Punch

Punch is a specialist bookshop with thematic focus on theory and contemporary practices in art, architecture, design and connected fields. The initiative based in Bucharest works also as a distribution platform for small publishers, artists, organizations and institutions from the SEE region (and beyond) which want to reach a wider audience. Now and then, Punch function as a platform for presentations, workshops and publishing. Punch launched its own publishing program in 2017.
 
Bucharest
www.p-u-n-c-h.ro
 
15 titles
 
Forty five degrees - Radical Rituals - 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E (France)
Forty five degrees
Radical Rituals – 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E (France)
2024
English edition
Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency carried by forty five degrees collective in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.
Zona Festival
Zona Festival
2024
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
This book traces the legacy of Zona, Eastern Europe performance art festival that took place in Timișoara, Romania, between 1993 and 2002, years which were marked by a transition from communism to a new society built on different principles.
Forty five degrees - Radical Ritual - An itinerant survey along the 45°N parallel
Forty five degrees
Radical Ritual – An itinerant survey along the 45°N parallel
2022
English edition
The engaged spatial protocols of the collaborative studio for research and design Forty five degrees.
Alina Popa - Unsorcery
Alina Popa, Florin Flueras
Unsorcery
2022
English edition
A collection of writings by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras written over a seven-year period (new expanded edition).
1971 - Parallel Nonsynchronism
1971 – Parallel Nonsynchronism
2022
English edition
Two contemporaneous bodies of artworks, which demonstrate the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary in the early 1970s.
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
2021
English edition
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.
Bezna
Bezna
2021
English edition
An anthology of the artists' zine.
Flaviu Cacoveanu - Idea list
Flaviu Cacoveanu
Idea list
2020
English edition
Artist's book.
Corner - Football + Society – Vol. 1
Corner – Football + Society – Vol. 1
2019
English edition
Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology, art, contemporary dance, architecture, economics, politics...). This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues, published between 2015-2017.
Adriana Gheorghe - False hours
Adriana Gheorghe
False hours
2019
English edition
Artist's book.
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan - Debrisphere - Landscape as Extension of the Military Imagination
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan
Debrisphere – Landscape as Extension of the Military Imagination
2019
English edition
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Katja Lee Eliad - Map Maker Like Lyrical
Katja Lee Eliad
Map Maker Like Lyrical
2019
English edition (texts in English and French)
Katja Lee Eliad's Map Maker Like Lyrical offers a retrospective view on the self-taught artist's work over the past two decades. The extensively illustrated book is accompanied by two essays by Valentina Iancu and Anca Verona Mihuleț and a conversation with the artist by Nicolas de Ribou, aiming to map the coordinates of a tortuous journey.
Vlad Nancă - Souvenir
Vlad Nancă
Souvenir
2018
English edition
The first monographic publication dedicated to one of the foremost artists of his generation and a key figure in the development of Bucharest's artistic community in the early 2000s.
Black Hyperbox
Black Hyperbox
2017
English edition
(last copies available!)
This publication covers the discursive outcome of the project “Black Hyperbox”—a frame for performance and text based on the alienation between practice and conceptualization.
Alina Popa - Square of Will in Square of Love - Texts, Notes, Drawings
Alina Popa
Square of Will in Square of Love – Texts, Notes, Drawings
2019
English edition
sold out
A collection of texts, notes and drawings from Alina Popa (1982-2019), edited as a tribute publication by her longtime accomplice, the artist Florin Flueras. A political and theoretical work that questioned both the intimate and social mechanisms of the contemporary.
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