Artist-Run Spaces / Independant Spaces

 
 
Skank Bloc Bologna - Alternative Art Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The history of nonprofit and alternative exhibition spaces in Bologna from 1977 up to the present.
10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas 2011-2021
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
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.
Martin Kippenberger - MOMAS Project
2021
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
The first study of all the archives and documents relating to the artist's museum created by Martin Kippenberger.
Glassbox
2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A retrospective of the work of one of the first artist-run spaces in Paris, offering an overall reflection on the emerging conditions of independent and collective spaces, and the way they have impacted the institutional and art scene.
Ecart - Genève 1969-1982
2019
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
John Armleder, Fluxus and the Ecart group.
CRU (Creative Radiant Unique)
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The penultimate issue of Frédéric Acquaviva's audio / video hybrid magazine is dedicated to the works of Frédéric Acquaviva, Isidore Isou, and Orlan. It includes a CD of Isou's last sound work from 2006 and a DVD featuring performances by Orlan, Acquaviva, Isou, Sharif-Sky Mathius, Jeremiah Runnels, Mats Lindström, Jean-Paul Curtay…
CRU (Complex Raw United)
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The third issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Lieutenant Caramel, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Joël Hubaut, Andy Ingamells, Eduardo Kac, Maurice Lemaître, Loré Lixenberg, and Christoph Ogiermann.
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
Pauline Chevalier - Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York - De SoHo au South Bronx (1969-1985)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artistic practices in New York's alternative art spaces (1969-1985).
M/2, Vevey - 1987-1991
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Hapax
This publication extensively documents the exhibitions and activities of M/2, a local but emblematic example of an artist-run space founded at the end of the 1980s in Vevey, Switzerland.
CRU (Curated Renegade Unidentified)
2016
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…
Le Générateur - 10 ans d\'art et de performances
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A richly documented publication (written contributions by artists and a thousand illustrations) celebrating a decade of art performance at French independent art-space Le Generateur.
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon - Savoir utopique, pédagogie radicale et artist-run community art space en Californie du sud
2016
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon - Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California
2015
English edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
currently out of stock
The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.
Ecart (1969-1980)
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
John Armleder & Fluxus.
We are Not a Museum
2013
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
(last copies available!)
Grimmuseum looks back on two years of intense production and manifold explorations within alternative curator/artist frameworks.
Kopioitu
2013
English edition (texts in English and Finnish)
Shelter Press - Books
A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels.
Avant-garde in the Bloc
2010
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An anthology.
Forde 1994-2009
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
30.00 17.00 €
Fifteen years of curatorial experiment on 550 pages.
Artist-Run Spaces, around and about - 2012-2015-2017
2019
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
sold out
A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.
CRU (Contemporary Radical Underground)
2015
texts in English and French
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
sold out
First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.
Artist-Run Spaces
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - ...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.
John Armleder - Ecart Films Archives - Vol.1 (DVD)
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
sold out
Super 8 films of the Ecart group, founded by John Armleder, Patrick Lucchini, and Claude Rychner.
Forde/A4 - Production 2002-2004
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
sold out
Original invitation cards of the independent contemporary art space based in the cultural alternative center Usine in Geneva.
Independant Spaces
1999
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
sold out
An anthology of texts on the problematic notion of "alterrnative", based on curatorial and artistic practices.
L\'irrésolution commune d\'un engagement équivoque - Ecart, Genève (1969-1982)
1997
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
First study on the Ecart collective.
Mapping Krasinski\'s Studio
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.
2024
English edition
Mathieu Copeland editions
forthcoming
A survey of Leeds School of Arts Fine Art Student Gallery activities, an experimental and open site caring for the art it stages.
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