Archive Books

Archive is a platform for cultural research and debate. It brings together activists and cultural practitioners in an adaptable and non-hierarchal structure with the aim to foster a unique space for discussion and exchange. Archive is engaged in a wide range of activities including publishing and exhibition making.
Archive Books produces readers, monographs and artists' books as well as journals focusing on contemporary cultural production.

Berlin / Milan

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148 titles

Politics of Memory – Documentary and Archive

2015

English edition

sold out

An anthology surveying the relationship between artistic practices and documents.

Firenze 1977

2015

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

sold out

Firenze 77 tells the story of a number of artists who passed through Florence, and Villa Romana, between the second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s. This publication is a collection of heterogeneous, autonomous material—a series of notes, comments, book summaries and various kinds of devices.

Elmgreen & Dragset
Biography

2014

English edition

sold out

A collection of texts in which a number of art historians and other professionals reflect on the artists' practice.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Prima che sia notte

2014

English edition

sold out

Built as a black-and-white film sequence, this first monograph dedicated to the artist includes preparatory sketches, unpublished pictures, critical essays and an interview retracing the artist's work, with a focus on a 2012 site-specific installation Before Night Falls at MAXXI.