Program 2024 2023

Kunstbokhandel Under Press is a collaborative project by Pamflett and Entrée, were the gallery space is transformed into a bookshop for two months. KUP is highlighting artists who make books through events, commission work and texts, and is funded by Art Council Norway. Day before BABF we are extended the opening hours from 12:00–21:00!

Textallmenningen invites you to visit their new premises! Tektallmenningen is moving into Markeveien 4B in Bergen, next door to Entrée. During the Bergen Art Book Fair, Tekstallmenningen invite the public to visit their new space, as a little preview of what is to come, and to present to BABF's audience what Teksallmenningen does. As well as what the new place will contain and offer, and present a number of cultural periodicals and publications from independent publishers.

Time: 14.-16. April 2023, open from 18:00–21:00 on Thursday and 12–18 Friday–Sunday.

See www.tekstallmenningen.no for more information.

HKS invites you to an archive sale in the bookshop with homemade soup and a delicious selection of Norwegian apple cider.

There will be a pop-up with favourites, new and old treasures and older publications at reasonable prices.

Hordaland art center's bookshop has a large selection of books and magazines, which are in various ways relevant to the field of contemporary art. We have a wide range of publications dealing with artistic practice and production, art institutions and curatorial practice – anthologies as well as monographs, in addition to artist books, artist novels and various publications in hybrid format. We have specialized in books and catalogs by artists based in Vestland county, and can offer a unique selection of limited edition publications. Our bookshop has the same opening hours as the exhibitions at the house - Wednesday to Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00. Students get a 15% student discount on all our publications.

In collaboration with Grafill, Geir Goosen, KMD and BABF, we are happy to finally screen: The documentary of “KNUST, the pioneers of Riso print”

The documentary tells the story of a post-fluxus art collective “Knust” founded in the 80’s during the large-scale squatter revolt in Nijmegen. Since then the Knust artists have had an international fame thanks to the authenticity of their colorful printed issues made with the Riso technique. In this film we also follow the English illustrator, Charlotte Ager, during her residency at Extrapool, the headquarter of Knust. Alongside with her, we witness the making of a Riso printed art book and the incredible charm of this crafty technique.
Produced by Ivana Smudja. Made possible with crowd funding, where Grafill Bergen and Geir Goosen made a contribution.

2019 The Netherlands - Dutch / English

FREE ENTRY

On Thursday, April 13th, from 19h onwards, NOGOODS will launch the magazine bias: bodies in architecture and structures issue 1 empathy. Join the event at NOGOODS, Kong Oscars gate 45, where there will be performative readings and copies of the magazine available to purchase.

bias: bodies in architecture and structures is a magazine for critical cross-disciplinary thoughts on architecture and performative practices that shape or are reshaped by the social body. bias invites wide-ranging contributions across the disciplines of architecture, art, performance, and more. Through a lens of queer and feminist discourse bias combines research and artistic expression in a non-hierarchical way. bias is edited and published by NOGOODS, designed by Vera Gomes and printed at Pamflett in Bergen, Norway. The first issue of bias critically focuses on empathy and includes contributions by Clio Nicastro, Carol Stampone, ROMA ROMA, La Saula, La Pocha Nostra, Alexandrina Hemsley, Naomi Credé, Staci Bu Shea, Grace Caiazza and Soft Agency.

Martin Mentzoni, of kaffifanzine, will at the Comfort Hotel Bergen to do a performance by painting a painting in front of the audience and you will see the first brush stroke on the upcoming painting that will be exhibited in the lobby area! There will also be an interview with the artist after the performance and a Q & A.

Martin is also exhibiting at Hulen, with a vernissage already on April 12th! FB-Link

Half Letter Press (US) is a publishing imprint and online store initiated by the group Temporary Services. Temporary Services is Brett Bloom & Marc Fischer. They have published booklets as an element of their collaborative work since 1998. Temporary Services started Half Letter Press in 2008 to publish work by others and build long-term support and expanded audiences for people that work creatively in experimental ways.

