Here Boekie Woekie announces events it hosts or takes part in: 
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20.11.2023
Big changes ahead for Boekie Woekie: we move! 
After 32 years, we move the shop from Berenstraat 16 in Amsterdam to GELDERSEKADE 39. 
Berenstraat 16 closes at X-mas 2023.
The new shop at Geldersekade 39 opens early in March 2024.


And in the meantime? In January and February?
Boekie Woekie & Friends
an exhibition, or rather a manifestation on all the 400 some sqm of
Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112 here in Amsterdam!

As part of the big MOVE away from its old home Boekie Woekie will be banging the drum for a month and a half at Arti et Amicitiae before it will MOVE on and settle "for good" at Geldersekade 39.
To this show will contribute, in one or another way: Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Jan Voss (the ones who run Boekie Woekie) and Fredie Beckmans, Jaap Blonk, Hugo Bonamin, Simon Cutts + Erica Van Horn, Nell Donkers + Mariana Lanari, Eggert Einarsson, Adalheidur S. Eysteinsdóttir, Donald Gardner + Maria Barnas, David Gibbs, Michael Gibbs, Eva Gonggrijp, Malcolm Green, Kristján Gudmundsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir, Brynjar Helgason, Pieter Holstein, Els ter Horst, Dorothy Iannone, Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, Erik Kessels, King og Bong, Emily Kocken, Tóta Kolbeinsdóttir, Pétur Kristjánsson, Martijn Last, Babeth van Loo, Nico Lootsma, Pétur Magnússon, Raoul Marroquin, Philippe McIntyre, Ann Noël, Oey Tjeng Sit, Pascal Plantinga, Rob Renoult, Gerrit Jan de Rook, Oliver Ross + Simon Starke, Björn Roth, Dieter Roth, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Arnljótur Sigurdsson, Wim van Sijl, Kristján Thorlacius Finnsson, Arna Gudný Valsdóttir, Dick Verdult, Jeroen Werner, Guido van der Werve, Henk Wijnen, Emmett Williams -
and last, but certainly not least, everybody who has books in Boekie Woekie.

In Arti you can expect Boekie Woekie as a functioning shop with Henriëtte, Rúna or Jan at the till, with eye pleasers and brain teasers on the walls, floors and, who knows, on the ceilings, expect VR, video, concerts, performances, readings, discussions on Fridays and Sundays, there will be an ongoing print work shop, one of the spaces is reserved for several solo shows within the big show. Check, when the time comes, this page or the Arti website for details. Or/and follow Boekie Woekie or Arti et Amicitiae on Instagram.
The whole is put together by Eva Gonggrijp, with not too far away, Jan Voss.
ARTI is open daily except on Monday from 12 to 6, there is an entrance fee of EUR 3.- (except for students).

Made possible by the generous support of
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20.5.2023

There are two things - we have arranged a small exhibition of books and a few objects by London artist Tony Hayward. We call this show "London calling" because of a very low tech telephone which is part of it. However we are a bookstore and it is Tony's books we would like you to get acquainted with.
On Saturday, May 20th at 5pm finally the long delayed-by Covid launch of a book from 2021 will take place, a book we are especially happy about. Erika Streit and Beat Keusch from Basel have put it together from memories of their friend Dieter Roth. There is a foreword by Björn Roth. Dieter Roth, as those who know us since long remember, has played an important role in your favourite bookstore's history. Dieter Roth died 25 years ago and this launch is then also a late good bye.
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23.12.2022

Exhibition of collages by Henriëtte van Egten

From Tuesday 20 dec. onwards - opening on Friday 23 dec.

Dear All, Starting next Tuesday, Dec. 20th 2022, you'll find on Boekie Woekie's gallery wall a show of collages by Henriëtte van Egten.   Collages, worked over by pen and paint, there are some which are originals, others which are reproduced and presented as a set in a folder which Henriëtte turned into a work of its own. If you are among those who haven't found that one right present yet - maybe here waits your stroke of luck. On Friday the 23rd around 5pm we would be happy to see you in Boekie Woekie to raise a glass - in spite of everything - to start the festive season. The exhibition will be up throughout January.

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28.10.2022
The 2022 Small Publishers Fair will take place on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October.

- Over 69 publishers from across the UK and around the world take part, one of them is Boekie Woekie
- readings and talks (the one by Jan Voss of Boekie Woekie is at 3.30 in the Green Room)
- special exhibition on the stage at Conway Hall
- FREE entry to the Fair and all activities
- thousands of original works to buy
- stands run by the creators and publishers
- beautiful and historic venue in the heart of Bloomsbury

Come to CONWAY HALL, 25 Red Lion Square, LONDON, 9 & 10 NOVEMBER 2018, 11AM TO 7PM DAILY, nearest tube HOLBORN
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7.9.2022

Come Wednesday, Sept.7th at 5 pm to Boekie Woekie

to share the moment when 10 artists from 5 countries present their box full of concertina - or leporello - books.
Most of those 10 artists met 25 years ago in Lithuania where they had joined a workshop. Getting along well they organized further workshops themselves and thus met through the years in Iceland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, France and Spain. The last meeting was in 2014 in Italy. This year there was an opportunity to come together again in Amsterdam, a reunion in a way. For this occasion, they appointed to make each a concertina book in an edition of 20 copies. These books will now be presented as a boxed set at Boekie Woekie.
The artists are: Åse Højer, Bertine Knudsen (Denmark), Hlíf Ásgrimsdóttir, Kristín Geirsdóttir, Ólöf Oddgeirsdóttir (Iceland), Cormac Healy (Ireland), Giovanna Martinelli (Italy), Wiebe Bloemena, Nico Lootsma, Ellen Timmerman (the Netherlands).
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16.4.2022

'New and Selected Poems (1966-2020)' by Donald Gardner

Book Launch April 16, 5pm
 

Dear friends of Donald Gardner and of Boekie Woekie

You are invited to the Amsterdam launch of Donald Gardner's 'New and Selected Poems (1966-2020) ' on Saturday, 16 April at 5 pm.
Published by Grey Suit editions, the book is a panorama of his poetry, from the mid-60s to the present day. A recent  reviewer speaks of Gardner's 'mix of wit, the absurd, the down-at-heel, and what approaches surreal craziness – behind which the protagonist hides...  [He] brings a poet’s eye to our everyday, making us see what we had not noticed.'


Donald will give a short reading; this will be followed by drinks, snacks and conversation. Copies of the 'New and Selected Poems' are on sale in the shop.

We are looking forward to seeing Donald and you,
Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Jan Voss and Vera Magnússon

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16.4.2022

Boekie Woekie presents Kristján Thorlacius Finnsson

Saturday, March 12 at 17:00

Dear All, You are invited to a book exhibition with works by Kristján Thorlacius Finnsson. The opening is on Saturday, March 12th at 5 pm.  Kristján has been for half a year actively involved in Boekie Woekie and shows drawings he has made here, bundled in books.  On the occasion of this exhibition we will also launch his first publication, a book printed on offset printing plates. Its title - Off Offset printing - stems from his experience of having had to slaughter the offset machines the existence of Boekie Woekie was based on for more than 30 years.  Luckily, getting rid of the offset presses means opening up space for a new Boekie Woekie on Geldersekade 39. You’ll hear more about this. Hope to see you Saturday.

