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02/10/2025

WIELS Art Book Fair 2025

4 & 5 October 2025
11.00 - 18.00

This weekend, we will join WIELS Art Book Fair in Brussels. More than 50 independent art publishers will take over WIELS to present their books, zines, artist books, catalogues, and limited editions. For everyone who loves books, collecting, and discovering a wide variety of printed works and engage with both emerging and established independent publishers through a programme of talks, book launches, and book signings.

See you there!

WIELS  Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, Brussels Free Entry

30/09/2025

Unformed Informed (Conversation)

5 October 2025
13.00 - 14.00
WIELS, Auditorium (-1)

As part of WIELS Art Book Fair, we present Publishing Dialogues, a public conversation about including the reader in the publishing process with Jeannette Slütter, Ruben Verkuylen, Francesca Hawker, and Rianne Zijderveld.

This programme brings together the makers of the series Pointing At Things Is The New Writing: a project in which publishing is approached as a performative and conceptual act. This decision initiates a lifecycle comprising five interrelated events—publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception, and survival. By interrogating and reshaping the terms of these events, the publisher approaches publishing as a critical framework for rethinking how artistic research circulates, unfolds, and endures over time.

In this conversation, Jeannette Slütter, Ruben Verkuylen, Francesca Hawker, and Rianne Zijderveld, will reflect on their experiment of opening up the publication process to readers, conversationalists, and other participants. Together they will analyse the methods they have tested, the lessons learned, and the possibilities for more collective and dialogical forms of publishing.

WIELS  Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, Brussels Free Entry

05/07/2025

The Books Are Bridges Art Book Fest 
Sunday 13 July 2025  12.00-17.00

We will be part of PrintRoom’s friendly Art Book Fest taking place at the clubhouse of Rotterdam’s community garden (SNV). For this occasion, PrintRoom has gathered over 30 local and international publishers and artists. The day programme will be filled with outdoor book presentations, workshops for all ages, lively talks, food, and music.

At the clubhouse of Volkstuinvereniging Streven Naar Verbetering (SNV) Roel Langerakweg 33, Rotterdam Free Entry
 → Enter through the community garden gate and stay left until you reach the clubhouse.

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25/05/2025

Two Rooms, Annabelle Binnerts

Annabelle Binnerts is showing a new iteration of “Two Rooms” as part of the exhibition “Reading Characters” at Billytown (The Hague, NL). “Two Rooms” is a series of murals that play with the two-fold nature of words and sentences. They invite their reader to recognise that a written word is a mediating object: bridging the gap between the painted letters on the wall, and the image they evoke.

In 2023 we published an earlier iteration of the series. The publication is approached as a building in which words serve as pointers to elsewhere. Annabelle Binnerts places her site-specific spatial approach to language ‘back’ onto the page.

About the exhibition at Billytown:
“Reading Characters” is a project that examines language and reading, specifically focusing on typography. Each participating artist departed from the central theme of typography: the form or the origin of language and letters and how people communicate with each other. From there, they all moved in different directions: from dancing interpunction to a magician’s hand, a mother tongue, a heart-shaped guardrail, and a book that has never been read. Collectively, this exhibition aims to achieve a playful interplay between word, context, and material, an examination of what a word or character can be, and by doing so, widening our understanding of narration and communication.

Participating artists: Clara Amaral, Jelena Vanoverbeek, Annelies Kamen, Hilde Onis, Ode de Kort, Puck Kroon, Eva van Bemmelen and Annabelle Binnerts.

Co-organized by Eva van Bemmelen and Annabelle Binnert

On show until June 14, 2025

05/03/2025

Throwback to the book launch of Pointing At Things Is The New Writing by Jeannette Slütter at Page Not Found! 📚

We celebrated the release of the third and final chapter of this publication series, exploring the evolving concept of oeuvre through a dialogue between Jeannette and fellow artists. From Francesca Hawker to Anouk van Klaveren, Zoë Dankert, Cara Farnan, Zoë Tim Hollander, Dewi Bekker, and Alicja Melzacka, the conversations and monologues have shaped an ongoing reflection on what defines an artistic journey.
During the event, Jeannette took us on a performative guided tour, unraveling the creative process, design choices, and the publishing decisions that brought this series to life. It was a deep dive into the layers of the project, offering new insights into the idea of oeuvre and its ever-changing nature.

Thank you to everyone who joined and made this evening unforgettable.

📸: Book launch at Page Not Found, by Jeannette Slütter.

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing), design by Ruben Verkuylen. Made possible by Stroom Den Haag and Stichting Stokroos.

08/12/2024

During the launch of Pointing At Things Is The New Writing, Jeannette Slütter will lead a performative guided tour, offering an in-depth exploration of the project. The tour will take you through the creative process, design elements, publishing decisions, and the conversations and monologues that shaped the series—culminating in a meta-perspective on the concept of oeuvre.

Date: December 13, 2024
Time: Doors open at 18:00, the performative tour begins at 19:00 hr
Location: Page Not Found, Boekhorststraat 102-104, 2512CL The Hague (NL)

photo of Jeannette Slütter by Miles Fischler for MORPHO, Antwerp

23/08/2024

OUT NOW: Pointing At Things Is The New Writing 2/3, Jeannette Slütter
in conversation with: Francesca Hawker, Anouk van Klaveren, Zoë Dankert, Cara Farnan, Zoë Tim Hollander, and Dewi Bekker.
 We are proud to introduce the second chapter of the Pointing At Things Is The New Writing series. Pointing At Things Is The New Writing features the works of artist Jeannette Slütter and includes a transcription of a conversation with fellow artist Francesca Hawker. The series delves into the concept of oeuvre, inviting the reader to participate in a dialogue about what it means, how it’s defined, and how it evolves over time.

