Khatt Books

Printing Plant Art Book Fair (2nd edition)

Part of Amsterdam Art Weekend 2019

22 nov 2019
24 nov 2019

Official Opening
22 November 17:00 – 19:00
Printing Plant is officially part of Amsterdam Art Weekend 2019. The opening of the fair will take place on Friday November 22 and will be accompanied by a captivating live performance.

Free Admission

Khatt Books is exhibiting its latest titles and will be presenting an installation that showcases a selection of original publications and works of the Arab designers and illustrators that they have featured in their series of design monographs entitled The Arabic Design Library. The works range from illustrations, lettering, and graphic design from Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi design pioneers who have made significant contribution to design in the Arab World since the 1960s.

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Printing Plant Art Book Fair is initiated by Looiersgracht 60's founders and directors Soraya Notoadikusumo and Nadine Snijders, as a a platform to support the art book of the present, and to foster a community of art-publishers both locally and globally.

It is an intimate three-day art book fair for like-minded, independent publishers and interested audiences. With
over 80 (inter)national publishers, Printing Plant will present a remarkable selection of artist editions, catalogues, books,
monographs, periodicals and zines that are generally unavailable in bookshops. Spanning 750 square meters of exhibition space, the fair invites visitors to learn from a range of carefully selected independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, galleries and printmakers who will be showcasing their works throughout the weekend.

Exhibitors
Printing Plant hosts over 80 exhibitors from 19 countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany,
Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States). See the full list of exhibitors below.

Public Programme
Over the course of the weekend, the fair will be complemented by a curated public programme, including a range of specialist talks, discussions, book launches, performances, signings and bookbinding workshops for children. For more information please visit our website.

List of Exhibitors:
1987 works (Vaujours, FR)
20th Century Art Archives (Cambridge, GB)
A Glimpse Of (Athens, GR)
A Tale of a Tub (Rotterdam, NL)
ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative (London, GB)
Ahorn Books (Berlin, DE)
Archive Books (Berlin, DE)
ArtEZ Press (Arnhem, NL)
Atelier Triay (London, GB)
Athenaeum Boekhandel (Amsterdam, NL)
Avarie (Paris, FR)
Bandiz Studio (Madrid, ES)
Bon-Gah (Tehran, IR)
Book Works (London, GB)
Captures Éditions (Valence, FR)
Cartha (Basel, CH)
Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (Utrecht, NL)
Case Publishing (Tokyo, JP/Rotterdam, NL)
De Appel (Amsterdam, NL)
Draw Down Books (Guilford, US)
Drukkerij robstolk (Amsterdam, NL)
Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers (Amsterdam, NL)
Frame Publishers (Amsterdam, NL)
From Me To You Publications (Antwerp, BE)
GAGARIN (Antwerp, BE)
Gloria Glitzer (Berlin, DE)
Good Neighbour (Amsterdam, NL)
Good Surface (Brussels, BE)
Hackers and Designers (Amsterdam, NL)
Handshake (Valencia, ES)
Idea Books (Amsterdam, NL)
If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your
Revolution (Amsterdam, NL)
Jap Sam Books (Prinsenbeek, NL)
Jean Boîte Éditions (Paris, FR)
Khatt Books (Amsterdam, NL)
Knust/Extrapool (Nijmegen, NL)
les éditions musicographiques (Paris, FR)
Little Steidl (Göttingen, DE)
London Centre for Book Arts (London, GB)
Looiersgracht 60 (Amsterdam, NL)
Meta/Books (Amsterdam, NL)
Migrant Journal (London, GB)
MM Artbook printing & repro (Bivange, LU)
nai010 (Rotterdam, NL)
NoRoutine Books (Vilnius, LT)
Numbered Editions (London, GB)
Occasional Papers (Ghent, BE)
OIAAIO magazine (Amsterdam, NL)
Onomatopee (Eindhoven, NL)
Our Polite Society (Amsterdam, NL)
P/////AKT (Amsterdam, NL)
Pilot Press (London, GB)
Posture Editions (Ghent, BE)
PrintRoom (Rotterdam, NL)
PUB + PS Sandberg + Sandberg Series + BBBBgraBB + Lost Dad Publishing (Amsterdam, NL)
PUNCH (Bucharest, RO)
Punta Lara Ediciones (La Plata, AR)
RAUM Editions (Salamanca, ES)
Readers & Publishers (Amsterdam, NL/ Barcelona, ES/Glasgow, UK)
Replika Publishing (Berlin, DE)
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam, NL)
Roma Publications (Amsterdam, NL)
San Serriffe (Amsterdam, NL)
Sternberg Press (Berlin, DE)
Studio Montespecchio (Montespecchio, IT)
textur (Berlin, DE)
The Eriskay Connection (Breda, NL)
The Future Publishing (Amsterdam, NL)
The Modernist (England, UK)
The Office for Curating (Rotterdam, NL)
The Site Collective (Toronto, CA)
The Smart View (Hamburg, DE)
Triangle Books (Brussels, BE)
Valiz (Amsterdam, NL)
Van Zoetendaal Publishers (Amsterdam, NL)
Viaindustriae Publishing (Foligno, IT)
Warehouse (Amsterdam, NL)
Weinspach (Cologne, DE)
Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem, NL)
Witte de With CCA (Rotterdam, NL)

Shared artists' panel:
Anne Ligtenberg (Eindhoven, NL), Babette Cooijmans (Antwerp, BE), Elena Khurtova & Marie Ilse Bourlanges (Amsterdam, NL), Enrico Floriddia(Fontenay-aux-Roses, FR), Eriko Takeno (London, GB), Fernanda Aránguiz M. (Santiago, CL), Frédérique Albert-Bordenave (Amsterdam, NL), Frijke Coumans (Antwerp, BE), Hristina Tasheva (Bodegraven, NL), Irina Birger (Amsterdam, NL), Laura Pugno (Turin, IT), Marijn Bax (Amsterdam, NL), Miriam Sentler (Rotterdam, NL), Phil Baber (Amsterdam, NL).