Super BOOKS 4. Kunstbuchmesse im Haus der Kunst

With this year's edition of Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst kicks off the Munich Book Autumn 2023. Since the kick-off in 2019, the very lively and active artist* book scene is given the space for a joint appearance for the fourth time.

On November 3 and 4, more than 50 artists*, designers* and alternative publishers* as well as three universities will show their current productions at Haus der Kunst. In addition to producers from Germany, exhibitors from Spain, Italy, France, Austria, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Korea will also be represented this year. The participants see themselves in the tradition of the 1960s, when new communication and distribution networks were formed in the environment of the post-avant-garde art scene. Their products, such as artists' books, magazines or zines, are autonomous works of art.

Super BOOKS focuses on publications that question and rethink the boundaries of the book medium and whose themes, formats and techniques are constantly expanding. With their ethic of accessibility expressed in pricing and the directness of distribution channels, they counterbalance the established rules of the art market.

In addition to the presentations, workshops for all ages will be held throughout both days with the teams from kultur und spielraum e.V. / pirat:innenpresse, Kunsthaus KAT18 and Haus der Kunst. Radio 80000, a non-commercial online radio from Munich, will set up its studio during the event and broadcast live from the Haus der Kunst with sound and talks.

On November 3, 5 p.m., Bernhart Schwenk, Head of the Contemporary ArtCollection at the Pinakothek der Moderne, and Sabine Brantl (Haus der Kunst) will lead an artist talk with Monika Huber about the archive Einsdreissig and the publication of the same name, which was published in 2023. For more than ten years, the artist Monika Huber has been photographing daily images from news reports that bear witness to protest, upheaval, war, violence and their consequences. She saves the images digitally, prints them out and reworks them using the means of painting and drawing. Over the years, an archive has been created that reveals a "grammar" of news images and invites us to a critical examination of crisis reporting in television news.

Super BOOKS is a cooperative project between Haus der Kunst, AAP Archiv Künstlerpublikationen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München and Kunsthochschule Kassel. Project management: Sabine Brantl.

More information is available at hausderkunst.de