Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE means "good day, good afternoon, good night" in Portuguese. The name conveys the idea that books can become an integral part of our everyday life—regardless of the time of day. BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE was founded by Manuel Raeder and Manuel Goller in Berlin in 2011 and has been run by Manuel Raeder since 2013.
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE is a small independent publishing house, a community of artists, graphic designers, authors, curators, cultural workers, craftsmen and craftswomen. The publishing house specializes in artist books that are conceptualized as a part of an artwork or as the artwork itself, attempting to play with the format of the book and to reflect its medium. All of the books are produced in close collaborations with the artists themselves. Biannually, an editorial board meeting consisting of internal members of the publishing house and external advisers review all submitted books and project applications. The realisation of future endeavours is decided collectively.
Working in the long-standing tradition of alternative publishing practises, BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE focuses on collaborations with younger, not yet established artists or artists from outside of North America and Western Europe, i. e. from outside of an eurocentric discourse. monographs and artist's books. -->
 
Berlin
 
159 titles
 
Andreas Sell - Jupiter - Andreas Sell “Life Performance”
2021
English edition
Jupiter is the monograph of the artist Andreas Sell by the curator Joel Mu and the outcome of their collaboration. It includes a selection of Andreas Sell's work of the last fifteen years, an essay in five parts by Joel Mu, and a poem by Alice Heyward.
Guido Yannitto - Blaues Gras Entlang Flüsse / Pasto azul a lo largo de los rios
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Olaf Holzapfel's and Guido Yannitto's textile works.
Anna Pascó Boltà - Stickers
2021
no text
Artist's book.
Ieva Epnere - Rīgas cirks Riga Circus
2021
bilingual edition (English / Latvian)
A kaleidoscopic peek into the traditional circus of Riga.
Mirjam Wirz - Sobre El Río (Passage)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication tells of the journey of a photographic research of the origins of cumbia music along the lower Magdalena river in Colombia.
Viktorija Rybakova - El Plástico, the Sun that lives inside the Rock
2020
English edition
An observation on evolution of material plasticity, a story about plastic whose native land is Mesoamerica (artists' book).
Sandra Mujinga - SONW - Shadow of New Worlds
2020
English edition
currently out of stock
Artist's book / catalogue
Mette Winckelmann - Laila Uti
2020
bilingual edition (English / Danish)
Artist's book.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Kaleidoscopic Eye
2020
English edition
New edition of an artist's book first published in 2009, gathering essays, short stories and images (leporello ). The publication reflects the artist's long-term critical interrogations on archives, historiography and institutions.
Sergej Jensen -
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Retrospective catalogue spanning more than fifteen years of work by the conceptual textile artist known to explore the idiom of minimalist painting.
Nick Mauss - Treatise on the Veil
2020
English edition
This artist's book / leporello gathers reproductions of artworks from the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig, drawing out re­s­o­nances be­tween the dis­parate works.
Andreas Sell - From self-employment to employment
2020
English edition
This diary traces the artist's journey in search of a permanent job, combining notes and visual documents. The publication is the second in a series of autobiographical narratives by Sell.
Armando Andrade Tudela - On Working And Then Not Working - Autoeclipse
2020
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Conceived on the occasion of two exhibitions at CA2M Madrid and CRAC Alsace, this catalogue features extensive documentation and collages of the artist's evolving works as well as essays by the show's curators, Elfi Turpin and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
Michael Beutler - Things in Slices
2020
English edition
A companion guide to Beutler's site-specific installation practice classifying each of his works according to the components, tools, and production methods used to create them.
Eamon Ore-Giron - Infinite Regress
2020
English edition
First monograph: American artist Eamon Ore-Giron's hard-edge paintings combine Native American traditions and European abstraction. This publication offers a dialogue between his ongoing Infinite Regress series and the prose of poet and scholar Edgar Garcia.
Claude Parent - Oblique Time With Claude Parent
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
This publication presents an extended interview with the French architect Claude Parent (1923–2016) by curator Mai Abu ElDahab and visual artist Benjamin Seror that took place between 2013 and 2015. It features a wide selection of drawings by Parent.
Pablo Pijnappel - Beyond Imagination - A Zona de Crepúsculo
2020
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
This artist's book is a written rendering of monologues included in The Zone, a performance based on a series of narratives staged within the exhibition space of the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre in 2018.
Tris Vonna-Michell - No more racing in circles - Just pacing within lines of a rectangle (box set)
2020
English edition
The performative aspect of the British artist's practice in the form of scores, transcriptions, and photographs (limited box set edition).
Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio - The Grinberg Mystery
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This autobiographical novel describes the author's esoteric quest and involvement with a shaman in the hope of saving his mother, diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Replaying Life\'s Tape
2019
English edition
This catalogue documents a research and exhibition project stemming from a fieldwork conducted by the artist on a palaeontological site in South Australia.
Neither
2019
English edition
Stemming from the Barthean spirit of the 2017 opening show of Brazilian gallery Mendes Wood DM's new space in Brussels, this catalogue gathers new works by a selection of artists who participated in the inaugural exhibition. It also features a fictional history of the gallery by Oliver Basciano, associated with photographs by Mauro Restiffe.
 Musa paradisiaca - Views on Misunderstanding
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
First monograph dedicated to Musa paradisiaca, a dialogue-based project by Eduardo Guerra and Miguel Ferrão founded on temporary partnerships. This richly illustrated publication documents the variety of their works— sculpture, paintings, texts, and sounds—and includes new commissioned essays.
Christoforos Savva - Untimely, Again
2019
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
Monographic catalogue dedicated to the life and practice of Christoforos Savva, whose oeuvre was unparalleled in the incipient Cypriot art scene of the 1960s (catalogue of the exhibition at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, honoring the 50th anniversary of the artist's death).
