Roma Portfolio by Roma Publications

ROMA 528 Cooking with Bruce or Whatever You Want Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 526 The Serving Library Annual 2026/27 (Digital Vaccine) Angie Keefer & Bhargav

32p 21.3 × 30.5 cm 2026

ROMA 525 80p 21 × 29.7 cm 2026

This issue of The Serving Library Annual comprises a lengthy, single-bulletin conversation between Angie Keefer and Bhargav Sri Prakash titled “Neurocarrots.” Their discussion departs from the concept and development of the AI-based Digital Vaccine, moves on to consider some related aspects in Humanities education, and concludes by dragging a dubious third voice into the mix. This is followed by the complete official patent for the Digital Vaccine.

Something, almost nothing Luciano Rigolini

140p 25 × 35.3 cm 2026

Something, almost nothing exists out of images produced by Luciano Rigolini during the time of his digital photographic experiments. The images resemble and enact photographs he has taken in periods before, mostly in his studio. They appear as stratified surfaces, marked by traces, fragments, and residual elements that complicate their readability while expanding their semantic potential.

ROMA 524 Parallax (Market Place / No Home) Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 523 240p 16 × 24 cm / 24 × 16 cm 2026

Istanbul Drawings Bart Lodewijks

Parallax is the apparent di!erence of the position of an object when viewed from di!erent perspectives. This publication points at two di!erent approaches that Marcopoulos has taken in photography. In this case the horizontal “No Home” is edited from images taken over a period of 8 years leading to a non-linear narrative of displacement. While the vertical “Market Place” on the other hand is a study of physicality and motion in a city park done over a series of days. The 2 books come together in a box. Limited edition of 400 copies. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 522 The Wonder Way Project Emmanuelle Antille

112p 22 × 28 cm 2026

In periods, between 2020 to 2023, Lodewijks was drawing in Istanbul. Through the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake, he searched for walls to draw on and people to give him permission. A central figure in all this is Hasan, a carpenter from Yenikapı who becomes his ally in a city where hospitality and wariness exist side by side. What starts as a quest for suitable locations to draw turns into a tale of chance, conflict, and the unwritten rules of the streets. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 521 656p 22 × 28 cm 2026

In 2019, Emmanuelle Antille decided to make a film about the process of creation; to understand why worlds within this world – parallel, di!erent spaces – are created, by whom, and how they can transform and inspire us. Can we reinvent the spaces we move through? Are there other forms of territory? How do we create a universe of our own? Can we still reveal or imagine new territories in our hyper-connected world which is oversaturated with images and representations of elsewhere? Created alongside the film and an exhibition, the book presents previously unpublished work of the artists who took part in the exhibitions. Designed as a tool for research and discovery, featuring exclusive documents, photographs and behind-thescenes footage, it serves as a record of this endeavour. Design: Emmanuelle Antille & Karen Schmutz

On Jules Spinatsch Damian Jurt, Stephan Kunz (editors)

288p 13.6 × 20 cm 2026

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ROMA 520 pitalismus ist ill Jules Spinatsch

240p 20 × 27 cm 2026

Calendar 2027 / Every day is a new day Karel Martens

736p 15 × 21 cm 2026

A tear-o! calendar for 2027 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day! Design: Karel Martens & Susu Lee

ROMA 518 All at Once Shirana Shahbazi

ROMA 517 252p 24 × 31 cm 2026

This publication appears with a solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern. Shirana Shahbazi’s multilayered work establishes fragmentation and layering as a strategy for representing a complex present. Based on her experience of multiple a#liation, she examines the construction of reality, always starting with photography but branching out to encompass diverse of techniques and materials. With texts by Fanni Fetzer, Judtith Kuckart, Susanne Figner, and Li Tavor. Design: Julia Born

Goodyear Bart Lodewijks

32p 19 × 27cm 2026

Bart Lodewijks returns to Watou to put together the arts festival with his wife Danielle van Zuijlen. Chalk in hand, he heads into the village. He draws on walls, stalls, street nameplates and a tractor tyre. Along the way, he becomes entangled in conversations with residents, farmers and local artists. When the tractor tyre the artist draws on for Paul Demets ends up back on top of the silage of farmer Geert, the work achieves its most basic form: returning to the place it came from. Also available as e-book in Dutch and in English. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 516 Cloakroom Tickets (1-250) Karel Martens

100p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2026

15 Panels for Mauvoisin Dam Hugues Reip

A box containing 15 double sided cards that can be composed into a scale model of Hugues Reip’s exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam (Valais / Switzerland) in the summer of 2026. The front of each panel features hybrid images of an imaginary cave, gradually fading from a dark lake into a phantasmagorical sky. The reverse side shows a stylized ignition of a match. Design: Roger Willems

A collection of 50 monoprints by Karel Martens, printed on the pages of a booklet with numbered cloakroom tickets that Martens had kept in his studio for many years, with the intention of printing a layer on top of them one day. The monoprints are all reproduced front and back, at their original scale. Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 514 Lutz Bacher, Burning the Days: An Exhibition Helena Kritis, Solveig Øvstebø (editors)

15 cards + 8p 18 × 25.5 cm 2026

ROMA 513 304 p 22 × 29 cm 2026

Published by Astrup Fearnley Museet, WIELS, and Roma Publications, the catalogue brings together three newly commissioned essays approaching Bacher’s art from distinct yet intersecting perspectives. Kate Nesin takes The Betty Center — Bacher’s archive of nearly 300 black binders, later realised as an artwork — as a point of departure to examine her engagement with archives, containers, and readymade forms. Design: Julie Peeters.

Field to Form Irene Kopelman

600p 21 × 28 cm 2026

Field to Form presents the first comprehensive overview of Kopelman’s expansive practice, bringing together exhaustive documentation on seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists and other specialists, has developed over the last twenty-five years. Design: Laura Pappa

ROMA 512 Birthday Calendar Karel Martens

ROMA 511 14p 29.7 × 42 cm 2026

The Art of the Hairy Monkey Simon Wald-Lasowski

The colorful, layered patterns in this A3 birthday calendar are based on a single shape punched out of colored cardstock in multiple directions. The design was originally created by Martens in 1968 but was only realized today. Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 510 Memorials Jan Kempenaers

304p 17 × 22cm 2026

The Art of the Hairy Monkey Rediscovering Beijing’s Máohóu Tradition Through the Work of Master Qiū Yísh%ng and the Photography of Simon Wald-Lasowski. The Art of the Hairy Monkey unveils the world of máohóu, an obscure, satirical folk art from Beijing dating 200 years. Tiny, mischievous figures are crafted from materials used in traditional Chinese medicine: Cicada shells and Magnolia buds. These miniature characters are placed in rich dioramas that mirror society with wit, irony and gentle provocation. Long practiced yet rarely documented, the tradition of the “Hairy Monkey” has recently been recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage in China. This is the first dedicated publication on the subject outside its country of origin. Design: Jordi de Vetten

ROMA 509 480p 22.5 × 30.5 cm 2026

Memorials continues the trajectory of Jan Kempenaers’ earlier publication Spomenik (ROMA 141, 2010). Comprising 255 black-andwhite photographs, most of them made between 2022 and 2025, the book brings together images of brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia, built between 1950 and 1980, during the socialist period. Made over the course of ten journeys through the region—across presentday Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia—the photographs trace a landscape in which sculpture, ideology, and collective memory remain deeply intertwined. As Matthew Harvey writes in his essay for the book, “the entire landscape of monuments acts as a library and archive in and of itself.” Design: Roger Willems

Flying a Kite Through an Oblique Plane of Focus De Cleene

8p + 60p 16 × 23 cm 2026

Flying a Kite Through an Oblique Plane of Focus draws on the phototechnical principle named after Theodor Scheimpflug and his interest in kites. At the heart of the project lies an attempt to photograph a nineteenthcentury kite flying through an oblique plane of focus in a clearing in the Julian Alps, near Trenta. The title doubles as a protocol through which the work delves into the political, poetic and historical ties between photography, landscape and cartography. The book counts 56 pages in a fourfold cover that includes two original handmade 13 x 18 cm baryta gelatin silver contact prints, one of which has a translucent acrylic paint overlay highlighting the oblique plane of focus, edition: 150, numbered. Design: Tjobo Kho

ROMA 500 Statement and CounterStatement 2: Typologies/ Typographies/Topologies/ Topographies Experimental Jetset

ROMA 499 656p 10.5 × 18 cm 2026

Studio Music Karel Martens

Ten years after the publication of “Statement and Counter-Statement” (Roma Publications, 2015), Amsterdam-based graphic design collective Experimental Jetset edited and designed the second instalment of their monograph. Titled “Typologies/Typographies/ Topologies/Topographies”, this second volume brings together a broad selection of work by Experimental Jetset, while also featuring a handful of essays contributed by several guest-authors (James Goggin, Lieven Lahaye, Greil Marcus, Yasmil Raymond, and Lucy Sante), and fragments from interviews and essays, written between 2015 and 2025 by Experimental Jetset, compiled and edited by James Goggin. Design: Experimental Jetset

Recorded in Manders’ studio, where sounds resonated among the artworks, the music unfolded in dialogue with the imposing space. The music embodies the tension between vulnerability and strength, between the individual and the universal. Music composed and performed by Jan D’Haene in the studio of Mark Manders, Ronse, August 2025. Recorded and mixed by Oscar Claus. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu. Artwork by Mark Manders. Design: Simon Bultnyck

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ROMA 498 Studio Snapshots Mark Manders

vinyl 31.5 × 31.5 cm 2025

140p 21 × 29 cm 2025

This book comprises a lengthy series of blackand-white photographs of Mark Manders’ working environment where unfinished works show di!erent stages of his creative process. Design: Roger Willems

More Blommers & Schumm

240p 24 × 32 cm 2025

‘More’ is a compelling visual archive that brings together over 25 years of collaborative work by Dutch duo Blommers & Schumm. Known for their unique approach to fashion and portrait photography, Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm create meticulously constructed images that appear e!ortless, yet every element is captured in-camera. Balancing on the edge of the uncanny and the everyday, where a tension emerges between beauty and strangeness, their work often explores the boundaries between public image and private life, commercial styling and autonomous work. The book reveals the artistry behind the quiet disruptions of an intuitive and subversive practice. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 496 In the Wake of Blind Navigation. Boekie Woekie Books by Artists Boekie Woekie

ROMA 495 168p 17 × 24 cm 2025

De Wallen Amsterdam Dana Lixenberg

This book explores nearly four decades of Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam’s legendary artist-run bookshop and gallery. Founded in 1986 by a group of artists, Boekie Woekie has since evolved into a self-sustained hub for artists’ books and a living artwork in its own right. With contributions by Maike Aden, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, and Anne ThurmannJajes, the book reflects on Boekie Woekie’s roots in the Fluxus tradition, its radical publishing ethos, and its ongoing challenge to art world conventions. It includes archival material, excerpts from Jan Voss’s diary, an exhibition checklist, and documentation of the group’s subversive printing practices and international collaborations. Design: Roger Willems & Jordi de Vetten

ROMA 494 O Daniel Reuter, Umihara Chikara

192p 24 × 32 cm 2025

‘De Wallen Amsterdam’ is a portrait of Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the historic neighbourhood where photographer Dana Lixenberg spent her early childhood. It o!ers insight into a diverse community where residents, sex workers, tourists, and others converge in relative harmony, but not always without friction. Created between 2021 and 2025, the series consists of intimate black-and-white portraits of locals, visitors, artists, sex workers, drifters, and entrepreneurs, shown alongside detailed historic interiors in colour, revealing what lies behind the facades. The book also includes stills from a video installation, part of an exhibition at the Amsterdam City Archives. Design: Hans Gremmen

ROMA 493 188p 16 × 22 cm 2025

‘O’ is an exploration of Osaka’s waterfront by Daniel Reuter and Umihara Chikara, created during a month-long shared residency in the city. Staying in a narrow house overlooking the Okawa River, the two artists embarked on daily walks and travelled to the vast industrial zones next to the bay. Every photograph in the book was taken during this period; each artist contributed half, though it remains deliberately unclear who produced which image. In the city’s evolving periphery, the forms of global infrastructure meet the slower, subjective pace of lived experience. The book appears as part of the artistic programme of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo 2025. Design: Roger Willems

La Nonpareille / The Incomparable Batia Suter

168p 21 × 28 cm 2025

‘La Nonpareille’ expands on Batia Suter’s site-specific installation at TU Delft, in which she engaged with an archive of glass slides from its library. Originally used between 1900 and 1960 for lectures in Mechanical Technology, these visibly worn plates document machines, industrial materials, and production processes during a period of increasing mechanisation. Suter reworks the material into a visual reflection on the entanglement of humans and machines – and how technology reshapes perception, labour, and everyday life. Many compositions in the book consist of layered montages. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

ROMA 492 Unbound Karel Martens

ROMA 491 216p 17 × 24 cm 2025

12 Postcards Karel Martens

Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ upcoming solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The book brings together a wideranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decadeslong career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances between being an artist book and a catalog. With texts by Thomas Castro, curator of the exhibition and Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum. Design: Karel Martens, Susu Lee, Jordi de Vetten

ROMA 490 Calendar 2026 / Every day is a new day Karel Martens

13 cards 10.5 × 15 cm 2025

A set of 12 postcards of monoprints by Karel Martens, published to accompany the first major retrospective exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

ROMA 489 736p 15 × 21 cm 2025

A tear-o! calendar for 2026 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day! Design: Karel Martens

New Surface Research Karel Martens

12p 21 × 30 cm 2025

Room full of colours! Out of 216 variations these are hand picked unique sets of 12 sheets A4, which can be composed as wallpaper. This special edition is released on the occasion of the exhibition “Karel Martens - Unbound”, from 11.07 - 26.10.25 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Design: Hans Gremmen

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ROMA 488 Glacier noir Camille Llobet

68p 23 × 31 cm 2025

A Matter of Framing (Notes on Representation Vol. 13) Irene Kopelman

Invited to exhibit on the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland, Camille Llobet created a photographic series capturing a glacial landscape in transition. Shot on and around the moraines of the Mer de Glace, the images reveal a layered world of rock, ice, and sediment - remnants of a largely vanished glacier. Through diptychs that often exclude the sky and horizon, Llobet invites viewers to re-experience the scale and materiality of this grey-toned terrain. The book also features an in-depth interview with Jean-Paul Felley, in which Llobet discusses her working process, collaboration with geomorphologists, and the choreography of mountain landscapes in flux. Design: Roger Willems

This publication is connected to the exhibition Una cuestión de encuadre at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC Panamá) from September 2024 to January 2025. It features 3 series of works developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama in 2024. With contributions by both artist and scientists, this book o!ers a model for interdisciplinary practice rooted in long-term exchange. It also marks the occasion of Kopelman’s appointment as the first non-scientist to be named Research Associate at STRI – a formal recognition of her enduring engagement with the institute’s work and the Panamanian landscape. Design: Roger Willems & Ayumi Higuchi

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ROMA 486 Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic Marlene Dumas

96p 21 × 28 cm 2025

140p 21 × 30 cm 2025

Catalogue for an exhibition of Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, featuring over forty paintings and works on paper that o!er a cross-section of the artist’s challenging representations of the human body. In this book, her works engage into an anachronistic pas de deux with the abstracted human forms of Cycladic figurines made by unknown artists some five thousand years ago. Design: Roger Willems

INDEX 2025 Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

412p 23 × 28 cm 2025

Artist and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa presents ‘INDEX 2025’, a book constituted by cuts, folds, citations, terms and images, all of which explore the resonance of its (im) proper name. The book may have begun in the summer of congressional Kente cloth, in the operation of summer camps, or in the imprecise materiality of social distance. Its origins are certainly multiple, multiply uncertain, as stable as any reflection given in space over time. Or, as fixed as any photograph. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 484 Contouren Jordi de Vetten

ROMA 483 96p 20 × 29.5 cm 2025

A Model Bettina Steinbrügge, Jason Dodge

Contouren consists of recent black and white photographs taken by Jordi de Vetten within the Netherlands. By juxtaposing photos of curiosities found within a seemingly well-organised, flat landscape, the book initiates a play with these elements— each with their own character. Contouren is a poetic take on the Dutch landscape and comprises 27 black and white photos and six scans printed with blue ink. Design: Jordi de Vetten

ROMA 482 OBSTAKLES Willem Oorebeek

248p 22 × 29 cm 2025

This book, A Model, parallels the exhibition A Model at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Bettina Steinbrügge conceived this exhibition as a conversation with the ever evolving contemporary art museum. This publication, with an essay about the roles museums can take, in theory, in practice and in use, enacts how she engages the artists in the exhibition to sit with this shifting idea. Commissioning major works by varying artists the exhibition uses the format of prologue, body and epilogue to overlap gestures in the museum space. Likewise, this book engages the designer, photographer and editor to stage a publication that makes a new exhibition, A Model, between these pages. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 481 304p 24 × 34 cm 2025

Published on the occasion of a solo show by Willem Oorebeek at WIELS in Brussels, this richly illustrated book presents re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production. These are numbered according to recollection, organised under headings, and translated from Dutch to English. The translations are coloured by two years of conversation with editor/designer Will Holder –accounting for ambiguity, rabbit-holes, and an [un]conscious preference for “quasi-” “ofschoon...” “enzovoort.” Repetition, alliteration, and other material, musical and metric devices are placed on the page, quite intentionally, designed “an sich” to facilitate memory and recall; complementing the book’s many scale details of work itself. Design: Will Holder

Unfolding Structures of Exchange Hans Demeulenaere, Nikolaas Demoen, Marc Nagtzaam

24p 19 × 25 cm 2024

A red rectangular frame that is part of an installation by Hans Demeulenaere at the exhibition One way or another, 10 years of Posture Editions in S.M.A.K. in 2021 remains behind in the museum due to the artist’s forgetfulness. This absent-mindedness forms the starting point for Unfolding Structures of Exchange. What happens when three artists exchange this red nomadic frame among themselves and shape it to their sculptural, drawing, and choreographic hand?

ROMA 480 Black Snow (3.2 seconds 60 fps) Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 479 196p 21 × 26.5 cm 2024

The Images of Luis Barragán Mark Manders, Roger Willems

Book with 192 stills from a 3.2 seconds film clip of Haku Shimasaki performing a Cab Double 1080˚. In October 2022 Ari Marcopoulos went to Saas-Fee in Switzerland to work on his short film Butter. The film was shot on the glacier where a halfpipe was made for professional snowboarders to kick o! their competitive season. After finishing the film Ari asked a group of snowboarders to send him their favourite clips of tricks which resulted in another film: Black Snow. He had desaturated and inverted the clips so the stills looked like black-and-white negatives, connecting the relatively new technique of multi-channel video to the beginnings of photography. In this process the clip by Haku Shimasaki stood out and has been made into this publication. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 478 Love Letters Karel Martens

80p 21 × 28 cm 2024

The photos presented in this publication show images collected by the Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988) as part of a reference archive that he displayed on a large wooden monk’s lectern in the living room of his house in Mexico City. The somewhat bulky piece of furniture, occupying almost all of the room in front of a large window facing the garden, presented the particulars of Barragán’s thinking in a fluctuating arrangement of illustrations. During a stay in Mexico City in January 2011, Roger Willems and Mark Manders captured a set of individual images taken against the wooden floorboards of the Barragán House. Text by Wonne Ickx. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 477 96p 16 × 22 cm 2024

Love Letters is a selection of 44 envelopes for the letters that Karel Martens sent to his love, Lous between 1962 and 1963. These envelopes have been manually printed during the time Karel was stationed in the drawing room of the Welfare Service in the Frederik Hendrik Barracks for his military service, tasked with designing a poster titled “Don’t croak about the military service matters, the enemy is listening.”

New Surface Research Henri Jacobs

328p 21 × 29.7 cm 2024

A collection of works by Henri Jacobs who has been conducting an investigation into two-dimensionality, the flat nature and recto-verso proposition of a surface. Materialising in various forms such as plaited paintings to wall hangings, murals, brickwork, ceramic works, and drawings made using a variety of techniques. One technique Jacobs regularly experiments with is that of plaiting paper, whereby old and new works or figurative and geometric images are woven together into a two-sided 2-D surface that is image, pattern, texture, and structure all-in one. Text by Kasper Andreasen and Henri Jacobs. Design: Roger Willems & Yuri Sato

ROMA 476 Walking as Research Practice Alice Twemlow & Tânia A. Cardoso

ROMA 475 251p 12.2 × 19.7 cm 2024

Wilhelm Sasnal – Painting as Prop Adam Szymczyk ed.

