mumok Art Book Day, December 1st 2018, Vienna

Under the motto Reading Art, Vienna’s art book fair at mumok is bringing the book as an art form into the museum for a day and turning mumok into a meeting place for lovers of books and art. Selected representatives of the experimental and independent artists’ book scene from Austria and Germany will present a crosssection of their work. Discover the rich diversity of artists’ books and get to know the artists and publishers. A lecture, a reading performance and film screenings complete the program.

participants: Artist Lecture Series Vienna, Wien

backbonebooks, Berlin

berlinartbooks, Berlin 

Black Pages, Wien

BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, Berlin

Carivari, Leipzig

Bernhard Cella, Wien

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ENTKUNSTUNG, Wien

FRANZ THE LONELY AUSTRIONAUT, Wien

Gloria Glitzer, Berlin

Harpune Verlag, Wien

Zhanina Marinova

mumok Publikationen, Wien

Ulrich Nausner, Wien

Markus Oberndorfer, Wien

Mark Pezinger Books, Wien

Michalis Pichler, Berlin

Rokko’s Adventures, Wien

saxpublishers, Wien

Sira-Zoé Schmid, Wien

Starship, Berlin

Westphalie, Wien

Ztscrpt, Wien, Berlin

Program

10:00–10:30: Introduction

Karola Kraus, General Director mumok
Simone Moser, mumok library

10:00–18:00: Film program

14:00–14:30: Lecture Performance
Salvatore Viviano

The italian artist Salvatore Viviano lives and works in vienna. In May 2014 he founded the One Work Gallery, which ran till December 2017. His reading performance is based on his book The One Work Gallery Diary, recently published by Harpune Verlag. It’s a kind of diary about the gallery, the city of vienna, the art scene and the life as an artist.

16:00–17:00: Lecture
Anne Thurmann-Jajes. Künstlerbücher – Ein Blick zurück nach vorn (in German)

Anne Thurmann-Jajes is director of the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications at the Weserburg – Museum of Modern Art, and teaches in the Institute of Science of Art – Film Science – Art Education at the University of Bremen. She is curator as well as author and editor of many subject-related publications.

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Free participation