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
 
158 titles
 
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
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.
Sur - Ester McCoy – The Mexican Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sur #03 takes as its starting point the connections between architectural critic Esther McCoy and the city of Mexico. This edition features issues 56 and 57 of BLESS collective lookbooks.
 Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky - One head too many / Une tête en trop / Ein Kopf zu viel
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Trilingual monograph investigating five film-projects by the French-German duo. The publication features a series of essays and a high-quality photographic documentation.
Olga Lewicka - Cloudility
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
With this collage book Polish artist Olga Lewicka draws an illuminating parallel between the visual and cultural history of clouds and the historical development and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.
Manuel Raeder - Makulatur - 2010-2016
2016
English edition
A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.
Joachim Koester - Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication serves as an extension of Joachim Koester's artworks and research on Jerzy Grotowski's (1933-1999) mythical persona and experimental approach towards theater. More specifically here, Koester retraces Grotowski's trips to Mexico with the help of historians, anthropologists, and former students.
 Rometti Costales - Blue has run
2016
English edition
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
Leonor Antunes - The last days in Chimalistac
2016
English edition
(last copies available!)
This richly illustrated monograph documents a series of sculptural works engaging with the histories of 20th-century architecture, design and art—particularly the heritage of the Black Mountain College and the international Modern Movement.
Nina Canell - Satin Ions / 새틴 이온
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Autodestrucción6: Chichimecachubo: Matzerath@S13 (2 vol.)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
A photographic documentation of an installation work by Abraham Cruzvillegas as part of his “autoconstrucción” project referring to the concepts of incommunicability and intelligibility through the figures of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo and Günter Grass's fictional character Oskar Matzerath.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Letters to the Editors - A Journal
2016
English edition
The complete issues of Szaflarski's self-produced journal devoted to textual practices.
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
Gabriel Sierra - (The title of the exhibition changed every hour)
2016
English edition
This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierra's site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. The book expands on and further examines the topics and ideas of the exhibition, that of the relation between the body and its spatio-temporal framework.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
K.m Exhibitions / Ausstellungen - 2010-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010-2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images (with Silke Otto-Knapp, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Willem de Rooij, Richard Tuttle, Simon Denny, Rebecca Warren...).
Radio Nancarrow 92.5 FM
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication is the closing project of a series of recent initiatives around the works of American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow, including a pirate radio station, an art journal, a museographical essay by Mario García Torres, and an exhibition.
Pedro Barateiro - Palmeiras Bravas / The Current Situation
2015
English edition
A disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live (catalogue).
Tobias Engelschall - Zustände - A Topography of Architectural Transformations in Berlin / Eine Topografie architektonischer Transformationen in Berlin
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
A topographical book by architect Tobias Engelschall that gathers photographs of 100 Berlin buildings, capturing their transformation through time.
Andreas Sell - Lifestyles
2015
English edition
In Lifestyles Andreas Sell combines a diary with photographic documentation, pictures of sculptures and drawings from 2010 to 2015. These excerpts reflect his nomadic-like life, the clearance of his parents' household and the enterprise of building a holiday house.
Henning Bohl - Fatal Kadath Fatal
2015
no text
A sequel to Kadath Fatal: drawings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (artist's book).
Sur
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.
Heinz Peter Knes - On distance
2015
English edition
A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.
Ixiptla
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Group Affinity
2014
English edition
An experimental summer school that took place in 2011 at Kunstverein München organized in collaboration with Casco.
Vajiko Chachkhiani - Both
2014
English edition
First monograph.
Rodrigo Hernández - What is the moon?
2014
English edition
Artist's book.
Nora Schultz - Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sound
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
(last copies available!)
Catalogue / artist's book.
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