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Dedicated to the appreciation of the various forms of art books and publishing, each season BOOOOOKS invites a different arts publisher and presents a selection of their work.

27/01/2025

Please join us Friday 31 January, 6-9pm for the opening of our inaugural programme at our new permanent location in Antwerp.

Situated in the street-facing entrance of a graphic design studio and living space, in 2025, BOOOOOKS presents a programme of consecutive presentations of independent publishing practices, running alongside a year-long cycle of cumulative displays of the practice of artist Aaron Harris.

For the first exhibition instalment running from January 31 through March 14, BOOOOOKS presents two parallel presentations by Aaron Harris (Antwerp) and Good Neighbour (Amsterdam).

Good Neighbour is a research platform based in Amsterdam since 2017, run by artist Martin La Roche, designer Dongyoung Lee, and researcher Valeria Marchesini. Good Neighbour defines itself primarily as a community of readers who share a communal interest in books seen as performative tools.

The name 'Good Neighbour' is inspired by Aby Warburg's Law of the Good Neighbour', a continuous system of thematic and serendipitous arrangements between books in a library

Good Neighbour doesn't seek to build a library; it makes time for appreciating existing ones

IMG: Dongyoung Lee – English (100 Indexes), 2018

26/01/2025

Please join us Friday 31 January, 6-9pm for the opening of our inaugural programme at our new permanent location in Antwerp.

Situated in the street-facing entrance of a graphic design studio and living space, in 2025, BOOOOOKS presents a programme of consecutive presentations of independent publishing practices, running alongside a year-long cycle of cumulative displays of the practice of artist Aaron Harris.

For the first exhibition instalment running from January 31 through March 14, BOOOOOKS presents two parallel presentations by Aaron Harris (Antwerp) and Good Neighbour (Amsterdam).

Aaron Harris is a painter based in Antwerp. Originally trained as a graphic designer, his works capture details and snapshots of places and objects, often featuring or alluding to traces of human touch.

Good Neighbour (GN) is a research platform based in Amsterdam since 2017, run by artist Martin La Roche, designer Dongyoung Lee, and researcher Valeria Marchesini.

GN defines itself primarily as a community of readers who share a communal interest in books seen as performative tools.

The name ‘Good Neighbour’ is inspired by Aby Warburg’s ‘Law of the Good Neighbour’, a continuous system of thematic and serendipitous arrangements between books in a library. GN doesn’t seek to build a library; it makes time for appreciating existing ones.

IMG: Aaron Harris – 'Reussner, 80 pages', 2012-2024, 30x40cm, oil on canvas

27/06/2024

We would love to see you on the last days of our bookshop and reading room, 'A Reading List'. Come say hi from Thursday 27.06 until Saturday 29.06, between 12:00 and 18:00 and take advantage of a 20% discount when purchasing two or more books... OP=OP ☀️📚

Last week, designer and publisher of artist books and editions Peter Foolen has made a selection of titles from our shelves. His reading list is on view in our reading room for you to read and enjoy on site or buy and take home, alongside a wider selection of works produced by Peter.

A Reading List also marks the launch of a new edition, 'Time Record (1998-2024)', by Sophie-Marie Beinke. The edition is available framed or unframed and is on view in our reading room alongside limited edition print 'Total Eclipse of the Sun' by British artist Roger Ackling.

21/06/2024

Designer and Publisher Peter Foolen joined us yesterday and made a selection of books from our temporary bookshop for the reading table. Everyone is welcome to pass by and read, look, or take something home.

'A Reading List' is open 12-18h Thurs, Fri, Sat until June 29

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20/06/2024

An Athens City Reader
Eleanor Wright
2017

€35,00 available in store or DM

Published by Drop City Düsseldorf and M HKA Antwerp

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Forming part of an ongoing interest in private and public spaces made by and for people, and conflicts between the individual and society. Initial ideas began on Wright's residency at the British School at Athens in 2016 which have since developed into a body of work that draws out relationships between shared identities, cultures and trade as well as individualism, society and responsibility, with particular focus on an Athenian engineer and his vacant Shopping Centre 'Rea'.

