Intimacy and Resistance
An intergenerational dialogue on photobooks from South Africa with additions from Sub-Saharan Africa, including books and extracts from Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Drum, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Jansen van Staden, Eric Gyamfi.
The exhibition is curated by John Fleetwood.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Aarhus
Nadja: A Portrait of a City
This thematic exhibition offers a rereading of one of the most significant works of art of the twentieth century—the book Nadja by the French Surrealist André Breton. The exhibition focuses on Breton’s use of photography and on his artistic methods and strategies, as expressed in his representation of the city and the urban.
The exhibition is curated by Anne Elisabeth Toft.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 25. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 3.
Per Bak Jensen Books and Catalogs
This exhibition celebrates the photography of the Danish photographer Per Bak Jensen. Throughout his lifetime, as an existentially seeking thinker engaging with imagery, he has created a highly personal body of work. The exhibition collects his entire photographic oeuvre in book form.
The exhibition is curated by Anne Elisabeth Toft and Jesper Rasmussen in collaboration with Per Bak Jensen.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 25. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 3
Kassel Photobook Dummies
Each year, Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to present their as-of-yet unpublished photobooks to an international public and to eminent experts. The best dummies have been shortlisted by a jury and will be exhibited at international photo events in, among other places, Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Photobooks from Norway
This exhibition, which continues our geographical focus on Northern Countries, will show the diversity of Norwegian books and publications with an emphasis on photography.
From the sketch book to the unique artist book.
The handmade book. And the democratic multi publication.
Books that are self published and in small editions and some that are published in large scale internationally.
Norwegian photo books through times and today.
Presenting fact, science and fiction.
Featured books will include Mariken Kramer’s “The Eyes That Fix You in a Formulated Phrase” published by Multipress, 2018; Terje Abusdal’s “Radius 500 metres”, Journal, 2015; and Sara Skorgan Teigen’s “Fractal State of Being”, Journal, 2014
The exhibition is curated by Nina Worren
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Best of Photobook Belge
This exhibition will feature some of the highlights of Photobook Belge 1854-Now, a groundbreaking exhibition and publication covering a period of more than 150 years of book-making in Belgium. This show marks a before and after; as hardly any research had been conducted on the theme before, Photobook Belge was able to fill this gap by providing an overview of the evolution of the Belgian photobook from the mid-19th century to today.
The exhibition is curated by Tamara Berghmans
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Books and Boxes on and of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp often described his Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Suitcase) as a kind of portable museum that would allow him to carry around his life’s work in a suitcase. The first of many versions was hand-made by the artist, together with a team of helpers and craftsmen, as a Deluxe Edition of 20. Six other editions followed over the years, with more and more facsimiles in it, as “his life’s work” slowly but constantly grew. His most significant works are cleverly arranged inside each box like a traveling salesman’s wares, and come with a sort of certificate of authenticity issued by a notary.
In 2015, the artist Mathieu Mercier recreated Marcel Duchamp’s famous Boîte for Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, which is called the G series. It contains 81 objects and is smaller than the “originals” to avoid any confusion, in an edition to 3,000 copies. The promotional text reads: “The edition is based on an idea by Mathieu Mercier. The design and construction will be approved by the estate of Marcel Duchamp once its quality has been examined, with the desire of making ‘The Museum in the Box’ accessible to everyone. The facsimile of the ‘portable oeuvre catalogue’ complies with the artist’s working methods”.
This exhibition showcases some of the most prominent books published on and around the subject of the Boîte-en-valises, including two of Mercier’s facsimiles.
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 3
Open Book Market
Sunday, Oct. 4, from 11 – 16h
This event showcases Danish and international publishers, as well as self-publishers who present a selection of titles from their shelves.
Publishing Houses: Alauda Publications · AnzenbergerGallery Bookshop · Black Book Publications · Bladr · Blankt Papir Press · Books & Music · bt:st Verlag · Bücher & Hefte Verlag · Cornerkiosk Press · Dalpine · Ediciones Anómalas · Editions Bessard · European Photography · FiL Books · Fragment · Galleri Image · Hatje Cantz · Inframundo / Hydra · Journal · Kehrer Verlag · Kerber Verlag · KesselsKramer · Kettler Verlag · La Fábrica · Libraryman · META/BOOKS · NW Gallery · Phree · Reflektor Platform · Revolver Publishing · RM · Roulette Russe · Schilt Publishing · Skreid Publishing · Space Poetry · The Eriskay Connection · The Library Project · Thomas Wiegand · Van Zoetendaal · Verlag Walther Koenig · Witty Kiwi · Wunderbuch
Selected self-published photobooks by: Anna Karaulova · Annemie Martin · Dina Oganova·Enver Hirsch & Philipp Meuser · Jansen van Staden · Ludwig Nikulski · Marianne Holm Hansen · Maria Hernández · Maria Primo · Marco Leitermann · Markéta Kinterková · Matteo de Mayda · Pavel Dorogoy · Stephen Gill · Teodelina Detry · Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert · Vivek Manek · Zoopark Publishing Collective
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, DK-8000 Aarhus C.
