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. <em>Recorded</em>.
