estudiantes (Madrid), RocíoSantaCruz / Raíña Lupa (Barcelona), Salvaje Publicaciones (Bogotá), Siranda Libros (Ciudad de México), Spector Books (Leipzig), Sud Sud (Lisboa), Summa (Madrid), Taller de ediciones económicas (Guadalajara), Taller de Gráfica de Comala (Guadalajara), TBA21 Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Madrid), Temblores (Ciudad de México), Teor/ética (San José), The Sea Urchins Container (Jávea), Tinta Invisible Edicions (Barcelona), Turner (Madrid), Urucum (Lisboa), Walter Sanseviero (Lima), Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker (Madrid)
SPEAKERS' CORNER
A dynamic and flexible space for discussion, dissemination and exchange between authors, editors and the general public.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 7
12:30 – BLUME
Presents: Antoni Bernad. De 1960 a 2010 and Memorias de humo. Sobre el arte y la With: Antoni Bernad, Antoni Llena and Leopoldo Blume
Antoni Llena explains his artistic awareness through his fears and shortcomings in a narrative that unfolds like a mural full of contradictions. A book of memories made of images: more than 200 photographs linked not chronologically, but with a cinematic rhythm.
13:00 – FUJIFILM IN THE CULTURAL SPHERE
Presents: FUJIFILM
Con: Eduardo López, José Márquez and Toni Amengual
FUJIFILM supports the photobook as a space for creation and will present digitization and projection solutions for the communication and enhancement of photographic work.
13:25 – TERRA FERMA
Presents: Terra Ferma
With: Fiorenza Pinna, Xavier Bassas and Toni AmengualBased on black-and-white landscape photographs taken in Mallorca during the 2020 pandemic, in his latest artist’s book Toni Amengual tears the prints to transform those traces into visible wounds, which he then re-photographs. Published with the support of FUJIFILM.
13:50 – TENGO UN ANIMAL SINGULAR
Presents: Tengo un animal singular
With: Abigail Lazkoz, Yara Sonseca and Luis VassalloThe catalogue of Abigail Lazkoz, edited by the Basque Government, reproduces her exhibition at DA2 Salamanca and mirrors the contradiction on which the exhibition was based: a retrospective proposal articulated as a new expanded work.
14:15 – LALATA
Presents: Lalata Indómita
With: Carmen G. Palacios and Manuela MartínezThe latest issues of the artists’ magazine Lalata will be presented, along with the new open call “Pienso compuesto”.
14:40 – DX5 DIGITAL AND GRAPHIC ART_RESEARCH
Presents: El múltiple que ocupa el espacio
With: Ana Soler Baena and Antía IglesiasDrawing from their latest project, the Dx5 team presents its editorial line and its different areas of research in contemporary art theory and practice: hybridizations between art and science, expanded graphic practice, and transdisciplinary comic studies.
15:05 – THE SEA URCHINS CONTAINER
Presents: Ecotopía. Buscando el Jardín Planetario. IV Bienal
With: Gloria Santacruz
Presentation of the catalogue of the 4th Biennial, where young artists from Fine Arts, Architecture and Design engage in dialogue with the thinking of Gilles Clément through small-format artistic proposals that explore biodiversity, ecological resilience and the relationship between humanity and nature. The public will be able to vote for the winning project by visiting the stand.
15:30 – CÍRCULO DE ARTES PLÁSTICAS DE COIMBRA
Presents: A Escrita da Arte. Textos de Artistas Portugueses (1958-1992)
With: Désirée Pedro, Carlos Antunes and Catarina RosendoAn anthology of texts by Portuguese artists, selected by Catarina Rosendo for their relevance in identifying and problematizing some of the most significant plastic and aesthetic issues in the Portuguese art scene during the final decades of the 20th century.
16:00 – MARÍA JOSÉ JOVE FOUNDATION ART CENTRE
Presents: Irene Kopelman. Field to Form
With: Irene Kopelman, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Susana González
Irene Kopelman. Field to Form presents the first comprehensive overview of Kopelman’s extensive practice, bringing together thorough documentation of seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists, and other specialists, has developed over the past twenty-five years.
