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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

10/09/2026

AVARIE is pleased to announce that, starting from tonight, Hence | Here... | Or by Peter Downsbrough will be on view at Good Books in Paris, as part of the exhibition dedicated to the artist's remarkable publications. A wonderful opportunity to discover his unique and influential approach to the book 🖤

For this presentation, Good Books brings together around 200 artist’s books, prints, and editions spanning more than fifty years of Downsbrough’s work, from 1968 to 2022. Alongside these publications, and reflecting the central role of photography and architecture in his practice, a selection of the artist’s films will be screened at the bookshop throughout the presentation.

In concertation with Kaatje Cusse.

Good Books is an independent bookshop and exhibition space in Paris, dedicated to artists’ books, editorial projects, editions, and ephemera. Its program brings together contemporary and post-1960 practices.

📍good books
21 quai malaquais
75006 paris

📆 september 11 – october 17, 2026
opening thursday, september 10, from 6 to 9 pm

📚 Hence Here Or by Peter Downsbrough, published in 2018, is a composite publication exploring the relations between space, time, image and language through different printing techniques, volumes and a leporello. Moving between absence and (dis)appearance, the book challenges fixed ways of seeing and questions the architectural and urban structures that shape our perception of space. Its fragmented elements invite readers to create new connections, turning the book into a space of movement, resistance and continuous imagining.

Nearly sold out in both its regular and special editions, only a few copies remain available through AVARIE website. Also available in very limited numbers is Kamera cahier n° 9, accompanying Peter Downsbrough's exhibition as part of Kamera series | Experimental Films and Printed Matter, co-curated with Labor Neunzehn (Berlin) in May 2024.

https://avariepublishing.cargo.site/peter-downsbrough-hence-here-or-option

📷 © 1/ peter downsbrough | 7 come 11 [film still], 1980-81, 16 mm, color, sound, 4'30'' | 2/ a page from Or

09/09/2026

Dear friends and book lovers,
happy to share the news that Giuliana Prucca – independent curator, researcher, writer, and founder of Avarie – will be taking part in the international photography symposium NIDA. Sutikti fotografiją / NIDA. Meeting Photography in Nida, Lithuania next week 🖤

📍Displacements: From Time-Image to Book-Space
📆 Workshop | Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 September, 2026 | afternoons
📚 A thinking lab on artists’ book design and publishing as an interdisciplinary practice. Three intensive days of open discussion on translating time and movement into visual space through the dynamic montage of mixed media, aimed at deconstructing narratives and challenging representation.

And also:
📍Independent Publishing as an Artistic and Curatorial Practice
📅 Lecture | Thursday 17 September, 2026 | 12 pm
📽 Drawing on AVARIE's experience — an insight into publishing as an autonomous, critical medium capable of generating new knowledge and forms, not just preserving or reproducing artworks.

NIDA. Meeting Photography is one of Lithuania's longest-running photography events since 1973. A key meeting point for photography and contemporary culture in the Baltic region, with lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and nighttime projections.

Full program > https://www.photography.lt/en/symposium/nida-2026_3216/program_3217.html

Thrilled to join — arriving slowly, by ferry, across the Baltic 🐳 Looking forward to meeting you all in Nida!

📷 © jean-luc godard et anne-marie miéville | ici et ailleurs [film still], 1976

21/07/2026

Looking back at an intense Opening Week at , where I had the pleasure of taking part in the Photo Folio Reviews as an expert.

My sincere thanks to the entire team and to all twenty participants for their trust. The passionate exchanges and thoughtful projects made the Arles summer feel even warmer.

A special thank you to for the privilege of contributing a text to his beautiful new book Les Échelles. To the best host ever and to my roommate , whose conversations and book selection at .books table always take us somewhere unexpected. And to all the friends crossed along the way.

Finally, heartfelt thanks to Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche: watching his moving Le Dernier Maquis at before diving into a weekend of images was the perfect way to sharpen my gaze 🖤

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1/ la nuit de l'année | papeteries étiennes
2/ antoine d'agata | nos rêves lointains | espace monoprix
3/ ghana! rêver l'indépendance | palais de l'archevêché
4/ r comme regarder | espace van gogh
5/ alain keler | les douches municipales
6/ florian maricourt | les échelles
7/ ctrl. | école nationale supérieure de la photographie
8/ giuliana prucca, devenir minéral | leporello's booth | arles books fair
9/ photo folio review | salle des fêtes, maison de la vie associative
10/ rabah ameur-zaïmeche, le dernier maquis | fidmarseille

12/06/2026

Dear friends, film and book lovers,

You are warmly invited to join Avarie and at NUSCA | Independent Publishing and Cinema Festival in Venice, Sunday, 14 June, 2026, from 12 to 9 pm.

📽📚
📅 saturday, 13 june, 3 pm – 12 am
sunday, 14 june, 12 pm – 12 am
📍Moving Lab
giudecca 936 | 30133 venezia

full program
admission with donation

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 latest issue dedicated to American-Syrian visual artist Christine Gedeon.

NUSCA – Nothing (Until Something Comes Along) – is conceived as an ecosystem of exchange — bringing together an independent publishing fair, film screenings, workshops and informal gatherings — that gives visibility to creatives working outside traditional circuits.

Keep supporting independent and experimental publishing&cinema. Thank you 🖤

📷 © kamera cahier n° 4 | .cuomo | avarie and labor neunzehn, paris-berlin, 2021

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

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