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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
www.archivebooks.org
mail@archivebooks.org
 
183 titles
 
Tirailleurs - Trials and Tribulations – Reader
Tirailleurs – Trials and Tribulations – Reader
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A project that considers the role of the Tirailleurs in liberating France from Nazi Germany, how their efforts contributed to the liberation of Germany itself, and their impact on securing peace in Europe post-1945.
Black Monument
Black Monument
2026
English edition
forthcoming
The anthology black monument explores how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality.
Sustaining the Otherwise
Sustaining the Otherwise
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A collaborative research and artistic project about restitution, reparation and transformation taking place in multiple locations over several years.
Forest Encounters
Forest Encounters
2026
English edition
forthcoming
Forest Encounters invites you into the forest and its many meanings. It brings together voices from different disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Artists, foresters, art historians, philosophers, anthropologists, wildlife researchers, landscape architects, and writers all participate in this collective reflection on the diverse meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to the forest.
Art Law and Artists\' Rights for Creators, Authors and Artists
Art Law and Artists' Rights for Creators, Authors and Artists
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A comprehensive overview of the legal framework governing artistic practice, intended for creators, authors, and artists.
Adama Delphine Fawundu - Praise House
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Praise House
2026
English edition
forthcoming
An art book by Adama Delphine Fawundu that celebrates life through the female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—who have shaped the artist's cultural and personal history.
Ghost Agency - Digital Sanctuaries
Ghost Agency
Digital Sanctuaries
2026
English edition
forthcoming
At the intersection of art, technology, and humanitarian inquiry, this book provides insight into Ghost Agency's desire for agency across artistic reasearch, institutions, and civic life in the digital age.
Vasıf Kortun - How Did We Get Here - Reading Vasıf Kortun
Vasıf Kortun
How Did We Get Here – Reading Vasıf Kortun
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.
Rikke Luther - We Lost Control Again
Rikke Luther
We Lost Control Again
2026
English edition
forthcoming
We Lost Control Again surveys the questions raised by the work of artist Rikke Luther between 2015 and 2025, exploring the long-range effects of this era of collapse, and the effect on social orders and the stability of the Earth system.
Rikke Luther - Mud … and the Earth System
Rikke Luther
Mud … and the Earth System
2026
English edition
forthcoming
Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.
Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
Romana Schmalisch, Robert Schlicht
Labour Power Plant
2026
English edition
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
Romana Schmalisch, Robert Schlicht
Labour Power Plant
2026
French edition
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
Emily Cheng - In the Weave of Worlds
Emily Cheng
In the Weave of Worlds
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / Chinese)
New monograph.
Anna Bromley - I Speak Radio
Anna Bromley
I Speak Radio
2026
English edition
currently out of stock
Publishing a selection of her radiophonic essays here for the first time, I Speak Radio reflects Anne Bromley's collaborative radio practice.
Global Fascisms - Reader
Global Fascisms – Reader
2026
English edition
currently out of stock
A critical examination of the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms.
Virginie Bobin - The Interpreter Dis/Appears
Virginie Bobin
The Interpreter Dis/Appears
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
An artistic exploration of the political and emotional stakes of translation in the context of asylum law, through the lens of rarely heard testimonies: those of interpreters.
Brigitta Kuster - Territoires / Territories / Territorien - Filmtranskripte
Brigitta Kuster
Territoires / Territories / Territorien – Filmtranskripte
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
A monographic publication featuring multilingual text-film transcripts engaging with the legacy of the German colonial project in Cameroon and Germany, as well as broader questions of border crossings, asylum, and exclusion.
Musafiri - Of Travellers and Guests
Musafiri – Of Travellers and Guests
2025
English edition
An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.
On a wildflower lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare…
On a wildflower lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare…
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Arabic / Greek / Turkish)
The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Destination: Tashkent - Experiences of Cinematic Internationalism
Destination: Tashkent – Experiences of Cinematic Internationalism
2025
English edition
currently out of stock
The legacy and posterity of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which was held between 1968 and 1988 in Uzbekistan.
Art, Hope, Action - Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times
Art, Hope, Action – Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times
2025
English edition
An interdisciplinary and critical examination of the role of hope in contemporary art and activism.
Zawawa - Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa
Zawawa – Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa
2025
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
An anthropological-acoustic study of the aftermath of war.
Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos - Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation
Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos
Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation
2025
English edition
Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos examines the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil's travesti community.
Damir Avdagić - Transmissions
Damir Avdagić
Transmissions
2025
English edition
First monograph.
Chipo Chipaziwa - My Mother, My Home - Archiving Presence with/in Absence
Chipo Chipaziwa
My Mother, My Home – Archiving Presence with/in Absence
2025
English edition
Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.
Alessandra Ferrini - Like Swarming Maggots - Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya
Alessandra Ferrini
Like Swarming Maggots – Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya
2025
English edition
First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.
Vlatka Horvat - By the Means at Hand
Vlatka Horvat
By the Means at Hand
2025
English edition
By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.
Tiziana La Melia - I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don\'t Use Words
Tiziana La Melia
I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don't Use Words
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia.
Yon Natalie Mik - Studies on Squats
Yon Natalie Mik
Studies on Squats
2025
English edition
Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.
Margherita Moscardini - Metropolitan Voids Agency
Margherita Moscardini
Metropolitan Voids Agency
2025
English edition
The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Voice Seeping Into Time - Of Thoughts Finding Form
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Voice Seeping Into Time – Of Thoughts Finding Form
2025
English edition
The voice as a space of publication in itself.
Leila Orth - We as water
Leila Orth
We as water
2025
English edition
German artist Leila Orth deals with the question of what places of remembrance there are and can be.
Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan
Farid Rahimi
Afghanistan
2025
English edition
This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.
Céline Condorelli - Deux Ans de Vacances / Dos Años de Vacaciones / Dwa Lata Wakacji / Two Years Vacation / Due Anni di Vacanza
Céline Condorelli
Deux Ans de Vacances / Dos Años de Vacaciones / Dwa Lata Wakacji / Two Years Vacation / Due Anni di Vacanza
2024
English edition
22.00 € 15.00 €
An artist's book that raises the question of labour and working time.
eBhish\'
eBhish'
2024
English edition
A chorus of voices on notions of Black social life, public communion and humanities of the Indian Ocean.
Dream Academy
Dream Academy
2024
English edition
The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.
Entangled - Texts On Textiles
Entangled – Texts On Textiles
2024
English edition
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
The Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld – Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities and Other Transcendences
2024
English edition
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.
Akinbode Akinbiyi - Sometimes to be lost is to be found and to be found is to be lost anew
Akinbode Akinbiyi
Sometimes to be lost is to be found and to be found is to be lost anew
2024
English edition
First monograph.
Rheim Alkadhi - Majnoon Field Guide
Rheim Alkadhi
Majnoon Field Guide
2024
English edition
Monograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.
Sandra Schäfer - Contested Landscapes
Sandra Schäfer
Contested Landscapes
2024
English edition
Contested Landscapes is dedicated to different rural regions—their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
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
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
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Abrie Fourie
Passage – A song
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
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
Encounters – Embodied Practices
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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
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
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.
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