MISS READ

MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival
June 13 – 15, 2025
at Haus der Kulturen der Welt In 2019 Miss Read featured 300+ exhibitors.

Since 2009, Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair brings together a wide selection of the most interesting artists/authors, artist periodicals and art publishers and is accompanied by a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book. In conjunction, the Conceptual Poetics Day explores the imaginary bo

rder between visual art and literature. Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair is organized by Yaiza Camps, Moritz Grünke and Michalis Pichler supported by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

14/06/2026

BIPOC Support Grantees & featured exhibitors.

Today:

BAZAR Art Books is an Iran-based platform dedicated to the exhibition and distribution of art books. Founded in 2018 by artists Ronak Moshtaghi and Hedieh Ahmadi, the project approaches self-publishing and art book fairs as dynamic formats for building an independent and inclusive cultural community — one in which everyone contributes and helps sustain the collective experience.

BAZAR is an artist-run, independent platform that relies on the voluntary work of its community and collaborations with various host venues.

Its activities include organizing an annual three-day fair in Tehran, participating in international art book fairs, creating and maintaining a local archive of artistic publications, and offering related workshops throughout Iran.

In 2026 BAZAR Art Books published its first publication “Zamin o Zaman” bringing together fifty-three drawings by fifty-six Iranian artists.

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

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Images:
1-2. Earth and Time, BAZAR Art Books, 2026.
3-4. Photos provided by BAZAR Art Books.

03/06/2026

We are happy to announce that the Poster of Conceptual Poetics Day 2026 is created by yabeautdi10 .

yabeautdi10 is a Thai q***r zine maker who loves to combine writing and visual work. Using collage and printed paper textures, they tell stories through their work. They are part of a small zine collective based in Bangkok called ‘The Basement TH’ and run a small public library with friends in Chiang Mai under the collective name ‘Slash and Burn’. They are interested in various media as a way to explore and express themselves, and to bring people together through zines and posters for local events.

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CONCEPTUAL POETICS DAY 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Full program available soon at conceptualpoeticsday.org

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Miss Read Art Book Fair
June 26–28 2026green

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1. yabeautdi10, Plum Wine, 2026.

30/05/2026

✨Miss Read Art Book Fair and Festival will be hosted at silent green Kulturquartier .green on June 26-28, 2026✨⁠

What makes this year’s event so special is the beginning of a new partnership with such a vibrant and unique venue in the heart of Wedding, Berlin 🫰 just one block away from Miss Read Space. It will be a full week in Wedding, from the Pre-fair through the weekend Festival!

🌬️ We cannot wait to see what this edition will bring!⁠

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

The Conceptual Poetics Day is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, 2025, and, as every year, will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature.

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Images provided by silent green.

28/05/2026

Featured exhibitor at
Today:

Instantes Gráficos (IG) is an artistic collective founded by Carla Rey and Juan Carlos Romero, and currently directed by Carla Rey and Carla Gasparrini. Its mission is to expand the field of artist books through experimentation, research, and the exploration of new conceptual and formal possibilities.
IG supports both individual practices and collective projects, fostering a space where creation unfolds as both a personal and shared experience. It understands the art market as a platform for circulation, exchange, and the generation of new narratives.

Internally, IG focuses on deepening the language of the artist book through seminars, workshops, and mentorships. Externally, it develops exhibitions, participates in national and international fairs, and collaborates with institutions.
Rooted in the relationship between art and life, Instantes Gráficos builds a dynamic network of artists committed to continuous growth, dialogue, and expansion through contemporary artistic practice.

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

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Images:
1. Cuerpo presente. Silvia Kerner, from 2020 onwards.
2. Yo soy parte. Vero Bonta, 2024.
3. Paz. Mabel Salmoni Hadad, 2025.
4. Instrucciones para ser feliz. Adriana Cora, 2023.
5. PLIEGO #1. El instante. Edited by Instantes Gráficos, Editorial Coordinator Carla Gasparrini & Curator Carla Rey, 2025.
6. Ancestras. Mabel Salmoni Hadad, 2025.
7. Palabras, f.,pl.. Edited by Instantes Gráficos, 2023.

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26/05/2026

Featured exhibitor at
Today:

Lex Kartanė (they/them), is a Lithuanian disabled q***r artist and zine maker based in Berlin. Their work explores themes of disability, neurodiversity, q***rness, autism, gender diversity, and animals. They create zines and art that reflect their personal experiences and offer insights on inclusion. Through their art, they aim to foster greater understanding and acceptance.

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

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Images:
1. A dog who refused to disappear, 2026.
2. Did you really say that?, 2025.
3. feelings : activated, 2025.
4. I’m NOT your cosmic lesson, 2026.
5. Mushrooms Don’t Ask For A Sunlight, 2025.
6. Sorry I can’t be the person you like, 2025.
7. The God of the Forest, 2025.
8. Too Straight For Girls, Too Q***r For Boys, 2025.