“What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? Where and when does the research occur in relation to the walk, the walking and the walkers? Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? What and where are the objects and subjects of a walk? How might walking help us emphasise our connection to the more-thanhuman world? What are the entry points to a city through walking? How might walking provide a path toward more socially just urban spaces and commons?” This is a collaboration between Soapbox and WARP research group. Design: Jana Sofie Liebe Riso printing: no kiss?, Amsterdam

ROMA 474 Future Estate Matthew Harvey

168p 21 × 29.7 cm 2024

Painting as Prop features four new essays and one conversation with the artist. Several paintings, some of which played a role as props in Sasnal’s recent film project The Assistant, take cues from archival images, banal snapshots, popular culture, and art history. The accompanying texts introduce Sasnal’s distinct portraiture, modernist inspirations, and the development of his first feature film. With contributions by Rein Wolfs, Rachel Haidu, Ulrich Loock, Noit Banai, Adam Szymczyk, Rita Ouédraogo and Wilhelm Sasnal. Design: Agata Biskup

ROMA 473 208p 24 × 17 cm 2024

Future Estate is a long term research project documenting how places are organized and disorganized by commodity production; the geopolitics of development; and the zoning practices, extractions, and transnational investments that come with uneven processes of global labor and distribution. Drawn to the messy and contingent worlds where life plays out, the book makes use of the unheroic image, the sideways view of the margins, o!ering alternative pathways to consider a world produced, consumed, constructed, maintained, variously inhabited, and precariously lived. Design: Roger Willems

Calendar 2025 / Every day is a new day Karel Martens

736p 15 × 21 cm 2024

A tear-o! calendar for 2025 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day! Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 472 Interference Philippe Van Wolputte

ROMA 471 352p 21 × 26.5 cm 2024

Pendulum Shift Joan Ayrton

Invited to exhibit on the Mauvoisin dam in Switzerland, Joan Ayrton chose to photograph the dam and the surrounding landscape with a camera called Tessina. An extremely tiny camera which appeared on the market at the end of the 1950s, when the Mauvoisin works were completed. In a history that is highly emblematic of the modern era, that of the construction of dams in the Swiss Alps, and that of a watchmaking industry that, following the stock market crash of 1929, had to reinvent itself, entering the field of photography. Design: Roger Willems

An overview of 20+ years of site specific installation works by visual artist Philippe Van Wolputte. From Indicated Locations (2003), via the site specific installations grouped under the title Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Space (2003-2015), Inhaling Minerals As-Best As Possible (2010), and Looking Back While Walking Forward (2012), to Indicated Locations - Revisited (2023). Design: Roger Willems

ROMA CDLXX Type and Context Radim Peško

132p 21 × 29.7 cm 2024

ROMA 469 40p 21 × 29.7 cm 2024

Learning from the inscription in the courtyard of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Radim Peško considers di!erent approaches based on the original letterforms from the renaissance to experiment with technologies, to not only show the result of the fonts but to give context to its origins. This specimen also includes texts by Francesco Delrosso, Stuart Bertolotti Bailey, James Langdon, Daniele Bursich, Radim Peško and Jonathan Pierini. Design: Radim Peško and Jonathan Pierini

Support Sheet Stephan Keppel & Marc Nagtzaam

64p 21.8 × 30.5 cm 2024

This publication arose from a collaboration between artists Marc Nagtzaam and Stephan Keppel. Installation images from their site specific exhibition en&route! OULIPO en route! are followed by a series of collage-like scans by Nagtzaam and Keppel in which they combine each other’s drawings and photographs collected for this project. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 468 Sumo Judo Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 467 64p 15 × 20 cm 2024

Pictorial Content? Marijn van Kreij

This book presents two photo series that Marcopoulos made during trips to Tokyo and Kyoto in 2013 and 2023 respectively. The first is a series of wrestlers resting and practicing at the Kokonoe Stable – a famous dohy( in Tokyo. The second series shows students practicing Judo in the Kyoto University Gymnasium. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 466 Nieuwe buren / New Neighbours Bart Lodewijks

204p 17 × 24 cm 2024

Pictorial Content? consists of roughly a decade’s worth of drawings and collages made by Marijn van Kreij. Van Kreij combines hand-drawn copies of artworks and illustrations from children’s books with cut-out fragments of text and uses fluid brushstrokes to apply paint to pages from art catalogues and magazines. Certain visual motifs, such as a window and a snail, recur in various forms. The book includes an e-mail exchange between writer and researcher Esther Darley and Marijn van Kreij that took place during the preparations of the publication. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 465 112p 20.5 × 29.7 cm 2024

Bart Lodewijks was invited to make chalk drawings in Belgium’s newest prison, in Haren, Brussels. When he arrived there it was still only a construction site, so he started drawing along the Witloofstraat , the street the prison is located on. He soon became acquainted with the local residents who were concerned about the pending arrival of their new neighbours; twelve hundred prisoners. Fourteen months later the inmates arrived in vans with bulletproof glass. Lodewijks goes inside with the very first group of them, eager to draw on the most feared wall of them all, the wall of walls, to breach the line separating good from evil. Design: Sam de Groot

Ghost Town Ola Vasiljeva

340p 17 × 24 cm 2024

This first comprehensive overview of Ola Vasiljeva’s practice between 2008 and 2023 consists of three intertwined sections: A section with exhibitions, a section with projects by the Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA, an art collective founded by Vasiljeva in 2008), and a ‘storage’ section. This part of the book is a cross between an index, an archive and a collection, and it reproduces some of the separate elements that have been featured in Vasiljeva’s multifaceted projects over the years. With text contributions by Chris Fitzpatrick, Roos Gortzak, Anna Gritz and Kate Strain. Design: Robert Milne

ROMA 464 BEWARE Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 463 320p 22 × 16 cm 2024

The MoMA Plant Collection Inge Meijer

This book is a new look at photographs from the time Marcopoulos shot Brown Bag, a short super-8 film of skateboarders in New York in 1993. The film, photographs from that time, plus a small selection of recent work, appear in this book, and as a large collage in the exhibition BEWARE at the Musée Art Moderne de Paris in 2024. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 462 Amidst the fire, I am not burnt Michiel De Cleene and Arnout De Cleene

112p 29.7 × 21 cm 2024

After Meijer’s first artist’s book The Plant Collection (ROMA, 2019), about plants in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The MoMA Plant Collection includes 340 photographs and drawings of exhibitions at the New York institution, in which plants feature among the works. Inge Meijer wants to render museum plants visible once again, to make us aware of their real as well as metaphorical importance. Beyond her desire for institutional critique, she is also part of a new moment in the relationship between nature and culture. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 461 160p 24 × 30.5 cm 2024

In April 1872, Vesuvius erupted in a violent cataclysm. It is considered to be the first volcanic eruption ever photographed. Major eruptions have followed since, with the next eruption dangerously looming. Each eruption leads to the next cataclysm, each period of quiescence to forgetfulness and complacency. Amidst the fire, I am not burnt is a surface reading of the iconic landscape shaped by Vesuvius. It researches the di!erent temporalities, scientific and popular approaches, historic and present-day photographic representations, and stories inscribed in this cyclical landscape. Design: Roger Willems

Bercy Street Workout Photographies 2020-2023 Marine Peixoto

88p 23 × 28 cm 2024

Marine Peixoto, winner of the Le Bal/ADAGP Award for Young Creation 23, worked on a sport court near Bercy in Paris, where young adults are coming freely to do workouts. Gathering several times per week, they started to develop their own dynamic with the will of becoming someone else by the transformation of the body. During 2 years, Peixoto followed them, practiced with them, almost became of them. In a sharp black and white, she alternates portraits, frontal views of the practice field, details of the workout material but also moments of gathering. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 456 Some Realized Projects 2014—22 PRODUCTORA

ROMA 455 216p 21 × 28 cm 2023

Exosphere Batia Suter

Book with recent work of Mexico City based architectural studio PRODUCTORA, founded by Abel Perles, Carlos&Bedoya, Victor&Jaime and Wonne Ickx. In creating buildings that function, delight, stimulate and are likely to withstand tectonic fads as well as telluric shifts, all without ever compromising the restless intellectual curiosity at its heart, PRODUCTORA is the rare architecture studio that can have its cake and eat it too. This book is both a compendium and a promise of this singularity. A survey of the groundwork laid out over a decade, and a presage of what is possible as these foundations continue to be built upon. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 454 High Capacity Kasper Andreasen

136p 24.5 × 32 cm 2023

Artist’s book with reproductions of protective packaging material for fruits, vegetables, and headphones, interspersed with collected images of armour. This new project deals in an unexpected and indirect way with the fundamentals of sculpture. The sense of a fossilized present o!ers a new perspective on Suter’s phylogenetic approach to imagery and her appreciation of unintentional beauty. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 453 208p 21 × 29.7 cm 2023

High Capacity shows a personal collection of ephemera collages made of material from the turn of the millennium. This artist’s book contains 203 photocopies of collaged items collected by the artist between 1998 and 2003 in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and elsewhere. High Capacity is not just an amassment of printed matter left over from 2000s, but a very dense, compressed image of that time. Design: Kasper Andreasen & Toni&Uroda

Alexandra Leykauf Alexandra Leykauf

208p 20 × 28 cm 2023

This publication brings together works from three exhibitions by Leykauf: Both Sides Now at Villa du Parc, centre d’art contemporain Annemasse in 2020; Animus at Kunstverein Springhornhof in der Lüneburger Heide in 2021; What We Do in the Shadows at GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen in 2022. With texts by Garance Chabert and Alexandra Leykauf Design: Felix Weigand

ROMA 452 All Words and One Mark Manders

ROMA 451 208p 21 × 28 cm 2023

SHOW TIME BOOK / BOOK TIME SHOW Alexandra Bachzetsis

This is a book about one single word. What started with the task to take one word out of all existing words, and to extend and change the meaning of that single word, became, step by step, a fascinating journey through our human history and our strange human minds. In this book you can see how an idea can travel through di!erent periods, crystallize in di!erent artists’ minds and freeze in various media. From cave drawings to a fax, from Malevich to Guston. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 450 Calendar 2024 / Every day is a new day Karel Martens

256p 22 × 32 cm 2023

Show Time Book / Book Time Show stages over two decades of performance work on the pages of a book. Bachzetsis’s first comprehensive monograph includes new essays and contributions by Michel Auder, Julia Born, Hendrik Folkerts, Amelia Jones & Tawny Andersen, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Paul B. Preciado, Joke Robaard, Dorota Sajewska, Safiya Sinclair, Adam Szymczyk, and Arnisa Zeqo, among others. Design: Julia Born

ROMA 449 736p 15 × 21 cm 2023

A tear-o! calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day! Design: Karel Martens

Feeding on Light Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky

416p 13.5 × 20 cm 2023

Feeding on Light examines photosynthesis through experimental photography and is laid out as a field guide. Imagine a collection of perforated leaves in which organisms like insects, fungi, or bacteria living in or eating the foliage have created an array of patterns. Transporting the outdoors into her analogue colour darkroom, Kovacovsky experimentally captured the traces of the often symbiotic tree-insect-sun relationships. An index links the photograms, contact prints and leaf negative prints to the plant species’ common and scientific names. Essays by Margot & Roland Spohn, Sina Ribak, and Taco Hidde Bakker contextualise her light harvest record from the perspectives of biology, ecology and philosophy. Design: Dongyoung Lee & Roger Willems

ROMA 448 Initium Maris Nicolas Floc’h

ROMA 447 264p 23 × 31 cm 2023

Periodic Table Dove Allouche

With Initium Maris, the inaugural series of a long term project titled Productive Landscapes, Nicolas Floc’h reveals the underwater landscapes in the west of France, from the coasts of Brittany to the LoireAtlantique. In dialogue with scientistsis, Floc’h is on a mission to represent the underwater landscapes at a time when climate change is causing major upheavals within ecosystems. With a text by philosopher Emanuele Coccia. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 446 Capital Compression Arnout De Cleene Michiel De Cleene

192p 20 × 25 cm 2023

The periodic table of chemical elements is one of science’s most important achievements. It is a unique conceptual tool for predicting the appearance and properties of matter on Earth and in the rest of the Universe. On the occasion of his&exhibition around the Fionnay compensation basin (Valais, Switzerland, from July 15–October 1, 2023), Allouche presents a set of 96 color photographs obtained by spectroscopy and associating the names of the chemical elements with the light they emit. & Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 445b 32p 14 × 21 cm 2023

As the wind deposits dust, and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms. The amassment of dirt and specks transfers pressure upon pressure, upon pressure. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression into capital.&Capital Compression explores the poetics of blockchain technology. Photographically and discursively, it employs strategies of authentication and documentation. A hashed poem in nineteen lines, a series of twenty photographs, and an essay intertwine. Design: Tjobo Kho

Small Prints t-shirt Karel Martens

t-shirt S.M.L 2023

T-shirt with a Karel Martens print in 2 colours silkscreen. Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 445 Small Prints (cover 2) Karel Martens

ROMA 445 48p 17 × 24 cm 2023

Small Prints (cover 1) Karel Martens

Publication with unique letterpress monoprints made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022, reproduced at their actual size. It is available with two di!erent leporello covers, which are the result of a printing experiment by printing multiple layers. Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 444 Marine Models – Notes on Representation Vol. 12 Irene Kopelman

48p 17 × 24 cm 2023

ROMA 443 200p 21 × 28 cm 2023

Irene Kopelman examines three interconnected phases in her work through the lens of two small marine animals: Botryllus schlosseri and Nematostella vectensis. One is colonial, the other is solitary, yet they both have the ability to regenerate their entire body. For the artist, drawing is a way of thinking and processing what we see through material and physical activity; dwelling on a subject and exploring it through looking and learning. It is extraordinary to think how much we could learn from these two marine models. Kopelman’s long-term project, initiated by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, is an attempt to tackle such questions through drawing and imagination. Text by Irene Kopelman, Hélène Guenin, Stefano Tiozzo, Eric Röttinger. Design: Roger Willems & Ayumi Higuchi

Five Works Philip Metten

88p 23.5 × 31.5 cm 2023

The Corner Show was an exhibition at Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp in 2015 for which Metten devised the scenography. This spatial configuration was not a stand-alone project. It was the second in a series of sculptural projects of a distinctly architectural envergure that the artist initiated two years earlier and in which he granted spaces with a distinct social program and scale a sculptural transformation: a bar (BAR, 2013), an art gallery frontage (153. Stanton, 2015), a mobile screening dispositive (CINEMA, 2017), and a restaurant (ESSEN, 2020). Combining his genuine interest in contemporary and historical architecture with the long-lasting desire to make sculpture functional, these five projects make up a distinct body of work within Metten’s practice. Design: Joris Kritis

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ROMA 441

I am Going to be Your Last Teacher – A Workbook Yael Davids

Der Sonnenstich Katinka Bock

196p 23 × 30 cm 2023

Katinka Bock

Der Sonnenstich Roma

ROMA 440

Katinka Bock

This publication by Yael Davids unfolded as a workbook along two di!erent exhibitions: A Daily Practice at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020) and One Is Always a Plural at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2021). In Eindhoven the exhibition emerged from a three year research cycle facilitated by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Within the Van Abbemuseum she set up an educational structure, initially afterschool care for children, which evolved into weekly Feldenkrais classes. In Zurich, taking up these ideas in connection with a collection show, which had not been done for some time, was a fruitful challenge. Design: Linda van Deursen

92p 24 × 31.5 cm 2023

Book with mostly previously unpublished photographic work of Katinka Bock, taken between 2015 and 2022. Created within a familial, urban or natural context, often within close proximity to the subjects on which they focus, the images attest to the ‘sculptural’ view that Bock brings to bear on objects, spaces, bodies and living organisms. It is often the observation of the singularity of a form or relationship that inspires her images. Published with texts by Christophe Gallois and Amelia Groom, in conjunction with Bock’s first exhibition to focus solely on her photographic work (Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2023). Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 439

Amsterdam Photos Robby Müller

200p 29.7 × 40.5 cm 2023

AMSTER R DAM R PHOTOS ROBBY MÜLLER Edited and written by / Geselecteerd en geschreven door Andrea Müller With a contribution by / Met een bijdrage van Bianca Stigter

ROMA Publishers

Large-sized publication with 63 photos of Amsterdam by cinematographer Robby Müller. These photos were published every Monday in Het Parool in 2019 and 2020, chosen and provided with an accompanying text by Andrea Müller-Schirmer. Her short associative texts provide insight into Robby Müller’s working method, his dealings with light and tell about Amsterdam. This publication is intended as an ode to the special light of Amsterdam, seen through the eyes of Robby Müller, and an ode to analogue photography. With text by Andrea MüllerSchirmer and Bianca Stigter. Design: Linda van Deursen

Cycladic Blues Marlene Dumas

64p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022

This cahier is about an exhibition that took place in the imagination. For the fall of 2022, Dumas prepared an exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum’s collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas’ enthusiasm and a!ection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 30002000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas’ contemporary works. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 438 Present Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 437 40p + insert 21.5 × 29.5cm 2022

The Sceptical Structures of Max James Beckett

Compositions with frames, lines, dots, bars, scribbles, numbers, and pictures, all scanned from magazines and books in the library of the Laimun artist-in-residence program in Sardinia (Italy). With an accompanying text by Anya Jasbar. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 436 MOTIVI - A Graphic Index Simon Boudvin

120p 14.5 × 27 cm 2022

Artist James Beckett shines light on inventor Max Himmelheber, who modernised particleboard. Also known as chipboard, this material has spawned a love-hate relationship due its disposability, and more recently discovered environmental impact. The book includes a contribution by and conversation with Dirk van Weelden. Design: Will Holder

ROMA 435 200p 24.5 × 32.5 cm 2022

Simon Boudvin MOTIVI ROMA 436

During his residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 2020 and 2021, artist Simon Boudvin explored a collection of old issues of architectural and design magazines, focusing on the 80’s period. In them, splotchy, stripy, wiggly, flashy shapes are brought together in a cheerful environment by artists, architects, photographers, designers, manufacturers and more. These contributors participated in creating the common ornamental background of that time. Boudvin has now collected together noteworthy pages from those magazines to create a composition of 192 close-ups enlarged to 400%. By just zooming in on patterns, textures and graphic samples, without depicting any objects, a beautiful chapter in the history of Italian design unfolds. Design: Roger Willems

Belgian Colonial Monuments 2 Jan Kempenaers

80p 22 × 22 cm 2022

This book is a continuation of the 2019 publication by Jan Kempenaers, Belgian Colonial Monuments. Kempenaers (re-)searched and photographed another 60 colonial monuments related to the Belgian colonial past which to date can all be found in the Belgian public space. Phillip Van den Bossche writes in the introduction: “How can you make the moments when you enter the public space (with countless monuments accumulated over time) ‘acceptable’ for as many people as possible? Why have no legal principles been elaborated and valid with regard to memorials and monuments? Why don’t they have an expiration date? These are three questions that come to mind when looking at Jan Kempenaers’ new series of photos.” Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 434 S75 Petra Stavast

ROMA 433 224 p 27 × 32 cm 2022

(The Rag-Picker) Jürgen Bergbauer Le Chi!onnier

Over a period of 11 years, Bergbauer photographically collected “image rags” and “object scraps” at flea markets in 11 European countries. He was particularly attracted to art reproductions. For a moment the long-gone aura of “pictures of pictures” seems to be recharged by being unconsciously staged. In the immediate vicinity of reproduced “masterpieces”, almost everything turns into an equally seductive sensation. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 432 Then, now, and then Marijke van Warmerdam

372 p 21 × 28 cm 2022

ROMA 431 32p + fold-outs 25 × 29 cm 2022

Then, Now, and Then consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and short texts by Dominic van den Boogerd brings the films to life. Design: Armand Mevis

La scomparsa degli sciapodi Mark Manders

96 p 21 × 28 cm 2022

La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi (or ‘The Dissapeance of the Skiapodes’) is an artist book with images of Skiapodes. The publication comes with a short manual, instructing how to perform a trick that makes the images fade in black and white, and eventually disappear. Design: Mark Manders & Simon Bultynck

ROMA 430 Meadow Pauline Julier

ROMA 429 192p 18 × 25 cm 2022

Polaroid 54 / 59 / 79 Dana Lixenberg

Meadow is part of the Occupy Mars project, conducted by Pauline Julier and Clément Postec, which sees Mars as a mirror of Earth at the dawn of the new age of space exploration, extractivism, and colonialism. It bridges multiple, alternative perspectives that question both past and future to bring new narratives to the fore. Through a series of films, publications, and public discussions, the project aims to insert new, insurgent voices into the fray. A first exploration took place in the Atacama Desert in Chile, where the training sites of NASA’s rovers are located next to one of the largest lithium mines in the world. From this trip was created the video installation Follow The Water, in which the protagonists tell their attachment to this territory. The title refers to The Meadow by James Galvin, 1992. Design: Roger Willems ROMA 428 Rock-paper-roots Géraldine Jeanjean

296p + 12p index 24 × 30.5 cm 2022

The title of this book refers to the types of peel-apart instant film that Dana Lixenberg used between 1993 and 2010, which could be loaded into a cassette that fit into her 4×5” field camera. These instant Polaroid prints, serving as test and reference material for lighting and composition, provide an intimate glimpse into Lixenberg’s work process during photo shoots for numerous clients such as Vibe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vrij Nederland, and personal projects. After the Polaroid Corporation went out of business in 2008, Lixenberg finished her last box of Polaroid 54 two years later. Apart from being an ode to this specific material, the large collection of portraits also reflects the American culture and society Lixenberg encountered in the 1990s and 2000s. Design: Roger Willems ROMA 427

80p 19 × 26 cm 2022

The small French village Aumont, in which Géraldine Jeanjean’s grandmother lives, is filled with childhood memories and has been a subject for photographic work for many years. Her photos are proof of what her stories contain, and identify the places that almost had become imaginary. By observing them, she noticed similarities between her children and her grandmother. While the children discovered reality, her grandmother, su!ering from memory problems, lost the sense of it. A search for reality has developed like a game of rockpaper-scissors. Design: Roger Willems

(Meander) The Serving Library Annual 2022/23

176p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022

This edition of The Serving Library Annual explores the theme of the meander, o!ering both the promise of continuity and the mixed blessing of recurrence. Its freely wandering contents include contributions by Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Canal Street Research Association, Tamara Colchester, Laura Coombs, Anuja Dhir, Lauren Elkin, Jason Fulford, Anthony Huberman, Julije Knifer, Philip Ording, Federico Pérez Villoro, Emilie M. Reed, Eden Reinfurt, Ab Rogers, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Tamara Shopsin, Hermione Spriggs, Robert Wiesenberger Editors: Francesca BertolottiBailey, Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt, Robert Wiesenberger Design: The Serving Library

ROMA 426 Play Sincerely! Olivier Goethals

ROMA 425 336 p 16 × 24 cm 2022

Roma Publications #1–425 at Sitterwerk, St.Gallen

This book presents an overview of the varied activities that involve constructing buildings, reorganizing interiors, making cupboards, staging exhibitions, drawing pictures, co-authoring editions, writing poems, sculpting objects, producing paintings, raising flags, designing scenographies, developing concepts, posting images, interviewing philosophers, organizing collaborations, connecting spaces, starting conversations, giving lectures, teaching students, implementing designs, devising constructions, programming gifs, filling notebooks, putting up walls. With text by Christophe Van Gerrewey, Olivier Goethals & Bernardo Kastrup. Design: Ine Meganck & Valentijn Goethals, with Judith Eckhardt

ROMA 424 Upstream Ari Marcopoulos

160 p + loose cover 14 × 20 cm 2022

This publication you are holding in your hands is a catalogue of all the Roma Publications so far, published on the occasion of the exhibition One can build a table for 425 books. All printed matter by Roma Publications since 1998, held from 22.05.–26.06.2022 at Stiftung Sitterwerk, St.Gallen, Switzerland. With a selection of photographs made between 2001 and 2021 by fellow designer, Fw-Books publisher, and forever studio mate Hans Gremmen. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 423 240 p 20 × 27 cm 2022

Artist’s book and catalogue accompanying Marcopoulos’ exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (21.05.–07.08.2022). The 2021 video installation Alone Together, featuring a saxophone performance by Joe McPhee, forms a central part of the exhibition and also this catalogue. The tension between the immediacy and the subliminal cultural and historical references lend the video portrait an uncanny intensity. The images framing the video are not only examples outlining the artist’s inexhaustible productivity, but also the indispensable role of the photographic medium as the witness of contemporary culture. With texts by Hamza Walker and Giovanni Carmine. Design: Roger Willems

Paare / Pairs Jochen Lempert

112 p + insert 21 × 29 cm 2022

Artist’s book published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Jochen Lempert at Portikus in Frankfurt. With a mix of new and older photos, Lempert composed a sequence showing di!erent ways to look at pairs. With an essay (in German and English) by Portikus director Yasmil Raymond. Concept: Jochen Lempert and Alexander Mayer. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 422 Deap Sea Nicolas Floc’h

68 p 23 × 31 cm 2022

Here and Elsewhere Irene Kopelman

Here and Elsewhere is a project that brings together a series of drawings of rock formations and a 1:1 scale replica of marble-shaped rocks, known as concretions. Kopelman made two field trips to Utah between 2018 and 2019 to explore the otherworldly features of the concretions. The resulting works – crayons on paper and hand-made ceramic sculptures – reveal the ways in which the artist goes about mapping and drawing a geological location, and how art practice can be a way of thinking about geological processes and the design of nature – constantly changing, tireless in its creation of new forms and patterns. In collaboration with IAC Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes. Design: Roger Willems

Seascapes from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of Biscay, France, at depths to nearly 2,000 meters captured with a camera mounted on an unmanned submarine. These canyons, formed at the opening of the Atlantic Ocean 120 million years ago, are filled with cli!s, falls and folds in which marine snow merges with living things, the stars of the ocean depths. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 420 Book of Hours (2020-2021) Kara Walker

48 p 21 × 28 cm 2022

ROMA 419 144 p + insert 19 × 25.5 cm 2022

“There’s no text or expalanations. Just drawings, made to keep my sanity from 2020 through 2021.” KW Design: Roger Willems

Denver Mosaic 1961 René Heyvaert

36 p 22 × 28.5 cm 2022

The Denver Mosaic, conceived in 1961 for an o#ce building designed by architects Joseph and Louise Marlow, has a unique place in the life and practice of Belgium architect and artist René Heyvaert (1929-1984). In this publication the entire mural is reproduced in 4 strips; the top and the bottom half of the left wall, followed by the top and the bottom half of the right wall. Photography and text: Arnaud Hendrickx, KU Leuven Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 418 Noordereiland Drawings Bart Lodewijks

ROMA 417 160 p 17.5 × 24.5 cm 2022

Træfængslet Nick Geboers

Noordereiland is an island in the middle of the river Maas, lying between the northern and southern parts of Rotterdam. It is shaped like a motor ship. In the midst of the pandemic, Bart Lodewijks treks from its western to its eastern end drawing with chalk on quay walls, ship cabins, steel pipes, commercial buildings and houses. When Bart is ordered by the authorities to wash away his drawings, he becomes friends with Bep and Leendert, who allow him to draw in their apartment. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 416 Farben Marc Nagtzaam

