MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2026
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Fair & festival silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin Pre-fair MISS READ Space, Gerichtstraße 45, 13347 Berlin
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival moves to silent green Kulturquartier, from June 26 to 28, 2026 with a focus on Bibliodiversity. In its eighteenth year, MISS READ continues to offer a vibrant platform for critical discourse, experimental publishing, and independent artistic practices. 235 exhibitors from 46 countries form one of the most international gatherings for independent publishing worldwide. Founded in 2009, MISS READ is Europe’s leading event for artists’ books, conceptual publications, and publishing as artistic, political, and poetic practice. MISS READ’s mission entails fostering global bibliodiversity, nurturing creative ecosystems and pushing the frontiers of publishing. The 2026 list of exhibitors can be found here. The eighteenth edition of MISS READ introduces Bibliodiversity as a special focus: publishing as artistic practice, the cultural plurality of experimental reading and writing, and the ecosystems of independent publishing. Coined in analogy to biodiversity, bibliodiversity describes the plurality of voices, forms, and perspectives in publishing — a counterweight to market concentration and cultural homogenisation. Publishing after the so-called paperless revolution never fully dematerialized, yet transformed the conditions of print, distribution, and social ecosystems. The three-day public program brings together lectures, panel discussions, performances, and book launches exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing. In order to redistribute necessary resources towards supporting alternative publishing practices, MISS READ once again awards BIPOC Support Grants to exceptional artists and independent publishers and is delighted to welcome this year’s outstanding recipients: BAZAR Art Books (Tehran), Chimurenga (Cape Town), microutopías (Montevideo), Tehran Zine (Tehran), and zug press (Brooklyn). Highlights of the daily program include: On Friday, June 26, the evening opens with a line-up of readings, talks, and multi-media performance on Forms of Migration, a book series by Falschrum exploring how art and literature shape our understanding of global migration. Thaer Ayoub, Aya Sammani, Wendy M. K. Shaw, Mati Shemoelof, and Sascha Thoma (Eps51) will present their contributions, moderated by co-editor Stefan Maneval. The annual Conceptual Poetics Day on Saturday, June 27, explores the border between visual art and literature. Program highlights include “Bibliodiversity in Magazines,” a panel bringing together the editors of three landmark independent art publications — Åse Eg Jørgensen and Jesper Fabricius (Pist Protta/Space Poetry, Copenhagen), Cecilia Grönberg and Jonas (J) Magnusson (OEI, Stockholm), and Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press, Helsinki) — discussing bibliodiversity as both aesthetic practice and critical stance: how a magazine resists uniformity in form, politics, and memory. Rebekah Smith, Carlos Soto Román, Verónica Stedile Luna, and Angelica Stathopoulos convene for “Disrupting Forms: Personal Dictionaries and Documentary Poetics,” exploring ruptures of book forms and the proposition that there are as many languages as there are desires. Sezgin Boynik presents “Bibliography with Attitude,” arguing for counter-bibliography as a radical democratic tool for collectivizing knowledge. Kenneth Ting-Yu Lin (Nomad Papaya Books) presents Iconography of Tropical Plants in Taiwan Vol. VII, an artist’s book tracing colonialism in East Asia through botanical documentation and the ambiguous traces of antiquarian books, time, and colonial presence. On Sunday, June 28, in the garden of silent green, Shirin Sabahi launches her book Zenit in conversation with artist Vijai Maia Patchineelam, designer Manuel Raeder, and editor Elena Malzew (BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE). Other highlights include Darío Marroche and guests, who present “Dissident Manifestos from the South” through a collective reading of texts on poetic-political practices of dissident production in South America. “Follow the Tidal” brings together zug press and shushushushu books to exchange ideas on independent photobook publishing, artistic networks, and cross-cultural circulation across Asia, Europe, and North America. Chimurenga presents the map-making process behind Chronic: Brandfort, Liberation Capital [1977–86], tracing liberation networks shaped by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s agency in Brandfort. e-flux hosts the book launch of the first English translation of Władysław Strzemiński’s Theory of Seeing, presented by Daniel Muzyczuk (Muzeum Sztuki) together with artist Agnieszka Polska. The complete program can be found here. Pre-fair and radio program The pre-fair and radio program can be found here and here. MISS READ 2026 Team The poster of MISS READ 2026 is created by Na Kim. The poster of Conceptual Poetics Day 2026 is created by yabeautdi10. MISS READ and Conceptual Poetics Day 2026 are funded by LOTTO-Stiftung. For press inquiries, please contact: info@missread.com #missreadberlin #missread #missread2026 Special thanks We also would like to thank all the volunteers helping us throughout the fair. |
