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Artbooks Vuoti A Rendere International Edition (AVARIE), a Paris/Berlin based independent publisher

Artbooks Vuoti A Rendere International Edition is a Paris based independent publisher founded in 2012 specialising in art and photo books and exploring the relationship between texts and images. With thoughtful stylistic choices, accurate studies on contents and a particular attention to the quality of subjects and materials, Avarie's publications reflect a concept that sees the book as a

jamming incident in the system: a privileged moment of thought and a space of creation that results from a close collaboration with the artist and lies at the outskirts of commercial production. Vuoti A Rendere is an Italian expression to indicate containers, generally bottles, that need to be returned to the vendor according to a clause that not only asks for their return, but also requires a cash deposit from the buyer. Like the tramps who wander the streets of Berlin with no other belongings than those empty bottles they can return in exchange for a few coins for survival, Avarie takes an interest in the artistic process as a form of restitution and resistance by something that disappears or emerges and continues to emerge. The books that are created and proposed by Avarie are conceived like a last trace of an emptiness that continues revealing itself in the shape of a form.

from Avarie:
Position(s) - Antoine d'Agata
I do not want to disappear silently into the night - Katrien de Blauwer
From static oblivion - Ion Grigorescu
Hence / Here ... / Or / Option - Peter Downsbrough

27/05/2026

Dear friends, film and book lovers in Rome,

You are warmly invited to join Giuliana Prucca – writer, curator, and founder of .publishing – and Valentina Besegher – visual artist, curator, and co-founder of – at .books, today, 27 May, at 7 pm, for the presentation of KAMERA SERIES | experimental films and printed matter, with the participation of artist and filmmaker , alongside screenings of works by Ion Grigorescu and .gedeon
https://avariepublishing.cargo.site/kamera-series_leporello

KAMERA SERIES – curated by AVARIE and Labor Neunzehn in a former GDR building in Berlin – is a programme of moving-image exhibitions in dialogue with artists' books, opening a space for critical exchange on contemporary image-making.
https://kamera-series.com/

At Leporello, Giuliana and Valentina will discuss the origins of the project, the format of the exhibitions, their place within Berlin's art scene, and the KAMERA CAHIERS — limited-edition letterpress publications accompanying each event — while reflecting on the importance of supporting independent artistic practices as a political act, a form of cultural resistance, and an example of sustainability in a time marked by the growing crisis in public funding for culture.

The conversation will feature Andrea Dojmi, with a screening of his latest Super 8 film and a selection of works on paper, followed by excerpts from experimental films by Ion Grigorescu and Christine Gedeon.

Publications by AVARIE, KAMERA, and participating artists, will be on display and available for purchase.

Looking forward to meeting you all there 🖤

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08/05/2026

AVARIE and Labor Neunzehn are pleased to announce their first participation in the 9th edition of the Ghent Art Book Fair 2026, taking place on Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10, 2026 at Kunsthal Gent

We warmly invite you to join us in exploring our curatorial and publishing work, and we look forward to welcoming you at our table.

On this occasion, we will be showing a selection of AVARIE's past and recent publications, highlighting our releases related to cinema From static oblivion by Ion Grigorescu and Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement co-published with LIGHT CONE, together with the collection of kamera cahiers, co-edited with Labor Neunzehn for Kamera series | experimental films and printed matter, with a focus on the issue dedicated to visual artist Christine Gedeon.

Giuliana Prucca, founder and artistic director of Avarie, will also present her book Devenir minéral – a critical essay on mineral matter in art and literature. Artworks and archive material by Valentina Besegher from Labor Neunzehn will be on display, alongside a guest contribution of photographic work by Martina della Valle.

GHENT ART BOOK FAIR

kunsthal gent
langesteenstraat 14
9000 ghent | belgium

saturday, 9 may, 2026, 11 am – 6 pm
after-fair | 6 – 11 pm | footnote gallery
sunday, 10 may, 2026, 11 am – 6 pm

full program
https://kunsthal.gent/en/agenda/ghent-art-book-fair-5

30/04/2026

AVARIE is very happy to share the news of the first monographic exhibition in China by Flatform, opening today at Power Station of Art, Shanghai 🖤

From May 1 to June 28, 2026, 'FLATFORM: Concert for Films and Works' offers a comprehensive overview of nearly twenty years of the collective’s artistic practice. Alternating films, paintings, sculptures, sound works, and performances, the show enacts the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of Flatform’s artwork.