48 p 22 × 32.5 cm 2022

Close-up photographs of carvings on surfaces of the wooden prison cells of the historical buildings of Kunstmuseet Tønder, part of Museum Sønderjylland in Southern Jutland, Denmark. None of them evil, some of them mad. They all left their mark. Carvings of love. Carvings of longing. Carvings of hate and carvings of frustration. And ever so often just to mark that they were there. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 415 96 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022

Artist’s book with a collection of multi-layered Riso prints in a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies. It is the result of an experiment to introduce color in an oeuvre that consists for the most part of variations in black and white. Geometric compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings, are combined with line drawings, based on erased ‘to-do-lists’ and ‘sketches of drawings’ by Nagtzaam. Design: Marc Nagtzaam

On The Self-Reflexive Page II Louis Lüthi

304 p 13 × 20 cm 2021

On The Self-Reflexive Page proposes a typology of nonverbal elements – or transitional spaces between image and scripture in novels, short stories, and essays. The book is part artist’s book and part essay, part literary excavation and part typographical miscellany. A previous version was published in 2010. For this new edition, Lüthi has significantly expanded and revised the original material. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 414 Seeing into Stone Anika Schwarzlose

ROMA 413 136 p 14 × 21 cm 2021

Interne Correspondentie Issue 3 Experimental Jetset

Seeing into Stone describes a technique applied by experienced stone carvers, when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it. This ritual of looking into opaque matter describes a spiritual practice. At the same time it functions as a metaphor for a special kind of tunnel vision, focused on what lies invisible under a surface. With texts by Elena Solowjowa and Monika Bakke. Design: Felix Salut

ROMA 412 Uranus Karel Martens

envelope + 6 items 25 × 35 cm 2021

The third issue of Interne Correspondentie, the irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. The oversized envelope contains a lenticular postcard, a shaped postcard, a 16-page issue of High, an 8-page pamphlet on Dada, and some other bits and pieces. Released in an edition of 150. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 411 688 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2021

This book is an exhibition. The pages can be arranged in sequence on a wall, creating a site-specific installation of 340 individual images over 21 square meters. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Karel Martens: Re-Production at IS A GALLERY in Shanghai, curated by Zhongkai Li. Design: Karel & Aagje Martens

Serial Grey Je! Weber

192 p 20 × 30 cm 2021

Serial Grey is the publication for Je! Weber’s exhibition at Carré d’Art, Nîmes. The publication traces the conflicting forces of photography and film within Weber’s work, up to the point that, at the end, we rediscover the principles that constituted the abstract photograms at the beginning, transposed into the linearity of the medium of film. With texts by Marie Muracciole and JeanFrançois Chevrier. Design: Joris Kritis

ROMA 410 i THINK and I think i’ve THOUGHT a thought Josse Pyl

ROMA 409 240 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2021

Patterns Karel Martens

Language abounds in all areas of Josse Pyl’s artistic practice. i THINK and I think i’ve THOUGHT a thought collects the various components of Pyl’s practice from 2014 to 2021 in one publication by making use of the frottage technique. Design: Jungmyung Lee

ROMA 408 Nice Mark Peckmezian

208 p 24 × 30 cm 2021

This publication contains a collection of patterns designed by Karel Martens between 1960 and 2021. Although Martens is widely recognised for his specialisation in typography, the dozens of colourful fullpage patterns shown here are devoid of any text, allowing the sequence to become a mesmerising pattern in itself. Design: Karel & Aagje Martens

ROMA 407 224 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm 2021

Over the past 5 years, Mark Peckmezian made more than 500 portraits of young passers-by on his travels. For this book, Jop van Bennekom made an edit of the 117 nicest pictures. Charlie Engman on the back cover: “You look nice. How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at, to be seen – to realize you’ve been an image this whole time. All that patient primping, that painstaking preparation, suddenly confronted with its own potential: This is me! you say, aspirationally tucking a stray strand of hair behind your ear, I’m trying to look like me! You turn to face the audience, and in that state of perpetual becoming, you wonder: Will my outside ever meet my inside? Will I see it when it does?” Design: Jop van Bennekom

As If Uta Eisenreich

156 p 22 × 29 cm 2021

This book is the sequel to A NOT B (2010), wherein quotidian items are again staged and captured through the camera’s unblinking eye. Yet the images are no longer set in the innocent atmosphere of the preschool years, when the world is read through analogies, but catapulted into a darker space of representation at the cusp of adolescence, against the backdrop of a hyper-commercialised world. The compositions create a distinctive play with logic, language, and meaning. Objects transform from their humble selves into abstract shapes discharged of meaning, or alternately into advertisements for themselves, charged with desire or bad omens of an ominous future. Design: Julia Born

ROMA 406 Heterotemporality Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 405 80 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2021

Robby Müller Flora Polaroid Robby Müller / Andrea MüllerSchirmer (editor)

Inspired by Karel Martens’ Tokyo Papers (ROMA 394), Ari Marcopoulos arranged his pictures, thinking about what would distinguish inside and outside, public and private. An idea that had already become a prevalent thought during the covid pandemic. The color work, hidden on the inside pages, is primarily portraits of objects and people, while the black and white photos on the visible pages are recent work of mainly exterior pictures done in January and February of 2021. Marcopoulos: “The first thing in my mind when I see my new photographs is envisioning them in the form of a book. Often, I even make pdfs of books that never see the light of day as a published work. It’s a good way to see how images look together, I even think of the book as a form of a short film.” Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 404 Merelbeke-tekeningen Bart Lodewijks

56 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2021

Publication of 69 Polaroids by legendary cinematographer Robby Müller (1940-2018). Since the mid-seventies, Müller made about 2000 Polaroid images, with a special sensitivity for light. Next to his widely known pictures of hotel rooms and street scenes, nature motifs caught his eye more than any other subject. Müller liked to photograph trees in all seasons: vibrant in spring, colored in autumn or surrounded by winter fog. The specific color quality of the Polaroids is exemplary in the images of the flowers. Selected, edited and introduced by Andrea Müller-Schirmer, with a text contribution by Agnès Godard. Design: Linda van Deursen

ROMA 403 104 p 17 × 24 cm 2021

Bart Lodewijks undertook a series of lined chalk drawings in the halls and rooms of a care home for the elderly in Merelbeke, Belgium. But when the global pandemic broke out in March 2020, the living centre had to be closed to outsiders. During this time, he continued his drawings at places where the residents had once lived or worked. Later, after they were moved to a brand-new facility, the artist continued adding chalk textures and shapes to the walls, now in colour. (This three-part narrative of Merelbeke comes with the free magazine Naar Watou toe, a collaboration of Lodewijks and Jan Kempenaers in anticipation of a yearly arts festival at a small Belgian town near the French border.) Design: Roger Willems

Japan Works Aglaia Konrad

496 p 20.7 × 26 cm 2021

The work of Aglaia Konrad is driven by her interest in urbanity and architecture in general, and cultural di!erence in particular. A comparative practice that runs equally warm for every possible experience of the local. Previous experiences, in 1994 and 2010, intrigued her to undertake a severe study trip across central Japan in September 2019, mainly in search of Metabolist projects. Such historical, iconic architectures were also the excuse to explore the unspecific and the non-iconic of their urban setting, with the same intensity. In Japan Works, free associations of full-page photographs alternate with contact sheets that follow the chronology of this last itinerary. These are illuminated by texts written by architect and Japan scholar Julian Worrall. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 401 ROMA 402 Wang Bing The Walking Eye Diane Dufour, Dominique Païni, Roger Willems (editors)

832 p 16 × 23 cm 2021

Bill 3 Julie Peeters (editor)

Book about the work of Chinese film maker Wang Bing, published in conjuction with an exhibition at Le BAL in Paris in 2021. In 170 sequences (and more than 700 film stills), 8 iconic films are presented: West of The Tracks (2003), The Man with No Name (2009), Three Sisters (2012), ‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013), Traces (2014), Father and Sons (2014), Ta’ang (2016), and 15 Hours (2017). With text contributions by Diane Dufour, Dominique Païni, Teresa Castro, David Le Breton, Thierry Davila, Ada Ackerman, Jean-François Chevrier, Alain Bergala, Julie Ault, Catherine Perret. Including film notices, map of the film locations, biography, complete filmography, and bibliography. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 400 Superstructures (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 2) Experimental Jetset

184 p 23 × 31 cm 2021

A special archival issue, featuring unpublished Martin Margiela lookbook photographs, a horse, street style from the 90’s, vases of Japan, a silver story, a flash forward and back, tennis, an icecube tray, more Margiela, Hysteric Glamour and a bunch of frivolous images. The stories are sourced from the book collections of RareBooksParis and Julie Peeters. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 399 420 p + 24 p 10.5 × 18 cm 2021

An inquiry into the role of the city as an infrastructure for language (and simultaneously, into the role of language as an infrastructure for the city), as seen through the lens of four historical movements: Constructivism, the Situationist International, Provo, and the Post-Punk explosion. Based on Experimental Jetset’s research, footnotes were written by Vasyl Cherepanyn, Leontine Coelewij, Linda van Deursen, Experimental Jetset, Owen Hatherley, Brad Haylock, Dirk van den Heuvel, Lieven Lahaye, Samata Masato, Tom McDonough, Kateryna Mishchenko, Other Forms, Mark Owens, Megan Patty, Adam Pendleton, Simon Reynolds, Ian F. Svenonius, McKenzie Wark, Lori Waxman, and Mimi Zeiger. Design: Experimental Jetset

Superstructures (t-shirt) Experimental Jetset

t-shirt S, M, L, XL 2021

Accompanying the launch of Experimental Jetset’s paperback Superstructures (ROMA 400), we released a t-shirt, carrying a pattern designed by Experimental Jetset. Resembling an imaginary sign system (or cartographic language) for a fictional metropolis, the pattern also incorporates a quote by The Jam (“In the city, there s a thousand things I want to say to you”), referring to the main theme of the paperback; the notion of the city as an infrastructure for language. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 398 O! Camera Steven Humblet (editor)

ROMA 397 136 p + 16 p 24 × 31 cm 2021

I long to meet the masses once again Walid Raad

Visual manifesto with works by 47 artists, exploring the notion of ‘the photographic’, an analysis of the e!ects the technical image has on the visual culture as a whole. It focuses on contemporary artistic practises and experimental approaches to photography, divided into four themes: The Photographic Fossil, Chemical Matter, Optical Confusion, and Performing the Image. The accompanying text insert, with contributions by Steven Humblet, Marc De Blieck, Liz Deschenes, Markus Kramer, and Joanna Zylinska, engages a discourse among artists and intellectuals on defining photography and technique. O! Camera is the conclusion of a research project carried out by Belgian researcher Steven Humblet’s group, Thinking Tools, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 396 Kerselare Drawings and Photographs Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers

48 p 22 × 28 cm 2021

Publication about a sitespecific installation by Walid Raad in Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (Cologne, Germany) in the exhibition series Replace Rubens. Shown are two sculptures made out of art transportation crates entitled I long to meet the masses once again (2019), and a second work, I long to meet the masses once more (2020), which shows us the reverse side of the famous painting The Crucifiction of St. Peter by Peter Paul Rubens, on which ornamental prints of plants, flowers, and a foliage can be seen. It is leaning against the wall, just below the original’s traditional hanging position. With texts by Friederike Schuler, Johan Holten, and Walid Raad. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 394 240 p 16 × 22 cm 2021

This book is an in memoriam to the Flemish Brutalist architect Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019). He originally sketched the design for the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in chalk on a blackboard wall in his studio in Eke before it was built from 1963 to 1966. Half a century later, Bart Lodewijks is drawing on Lampens’ masterpiece, also with blackboard chalk. The chalk drawings on the chapel represent a reimagination, a return to the design that originated on the wall in Eke. The temporary drawings and surrounding environment, in all its seasonal changes, are being photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Text by Bart Lodewijks. Design: Roger Willems

Tokyo Papers Karel Martens

80 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2020

A collection of 41 monoprints created by Karel Martens in 2019 and 2020, reproduced on their original size (front and back). Karel Martens: “In 2018 I received a package by mail from Pierre Leguillon with a small pile of used Japanese forms which he had found at a street market in Tokyo. An intriguing collection, printed on thin paper with a rectangular black-blue layer of carbon on the back. Initially in 2019 I started to print on these back sides, but because the overprinting on the carbon layer caused unwanted damage, I eventually started printing them on the front sides as well. The closing image is related to Tokyo in a di!erent way.” Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 393 The Serving Library Annual 2020/21 (Objects) Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors)

ROMA 392 208 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2020

Seoul Portraits Karel Martens

This year’s Annual is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of the objects in the collection – which range from paintings, photographs, and LP sleeves, to a can of green paint, a German car license plate, and an ouija board – is to have appeared as illustrations in an issue of The Serving Library Annual or one of its immediate predecessors, Bulletins of The Serving Library or Dot Dot Dot, sometime over the last 20 years. The present volume assembles The Serving Library collection at the time of writing, arranged in chronological order of production, as full-page images with extended captions. Design: The Serving Library

ROMA 391 2020 Geert Goiris

16 p 17 × 24 cm 2020

A selection of portraits from the digital guest book, collected during the exhibition Karel Martens: Still Moving at Platform-L in Seoul from 08.10.2018 – 14.02.2019. Limited edition, originally compiled as a contribution for Extra Extra Magazine 15, 2002. Design: Karel Martens

ROMA 390 44 p + 16 p 28 × 36 cm 2020

Around the year 1124, a community of Benedictines settled on the Wivina site at Groot-Bijgaarden in modern-day Belgium. Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of five consecutive churches and outbuildings there. The current chapel from 1924 is still intact. In 2011 interior architect Tom Callebaut led the transformation of this chapel into a contemporary space for contemplation. Nine years later, photographer Geert Goiris was invited to visualize the experience of this space, which is still a beacon of theology and reflection. A text by Herman Lombaerts accompanies the series of images. Design: Roger Willems

Lithium Erik van der Weijde

32 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2020

In Lithium Erik van der Weijde once again turns the camera on his, now teenage, son. The photographs were taken between 2018 and 2019, their last year together in Brazil, the son’s home country, and their first year after moving to Europe. Transitions and the gap between expectations and reality left their mark on this period. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 389 Bottomless Bag Na Kim

ROMA 388 160 p 23 × 30 cm Seoul Museum of Art 2020

Face Yannis Kyriakides, Johannes Schwartz, Maria Barnas

Published with Na Kim’s eponymous exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, dedicated to letting children explore the artist’s visual language. The title is borrowed from the mysterious bag in the animated film Inside Out. The bag contains endless odds and ends belonging to the main character, which links her to her memories. It also recalls the “Object Bag”, which was widely used for educational purposes in elementary schools in Korea during the 1980s. As such, the exhibition becomes Na Kim’s bag containing her collection of work. In this book, the elements of the exhibition are placed within the story ‘The Adventures of a Yellow Circle’, written for this occasion by Oh Eun. With an essay by Sungwon Kim. Concept: Na Kim & Minkyung Yoo. Design: Myungsang Yu

ROMA 387 Invisible Nicolas Floc’h

vinyl record + 12 p 31.5 × 31.5 cm 2020

This recording features a multimedia composition by Yannis Kyriadikes for voice, recorders, violin, piano, face detection software, scanner, electronics and video, created in collaboration with visual artist Johannes Schwartz and writer Maria Barnas, and was performed by Electra. The sleeves include a 12-page booklet featuring the photographic work of Johannes Schwartz and text by Maria Barnas. Duration: 48 min. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 386 284 p 23 × 31 cm 2020

A photographic research project on the underwater seascapes of the Calanques in France. Floc’h set out to capture the state of the underwater seascapes, between 2018 and 2020, by following the entire 162-kilometre coastline of the Calanques National Park in the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille in France. The black and white photographs, taken between the surface and 30 metres below sea level, present a panorama of the natural and man-made landscapes and their transformations. With text contributions by Muriel Enjalran, Pascal Neveux, Gilles Clément, and Nicolas Floc’h. Design: Roger Willems

Un ami simple Valentin Carron

56 p 23.3 × 30 cm 2020

Artist’s book by Valentin Carron with collages made for his exhibition on the dam of Mauvoisin in Valais, Switzerland, in the summer of 2020. For this project, entitled Un ami simple (A simple friend), Carron focused on the image of the mule – an emblematic figure of e!ort, endurance and phlegm. Nowadays this animal has above all a folkloristic connotation, while up to the1940s, Valais had a herd of more than 2000 animals which transported loads from valley to valley. Curator: JeanPaul Felley Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 385 Conrad McRae Youth League Tournament Ari Marcopoulos

ROMA 384 816 p 16.4 × 22 cm 2020

The Absence of Mark Manders, Bonnefanten Mark Manders

Photographs taken at the Conrad McRae Youth League Summer Tournament at Dean Street Playground in Brooklyn, NY, between 2014 and 2019. The yearly tournament began in the summer of 2000 in memory of Conrad Bastien McRae (1971-2000). McRae was a basketball player with a successful career in Europe, playing for teams in France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. He died in the summer of 2000 during practice in Irving, CA. His childhood friends, Anton Marchand, Cleon “Silk” Hyde and Troy Lemond, keep McRae’s legacy alive every summer with a tournament for players from 6 years and up, featuring some of the best basketball high school players from the greater New York area. With text contributions by Andrea Lissoni, Damani McNeil, and Ari Marcopoulos. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 383 All Our Suns Olaf Nicolai

152 p 22 × 28.5 cm 2020

Catalogue of the extensive retrospective exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders at the Bonnefanten, Maastricht. The rooms in the exhibition can be regarded as rooms of Manders’ Self-portrait as a Building. The works seem to have been ‘left behind’ by the artist in three di!erent zones; the visitor enters a living room, then the museum, and finally the studio. According to Manders, all the works are interchangeable and can be put into a di!erent context: ‘like words in a sentence can also be used in di!erent combinations’. With an introduction by Stijn Huijts and an essay by Douglas Fogle on the role of language in Manders’ oeuvre. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 382 120 p 24.5 × 31 cm 2020

The image clippings in All Our Suns are taken from Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space printed in daily newspapers.These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes and imaginings determine the result of the depiction. The collection is not only based on the fascination of spectacular pictures and the interest in image-generating procedures. It is also triggered by the temporally paradoxical entanglement of daily news on Earth and extraterrestrial occurrences. All Our Suns collects traces of a possible audience out there looking down on our sceneries here. Design: Roger Willems & Olaf Nicolai & Helmut Völter

Notes on Representation Vol. 1-10 (Special edition box) Irene Kopelman

10 books + drawing 29 × 8.5 × 21.5 cm 2020

Box with a complete set of the first ten volumes of Notes on Representation (2006-2019) by Irene Kopelman. Since 2006 these publications, with visual and written explorations, have been an essential part of Kopelman’s practice and give insight into investigative and analytical drawing as a tool for understanding. The box set is produced in an edition of 50 copies, each containing a unique signed drawing by Irene Kopelman from the series Developing a Form of A!ection (2019-2020).

ROMA 381 Postscripts Jalal Toufic

ROMA 380 160 p 11.5 × 17 cm Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2020

Let’s be honest, the weather helped Walid Raad

Small sized text book, published in conjunction with the exhibition Let’s be honest, the weather helped by Walid Raad at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (15.2 – 10.5.2020). Joan Copjec: Jalal Toufic invents and masters his own transversal genre, sentence by ingeniously-placed sentence. Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. His books are available for download at www.jalaltoufic.com. Design: Roger Willems Cover: Walid Raad

ROMA 379 Composition with Yellow Verticals Mark Manders

196 p 21.5 × 28 cm 2020

Catalog for the exhibition Let’s be honest, the weather helped, organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Besides installation views, the book includes illustrated text contributions by Fredrik Liew, and Maria Minera, and a scripted version of Raad’s entire 75-minute performance/walktrough Kicking the Dead and/or Les Louvres. Walid Raad engages in how violence a!ects bodies, minds, culture and tradition. In his works, Raad proceeds from historical events to imagine seemingly ludicrous, bizarre, and wondrous situations and documents. The projects are closely linked to his experiences of growing up in Beirut during the civil war in Lebanon, moving to New York, and being an artist in a globally expansive art world. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 378 112 p 11.5 × 17 cm 2020

Small sized book with mainly studio photographs by the artist, published on the occasion of the exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders at the Bonnenfanten in Maastricht in 2020. Design: Roger Willems

Kerselare Drawings and Photographs Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers

e-books 2019-2020

Series of e-books (in English and Dutch) on the ‘Kerselare drawings’, in memoriam to the Flemish Brutalist architect Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019). Lampens originally sketched the design for the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in chalk on a blackboard wall in his studio in Eke before it was built from 1963 to 1966. Half a century later, Bart Lodewijks is drawing on Lampens’ masterpiece, also with blackboard chalk. The chalk drawings on the chapel represent a reimagination, a return to the design that originated on the wall in Eke. The temporary drawings and surrounding environment, in all its seasonal changes, are being photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Eventually a paper edition might appear after completion of the final third part. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 377 Shadow Studies Mark Manders

ROMA 376 144 p 21 × 27 cm 2019

Borrowed Space Marc Nagtzaam

This book is published on the occasion of the Van Lanschot Kempen Art Prize 2018 awarded to Mark Manders. With new works added, this is an extended English edition of Les études d’ombres (ROMA 176), originally published only in French. With an essay by Sylvie Coellier. Design: Hans Gremmen

ROMA 375 Full Scale False Scale (Notes On Experimental Jetset / Volume 3) Experimental Jetset

24 p + card 34.5 × 48 cm 2019

Textless newspaper with drawn compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings. Design: Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 375b 276 p + 24 p 11 × 18 cm 2020

Four years after Statement and Counter-Statement (2015), Experimental Jetset returned with a second paperback. Full Scale False Scale focuses on a single project: the long-term, sitespecific installation that the studio recently created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York (to coincide with the museum’s reopening in October 2019). Part reader part collage, the book forms a subjective archive of documentary material, just as constructed as the installation itself – a research project that took them from esoteric colour theories to dark political alliances, and from modernist diagonals to postmodern arches. The 276-page paperback comes with a 24page zine, filled with photos by Johannes Schwartz – fully documenting the installation, in colour and black & white. Design: Experimental Jetset

Roma Tote Bag (Experimental Jetset 2020 after Van Doesburg 1925) Experimental Jetset

tote bag 35 × 37.5 cm 2020

Tote bag and two post cards related to Full Scale False Scale, a semi-permanent installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 374 Fragments of a Conversation with a Counterfeiter Diego Tonus and Anonymous

ROMA 373 160 p 16 × 24 cm 2019

Interne Correspondentie Issue 2 Experimental Jetset

Diego Tonus translated informal encounters he had with an alleged counterfeiter into separate artworks. Each holds a secret within. It is a work so simple in its conception, but complex in what it does. The series of works meticulously follows a trajectory or narrative of suspicion that gradually unfolds, yet at the same time continues to carry an air of mystery. This publication serves as legal document and body of proof that Tonus has registered the practices and strategies of Anonymous as his ideas in the register of the Benelux O#ce for Intellectual Property, in order to make them available to an international audience. Design: Roger Willems & Dongyoung Lee

ROMA 372 Re-Printed Matter Karel Martens

envelope + 6 items 33 × 26 cm 2019

Second issue of an irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. Limited edition of 100 copies. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 372b 280 p 17.3 × 23.2 cm 2019

Book presenting almost sixty years of practice by Karel Martens. Its first edition was published in 1996 on the occasion of the award to Karel Martens of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art. In response to continued demand, the book has been extended to 2019 and appears now in this fourth edition. Design: Jaap van Triest & Karel Martens

Re-Printed Matter (black and white edition) Karel Martens

280 p 17.3 × 23.2 cm 2019

Black and white edition of Re-Printed Matter, in a limited edition of 500 copies on the occasion of the exhibition Karel Martens – Re-Printed Matter. 60 Years of Books at ENTER ENTER, A Space for Books in Amsterdam, from 26.10 – 20.12.2019.

