Archive Books

Archive is a platform for cultural research and debate. It brings together activists and cultural practitioners in an adaptable and non-hierarchal structure with the aim to foster a unique space for discussion and exchange. Archive is engaged in a wide range of activities including publishing and exhibition making.
Archive Books produces readers, monographs and artists' books as well as journals focusing on contemporary cultural production.
 
Berlin / Milan
 
144 titles
 
On a wildflower lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare…
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Arabic / Greek / Turkish)
forthcoming
The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Entangled - Texts On Textiles
2025
English edition
forthcoming
What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".
The Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld - Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities and Other Transcendences
2025
English edition
forthcoming
The Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.
Rheim Alkadhi - Majnoon Field Guide
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Monograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.
Meenakshi Chakraverti - Night Heron
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Meenakshi Chakraverti's first novel.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
2024
English edition
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.
BOM Magazine – Ballet of the masses - On Football and Cartharsis
2024
English edition
The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation.
Abrie Fourie - Passage - A song
2024
English edition
Publication based on an exhibition of work by Nigerian-British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi and South African artist Abrie Fourie both based in Berlin, and curatorial collaboration between Musée de la Musique Georges Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, and Der Projektraum Scharaun, Berlin. The curatorial emphasis turns the focus to the idea of sound in photography.
Encounters - Embodied Practices
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
currently out of stock
Conversations about embodied strategies of knowledge production and knowledge transmission based on the choreographic and curatorial practices of about fifteen international choreographers, performers, dramaturges and curators.
K-Artists
2024
English edition
A compilation of interviews with forty-seven younger-generation Korean artists: this first-ever interview book on contemporary Korean artists in the English language offers a kaleidoscopic overview of the new and dynamic practices taking place in Seoul.
Ixmucané Aguilar - Fraitaxtsēs sores tsîn ge ra≠gâ - Ondjembo yo Null Vier
2024
English edition
A complete documentation on a multimedia exhibition by Berlin-based artist Ixmucané Aguila, giving voice to voiceless descendants of victims of genocide in Namibia.
Ana Vujanović - Toward a Transindividual Self
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
Toward a Transindividual Self examines the process of performing the self, distinctive for the formation of the self in Western neoliberal societies in the 21st century. It approaches the self from a transdisciplinary angle where political and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and dramaturgy intersect.
O Quilombismo - Reader
2023
English edition
A reader based on a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
O Quilombismo - Album
2023
English edition
A visual record of a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022
2023
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022 presents artists and works that can varyingly be seen in the light of Swedish-born Norwegian feminist textile artist Hannah Ryggen's legacy (1894–1970).
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories - Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia
2023
English edition
This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.
Shaping Revolutionary Memory - The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
2023
English edition
A comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People's Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution.
John Akomfrah - A Space of Empathy
2023
English edition
An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.
Christian Nyampeta - Togetherward
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
A volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta.
Tono Vizcaíno - Industry / Matrices - Threads and sounds
2023
English edition
A hybrid proposal developed by artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval and archaeologist Tono Vizcaíno, situated between the creation of an archive and an artistic project, whose objective is to offer a necessarily partial reading of Valencian industrial heritage based on the sound, the intangible and social movements.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi - Wir sind die feder in des schreibers hand, wohin wir gehen, ist uns nicht bekannt
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Persian)
currently out of stock
The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Archives on Show - Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.
Pandora\'s Box
2023
English edition
An exploration of the form of conversation as a method of aesthetic solidarity and empowerment.
Maa Ka Maaya Ka Ca A Yere Kono - 13th Edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography, focusing on multiplicity, difference, becoming, and heritage.
Kerstin Schroedinger - DNCB - A History of Irritation
2023
English edition
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
Emma Wolf-Haugh - Text in Public - Zine Performances and Rants
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
The first monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
How to Die - Inopiné
2022
English edition
A transdisciplinary investigation and a choreographic performance, between Umeå and Oslo, about ecological grief, cultural panic, and a feeling of collapse.
Trading Zones - Camera Work in Artistic and Ethnographic Research
2022
English edition
currently out of stock
This book introduces camera-based practices at the intersections of artistic and ethnographic research that critically examine the means of their own production and social embeddedness.
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju - Earnestly
2022
English edition
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju's debut collection of writing.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale - Ruminations on Art, Culture, Politics and Us/Others
2022
English edition
An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists.
 Tehnica Schweiz - The Blue Room
2022
bilingual edition (English / Hungarian)
An installation by the artistic duo Tehnica Schweiz (Gergely László and Péter Rákosi) comprising a film and a porcelain sculpture collection: a re-examination of our relation to architectural and material cultural heritage.
The Vibration of Things / Die Vibration der Dinge
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach exhibition, curated by Elke aus dem Moore.
Sedje Hémon - Emotion of Spirits
2022
English edition
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
Imran Mir - A World that is not entirely Reflective but Contemplative
2022
English edition
A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.
Abdias Nascimento - Being An Event of Love
2022
English edition
A survey of the pictorial work of the Afro-Brazilian artist, writer and activist, with fifteen essays.
Kal Rituals – The Many Headed Hydra Magazine
2022
English edition
The first in a series of publications emerging from the transoceanic platform Kal, Kal Rituals proposes queer and trans feminist ecologies, embodiments and mythmaking.
An Archaeology of Listening - Coming to Know
2022
English edition
Premodern acoustic traces as the basis for new communities of thought in the present (a project responding to the work of the self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi).
Van Leo - Becoming Van Leo (3 volume box set)
2022
English edition
currently out of stock
A monumental study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo (1921-2002), one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.
Umashankar Manthravadi - An Archaeology of Listening - A Slightly Curving Place
2022
English edition
A proposition opened up by Umashankar Manthravadi in his practice as an acoustic archaeologist, bringing together writers, choreographers, composers, actors, dancers, musicians, field recordists and sound, light, and graphic designers who engage and transform each other's work.
Philip Rizk - On Trials - A manual for the theatre of law
2022
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
An exploration of the performativity of the law within Egypt's spectral legal reality.
Lerato Shadi -
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Setswana)
First monograph devoted to the postcolonial feminist approach of the Berlin-based South African artist.
Line Skywalker Karlström - Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown - Line Skywalker Karlström\'s Works Through the Prism of Queer and Feminist Art Practices
2022
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
First comprehensive monograph of the Swedish queer and feminist performance artist.
Wicked Little Town
2022
English edition
Wicked Little Town gathers more than fifty artists and critical thinkers traversing trans-temporal imaginations of resistance, unruliness, and non-compliance across genders, abilities and national borders.
Imagine something new, like justice
2022
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / Turkish)
Transdisciplinary research on the theme of justice and the agency of imagination in the artistic, discursive and political realms.
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