For this talk, Marc will give an overview of their publishing history and present Artist Publishers Reflect on Book Waste. Building on  previous publications like Book Waste Book, Self-Reliance Library and What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? in this new title 7 artist publishers reflect on their experiences of waste in the making of their books. They describe problems they faced in the past and are working to avoid in the future, lessons learned, changes they are making or have made to make their work less wasteful, interesting things they do with waste materials, and tips or tricks to have a less ecologically damaging publishing practice.

Decolonizing Art Book Fairs – Publishing Practices from the South(s) is a workbook with primarily newly commissioned texts and interviews with artists, authors and publishers. The volume attempts to enrich the discourse on publishing and of art book fairs, with an emphasis on practitioners and initiatives from the African continent and diaspora Can we decolonize art book fairs? Can we decentralize knowledge and deconstruct privilege in our contexts? Published for Miss Read Art Book Fair, by Miss Read, Afrikadaa and Mosaïques. This book is presented at Bergen Art Book Fair by two of the books editiors: artist and publisher Moritz Grünke (Gloria Glitzer) and artist and curator Nkule Mabaso.

Secret Riso Club (US) is a graphic design and risograph studio that focuses its work on the intersection of social justice, art, design and community building. In our practice, we work to build a platform that serves as a collaborative space for developing ideas and new projects.

Three Fifty (US) is a queer and trans collective focused on promoting the mediums of artists' books, zines, comics, and other self-published printed matter by providing a distribution platform for queer and trans independent artists. Rooted in anticapitalism and accessibility, we aim to create a space for artists to gather autonomously without the need for institutional approval.

Panel discussion on book shops as distribution platforms for artists' publications with Jan Steinbach from Edition Taube (DE), Jessica Williams from Hverdag Books (NO) and Pinelopi Gardika from Bladr (DK), moderated by Heather Jones. 

The discussion is initiated by Kunstbokhandel Under Press (run by Pamflett and Entrée), and kindly supported by Art Council Norway’s pilot for dissemination and distribution of artists’ books.

Liis Ring is a (sound) artist, musician and photographer currently living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden. She has performed as a solo artist in 12 different countries, created music and sound design for several films and theatre productions and released two full-length albums and two EPs. Two new releases are due in April and September 2023.
Her music balances between the genres of art pop, singer-songwriter and ambient where field recordings are blended with electronic and acoustic instruments. Her live sets are a mix of pre-composed and improvised material, taking the audience on a vivid journey across genres.
Liis has a BFA in music and sound production from Gothenburg University and is currently finishing another BFA in photography at the same institution.

Liis Ring's Homing is published by Breton Cassette (NO) and Canigou Records (ES), this evening we will get a pre-launch of their new cassette publication.

The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire of people around the world for centuries, their magnificence matched only by the courage of the divers who found them. With a trans-disciplinary approach, « Nahma: A gulf Polyphony » aims to honor the memory of these valiant free-divers, their culture and their music.

To celebrate the publishing of his new book of poetry 'Malleable Minds', Drozd will read a selection of poems and stories, new and old, accompanied by the amazing Eline Rafteseth on upright bass. Expect short silly verse featuring tiny kings, egg-eating giants and wheezy weasels. 

Create your own t-shirt with Siv Støldal, and collage a print with original drawings from the sketchbook of the illustrator Åshild Kanstad Johnsen. You can combine Åshild's art with your own drawings, and print it on a T-shirt with Siv. Workshop is approx. 3 hours.

Workshop fee 300,- (click here to get tickets)

The best part of the independent publishing world is the people themselves and the sense of community. We talk about community a lot, but it deserves a closer look into what it really is and how you build it. In this workshop with Secret Riso Club from Brooklyn, NY, participants will work with a partner to interview one another, then collectively create 4 pages of a zine. We will then walk participants through the riso process to print their pages. We will bind all participants’ pages together to form a collective zine about community. Participants will walk away with a copy of the zine. Participants should come open to sharing, discussing, learning and creating.