16:25 – MARÍA JOSÉ JOVE FOUNDATION ART CENTRE
Presents: Lore Bat. Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria
Con: Nora Aurrekoetxea, Leire Vergara and Susana GonzálezThe monographic publication on artist Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria reviews her career and artistic practice, establishing connections between human experience and reflections on language, emotions and action, addressing the relationship between the material and the immaterial. With texts by Leire Vergara and Susana González.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 8
12:30 – FONTANAR EDICIONES
Presents: The Golden Touch
With: Patrizio Travagli, Antonio Sánchez and Javier Rubio NomblotThe Golden Touch is the result of a workshop held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2025, where gilding becomes an act of memory. Like a mirror, the book turns into a reflection that projects each personal meditation.
13:00 – TBA21 THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ART CONTEMPORARY
Presents: Palestine is everywhere
With: Skye Arundhati Thomas and Eduardo Castillo VinuesaCo-published by TBA21, Silver Press, and the87Press, this anthology brings together testimonies, poetry, essays, and visual works from Gaza and other territories. Drawing on Nasser Abourahme’s assertion that “Palestine is everywhere because it names a political subject of radical universal emancipation,” the book reflects on resistance, solidarity, and the right to self-determination.
13:30 – CONTEMPORARY ART IN ECUADOR, 1980 – 2020
Presents: 1980 – 2020 Arte Contemporáneo en Ecuador
With: Pily Estrada Lecaro and Agustín Pérez RubioEdited by Pily Estrada Lecaro, this volume brings together 40 years of artistic practices, highlighting milestones, transitions, and voices that shape the contemporary art scene in Ecuador. The book is structured in two parts: a timeline and a series of interviews with 29 leading artists of the period, conducted by seven curators.
14:00 – ANIMALES DE LORCA
Presents: El paseo de Buster Keaton
With: Peter DuffinIn this artist’s book, the entire work unfolds within the pages of a 1920s encyclopedia: the encyclopedia’s illustrations become the protagonists; stage directions turn into handwritten marginal notes; and surrealist games such as the Exquisite Corpse come into play.
14:30 – CASA FALCONIERI EDIZIONI
Presents: A History of Artist Books from Sardinia for ArtsLibris, 2023–2026
With: Gabriella Locci Falconieri and Dario Piludu MeddaPresentation of a new collection featuring original engravings by Gabriella Locci, dedicated to Italian and Spanish writers such as Federico García Lorca and the magic of his words devoted to Natalia Jiménez: “They brought me a seashell.”
15:00 – LA ZÚA
Presents: En Fascículos, Artist Books and Gestures in Transit
With: Sylvia Molina and Perico SimónThrough La Zúa and its publications, this presentation articulates the artist’s book, publishing as process, and performative gesture as spaces of transit between the intimate and the public, the material and the symbolic.
15:30 – ICA REGIÓN DE MURCIA – CENDEAC
Presents: Islarios de contemporaneidad II / Teresa Margolles. La sutura imposible / Revista Contra-narrativas no. 5 / La noche americana / Los años pintan. Colección Puerta de Diego
With: Pedro Medina, Tatiana Abellán, Jesús Segura, María Luz Ruiz Bañón, Enric Mira Pastor, Nacho Ruiz, Carolina Parra and Manuel CebriánA set of new editorial releases that approach contemporary art as a space for critical reflection on the present, violence, images, technology and memory. Through an interdisciplinary perspective connecting artistic practice, research and theory, they map contemporary cultural and political visual thought.
16:00 – TRAS ESA MONTAÑA HAY OTRA
Presents: Tras esa montaña hay otra
With: Nacho Ruiz and Diego AvilésEdited by the City Council of Murcia, this book traces a journey through painting produced in Spain, revisiting mediums and trends traditionally left out of essays and manuals.
16:30 – CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ
Presents: HARRIA
With: Casa de Velázquez and Regina QuesadaAn editorial project exploring the origins of stone circles found in the Basque Country, linked to pastoral activity and protohistoric cremation rituals. The artist proposes a reflection on memory and matter as forces in constant transformation.
17:00 – LA CASA DE UCRANIA
Presents: La casa de Ucrania
With: Mónica MenaThe author of this project had the opportunity to visit one of the many homes in Spain that selflessly host Ukrainian families. The visual story of Valentyna, her daughter and her granddaughter weaves together human rights and the duty of memory.
17:30 – MUERTEDERO
Presents: Industrial Resonances
With: Rojo Sache (Rosa Isabel Vázquez and José Antonio Fernández)By reinterpreting 28 classic photographs through formal alterations and artificial intelligence, associations with the history of photography are activated. This logic of resonance is transferred to the editorial field as a constellation of six different volumes, extending the idea of echo, repetition and variation into book form.