On Artists’ Books [soirée]

Artists (CZ), (NO), and (AT) will share their diverse approaches to book-making, discussing how publishing functions as an extension of their artistic practice. Their presentations will be followed by a conversation with Craig Mathis, Director of Distribution and Bookstore Operations at , offering insight into the role of artists’ books in contemporary art and publishing.

, born in Prague (CZ), lives and works in Germany. Her poetic writing runs parallel to a visual practice that explores how personal narratives can be conveyed through archetypal and abstract forms—offering viewers a space to navigate between the intimate and the universal. In late 2024, she published her debut poetry collection Ungetting as part of the INI Residency in Prague. In 2025, she co-authored Hold Everything Dear: Simone Fattal and Hajra Waheed's Work in Conversation, a collaborative work of fiction developed during the Portikus Winter School. She is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP in New York.

jis a Norwegian artist working primarily across painting and sound. As co-initiator of the emancipatory platform InterStar Intl. Frequency Bands, he generates multi-spectral creative activity—most recently through multimedia self-publishing and the art-situation Café Dasein (No Institute, Vienna, 2024). Since 2019, InterStar Verlag has produced a range of DIY zines and publications in cities including Oslo, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York, and Paris. Living and working nomadically, he is currently based between Paris (FR), Graz (AT), and Lunigiana (IT). In 2023, he co-founded the artist-run initiative Cabanon Paris with Anaïs Horn.

is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, text, installation, and moving image. Her practice often culminates in the form of artist’s books. Her work explores the tension between presence and absence, weaving personal narratives into broader reflections on memory, identity, and the resonance of objects and spaces. Illusion and mystery frequently inhabit her projects, situating them in a poetic space of ambiguity and in-betweenness. Born in Graz (AT), she lives and works between Paris (FR) and Lunigiana (IT), and is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP in New York. Monographs of her work have been published by DCV (Berlin), Meta/Books (Amsterdam), Edition Camera Austria (Graz), Edition Fotohof(Salzburg), and Drama Books(Paris). In 2022, she co-founded the publishing house Drama Books with Boah Kim, and in 2023, the artist-run space Cabanon Paris with Eilert Asmervik.

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