Workshop is approx 3 hours long

Workshop fee 300,- (click here to get tickets)

This will be a presentation of Bstard, both as a bookstore and an art book fair, with 4 examples from the selection of 639 publications. The main purpose of Bstard is to be a meeting point and a distribution channel for the art book field in Norway, which makes art books and artists' books visible and disseminates them to a broad, general public interested in culture. The fair and the bookstore's program aim to be a meeting point, a distributor, and a showcase for overlaps between literature and visual art. The bookstore collects and extends the threads that already lives through the fair, and gives B*stard a year-round cycle, both through the physical location at Oppland Kunstsenter and via the online store bastardbok.no.

Bridge Hole was a year-long project curated by a group of curators in 2020. It was located in a traditional market in Taipei that was scheduled for demolition. 
The project served as a platform for discussions and cultural mediation among artists, audiences, and members of the local community.

This time, Bridge Hole will release a book with the same title in connection with the project, as well as two artist books, Grass Goods by Lulu Lin and Grandma Museum by Kuan-Cheng Yeh.

Planktos Rising
Children’s book, 2023

Planktos Rising recounts the journey of a plankton named Planktos who meets many inhabitants of the North Sea. Through their conversations, he learns about a mythical material of great influence on their environment: oil. Using colorful and tactile imagery, the book introduces children to the strange relationships between mythology and fossil fuel, making up the basis for universal thinking that is needed to discuss the topic of the climate crisis.

"Ha," which is being sold as a series of zines at my booth at the fair, was originally created for a group show last fall with the theme of blades. It was an interactive installation that used zines, which were displayed alongside knives. To view the entire zine, the audience was invited to cut the double-sided pages with a knife.During the launch, I would like to discuss my intentions and the creative process behind this work.

Join us for a drink, a casual post-fair Saturday hang out with listening session by Flee Projects (FR) at Bergen Assembly's office! Nice prices in the bar, and a first come first serve-cake.

From 18:00–23:00 @ Bergen Assembly, Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4

«Tarantismo: Odissey of an Italian Ritual» is dedicated to Tarentism, a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, mobilizing frenetic rhythms and maniac dances, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider. Join us for a special interactive listening session of this double LP capturing original field recordings of musicians-exorcists registered by Diego Carpitella, Ernesto de Martino and Alan Lomax in the late 1950's in Puglia as well as six unique reworks by contemporary vanguard electronic musicians and producers such as: Bjorn Torske & Trym Søvdsnes (NO), LNS (CA), UFFE (DK), KMRU (KE), Bottin (IT), and Don't DJ (DE).

The Dogs Vol.2 (2021) gets a RE-BIRTH at Bergen Art Book Fair in True D.I.Y. Style:

Everyone who buys a copy of the comix will get a Ken the chicKen Portrait done by Martin Mentzoni right there and then! The drawing will be on the back of the cardboard support!

The Dogs Vol.2 Comix is about the band The Dogs feat. Kristopher Schau and how they travel the Post-Apocalypse World after Covid & they are gonna do the Last Show on Earth! BUT on their way they stumble across enemies of the everlasting dead wastelands!

Comix for Adults!

KYSTKANNIBALENE (The Coast Cannibals) is a homage to the artists book SVARTEDAUEN by Theodor Kittelsen.

The book is a collaboration between writer Anders Elsrud Hultgreen and drawer Øystein Nesheim.

The Japanese artist couple Chie and Rei Ito create quiet fairytales with Japanese Washi paper that they hand-made from recycled paper.
They don't advocate any specific morals or lessons in their storytelling; instead, they let the readers decide what to take away from those otherwise rather simple stories.
They believe that stories which are actually complex, multifaceted and engaging often seem to be very simple.
In the picture book collection Quiet Friends, they will tell us three such stories.

Parallell 9 and Parallell 10 (KRAFT)

In the Parallell-series authors are invited to produce independent texts for ongoing exhibitions at KRAFT. The texts are the results of the author free interpretations.

Join us for the launch of our two new editions, Det materielle livet by Sandra Lillebø and Det gamle hjertet by Rolf Enger. Both authors are present for the launch and will be reading from their texts.