Boooooks

Please join us Friday 31 January, 6-9pm for the opening of our inaugural programme at our new permanent location in Antwerp.

Situated in the street-facing entrance of a graphic design studio and living space, in 2025, BOOOOOKS presents a programme of consecutive presentations of independent publishing practices, running alongside a year-long cycle of cumulative displays of the practice of artist Aaron Harris.

For the first exhibition instalment running from January 31 through March 14, BOOOOOKS presents two parallel presentations by Aaron Harris (Antwerp) and Good Neighbour (Amsterdam).

Good Neighbour is a research platform based in Amsterdam since 2017, run by artist Martin La Roche, designer Dongyoung Lee, and researcher Valeria Marchesini. Good Neighbour defines itself primarily as a community of readers who share a communal interest in books seen as performative tools.

The name 'Good Neighbour' is inspired by Aby Warburg's Law of the Good Neighbour', a continuous system of thematic and serendipitous arrangements between books in a library

Good Neighbour doesn't seek to build a library; it makes time for appreciating existing ones

IMG: Dongyoung Lee – English (100 Indexes), 2018

Designer and Publisher Peter Foolen joined us yesterday and made a selection of books from our temporary bookshop for the reading table. Everyone is welcome to pass by and read, look, or take something home.

'A Reading List' is open 12-18h Thurs, Fri, Sat until June 29

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Cafe Alt Wien
Simon Cutts
1999

€10,00 available in store or DM

Published by Coracle Press

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

A text variation on the soup which gallerist Hubert Winter had every day for a month. Soft cover 15 x 11 cm, 44 non numbered pages.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

Public Fountains
Slow Reading Club

€8,00 available in store or DM

Published by Dortmunder Kunstverein

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen in late 2016. The group deals in constructed situations for collective reading. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

A view of our reading room at violet, Antwerp. Artist and researcher Bo Wielders has made a selection from our temporary bookshop, A Reading List, which you can visit during opening hours Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment. Her own reading list, taken from our shelves, which she has titled Non-cities inside cities, is presented alongside a trio of Wielders' bookbags.

On 20 June, Henry Anderson will make a new selection for the reading table. .space.gallery

Our presentation of publications by artist Bernard Villers (°1939, Brussels) brings together 40 works from a practice spanning six decades and over 150 pieces produced as books, pamphlets, leporellos, magazines, brochures, leaflets...

We also have a selection of recent and rare catalogues on Villers' oeuvre and a street facing work on paper, plus - when the sun shines - a short film playing in the garden about Bernards working process and ideas in regards to publishing within his wider painting practice