Index Art Book Fair Venice
Bergen Art Book Fair was one of 15 invited book fairs to An Art Book Fair of Art Book Fairs, organized by Index Art Book Fair in Mexico, and participated as the only representative from the Nordic region. Among the other participants were book fairs from, among others, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Indonesia, Estonia, Germany, Egypt, and Switzerland.
Our participation was made possible with arts and culture funding from Bergen Municipality.
The event took place in Venice and was scheduled to coincide with the Venice Biennale. The host, the gallery Ca’Buccari, was located near the main exhibition area, Giardini della Biennale.
BABF was represented by Ann-Kristin Stølan and Susanna Antonsson. The participation also gave us a great opportunity to reflect on our own working methods and the further development of BABF in conversations with all the other organizers!
Artists and publishers represented at our table included:
Entrée: Cato Løland and Lars Korff Lofthus
Pamflett: Aurora Solberg and Nayara Leite
Individual artists: Fredrik Rysjedal, Jessica Williams, Kurt Johannessen, Anngjerd Rustand
Topos Forlag: Bjørn-Henrik Lybeck and Åsne Eldøy
Heavy Books: Espen Gleditch and others
Texst Press: Samuel Brzeski, Robin Everett, and others
Coda Press: Scott Elliott, Hunter Longe, Rasmus Myrup
Northing: Chie Ito and Rei Ito
Foot Books: Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun, Tim Ng Tvedt, and others
Thank you so much to everyone at Index Art Book Fair: Diego, Chantal, Jorge, Chelsea, Erica and Ambar, for organizing and inviting us!
