MISS READ 2017
The Berlin Art Book Festival
July 14–16, 2017 

Conceptual Poetics Day : July 15, 1–7pm 

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) 
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 
10557 Berlin
Germany

Friday, July 14, 5–9pm with events by Arch+ and e-Flux and opening party 
Saturday, July 15, 12–7pm
Sunday, July 16, 12–7pm

The Berlin Art Book fair MISS READ will take place between July 14 and 16 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Throughout the weekend, a wide selection of over 230 international publishers, art periodicals, artists and authors will be featured. Founded in 2009, MISS READ is Europe´s Art Book Festival dedicated to building community and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice. 

With this year’s special focus on the UK, MISS READ will be composed of a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops, with the common mission of exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book.

Friday, July 14, MISS READ STAGE will host a talk by ARCH+ and present a panel on critical architecture theory, utopias and discursive practice. Followed by the mini-symposium What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It? organized by e-fluxand Sternberg Press, hosted by Julieta Aranda and featuring AA Bronson, Antonia Majaca, Brian Kuan Wood and others. 

On Saturday, July 15, the 5th Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. The program will include readings, lectures, performances and book launches by Simon Morris (Information as Material), Sharon Kivland (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE), Paul Stephens (Convolution Journal), Derek Beaulieu (Jean Boîte Éditions), Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold (Camera Austria), Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra (Kunstverein Publishing), Cia Rinne, Pavel Büchler and others. 

On Sunday, July 16, the MISS READ STAGE will hold lectures, and panel discussions by Alessandro Ludovico, Michael Baers, Heimo Lattner (Drucken Heften Laden), Fucking Good Art, Eva Weinmayr, Rosalie Schweiker and Mirjam Bayerdoerfer (AND Publishing), Ana Bilbao (Afterall), Jan-Frederik Bandel and Tania Prill in conversation with Philipp Goll (Spector Books), Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen Weserburg) and others. 

In order to keep MISS READ alive, we occasionally publish fundraising editions, which are generously created by artists such as Pavel Büchler, John Stezaker, Cia Rinne, Haris Epaminonda, Eugen Gomringer and Karl Holmqvist. For more information on the program, the 5th Conceptual Poetics Day, the editions and the exhibitor list go to www.missread.com.