Photographic essay accompanied by texts from Tilly Fowler and Christian Jendreiko

The bookshop is open until 18h

20/06/2024

Cafe Alt Wien
Simon Cutts
1999

€10,00 available in store or DM

Published by Coracle Press

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

A text variation on the soup which gallerist Hubert Winter had every day for a month. Soft cover 15 x 11 cm, 44 non numbered pages.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

15/06/2024

Public Fountains
Slow Reading Club

€8,00 available in store or DM

Published by Dortmunder Kunstverein

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen in late 2016. The group deals in constructed situations for collective reading. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

14/06/2024

The Grey Book
Annie Naskyd

€22,50 available in store or DM

Published by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2022.

Printed in Black, Fluor. Orange, Green and Purple.
19.5x26cm, 52 pages.

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for the reading room.

The grey book delves into the principles of permaculture gardening and how they can be applied to contemporary urban design. It highlights the issue of soulless urban spaces that are filled with decorative trees and plants which fail to contribute to the local ecosystem.

Annie created a series of graphic illustrations that correspond to the sourced text in the book. She constructed each image using 10 distinct 'pixels,' placing them one by one until the picture was ‘complete’.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 21:00.

13/06/2024

There are three more days to catch the reading table selection by Bo Wielders

We invited artist and researcher Bo Wielders to make a selection of publications from our temporary bookstore. Her reading list, Non-cities inside cities, is on view in our reading room, alongside a trio of Wielders' bookbags. The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00 Thurs, Fri, Sat.

NEXT THURSDAY Henry Anderson will make a selection of titles for the reading table.

publishing

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06/06/2024

A Reading List is a bookshop, reading room and public programme bringing together through a selection of works and events the (publishing) practices of, amongst others, Roger Ackling, Giles Bailey, Marie-Sophie Beinke, David Boon, stanley brouwn, Angus Carlyle, Alan Charlton, Simon Cutts, Laurie Clark & Thomas A Clark, Peter Downsbrough, Hamish Fulton, Jef Geys, Rubén Grilo, Liesbet Grupping, Ian Hamilton Finley, Dan Holdsworth, Erika Van Horn, Christian Jendreiko & Markus Karstiess, Ana Jotta, Anais Lezy, Peter Foolen, Peter Liversidge, Richard Long, Ines Martins, Paul Morrison, AnnieNaskyd, Carol Robertson, Marnicq Roebben, Jani Ruscica, Thomas Schütte, Slow Reading Club, Dominique Somers, Vibe Stalpaert & Jasper Coremans, Sarah Stone, Trevor Sutton, Tolouse Low Trax, Maud Vande Veire, herman de vries, Ian Whittlesea, Bo Wielders, Eleanor Wright, Greville Worthington & Cy Worthington, Maria Zahle.

A Reading List celebrates the production and dissemination of knowledge through the act of independent, experimental and artist-led publishing. The project involves a range of publishing, archiving, print and distribution practices by artists, curators, designers and art workers; bringing these into relation and dialogue via the realisation of the bookshop and reading room at Violet.

The space aims to open up new connections through live processes of encounter and exchange around printed matter, where visitors can engage and think with the material in the space. There are opportunities to connect, correspond and collaborate during the public programme and over the four-week duration of the project.

06/06/2024

A view of our reading room at violet, Antwerp. Artist and researcher Bo Wielders has made a selection from our temporary bookshop, A Reading List, which you can visit during opening hours Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment. Her own reading list, taken from our shelves, which she has titled Non-cities inside cities, is presented alongside a trio of Wielders' bookbags.

On 20 June, Henry Anderson will make a new selection for the reading table. .space.gallery

07/07/2022

Our presentation of publications by artist Bernard Villers (°1939, Brussels) brings together 40 works from a practice spanning six decades and over 150 pieces produced as books, pamphlets, leporellos, magazines, brochures, leaflets...

We also have a selection of recent and rare catalogues on Villers' oeuvre and a street facing work on paper, plus - when the sun shines - a short film playing in the garden about Bernards working process and ideas in regards to publishing within his wider painting practice

Adres

Sint-Vincentiusstraat 24
Antwerp
2018

Openingstijden

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Donderdag	13:00 - 18:00
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