MABB2026 catalogue - Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial 2026

Bókumbók, Reykjavík, Iceland, icelandicartcenter.is/is/syningarstadir/bokumbok

Bókumbók is an artist-run bookstore and exhibition space established in 2024 in downtown Reykjavík, Iceland. The bookstore focuses on artist’s books, art related books and publications from independent publishers. We seek to offer books from diverse artists and authors, local and international alike. The exhibition space lives within the store and can take many shapes, from performances and puppet shows to a giant plant sculpture center piece and a 30x 1 kg clay sculptures created by as many artists.
The name Bókumbók (se: bokombok, e: bookaboutbook) is borrowed from an artist’s book that the legendary Icelandic artist Magnús Pálsson made with his students in 1980. The book plays with the concept of the book, looks at it from many different angles, pulls it apart, tosses it around and puts it back together. Bókumbók, the space, is our experiment to do the same but in a conversation with our contemporary times.

Joe Keys, Reykjavík, Iceland, www.joekeys.com

I was born in Newcastle, UK and I have lived in Iceland since 2018. I tend to work with drawing, sculpture, poetry, and the relationship between those mediums. The drawings often contemplate a sculptural space, and the sculptures are installed in the manner of drawings. Since living in Iceland, I have found a great interest in printed matter, artist’s books and their history in the country. This has led to making many publications, both individually and in collaboration with other artists. Over the last few years I have produced envelopes, paper bags, handkerchiefs and much more. The line between sculpture, print and poetry is blurred with these multiples, I find them to be the perfect vehicle for a simple gesture.

POST Tokyo, Japan, post-books.info

POST is a bookstore that regularly features art books published overseas from the perspective of their publishers, allowing visitors to discover books while experiencing the unique worldviews of each publisher – a perspective often overlooked in typical bookstores. Since opening in Yoyogi Village in 2011, we have introduced more than 50 publishers from around the world. In addition to our store in Ebisu, we also operate a museum shop attached to an art gallery, the bookstore ”BIBLIOTHECA” inside Dover Street Market Ginza, the bookstore ”Post architecture books” that bridges the fields of architecture and art, and the curated space ”title:” within SELECT by BAYCREW’S at Toranomon Hills.

Rachel Marsh is a printer, photographer and artist, under the imprint Semple Press. She is also a PhD candidate and researcher at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Mori Press is a creative studio for risograph printing, small press and artists’ books in Malmö. The studio is run by Saskia Gullstrand (comic artist and illustrator) and Ebba Gustafsson Ågren (comic artist, musician and visual artist).
The studio was founded in 2024 and focuses on small press and artists’ books. The studio also holds risograph printing workshops and serves as a production site for other artists who make anthologies, zines, graphic editions, etc.
During 2026–2027, the studio is running a development project funded by Region Skåne. The project is an artistic laboratory that explores the artists’ book format in comic literature, using unusual and specially constructed book formats as storytelling elements. Through artistic experiments, workshops and international exchange trips, storytelling techniques, formats and methods are developed in collaboration with partners from, among others, Berlin. The aim is to artistically renew comic storytelling in Sweden and to create models that are artistically, craft-wise and economically sustainable.

Sarah Bodman is an artist and researcher based at the Centre for Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK, and Subject Lead for MA Fine Art Printmaking at UWE.

Visual artist Imi Maufe studied Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking At the University of the West of England, Bristol (2004) and is now based in Bergen and Stavanger, Norway. She is co-founder of Codex Polaris and the Nordic Letterpress Network: artist-run collectives promoting artist books and letterpress printing in the Nordic Countries. Imi works at the IDDIS Norwegian Printing Museum in Stavanger as the Museum Printer. The museum’s current exhibition Bibliofilia focuses on the art of Bookbinding.
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www.codexpolaris.com
www.iddis.no

Tommy Mäkinen, born in 1978, is a Swedish-Finnish artist, printmaker and educator. He teaches printmaking, urban art, artists’ books and publishing as an art practice at the Stockholm School of Printmaking Arts. Over the past fifteen years, he has supervised over one hundred students in their artists’ books projects and studies. Since the 1990s, he has been involved in social issues through his art, especially the eﬀects of climate change on nature in Northern Europe. Also, as an educator, in facilitating workshops and art education in the suburbs of Stockholm and running an art gallery that supports creativity in children and young people through making it visible in their local communities.

Arina Stoenescu was born in 1969 in Bucharest, Romania, and has lived in Stockholm since 1989. A graduate of Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, she is a lecturer in Media Technology at Södertörn University and teaches typography and publishing studies at Stockholm University. She also works as an independent designer and editor for the micro-publishing house pionier press, with a special interest in bilingual children’s books, typography and Romanian subjects. The materiality of text and books as accessible containers of experiences and ideas lies at the core of her practice as a publisher, graphic designer and translator.