Athens Art Book Fair is the first organisation in Greece dedicated to artist publications. An independent, artist-run initiative, the AABF aims to bring together and showcase artist publications produced in Greece as well as to create a link with publishing-based artistic practices (print, online and else) internationally.

Art book fairs today are not only a venue for representing a separate, prior publishing scene, they are also a central forum for constituting and nurturing a community around publishing as artistic practice. A global phenomenon, these communities take the form of agile, adaptable, and wide-ranging networks are culmination points of dispersed activities: periodically recurring meeting places in real time and real space, where people travel to gather together.

AABF aims to introduce Athens as a new meeting point for this international community, calling for publishers, zinesters, magazines, distributors and artists with an ongoing publishing practice to get together and showcase print as an artistic practice. A series of presentations, performances, and lectures will run paralel to the event aiming to contextualise the diverse works presented during the fair.

Exhibitors
A) GLIMPSE) OF) (Athens) • AGRA (Athens) • AM Publication (Athens) • Armarolla (Nicosia, Prague) • Astheneia (Athens) • Athens Zine Biblioteque (Athens) • BAZAR Art Book Fair (Tehran) • big black mountain the darkness never ever comes (Athens) • BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (Berlin) • BOOKS (London) • Cube Art Editions (Athens) • DOLCE (Athens) • ENTERPRISE PROJECTS (Athens) • Evagelia Biza (Athens) • Flaneur Magazine (Berlin) • Floodplain (Berlin, Athens) • Hurrican Press (Budapest) • Heyt be! Fanzin (Istanbul, Vienna) • Ilan Manuach (Athens) • Joulia Strauss/ Avtonomi Akadimia (Athens) • Kudla Werkstatt (Prague) • Lia Nalbantidou (Thessaloniki) • Margarita Athanasiou (Athens) • Maria Glyka (Athens) • Michalis Pichler (Berlin) • Never Brush My Teeth (Athens) • Natalie Yiaxi (Nicosia) • No Libros (Barcelona-São Paulo) • Nomadic Reading Room (London) • OMBLOS IMPRINT (Patras) • OTHER FORMS (Berlin) • Phile Magazine (New York) • Print and Friends (Reykjavík-Kópavogur) • Private Print (Skopje) • Queer Ink (Athens) • Radio Athènes (Athens) • Starship (Berlin) • SOYBOT (Vienna) • Sleep on it press (Athens) • Spyros Rennt (Berlin) • Tabloid Press (Berlin) • The postershop @Elgarafi • Time Takes Time (Athens) • Tinted Window (London) • Topovoros (Athens) • Tο μουνί μου μέσα (Athens) • 'uns (Berlin) • Yoshiyuki Okada (Tokyo) • YOUPRON (Paris) • VOID (Athens) • Zoetrope (Athens) •

Participants in the Collective Table:
A Room of One's Own • Apostolos Zerdevas • Boltzmann's Disease • Dotter • Florian Goldmann • FROLIC • GRACE • Katerina Psaradeli • Kerozine • Leontios Toumbouris • Michael Almiroudis • PapithedogTv • Patrinela • Rébus • Tourlas Ge • Yorgia Karidi • Zoe Giabouldaki • und. • untitled-1 • Γεώργιος Σουρμελής • Γιάννης Φράκτης • ΦΕΥ: Πριν την Ηχώ • κυκλοθυμία και το σφάλμα • φούιτ zine •

Athens Art Book Fair was co-founded by Margarita Athanasiou and Michalis Pichler in 2019 and will take place over three separate floors in Stoa Kairi, an iconic Athenian arcade located right next to Monastiraki metro station, in central Athens. Unfortunately the venue does not have a lift and is not accessible to wheelchair users

We are very grateful to our generous hosts Haus N Athen, Metapolis Photography Seminars και Jamie Peel for providing us with space.

More info at www.athensartbookfair.gr