Athens Art Book Fair 2024
International festival of artist publications
October 4 - 5 - 6 at Stoa Tristrato

The city's art book fair is back!

This year the Athens Art Book Fair comes out of the halls of culture and occupies the labyrinthine Stoa Tristrato in the center of Athens (University metro, entrances to Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6 and Dragatsaniou 6).

Bringing the festival to the public space for the first time, the 5th edition of the AABF invites visitors to discover over 150 artists and publishers from Greece and 35 other countries.

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the wide and polyphonic range of independent publishing practices: Fanzines, art publications, photo books, independent magazines, artistic monographs, poetry, research and critical discourse as well as other, uncategorizable publishing experiments.

The parallel Public Program with exhibitions and actions aimed at information and interactivity, presents with a fresh eye, the new wave of artists' publications as well as mediums that act complementary to them such as sound, performance, poetry, experimental music and radio arts.

Don't miss:
The exhibition “Out Of The Grid" presents a selection of 100 Italian zines spanning from 1978 to 2006 and touching on a wide range of social, political, aesthetic and technological changes in self-publishing, reflecting the evolution of Italian society, especially youth culture, during the "post-movement" and "pre-internet 3.0" era.

The annual Collective Display showcases 70+ art publications from around the world as well as a first look at the Athens Art Book Library's growing archive, while for the first time digital editions are presented, through the Digitally Native archive.

A big part of the practice of art book fairs is the creation of an international artistic network. This year the Athens Art Book Fair hosts SPRINT Art Book Fair (Italy), MIGRA Art Book Fair (Argentina), Sit and Read Art Book Fair (Romania) and Pagemasters (England). These independent fairs, much like AABF, aim to strengthen and make their local artistic scene visible and create space for practices that cannot easily enter the public sphere.

Of particular interest are the presentations of publications from Asian countries such as JOJO (India), NOS BOOKS (Taiwan) and Jiazazhi (China).

In case you are not in Athens, you can tune in to the online radio Fade Radio, which for the third year hosts a program of shows about independent publishing practices (you can listen to the shows of the past years here and here).

For the full list of exhibitors as well as program of talks, performances and workshops at www.athensartbookfair.gr

Address: Stoa Tristrato (entrances Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6 and Dragatsaniou 6).

Metro: Panepistimio

Opening hours: Friday: 17:00 - 21:00 and Saturday: 13:00 - 21:00
Public Program: Saturday: 14:00 - 20:00

Free Entry

Don't forget to purchase a ticket at the entrance to support the event and enter the raffle to win unique art prints.

Partly-wheelchair accessible (ground floor entrance but no accessible toilet)

Visual Language: Bend