The 6th edition of the city’s artist publishing festival takes over the three-entry arcade Stoa Tristrato in the center of Athens (Panepistimio metro station, entrances Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6 and Dragatsaniou 6) and invites the public to discover over 150 artists and publishers from Greece and 35 countries abroad. 

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the wide and polyphonic spectrum of independent publishing practices: Fanzines, visual publications, photo books, independent magazines, art monographs, poetry, research and critical discourse as well as other, uncategorizable publishing experiments. 

The parallel Public Program with exhibitions and activities aimed at broader information and targeted deepening, presents new publications from the Greek space, decentralized international publishing projects as well as media that act complementary to publishing practices such as sound, performance, poetry, experimental music and radio arts: 

The annual Collective Display exhibition acts as a complementary space for the main exhibition part of the festival and presents 100+ artistic publications by emerging artists from the Greek space and international publishing projects. At the same time, you present a curated piece from the budding archive of the Athens Art Book Library. 

Particular emphasis is placed on thematic presentations of publications of special interest such as Esmat Publishes (Egypt), WARAQ (Lebanon), Tehran Zine (Iran), Kona Books (Georgia), Studio Pangolin (Croatia), Oficyna Peryferie (Poland), PrivatePrint (North Macedonia), Ediciones Caradura (Mexico), Lafat Bordieu (Chile), Editorial Tubito (Argentina), etc. 

On Friday 3.10, the festival opens with concerts by exhibitors Lorena Marina and Maria No Pressure, while on Saturday 4.10, in the fourth collaboration between AABF and publishing project MPATARIA, a queer poetry slam is presented that celebrates poetry, hybridity and disobedience. 

If you are not in Athens, you can tune in to the online radio Fade Radio, which for the fourth year, hosts a program of shows around independent publishing practices as well as the recorded program of talks from previous years of the festival (listen here).

Exhibitors

1399 (Tehran) 51 Personae (Shanghai) Arurkokk (Ioannina) Asparagus plumosa (Athens) Avtonomi Akadimia (Athens) Big black mountain the darkness never ever comes (Athens) Black Lodge Press (London) Blind Mind Editions (Athens) Blob Shop Collective (Rotterdam) Bronze Age (London) Cairo Art Book Fair (Cairo) Convoy Royal (Avlida) Cube Art Editions (Athens) Danai Simou (Athens) Decadence Comics (Copenhagen) Deniz Beser / Heyt be! Fanzin (Istanbul, Vienna) Desired Landscapes (Athens) DOLCE (Athens) Ediciones Caradura (Tijuana) Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich) Editions jojo (New Delhi) Editorial Tubito (Buenos Aires) Edizione Multicolore (Leipzig) Ejemplar (Valencia) ΕΜΣΤ (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Everyedition (Zurich) FACzine (Barcelona) FLEE (Paris) Folded City (Athens) FRMK [ΦΡΜΚ] (Athens) futura (Athens) gibbi (Brescia) Humboldt Books (Milan) Hyper Hypo (Athens) INKPRESS (Athens) IPC / Independent Paper Consortium (Paris) Jumbo press (Barcelona) JZZP (Hong Kong) K-Gold Temporary Gallery (Lesvos) Kati Akraio (Athens) KATSARIDA PRESS (Athens) KBJ Publishing (Svendborg) KEDA*PRESS (Thessaloniki) Kona Books (Tbilisi) Kudla Werkstatt (Prague) kyklàda.press / Time Based Editions (Athens) Lafat Bordieu (Barcelona / Santiago de Chile) Lalava (Athens) Lesbianas Concentradas (Berlin) Lia Nalbantidou & L.LAB (Thessaloniki) Local Gr0up (Kiev) Lonely Cooks Collected (Athens) MAAT BOOKS (Athens) Margarita Athanasiou (Athens) Marusya Press (MA.P) (Oakland) Michalis Pichler (Berlin) MISC ATHENS (Athens) NERO (Rome) Never Brush My Teeth (Athens) Obedbooks (Paris) Oficyna Peryferie (Warsaw) Opuntia Visual (New York, Mexico City) Paprika Lab (Thessaloniki) Pararoja (Tirana) PERAMO (Athens) Pink House press (Syros) Press Press (Milan) PrivatePrint (Skopje) Profundo Ediciones (Buenos Aires) Risiko Press (Antwerp) Riso and Friends (Rijeka) Rosie’s Disobedient Press (Glasgow) SMUT Press (London) Spyros Rennt (Berlin) Studio Pangolin (Zagreb) sun/sun éditions (Montpellier) Sudest+Gird (Brussels) TEFRA90 (Athens) Tehran Zine (Tehran) These are a Few of our Favorite Things / Orestis Vlahos (Athens) Two Spiky Gorillaz (Thessaloniki) Untitled-1 (Athens) Vabiropula (Athens) Vexer Verlag (Berlin) VOID (Athens) Wendy’s Subway (New York) yusra magazine (Athens) ZINZINATTI (Szczecin) ZOETROPE ATHENS (Athens) ZONE (Rome), WARAQ (Beirut), Aνδρομάχη Kοκκινού (Athens), Η Κιουρι@ (Athens) ΗΓΗ (Athens) ΜΠΑΤΑΡΙΑ (Athens) Ουαπίτι (Athens) ΤΕΦΛΟΝ (Athens)

Info:

For the full program visit www.athensartbookfair.gr

Address: Tristrato Gallery (metro Panepistimiou, entrances Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6 and Dragatsaniou 6). 

Opening hours: Friday: 17:00 – 21:00 and Weekend: 13:00 – 21:00 

Talks & Presentations: Weekend 14:00 – 19:00 

Performance & Readings: Friday and Saturday 19:00-20:30 

Free Entry | Don’t forget to purchase a ticket at the entrance to support the event and enter the lottery to win unique art prints & publications

Semi-accessible to wheelchair users ( ground floor but no accessible toilets)