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March 3, 2021
The consequences of the virus saga's latest development:
you can visit Boekie Woekie again and browse - by appointment.
Phone 06-53350681 or 020-6390507 or e-mail (mail@BoekieWoekie.com) to agree with us on a time for your visit.
We then keep 30 minutes reserved for you.
Come alone. You must be masked and disinfect your hands on entry.
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WE HAVE OPENED UP AGAIN! Boekie Woekie shophours back to normal: daily from 12 to 6. Special rules apply! No browsing without disinfected hands, no more than 3 customers at a time! April 24th, 2020

Since March 16th, 2020 Boekie Woekie thought it wiser to keep the shop closed - if there comes a return to normal or a new different mode, we'll announce it here.

14.2.2020

Dieter Roth and Hansjörg Mayer at Boekie Woekie:

Friday February 14, at 5pm

Boekie Woekie invites you to their part of the joint-venture exhibition 'The How and the What – edition hansjörg mayer' (at Kunstverein, Eenwerk and Boekie Woekie). For this occasion we will be exhibiting (almost) all of Roth’s books, published by Mayer.

This event is part of a larger project that will officially kick off on March 20, more information on that will follow in due time.
For now, come and admire the fruits of the creative collaboration between Roth and Mayer! This Friday at 17:00.

7.12.2019

This saturday (7 Dec.) at 17:00, Boekie Woekie will be hosting a very special event: the presentation of Takako Hamano's latest book and a short animation film. Drop by if you can!



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Posted 30.8.2019
    The other two of Boekie Woekie (Hetti and Jan) have now visited Rúna's exhibition in Safnasafnið, which is up since May - see the next entry below.
While I write these lines a night view of Safnasafnið is actualy visible from the window next to me as one of those flickering dots of light not far from the milky way of Akureyri.
Here are three photographs of Rúna's installation, taken by Eygló Harðardóttir during the first days of the show:

  

    I (Jan) was expected to post these pictures here already more than two months ago. But I forgot to do that, to Rúna's disappointment and my shame.

    But now that I have seen the exhibition I can more easily add some words to the photographs and what they refer to.
It's an exhibition that collects the tangible results of Rúna's "Paperflowers".
    Rúna printed early in the 90ties, I think, in a process of many months, on the Boekie Woekie offset press (a Rotaprint R40 AK, still in use today) with her hand-drawn direct image offset printing plates, the most colourful pages of what was to become the beautiful book she called Paperflowers - images of a wide variety of flowery forms.
    One of the copies of that book got into the hands of a Japanese fashion designer who had Rúna's images printed on the material for a series of new dresses which later were paraded on a Paris catwalk (scroll for photos of this parade on this page down to the fall of 2008), among them one which was subsequently worn by Michelle Obama at church in Hawaii. At the time the dresses were being launched a lot of glossy printed matter, fashion mags, appeared, advertising them.
    The first offset printed book, a later digital reprint, some of the printing plates Rúna drew and used, loose sheets from that book, samples of the fabric printed for the dresses, photo documentation of the dresses, and yes, a shot of Michelle in Hawaii, that's what you get to see of Rúnas work if you go to Safnasafnið these days.
    These days? The show is officially only up till Sept. 8th. You must be quick. (The director though assured that curious visitors can come even in October - nothing will be taken down till then.)
    Besides Rúnas exhibition plenty of other works are on show. I just mention the pencil drawings of Kíko Korriro, from the early 60ties. By him there are some vigorous lines on display and an imagination I have only seen in a certain type of drawings by Dieter Roth. Could it be that these men knew (of) each other?
 
    We were not in time to see Rúnas contribution to the summer exhibition in Nýlo, the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík. But there is this photo of the new version of her sculptural work from 1979. (I don't know who took it.) What one sees is a band of fabric overgrown with cress which lies in a water basin at the bottom. She calls it "Growing Sculpture". 


Posted 16.6.2019
Things are happening in Iceland.
Rúna Thorkelsdóttir of Boekie Woekie has her things on display in two venues at the moment.
One exhibition is in that singular space up North in Eyjafjördur, opposite Akureyri, above Svalbardeyri, on the road to Húsavík and Mývatn, the assembly of prominent white houses in which one finds "Safnasafnid", the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum www.safnasafnid.is. Rúna shows samples there of the material the Japanese fashion firm Comme Des Garcons had made in 2008 of her "Paperflowers" (the book which is now reprinted and available again!). Scroll some 11 years down on this page to find out more about this.
The other exhibition is a participation in a group show at The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík. She has revived there a sculpture from the late seventies. It's not quickly described, you will have to go and take a look.
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Jan Voss exhibits at Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zürich:



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Þórunn Kolbeinsdóttir (Tóta) opens her exhibition ‘The Monad Illuminates’ next Saturday, February the 2nd at 5 o’clock.

Tóta’s first proper book, published by Boekie Woekie, will be presented along with drawings, sculptures and other works that are all connected to the same story. The words and works come from the Monad, the totality of all things, who is describing some chapters in the evolution, with an emphasis on the formation of the landscape.

For a hint of what she has been doing you can visit: www.instagram.com/t__kolb

Further information on monads: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Monad

Please come and rejoice with us next Saturday!

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Nico Lootsma: “Three collections” bij Boekie Woekie van 19 t/m 31 Januari.
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Screening of Dorothy Iannone's Movie People in Boekie Woekie!

Last summer, at the Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery, as a perpetual performance, ten enlargements of Dorothy Iannone's Movie People figurines were carried on stage while a recording of her voice told of her resume of the predicament of those heroes and heroines in the respective films in which they played their roles. Be prepared for an intense hour. 

Therefore: next Sunday, shortly before the Christkind comes, on the 23rd at 5 in Boekie Woekie!

For those who rather stay home

but still want to see Dorothy Iannone's Movie People,
go to https://youtu.be/xqZx4LtOiWQ
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Henk Wijnen leest zijn eerste gedichten voor. Kom naar Boekie Woekie op zat 15 dec 5 uu



Henk Wijnen zal een aantal gedichten voordragen uit: TAS IN 'N BUNDELTJE
Een boekje waarin zijn gedichten over en een aantal foto's van Tasmanië zijn samengevat.

        "In 2008 werd ik uitgenodigd voor een verblijf van twee maanden op het eiland Tasmanië.

        De verveling en het op mij zelf zijn, waarbij ik niet veel meer te doen had dan te reizen en het wonderschone eiland te ontdekken, leidde tot gedichten
        op het ritme van mijn voetstappen door de dagelijkse wandelingen die ik maakte".

        Het pamflet "What the fuck am I doing here" van 2014, een boekje geproduceerd door Boekie Woekie, verhaalt eveneens over het verblijf in Tas.