ROMA 371 Hands Make Mistakes Ariel Schlesinger

ROMA 370 136 p 19 × 25 cm 2019

The Serving Library Annual 2019/20 (Bruno Munari) Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors)

Hands Make Mistakes provides a kaleidoscopic insight into the making and individual voice of Ariel Schlesinger. Edited by Rivet, this book provides context and covers a broad range of Schlesinger’s projects, from adolescent doodles to complex collaborations. Two new essays (by Barbara Casavecchia and Adam Kleinman), a conversationin-anexhibition between Abraham Cruzvillegas and Catalina Lozano, an introspective text about the reconstruction of a Japanese temple, a reprint of Vilém Flusser’s essay “The Gesture of Making”” and reproductions of dreamy gallery texts written by Sarah Demeuse are set in 54 full color reproductions of past and recent exhibitions. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 369 On Gestures of Doing Nothing Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen

144 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2019

The core of this annual is the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches and poems about his work, published by Corraini in 2017. It includes iconic design objects such as the Abitacolo, groundbreaking artworks such as his 1952 series of hand-made projection slides, and little known rhymes about the art market, as well as an original piece from his “unreadable books” series. In the margins, artists, designers, writers and curators have been invited to annotate Munari’s texts as a testament to the depth of the influence exerted on international art by an often underacknowledged pioneer, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture, an anonymous invention: an obvious code. Design: The Serving Library

ROMA 368 128 p 22 × 28 cm 2019

Document of a performance staged by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, taking place on 15 and 16.04.2019 within their exhibition The Floor is Lava at Marres in Maastricht. It consisted of eleven performers presenting a series of gestures. The performance – along with the exhibition itself – was photographed by Petra Stavast. This publication was conceived and developed in collaboration with art historian and curator Arnisa Zeqo. Design: Elisabeth Klement

Anastasis Giorgio Andreotta Calò

112 p 24 × 33 cm 2020

The monumental windows of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam are one striking feature. In the Middle Ages these were filled with stained glass, so the light penetrated in myriad chromatic variations. The majority of the windows were destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. By covering the windows with red filters Calò o!ers a novel insight into this history. With the red light Calò brings the Roman Catholic visual idiom back into the building and reflects on the Iconoclastic Fury and the revolution in religious thinking. The book exists of three parts: 1. The temporary installation in the church (Anastasis); 2. A photographic work on the depiction of the Anunciation; 3. A report of the public debate and the court case, provoked by the permanent installation at the Holy Sepulcher. Design: Roger Willems & Dongyoung Lee

ROMA 366 ROMA 367 The World Is All That Is The Case Arthur Ou

56 p 18.5 × 26.5 cm 2019

Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin) Batia Suter

Photographs by Arthur Ou of artists reading Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With corresponding quotes from Wittgenstein and an essay by Walter Benn Michaels. “Pictures of people reading aren’t simply (or necessarily or even usually) portraits. In fact, if the default setting of the portrait involves posing for the photographer, it would be more fitting to say that a picture of someone reading is a kind of anti-portrait.” Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 365 NON Paulien Oltheten

256 p 24 × 30.4 cm 2019

For her exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland in the summer of 2019, Suter focused on images of wastelands, alternating between romantic and menacing views which simultaneously create sensations of majesty and disorientation. By layering them, they merge into composite landscapes we might only recognise from dreams and fairy tales. In the sequence, a kind of adventurous journey takes shape, pitched between an odyssey, a safari and paradise. The book’s title is derived from the term Hexameter, a poetic form of writing used in Homer’s Odyssey. Mont-Voisin, which also serves as the title for the exhibition, is inspired by di!erent spellings used by 18th and 19th century travellers to describe Mauvoisin. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

ROMA 364 84 p 20 × 25 cm 2019

NON is a work in book form by visual artist Paulien Oltheten, inspired by a gra#to found in the Les Olympiades area (13th arrondisement) in Paris. The book consists of a photo series and an audio transcript in which random passers-by give new meanings to the word ‘non’ (no). It playfully explores what happens when this compact statement is taken from a concrete wall to travel freely between the social and the political. Design: Felix Salut

Into the Air Marinus Boezem

112 p 23 × 30 cm 2019

Publication about the work of Marinus Boezem, named after the installation Boezem developed for the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in 2016. Boezem is considered to be one of the founders of Dutch conceptual art. A certain levity is quite typical of his work, for which he often makes use of intangible elements such as wind, air and transparency. He has a profound fascination with Gothic architecture, particularly cathedrals, which he sees as a metaphor for the human desire for spirituality. One of Boezem’s most famous works is the Green Cathedral (19782016) in the Dutch province of Flevoland. With text contributions by: Germano Celant, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Lorenzo Benedetti, Jacqueline Grandjean and Lorenzo Bruni. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 363 : gerlach en koop

ROMA 362 376 p 17.5 × 17.5 cm 2019

The Plant Collection Inge Meijer

This publication follows the exhibition : by collective artist gerlach en koop, with the collection of the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in 2016. It also follows the catalogue cubics by architects/designers Slothouber and Graatsma from 1970, such that it served as support for the artworks in print, just like their cubic system of blocks supported the artworks in the exhibition. With works by Francis Alÿs, Dan Asher, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Brueghel, Ben d’Armagnac, Bethan Huws, Agnes Martin, Willem de Rooij, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Franz West and many others, plus several anonymous objects of di!erent provenances and di!erent times. The publication contains a long interview with the artists by a ghosted ghostwriter. Design: Charles Mazé, Coline Sunier & gerlach en koop

ROMA 361 Better be watching the clouds / I want to be able to welcome my father to my house Walid Raad

112 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2019

When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondriaan, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian’s paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the museum made a statement. No longer would the Stedelijk be an elite temple for art; rather, he wanted the public to become accustomed to contemporary art in a familiar, domestic environment. Artist Inge Meijer investigated the vanished and subsequently forgotten vegetation in the museum during the 19451983 period for this book, rendering its history once again visible. With a foreword by Caroline Roodenburg and an interview by Maria Barnas. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 360 16 p leporello + 12 p booklet 21.5 × 28 cm 2019

Walid Raad investigates how violence a!ects bodies, minds, art and tradition. This artist book highlights two of Raad’s thoughtful and witty artworks. Here, as elsewhere in his artworks, Raad departs from historical events linked to the protracted Lebanese wars of the past forty years to create somewhat absurd, outlandish but plausible documents. Better be watching the clouds concentrates on the local, regional and international political figures whose faces and names became fixtures in the Lebanese landscape; I want to be able to welcome my father to my house leans on diaries that Raad’s father kept throughout the wars. Design: Roger Willems

Tomorrow’s Sculpture Katinka Bock

400 p 21.5 × 29 cm 2019

Tomorrow’s Sculpture results from three consecutive exhibitions taken place over the course of 2018: Sonar at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Smog at Mudam Luxembourg, and Radio at IAC, Villeurbanne/RhôneAlpes. Circa fifty works have circulated between the three institutions. In dialogue with the spaces Bock displayed them in di!erent configurations and added site specific interventions. The photographs of Johannes Schwartz – exclusively commissioned for this book – o!er a rich and multi-angled view on Bock’s sculptures and installations of the past 15 years. With texts by Simone Menegoi, Christina Végh, François Piron, and Christophe Gallois. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 359 Black Mat Oriole Suki Seokyeong Kang

ROMA 358 240 p 22 × 29 cm 2019

high up close by Misha de Ridder

A culmination of five years of research and production by Suki Seokyeong Kang, Black Mat Oriole was conceived as an installation that brings together sculpture, painting, and video to engage viewers with the power and politics of space. This book is published on the occasion of her exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. While Kang’s expanded painting practice is rooted in her interest in classical Korean poetry, craft, and dance, her concerns are firmly articulated in the present. She explores how a space can be divided into grids, whether with regard to systems of power, cultural customs, or artistic lineage. Traditional handwoven reed mats are also used to indicate how bodies might move through a choreographed space. Design: Sulki & Min

ROMA 357 World Without Us Geert Goiris

84 p 24 × 34 cm 2019

On July the 21st 2017, Misha de Ridder was entrusted with the key to the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam allowing him day and night access to all areas of the church. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen

ROMA 356 172 p 21.3 × 25.5 cm 2019

The downfall of the world is probably one of the oldest human conceptions. Representations of the End are often embedded in religious narratives predicting an apocalyptic end in which only the righteous will survive the final judgment. Since the end of the Second World War, a major shift occurred. The apocalypse is no longer a punishment of the gods or of God, but it is man himself who has gained the expertise to exterminate himself. This book is the final piece of a practice based Ph.D research in the arts, conducted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, in collaboration with the University of Antwerp. Design: Roger Willems

Regular Features Marc Nagtzaam

272 p 21.1 × 27.9 cm 2019

Artist’s book with text drawings by Marc Nagtzaam, made between 1992 and 2019. Complementary to the writings, 24 artists contributions on are inserted throughout the book. With contributions by Mark Manders, Louis Lüthi, Sue Tompkins, Stephan Keppel, Steve Van den Bosch, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Sophie Nys, Pierre Leguillon, Batia Suter, Experimental Jetset, Na Kim, Tim Hollander, Lily van der Stokker, Karin Herwegh, Karel Martens, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Kasper Andreasen, Jochen Lempert, gerlach en koop, Henri Jacobs, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Marijn van Kreij, and Willem Oorebeek. As a continuation of the first Roma publication, (SOME), dating from 1998, this book marks the 20+ years anniversary of Roma Publications. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 355 Belgian Colonial Monuments Jan Kempenaers

ROMA 354 72 p 22 × 22 cm 2019

Bollenveld Erik van der Weijde

An inventory of 40 colonial monuments related to the Belgian colonial past, from King Leopold II’s Free State to the independence of Congo in 1960, which to date and without exception can all be found in the Belgian public space. Today we experience monuments and the symbolism of memory and veneration in a di!erent way than when they were conceived. The colonial era still has an impact on today’s society, which is why the memorials are now rightly under discussion. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 353 Entropy Ari Marcopoulos

32 p 17 × 24 cm 2019

Erik van der Weijde presents a series of photographs of Bollenveld, a futuristic housing project by Dutch architect Dries Kreijkamp, situated in a residential area of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 50 ‘bolwoningen’ (“ball-” or “bulbhouses”) were built in 1984 using prefabricated spheres of glass-fibre reinforced concrete. Each has a diameter of 5.5 metres and total living area of 55 square metres. They are the last examples of houses that were funded by the Dutch subsidy for experimental building, which was created in 1968. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 352 64 p + poster 24 × 33 cm 2019

Sequence of recent work by Marcopoulos, presenting a diversity of photos of friends, Brooklyn street scenes, and pictures from trips made in 2018 and 2019 to Japan, Lebanon, and to Robert Frank’s cottage in Nova Scotia. His photographs are an index of Marcopoulos’s being in the world, a record of what he sees and when he has seen it. But they are arguably not so much about what is depicted as they are about the person, namely him, behind the camera. With a text by Mahfuz Sultan. Design: Roger Willems

Bühnenbilder Silke Otto-Knapp

128 p 22 × 28 cm 2019

Bühnenbilder, the title of Silke Otto-Knapp’s exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, are the fabricated views resulting from dressing sets. Neutral until they are costumed, they are like blank volumes awaiting a set designer’s meticulous treatment. The only colours in these works are black, grey, silver, and white. The artist’s palette and methodology, in which she applies a dark watercolour wash and then subtracts from it using absorptive implements, raising images from the dark, reflects the photograph’s urge to resurface something whose very location – in history, memory, desire – eludes the grasp of any image. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 351 Cardinal Points. Notes on Representation Vol. 10 Irene Kopelman

ROMA 350a/b 84 p 21 × 28 cm 2019

Floor with Notional Newspapers / Table with Notional Newspapers Mark Manders

Cardinal Points, the 10th volume in the series Notes on Representation, charts Kopelman’s investigations through drawing, writing, and taking photographs on several trips in Argentina where she joined the research campaigns of di!erent groups of scientists: to Pampa de Achala, Cordoba, working with biologists on invasive terrestrial species and studies of litter; to El Litoral, to the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, with a team of ecologists studying floral ecology; to a lab in Puerto Madryn in the Patagonian region, with a team that works with invasions of marine organisms; and to the Ischigualasto Provincial Park and Jachal in the province of San Juan, with a team of geologists and palaeontologists. Design: Roger Willems & Ayumi Higuchi

ROMA 349 Pocket Folklore Shirin Sabahi

box with 10 newspapers 35 × 24 × 2.5 cm 2019

Box with a complete set of Notional Newspapers by Mark Manders. Manders: “I cannot use real newspapers, because my work would then be linked to a certain date and place in the world. All of my works appear as if they have just been made and were left behind by the person who made them.” The newspapers in this edition consist of all the existing words in the English language. Each word is used only once. The photos are taken in Manders’ studio and are mostly of dust. Edition of 51 copies of Floor with Notional Newspapers and 49 copies of Table with Notional Newspapers. These are identical except for the title on the box. Design: Hans Gremmen

ROMA 348 196 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm 2019

This book revolves around Matter and Mind by artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, a 640 × 480 × 30 cm steel basin filled with used engine oil, permanently installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art since the museum’s inauguration in 1977. Over time visitors started throwing coins and other things into the pool, turning the sculpture into an wishing well. Forty years on, Shirin Sabahi invited Haraguchi back to the museum to restore his oil pool. The sunken objects were retrieved from the pool and two films were made in the process. The book hosts a previously unpublished booklet by the first chief curator of the museum. With contributions by: Negar Azimi, Media Farzin, Farnoosh Fathi, David Galloway, Adam Kleinman, Edit Molnár, Shirin Sabahi, Sissel Tolaas. Design: Louis Lüthi

The Photographic II: Signal or Noise Martin Germann, Tanja Boon (editors)

64 p 20 × 27 cm 2019

Catalog accompanying the second part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon. The first chapter, Other Pictures, questioned the special potential of the still image. In Signal or Noise the gaze is turned inwards and explores the camera as a metaphor for human existence. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 347 Cloud Service Batia Suter

ROMA 346 104 p 19.5 × 28.5 cm 2019

Bill 2 Julie Peeters (editor)

Published on the occasion of Suter’s exhibition at Printed Matter in New York (February – April 2019), Cloud Service is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms, both vast and microscopic in scale. Sweeping aerial shots, volcanic plumes and skyscapes are interwoven with coral, cauliflowers, and bighorn sheep. Placed in sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and – with a sort of synaptic leap – take on new depths of meaning. Printed on newspaper stock, saddle stitched in a cover. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

ROMA 345 Reference Guide Michiel De Cleene

184 p 23 × 31 cm 2019

Bill 2 is the second issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. The images in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text: Bill prioritizes visual reading without distraction. Contributors to the second issue are: Gintaras Didziapetris, Jason Dodge, Archiv Hans Hollein, Inge Ketelers, Tadashi Kurahashi by Tadanori Yokoo – Tadanori Yokoo by Tadashi Kurahashi, Jochen Lempert, Raimundas Malasauskas, Bart Julius Peters / T L P S, Reto Schmid, Megan Francis Sullivan, Linda van Deursen, Ann Woo, and Jiajia Zhang. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 344 176 p 24.5 × 32 cm 2019

Reference Guide is a collection of entries, connected and fuelled by cross-references. These not only determine the characteristics of the collection and its use, but they are also the mechanism behind its expansion. Reference Guide allows each reader to construct his or her own path through the di!erent entries. This movement might take you from the entry on the aorta, to the heart, to surgeon, to scalpel, to knife, to axe, to forestry only to end up at silver birch or – with a di!erent turn somewhere along the way – at windmill, oil painting, carbon monoxide, the moon or keel. Design: We Became Aware, Michiel De Cleene, Zsa Zsa Tu!y

A Die with Twenty-Six Faces Louis Lüthi

104 p 13 × 20 cm 2019

In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author – let’s call him L. – guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol’s a, Louis Zukofsky’s “A”, Georges Perec’s W. Others are obscure, perhaps even imaginary: Zach Sodenstern’s A, Arnold Skemer’s C and D. Tracing connections between these books, L. elaborates on what the critic Guy Davenport has called the “Kells e!ect”: “the symbolic content of illuminated lettering serving a larger purpose than its decoration of geometry, imps, and signs.” Mixing essay and fiction, A Die with Twenty-Six Faces is a playful meditation on contemporary literature, typography, and book collecting. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 343 An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology Je! Weber

ROMA 342 524 p 11 × 18.5 cm 2018

Great Temptations / Grote verleidingen Dominic van den Boogerd

The Kunsthalle Leipzig was a long-term project in the form of an art space (until 2017). Weber started in 2013 by renovating a former apartment of an abandoned 19th century building in Leipzig and transformed it into a gallery space. The gallery functioned as a conceptual framework to invite artist collaborators to produce and show (new) work, as well as to expand my own artistic practice and open it up to the curatorial. As a project, the Kunsthalle emerged from, and relies on the principles of a group of former works of mine: Anticipative Images (2009-2012), but most and foreall on the structural archive: Attempt At A Personal Epistemology.” With contributions by Robert Beavers, Marie-France Rafael, Michael Baers, and Indre Klimaire. Design: Philip Baber & Elisabeth Rafstedt

392 p 17 × 23 cm 2018

‘I can resist everything’, wrote Oscar Wilde, ‘except temptation’. What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers: Michaël Borremans, Giorgio de Chirico, Bill Copley, René Daniëls, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Lucio Fontana, Philip Guston, Gary Hume, Natasja Kensmil, Raoul De Keyser, Martin Kippenberger, Willem de Kooning, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Navid Nuur, Paulina Olowksa, Blinky Palermo, Neo Rauch, Daniël Richter, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Luc Tuymans, among others. Design: Roger Willems & Dongyoung Lee

ROMA 340 ROMA 341 STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE Shannon Ebner

vinyl record 31 × 31 cm 2019

This fourteen-track vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve features poems of American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991 until 2018, the work brought together here examines the two writer’s lifelong preoccupation with subjects adrift in narratives of dispossession both real and imagined. Liner notes contain excerpts of original interviews as well as reproductions of the poets’ published materials. The album was edited and produced by Shannon Ebner and mastered and engineered by Joseph Stewart. Design: Julia Born & Shannon Ebner

Calcutta Drawings Bart Lodewijks

e-books 2018

A series of free e-books with texts and images by Bart Lodewijks created during a three months working period in Calcutta, India, in 2018, hosted by Calcutta Art Research Foundation and the Dutch Mondriaan Fund. In an attempt to connect to the local people he bravely started making his chalk drawings in the streets of the city. Besides beautiful results deriving from the clash between Lodewijks abstract geometric drawings and the surfaces and colours of the chaotic Indian streets and houses, Lodewijks was facing many di#culties which made him discover the impossibilty of his mission. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 339 Friendly Good Lily van der Stokker

ROMA 338 224 p 24 × 30.5 cm 2018

Interne Correspondentie Issue 1 Experimental Jetset

“I Am a beauty specialist. I have commissioned myself to research happiness and friendliness in my artwork, and with that I take a stand against irony and cynicism.” This book presents the themes that have characterized Van der Stokker’s work since the early 1990s. The artist’s close involvement in the compilation is reflected in the playful, highly suggestive visual references. With essays by the curators Leontine Coelewij (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Raphael Gygax (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich). Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 337 Indexing Water. Notes on Representation Vol. 9 Irene Kopelman

envelope + 5 items 26 × 37 cm 2018

First issue of an irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. Limited edition of 50 copies. Design: Experimental Jetset

ROMA 336 68 p 21 × 28 cm 2018

This 9th volume in Kopelman’s series Notes on Representation, is dedicated to Dr. Marcel Wernand, a physical oceanographer who engaged in the research of Forel-Ule scale – a hand-held index to estimate the colour of natural waters since the nineteenth century. This book functions as the Forel-Ule scale itself, reproduced as printed matter in solid, opaque colours. It also brings together fragments, both of Wernand’s writings and of recorded conversations, which took place at di!erent moments in 2017. Design: Roger Willems

Tupac Biggie Dana Lixenberg

64 p + poster 24 × 34 cm 2018

Tupac Biggie presents a visual history of Dana Lixenberg’s iconic photographs of the legendary artists Tupac and Biggie, considered by many the best rappers of their time. These photographs, commissioned by VIBE magazine in 1993 and 1996, have been appropriated over the years by innumerable admirers around the world. The book shows for the first time both shoots in their entirety and retraces the unforeseen trajectory and ubiquity of these images. The publication is accompanied by an essay written by Robert Kenner and a poem by Kevin Powell, both renowned contributors of VIBE magazine. Design: Mevis & van Deursen

ROMA 335 The Serving Library Annual 2018/19 (Translation) Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors)

ROMA 334 208 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018

AÆUÅÆØ Nick Geboers

This Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. This year’s collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation of identities and power dynamics in an increasingly Anglocentric cultural scene. Although departing from literature and the visual arts, the issue soon veers o! into mathematics, music, architecture, religion, and more. Featuring Meehan Crist, Katrina Dodson, Lucile Dupraz, Claudia Durastanti, Joseph Grigely, Meg Miller, Minae Mizumura, National Security Agency, Philip Ording, David Osbaldeston, David Reinfurt, Anna Della Subin, The Annotated Fall, and Emily Wilson. Design: The Serving Library

ROMA 333 Works and Words Josine van Dro!elaar, Piotr Olszanski (editors)

48 p + print 24 × 33 cm 2018

The cryptic title forms a sequence of symbols and Danish sounds. AÆUÅÆØ roughly translates to ‘I am out on an island’. The photographer therefore invites us to visit an island. What the precise nature of that island could be remains undetermined. In any case, it is not an existing island. Sublime landscapes, nature observations, archaic symbols and unknown rituals suggest an animistic world view in which every image, every human trace, seems like an echo of other times. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 332 92 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018

This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation Works and Words. The event sought to break with the one-way tra#c of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Design: Piotr Olszanski

FOUCAULT IN Olaf Nicolai

128 p 17 × 22 cm 2018

Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade, who assisted and accompanied Foucault, persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in his unpublished manuscript Foucault in California. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist’s publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. Therefore this publication shows only 205 selected words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbreviated text is itself a trip. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 331 Fortress of Solitude Mike Kelley

ROMA 330 96 p 17 × 22 cm 2018

The Presidents’ Hammers Diego Tonus

Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude brings together a range of key works from across the artist’s career. Whether using found stu!ed animals as emotional e#gies of long lost traumatic memories, or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of Superman in the form of his Kandor series, Mike Kelley explores the dark underbelly of postwar American culture. This publication accompanies the exhibition that took place at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, curated by Douglas Fogle. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 329 The Ooze Brud / Aditya Mandayam

304 p 17 × 24 cm 2018

Within his artistic practice, Diego Tonus focuses on reproduction as a tool of investigation to question control systems and power structures by transforming images, objects, and collective experiences, revealing their underlying structures of codification and normativity. This book deals with issues arising from the silence of the original gavels used by the heads of commissions of emancipatory and revolutionary groups. He investigated their controversial nature as objects belonging to sociodemocratic groups, which in turn led to a detailed remaking of these peculiar objects through drawing, carving, and varnishing, to exhibit them for the first time outside the archive. Design: Roger Willems & Dongyoung Lee

ROMA 328 144 p 12 × 17 cm 2018

The Ooze is the twelfth publication in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, and corresponds to The Donut of Confusion – a mid-career retrospective by Brud (and also Season Zero of their TV show ‘Gewgaw’). Brud is often described as a set of heuristics that gained sentience in the twenty-teens and will self-destruct sometime in the twenty-thirties. Brud focuses their attention somewhere between the stage, the screen, and the eye, to examine the cultural, political, and technological histories of sight (primarily through linguistic and musicological modes) and to expose the hidden structural and ideological precursors to contemporary communication. Edited by Aditya Mandayam, with Chris Fitzpatrick, Julie Peeters, and Post Brothers. Design: Julie Peeters