Readers of the first booklet were invited to join the conversation by adding comments to a living digital document in which the conversation between Jeannette and Francesca continued. In this second part Anouk van Klaveren, Zoë Dankert, Cara Farnan, Zoë Tim Hollander, and Dewi Bekker joined Francesca and Jeannette in their conversation with questions, remarks, references, and anecdotes. Creating an expanded dialogue about the meaning of an oeuvre in an artistic practice.

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2023, design by Ruben Verkuylen, printed by Tripiti (Rotterdam). 18 x 26 cm, 24 pp. 2/2 offset print on Arena Natural rough (100 gr), in a edition of 250, ISBN: 978-9-08299-328-8

Language: English

€ 12,5

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10/07/2024

OUT NOW: From the Root of Her Tongue, So-Yeon Kim

In “From the Root of Her Tongue,” So-Yeon Kim delves into the origins of language through signs, symbols, and iconography, transforming written script into a visual narrative. The book invites you to experience a visual language, featuring curated images from second-hand books and archives, mimicking written syntax and highlighting the power of images as language.

Accompanied by Mariana Lobão’s text, “Weaving the Mesh (Spider Thoughts),” which explores weaving, memory, and cognition inspired by Kim’s work and Paolo Veronese’s painting of Arachne. Lobão beautifully connects the myth of Arachne and Athena to cultural memory and the intricate patterns of human thought.

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2024
Design & Concept: So-Yeon Kim
Text: Mariana Lobão
Details: 32 pp, 10.5 x 29.7 cm, full-color digital print, edition of 100
Language: English, Price: €8,-

“From the Root of Her Tongue” is part of a series that explores language as an instrument and construct, aiming to create space for small-scale experiments and open-ended suggestions.

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13/06/2024

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of “From the Root of Her Tongue” by So-Yeon Kim, part of our Publishing Dialogues series. Pre-order your copy now! 📚✨

In “From the Root of Her Tongue,” So-Yeon Kim delves into the origins of language through signs, symbols, and iconography, transforming written script into a visual narrative. The book invites you to experience a visual language, featuring curated images from second-hand books and archives, mimicking written syntax and highlighting the power of images as language.

Accompanied by Mariana Lobão’s text, “Weaving the Mesh (Spider Thoughts),” which explores weaving, memory, and cognition inspired by Kim’s work and Paolo Veronese’s painting of Arachne. Lobão beautifully connects the myth of Arachne and Athena to cultural memory and the intricate patterns of human thought.

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2024
Design & Concept: So-Yeon Kim
Text: Mariana Lobão
Details: 32 pp, 10.5 x 29.7 cm, full-color digital print, edition of 100
Language: English, Price: €8,-

“From the Root of Her Tongue” is part of a series that explores language as an instrument and construct, aiming to create space for small-scale experiments and open-ended suggestions. 🌀

📅 Available from June 27, 2024
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14/05/2024

everything is a file,
Alexander Roidl

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2023, design by Alexander Roidl. Base layer offset printed by Tripiti, additional layer on demand by XEROX copy. 32 pp, 10,5 x 29,7 cm, edition of 100*

Language: English

€ 11,- (incl. shipping)

everthing is a file is a playful/poetic exploration of the linguistic quality and restrictions of file names in our digital and analog lives.

This hybrid publishing project is based on files only. Upload a file on the project website with an interesting, weird or unusual filename to this collection to be able to order a printed publication. This will be printed on demand, and send to you.

everything is a file is part of the Publishing Dialogues series, by artists/authors who explore language as an instrument and construct. With the series we want to create a space for small scale experiments. Not to publish a definitive, immutable object, but to make a suggestion. One that is open to improvement, revision, call-and-response, iteration, or even a full negation.

*everything is a file is printed on demand with a maximum edition of 100.

13/05/2024

Arabic is still in my quotidian, yes it is, Siwar Krai(y)tem
اللغـــــة العربيـــــة لا تـــــزال,‎ســـــــوار قريـــــــــطم

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2023, design by Siwar Kraytem, printed by KIOSK Rotterdam. 16 pp. (Red RISO print), 10,5 x 29,7 cm, edition of 100.

Language: English / Arabic

€ 8,-

Since moving to the Netherlands, Siwars’ focus on language and multilingualism have been her driving force. In early 2021, she wrote two letters to her mother tongue, Arabic.

The diary-like series in this publication responds to those two letters, documenting Siwars’ evolving relationship with the language since moving to the Netherlands, mainly as a testament to herself and a way of keeping her promise to the language.

Arabic is still in my quotidian, yes it is. is part of the Publishing Dialogues series, by artists/authors who explore language as an instrument and construct. With the series we want to create a space for small scale experiments. Not to publish a definitive, immutable object, but to make a suggestion. One that is open to improvement, revision, call-and-response, iteration, or even a full negation.

02/05/2024

Pointing At Things Is The New Writing (1/3),
Jeannette Slütter

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2023, design by Ruben Verkuylen, printed by Tripiti (Rotterdam). 18 x 26 cm, 28 pp. 2/2 offset print on Arena Natural rough (100 gr), in a edition of 250, ISBN: 978-9-08299-326-4

Language: English

€ 12,5

Pointing At Things Is The New Writing features the works of artist Jeannette Slütter and includes a transcription of a conversation with fellow artist Francesca Hawker. The series delves into the concept of oeuvre, inviting the reader to participate in a dialogue about what it means, how it's defined, and how it evolves over time.

The first part is an invitation for you to join the conversation and explore the world of oeuvre with us, and we hope to meet each other again in the second and third booklet.

Pointing At Things Is The New Writing is made possible by the generous contribution of Stroom Den Haag and Stichting Stokroos.

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