Quotes about Books from Books about Books—Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition
Printed in a limited edition of 555 copies, Quotes about Books from Books about Books—Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition will be released on 4 September 2025 in conjunction with the exhibition at einBuch.haus in Berlin.
Quotes about Books from Books about Books is an artists’ book, an exhibition, and a library of books about books, including periodicals, journals, exhibition catalogues, zines, monographs, and artists’ books spanning 1974–2025. Edited and compiled by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, the project presents 148 quotes drawn from his archive of printed matter that reflects on the book as medium, material, and metaphor.
The selected quotes address themes such as the economic realities of production, freedom of the press, authorship, and the artist’s book as a political object. The project also considers the book as an exhibition space, an object that resists categorization, and a self-reflexive medium. Some quotes and illustrations further reflect on the materiality of books in more abstract or experimental terms. At its core, the project engages with long-standing debates around what a book is—or might be—questions that continue to shape contemporary publishing practices.
Subtitled Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition, the publication resists conventional ordering, unfolding according to its own internal logic. Through excerpting, recontextualizing, and cataloguing, it explores how books articulate their own conditions of production, distribution, and reception.
Quotes about Books from Books about Books—Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition
Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson
Multinational Enterprises, 2025
105 x 158 x 12 mm, 296 pp
Offset Print, sewn-bound, softcover
Edition of 555
Exhibition - Quotes about Books from Books about Books
Sep. 4 - Oct. 11, 2025