Verder is een kleine expo ingericht van een aantal oudere boekjes en een aantal recente 'AFFICHES'.
Dus zaterdag, 15. december, om 5 in Boekie Woekie!
Meer over/van Henk Wijnen is hier te vinden:
        www.henkwijnen.nl
        www.monument-of-mankind.org
        www.strasse-des-friedens.net

(For you who depend on being invited in English: let it not withhold you from coming that Henk is going to read his Dutch poems. Be in BoeWoe on Sat., Dec. 15th at 5pm. There are convincing aspects to poetry which are not language bound you should not want to miss.)

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Paperflowers Too - book launch on Sat 8.12.18 at 5 in Boekie Woekie
   
The one or other of you may remember the book Paperflowers that took Rúna Thorkelsdóttir of Boekie Woekie two years to print in the early 90ties. It was rightfully Rúna's great pride. We know of no-one who carried offset from hand-drawn plates (without photographic intermediate steps) that far.
This beautiful book which led to top models walking the catwalks of Paris in dresses made from the designs of Rúna´s pages and Michelle Obama wearing one of those dresses at church in Hawaii, this beautiful book sold out quickly back then and was now digitally reprinted.
Reason to raise a glass! See if you can join in on Saturday, Dec. 8th at 5 pm. There may be those among you who plan for Christmas to marry or have other merry-making ideas. As a gift for the bride or for what ever other reason, please consider to buy a copy of the book - or of the small wall calendar which shows a selection of 12 of the pages similar to those of the book.

    
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The 2018 Small Publishers Fair will take place on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 November.

- Over 60 publishers from across the UK and around the world, one of them is BOEKIE WOEKIE
- readings and talks
- special exhibition on the stage at Conway Hall
- FREE entry to the Fair and all activities
- thousands of original works to buy
- stands run by the creators and publishers
- beautiful and historic venue in the heart of Bloomsbury

Come to CONWAY HALL, LONDON, 9 & 10 NOVEMBER 2018, 11AM TO 7PM DAILY

If you come by air, land here:



Further details under http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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My Muse My Canvas: Performance and book presentation by Fredie Beckmans on Friday August 3, at 5pm 



- my muse my canvas -
For several years I have painted the naked body of my love with images that give her pleasure. I also take photos of them. But because bodypainting, as an artform, is perhaps on one of the lowest rungs on the artladder, I made paintings of these foto's.

From 20 of these drawings I made a book: - my muse my canvas -
Until mid-august, they will be shown at Boekie Woekie Amsterdam.
Join us Friday 3 August at 5pm for a Body as Canvas Performance and Book Presentation!
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Daniele Marx presents her new book in Boekie Woekie
Saturday June 16, 2018
5.00 p.m - 7.00 p.m



About

What happens in the moment, when you travel every day from one place to another? It was at this moment that a crow crossed for the first time, and from there, these black birds did not go unnoticed. Crows are a group of birds found in most parts of the world, with the exception of southern South America. The crow also presents a wide scientific and mythological bibliography that makes it accessible and paradoxical. This self publication ‘When a Crow Crossed’ presents short texts of reference to concrete poetry and a series of b/w photographs. Text in English, hard cover, 22 x 16 cm, 110 pages, (Amsterdam) 2017/18.

Daniele Marx (b. 1975, lives and works in Amsterdam) visual artist, researcher and nowadays work for game entertainment industry. Her work engages time based practices mainly in the following areas: conceptual art, socially engaged practices and collaborative projects. This practices is presented from various media (events, publications, videos, drawings, installations, others). She holds an Master of Fine Art – Autonome Kunst Beeldende at Avans University of Applied Sciences AKV St Joost, Den Bosch, The Netherlands 2008-2010. https://danielemarx.wordpress.com
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Boekie Woekie presents work by Roland Van den Berghe, on May 19th, at 5 pm

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Donald Gardner reads new poems. Come to Boekie Woekie Sat., Feb 24th, at 5!

At 17.00 hours on Saturday 24 February, Donald Gardner will present his new book of poems, ‘Early Morning’ (Grey Suit editions, London 2017). Donald Gardner writes: “Many of these poems started life in the early morning. First thing, before the mind steps in to remind you of more irksome issues, that’s when I usually write. ‘Early Morning’ is not so much the theme of this book as the background music.” He will read some of the poems, after which there will be time for wine, beer, soft drinks and conversation.


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Boekie Woekie to take part in ONGEBONDEN, an exhibition on books by artists in het Grafisch Museum Groningen, 12.2.18 - 20.5.18
Boekie Woekie will be among the participants of the upcoming exhibition ONGEBONDEN in het GRID, het Grafisch Museum Groningen. From 12.2.2018 until May 20th books will be on show there by Sophie Calle / Henriëtte van Egten / Hans Eijkelboom / Ger van Elk / Joseph Ernst / Robert Filliou / Donald Gardner / Thomas Geiger / Michael Gibbs / Kristján Gudmundsson / José Heerkens / Harmen de Hoop / Elsworth Kelly / Diederick van Kleef / Cor Knops / Mikko Kuorinki / Sol LeWitt / John Liggins / El Lissitzky / Nico Lootsma / Pétur Magnússon / Stéphane Mallarmé / Vladimir Mayakovski / Pieter Laurens Mol / Bruce Nauman / Oey Tjeng Sit / Paul van Ostayen / Tom Phillips / g.j. de rook / Dieter Roth / Edward Joseph Ruscha / Kiki Smith / Fiona Tan / Rúna Thorkelsdόttir / Nick Thurston / Kees Visser / Jan Voss / Saskia de Vriendt / herman de vries and Emmett Williams.
Open Tue-Sun 10-5. Opening Feb 11th at 3.

We hope to see you there!
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Future Meditation - a performance piece by Aiste Noreikaite

Boekie Woekie, Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam Monday 13 November, 17:00

Future Meditation is a meditation-based performance piece created and performed by Aiste Noreikaite. During the usual quiet time in meditation the brain doesn’t sleep, but produces wonderful brainwaves at different frequencies that reflect different states of mind. Beta (15-40Hz) is connected with higher mental activity and focus, alpha (8-12Hz) with relaxation, theta (4-8Hz) with daydreaming, sleep and creativity, delta (0-4Hz) - with sleep and whole body recovery. In this performance you will be able to hear Aiste’s brainwaves translated into sound while she is meditating onstage. The amplification of brain rhythms is done by routing different brainwaves into different parts of musical pieces by Toru Takemitsu and Francis Poulenc. Those who are present may be asked to answer some questionnaires before and after the performance as a part of a research study that she is carrying out together with David Mayor.

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Boekie Woekie at the Small Publishers Fair in London, Friday 10 & Saturday 11 November

Boekie Woekie will once again be participating in the Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall in London on November 10 and 11. If you happen to be around and haven't got any plans yet, pay us a visit and enjoy this year's programme of exhibitions, talks, and readings, and, of course, lots and lots of books!

For more information on the times, location, and programme visit www.smallpublishersfair.co.uk


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Come one, come all: a discussion of the work of VLADO MARTEK

Friday 6 October, 17.00-19.00, Boekie Woekie, Berenstraat 16, discussion of the work of Vlado Martek, in which Prof. Leonida Kovac , Niels Van Tomme, director de Appel, Prof. Christa-Maria Lerm and Anna Buyvid will take the lead.