230+ Participants:
;paranoia (Tartu) / 53rd State Press (Brooklyn/Berlin) / adocs (Hamburg) / AKV (Berlin) / Albert Coers (Bonn) / Andreas Schmidt (Berlin) / Animal Press (Forest, Belgium) / Anne Schwalbe (Berlin) / APA-B e.V. Association for Performance Art (Berlin) / ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau (Berlin) / Archive Books (Berlin) / Arts Libris (Barcelona) / August Verlag (Berlin) / Azulejo Art Impressa (Porto Alegre) / B.L.A.D. (Berlin) / Bartleby & Co. (Brussels) / Bebe Books (Gent) / Berlin Quarterly (Berlin) / BLEK (Leipzig) / Boabooks (Geneva) / Böhm/Kobayashi (Düsseldorf) / BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (Berlin) / Bon-Gah (Teheran) / Books People Places (Berlin) / Brad Downey (Berlin) / Brinkmann&Bose (Berlin) / Broken Dimanche Press (Berlin) / Bruno Gmünder (Berlin) / Cabinet du livre d’artiste (Rennes) / Cain Press (Bogotá) / Camera Austria (Graz) / captures éditions (Valence) / Caravan (Berlin) / Christophe Daviet-Thery (Paris) / ciconia ciconia (Berlin) / Clara Bahlsen (Berlin) / Colorama (Berlin) / Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (New York) / convolution journal (New York) / Corraini Edizioni (Mantua) / Corvo Records (Berlin) / Cosima Pitz (Blaues Land) / Cube Art Editions (Athens) / Damocle Edizioni (Venice) / Delere Press (Singapore) / DER WEDDING (Berlin) / Derek Beaulieu (Calgary) / DIAPHANES (Zurich) / Display Distribute (Hong Kong) / Do the Print (Barcelona) / Doppell Edition (Berlin) / drittel books (Berlin) / Drucken Heften Laden (Berlin) / e-flux journal (New York) / Ediciones Originales (Barcelona) / Edit e.V. (Leipzig) / Edition Fink (Zurich) / Edition Frey (Zurich) / edition metzel (Munich) / Edition Taube (Munich) / editionmessner (Berlin) / Éditions Incertain Sens (Rennes) / Edizione Multicolore (Leipzig) / European Photography(Berlin) / Fachhochschule Dortmund (Dortmund) / Fantôme Verlag (Berlin) / flaneur magazine (Berlin) / folksverlag / Folkwang UdK (Essen) / Fotograf (Prague) / Fotohof edition (Salzburg) / Francis Benefiz (Berlin) / From Me To You Publications(Borgerhout) / Fucking Good Art (Rotterdam) / Für Dich Verlag (Borgerhout) / Galerie Neu (Berlin) / Gloria Glitzer (Berlin) / Glueheads & Prophit Art Zine (Berlin) / Goofypress (Berlin) / Grazer Kunstverein (Graz) / Gris (Salvador de Bahia) / Hank Schmidt in der Beek (Berlin) / HOMOCATS (Brooklyn) / hurricane publishing (Vejby) / indekeuken - Chez Rosi (Brussels) / Ilja Kitup - Propeller Verlag (Moscow/Berlin) / information as material (Old York) / Inpatient Press (New York) / InterViews (Berlin) / JB. Institute (Berlin) / Jean Boîte Editions (Paris) / Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (LA/Leipzig) / Jungle Books (St. Gallen) /​ Karl Holmqvist (Berlin) / KG Weltformat (Berlin) / kima (Altadena) / KINK EDICIONES (Barcelona) / KLD Repro (Copenhagen) / Kontaktcenter (Leipzig) / kookbooks (Berlin/Vienna) /KudlaWerkstatt (Prague) / Kultur & Gespenster (Hamburg) / Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) / Kunstverein Milano (Milan) / Kunstverein Publishing (Amsterdam) / La Duplicadora (Mexico City) / Lage Egal (Berlin) / Lodret Vandret (Copenhagen) / Look Back and Laugh Books (Ljubljana) / lorem ipsum (Rennes) / Lubok Verlag (Leipzig) / MAMA Photobooks (Budapest) / MATERIAL Press (Budapest) / MER. Paper (Ghent) / Merve (Berlin) / Michael Baers + Friends (Berlin) / Michalis Pichler/,,greatest hits” (Berlin) / Mincho (Madrid) / MIT Press (Cambridge) / Montez Press (New York) / muss sterben (Munich) / Mute (Berlin) / mzin (Leipzig) / Naranja Ediciones (Santiago) / Nazi knife (Paris) / NEURAL magazine(Bari) / Nina Prader LadyLibertyPress (Berlin) / no press (Calgary) / Occulto (Berlin) / Ocula (Hong Kong) / Onomatopee (Eindhoven) / OUTER SPACE PRESS (Berlin) / PageFive (Prague) / PAISANA BOOKS (Madrid) / Palefroi (Berlin) / PAN (Berlin) / panke.gallery (Berlin) / Pauline Barzilaï (Montreuil) / Pavel Büchler (Manchester) / Pequeño Zine Ilustrado (Santiago) / PHILE Magazine (Toronto/New York/Berlin) / Plaugolt Satz Wechlser (Rostock) / Plusieurs Personnes - Les Ombres (Strasbourg) / PogoBooks (Berlin) / Popup Press (Basel) / possible books (Berlin) / PrintRoom (Rotterdam) / PROTOCOL Magazin für Architektur im Kontext (Berlin) / Publication Studio (Rotterdam) / Punctum Press (Brooklyn) / Pure Fyction (Frankfurt Main) /randnummer literaturhefte (Berlin) / RE/SEARCH (San Francisco) / Re:Surgo! (Berlin) / Red76 (Portland) / Revolver Publishing (Berlin) / Ricochet (Leipzig) / Risiko Press (Borgerhout) / Risotop (Leipzig) / Rough’Nough (Lisbon) / RUJA PRESS (Rotterdam) / Salon für Kunstbuch (Vienna) / Salon Verlag (Cologne) / Samopal Books (Moscow) / SAND (Berlin) / Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn) / shashasha collective / Case Publishing (Tokyo) / Sieveking Verlag (Munich) / SmingSming Books & Objects (Saratoga) / SOYBOT (Vienna) / Space Poetry (Copenhagen) / Spector Books (Leipzig) / SPIKE Art Quarterly (Berlin/Vienna) / springerin (Vienna) / Starship (Berlin) / Staedelschule(Frankfurt Main) / Stefanie Leinhos (Leipzig) / Sternberg Press (Berlin) / STILL Magazine (Berlin) /Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in der Weserburg (Bremen) / TBOOKS Cologne (Cologne) / Technologies und das Unheimliche (Leipzig) / Textem (Hamburg) / THE GREEN BOX (Berlin) / The postershop @Elgarafi (Berlin) / Tifoidea (Monterrey) / Timglaset (Malmö) / Tiny Splendor (Berkeley/LA) / Toronto Art Book Fair (Toronto) / tria (Zurich/Beijing) / Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn) / Unit Editions (London) / Valiz (Amsterdam) / Verbrecher Verlag (Berlin) / Verlag für Handbücher (Stuttgart) / Vetro Editions (Berlin) / Vfmk Verlag für moderne Kunst GmbH (Vienna) / Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (Berlin) / Witty Kiwi (Toronto) / YYZBOOKS (Toronto) / Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (Ljubljana) / zero sharp (Berlin) / Zine Club (Vancouver) / zirkumflex (Berlin) / ztscpt (Berlin/Vienna) and many more...