One Wall a Web Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

248 p 17.1 × 24.6 cm 2018

This book gathers work from the series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages, made in, and focused on the United States. Through a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape and appropriated archival images, the book describes quotidian encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom, irrational fear and deep structural division, asking whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence – when treated as aberrations – do not in fact serve to veil violence’s essential function in the maintenance of ‘civil’ society. One Wall a Web concludes with an essay that explores resonances between the field of black studies, questions of black life, and the strange ontology of the photographic image. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 328 SP One Wall a Web (special edition) Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

ROMA 327 248 p + 3 prints* 17.1 × 24.6 cm 2018

An Invitation to Disappear Julian Charrière

An edition of forty boxed and signed copies of the book, containing three archival pigment prints, one from each of the three sections of the book, and a postcard of the book’s back cover image (Ground, 2018). Each box is individually numbered. Design: Roger Willems

In April 1815 the volcano Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia erupted into flames, ash and lava, its e!ects rippling around the globe. In the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, a neighboring glacier expanded through the summer of 1816 causing the Lac de Mauvoisin to overflow its banks. Julian Charrière’s An Invitation to Disappear, move along “the historical and geographical path between Tambora and the Alps, between 1818 and 2018, tracing the entangled threads of climate devastation, monocultural farming, and an imaginary in which apocalyptic ecological threats find poetic utterance in the aesthetic of the sublime. With texts in English by Stefanie Böttcher and Dehlia Hannah. Design: Roger Willems

* 1: W. Baker Street (Our Present Invention) 2: Unknown (All My Gone Life, Vol. 1) 3: Paderewski Drive (All My Gone Life Vol. 2) Image size: 13.9 × 17.5 cm (5.5” × 6.9”) Paper size: 15.2 × 20.2 cm (6.0” × 8.0”)

ROMA 326 Room of Peace Bas Princen

104 p 24 × 30.5 cm 2018

ROMA 325 leporello + 16 p 24 × 30 cm 2018

This edition presents the “Room of Peace”, first shown as an exhibition-installation at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Princen was allowed to photograph Sala della Pace, the Room of Peace, in early morning before visitors would arrive. It is the first in a series of books and publications by the author, each dedicated to one photographic project or installation. With an introduction text by Bas Princen, and an essay by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress. Design: Joris Kritis

WORK Zarouhie Abdalian

20 p + 4 p 24 × 34 cm 2018

Artist publication by Zarouhie Abdalian in collaboration with Julie Peeters detailing Abdalian’s solo exhibition at LAXART in 2017, curated by Micki Meng. The catalog centers around seven tools and tool heads (titled: brunt) and several casts of the worked surface of a long derelict chalk mine (titled: from chalk mine hollow). Tara McDowell in the accompanying text describes the work as “nearfuture monuments to our own self-made epoch, the Anthropocene.” With texts by Joseph Rosenzweig and Tara McDowell. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 324 Onder inspecteurs Bart Lodewijks

ROMA 323 48 p 19.5 × 26.5 cm 2018

Radial Grammar Batia Suter

Set of 3 zines of 16 pages with stories and images by Bart Lodewijks about the realization of his long term commission to create chalk wall drawings at the new head quarters of The Netherlands food and consumer product safety authority (NVWA). Inside the building Lodewijks is confronted by the regulations of the inspectors, and on the streets around the building it’s the local housing association that frustrtates his work. Nevertheless Lodewijks managed to create a series of drawings in working rooms, public spaces, and private houses in which he connects di!erent social layers in and around the instistution. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 322 Glaz Nicolas Floc’h

296 p 22.5 × 30 cm 2018

Radial Grammar was created by Batia Suter in 2018 on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at Le Bal in Paris in 2018. The imagery in this book, which revolves around radial shapes and concepts, also forms the basis of a video work in the exhibition. Departing from pages scanned from her collection of second hand tomes – mainly concerning natural science, precision machinery and art history – Suter freely manipulates them and reorders them within the space of a book. The result is a journey along visual phenomena that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our younger selves leafing through an encyclopedia, unattended and unable to read, yet all the more sensitive to its inner visual rhymes and correspondences. With a text by Henri Michaux from 1968. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 321 424 p 20.8 × 26.2 cm 2018

Glaz is a Breton word used to describe a colour between green and blue, the colour of water. Since childhood, Nicolas Floc’h has developed a passion for the ocean and devoted his life and work to encapsulating and conveying the infinite riches and aspects of its reality. This monograph covers an oeuvre of sculpture, photography, and conceptual works, organised in themes like ‘Invisible Architecture’, ‘Productive Structures’, ‘Natural Habitats’, ‘Painting’, ‘Functional’, and ‘Recycling’. A part of the book is dedicated to underwater photographs of artificial reefs in France, Portugal, and Japan, as well as seascapes taken by Floc’h during a expedition on the Tara Pacific in Japan. With texts by Catherine Elkar, Jean-Marc Huitorel, Yves Henocque, Nicolas Floc’h, and Hubert Loisel. Design: Roger Willems

Lua Cão Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva

208 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018

Lua Cão, the eleventh issue in Kunstverein München’s Companion series, and corresponds to an exhibition by Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva. Initiated by Natxo Checa at ZdB in Lisbon, then optimized for Munich with Kunstverein München, the exhibition is an immersive moving-image experiment, with a projectionist arranging 20 analog films and digital videos by Estrela and Gusmão & Paiva in five 15-minute constellations, according to a 4-hour technical script. This publication departs from the exhibition to recount the endless encounters of Tom, an avid image consumer, and Jerry, a zealous projectionist, through more than 150 texts by Alexandre Estrela, Chris Fitzpatrick, João Maria Gusmão, Pedro Paiva, and Post Brothers. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 320 Works from 2006 to 2017 René Daniëls

ROMA 319 80 p 24 × 31 cm 2018

10 Madnesses Fiona Tan

In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a di!erent, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial constellations express an existential situation of noncommunication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition at Reset in Borgloon, Belgium, curated by Ulrich Loock. It marks the first time that the paintings Daniëls has produced since his devastating stroke in 1987 have been presented as a substantial and autonomous body of work. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 318 MMDC2 Sophie Nys

120 p 11.5 × 18.5 cm 2018

Five Portraits of the Insane by the nineteenth century French artist Théodore Géricault are said to be all that remain of originally ten commissioned portraits of insane patients. Each painting depicts a particular mental condition, a so-called monomania including a kleptomaniac, a woman mad with envy, a child kidnapper. Almost nothing is known about these portraits, but they raise a multitude of questions. Who are these people? In what way are they insane? What and where are the five missing madnesses? Intrigued and inspired by an absence, Tan decides to go in search of them. Pairing personal impressions with formal analysis and archival research, the essay ventures far beyond the boundaries of art history. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 317 36 p 22 × 22 cm 2018

Second in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. The books Sophie Nys selected brought her to the work of Jacob Epstein and the recent reappearance of Winston Churchill in the White House. Design: Julie Peeters

Recollecting Landscapes Bruno Notteboom, Pieter Uyttenhove (editors)

228 p 19.5 × 34 cm 2018

Between 1904 and 1911, botanist Jean Massart (1865-1925) made a series of landscape photos, mainly situated in the northern part of Belgium, to show the natural vegetation in its landscape context, and the relationship between agriculture and geography. In 1980, Georges Charlier rephotographed about sixty of Massart’s landscape images. In 2003, Jan Kempenaers was commissioned to rephotograph the same landscapes, followed by Michiel De Cleene in 2014. Due to the restrictions of rephotography, Charlier, Kempenaers and De Cleene did have only little freedom to express a personal point of view. However, a di!erent emphasis on documentarian, artistic and scientific aspects can be distinguished in their work. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 316 Intenso Katinka Bock

ROMA 314 174 p 21 × 28 cm 2018

Alex Elena Narbutaite

Artist book with photographic work by Katinka Bock dating from 2007 till 2017. It marks the occasion of three interrelated exhibitions by Bock in the space of one year in Kunst Museum Winterthur (Sonar/ Tomorrow’s Sculpture), Mudam Luxembourg (Smog/ Tomorrow’s Sculpture), and IAC Villeurbanne/RhôneAlpes (Radio/Tomorrow’s Sculpture). With a text contribution by Louis Lüthi. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 313 Dying is a solo Yael Davids

48 p 16 × 24 cm 2017

This 10th issue in the Companion series was produced during Alex – a light programme by Elena Narbutaite in Kunstverein München, which began on New Year’s Eve 2016 in Vilnius, and ended on New Year’s Eve 2017 in Vilnius. Edited by Elena Narbutaite and Julie Peeters, it features an correspondence between Elena Narbutaite and Candice Lin, as well as dialogue excerpted from the 1994 Atom Egoyan film Exotica, a WeTransfer.com caption by Chris Fitzpatrick, an unbound ‘filmstrip’, a textual intervention by Goda Budvytyte & Bernardo José de Souza, visual contributions by An Breugelmans, Gintaras Didziapetris, Alix Eynaudi, Ieva Kabasinskaite, Elena Narbutaite, Onute Narbutaite, Julie Peeters, Viktorija Rybakova, Cécile Tonizzo, and a a painting by August Kopisch. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 312 156 p 23 × 30 cm 2018

This publication compiles material of performances and installations produced during a five year period, featuring scripts, and documentation of the works Ending with Glass, Learning to Imitate in Absentia, Obliterating an Image, The Distance between V and W, Objects in Diaspora, and A Reading That Loves – a Physical Act, of which the last two were shown at documenta 14. Yael Davids positions the reception of her performances and installations as a constitute force in her practice. Each performance repeats what has preceded, yet also expands, modifies, and nuances the previous version. Through this practice of perpetually attuning the central components of the work – voice, body and object – a series of augmented repetitions turns into a single composition, a single artwork. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen

Peak Oil Geert Goiris

68 p + print 24 × 30.5 cm 2017

Series of photographs by Geert Goiris, dealing with the topic of our contemporary oil culture. Commissioned by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Goiris was given permission to the Rubis Terminal sites in Rouen and other sites in Europe. He tackles the subject from the outside, limiting himself to that particular moment when oil is seemingly without drama. This is not about the technical feat of extracting the oil from the earth, nor about the economic, social and/or geopolitical e!ects generated by its existence. Rather it is about the in-between stations, the moments when oil is only potentially active. With a text by Steven Humblet. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 311 Animal Books for Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca Lous Martens

ROMA 311 SP 416 p 17 × 24 cm 2017

Animal Books for Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca (special edition) Lous Martens and children

“Seventeen years ago our grandson Jaap was born. That was the start of an animal book for Jaap. I used a dummy for the OASE journal of architecture and loosely pasted in pictures of animals that I had clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature and science. Plus stamps and photos from advertising brochures. Then Zeno was born and the same thing happened: an animal book for Zeno. Now I was working on two books at once. Then came Anna. Julian. Luca. At this point, there were five booksin-the-making on the table. And none of those are finished yet. The children, as well as myself, enjoy seeing the small, ever-evolving changes. The additions. These books were never intended to be published. Now they lie here, grouped into one big book, because others have convinced me it’s what they deserve.”

ROMA 310 Funnelflux Navid Nuur

416 p 17 × 24 cm 2017

During production of Animal Books for Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca, a number of books remained for which there was no cover. An excellent opportunity for the children of the painting club and group 7 of the Dr. Rijk Kramerschool, to give these books a cover! The benefits went to SOS Children’s Villages. Design: Martens Family

ROMA 309 116 p 22 × 30 cm 2017

Catalogue documenting Funnelflux, a solo exhibition by Navid Nuur in Be-Part, Waregem, combining a cross section of earlier works with new pieces and site specific installations. Placed in the heart of a photographic tour through the entire installation, there is an insightful text by the artist about his process of creating an exhibition like this, from the moment of being invited by an institution. Design: Roger Willems

Bill 1 Julie Peeters (editor)

176 p 23 × 31 cm 2017

First issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. BILL prioritizes visual reading without distraction, the images that appear in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text. Contributors to the first issue are: Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Katja Mater, Elena Narbutaite, Rosalind Nashashibi & Vivian Suter, Arthur Ou, Scott Ponik, Adam Putnam, Johannes Schwartz, Algirdas Seskus, Linda Van Deursen and Stand Up Comedy Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 308 The Photographic I: Other Pictures Martin Germann, Steven Humblet (editors)

ROMA 307 128 p 20 × 26.5 cm 2017

MECHANISMS Anthony Huberman (editor)

Catalogue of the first part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent. The exhibition comprises new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlová, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Michael Schmidt, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Tobias Zielony. The selection, ranging from the 1960s to the present, demonstrates a lively interest in the power of the still image as a means of examining the world. It concentrates on indefinable images with an open view, whose multi-layering requires slow reading. With an introduction by Martin Germann and Philippe Van Cauteren, and an essay by Steven Humblet. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 306 Exarcheia Athens Sunday Feb.5.2017 13:07-16:51 Ari Marcopoulos

288 p 22 × 21 cm 2017

This catalogue accompanies a major group show at the CCA Wattis in San Francisco, and Secession in Vienna, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards e#ciency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with ine#cient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs. Design: Julie Peeters & Scott Ponik

ROMA 305 176 p 16.7 × 22.8 cm 2017

Ari Marcopoulos shot this series during one February afternoon in Exarcheia, a neighbourhood in central Athens which is known as home to Greek anarchists. Through 352 colourful pictures of gra#ti and crumbling concrete walls, an urban portrait comes to light, as if Marcopoulos was scanning the area through his camera lens. The entire series remains unedited in the layout of the book. Design: Roger Willems

The Serving Library Annual 2017/18 (Public Fiction) Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Angie Keefer, Lauren Mackler, David Reinfurt (eds)

200 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017

This first Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “Bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published in a yearly format, this inaugural issue is realised in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. It deals with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors include Hilton Als, Tauba Auerbach, Anne Carson, Mark Leckey, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms. Design: The Serving Library

ROMA 304 MCMXCIX Kara Walker

ROMA 303 212 p 15 × 23 cm 2017

SCHAUBUCH: Skulptur Aglaia Konrad

“This sketchbook was begun in Munich in 1999, when I was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of “work” came out of this particular book, including the installation ‘Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)’, which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. That, however, is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters.” Kara Walker, July 2017 Design: Roger Willems

192 p 13 × 20 cm 2017

The photographs in this book, taken by Aglaia Konrad between 2010 and 2017 in museums throughout Europe, share an interest in ‘sculptural architecture’. Her focus on the spatial display of sculpture allowed for an unrestricted subjective choice. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 302 Rokin Fountain Mark Manders

64 p 21 × 28 cm 2017

Publication about a sculptural fountain that Mark Manders made for the city of Amsterdam. Besides an impression of the final result, photographed by Jan Kempenaers, the book includes texts and images covering the history of the fountain’s central location in the city, the entire process of its creation, and an essay by Maria Barnas about movement in the work of Manders. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 301 A rock that keeps tigers away Hasan Veseli, Post Brothers, Chris Fitzpatrick (editors)

224 p 12 × 17 cm 2017

Theoretical grounding for A rock that keeps tigers away – a group exhibition at Kunstverein München, including a collection of quotes from comedians, writers, and philosophers, transcriptions from episodes of the television programs, Sesame Street, The Simpsons, and The West Wing, a charting of the development of the ‘Chicken or the Egg’ debate in popular media, and artistic interventions by Beth Collar, Laura Kaminskaite, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Gianni Motti, Julie Peeters, Tyler Vigen, and Freek Wambacq are also contained in the publication. Co-edited by Post Brothers and Hasan Veseli, with Chris Fitzpatrick and Julie Peeters. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 300 Hoboken Jan Kempenaers

ROMA 299 104 p + print 31 × 22 cm 2017

Copy Construct Kasper Andreasen (editor)

Over a period of one year, Jan Kempenaers photographed the woods in the Hobokense Polder, itself the result of a botched urban development project and a former dumping ground for excess soil and toxic waste. Located in a suburb of Antwerp, the area was transformed into a nature reserve two decades ago. It is a new, modern landscape, the result of human intervention left to its own natural growth. The book is composed in sections (archive, selection, details), repeating image sequences that progress in a tendency towards abstraction. With an essay on landscape photography by Steven Humblet. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 298 I Come From the Other Side Claudio Moser

68 p 19.7 × 27.1 cm 2017

This exhibition publication is produced on the occasion of the group show Copy Construct held at the Cultural Centre Mechelen in the first half of 2017. Copy Construct departs from di!erent artistic practices and specific works by artists that are based on ‘reproduction’ or ‘copy’. Side by side, the exhibited works were shown in relation to printed matter and artist s books. Initially produced as an exhibition guide, this revised version brings together some 25 autonomous contributions from the exhibited artists, a thematic introduction, an interview with the book collector Gregorio Magnani, as well as some images of the exhibition installation. The publication’s bibliography o!ers a selected overview of exhibited books as seen per artist in recent decades. Curated and compiled by Kasper Andreasen. Design: Joris Dockx

ROMA 297 56 p + 8 p 23.5 × 29.5 cm 2017

Published on the occasion of Claudio Moser’s exhibition at the 237 meter high dam of Mauvoisin, and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 17 – September 3, 2017). With an interview by the exhibition’s curator Jean-Paul Felly. Design: Roger Willems

On Glaciers and Avalanches. Notes on Representation Vol. 8 Irene Kopelman

96 p 21 × 28 cm 2017

This book, the 8th volume in Kopelman’s series Notes on Representation, focuses on glaciers, alpine forests, and avalanche-sculpted mountainscapes, especially their texture, morphology, and readability . It brings together drawings and field notes made during multiple stays in the Swiss Alps, notably Davos, as well as paintings produced later in a studio setting. It also contains contributions by scientists with whom Kopelman worked. Their research o!ers relevant perspectives into glaciology, ecology, dendrochronology, and art history. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 296 SET (Revised edition) Na Kim

ROMA 295 136 p 23 × 30 cm 2017

The Bathers (Inverted) Megan Francis Sullivan

Updated reprint in black featuring a collection of Na Kim’s work from 2006 to 2016. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show’s opening, this book sketched the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. Keeping the same structure, the second edition added extra installation images of transformed works through the guidelines in this book. Also added is a new text by Jae Seok Kim. Design: Joris Kritis

52 p 14 × 21.4 cm 2017

The Bathers (Inverted) extends from Megan Francis Sullivan s 2016 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern titled The Unanswered Question. Its format refers to a publication of Ian Wilson from 1984, also for Kunsthalle Bern. A showcase of her recent series of ‘inverted’ Cezanne paintings, this poetic object likewise tilts a hat to the institutional framework of Conceptual Art, braiding specific references to suggest history as futurely negotiable. With a text excerpt by Anne Rorimer. Design: HIT & Megan Francis Sullivan

ROMA 294 16 Sheets from Walled Garden Kees Goudzwaard

16 prints 30 × 30 cm 2017

Special edition of 16 prints by Kees Goudzwaard, printed in 5 layers of Riso at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, in an edition of 100. By systhematically combining 5 compositions in di!erent colours, Goudzwaard created a large variety of colorful prints, inititially produced as fragments for a large mural called Walled Garden, which has been installed in 2016 at the MMCA, Seoul, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and Zeno × Gallery, Antwerp. The 16 di!erent prints in this edition can be viewed as a sequence of individual parts, but together they can form an endless amount of unique compositions, to be mounted as a small-sized wall paper measuring 120 × 120 cm. With a text by Lex ter Braak. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 293 30 Jahre Kunst. Verkaufskatalog Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys

192 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017

The eighth in Kunstverein München’s Companion series, this ‘Verkaufskatalog’ contains images, prices, material descriptions, and gallery designations for each of the works included in the exhibition 30 Jahre Kunst by artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Over 192 black and white pages, the diverse spectrum of the artists’ collaborative practice is represented – drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, kinetic objects, videos. Additionally, a number of lost, destroyed, and forgotten works have also been included, as well as new works commissioned on occasion of the exhibition. Design: Julie Peeters & Harald Thys

ROMA 292 Moving and Being Moved Yvonne Rainer

ROMA 291 128 p 20 × 28 cm 2017

A Long Long Road Bart Lodewijks

Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors, o!ers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects from both the late 1960s (‘Trio A’, ‘The Mind Is a Muscle’) and since her return to dance with the White Oak Dance Project in 2000. Rainer is known for her challengingly experimental and sometimes minimalist work as a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, which spearheaded the rise of postmodern dance. An essay by Rainer frames things from the perspective of an ageing dancer who is aware of her physical limitations. With a conversation between Rainer and dancer Trisha Brown. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 290 Motion Karel Martens

32 p 20 × 28 cm 2017

Report of a year long chalk drawing project by Bart Lodewijks on the road between Menen and Ieper in Belgium, on the occasion of the public art project Menin Road-Ypernstrasse, organized in commemoration of the First World War. This 20 kilometer long road is historically known for the devastating battle during the First World War. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 289 304 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017

This publication is part of Motion, a major exhibition by Dutch artist, graphic designer, and educator Karel Martens at Kunstverein München, and is the seventh issue in the Companion series produced by the Kunstverein and Roma Publications. Co-edited by Martens and Julie Peeters, the bulk of the content for this book comes from the video Not for Resale – a sequence of photographs from Martens’ studio wall in Hoog Keppel in 2000. The videos Lost & Found (2004), and Tol (2008) are also included in the book, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Martens and Kunstverein director Chris Fitzpatrick, followed by an afterword (both in English and German). Design: Julie Peeters

Concrete Islands Douglas Fogle, Hanneke Skerath (curators)

80 p 14.8 × 21 cm 2016

Small-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Concrete Islands, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath at Kayne Gri#n Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, from November 2016 till January 2017. The selection of works o!ers a poetic investigation into the intersection of words and objects. Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’ 1964 sculpture Pense-Bête in which the artist took the unsold copies of one of his books of poetry and encased them in plaster creating an object that literally solidified poetry into a concrete form, Concrete Islands posits the question: where does language end and the world begin? Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 288 Choses tuées 2 gerlach en koop

120 p 20.5 × 29 cm 2016

ROMA 287 These Strangers.... Painting and People Ann Hoste (curator)

This book, the second volume in a series, is published on the occasion of the exhibition Choses tuées by gerlach en koop at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, February-March 2016. Photographs by Kristien Daem and Hartwig Schwarz. With text contributions by Regina Barunke, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin and Raimundas Malasauaskas. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 286 The Athens Recorder Johannes Schwartz

56 p 22.5 × 28 cm 2016

This catalogue, published on the occasion of a group exhibition of nine artists taken place in the autumn and winter of 2016/17 at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, reflects upon contemporary figurative painting. Each painter has developed an idiosyncratic vision of how to represent people, and this book s bold juxtaposition of their widely varied styles o!ers an intriguing cross-section of the genre and its possible futures. Works by the contributing artists – Nicole Eisenman, Victor Man, Alice Neel, Paulina Olowska, Henry Taylor, Nicolas Party, Elizabeth Peyton, Avery Singer, and Katharina Wul! – are accompanied by texts from several authors. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 285 544 p 27 × 38 cm 2016

What do people do when they are out in the street? Reading? Waiting? Can we recognize the inhabitant, the stranger, the traveller by his actions and deeds in an urban setting? This is the premise of Johannes Schwartz’s exploration, which was set in Athens in the fall of 2015. The result are photos of streets, public squares, museums, ruins and shops, places of culture and consumption. Devided in 17 chapters, everything passes by in a set of chance driven encounters. Design: Experimental Jetset

Rome-Malibu Ari Marcopoulos

368 p 21 × 28 cm 2016

Photographs taken by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome (February – March 2016), and Malibu (August 2016). With a text contribution by Kara Walker. Rome. (...) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 284 Parallel Encyclopedia #2 Batia Suter

592 p 21.6 × 28.6 cm 2016

ROMA 283 A Public Character Shannon Ebner

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, and I investigate how they can manipulate each other, depending on where and how they are placed. In the process of making this book, narrative lines unfolded before my eyes as I shifted images around.” Design: Roger Willems& Batia Suter