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Come visit us (and buys some books!) at these upcoming fairs in New York, Berlin, and London

Summer has drawn to its close which means that book fair season is upon us!
Boekie Woekie will be taking part in several upcoming book fairs: next weekend (22-24 sept.) you can find us both in New York at The NY Art Book Fair, and at Friends With Books in Berlin.
If you can't make it to either of these, then we hope to see you at the Small Publishers Fair in London (10-11 nov.). More information on these fairs can be found below.
Until then!


 
Friends with Books
Art Book Fair Berlin
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Berlin
22–24 September 2017
www.friendswithbooks.org

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
MoMA PS1
New York
September 22-24, 2017
www.nyartbookfair.com

Small Publishers Fair
Conway Hall
London
November 10-11, 2017
www.smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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Join us Sept. 2nd for Jom Semah's Magic Alterations, here at Boekie Woekie at 5 pm

Jom Semah’s alterations of Magic playing cards

 As a game art graduate Jom has been looking for the creative side of games. As a “Magic: The Gathering”-player himself he has stumbled upon a magic card altering community and has joined their forces! But what are magic cards and why alter them?

“Magic: The Gathering” is a 20+ year old card game that has a passionate group of players and many of them love the art that comes with the cards. Some cards have become so important to players that they want to give them a make-over to emphasise their uniqueness.

 

Some of Jom’s alterations that cover the original card art. Depicting various pop culture characters, movie stars and original art.

 

So come over to Boekie Woekie and learn some more about Magic as a game and this niche scene that alters cards and has become a big thing in the Magic community. Come to check out Jom’s alterations side by side with some original cards.

 

Jom will talk about his subject Saturday, September 2nd at 5 pm.

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Come to 2FrauShow: projector poetry by Gabi Rets and Ernie Bossmann at Boekie Woekie August 19, at 5

This saturday at Boekie Woekie, a very special performance:

(english below)


2FrauShow - projector poetry by Gabi Rets and Ernie Bossmann
Bossman will read her poems (in Dutch) while Rets will create moving images with the help of an overhead projector.
During their low-key performance, text and image complete each other; one next to the other, mixed up with the other, after the other. They practise an easy going tone, their style is both delicate and tough.

We hope to see you on the 19th!
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"1000 one-page essays" at Boekie Woekie, saturday July 29th at 5 pm

Dear all,

I have been working for the past 5 years on a thing I call "1000 one-page essays". It is the programmatic title of a book I don't really expect to ever finish. I'll tell Saturday of (some of) my motivations and I will read a few sample pages. Many of the essays consist of or contain images - 30 more visual ones I've pinned up. The collection of essays (presently numbering about 350) is bound as a book and can be viewed as such. You can place orders for print outs of the book in its present stage or single essays.

Hope to see you Saturday at 5!
 
Jan Voss


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Come Wednesday the 21st of June at 5 to Boekie Woekie for the presentation of Pavel Büchler’s 2 new books!

Join Tommy Simoens (Antwerp) and Ridinghouse (London) at Boekie Woekie (Amsterdam) on Wednesday 21 June to celebrate the launch of two books that explore the artwork and writings of expatriate Czech artist Pavel Büchler, organised by the History of Art Department, University of Amsterdam and Boekie Woekie.

Alongside a display of some works by Büchler, curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (Amsterdam), there will be a book signing and a public 'in-conversation' with the artist, Lerm Hayes and curator Charles Esche, director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

The fun starts at 5pm.



PAVEL BÜCHLER: IN AMONGST THE ASHES
Edited by Tommy Simoens
Published by Ludion (Antwerp), June 2016
320pp; colour illustrations throughout; hardback; 49.90 Euro; ISBN: 9789491819308

This monograph is the first to offer a full survey of Büchler's oeuvre, spanning from his early collages and action artworks made in 1970s Prague to a pair of public commissions made for the city of Antwerp last year. It is exquisitely produced, features colour reproductions throughout, and is contextualised by an interview with Lisa Le Feuvre, essays by Philippe Pirotte and Nikos Papastergiadis, and extensive notes on every artwork prepared by Nick Thurston and Kate Christina Mayne.

SOMEBODY’S GOT TO DO IT: SELECTED WRITINGS BY PAVEL BÜCHLER SINCE 1987
Edited by Nick Thurston
Published by Ridinghouse (London), March 2017
240pp; 4 b/w illustrations; softback; 20 Euro; ISBN: 9781909932319
Generously supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and Yale Center for British Art

This book presents the first comprehensive collection of writings by UK-based, expatriate Czech artist Pavel Büchler alongside substantial contextual material. As a teacher, critic and occasional curator Büchler has made significant contributions to debates about the history of photography, theories of media, the paradoxes of art education and artistic research, the peculiarities of art as a form of work and the politics and poetics of ‘making nothing happen’. The contents span three decades, are organised into three sections and are bracketed by an extensive introductory essay, an in-depth new interview with the artist and a complete bibliography of his writings.

Pavel Büchler was born in Prague and emigrated to Britain in 1981. He was Head of School of Fine Art in Glasgow (1992-96) and Professor in Art at Manchester Metropolitan University (1997-2016). He lives in Manchester.

The last day of the display of Pavel Büchler's works will be July 16th.
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Come to Boekie Woekie Saturday, May 6th at 5 for the opening of the exhibition





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Boekie Woekie invites you to visit the opening of an exhibition of works by Andrew McLaren on March 18th at 5 pm

Visitors to Boekie Woekie have seen here for years books with maps by Andrew McLaren. Think of his Atlas of Nowhere, the book with the hole in the middle.

Now we are happy to show the 10 unique prints of Andrew's @@rctic mapping series:

White Sea, Arkhangelsk (Russian Federation)

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Funäsdalen, Sweden

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Southwest of Katla, Iceland

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður, Iceland

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Miðfjörður, 15km Southwest of Húnaþing vestra, Northwest Iceland

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Castle Island Slough, Alaska

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Gyda Peninsula, Russian Federation

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

Viscount Melville Sound, Northwest Territories, Canada

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

2 versions of Franz Josef Land (Russian Federation)

@@rctic mapping series unique print ©2014 Andrew McLaren

We are happy because these maps had to come all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they got here. But we are unhappy that their maker didn't come along.

We hope that you find the time to join us on Saturday, March 18th, at 5 pm for a glass on the occasion of the opening of Andrew McLarens exhibition. If you can't make it then - the maps will be on display till the end of April.

The map below is a section of a gift he made for Boekie Woekie, showing Boekie Woekie in a central position of a mirrored world.

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Brák Jónsdóttir and Aðalheiður S. Eysteinsdóttir present 6 new books this Saturday, Feb. 18th, at 5 in Boekie Woekie

6 weeks in Amsterdam

6 booklets published



Aðalheiður S. Eysteinsdóttir and Brák Jónsdóttir came from Iceland to Amsterdam with the idea to take reflective walks around the city of Amsterdam and create books. During their strolls they found themselves paying attention to the street under their feet and the mostly dirty, yet delicate, forms and patterns it contains. They felt a little bit like ravens, who are known to be unable to resist shiny objects such as pebbles, pieces of metal, and bright, round objects. In their case it was a seductive blue plastic bag on a breezy day, slabs of chewing gum forming the funniest images, silver objects reflecting the sun and other charming materials which spontaneously caught their attention.