UK Focus
Afterall (London) / AMBruno (London) / Anagram Books (London/Berlin) / AND Publishing (London) / Banner Repeater (London) / Bookworks (London) / Bus Editions (Rotherham) / common-editions (London) / Dan Szor (Manchester) / Elska Magazine (London) / Hard Mag (London) / information as material (Old York) / Judas Companion (London) / Kiss and Tell Press (London) / OCR (London) / ottoGraphic (Marshfield) / Racheal Crowther (London) / Red Sphinx (London/Berlin) / Sara MacKillop (London) / Schizm Magazine (London) / Sharon Kivland / Ma Bibliothèque (Sheffield) / Stuart Bannocks (London) / The Everyday Press (London) / Unit Editions (London) / William Cobbing (London) / x marks the bokship/Eleanor Brown (London)
The UK focus is organized in collaboration with the ASP Fair (London).

The poster of MISS READ 2017 was created by Karl Holmqvist.
The poster of Conceptual Poetics Day 2017 was created by Pavel Büchler.

MISS READ 2017 team

Director: Michalis Pichler
Curators: Yaiza Camps, Moritz Grünke, Michalis Pichler
Coordinators: Yaiza Camps, Moritz Grünke
Party: Sascha Konrad
Graphic Design: Moritz Grünke
Interns: Yuma Carpenter-New, Nina Rose Lewis

Press contact:
Hans Krestel, BUREAU N
hans.krestelbureau-n.de

MISS READ 2017 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt is funded by Senatskanzlei Berlin – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten.

Special thanks
Karl Holmqvist; Pavel Büchler; AA Bronson; Lawrence Weiner; Olga Sievers, Alexandra Engel and Bernd Scherer, HKW Berlin; Veit Rieber, Senatskanzlei Berlin; Nicola Beißner and Johannes Odenthal, Akademie der Künste; Sara MacKillop and Dan Mitchell, ASP Fair; Anke Sharma; Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen Weserburg; Black Forest Distillery; BaltoPrint; HVS Plakat; Chiara Figone, Archive Kabinett; Hans Krestel and Silke Neumann, BUREAU N; Adeline Manarini, Anagram Books; Drucken Heften Laden; Shannon Michael Cane and Max Schumann, Printed Matter, Inc.; Wanda Spangenberg; Christian Kaspar Schwarm; Patrick Berger; Franziska Brandt; Misaki Kawabe.