ROMA 282 The Preparator Kasper Andreasen, Louis Lüthi

216 p 19.5 × 29 cm 2016

This book was published after Shannon Ebner’s exhibition A Public Character, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ebner’s work is an extended mediation of language that often takes the form of photography. Certain aspects, especially seen in the ongoing series ‘Black Box Collision A’, represent her e!orts to reflect upon our experience of language at the intersection of landscape and architecture, looking to the social world as a realistic, concrete location of poetics found and made; observed and constructed. Also included are the works A Hudson Yard, A Self, and A Singular, as well as the title work A Public Character. Essays by Alex Gartenfeld, Bruce Hainley, Laura Hoptman, Eileen Myles and Ellen Salpeter. Design: Julia Born

ROMA 281 76 p 15.5 × 20 cm 2016

This fiction, a collaboration between Kasper Andreasen and Louis Lüthi, takes as its starting point the painter Alexander Cozens s publication A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (1785). Set one morning in an empty gallery and told from the point of view of a young man who installs exhibitions for a living, The Preparator combines text and image in a series of compact, associative tableaus, each revolving around a landscape or rather, the memory of a landscape: a title page, an eighteenthcentury ink drawing, the network of cracks in a ceiling, a walk along the Rhine, a satellite photograph, Thomas Bernhard holding forth in a private garden, and others. Design: Louis Lüthi

Prints Karel Martens

48 p 17 × 24 cm 2016

This artist publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Karel Martens between 2014 and 2016, reproduced at actual size (except for two larger prints). It is available in two di!erent cover versions which is the result of a printing experiment by printing all the content of the book in 3 layers on one print sheet, which was cut and folded into two di!erent covers. Design: Karel & Aagje Martens & Roger Willems

ROMA 280 Horseday Mohamed Bourouissa

32 p 17 × 23 cm 2016

ROMA 279 Falaise Misha de Ridder

Photographer Mohamed Bourouissa (1978, Blida, Algeria) is interested in systems, in how society and particularly subcultures are structured. For his project Horseday (2013), he worked with a local black horse riding community in Philadelphia. This artist book unfolds as a story with photos, sculptures and stills from Horseday. But Bouroussia also opens up his sketchbook, giving us a glimpse of his thinking process. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 278 Composite Jan Kempenaers

52 p 30 × 36 cm 2016

The work of Misha de Ridder in Falaise, which consists of abstractions of the chalky cli! face in Normandy, France, harnesses the revelatory power of photography to capture the continuous metamorphosis of the cli!s. Once a celebrated holiday destination, where Monet is believed to have developed Impressionism, the area has become forgotten as it is encroached upon by the sea, which is gradually swallowing its surroundings. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen

ROMA 277 72 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2016

Jan Kempenaers has been photographing urban and natural landscapes for over two decades. For this series of images, he applies the formal language of the documentary style, with its detached viewpoint emphasising the isolation and desolation of the strange structures in the frame. This causes a heightened sense of inaccessibility in the viewer, a sense of alienation exacerbated by the alien nature of the structures themselves. What are these objects, who built them, and why? Interspersed are composite photographs Kempenaers has made by cutting details from the images and overlapping them, thereby creating darkly idiosyncratic renderings of the same subjects. Design: Roger Willems

Hamburger Eyes -The continuing Story of Life on Earth Hamburger Eyes

114 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2016

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this volume begins by recounting the prospectus written by American publishing magnate Henry Luce, outlining what would become Life magazine. Today, to see, and to be shown is an almost universal obsession for all. Founded in 2001 by David and Ray Potes, Hamburger Eyes has grown into a magazine, publisher, and distributor of zines by an international photographers network. This particular publication complies facsimiles of spreads from back issues, plus images by such names as Ricky Adam, Stevie Dacanay, Ryan Florig, Troy Holden, Lele Saveri, Jai Tanju, David Uzzardi, a.o. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 276 The House of Beauty and Culture Kasia Maciejowska (Editor)

ROMA 275 154 p 23 × 31 cm 2016

Une après-midi japonaise Alain Bublex

The House of Beauty and Culture (HOBAC) was an avant-garde boutique, design studio and crafts collective in the late 1980s and the first destination to put Dalston on the fashion map. Alongside Judy Blame key members of the group included shoe designer John Moore, fashion designers Christopher Nemeth and Richard Torry, photographers Mark Lebon and Cindy Palmano, furniture duo Fric and Frack, and artist Dave Baby. Design: Roger Willems & Sam de Groot

ROMA 274 MMDC1 Philip Metten

48 p 24 × 31 cm 2016

Une après-midi japonaise (A Japanese afternoon) is published on the occasion of the exhibition by Alain Bublex at the Mauvoisin dam and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 18 – September 18, 2016). The photographs are taken during the winter of 2015/2016 in val de Bagnes (Canton of Valais) in Switzerland and in the region of Hida (Gifu prefecture) in Japan. In this photographs, Bublex added drawn elements which are not always noticeable at first glance. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 273 36 p 22 × 22 cm 2016

Book pages selected by Philip Metten, photographed by Johannes Schwartz. This is the first issue in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. Editing and design: by Julie Peeters. Available for free at the Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp. Design: Julie Peeters

Latent Image Michaela Frühwirth

112 p 22 × 28 cm 2016

Manuela Ammer writes in her essay in this book that the drawing practice of Michaela Frühwirth “responds to sites where the balance of matter and energy is negotiated, where physical force has acted on or is acting on its surroundings.” It can be thought of as a negotiation of matter and energy, through works in which tons of rock detritus is transformed into a delicate web of abstract lines, or where the structure of a hydroelectric dam is detailed in countless graphite strokes. Five of Frühwirth s seemingly monolithic large-scaled drawings are reproduced in this artists’ book on fold-out pages and through installation views. With additional texts by Raviv Ganchrow and Maaike Lauwaert. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 271 ROMA 272 Roma 1-272 (Seoul) Roger Willems, Helen Ku, LIM Kyung yong (Editors)

224 p 17 × 24 cm 2016

Rio de Janeiro Drawings Bart Lodewijks

Catalogue for the exhibition Artists’ Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration at MMCA in Seoul (May – August, 2016), organized by Roma Publications and mediabus. Besides exhibition views this book contains the complete Roma Publications backlist from number 1, published in 1998, until this book (ROMA 272), published in September 2016. Text in English and Korean, with contributions by Min Choi and LIM Kyung yong. Design: RW & Na Kim Cover image: Karel Martens

160 p 23.2 × 31 cm 2016

Lodewijks spent two winters and one summer in Rio de Janeiro in search of suitable places for chalk drawings. He entrusted himself to local residents who led him to places which were scenes of everyday life. Places that don’t really catch the eye and which only disclose their special character to those who return regularly. He made drawings on the streets, in a bar, on a church square and in a villa, but most of the time he frequented a small favela bordering on the end of the no-through Rua Benjamin Constant. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 269 ROMA 270 Nieuw Texas / Klein Chicago Bart Lodewijks

88 p 20 × 28 cm 2016

In words and images, Lodewijks documented a long term project in two neighbourhoods of Genk, Belgium, during the spring and summer of 2014. He describes the process of making chalk drawings in the public space and the encounters with the inhabitants of the neigbourhoods and the housing company that owns the housing projects. Design: Roger Willems

ANY Katinka Bock

88 p 20 × 28 cm 2016

Artist book released in conjunction with the exhibition Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe at Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH). With a text in German and English by Thomas Boutoux. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 268 Otarkino Otarkino

ROMA 267 64 p 15 × 21 cm 2016

A Play Uta Eisenreich, James Langdon

This fifth in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series was compiled as an extension of the 3 ‘film dinners’ Otarkino presented in the Kunstverein in May 2016. Otarkino was founded in 2012, when film curator Vincent Stroep joined food collective Otark Productions (Hadas Cna’ani and Charlotte Koopman), and paired food and film in immersive events that are as auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile as they are visual. The 21 menus and 32 corresponding films Otarkino has presented have been chronologically indexed through 64 full-color pages of receipts, notes, grocery lists, diagrams, serving timelines, and photographic documentation. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 266 Brittle Land Alexandra Navratil

96 p 11 × 18 cm 2016

Gertrude Steins ‘Objects Lie On A Table (1922), a modernist play told through still life. Objects appear on the eponymous table and are transformed, from their humble selves into symbolic representations or characters in a series of cryptic narratives. Surpassing the representational aspects of language, the text is structurally illegible. James Langdon’s typography supports the melodiousness of the text and breaks it open into smaller units. Visually, the book departs from Stein’s text in an entirely graphic direction, constructing narrative from a set of simple geometric shapes. These forms ask the reader, for example: ‘Am I a saucer, or a moon, or just a circle of printed ink? Published in accompaniment to Things On A Table, a performance by Uta Eisenreich and Eva Meyer-Keller with Katrin Hahner. Design: James Langdon

ROMA 265 176 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2016

Brittle Land encompasses black and white sequences of stills from Navratil’s works Resurrections (2014) and Silbersee (2015), enriched with essays by Paul Feigelfeld and Keston Sutherland, and a poem by Rachel O’Reilly. Taking the former Agfa-Orwo filmfactory in Wolfen-Bitterfeld as a point of departure, the book divulges the interdependent histories of photographic emulsion, gelatin, labour, explotation, exhaustion, chemical contamination, fragility and slow violence. Design: Roger Willems

You’ve got beautiful stairs, you know Ola Vasiljeva

96 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2016

You’ve got beautiful stairs, you know is the fourth installment in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, and was released in parallel to Ola Vasiljeva’s eponymous exhibition. The publication’s 100 full-color and black-and-white pages combine facsimiles of zines, records, and posters Vasiljeva produced collaboratively as OAOA, intercut and overlaid with 35mm slides, drawings, and photographs taken by the artist during the production of previous exhibitions, as well as a manic letter to the artist by Chris Fitzpatrick. Design: Julie Peeters

ROMA 264 The Be-Part Exercises Dirk Zoete

ROMA 263 128 p 20 × 26 cm 2016

Alexandra Leykauf Alexandra Leykauf

Together with drawings and scalemodels, The Be-Part Exercises can be seen as documents of the act of drawing in the midst of becoming. Zoete translated his drawings into theatrical sculptures embodied by actors which he photographed in filmic series which he digitally edited and drawn upon. The characters seem to be frozen in a re-enactment of the drawings they were based upon. Through repetition and di!erence, they show a rhythm of geometrical patterns in di!erent constellations. Design: Roger Willems & Sam de Groot

ROMA 262 Sligo Drawings Bart Lodewijks

240 p 20 × 28 cm 2016

Kaleidoscopic sequence of installation views and details of Leykauf’s work from 2003 till 2015, substantiated with texts by Dominikus Müller, Jonathan Pouthier, Robert Barry, Maria Barnas, and a conversation between Leykauf and Caroline Soyez Petithomme. Design: Studio Felix Salut & Paul Bernhard

ROMA 261 120 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2016

Between 2012 and 2015 Bart Lodewijks produced chalk drawings on public walls and various other surfaces in the neighbourhood of Doorly Park, Riverside and Garavogue Villas in Sligo (Ireland). This book brings together images and text about the working process and Lodewijks’ encounters with the local community. Published on the occasion the solo exhibition Bart Lodewijks. The Model Drawing / Unforgettable neighbourhoods, at The Model, Sligo, Ireland. The book exists with 4 di!erently colored covers, which are distributed randomly. Design: Roger Willems

Record Steve Van den Bosch

328 p 21 × 27 cm 2016

This volumnious book in a clinical white vinyl sleeve suggests high tech content, as if it belongs to a laboratory. Within a wide space of white and light gray pages – which could represent painted walls of a white cube – 39 works by conceptual Belgium artist Steve Van den Bosch are exposed. The photographs are taken by a forensic photographer and the text, entitled ‘Event reconstruction from trace images: an original methodology’, comes from the Swiss Institute for Police Science. The book itself is # 40 in the list of works and printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. Design: Steve Van den Bosch & David van Mieghem

ROMA 260 Carl Andre Robert Barry Douglas Huebler Joseph Kosuth Sol Lewitt Robert Morris Lawrence Weiner [also known as the Xerox Book]

ROMA 259 372 p 21.1 × 27.9 cm 2015

Entanglement. Notes on Representation Vol. 7 Irene Kopelman

Edited and published by Seth Siegelaub in 1968. Republished by Roma Publications in December 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Design: Seth Siegelaub Reconstruction: Roger Willems

ROMA 258 The Soul in Limbo Jennifer Tee

152 p 21 × 28 cm 2015

This book is the result of the work Irene Kopelman produced during visits to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 2012 and 2015. Without formal scientific training, Kopelman aimed to achieve an understanding of methods in field biology, and contacted three researchers to assist as interlocutors: Stuart J. Davies (forest ecology), Owen McMillan (adaptive variation), and Bill Wcislo (animal behaviour). Her drawings include the forms of woody vines, mangrove roots, and randomly scattered crab pellets in the sand. Texts by Stefan A. Schnitzer, John H. Christy, Mark Torchin, Andrew H. Altieri, William Wcislo and Irene Kopelman. Design: Roger Willems& Ayumi Higuchi

ROMA 257 200 p 21 × 28 cm 2015

Jennifer Tee, winner of the 6th Cobra Art Prize (2015), investigates the mutability and complexity of constantly overlapping cultures and identities through works that blur the line between static physical forms and potential carriers of anticipated action, ritual, and animation. This publication richly illustrates through installation and performance photographs her expression of the dialogue between material experimentation and philosophical contemplation, which mingles art history, Western culture, and Eastern philosophy. With texts by Zöe Gray, Maxine Kopsa, and Monika Szewczyk. Design: Richard Niessen (Niessen & de Vries)

Three Exchanges Zachary Formwalt

300 p 17 × 23 cm 2015

In three recent video installations – and in the three chapters of this book -, Zachary Formwalt focuses on the architecture of OMA’s new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange by H.P. Berlage. Although our economy is dictated by financial transactions, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote, without actual human encounter. The architecture of the two buildings serves as a starting point for a investigation into the limitations of photography to represent global capital and into the interrelationships between financial capitalism and image-making. With texts by Eric de Bruyn, Joshua Simon and Zachary Formwalt. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 256 Choses tuées gerlach en koop

ROMA 255 118 p 21 × 29 cm 2015

The Registry of Promise Chris Sharp (Editor)

Choses tuées is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. With photographs by Kristien Daem and text contributions by Lorenzo Benedetti, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin, Raimundas Malasauaskas. Texts in English and Dutch. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 254 On a Universal Serial Bus.* Dexter Sinister

204 p 22 × 29 cm 2015

Over the course of a year, The Registry of Promise consisted of four interrelated exhibitions, which are represented as chapters in this book. In these chapters, Chris Sharp reflects on our increasingly fraught relationship with what the future may or may not hold, and the work engages with and plays upon the various readings and mutability of promise , along with the inevitability of what may come, whether positive or negative. Such polyvalence is particularly topical, as we have shifted from the anthropocentric promise of modernity to a negative faith in the post-human. Richly illustrated with works and installation views, and an archive of previously published articles by Chris Sharp. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 253 96 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015

On a Universal Serial Bus.* is the third in the Kunstverein München s Companion series, released alongside Dexter Sinister’s solo exhibition of the same name. Dexter Sinister is the compound name of artists Stuart Bailey (UK) and David Reinfurt (USA). The publication contains a collection of Dexter Sinister’s writing around the four central projects on view: the script for Identity, a poem that initiated True Mirror, the complete incantation from The Last ShOt Clock, and the fulllength essay version of Letter & Spirit. Design: Julie Peeters

Politics of Installation Hans Demeulenaere, Bas van den Hurk

64 p 21 × 28 cm 2015

This book brings together two exhibitions, under the title Politics of Installation, by artists Hans Demeulenaere and Bas van den Hurk in spring and summer 2015. The title refers to a text by Boris Groys, in which he claims that installations made by artists reveal a sovereign world. Within these worlds there is not one dominant perspective, but rather an exchange of multiple perspectives. An important part of the project was to include art historical lines based on architectural elements. Demeulenaere refers to the work of architect Aldo van Eyck, and Van den Hurk to the architecture of Juliaan Lampens. Design: Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 252 Opus 1. The Artist’s Beginnings Koen Brams, Ulrike Lindmayr, Dirk Pültau (Editors)

ROMA 251 208 p 20 × 25 cm 2015

SET Na Kim

Whenever we set out to tackle an artist’s oeuvre we generally try to trace the “decisive moments” – the turning points, the interruptions, the final work... There is one “key moment”, however, that seems virtually to guarantee the ultimate understanding of the oeuvre – its beginning, its Opus 1. It is not without some justification that the inception of the oeuvre or artistic activity is surrounded by myth and mystification. As will appear time and time again in this book, the oeuvre and the Opus 1 are “constructions”. Whatever one regards as the oeuvre and whichever Opus 1 is pointed out, those choices are always based on a predetermined and welldefined image of the artist’s production. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 250 Statement and CounterStatement (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 1) Experimental Jetset

122 p 23 × 30 cm 2015

This book features a collection of Na Kim s work from 2006 to 2015, published on the occasion of her fourth solo exhibition, SET (named after this publication) at DOOSAN Gallery New York, from October 8 to November 5, 2015. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show’s opening, this book sketches the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. With texts by Seewon Hyun and Wonhwa Yoon. Concept and design: Na Kim & Joris Kritis

ROMA 249 576 p 11 × 18 cm 2015

The first publication on the work of Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, it is a very loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. To conclude is a glossarylike anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset, selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda. Design: Experimental Jetset

Automatically Arranged Alphabets Experimental Jetset

24 p 11 × 18 cm 2015

Stapled in a screenprinted silver cardboard cover, the zine (titled ‘Automatically Arranged Alphabets’) contains a typographic experiment involving software-generated compositions (part of a series of sketches made between 2014-2015). Design: Experimental Jetset

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ROMA 248 Arts/Rats/Star Experimental Jetset

tote bag 40 × 37 cm 2015

Imperial Courts 1993-2015 Dana Lixenberg

A tote bag by Experimental Jetset with the words ‘Arts’, ‘Rats’ and ‘Star’, especially produced for use during book fairs. Design: Experimental Jetset &

296 p 24 × 31 cm 2015

In 1993, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered there inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community with her 4x5 field camera. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way,&Imperial Courts&constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 246 Drawings (001-806) Ante Timmermans

856 p 17 × 22 cm 2015

This book contains 806 numbered drawings by Ante Timmermans, dating from 2002 up till 2015. By showing all these drawings in chronological order, and not just a selection of them, one is able to read a flow of thoughts, and see the artist’s themes, subjects, and sources come and go. Drawing is in the heart of Ante Timmermans’ practice, often leading to works in other media, such as performances, paintings, sculptures, and installations. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 245 ROMA Karel Martens

tote bag 40 × 37 cm 2015

A tote bag by Karel Martens with the letters RO and MA on the two sides. A first edition was printed in black, a second edition in blue. Design: Karel Martens &&

ROMA 244 Sudoku Gintaras Did iapetris, Renée Levi, Rosalind Nashashibi

ROMA 243 72 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015

Zeichnungen Marc Nagtzaam

Sudoku is the second in the Kunstverein München s Companion series. The publication features demonstrative and representational imagery by the artists, which follows and deviates from a collated transcription of their conversations. The exhibition and publication are titled after the popular Japanese puzzle in which deductive logic is used to fill a concentric grid of squares with the numbers 1 through 9 in correct locations. The challenge lies in the puzzle s restrictive rules, but for the exhibiting artists, Sudoku o!ered a productive system with which to responsively create new interdisciplinary work, and to re-present existing work in new ways. Design: Julie Peeters &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 242 The Grand Tour Kasia Klimpel

108 p 20.5 × 26.5 cm 2015

Zeichnungen&is an artist book with a compilation of drawings – or rather, ‘sketches of drawings’ by Nagtzaam. He combined his material by printing it in di!erent layers on a Riso duplicator at the Charles Nypels Lab in Maastricht. The result is a careful composition of previously unpublished drawings that became a new work in itself. Design: Marc Nagtzaam

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ROMA 241 48 p + 16 p 24 × 30 cm 2015

Published to coincide with exhibitions at the Mauvoisin Dam, the Museum of Bagnes in Le Châble, and Fotomuseum Winterthur. ‘The Grand Tour&is a travelogue through the world of maps’ is Kasia Klimpel s description of her virtual travel images. Klimpel smuggles her own photographic yet fictional model landscapes which she produces through the traditional means of paper and light into the operating systems and web sharing sites of global search engines. In doing so, she plays with the unpredictability of algorithms. When and under what conditions are her staged images of horizons, mountain panoramas and sunsets inserted into these systems as geotags? Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Roma Publications at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome Roger Willems (Editor)

136 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2015

Catalogue of an exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani in Rome in 2014, compiled by Roger Willems, in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti and Marc Nagtzaam. With contributions by Gwenneth Boelens, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Marlene Dumas, Geert Goiris, Kees Goudzwaard, Sara van der Heide, Arnoud Holleman, Rob Johannesma, Jan Kempenaers, Irene Kopelman, Bart Lodewijks, Mark Manders, Marc Nagtzaam, Oksana Pasaiko, Wouter van Riessen, Nancy Spero, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Raymond Taudin Chabot and JCJ Vanderheyden. In the back of the book an overview of all 241 publications so far, dating from 1998 till halfway 2015. The red field on the cover refers to a work by JCJ Vanderheyden’s:&Red Paper, 2001. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 239 ROMA 240 Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

108 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015

Prophet Geert Goiris

Collection of graphic and textual work by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, dating from the seventies up till 2015. Compiled by Julie Peeters, enriched with translations of facsimile material and a large amount of personal comments from the artist on the selected work. Published in conjunction with the exhibition&Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum&in Kunstverein in 2015, as the first publication in the Compagnion series. Design: Julie Peeters

64 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2015

Book with a sequence of 49 recent photographs by Geert Goiris, of which the larger part was taken in Norway and North America in 2014 and 2015. This series was compiled in analogy with a large slide projection integrated in the exhibition&Geert Goiris – Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophesies&at Foam, Amsterdam, from March 20 till May 24, 2015. The book comes with a signed and numbered Frontier print. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 237 ROMA 238 Hommage Arnoud Holleman

16 p 19.5 × 26.5 cm 2015

Hommage&was written by Arnoud Holleman as part of the (film) installation of the same name, on view at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem in 2015. Design: Roger Willems

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Reprint Karel Martens Karel Martens

84 p 17 × 24 cm 2015

This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of work by Karel Martens at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Besides o!ering a closer look at his recent free work, it also covers his approach to the teaching of graphic design. Comprising a selection of both past work and more recent applied work, it also includes new essays by David Bennewith, who examines Martens’ approach to teaching through its history and accounts from students, and Robin Kinross, who o!ers a meditation on Martens’ mono-prints, which demonstrate a consistent line of inquiry through his 54 years in graphic design. Martens was the recipient of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize in 2012. Design: Karel Martens & David Bennewith & the students of Type and Media, The Hague.