Though their work may be influenced by their mother and daughter bond, this series of six booklets is the first result  of them working artistically together as equals.

 

On Saturday, February 18th, at 5 pm the 6 books shall be ready to be presented – please come!
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You are invited to the opening of an exhibition by Roland van den Berghe at Boekie Woekie, Saturday, February 11th, 2017, at 5 pm. Those who have not yet received an invitation through the mail may see it below, we hope to see you on Saturday the 11th

Invalidenstraße 50–51
10557 Berlin

Reception:
Friday, 9 December, 18:00 – 20:00

Hours:
Saturday, 10 December, 11:00 – 19:00
Sunday, 11 December, 11:00 – 19:00

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Boekie Woekie will be one of the 60 exhibitors. Come, have a look at and be tempted to buy what we will have brought with us this time!

Friday 4.11. and Saturday 5.11.2016 from 11 am to 7 pm

London
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
tube: Holborn
www.smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Dear all,

Boekie Woekie is heading for this year's New York Art Book Fair in the hope to see you there.
Because without your visit the prospect of spending 3 days in a row in an overcrowded, overheated, very noisy situation without wifi wouldn't really be something to look forward to.
Therefore: please come and add your presence to the crowd, help to warm the place up even more, let's shout at each other if we can't hear what we say and forget about all wifilessness! Let's give it a try to consider what it may be, lying there between us on the table.

This is where and when this can take place:

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY
Preview Thursday, September 15, 6-9 pm
Friday, September 16, 1-7pm (free)
Saturday, September 17, 11am-9pm (free)
Sunday, September 18, 11-am-7pm (free)

Looking forward!

Jan Voss
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We are looking forward to welcome, together with you,
who will read and talk to us about his history with artists' books. On display will be some of his books and the "Vantongerloo Suite", four woodblock prints that refer to paintings by Georges Vantongerloo. Please come to Boekie Woekie this Saturday, June 18th, 2016, at 5 pm.

who died unexpectedly last September.

The first opening is at 2 pm at ARTTRA Galerie, Tweede Boomdwarsstraat 4, mon-fri 10 to 5

The 2nd opening is at 3 pm at SUZANNE BIEDERBERG Gallery, Eerste Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, thu-sat 2 to 5

The 3rd opening is at 4.30 pm at Boekie Woekie, books by artists, Berenstraat 16, mon-sun 12-6
Boekie Woekie also launches Martyn's last book "The DRA Examination Corner". It contains information on his activity as a member of an unusual club.

The 4th opening is at 6 pm at De Kring, kunstenaars sociëteit, Kleine Gartmansplantsoen 7, for non-members mon-fri 11-5

The exhibitions will be up until april 30th.
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Opening of Linda Cuglia

‘WEDDING’

Saturday 26th March, 2016 at 17:00 in Boekie Woekie

 

Wedding is about real and unreal marriages, ending well or not. Years ago Linda Cuglia illustrated the story ‘Chemical Wedding’.

The illustrations have now become a book enriched with a new painting for the cover.

The video 'Ziliante and Morgana’ depicts in a playfully absurd manner, a love denied, meanwhile a mad artist pronounces magic formulas.

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Boekie Woekie would like to invite you to:

28/11/2015

Please come to Boekie Woekie on Saturday, November 28th at 5 pm,
Kristen Gehrman will read her "Amsterdam Shorts".

6/11/2015

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 24/10/2015

Yes sir I can Boekie – from my internal songbook

Video/song installation

Opening Saturday 24th October at 17:00

Arna Valsdóttir

I want to sing my way into Boekie Woekie. I love singing… love sending sounds out into the air and colour the surrounding, like lines travelling in space. In Boekie Woekie I will use the song “Yes sir I can Boogie” that old disco song from the Baccara sisters, but turn the text into “Yes sir I can Boekie”. I feel like I have an internal songbook and probably many of us have… all those pages with songs that stick to the mind through life. It feels like I don’t choose my internal songs… strange songs get in and many of them I only remember partly and the texts are not always there.

On the opening I will make some life song performance based on this internal songbook. Iceland, the land that has brought me up, has a strong singing tradition and people all around will burst into singing in harmony at all kind of occasions. It is so touching to hear old farmers with hard working hands become like Italian tenors when they come down from the mountains in the autumn gathering the sheep. Tired and dirty after days of riding in the wilderness… when they come down they take a sip of Brennivín, open their hearts and sing in harmony with each other.

In my mind the Icelandic songs are in many voices and actually I wish I could sing in harmony with myself so that at least two voices would come out when I open my mouth.

Maybe my songbook in Boekie Woekie will make the visitor sing along… but we´ll see what happens.

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On Saturday, June 20th at 5, Fredie Beckmans will read in Boekie Woekie two new texts about to appear in print in two Dutch magazines (Bouillon and Hollands Maandblad). The language is Dutch. Please come and listen!

Fredie Beckmans heeft gehoord dat je op IJsland de navel van de wereld kunt vinden. Vol goede moed is hij er naar toe gegaan en heeft voor verschillende Nederlandse bladen daar verslag van gedaan. Onder het genot van wat IJslandse versnaperingen zal hij van uit verschillende teksten een beeld schetsen waarbij hij niet alleen de navel van de wereld heeft ontdekt maar onderweg ook prinsessenmelk heeft gedronken en in extremofiele bacteriën heeft zitten roeren.
De volledige teksten verschijnen deze maand in het Bouillon Magazine en het Hollands Maandblad.

Als toegift zal hij een korte uitleg geven hoe een ieder onsterfelijkheid kan bereiken door het nuttigen van zijn nieuwe uitvinding de Anti-Age-Art Crème waarbij moet worden gezegd dat dit product nog in volle ontwikkeling is, maar gelukkig is daar tijd genoeg voor.

Kom zaterdag, 20 juni om 5, naar Boekie Woekie!

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Even more rarely heard music

Composer Gunnar Gunnsteinsson has written the musical score for three movements of the originally improvised 'Selten gehörte Musik' that Dieter Roth and his collaborators played and recorded in the seventies. The excerpts are from 'Das Berliner Konzert' and ‘Romenthalquartett'. The ‘Selten gehörte Musik' are seven concerts recorded on lp of improvisation by different amateur musicians – mainly artists, friends of Dieter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Listen to and see a concert with eclectic music composed / improvised by

    Wiel Conen.

    Charlotte Gilissen

speaks and sings fragments of the 18th chapter of Ulysses, the book by James Joyce.

Charlotte interprets Wiel's impromptus, creating a most precious synergy.

We from Boekie Woekie look forward to see you at 5 pm, Saturday May 23rd, 2015!
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If you happen to be near by, drop in. If you are not, you still might be happy to know about this:



On the occasion of the exhibition appears a book with English texts by the artist on the 83 works on show.
All works are reproduced in colour.
The book also contains an e-mail interview conducted by Pétur Magnússon.
Here Jan Voss speaks about aspects of his and Boekie Woekie's history.