Christoforos Savva - The Memory of the Archive - Christoforos Savva in the 1954 – 1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals
2019
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
A compilation of press archives related to Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva, selected in the Cypriot press and literary periodicals between 1954 and 1968.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Very Normal People
2019
English edition
In this collection of stories and illustrations, Szaflarski examines the subject of violence, in particular as it is experienced through the female body. Beginning with an autobiographical experience, the story triggers a dissociative state that plunges the book in and out of imaginary worlds and associative narrative threads.
Heinz Peter Knes - Der weltrevolutionäre Prozess seit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bis in die Gegenwart
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.
Elena Reygadas - Rosetta
2019
English edition
currently out of stock
The first book by Elena Reygadas, Latin America's Best Female Chef, is more than a cookbook.
Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio - Não de China
2018
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication is the result of a collaboration between artist Jorge Méndez Blake, curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and graphic designer Santiago da Silva. Gathered around a shared interest for Mexican poet José Juan Tablada, the three authors attempt to offer contemporary interpretations of the seminal themes in his work (orientalism, relation betwenn literature and architecture…).
 Rometti Costales - Little animals, ash trays
2018
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This catalogue presents an overview of the duo's projects in the last years, unfolding a personal universe bringing forward nature as a space for political expression. It is structured through a conversation between the artists and Juan Canela, including diverse graphic material and several specific extrapolations written by critics and curators.
Gabriel Sierra - Before Present
2018
English edition
This series of four short volumes documents an experimental project by the Colombian artist focusing on the psychological dimension of architecture based on the feeling of déjà-vu.
A Universal History of Infamy
2018
English edition
This catalogue questions the place of U.S. Latino and Latin American art in U.S. museums and art history. It engages a series of artists working across a range of media—from installation and performance to drawing and video.
L.A. collects L.A. - Latin America in Southern California Collections
2018
English edition
A panorama of Latin American art collections in Southern California.
Sebastián Diáz Morales - Mise en Abyme
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Sebastián Diáz Morales films and videos show that reality is nothing more than a figment of the imagination. Every figure and every narrative in them is a metaphor for the boundary between reality and fiction. This catalogue documents three recents video works by the Argentinian artist.
Valentina Jager - Eleven Poems
2018
English edition
A collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior.
Warren Neidich - The Color of Politics
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition of neon sculptures by artist Warren Neidich. These installations aim to examine the rise of cognitive capitalism in the 21st century while affirming art as a political weapon against it.
 Pick Nick - Dandilands
2018
English edition
Drawing on an eponymous collective art project, this publication gathers essays by pluridisciplinary writers discussing regimes of power and normalisation integrated in urban and rural landscapes.
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa - Requíem for Mirrors and Tigers
2018
English edition
This publication catalogues the trajectory of a cycle of performances of the same name, through which the artist attempted to exhaust his interest in the Guatemalan Civil War as a recurring subject of his work. It documents the six performances in the cycle via foldout colour posters of each work, and an essay by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb.
Ixiptla - Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances
2018
English edition
This 4th issue of the anthropology journal explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art.
Ana Navas - I had to think of you
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
The catalogue published on the occasion of Navas' first institutional exhibition continues her research on art and design, which deals with phenomena such as memory, translation, interpretation and authorship and documents a wide exchange of images and ideas. A collection of photographs the artist received from friends and acquaintances provides an insight into how her work is influenced and understood by others under the motto “I had to think of you”.
Tanaz Modabber - Other Scales of Prosody
2018
English edition
This leporello artist's book is the last iteration of an ever-mutating project by artist Tanaz Modabber. It reproduces a sixty-meter-long drawing which was also used in the past as a score, and as a referential mapping. The work also refers to the links between poetry, music, architecture, and politics in Iran.
Nora Schultz - Centre Dental
2017
no text
Artist's book based on Schultz eponymous work, a video project based on the German artist's sculptural installation at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and filmed by a flying robot camera.
Door Between Either And Or
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
This catalogue brings together international artists and theorists to reflect upon conditions surrounding female artistic, theoretical and institutional practices and contemporary gender studies within the changing landscape of biopolitics affected by the digital economy and social change.
Have not
2017
English edition
Mimicking the codes of fashion magazines, this artists' review gathers contributions reflecting on the aspects of memory and time in clothing.
Rodrigo Hernández - I Am Nothing
2017
English edition
Rodrigo Hernández's first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture Figure 1. Seven artists, curators, and writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.
Wilhelm Klotzek - Trefferia
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Monograph spanning a decade of works by the multidisciplinary artist Wilhelm Klotzek: The Berlin-based artist embeds his practice around his personal stories from 1980s-1990s Germany with dark and humorous texts that strengthens the interconnection between his visual work and his personal interest with the medium of language.
Jan Lotter Benavides - Disculpe
2017
Spanish edition
65 real-life stories featuring street hawkers—collected by Benavides while he was traveling by bus in Colombia. Hilarious or tragic, this collection of texts tells the cycle of gifting and counter-gifting in which clients and hawkers are engaged into.
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