Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE means "good day, good afternoon, good night" in Portuguese. The name conveys the idea that books can become an integral part of our everyday life—regardless of the time of day. BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE was founded by Manuel Raeder and Manuel Goller in Berlin in 2011 and has been run by Manuel Raeder since 2013.
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE is a small independent publishing house, a community of artists, graphic designers, authors, curators, cultural workers, craftsmen and craftswomen. The publishing house specializes in artist books that are conceptualized as a part of an artwork or as the artwork itself, attempting to play with the format of the book and to reflect its medium. All of the books are produced in close collaborations with the artists themselves. Biannually, an editorial board meeting consisting of internal members of the publishing house and external advisers review all submitted books and project applications. The realisation of future endeavours is decided collectively.
Working in the long-standing tradition of alternative publishing practises, BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE focuses on collaborations with younger, not yet established artists or artists from outside of North America and Western Europe, i. e. from outside of an eurocentric discourse. monographs and artist's books. -->
 
Berlin
 
164 titles
 
Manuel Raeder - Stickcal 2025
2024
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Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.
Between a Romanticised Past and a Not Yet Redeemed Future - Urbane Künste Ruhr 2018-2023
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
The nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr Magazine from 2019 to 2023 create an experimental publication in bound form that documents the institution's projects over the entire period.
Lenke Rothman - Life as Cloth / Liv som tyg
2024
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.
Katharina Schilling - Sand is Water You Can walk On
2024
English edition
The artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings of the same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series of works, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject.
Silvia Bächli - Partitura
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
A "score" of drawings that highlights both the continuity and the progressive changes in the Swiss artist's work.
Talisa Lallai - Post Tropical
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Talisa Lallai's artist book Post Tropical follows the concept of a travel magazine: it offers unique photo spreads of tropical objects, interspersed with critical essays and reprints of travel advertisements, to point to the presence of colonialism in the contemporary Global North.
Hasta que los Cantos Broten / Until the Songs Spring
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
A collective approach, from a decolonial perspective, reflecting on worldviews, technologies, territories, and the reconfiguration of gender subjectivities.
Robel Temesgen - Faces of Stories
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
A comprehensive insight into the images of landscape by the Ethiopian-born artist Robel Temesgen.
Álvaro Urbano - Acto I: La Eterna Adolescencia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.
Hella Gerlach - Gelenkstellen – Loose Joints
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Gelenkstellen – Loose Joints opens a space for mental and physical movement by translating the motif of loose joints, which is central to Hella Gerlach's sculptural practice, into the format of a book.
Cosima zu Knyphausen - Cento
2024
English edition
A selection of paintings by Cosima zu Knyphausen over a period of five years, accompanied by an essay by Rahel Schrohe, and a poem of the artist.
Pablo Schlumberger - 1
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
A hybrid publication, between an artist book, a monograph and a field report on a lost work.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Sticky Selfies
2023
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An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas 2011-2021
2023
English edition
Looking back at a decade of activity of the project space Kinderhook & Caracas, this compendium showcases the work of the 83 Berlin-based artists whose practices have crossed paths through the small room on Kreuzbergstraße and several off-site projects around the city.
Ēriks Apaļais - Ģimene / Family
2023
bilingual edition (English / Latvian)
Elaborated from an eponymous exhibition held at the Latvian National Museum of Art in 2020, Family examines the visual, autobiographical, and theoretical strands that inform Ēriks Apaļais' practice, featuring texts on his work by the curator Katerina Gregos and Latvian art critic Santa Hirša. 
June Crespo - Vieron su casa hacerse campo
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
An indepth survey to June Crespo's artistic practice.
 Anni\'s - Repetition, repetition,
2023
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A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2024
2023
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Bom Dia's new Agenda offers a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month. It provides you with a fun way for new beginnings and to take notes and make sketches. This years Agenda can function on a daily basis as a notebook, or be used for hanging as a wall calendar.
Ana Alenso - What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes / Lo que la mina te da, la mina te quita
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela's Amazon regions.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané - A Leaf Shapes the Eye
2023
French edition
A journey through the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané over 25 years (artist's book).
Ixiptla - Amarantus
2023
English edition
This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.
Pablo Pijnappel - Cinemas (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel.
Robin Watkins - Eusociality in the EU
2023
English edition
A collaboration between Otto (10) and Robin (42).
Christoph Keller - Dopostoria
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.
Kaspar Müller -
2023
English edition
Retrospective monograph.
Reto Pulfer - Gina - A Zustand novel
2023
English edition
In Reto Pulfer's novel, the artist draws a rich picture of a community of hybrid living beings. Characters and scenes from the novel also appear in the works and exhibitions of the artist. A multi-layered cosmos of links emerges and takes the reader into a parallel universe full of references to our current relationship with nature.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - Kein Witz, No Joke
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kein Witz, No Joke combines paintings and objects by Sophie Reinhold with the "Typewritings" of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. As different as the artists may be, their works share a manic perseverance, precision, and subversive humor.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2023
2022
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The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.
Alix Eynaudi - Noa & Snow
2022
English edition
An artist's edition based on the eponymous project of dancer and choreographer Alix Eynaudi, a choreographic social experiment between the everyday and the event, which makes performance, writing and audience participation coexist.
Melati Suryodarmo - I am a Ghost in My Own House
2022
English edition
First monograph on the durational performance artist Melati Suryodarmo, one of the pioneers of performance art in Indonesia.
Object Notes - Just a Little Rest
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
The manufacture of contemporary art objects.
Building Moments, Perspectives, and Encounters - A Ceremonial of Attention
2022
English edition
The audience's human body and the museum institution.
Lee Bul - Beginning
2022
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
This monograph surveys the first decade of the legendary Korean artist's career from 1987 to 1998.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Fake Calligraphy
2021
English edition
A documentation of the participatory project inspired by calligraphic batik initiated by the artists Ada Van Hoorebeke, Maartje Fliervoet and the manoeuvre platform.
Claudia Hill - Social Fabric Earth Return
2021
English edition
A travel diary of a handwoven poncho with the keynote of interconnectedness.
Karl Katz Lydén - Poems and Parables on the Political Utility of Art
2021
English edition
The political potential of art.
Nicholas Mangan - Termite Economies
2021
English edition
This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.
Isabel Nuño de Buen - In fugue
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Artist book / first comprehensive monograph.
Adrian Williams - The Curve
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue / artist's book.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2022
2021
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The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2022.
Fórum do Futuro - Vita Nova
2021
English edition
A collective book that proposes to question human and non-human existence in the current social context, spanning different cosmogonic views.
Saâdane Afif - Morceaux choisis - A Monograph
2021
English edition
Morceaux choisis is the first seminal overview of Saâdane Afif's artistic practices. The publication features 48 exhibitions or performances organized in 28 separate sections, covering a period of 14 years.
Ayami Awazuhara - Window / Spacetime
2021
English edition
Window / Spacetime is a portrait of the city of Berlin. A variety of shops that have names of countries and cities refer to different faraway places and invite the reader on an imaginary journey. Dis- and misplacing distant memories of the past triggers a yearning sense of other destinations within the everyday scenarios.
 Shimabuku - The 165-metre Mermaid and Other Stories
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Conceived in close collaboration with Shimabuku, this new publication tells of the poetic actions conducted during his travels, between his native Japan and Monaco via Brazil, Australia, and many other lands (with texts by the artist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Le Restif and Rirkrit Tiravanija).
Olaf Holzapfel - Textile
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.
Alessandra Troncone - The Andean Information Age
2021
English edition
An artistic project around the secret code of the Incas developed with a system of knotted cords.
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