"With the back to the future" (soft cover, 17 x 23 cm, 160 pages) can be ordered from Boekie Woekie for it will be EUR 30.- / ISK 4500 plus postage.
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Location: Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin Germany
Directions: U 5, Station Schillerstraße (directly across the street), or U- and S-Station Alexanderplatz (7 minutes walking distance)
more http://www.friendswithbooks.org/
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Friday 14 & Saturday 15 November, 11am to 7pm. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square

Boekie Woekie will be there with a table of books - will you come too?
 

tube: Holborn

More: http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/

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Visit Boekie Woekie Friday, Sept. 26th 2014 from 12 - 7 pm
or Saturday, Sept. 27th from 11 - 9 pm, or Sunday, Sept. 28th from 11 - 7 pm

at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens.

More: nyartbookfair.com
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“Shoes” at Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam

The Shoebox Gallery presents the exhibition "shoes" Saturday, August 30th, from 5 pm on at Boekie Woekie. Participants: Kristín Geirsdóttir, Bertine Knudsen, Jos Houweling, Ricardo Liong-A-Kong, PJ Roggeband. A catalogue is available. The Shoebox Gallery is an initiative of Nico Lootsma who also will launch Trashtown Magazine # 50. You are warmly welcome.
The exhibition will be up till Friday, September 5th.

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at 5 pm on Saturday 21 June 2014 Donald Gardner will be reading from his new book of poems, 'The Wolf Inside', (Hearing Eye, London). After the reading there will be plenty of time to socialize and have a drink.

Spread the word and do come to Boekie Woekie!
 

About Donald Gardner's poetry, a few quotes:

Jane Draycott: ‘Climb aboard any of Donald Gardner’s wryly inventive poems and be prepared for a bountiful ride – goodwill and sharp humour, sweetness and melancholy inseparable travelling companions. But beware of the wolf: “I am a wolf / and the fear of a wolf … while I write I know I live.” While we read Gardner, we know we live.’

Anthony Howell (The Fortnightly Review): Every word counts, but Gardner camouflages his thriftiness in dry wit and, when you hear him read, he captivates you immediately, for the poems are perfectly accessible and delivered with a stentorian intonation that reminds me of recordings of Ezra Pound

Maria Barnas (NRC Handelsblad): ‘Gardner has the gift of being able not just to reproduce complex situations with a deceptive simplicity but also to make them imaginable.’

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Kate van Houten and Jennifer K. Dick will present CONVERSION at Boekie-Woekie on Saturday afternoon the 7th June at 5 o’clock. CONVERSION is the second book published in collaboration with Kate van Houten’s EstepaEditions.

The first, RETINA/RETINE in 2007 is Jennifer K. Dick’s 8 section poem with Kate van Houten’s crafted book and images: translation to French by Rémi Bouthonnier, available at Boekie-Woekie.

Jennifer K. Dick’s 7 CONVERSION poems in folios are held in a titled cover slip and cased in a deep red box. Printed in blue with reproduced monotypes traversing delicate greys on Lana paper. The edition is 50, 200 x 105 x 16 mm.

Kate van Houten is an American visual artist living in Paris. In 1996 she founded EstepaEditions, an independent press for the affordable book. Previously the books focused on exclusive one-of-a-kind books. As always the books are conceived and crafted by her and pages handbound on their return from the printer. For more see http://kateplusbooks.wordpress.com.

Jennifer K. Dick is an American author living in France. She teaches at the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse. CONVERSION was inspired by and begun in Greece. She and Michelle Noteboom organize Ivy Writers Reading series in Paris and Jennifer works for the Amsterdam-based literary magazine VERSAL. For more on Jennifer’s other books and chapbooks see her blog at http://jenniferkdick.blogspot.fr.

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Les is no more.

 

There will be 7 screen prints on the wall and 3 of his 4 latest books will be on the table.

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Boekie Woekie at the New York Art Book Fair 2012

 

Boekie Woekie participates again with new and old publications

in the New York Art Book Fair (www.nyartbookfair.com).

Come on Friday September 28 between 12–7 pm,

or on Saturday, September 29, between 11 am–9 pm,

or on Sunday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm

to MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue

Long Island City, NY. Free entrance!

We are looking forward to see you at the Boekie Woekie table

(on the floor plan that is K01)!

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If in Iceland, in Iceland's North, and up for a very special treat, you should anyhow visit

Safnasafnið | Svalbarðsströnd | 601 Akureyri | Sími/Tel: 461 4066 | www.safnasafid.is 
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Rúna Thorkelsdóttir of Boekie Woekie exhibits at Galerie Kees van Gelder

"Changing Still Lives"

Galerie Van Gelder - Planciusstraat 7 - Amsterdam
18.2.-21.3.2012

open Tuesday till Saturday from 1-6 pm
opening 18.2. from 5 to 7 

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Writing Lecture, performed by Toine Horvers on Saturday 14.01.2012  5 pm

 

Toine Horvers wrote a text in which he gave a detailed description of the act of hand writing: what happens exactly when writing a text with a fountain pen, how does the writing develop on the sheet, what sounds arise from the movements of the pen, and so on. It resulted in 7 A4 sheets.
He performs this text for an audience: while writing he pronounces the words in an elongated way.

For a publication of this work, an edition by Christoph Daviet in Paris, the A4 sheets were scanned and printed and brought together in a folder in an edition of 75 copies.

On Saturday the 14th of January he will perform the text in the back-space of Boekie Woekie. Duration 40 minutes.

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Dear visitor, have a happy New Year!  

The waiter comes, with another New Beer!
Wasn’t the road long and dusty down here?
We gladly accept and accept again
to empty those glasses which form a chain.
They seam as milestones our long road,
Two thousand eleven, the latest quote.
And now one more, another New Beer!
Don’t ever we get enough down here?
 
This is the last one, but then one more?
Till we are drunk and thrown out the door!

Cheers from

Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Jan Voss

ps

At 5pm on Friday the 30th of Dec. 2011 Henriëtte van Egten opens on the last remaining white wall of Boekie Woekie’s backroom an exhibition of 24 collages she made earlier this and last year. Come if you can!

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Join us in Boekie Woekie on Tuesday, Dec. 6th, at 4 and help us prepare the launch of a cloud made in the form of a paper balloon!

This will complete the last chapter of the book Paper Clouds. The project started five years ago in Mexico. It has been

presented in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and comes now to Amsterdam's Boekie Woekie.

We need your collaboration with love poems, thoughts or drawings to fill up the paper cloud!

Adapted by Martha Hellion from The Cloud Messenger/Meghaduta, a  lyric love poem by Kalidasa, the Indian Sanskrit poet

of the 5th century, the book will be formed by a photographic register of the events in all the places where they have been

performed,  highlighting the imprint of the collective work of friends, some times even the failure of sending the cloud to

the sky because of weather conditions. Those remaining clouds will be shown at the presentation of the book in Buenos

Aires.

The book will be printed in polimer/photoetching on hand made paper in a limited edition of 30 copies, 25 bound in soft

cover/linen envelope and 5 numbered from I to V bound in natural leather envelope.