The starting point is video, which expands into physical counterparts—bridging the intangible nature of moving images with matter and space. The exhibition unfolds through more than ten groups of installations, where works mirror and transform one another, and where viewing is not merely a visual act, but becomes an exploration of temporal forms, material memory, and perceptual thresholds.

Organised by Power Station of Art 上海当代艺术博物馆 with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Shanghai and the Italian Council (13th Edition) Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea Ministero della Cultura (Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture), produced and coordinated by Ramdom, in collaboration with Intersección - Festival Internacional de Cine de A Coruña and .are.my.keys.art (Vienna).
Curated by and Francesco D’Arelli

📚 On the occasion of this special event, Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement, conceived and curated by Giuliana Prucca, designed by Vito Raimondi, and published by Avarie and LIGHT CONE, is available on our respective websites and through the distributor Les presses du réel
https://avariepublishing.cargo.site/flatform-snaturamenti

Flatform is a collective artist founded in Milan in 2006, currently based between Milan and Berlin. Their works have competed in major film festivals including Cannes, Rotterdam, Venice, Toronto, and have been shown worldwide in art venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Hirshhorn Museum (Washington), MAXXI Museum (Rome), Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Prada Foundation (Milan).

📷 Flatform, "A Place to Come - 7 Minutes of Video in 200 Kilograms of Crystal", 2011, screen-printed glass, stainless steel, iron, straps and profile projector

25/04/2026

16/04/2026

blank books. empty books. or books made of little. few words. few images. often, few pages.

There is a new and interesting exhibition at Wittockiana, Musée des arts du livre et de la reliure, in Brussels that resonates with our practice: A minima, nicely curated by Didier Decoux, gathers over a century of these books made of silence — from 1876 to now — featuring Bruno Munari, Giovanni Anselmo, George Maciunas, Herman de Vries, Irma Blank, Jiří Valoch, Jonathan Monk, John Cage, Marcel Broodthaers, Franco Vaccari, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Downsbrough, among many others.

There is a selection of publications by AVARIE available in the bookshop, in dialogue with the works on display, including Snaturamenti by Flatform (co-published with LIGHT CONE), From Static Oblivion by Ion Grigorescu, Devenir minéral by Giuliana Prucca, and Peter Downsbrough's Hence | Here — along with the last few copies of his Kamera Cahier n. 9 (co-published with ).

Thank you to director Sophie Briard for making space for our books 🖤

📆 On view until September 27. Wittockiana is one of Brussels' most singular spaces. Go.

📷 Images from books by Jiří Valoch, John McDowall, Sylvia Waltering, Nicolas Geiser, Peter Downsbrough, George Brecht

08/04/2026

In the wake of the exhibition 'Echo Delay Reverb: American Art, Francophone Thought', which closed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris last February, AVARIE is pleased to find Giuliana Prucca's essay 'Devenir minéral' at the bookshop 🖤
https://avariepublishing.cargo.site/prucca-devenir-mineral

The show explored how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of French-speaking thinkers whose work generated unexpected forms and tools for a critical vision of art and society. Archival materials throughout highlighted those who played a crucial role in disseminating these ideas in the United States, including Sylvère Lotringer — whom I had the chance to meet and whose 'Fous d'Artaud' I translated into Italian as 'Pazzi d'Artaud' for Medusa edizioni in 2006.

For the first time, it also brought Artaud into dialogue with the theories of the 'informe' — as developed by Georges Bataille, Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois — an encounter our essay offers an original reading of.