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24/05/2026

Featured exhibitor at
Today: OEI Magazine

OEI is a Stockholm based magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages of art, poetry, theory, film, and documents; critical investigations, editorial enunciations, non-affirmative writing, infrastructural poetics, archaeologies, cultural ecologies, and material historiographies. OEI, started in 1999, has published 111 issues.

The accompanying publishing structure OEI editör has released some hundred titles of investigative poetry, aesthetic documents, bookworks, theoretical and poetological essays. As part of its publishing practice OEI has also organized numerous events: from readings, presentations, lectures and talks to seminars, film screenings and exhibitions.

OEI is an artistic and literary publishing project run by Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg.

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

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Images:
1-5. Lettrists & Photography (OEI #106–107), Frédéric Acquaviva (Ed.), 336 pages, 2024.
6-9. Andra våglängder, andra rymder för konsten. Om Lars Fredrikson [Other Wavelengths, Other Spaces for Art], Jonas (J) Magnusson,1072 pages, OEI editör 2025.
10-14. Megaliter & andra stenar (OEI #110–111), Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas (J) Magnusson, 600 pages, 2026.

Photographs by Cecilia Grönberg.

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23/05/2026

is now one month away! 🎉

Mark your calendars for Miss Read Art Book Fair:

Pre-Fair
June 23–25, 2026 at Miss Read Space
Gerichtstraße 45, Berlin

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
Friday 26, 5–9pm
Saturday 27, 12–7pm
Sunday 28, 12–7pm
at .green

Conceptual Poetics Day
Saturday, June 27, 2026

Free entry!
We can’t wait to see you there! 💙💚💛🖤❤️

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21/05/2026

Featured exhibitor at
Today:

Bored Wolves is an independent publisher run by poet Stefan Lorenzutti and Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti, based in Kraków and the Polish Highlands. They are dedicated to publishing artist’s books, poet’s books, zines, and comix, with many of their books blending and overlapping these categories. Working with authors, artists, and graphic designers across borders and languages, mediums and disciplines, they are committed to the individuality of each title and curious about the patterns and echoes that emerge between them.

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Miss Read Art Book Fair

Pre-fair
June 23–25, 2026
at Miss Read Space

Fair
June 26–28, 2026
at .green

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Images:
1. Nawar’s Sketchbook, Noura Alsouma, Bored Wolves, 2024; I Was Going to Work, Nourhan Maayouf, Bored Wolves, 2025.
2. Notes from a Polish Allotment, Alex Rossiter, Bored Wolves, 2023; Greenwriting, Katy Bentall, Bored Wolves, 2022.
3. Sleigh Ride, Joe Fletcher and Mikołaj Moskal, Bored Wolves, 2025; Exorcisms, Joanna Burdzel, Bored Wolves, 2025.
4. Running to the Sun, Antonina Gugała, Bored Wolves, 2025.
5. The Edge of the Vessel at the Height of My Mouth, Alicja Bielawska, Bored Wolves, 2025.

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20/05/2026

CHIMURENGA LIBRARY – WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE

In 2004 our bredrin Femi, known to the world as Keziah Jones of the Black Anarchist Corp, of fugitive liquid ruggedness, of blu funk factualities, that one; Femi sent us a soundfile. It was an interview he'd made with Fela Kuti in 1996 - turned out, as the Abami Eda departed only a few months later, this is the last recorded interview we have of him. We promptly transcribed and Femi added the words below – for publishing in Chimurenga 5, themed "We're All Nigerian!":

"I had planned to visit the Shrine the night I arrived in Lagos, but never made it. My sister, Dupe, who knew some of the Egypt 80, then took me to the Republic. But each time we got there, every day for a week, we were told Fela is sleeping. On the fifth day we decided to wait. We waited 6 hours.

I’d prepared 15 questions, but quickly realised I was never going to be in control of the conversation. I was there to listen. By that time he had stopped giving conventional interviews, and was not talking with journalists. He was also reluctant to engage in overtly political discussions, more interested in spiritual matters.

He frequently made references to the funderlying undermentals of language, as a tool used to play tricks on the mind or as a catalyst for revelation about the spiritual world – so read this as the words of someone who assumes that you know what he means. I sensed someone who truly loved himself and all peoples, but who has been persecuted for speaking truth, by the very same people it was designed to uplift. In the middle of our conversation there was
an electricity failure and the second half of our talk took place in the dark. In Yoruba cosmology, some things happen outside the logic of time and space. This felt like one of those moments.

When I left he came out to greet me from his balcony – an unusually polite gesture from the Chief. It’s under that very balcony that over a million people gathered, a few months later, to wish a safe passage to the Black President."

We return to this conversation again and again and allways. Lets listen together this time, live on PASS from 7pm on Wed 20.

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