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Trashtown Magazine # 40 is out and will be presented on Saturday Nov.5, 2011,
at 5 pm by its editor Nico Lootsma with the performance Parlare!
Free bank note for the first 7 visitors (Trashtown $$!).
Exhibition till Nov. 12.

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You wonder what it is you see here? Look Boekie Woekie up at the New York Art Book Fair!
The NY Art Book Fair 2011 at MoMA PS1 30 September - 2 October Preview 29 september

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Boekie Woekie spreads the announcement further and encourages you to follow the invitation of De Kring, one of Amsterdam’s artists’ societies which run a down town bar and restaurant.

Until September 3rd 2011 thirty of our drawn-on, photographically enlarged and laminated beer mats will be on display – and for sale – there. We are looking forward to Cralan Kelder’s opening words on Saturday, July the 23rd at 6. If you can, come. We can't imagine it to be anything else but fun.

Henriëtte, Rúna (still in absentia) and Jan

UITNODIGING

placemats en bierviltjes

Henriëtte van Egten / Jan Voss / Rúna Thorkeldóttir

i.s.m. Boekie Woekie

opening expositie

zaterdag 23 juli 2011 om 18.00 uur

Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9

1017 rp Amsterdam

tel. 020 62 36 985/fax 020 62 32 777
info@kring.nl/ www.kring.nl


Beste,

In de zomermaanden heeft de expositie van Sociëteit De Kring een zomers tintje: namelijk sterk uitvergrote bierviltjes, betekend door kunstenaars van naam in de sociëteit en placemats, ontworpen door diverse creatieve Kringleden in het Kringrestaurant.

Kunstenaarsboekwinkel Boekie Woekie wordt al jaren door kunstenaars Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkeldóttir en Jan Voss gerund. De tafel achterin is dan ook de startplek van vele bierviltkunstwerken geweest.

De groot gemaakte tekeningen op bierviltjes tonen (doordat ze groot gemaakt zijn nog duidelijker) de moeite, of ook de onhandigheid, van het ontstaansproces van de originele, kleine tekeningen op de originele, kleine, bierviltjes. Het zijn éénhandstekeningen, de andere hand van de tekenaars is immers bezig het bierglas omhoog te houden. Omdat de kleine, lichte bierviltjes onder het betekend worden ook nog makkelijk heen en weer schuiven, is er sprake van een sterk verminderde kans dat de tekeningen tonen, wat de tekenaar bedoeld zou kunnen hebben. Ze bieden de kijker dus alle denkbaar mogelijke ruimte om er in te zien wat men erin wil zien.

Voor de grote Kring-placemat-voor-in-het-restaurant-expositie nodigde de kunstcommissie alle creatieve Kringleden uit om hun idee voor de Kringplacemat in te zenden. De ontwerpen worden door vakjury en publiek beoordeeld. De prijswinnaars worden op de finissage, zaterdag 3 september, bekend gemaakt. 

De Kringexpositie is van zaterdag 23 juli- zaterdag 3 september
Niet-leden kunnen de tentoonstelling bezoeken op maandag t/m vrijdag
van 16.00 - 19.00 uur en op afspraak.

met vriendelijke groet, Marieke Nooren

Programmeur en relatiebeheer
Aanwezig op dinsdag-woensdag en donderdag

sociëteit de kring

kleine gartmanplantsoen 7-9

1017 rp amsterdam

www.kring.nl

 
de clubup

korte leidsedwarsstraat 26-I

1017 rc amsterdam

www.clubup.nl

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Dear all!

 
We have the pleasure to have Rainer Pretzell among us. For many with an interest in art and literature the books of Rainer Verlag belong to the highlights of the years between 1966 and 1995. We have to thank him for beautiful books by Emmett Williams and Ann Noël, Friederike Mayröcker, Gerhard Rühm, Dominik Steiger, Joe Jones, Helmut Eisendle, H.C. Artmann, Gennadij Ajgi and certainly Dieter Roth to name just a few.
 

Rainer will be in Boekie Woekie on Saturday, July 9th 2011. From 5 pm on he'll tell his story in a conversation with Jan Voss and answer your possible questions. Please do come!

 

Hettie, Rúna (in absentia) and Jan

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Though what we do can hardly be called "we are coming" (haven't we arrived 25 years ago?) ,
Boekie Woekie participates in the first Amsterdam Art/Book Fair. Click the link for details.
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Environmental Recordings

- a collection of new books by Brown Sierra -

 

Please come to Boekie Woekie on Saturday the 12th of March at 5 and listen to the performance of Pia Gambardella and Paddy Collins.

Pia Gambardella & Paddy Collins are a London based collective. Both are artists who have developed an interest and have worked in the field of sound art, artist books, performance and installation. Brown Sierra continue to map and record their environment in the form of collecting materials that can be bound into hard bound single edition books. The books developed from our work and interest with mapping and environmental recordings, collecting and reusing.  Creating new approaches to making environmental recordings. Using found tape, parallax recording, (each making a mono recording simultaneously, varying our location through distance and movement.), using telephone boxes as fixed point microphones, and sound mapping. We are interested in the geography of a place, mapping areas, looking at local estates, parks, road networks, bus stops, park benches. towns, boroughs, wards. The structure of the area. from how government works to what chip shops sell. Collecting leaflets from libraries, hospitals, shops, general practitioners, picking up the local litter that we find on route. Collecting material in varying states of decay, finding paper sacks out side greengrocers or health advice in the chemist. This we collect, sort, collate, consider, categorise, sometimes paint, and then mix. The signatures are carefully arranged  into sequential cut ups through the process of book binding, the way they relate to each other is controlled by how we categories the type of material going into the book. Books made from maps, cut up and rebound creating new geographies, sometimes mixing cities and countries, others towns and streets. Collections of menus or litter pertaining to a particular faith or in a particular language. Books of lost dog posters, or paper bags, instruction leaflets, public information sign, children's drawings. Other books are paper collected in one day, or in one place, or collected over a weekend or collected on one walk, between specific places made over several journeys. The books are documents or micro archives of how local environments are being used. These arrangements can create unexpected and poignant new meanings.

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Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich, as staged an exhibition of drawings, paintings and multiples by Jan Voss.
   
    The show's title is "Leute, hängt die Bilder ab, sonst machen noch die Nägel schlapp!" (Hey folks, take the pictures down before the nails give up!) The photograph above is a shot from the exhibition and shows copies of two multiples: "Venus of Willendorf wears her mini-skirt" and "Erdnuss" which in this case translates only insufficiently into English as "peanut". On the occasion of this exhibition appears volume 13 of Het Andre Behr Pamflet. It contains, besides images which are and which are not on display in the show, a poem and two brief essays.
    Jan Voss, Germany 1945, lives in Holland and is the editor of the growing series of Het Andre Behr Pamflet. He has exhibited widely and is one of the founding members of Boekie Woekie.
    The show will be up from March 5th till April 15th 2003. You find the gallery at Zwinglistrasse 36 (backyard) in CH 8004 Zurich. Opening times: Tuesdays to Fridays from 12 to 6.30, Saturdays from 12 to 4. Go also to www.marlenefrei.com.