ROMA 236 For the Mnemonist, S. Rossella Biscotti

ROMA 235 152 p 14 × 20 cm 2015

Inside/Outside Armin Linke

For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, follows this example by interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams, and ideas. While revisiting sites of punishment, the gathering of works embodies the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, tracing individual destinies or collective endeavours through a combination of materials, language, and scientific techniques. With a text by Adam Kleinman. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 234 Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth Javier Téllez

80 p + 2 prints 24 × 34 cm 2015

Commissioned to develop an artwork for the new Sciences Po Library in Paris, Linke took his chance to shoot a series of photographs inside the library and inside a few leading economic and cultural institutions in Paris: Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France; BNP Paribas; Conseil d’Etat and Conseil Constitutionel; Ministère de l’Économie, de Finances et du Commerce extérieur; CGT Conféderation générale du travail; Musée du Louvre. By photographing unnoticed parts of their interiors in a detailed and neutral way, Linke manages to reveal invisible activities of the institutions and at the same time restore beauty in these sites. Texts by Bruno Latour, Eva Bellinghausen, Anastassia Makridou-Bretonneau, Valérie Pihet, Armin Linke, Sylvain Gouraud. Design: Laure Giletti

ROMA 233 192 p 14 × 20.5 cm 2015

In this artist book Téllez gives answers to 64 questions on ‘How Do You Play Chess?’ by linking them to specific text fragments and images that explore psychiatric confinement, surveillance architecture, and the game of chess as strategically interrelated systems.&Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth&opens new spaces for play across formerly closed systems and inverts the power dynamics between surveillance tower and cell. This book is expanding on Téllez s exhibitions at San Francisco Art Institute and REDCAT, Los Angeles. With texts by Ruth Estévez, Dieter Roelstraete, and Hesse McGraw. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Le Tapis (fair use) Pierre Leguillon

18 p leporello 22 × 22 cm 2015

Reproduction of the floor piece&Le Tapis (fair use)&by Pierre Leguillon, consisting of a collection of graphically striking record sleeves designed by artists, surrounded by postcards from a large variety of art institutions showing objects on a monochrome background. On the backside all sources and credits are collected as found on the originals. Printed and hand folded in an edition of 600 copies. Published on the occasion of Leguillon’s solo exhibition&The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle&at Wiels, Brussels. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 232 Ramya Petra Stavast

ROMA 231 224 p 17.5 × 24.5 cm 2014

Stones & Sketches Robert Zandvliet

In 2001 Petra Stavast moved into a house where she met a woman named Ramya. For a few years the camera became their means of communication which resulted in a series of quiet photographs of the house and its inhabitant. Following Ramya’s death in 2012, the project gained a new dimension. Stavast discovered not only Ramya’s private archive, but also photographs of Ramya taken by a neigbor. She traces events such as Ramya’s membership of the Rajneeshpuram commune. Now, as Stavast’s photographs reveal, the only on-site reminder of that period is a wide asphalted road. Video stills show Ramya, back in Amsterdam, at a workshop given by a new guru. Together, these documents constitute an unconventional biography that leaves the reader behind with mixed feelings. Design: Hans Gremmen&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 230 Tiergarten Johannes Schwartz

272 p 24 × 32 cm 2014

For the first time Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet presents a selection of drawings and sketches made as studies for his paintings. Besides numerous drawings, the book also o!ers a selection of paintings from recent decades, as well as a new series, ‘Seven Stones’. The drawings and older works give a clear indication of the path Zandvliet has followed since the 1990s in his search for pure form and composition through an uncompromising approach to his work. With ‘Seven Stones’, Zandvliet ventures into new territory where not only does he attempt to produce good paintings, but he also tries to fathom why specific forms have such a great impact on him personally. With an introduction by Rudi Fuchs. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 229 112 p 24 × 33 cm 2014

Artist book with photographs of mainly animal food in Moscow’s city zoo, intuitively color printed in risograph by Johannes Schwartz. The book is produced in a limited edition of 250 copies, with many thanks to Jo Frenken at the Van Eyck in Maastricht and the volunteers who helped folding. Design: Experimental Jetset &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Acolyte Frena Mark Manders

96 p 12 × 17 cm 2014

Small book with photographs of the installation&Acolyte Frena&by Mark Manders at De&Vleeshal Middelburg in 2014. Photos by Mark Manders and Roger Willems. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 228 Not Available Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 227 64 p + insert 22 × 29 cm 2014

Between Red and a Transparent Plane Kees Goudzwaard

In this book, recent work by Marc Nagtzaam is shown together with installation views and some of his older drawings. As a result, the previous works can be viewed from the perspective of the new, and vice versa. Nagtzaam sees exhibitions and books as single works. The same compositional approach used when making the drawings is also reflected in the structure of this book. In this manner, Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge abstraction of the drawings, which can be read as architectural plans, and his spatial installations in which they function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organising principle. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

32 p leporello 21 × 28 cm 2014

Leporello counting 32 sti! pages containing reproductions of 14 oil paintings. On the reverse side a sequence of exhibition views o!ers a reconstruction of the installation at De Vleeshal Middelburg. With text by Lorenzo Benedetti (English/ Italian). Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

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ROMA 226 RAY Susanne Kriemann

ROMA 225 120 p 15 × 21 cm 2014

Susanne Kriemann examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano, Texas, in the late 1800s. We see a photograph of a large rock (a single chunk of gadolinite), and then another image of a wall of rocks, signalling the importance of the threshold to Kriemann’s work. She focuses on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing on how a narrative loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source. Presently, the mine lies beneath a lake; its mirrored surface resembles the photographic lens, but the eye, ours and the rock’s, exists on both sides. Design: Radim Peško &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Prolifération Geert Goiris

64 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2014

Published to coincide with the exhibition of a series of photographs by Geert Goiris at the Mauvoisin Dam (Valais, Switzerland), this sublime series of 30 images suggests a timelessness and contained restlessness through its potential narratives of place and collective memory. Labyrinthine trees, strange rock formations, contemplative figures, man-made objects and wide mountain landscapes work together to instil a sense of serenity on the observer, yet one that evokes a certain tension, a primal longing generated by the environments Goiris portrays. Included is an insightful essay by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 224 Compensating Transient Pleasurable Excitations Koenraad Dedobbeleer

112 p 19 × 22.5 cm 2014

ROMA 223 Lichten Thomas Ru!

Artist’s book by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, compiled as a catalogue of an imaginative exhibition. Its initial spark originated in the framework of an exhibition held at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen in 2013 (Up Close & Personal). The premises of the Cultuurcentrum’s classical, museum styled exhibition halls, serve as a container for Dedobbeleer’s envisioned exhibition. Design: Koenraad Dedobbeleer

152 p 23 × 31 cm 2014

Coinciding with exhibitions by Thomas Ru! in Ghent and Düsseldorf, this book comprises five photo series ranging from the start of Ru!s’ artistic career in the late 1970s to recent work in 2014. This selection takes as its philosophical and scientific thread the spectrum between natural and virtual light – a fundamental shift that has taken place in the medium of photography over the last thirty years. The selected series include&Interiors&(1979-83),&Stars&(198992) and&Nights&(1992-96), as well as parts of Ru!s’ most recent series called&Negatives&(2014-) and&Photograms&(2012-14) – a digitally generated simulation of this historical genre. With texts by Philippe Van Cauteren, Robert Fleck, Gregor Jansen, Martin Germann, and Valeria Liebermann. Design: Roger Willems & Hans Gremmen

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ROMA 221 ROMA 222 The Yes No Quality of Dreams David Robilliard

88 p 17.5 × 22 cm 2014

This book comprises a selection of paintings, drawings and poems by London-based poet and painter David Robilliard (19521988). Combining figurative elements with text taken from his poems, his paintings employ coded language, wry wit and a melancholic tinge to impart narratives of passing infatuations, sexual encounters and life s tragedy, as the spectre of HIV looms towards the end of his life. Besides reproductions of artworks, the book includes an exclusive audio CD of Robilliard reading his poems in 1987. Published in conjunction with the exhibition&David Robilliard: The Yes No Quality of Dreams at&ICA London in 2014. With texts by Andrew Wilson and Gregor Muir. Design: Roger Willems

Pazifik Katinka Bock

144 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2014

Richly illustrated book about the work of Paris based artist Katinka Bock. Bock focuses on sculpture as encounter and material transformation. In works that incisively investigate the sites of their production, she questions and highlights the materials that compose them, and meditates on the processes that shape them. For Bock, sculpture is the record and measure of place, space, time, and actions, in continuum. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition&Katinka Bock: A and I&at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (Feb – May 2014). With texts by Marie-Cécile Burnichon, Thomas Clerc, Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolf. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 220 The Mushroom Project Annie Ratti

ROMA 219 96 p 14 × 21 cm 2014

Cose in corso Mark Manders

Using photography, video, installation, and texts, Annie Ratti questions and rethinks contemporary human conflicts, uncertainties and social complexities, often transforming her private experience into a public or participatory event. Such is the case with her research into the science, cultivation, and cultural and ethnographical significance of psilocybin mushrooms, the results of which appeared as an exhibition at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in 2013. With source documents, photographs and installation views and step-by-step instructions on how to grow psychedelic fungi, Ratti encapsulates the Western fascination with these rhizomatic organisms. Design: Louis Lüthi

128 p + 12 p 22 × 29 cm 2014

Published in conjunction with the presentation of Manders’ installation piece&Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors&at Collezione Maramotti, this book comprises a lengthy series of black-and-white photographs of the artist s working environment where unfinished works show di!erent stages of his creative process. In the insert, Manders explains his thoughts on&Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors, which Mario Diacono then further analyses in detail. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 218 Esto es una papa. Notes on Representation Vol. 6 Irene Kopelman

ROMA 217 48 p 21 × 28 cm 2014

This 6th volume of Kopelman’s publication series&Notes on Representation&reports a travel to the Andean highlands in Peru where she investigated the amorphous shapes of native potatoes. Her notes give account of indigenous agriculture and community e!orts to preserve hundreds of potato varieties. From meeting a local potato king to witnessing first-hand the amazing variety of tuberous colours and shapes, Kopelman s experience and the resulting drawings are unique. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund. Design: Roger Willems

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Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1946-1968 Anne Massey, Gregor Muir (Editors)

208 p 19.5 × 26 cm 2014

This book is dedicated to the first two decades of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, presenting a thorough history of the organisation’s roots in post-war Britain, its mission of providing a physical base for the avant-garde, and its laying the groundwork for a continuing contribution to the evolution of contemporary art. Anne Massey’s account is comprehensive in its scope, emphasising the ICA’s being openly fluid and responsive to fluctuations in artistic culture with groundbreaking exhibitions and very personal approach. Besides a foreword by executive director Gregor Muir, the book includes numerous archival images and a detailed chronology. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 216 In Two Minds Gwenneth Boelens, Nickel van Duijvenboden

120 p 19 × 25.5 cm 2014

ROMA 215 Restricted Area Wim Catrysse

In Two Minds&documents Gwenneth Boelens’ practice of the past ten years, comprising photography and sculpture, as well as performative and filmic works. An extensive chapter of notes, written by her partner and editor Nickel van Duijvenboden, illuminates Boelens’ work and evolving attitudes from an intimate and studious perspective. Conversations and reflections are punctuated by a rich vein of illustrations and process images, as well as citations from twentieth-century literature and philosophy, such as by Bergson, Valéry, Merleau-Ponty and Woolf. A sense of searching pervades the publication, visually as well as intellectually, resulting in a meditation on experience, thought, memory and process. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund. Design: Roger Willems

216 p 17 × 24 cm 2014

Since the late 1990s, Belgium artist Wim Catrysse creates video installations in which he explores self-made architectural structures and extreme topographical features. His artistic method combines intuition with technical reasoning, leading to complex cinematographic image constructions. The publication describes 14 of his works in detail, providing us insights into Catrysse’s creative progress, working sites and references. With texts by Wim Catrysse, Wouter Davidts, Anselm Franke, Ulrike Lindmayr, Anne Pontégnie, Dieter Roelstraete, Jon Thompson. Supported by Cera Partners in Art. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 214 Modelling Standard Erick Beltrán, Jorge Satorre

64 p 24.5 × 34.5 cm 2014

Collaborative project of artists Jorge Satorre and Erick Beltrán with drawings by Jorge Aviña. As a point of departure they took the radical historiographic turn introduced by Carlo Ginzburg in the 1970s who focused on localised, popular and disregarded micro-histories rather than universal, over-arching versions. The title Modelling Standard references the scientific concept of the Standard Model used in physics to explain the almost invisible interactions occurring between subatomic particles. The result is a series of caricatures and texts through which the artists will construct a detective plot where Sigmund Freud, Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Morelli, Aby Warburg, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joe Orton are the protagonists. Illustrations by Jorge Aviña. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 213 Paraphernalia. On the Status of Inspirational Objects Wim Wauman

88 p 17 × 24 cm 2013

Wim Wauman, known for his still life photographs, invited fellow artists to contribute meaningful objects to his ‘Paraphernalia’ project, resulting in a collection of 171 objects with which he created and photographed 21 compositions in his studio. These still lifes resonate with historical visual traditions and alchemy, asking observers to make individual interpretations and connections. In this publication, each object is connected to its respective donor and therefore his or her artistic strategy. It includes commentary from the artists about their contributions, an essay by Stefaan Vervoort about the project, and a manifesto by Wauman. Design: Marc Nagtzaam &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 212 Multiple Densities Katja Mater

ROMA 211 188 p 23 × 30.5 cm 2013

I’m not tailgating, I’m drafting Jan Kempenaers

This publication brings together works made between 2010 and 2013 that share the same principle: a method of constructing images of time by layering multiple moments, creating hybrids between photography and other media, documenting something that is positioned beyond our human ability to see. Each series adds a di!erent parameter to the principle, such as two- and threedimensional space, scale, perspective, performance, installation and parallel events. The publication also features an alternative view on Mater s practice with a chapter of research and process material. With an essay by Maxine Kopsa. Design: Veronica Ditting&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 210 Untitled (September Magazine) Paul Elliman

32 p + print 17 × 23 cm 2013

Foldout book with photographs, including an original C-print, selected from a series taken by Jan Kempenaers during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2010. The images were shot with an advanced hand-held digital camera, which allowed him to work freely in a snapshot style whilst maintaining a very high quality. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 209 592 p 22 × 29 cm 2013

Artist’s book by Paul Elliman. In a glossy volume approaching 600 pages, Elliman has collected images from a variety of sources – fashion magazines, glamour photography and pornography – cropping and arranging the clippings in a manner that especially emphasises the presence of hands, along with the many gestures of which they are capable. Also prevalent in the spectrum of clothed, semi-nude and nude human forms are limbs, feet, torsos and erogenous zones. Without any text or explanation, the series takes on a mesmerising aspect wherein the action of flipping through the pages becomes a kind of meditative contemplation of the fragmented human body. Design: Julie Peeters

Royal Collection of Belgium Michaël Borremans

68 p 17 × 14 cm 2013

A few years ago, Queen Paola invited Michaël Borremans to the Royal Palace of Brussels and commissioned a unique body of work for the Royal Collection of Belgium. Since 2010 six paintings and one video work are permanently installed at the Royal Palace. This ensemble has been collected in this small scale book. With an introduction by Hans Rudolf Reust (Dutch, French, German, English). Design: Kim Beirnaert &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 208 Cristof Yvoré Cristof Yvoré

ROMA 207 68 p 22 × 26 cm 2013

This Formless Thing Alexandra Navratil

French artist Cristof Yvoré is recognised for his blunt painting style and use of a distinct range of colour nuances, particularly forceful shades of brown and grey. Whether the corner of an empty room or a lonely vase with flowers set against a blank wall, Yvoré s heavy and bleak depictions o!er contemplative windows towards personal memory, yet are released from the burden of narrative. The nuances of colour and nature of composition, plainly seen in this weighty volume s numerous reproductions, speak to the artist s body of work. Contributions by Alessandro Rabottini, Frédéric Valabrègue and Ilaria Bonacossa further explore the artist s dialogue with his painterly craft. Design: Kim Beirnaert

ROMA 206 The di!erent possible variations, options, additions or substractions of the beginning of something. Marc Nagtzaam

176 p 15.5 × 21 cm 2013

This Formless Thing&alludes to materials and artificial substances from which images are made, like celluloid, photosensitive emulsion, and pigments. Around a series of five thematically complementing works by Navratil, seven text contributions where written by Jennifer Burris, Simona Ciuccio, Natasha Ginwala, Esther Leslie, Matthew Solomon, Jelena Rakin, and Mirjam Varadinis. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition by Alexandra Navratil in Kunstmuseum Winterthur, travelling to SMBA, Amsterdam. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 205 12 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2013

Reproductions of six wall drawings made by Nagtzaam at San Serri!e, Amsterdam, during the month of June, 2013. Laser print on paper, hand stapled in a numbered edition of 40 copies. Design: Marc Nagtzaam

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Journal Drawings Henri Jacobs

492 p 24 × 34 cm 2013

A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs’ journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, di!erent stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs’ drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen with Lu Liang

ROMA 204 A Glass of Water (Some Objects on the Path to Enlightenment) Saskia Janssen

ROMA 203 84 p 21 × 27.7 cm 2013

In Memory of Things to Come Arnoud Holleman

Since 2011 Saskia Janssen has been attending weekly lessons in Buddhism at a small temple based in a cellar underneath a sunbed studio in Amsterdam-East. During these lessons, as well as at the monthly lectures and rituals overseen by visiting Lamas, she takes notes and makes sketches. Once she returns to her studio she transforms these into works: drawings, photos, sculpture and text. Alternatively Janssen revisits existing works, but from a new perspective. Design: Jaan Evart & Saskia Janssen &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 202 Yonder Marnix Goossens

folded poster 100 × 70 cm 2013

1.000 questions for the year 2135. Written on the occasion of the closure ceremony of the Time Capsule at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam on May 30, 2013. In Dutch only. Edited by Mieke van der Linden and Mirjam Klootwijk. Design: Hans Gremmen

ROMA 201 132 p 20 × 27 cm 2013

Yonder&is a selection of works that document a seven year study of indoor elements that reflect Goossens’ longing for freedom, independency and nature. This book was presented at Foam, Amsterdam on July 18th accompanied by a solo show with a selection of these works. With text by Maria Barnas. Design: Remco van Bladel

Room with Broken Sentence Mark Manders

24 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2013

Textless brochure with photographs of Manders’ installation in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 200 Room with Broken Sentence Mark Manders

ROMA 199 176 p 21 × 27 cm 2013

Full Color Karel Martens

Catalogue published on the occasion of Manders’ exhibition in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti (curator of the Pavilion) and contributions by 37 international writers who were invited to give a personal reflection on one aspect of&Self-Portrait as a Building. For this, Manders supplied them with an image and a title to which they could respond. Editing and Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 198 Minyan Swizzle / Acolyte Frena Mark Manders

160 p 15.5 × 22 cm 2013

Visual essay of Karel Martens’ studio, published on the occassion of the exhibition KM at ginza graphic gallery (Tokyo, Japan). With texts by David Senior and Karel Martens. Photography: Johannes Schwartz. Editing and Design: Julie Peeters & Karel Martens &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 197 8p+8p 35 × 48 cm 2013

Minyan Swizzle and Acolyte Frena are the 6th and 7th issue in a series of fake newspapers. These particular ones where produced to cover the entire entrance of the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial as part of Manders’ installation ‘Room with Broken Sentence’. Design: Hans Gremmen &&

The Moon Has a Complicated Geography various

120 p + insert 17 × 24 cm 2013

Publication coinciding with the exhibition&The Moon Has a Complicated Geography&at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in which the artists have been given 16 blank pages to employ as a parallel space, alongside those of De Vleeshal. Besides documenting the exhibition, the publication demonstrates some of the interpretative dynamics between the artists’ ad hoc interventions on its pages. With contributions by Van Brummelen & De Haan, Arnoud Holleman, Hedwig Houben, Gert Jan Kocken, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem Oorebeek, Vincent Vulsma and Elisa van Joolen. Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Roger Willems Cover: Louis Lüthi &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 196 The Exact Opposite of Distance. Notes on Representation Vol. 5 Irene Kopelman

ROMA 195 72 p 21 × 28 cm 2013

Lying Awake Geert Goiris

This fifth volume with art projects by Irene Kopelman consists of three sets of drawings made in the Amazon rainforest (Light Fragments,&From the River,&Forest Windows), and a set of paintings (Forest Windows). Besides reproductions of the complete series, the book contains detailed work notes covering Kopelman’s stay in the jungle from May 9 till June 20, 2012. In contrast to the wideness of the landscapes of rocks and glaciers she has previously worked on to reproduce in detail, Kopelman experienced an opposite of distance by working in a jungle that entirely surrounded her. Design: Roger Willems

A selection of 88 works from the last 15 years, set in sequence in a manner characteristic of Goiris whereby the images become the components of an estranged storyline. Whilst research plays an important role in his approach towards the subjects and geographical locations he depicts, Goiris removes the photos from their documentary reality and directs the work towards fiction. They are rather sublimated images that don t appear to be from here or from now. The captured images witness an almost disturbing wonderment, such as the image of the permafrost landscape wherein the tracks of vehicles remain visible for centuries. Texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden, Matthew Vollgra! and Geert Goiris. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 194 Tribune (Diary 1971 -1978) Luc Deleu

170 p + insert 24 × 31 cm 2013

ROMA 193 DVD + booklet 20 × 25 cm 2013

106 minutes conversation between Luc Deleu and Jef Lambrecht while flipping through Deleu’s early diary ‘Tribune’, made between 1971 and 1978. The diary counts 300 pages, covered with clippings, photographs, advertisements, sketches, stamps, notes, drawings, logos, cartoons, advertising leaflets, and maps. Besides reflecting on world history and events taking place in the first half of the seventies, the book refers to Deleu’s works created during this period, and to works that he realized only years later. Sublimated in collages, illustrations, sketches and projects, ‘Tribune’ expresses Deleu’s fresh desire for a global mobility and mobile architecture, and marks the start of his “artistic journey”. With a text by Christophe Van Gerrewey. Design: Roger Willems

Writing Over Kasper Andreasen

100 p 21 × 29 cm 2013

Writing Over&is a drawing atlas which focuses on the relationship between the gestures of drawing, writing and map-making. The book serves as companion volume to the installation which was shown in 2012 at Netwerk in Aalst. The drawings which are partly derived from a personal and collective history are rendered in di!erent types of landscapes and maps. These are accompanied by an ‘Atlas Archive’; a study of surfaces used in this cartographic process sketches, stamps, media images, engraving plates, notations and a short story by Louis Lüthi, entitled ‘Unalaska Alaska’. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 192 Iwar von Lücken: Selected Poems (With Annotations) Dieter Roelstraete

ROMA 191 48 p 10.7 × 17.7 cm 2013

Studio Matters +1 Massimo Bartolini

Collection of poems by Dieter Roelstraete, with annotations.