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1/ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Untitled (Paper), video 7min.11sec., 1975
2/ Giuliana Prucca, Devenir minéral available at Librairie du Palais de Tokyo - Walther KÖNIG & Cahiers d'art
3/ Poster for 'Antonin Artaud events', a series of lectures and performances organized by Sylvère Lotringer, New York, 1996
4/ Pope.L, White Baby, video 8min.46sec., 1992
5/ Cindy Sherman, Sans titre (n° 142), 1985
6/ Michel Foucault and Michael Stoneman in Death Valley, California, May 1975
7/ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Vidéoème, 1976

24/03/2026

📽 We're glad to share that filmmaker Helga Fanderl presents Figurations: Films (2011–2025) tonight, Tuesday 24 March, at in Paris — a programme of 21 short films projected in Super 8 and 16mm, as part of Scratch, the screening series organised by . A rare and intimate encounter with one of experimental cinema's most dedicated practitioners 🖤

📚AVARIE and had the pleasure of welcoming Helga as a guest of our Kamera series | Experimental Films and Printed Matter in 2024. The Kamera cahier n° 10 from that edition is now sold out, but a few copies can still be found in Paris at and , in Brussels at .books, and in Rome at .books.

📷 Helga Fanderl, 𝘒𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘶𝘮 𝘐𝘐𝘐

10/03/2026

Last year I had the privilege of helping a dear friend and brilliant researcher and anthropologist, Tiziana N. Beltrame from University of Padua, revise her chapter on museum classifications, spaces and practices—on how living things are ordered between science, art and heritage.

Her essay is now part of a newly published edited volume by
📖 Raccontare la biodiversità. Scienze umane e musei naturalistici [Telling the story of biodiversity. Humanities and natural history museums]
https://www.carocci.it/prodotto/raccontare-la-biodiversita

In these times of deep unease, when an unsettling sense of irreversibility seems to hang over everything, I find again unexpected comfort in turning toward other species—toward the archives of living beings, natural history collections, herbariums.

Highly recommended book 🖤 to try putting a bit of order to this chaos and discover how a tiny dried plant can say more about the state of this world and stand as a powerful critique of imperialism 🌿

17/02/2026

on naît, on meurt, on sort du néant et on y rentre | cette aventure nous attriste | c’est drôle | avant on est neutre | après on est neutre | sans personne | wols, aphorismes

Dear friends and book lovers,
if you couldn’t attend my talk at the Cipm | Centre international de poésie Marseille on June 14, 2025, the recording of the presentation of Devenir minéral is now available online on the Cipm website (in French only).
https://cipmarseille.fr/lire-ecouter-voir/5287

My warmest thanks to the entire Cipm team for their generous invitation, thoughtful exchange, and hospitality.

is a center dedicated to the creation and dissemination of contemporary poetry, both French and international, based in Marseille since 1990. The Cipm library houses around 50,000 items and is internationally recognized for its exceptional holdings: French poetry, essays, philosophy, art books, international journals, the Anne-Marie Albiach collection, American poetry, multilingual materials, and audiovisual resources.

Devenir minéral proposes a rereading of a significant moment in twentieth-century art history through the writing of Antonin Artaud and through inorganic matter—stone, sand, earth, dust. Adopting an experimental approach that unsettles traditional reading habits and inhabits the space of writing differently, the book weaves critical and poetic connections between texts and works by artists, writers, and thinkers including Jean Dubuffet, Jan Fabre, Yves Klein, Francis Ponge, Anselm Kiefer, Joë Bousquet, Wols, Alberto Giacometti, Gaston Bachelard, Gilles Deleuze, Aby Warburg, Claudio Parmiggiani, as well as the Gutai and Butoh movements.

📚Giuliana Prucca's essay is available to order via the AVARIE website https://avariepublishing.cargo.site/prucca-devenir-mineral
📷 wols, untitled, 1932-1939

10/02/2026

Togetherness 🖤
Happy to see From static oblivion by Ion Grigorescu & Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement reunited in AVARIE hometown, within the carefully curated selection of , Turin – surrounded by remarkable authors and artists, fellow publishers, and meaningful titles – “if it's for the people, it needs to be beautiful,” she said

Paint It Black is an independent bookshop and publishing house founded in Turin in 2022, moving across contemporary publishing and visual arts. By collaborating with artists, curators, and institutions, both local and international, each project becomes an opportunity to expand the imagination, experiment with formats, and foster dialogue between different practices and languages.

Via Buscalioni 4, 10153 - Torino, Italy
Opening hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm

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