Program 24.4–17.5

Exhibition, Kristján Guðmundsson
Friday 24.4 – Monday 18.5
Opening 24.4 5 pm
Malmö Konsthall Bookstore
Books by Kristján Guðmundsson from The Living Art Museum. The exhibition presents an overview of books by Kristján Guðmundsson (1941–2025), who made a significant mark on the history of Icelandic Art with works that investigated nature and limits of art and artistic mediums. Throughout his long career, he often made use of the form and function of book for his works.

Children’s workshop
Wednesday 9.5 11 am–4:30 pm
Malmö Konsthall
Children’s workshop in the art hall’s studio where participants get to create their own artist’s books. We explore different techniques and materials, from paint and paper to collage and drawing. The workshop is open to all children and requires no prior experience.

MABB2026 – Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial
Friday 15.5 12 am–6 pm
Saturday 16.5 11 am–5 pm
Artist’s Book Fair with 32 exhibitors at Victoriateatern.

MABB Party
Friday 15.5 8–12 pm
Vibliotek, Södra Vallgatan 3
By invitation only.
Bar, for everyone!
Performance at 8.30 pm
Recitation by Leif Holmstrand.

Performing the artist’s book
Saturday 16.5 6–7 pm
Galleri Ping-Pong,Stora Nygatan 4
Artist to be announced.
Canceled

MAIN SEMINAR
Educating in Artist’s Book
Sunday 17.5 10–11.30 am
The stage at Victoriateatern

Moderator:
Angie Butler, Centre for Print Research at UWE, Bristol, UK

Participants:
Imi Maufe, IDDIS Norwegian Printing Museum, Stavanger
Passing on the Art and Craft of Making Books in Norway.
Imi will talk about book arts and bookbinding education and learning in Norway – what is happening today and how we can keep alive traditional bookbinding methods in a contemporary practice.

Tommy Mäkinen, Grafikskolan i Stockholm, Sweden
Artists’ books at the Stockholm College of Printmaking Arts.
In this presentation, I will talk about the project year studies in artists’ books and how we encourage our students to explore what artists’ books and publishing as an art practice can be for them.

Arina Stoenescu, Södertörn University & pionier press, Sweden
Building books and publishing bridges. Reflections on 35 years of experimental publishing, where artist books, bilingual children’s books and typographic inquiry intersect. Focusing on the materiality of text and multilingualism, the talk examines how small-scale publishing can foster dialogue across cultural and linguistic boundaries.

Sara Bodman, CFPR at UWE, Bristol, UK (recorded)
Sarah is editor of the Artist’s Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books. Sarah’s own bookworks include Read With Me collaborating with a psychometric reader and the public (2022), everything is so very much connected in collaboration with artist Roelof Bakker (2025) and How We Read (for Stephen Emmerson) made with ABC and friends (2026).

Meet the book artists
Sunday 17.5 11.30–12.30 am
Presentations by some participants at MABB2026.
The stage at Victoriateatern
POST (JP).
Joe Keys (IS).
Bókumbók (IS).

Talks
Sunday 17.5 2–3 pm
The stage at Victoriateatern

TABF: Tokyo Art Book Fair brings together over 300 international publishers, artists, and book professionals over the course of a week in Tokyo. The director Yusuke Nakajima presents the organization, along with a selection of contemporary Japanese art books.

Thomas Millroth: The artist group Konkret, alongside its Dadaist lineage, and instead taking as its point of departure Dieter Roth, Bengt Adlers, Addi Köpcke, and Tanja Koljonen, Thomas shows how the page can fill walls – that is to say, how does one literally exhibit books?

The Living Art Museum: The Living Art Museum or Nýlistasafnið in Reykjavik, was founded in 1978 by a group of artists and is therefore one of the oldest museums and exhibition spaces in Europe under the supervision of artists. The director H.K. Rannversson gives a presentation of there activities. Recorded.

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.

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.