160 p 17 × 24 cm 2013

Italian artist Massimo Bartolini is mainly known for his installations, however he also works in video and photography. This book is published to accompany two complementary and overlapping exhibitions, in Edinburgh and Ghent. The focus is on a selection of smaller, sculptural objects, in addition to a pair of large, sitespecific installation works. Besides a large amount of full-colour plates, an interview by Fiona Bradley and Philippe Van Cauteren lends insight into Bartolini s artistic process and perspective. Design: Roger Willems

Staring at the world outside the train, the dark-clad devil of longing for nothing has wormed his way into my brain. The ghost of gloom cast the first glove; I finally picked it up I no longer abstain. Let the genie from the inkwell hover far above. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 190 The Flanders Peninsula Bart Lodewijks

ROMA 189 64 p 21 × 30 cm 2012

Invited by the City of Ronse – a small town in Belgium – Lodewijks worked in the Prinskouter district between 2010 and 2012. During this period of time he was producing drawings with blackboard chalk on walls. Starting by drawing on anonymous outdoor walls and industrial property, he became a known face in the area and succeeded to get permision to draw on facades and interiors of private homes. Next to images the book o!ers a beautiful text written by the artist about his encounters with the people in the neigbourhood. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

The Molyneux Problem Irene Kopelman

144 p 16.5 × 23.5 cm 2012

Kopelman described five projects dealing intensively with research, traveling, observing, and drawing. Her descriptions and work notes give insight in Kopelman’s relation to science and point at the distinction between what one knows and what one sees. More than showing results she shares a mental process evolving in every project. In&Meditation Piece&she draws a tiny desert stone for a month on a daily base. Halfway she notes: ‘And still, I like spending time in front of the stone, in front of a problem that repeats itself every day. It’s a familiar feeling, and therefor gentle to the mind. How will I go about today? The stone is the same; I am most probably not.’ The text has been adapted from her doctoral dissertation, defended in September 2011. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 188 From Action of Matchmaking Photons to Zen Buddhists’ Bad Breath Voebe de Gruyter

ROMA 187 216 p 23.5 × 34 cm 2012

Night Drawings Mark Manders

Voebe de Gruyter is an artist who makes propositions about unexpected scientific phenomena and other patterns which reveal themselves in everyday situations. Her work abounds with elementary particles: points of concentration, information particles, small units which contain multitudes, the artist once explained. For this publication De Gruyter went through her complete inventory and studio archives. With texts by Maria Barnas and Roel Arkesteijn, plus explanatory notes by the artist for almost all of the works. Design: Felix Weigand &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 186 Reference Book Mark Manders

16 p 47 × 35.1 cm 2012

Twelve drawings and one photograph by Mark Manders in the format of a newspaper.&&& Design: Roger Willems&&&

ROMA 185 536 p 17 × 24 cm 2012

Mark Manders was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art in 2010. On this occasion Roma Publications compiled this almost encyclopedic book which covers Manders’ oeuvre from the late 1980s until the present. It contains facsimiles of previous artist’s publications and a focus on a large number of recent, never-before-published works. The moment of publishing is timed to coincide with Manders representing the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.With texts by Mark Manders, Nickel van Duijvenboden, and Maria Barnas. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Oeuvre sculpté, travaux pour amateurs Koenraad Dedobbeleer

112 p 19 × 23 cm 2012

This artist’s book is published on the occasion of Dedobbeleer s solo exhibition at Lokremise St. Gallen, travelling to Centre d art contemporain d Ivry, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, and De Vleeshal, Middelburg. The book, together with Dedobbeleer’s sculptural works, reflects in a refined, and sometimes humorous manner on centuries-old traditions in sculpture, sophisticated design and banal, everyday culture. Design: Roger Willems¶ Koenraad Dedobbeleer

ROMA 184 S.M.A.K. TRACK – a contemporary city conversation various

ROMA 183 376 p 20 × 27 cm 2012

Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head Jan Kempenaers

TRACK took place in Ghent in 2012. It o!ered encounters with the city, its history and its inhabitants, stimulating reflection on urban realities and, in a wider sense, the contemporary human condition. Curators Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis invited forty-one artists, , from Lara Almarcegui to Lawrence Weiner, to conceive works rooted in the urban fabric of Ghent, but linking the local context with issues of global significance. Texts by: Claire Bishop, Chris Dercon, Boris Groys, Stefan Hertmans, a.o. Design: Roger Willems & Hans Gremmen

ROMA 182 Apperception Daan van Golden

30 p + print 23 × 33 cm 2012

As a sequel to his previous books ‘Spomenik’ and ‘Picturesque’, the photographs in this special edition are also part of Kempenaers’ artistic research project on contemporary picturesque. A filmic sequence of photographs of a massive rock is printed on a cardboard leporello which measures 33 × 345 cm when unfolded. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 181 244 p + supplement 24 × 30 cm WIELS, Brussels 2012 From the early geometric abstraction to the recent series of silhouette paintings, passing through photographic works and ephemera never printed before,&Apperception&o!ers a comprehensive gathering of Daan van Golden s work to date. It also includes a list of his work, arranged by medium and chronologically, and the collections that hold them. Essays by Devrim Bayar, Sven Lütticken and Erik Thys (English/Dutch/French). Design: Inge Ketelers &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Autumn of Modernism various

256 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2012

Di!erent from a regular exhibition catalogue, this book contains autonomous contributions by 14 artists who where invited by curator Lorenzo Benedetti to take part in the exhibition ‘Autumn of Modernism’ at De Vleeshal, Middelburg. The contributions somehow respond in an indirect way to the social changes of our day, such as the present economic crisis. With contributions by Gwenneth Boelens, Piet Dieleman, gerlach en koop, Sara van der Heide, Martijn Hendriks, Bas van den Hurk, Rob Johannesma, Katja Mater, Marc Nagtzaam, Falke Pisano, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Remco Torenbosch, Martijn in ‘t Veld. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 180 The World Explained. A Microhistorical Encyclopedia Erick Beltrán

ROMA 179 272 p 19 × 26.6 cm 2012

Me and Rodin Chapter 14 Arnoud Holleman

Divided over three exhibition projects taken place in Sao Paulo, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, Beltrán interviewed a large number of people and collected a variety of personal theories on all kind of subjects. He drew his inspiration from microhistory, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. ‘Our view of the world is determined not just by what we have learned about the world or even what we have actually experienced,’ Beltrán explains. ‘It consists to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations.’ With an introduction by Anke Bangma. Design: Erick Beltrán & Gabrielle Pauty & Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 178 Ruth on the Phone Nigel Shafran

16 p 13.5 × 21 cm 2012

Chapter Fourteen&is based on a transcription of a talk held by Arnoud Holleman on February 11, 2012 at castillo/corrales in Paris. It was distributed freely to the audience of the exhibition Roma Publications 1998-2012, at Research Centre for Artists Publications, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, from March 9 till May 13, 2012. Design: Roger Willems &&

ROMA 177 156 p 16.5 × 24 cm 2012

A series of chronologically ordered photographs taken by Nigel Shafran between 1995 and the 26th January 2004, the book takes the form of a novel without words. The sequence shows Ruth, first at the end of the telephone receiver, later on a cordless phone, the one constant as time and place change around her. Editor: Paul Elliman Design: Julie Peeters &&&&

A Dutch Landscape – Un Paisaje Holandes Javier Hontoria (Editor)

76 p 20 × 28 cm 2012

Catalogue for the group exhibition&Un Paisaje Holandes, curated by Javier Hontoria for La Casa Encendida Madrid, coinciding with the participation of the Netherlands as the guest country at ARCO, Madrid. The exhibition and catalogue o!er an overview of the work of two di!erent generations of the Dutch art scene – the one active in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Bas Jan Ader, Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, and Ger van Elk) and the one born shortly afterwards (Feiko Beckers, Gwenneth Boelens, Sharon Houkema, Marijn van Kreij, Katja Mater, Navid Nuur, and Martijn in ‘t Veld). With text in English and Spanish by Javier Hontoria. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 176 Les études d’ombres Mark Manders

ROMA 175 128 p + 8 p 21 × 27 cm 2012

Spots of Time Rob Johannesma

Catalogue published on the occasion of Manders’ solo exhibition&Les Études d’ombres&at Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes. With texts in French by Sylvie Coellier and Mark Manders. Design: Hans Gremmen &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 174&RSE A Few Things One Is Not Allowed to Do Mark Manders Roma Support Edition

128 p 17 × 24 cm 2012

Published on the occasion of the exhibition&WORLDWIELDING&at ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence. With text (English, Italian, German) by Rob Johannesma, Luigi Fassi and Alberto Salvadori. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 173 print on cardboard 30 × 40 cm 2011

Drawing by Mark Manders, printed in diamond screen o!set on 2 mm acid free card board, in a limited edition of 100. The first, and still only, issue of the irregular&Roma Support Edition-series. Profits are used to fund upcoming publications.

Picturesque Jan Kempenaers

80 p 33.5 × 26.5 cm 2012

Selection of 45 landscapes and architecture photographs by Jan Kempenaers. This book, together with his previous book&Spomenik&(ROMA 141) present the results of Kempenaers’ practice based research on ‘contemporary picturesque’. Dirk De Meyer, quoted from this book: Yet, even when gratifying due to their composition and their living tints and endless varieties , Kempenaers photographs of landscapes altered by man forestall the nostalgia that has, over time, become typical for the picturesque. They force the viewer to remain in the present and think about its conditions and its future, and about the forces threatening our environment. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 172 My dad playing piano Arnoud Holleman

ROMA 171 audio cd 12.5 × 12.5 cm 2011

We made it our dream to move on. Monturiol updated Ruth Estévez, Sarah Demeuse (Editors)

Audio CD with 6 tracks of piano music separated by silent intervals, played by Wim Holleman (1926-1993) in the late eighties and early nineties. Remastered in 2011. Design: Arnoud Holleman

ROMA 170 Pieter Vermeersch Pieter Vermeersch

168 p 13.5 × 20 cm 2011

This book is part and parcel of the exhibition project&Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente&(We made it our dream to move on) shown at the Espai Cultural de Caja Madrid in Barcelona between November 23, 2011 and January 15, 2012. The title, a sentence culled from Monturiol s treatise, refers in this new context to the collective insistence on progress in cognitive, cultural and/or technical terms. With contributions by Ruth Estévez, Sarah Demeuse, Jorge Méndez Blake, Javier Toscano, Erick Beltrán, Mariana Castillo Deball, Eduardo Gil, Carla Herrera-Prats, Irene Kopelman, Erick Meyenberg, Ania Soliman, Batia Suter, and Pablo Vargas Lugo. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 169 36 p 24 × 32 cm 2011

Book containing a systematic photographic documentation of a large scale wall painting by Pieter Vermeersch at BePart in Waregem. A continues wall, crossing through the various rooms of museum space, is entirely covered with a gradient, going from white to dark blue and back to white. Photography by Pieter Huybrechts and text by Dieter Roelstraete. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&

The Object of Criticism Benoît Maire

48 p 20 × 28 cm 2011

Book after Benoît Maire’s solo exhibition with the same title at De Vleeshal, Middelburg. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 168 DIABATA Olaf Nicolai

ROMA 167 folded paper 65 × 46 cm 2011

In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art Susan Hapgood and Cornelia Lauf (Editors)

Compilation from dream journals, published as part of the installation&Camera (After Poussin), 2011, on occasion of the exhibition&The Third Tiger&with Rossella Biscotti, Mark Manders, and Olaf Nicolai at RAM Radioartemobile, Roma, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Roger Willems &&&

ROMA 166 Dirk Braeckman Dirk Braeckman

104 p 19 × 27 cm 2011

Certificates of authenticity are a critical aspect of art works today. They often embody the artwork itself, while referring to it, serving as its deed, legal statement, and fiscal invoice. Certificates by artists validate the authorship and originality of the work and they allow the work of art to be positioned in the marketplace as a branded product. With certificates by artists, from Ruben Aubrecht to Heimo Zobernig.& Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 165 384 p 29 × 25 cm 2011

Braeckman in the introduction of this monumental book:&(...) “Ordinarily, the work exists first, and is published at a later date. Here, the reverse is true in some cases. Certain works exist only on the pages of this book, untitled, without dimensions – I may produce them as prints at some point in the future. This publication is, therefore, an autonomous instrument. It presents a state of a!airs: extant and unprinted works, in whatever form, without conventional themes, periods or sequences. As such, this publication is a cross between an artist’s book and a survey publication. And I feel right at home with this synthesized form.” With essays by Martin Germann and Dirk Lauwaert. Design: Kim Beirnaert.&&&&&&&&&&&&&

24 European Ethnographic Museums Sara van der Heide

48 p 23 × 30 cm 2011

24 European Ethnographic Museums is a publication on a work with the same title by Sara van der Heide. This work consists of a series of 24 drawn museum names that show the Western obsession with the categorization and conservation of artefacts and people. With a text by Moosje Goosen. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen &&&&&&

ROMA 164 Reissue Marc Nagtzaam

128 p 23.5 × 32 cm 2011

ROMA 163 Nederland op de Biënnale van Venetië various

A broad selection of work sfrom 1995 to current date. Nagtzaam’s meticulous graphite-gray pencil drawings are often abstract, geometric but also seek to be representations of a concrete reality or space. His drawings take up the entire page and appear almost impenetrable. “I m trying to find representations of a concrete reality, as well as those that can only be realized as drawings”, he says. This idea is expressed in his use of scraps of text in his drawings and titles which o!er little help in interpreting the works. While drawing usually implies that graphic marks generate meaning, the reverse is true with Nagtzaam s work. The drawings are like empy spaces, parallel to the world. I try to create a place that is not clearly defined. With texts by Chris Sharp and Dieter Roelstraete. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 162 Carrara Aglaia Konrad

118 p 12 × 17 cm 2011

Series of interviews with curators and artists who represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennial over the past 10 years: Fiona Tan, Aernout Mik, Martijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Alicia Framis, Rein Wolfs, Jaap Guldemond, and Gitta Luiten. Edited by Marta Gnyp, David Smidt van Gelder, and Tom Vandeputte. With contributions by Femke Truijens, Imara Limon, Janneke van Liempt, Jero van Nieuwkoop, Marthe van der Hilst, Matteo Kuijpers, Melchior Jaspers, Mels Evers, Tessa Verheul, Thomas Stokmans, and Zippora Elders. Design: Joris Kritis & Julie Peeters

ROMA 161 136 p 22 × 29 cm 2011

Aglaia Konrad uses film and photography to visually extend her interest in urban development, cityscapes and architecture. In this artist book she presents photographs taken in the Carrara region in Italy between 2008 and 2010, along with the 16mm film Concrete * Samples III Carrara . With a text by Angelika Stepken. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&

Looking at Trees. Notes on Representation Vol. 3 Irene Kopelman

40 p 21 × 28 cm 2011

Book containing two series of water color drawings: -&Dots in Tree&(5 drawings) -&Tree Drawings&(5 drawings) Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 160 Surface Series Batia Suter

ROMA 159 240 p + leporello 23 × 30 cm 2011

x Points of View. Notes on Representation Vol. 2 Irene Kopelman

Surface Series&- created by Batia Suter between 2008 and 2011 – contains images and fragments from other books. The recurrent use of photographic images is a common denominator in the work of Suter. Since the 1990s she makes use of enlarged photographic images to cover entire walls of exhibition spaces, exploring trompe l oeil e!ects and the relationship between the inside and outside of those spaces. In the same way she makes her books, like specific exhibitions on paper. With a text by Dieter Roelstraete. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

ROMA 158 Provisional Space Kees Goudzwaard

144 p 21 × 28 cm 2011

Book containing five series of drawings from objects, observed from di!erent angles: -&1 Point of View&(160 glue stains from 1 angle) -&2 Points of View&(24 crystals and fossils from 2 angles) -&3 Points of View&(50 pieces of construction waste from 3&angles) -&16 Points of View&(1 fossil from 16 angles) -&24 Points of View&(46 stones from 24 angles) Edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 157 96 p 22 × 29 cm 2011

Inner Glow Wouter van Riessen

32 p 17 × 23.5 cm 2011

Book with 55 reproductions of oil paintings by Kees Goudzwaard, made between 2006 and 2011. With a text by Ilaria Bonacossa. Design: Roger Willems

Paintings by Wouter van Riessen with an interview by Nickel van Duijvenboden. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 156 Set Amsterdam Dana Lixenberg

72 p 24 × 24 cm 2011

ROMA 155 Dos Casas Interconectadas Mark Manders

For Set Amsterdam, Dana Lixenberg photographed dozens of Amsterdam locations featured in the Dutch drama series A’dam / E.V.A. by Norbert ter Hall and Robert Alberdingk Thijm. Fascinated by the multitude and variety of places in the script, she decided to make a photo series of the city she left for New York more than twenty years ago: her birthplace, Amsterdam. With a text by Jurriaan Benschop. Design: Roger Willems

80 p 17.2 × 22.5 cm 2011

Proposal for an exhibition in two spaces, connected through a tunnel. Published on the occasion of a site specific intervention by Manders in Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City in 2011. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&

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ROMA 154 50 Metres Distance or More. Notes on Representation Vol. 4 Irene Kopelman

ROMA 153 120 p 21 × 28.5 cm 2011

Obra de Referencia Mark Manders

96 p 14 × 19.6 cm 2011

A collection of drawings and texts by Irene Kopelman, gathered during a journey to the Antarctic from January 6-26th 2010, aboard the expedition sailboat&Spirit of Sydney. Text in English and Spanish, edited by Nickel van Duijvenboden. Design: Roger Willems

Small-sized book with a selection of works and installations by Mark Manders, published on the occasion of his solo show at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (February-April 2011). Text by Mark Manders and Ruth Estéves. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 152 Beyond the Dust. Artists’ Documents Today various

ROMA 151 210 p 15 × 21 cm 2011

City People Ringel Goslinga

Catalogue with artists’ contributions on the occasion of the group exhibition&Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today, curated by Francesca di Nardo in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti. Participating artists: Linda Fregni Nagler, Mark Ge!riaud, Invernomuto, Jeroen Kooijmans, Irene Kopelman, Benoît Maire, Diego Marcon, Clément Rodzielski, Roma Publications, Batia Suter, Richard Sympson, Raphaël Zarka. Texts by Lorenzo Benedetti, and Francesca di Nardo. Edited and designed by Roger Willems & Gwenneth Boelens

304 p 15.5 × 20 cm 2011

City People is a personal encounter of Ringel Goslinga with the city he lives and works in: Amsterdam. For this project he documented the di!erent circles of his social surroundings. Resulting in 122 black and white portraits, made with a large format camera. The portraits vary in intimacy, but the intensity is of every portrait is constant. In this publication all portraits are categorized, which results in a unique documentation of a city, and its citizens. Design: Hans Gremmen

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ROMA 150 Geen spiegel kan je behoeden / No Mirror Can Guard You Nickel van Duijvenboden

ROMA 149 96 p 17 × 24 cm 2011

Selection of texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden. “When I was twenty, I decided to keep a record of the occurences I believed would leave a mark on me. I wrote them down in as few words as possible and preferably on the same day, in an attempt to preserve them from the distortions of memory. This accumulated naturally into a compact archive of “incidents” in which self-consciousness repeatedly wedges itself into everyday reality.” Design: Roger Willems

(Innere Stimme) Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Luc Nancy

16 p 24 × 33.5 cm 2010

Autonomous text written by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on occasion of the work&(Innere Stimme)&by Olaf Nicolai, presented at the Vleeshal in Middelburg from Nov 11 – Dec 12, 2010. ‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation by Robert Schumann in his&Humoreske, Opus 20, used by Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. & Design: Roger Willems&&&

ROMA 148 Retitled Arnoud Holleman

ROMA 147 10 sheets + napkin + envelop 25 x 18 cm 2010

Portraits Liedeke Kruk

Text and 10 b&w photographs, and a paper napkin with a title of art works, used at a pop festival with 30,000 visitors and more than 60 bands from all over the world. Think of this as a window, The futility of artistic confession, and I’m too sad to tell you. These were printed on to the half a million napkins along with the other seven titles, in a businesslike, ‘un-designed’ font, without any references to the original works of art or the artists that had made the works. During the three days of the festival, they were subsequently dispersed to the many food and drink vendors on the festival site. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 146 Slide Projections Mark Manders

264 p 20 × 26.5 cm 2010

More than 200 portraits of artists and art related people, made by Liedeke Kruk over a period of sixteen years. During those years Kruk was invited to participate in several exhibitions herself, including the ground braking group shows Sonsbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and This Is the Show and the Show Is Many Things in Ghent, Belgium. As participating artist she portrayed her fellow artists in an informal way and instantly exhibited the results on the spot. This way she was a part of those exhibitions, while at the same she created documentation for it. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 120 p + 8 p 24 × 33 cm 2010

Artist book by Mark Manders, including an annotated exhibition checklist, published on the occasion of his travelling solo exhibition through the U.S.A., at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Aspen Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Design: Roger Willems &&

145a/b/c Open Days / De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal Marije Langelaar (editor)

32 p 21 × 27 cm 2010

Collection of poems (published in Dutch, Italian and French) combined with art works selected by Marije Langelaar, Mark Manders and Roger Willems. With contributions by Petra Stavast, Nachoem M. Wijnberg, Eva Cox, Luc Deleu, Albertina Soepboer, Alfred Scha!er, Marc Nagtzaam, Dirk Braeckman, Raymond Taudin Chabot, K Michel , Luc Tuymans, Dana Schutz, Jan Kempenaers, Tonnus Oosterho!, Marten Hendriks, Wouter Godijn, Rien Vroegindeweij, Hans Groenewegen, Mark Manders, Peter Verhelst, Vrouwkje Tuinman, Maria Barnas, Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm, Geert Goiris, Esther Jansma, Elma van Haren, Adrian Paci, Gino De Dominicis. && Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 144 The man who never experienced anything Luuk Wilmering

ROMA 143 128 p 12 × 17 cm 2010

Sechsundzwanzig Wiener Tankstellen Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Stefan Oláh

Small scaled artist book with a photo story of a day of the artist’s life. After getting up early he wanders around without goal or destination (between “wandering” and “getting lost”) until going to bed again, but with a mind full of impressions and thoughts. Not without humour, Wilmering reflects on the social system in which we live, the economic interests of business and industry are placed above the health interests of citizens and above the well-being of nature. && Design: Luuk Wilmering&&&&&&&&

80 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2010

While the typical American gas station has long since spread world-wide, its Viennese counterpart testifies to the survival of a distinct and tender European metropolitan variety which nestles up against apartment buildings, occupies the small gaps between buildings, hides in courtyards or positions its pumps somewhere on the curbstone. With text by Sebastian Hackenschmidt, and photographs by Stefan Oláh. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&

ROMA 142 Jo Baer. Broadsides & Belles Lettres. Selected Writings and Interviews 1965-2010 Jo Baer (Roel Arkesteijn ed.)

ROMA 141 184 p + 64 p 29 × 24 cm 2010

Texts by Jo Baer, richly illustrated, previously published and unpublished, written between 1965 and 2010: letters, essays, interviews, articles, facsimiles of illustrated texts, transcripts of talks, and a book-in-progress:&Revisioning the Parthenon. The items are of disparate length and tone and cover subjects ranging from optics to orchids, cultural politics to ancient Greek iconography, art theory and philosophy to the mixed pleasures of living in a drafty castle in the Irish countryside. To all these diverse topics Baer brings formidable powers of analysis, rigorous logic, a penchant for provocation, lively wit and an inimitable, exacting use of language – the same ingredients that go into her art. Design: Roger Willems &

Spomenik Jan Kempenaers

64 p 33.5 × 24.5 cm 2010

Jan Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of mysterious objects. He captures the Spomeniks in the misty mountain landscape at sundown. Looking at the photographs one must admit to a certain embarrassment. We see the powerful beauty of the monumental sculptures and we catch ourselves forgetting the victims in whose name they were built. This is in no way a reproach to the photographer, but rather attests to the strength of the images. After all, Kempenaers did not set out as a documentary photographer, but first and foremost as an artist seeking to create a new image. An image so powerful that it engulfs the viewer. He allows the viewer to enjoy the melancholy beauty of the Spomeniks, but in so doing, forces us to take a position on a social issue. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 139 64 p 21 × 30 cm 2010

On the Self-Reflexive Page Louis Lüthi

The subtitle of this book is ‘Proposal for Permanent Chalk Drawings in the Moscou District of Ghent’. For more than three years Bart Lodewijks made drawings with blackboard chalk on walls throughout a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Ghent, named Moscou. Slowly, he became a known face in the area and succeeded to get permision to draw on facades and interiors of private homes. Besides images of these works, the book contains short texts by the artist, and letters to the director of S.M.A.K. and the director of NMBS – the Belgian railway company – to come to a special agreement concerning one specific house Lodewijks would like to preserve. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 138 A NOT B Uta Eisenreich

160 p 13 × 20 cm 2010

The subject of this book is the page, and the pages reproduced in it are taken from works of literature, chosen to present them thematically, resulting in a typology of selfreflexive pages: Black Pages, Blank Pages, Drawing Pages, Photography Pages, Text Pages, Number Pages, and Punctuation Pages. Design: Louis Lüthi

ROMA 137 128 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm 2010

Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of preschool books, assessment tests and optical illusions. Design: Julia Born &&&&&&&

Superquadra Erik van der Weijde

176 p 16 × 22 cm 2010

Book with over 160 photographs by Erik van der Weijde of residential blocks in Brasilia, named Superquadras. Each block, as repeating element in Lucio Costa’s master plan for Brazil’s new capital, was built within a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, with a height limit of six floors. