Boooooks

Please join us Friday 31 January, 6-9pm for the opening of our inaugural programme at our new permanent location in Antwerp.

Situated in the street-facing entrance of a graphic design studio and living space, in 2025, BOOOOOKS presents a programme of consecutive presentations of independent publishing practices, running alongside a year-long cycle of cumulative displays of the practice of artist Aaron Harris.

For the first exhibition instalment running from January 31 through March 14, BOOOOOKS presents two parallel presentations by Aaron Harris (Antwerp) and Good Neighbour (Amsterdam).

Aaron Harris is a painter based in Antwerp. Originally trained as a graphic designer, his works capture details and snapshots of places and objects, often featuring or alluding to traces of human touch.

Good Neighbour (GN) is a research platform based in Amsterdam since 2017, run by artist Martin La Roche, designer Dongyoung Lee, and researcher Valeria Marchesini.

GN defines itself primarily as a community of readers who share a communal interest in books seen as performative tools.

The name ‘Good Neighbour’ is inspired by Aby Warburg’s ‘Law of the Good Neighbour’, a continuous system of thematic and serendipitous arrangements between books in a library. GN doesn’t seek to build a library; it makes time for appreciating existing ones.

IMG: Aaron Harris – 'Reussner, 80 pages', 2012-2024, 30x40cm, oil on canvas

We would love to see you on the last days of our bookshop and reading room, 'A Reading List'. Come say hi from Thursday 27.06 until Saturday 29.06, between 12:00 and 18:00 and take advantage of a 20% discount when purchasing two or more books... OP=OP ☀️📚

Last week, designer and publisher of artist books and editions Peter Foolen has made a selection of titles from our shelves. His reading list is on view in our reading room for you to read and enjoy on site or buy and take home, alongside a wider selection of works produced by Peter.

A Reading List also marks the launch of a new edition, 'Time Record (1998-2024)', by Sophie-Marie Beinke. The edition is available framed or unframed and is on view in our reading room alongside limited edition print 'Total Eclipse of the Sun' by British artist Roger Ackling.

An Athens City Reader
Eleanor Wright
2017

€35,00 available in store or DM

Published by Drop City Düsseldorf and M HKA Antwerp

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Forming part of an ongoing interest in private and public spaces made by and for people, and conflicts between the individual and society. Initial ideas began on Wright's residency at the British School at Athens in 2016 which have since developed into a body of work that draws out relationships between shared identities, cultures and trade as well as individualism, society and responsibility, with particular focus on an Athenian engineer and his vacant Shopping Centre 'Rea'.

Photographic essay accompanied by texts from Tilly Fowler and Christian Jendreiko

The bookshop is open until 18h