Roma Publications

Art book publisher, founded in 1998 by Roger Willems, Mark Manders, and Marc Nagtzaam. Until now the publications have editions between 2 and 150,000.

Roma Publications is an independent art publisher, founded in 1998 by graphic designer Roger Willems and artists Mark Manders and Marc Nagtzaam. It is used as a platform to produce autonomous publications in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers. Related to the content, every issue has its own rule of appearance and distribution, varying from house to house papers to exclusive books. Please support your local bookstore!

19/09/2025

Book launch MORE by .serriffe
Saturday September 20, 6-8pm

‘More’ by Blommers & Schumm (Roma 497) is a compelling visual archive that brings together over 25 years of collaborative work by Dutch duo Blommers & Schumm. Known for their unique approach to fashion and portrait photography, Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm create meticulously constructed images that appear effortless, yet every element is captured in-camera. Balancing on the edge of the uncanny and the everyday, where a tension emerges between beauty and strangeness, their work often explores the boundaries between public image and private life, commercial styling and autonomous work. The book reveals the artistry behind the quiet disruptions of an intuitive and subversive practice.

The book has been designed by

Tonight is the opening of their exhibition where the book will be available as well.

The book will be in regular distribution from next week through

12/09/2025

Day two at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair!!

Find us at booth F4

Friday September 12
11AM – 7PM

Saturday September 13
11AM – 7PM

Signing by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa of Index 2025 at 11AM

And by of the MoMa Plant book at 3PM

Sunday September 14
12AM – 6PM

See you there!!

11/09/2025

Find us at the New York Art Book Fair

📸 .gremmen

05/09/2025

Artist talk: Karel Martens
Sunday 7 September
Important: the talk is in Dutch!

In this Artist Talk, Karel Martens and Thomas Castro, curator of graphic design at the Stedelijk Museum will “flip-through” 200 pages of Martens’ works and invite the audience to participate in a lively conversation of anecdotes, insights, and unique examples of works, systems and sketches from his personal archive. From stamps and books to monoprints, architectural signage and digital experiments, this is a unique opportunity to dive deep into the work of one of the most influential voices in graphic design.

Book your ticket on the Stedelijk website

03/09/2025

Some details from Batia Suter’s La Nonpareille (Roma 493) as well as images from the installation of La Nonpareille at the library of the TU Delft University of Technology

The book is available through the link in our bio

02/09/2025

Some spreads and pictures from the Interview Archive 1987-2025 / Karel Martens that features a selection of interviews that have been published about Karel Martens over the years.
Six copies of the book have been made especially for the exhibition at ENTER ENTER and will be in the space to read until 20 September.

A pdf of the reader is available through the link in our bio.

26/08/2025

Walking as Research Practice (Roma 476) is back in stock!

Available

21/08/2025

Paul Pfeiffer has questions for Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa - 11 September New York City

RSVP link in bio!

In a literal sense, to capture is what photographs and films are designed to do—a camera captures something fleeting by creating a fixed image of it on film, transforming it the way a gas might turn into a solid.

The artists Paul Pfeiffer and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, however, don’t want images to capture as much as they want them to remain fugitive, shadow-like, free from fixity. Having recognized a kinship in their aesthetic and political sensibilities, they have been in a years-long dialogue about how to animate the edges and contours of an image—the threshold that links an image to all that it doesn’t contain.

As a way to keep the conversation going, Paul has prepared some questions for Stanley about his work, his writing, his recent exhibition, his new film, and his new book. They screen the film, look at some images, and have a conversation.

9/11/25
Giorno Poetry Systems, 222 Bowery, New York, NY, 10012
Doors: 6:30pm
Event: 7:00pm

RSVP for the event through the link in our bio (Limited capacity).

Signing to follow after Q&A.

First image of Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s Index 2025 available

13/08/2025

Also on Koozarch (), Maria Persu’s Essay: Walking between the disciplinary and the tactical: An embodied view of Certeau’s everyday practice, originally published in Walking as Research Practice edited by Tania Cardoso and Alice Twemlow.

“Everyday spatial practices such as walking are ways of eluding urbanistic discipline from within its terrain.”

You can find the full article through the link in our bio.

Walking as Research Practice (Roma 476) is currently being reprinted and will be available again in September 2025.

12/08/2025

In a new conversation on Koozarch (), Bart Lodwijks (.lodewijks) talks with Shumi Bose ()about his book New Neighbours / Nieuwe buren: “Slowly, drawing becomes part of a neighbourhood, exposing stories that would have remained invisible without drawing.”

You can find the full article as well as links to Bart’s online library and the paper edition of the book through the link in our bio.

08/08/2025

Also on American Suburb X, a text by Brad Feuerhelm () about Matthew Harvey’s book: Future Estate.

Brad positions Matthews work in a photo-historical context next to Lewis Baltz and other members of the New Topographics movement, about the images themselves he writes “The color palette from his images suggests, in places, a sulfuric or battery acid taste, the coppery or arsenic-sputum-like flavor of a destructive and unwanted elixir fixed at the wet corner of the jowl, directly proportionate to the activities hinted at in the photographs themselves.”

Read the article on American Suburb X () through the link in our bio.

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