Simultaneously Galerie Marlene Frei shows an exhibition of works by Emmett Williams.
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Boekie Woekie Amsterdam New York London
Amsterdam: as usual, seven days a week from 12 to 6
New York: temporarily (NYABF Nov. 5-7, 2010)
London: temporarily (Small Publisher's Fair, Nov. 12+13, 2010)

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Invited by and together with Fredie Beckmans, Roland Berning, Bülent Evren, Martyn Last, Joseph Semah, Yvonne Strang, Cigdem Turek, Elaine Vis and Henk Wijnen/Jockel Heenes, Jan Voss of Boekie Woekie will set up an art exhibition in Schijndel, southeast of s'Hertogenbosch. There is a theme, in Dutch "Samenbundelingen", probably "bundles" in English. This is how Jan Voss announces his contribution in the catalogue booklet for the show:

 
Here a shortened English version of the Dutch text: The new bundle by J.V. appears as a multiple. Since a well written sentence, wrongly read, turns to nonsense, there will take place at the exhibition opening a performance of the play "basket ball in the fabrication hall of the sentence (or should it be: sense?) factory" . The resulting waste paper basket, filled with written on but crumpled up A4 sheets, will be the first in a series.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, Sept. 11th, 2010 at 4 pm at the Cultureel Centrum 't Spectrum, Steeg 9, in 5482 Schijndel.
It stays open till Oct.23rd and can be visited from Monday till Friday from 10-20 and on Saturdays from 10-13.
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Come now and see them at work, but be sure to be here Saturday the 14th of August 2010, around 4!

Joanna Adamczewska / Tomasz Wilmanski

 “Mandala for Boekie Woekie”

Amsterdam, 12-14.08.2010

Mandala (sanskrit Tibetan kyil khor, "circle" "completion"); refers to sacred geometric device commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, which serves several religious purposes including establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction, focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, an abode of a Buddha or bodhisattva, a symbolic map of the universe and pathway to liberation. Mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective. Its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self" and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.

 Joanna Adamczewska (born 1959 in Poznan, Poland); studied at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Poznan in 1980-1985. She does primarily book art and space arrangement. Since the late 1980s she has been working on “Acoustic Books” a cycle of unique books which she has presented at many show-concerts. She is the author of such books as “The Bible”, “Image of...”, “Polish Alphabet” /35th books/ a cycle of books based on the Polish alphabet - 35 letters. She showed her works at many exhibitions, such as Concordia Art Gallery Montreal, Galerie Ermer, Berlin, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, National Gallery Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Bunkier Sztuki Cracow, AT Gallery Poznan. She lives and works in Poznan. 

http://free.art.pl/at/pl/ang/art_adamczewska.htm 

Tomasz Wilmanski (born 1956 in Szczecin, Poland); studied at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Poznan in 1977-1982. Since 1982 he has been running the AT Gallery in Poznan. He was a curator of many collective exhibitions in galleries home and abroad. He presented his works at exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Austria, Canada, Estonia, Sweden, France and Italy. He is the author of such artist-books as “Jungle”, “The Penance”, “MOD”, “Bon Ton” and “Sounds” in which he uses the acoustic specificity of the Polish language. He also practices sculpture, drawing, visual poetry and performance actions. He lives and works in Poznan.

http://free.art.pl/wilmanski/
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Please join us Friday July 9, 2010, at 4:00 PM for the book launch of Brad Freeman’s new artist’s book WRONG SIZE FITS ALL: a book of miracles & mishaps.

Offset printed in quad tones, CMYK, and secret sauce by the artist – also hand bound by BF. 90 copies signed and numbered, EUR 175.-

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 // »Ein neuer Raum des Buches«, ging es ihr durch den Kopf. »Wie viele Buchläden es wohl gab in Amsterdam?« Der Gedanke faszinierte sie. Sie mochte es, durch Buchläden zu streifen – es reizte sie, diese Welten zu entdecken. Sie bewunderte die Unmenge an Geschichten, Ideen und Phantasien, die Menschen bedenken und zu Papier bringen konnten. Manchmal stellte sie sich dann vor, dass eine ihrer eigenen Geschichten zwischen all diesen Büchern stand.//

 // ‘A new room for books,’ she realised. ‘How many bookstores were there already in Amsterdam?’ The thought fascinated her. She liked strolling through bookstores – it excited her to discover this world. She admired the abundance of stories, ideas and imaginations that people were able to think of and write down. Sometimes she then imagined one of her own stories standing between all these other books.//

Der Raum des Buches- a project by Thekla Ahrens

It is done!

You are dearly invited to the presentation of my new work Der Raum des Buches

on Monday, July 5, 2010 at 5pm

at BoekieWoekie, Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam

followed by my graduation show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy on July 7- 11.

Hope to see you there and celebrate!

Thekla

www.derraumdesbuches.blogspot.com

www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl

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CERAMICS by NINI TANG.

The exhibition will be up until Jan. 6th 2010.

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If you happen to want to follow the activities Boekie Woekie is involved in on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th of November you'll have to begin with visiting our table in London at Conway Hall at the SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR on that Friday at 11 am when the fair opens and have Les and Jo show you what's new but don't spend too much time with them, hurry to Amsterdam and say hi and good bye to Hettie who'll take care that day of BOEKIE WOEKIE from were you'll speed without delay to Bremen to cast a glance into the ART SALON at Museum Weserburg, the Art Salon is the book market of the Research Centre for Artists' Publications where Marc and Claudia will be present in the name of your favorite bookshop that day, but don't loose yourself in what you see, just hurry on to Stuttgart, no, to Ostfildern, and be at 7 at OTTERBECK ARCHITEKTEN where you'll meet me and others of the Dieter Roth Academy who on the occasion of the 10th DRA conference will then be opening an exhibition of their works.
See that you find a bed because you'll have to come the next day, on Saturday the 14th, at 2, to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart where the "Dieter Roth Souvenirs"-exhibition will be opened which the DRA has instigated. Besides the exhibition that day: speeches (of which one by me) and films. And if you care to pause a little longer, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart will hold public talks on various aspects related to Dieter Roth on Sunday the 15th, parallel to their part of the "Dieter Roth Souvenirs" exhibition.
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NOËL BERLIN VERONA CONZ, 2009

Published by Edizione Francesco Conz in Verona, Italy in an edition of 500 copies. 400 of these have four colour cover in a plastic coated card, 100 books bound are with a hard cover, each with an original work inside, which have been signed and numbered by the author.

288 pages, 24 x 17 cm, printed in colour, with reproductions from two one-of-kind books Ann Noel made for Francesco Conz in 1985-87 and 1988-89.

Ann Noël and Boekie Woekie are looking forward to see you Saturday, October 10th, around 5.

Boekie Woekie invites for a (short) solo concert!

Anton Bruhin

 

will play the Jew’s harp on Monday, September 28th, beginning at 5pm.

On the occasion of the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana

Jan Voss of Boekie Woekie

will tell those interested all he can in half an hour beginning at 17:30 on Saturday Sept. 5th about our take on artists' books. This will happen in the context of the "Artist's Book Salon" at the International Centre of Graphic Arts, (Tivoli Mansion, Ljubljana).