How to Book in Berlin
How to Book in Berlin
Ed. Jae Kyung Kim and Anna Schanowski
Book Launch at MISS READ ⎢ Sept 22 - 24, 2023
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Special talk
How to Book in Berlin / New York
MISS READ STAGE
Sun. Sept 24, , 17 – 18 hr
w/ Hannah Yukiko Pierce (Small Editions), Ipek Burçak (Well Gedacht Publishing), Anna Schanowski (einBuch.haus & coy koi books)
moderated by Jae Kyung Kim (einBuch.haus & ENKR)
How to Book in Berlin einBuch.haus, 2023 serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.
With generous contributions by Vanessa Adler (Argobooks), Franziska Brandt & Moritz Grünke (Gloria Glitzer & We Make It), Ipek Burçak (Well Gedacht Publishing), Andreas Bülhoff (sync.ed), Jonas von Lenthe (Wirklichkeit Books), Anja Lutz (The Green Box), Johanna Maierski (Colorama), Thomas Monses (Melo Melo Print), Rada Nastai (bruise studio), Michalis Pichler (MISS READ), Nina Prader (Lady Liberty Press), Malte Spindler (Lucky Punch Press), Claudia de la Torre (backbonebooks), Martijn in ‘t Veld (Happy Potato Press)
How to Book in Berlin
Ed. Jae Kyung Kim and Anna Schanowski
einBuch.haus, 2023
Softcover
140 x 195 mm, 64 pages; English & German
Risograph: we make it, Berlin
Frist Edition of 250
Original title How to Book edited by Hanson Coleman and Hannah Yukiko Pierce and published by Small Editions
Talk Participants
Hannah Yukiko Pierce (she/her) is a publisher and the proprietor of Small Editions, a book production studio and publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. Small Editions collaborates with early- to mid-career artists to publish limited edition bookworks and artist books. Through each of their projects, they seek to explore the book's role in contemporary art by combining traditional bookbinding techniques with experimental materials and multi-media construction methods.
Jae Kyung Kim (she/her) is a founding director of einBuch.haus (Berlin) and co-founder of the artist book publisher ENKR (Naju/Berlin), she realizes artworks at the intersection of print media, conceptual publications, and installations.
Anna Schanowski (she/her) works at the intersection of art research, bookmaking and public relations. She is interested in the book as a curatorial space and its potential to create a broader accessibility and participation. In 2022, she founded the publishing house coy koi books (Berlin), focusing on observations of everyday life, identity politics and archiving
Ipek Burçak (b. Istanbul) is an artist, working across a variety of media, including video, installation, sculpture, new media, performance, and books. Burçak is the co-founder of the publishing collective Well Gedacht Publishing, where she co-produces artists’ publications in various forms in collaboration with diasporic artists. Well Gedacht Publishing has participated in art book fairs, such as Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair, Miss Read Berlin, I Never Read in Basel, The Shelf Festival for Artistic Publishing in Hannover among others.
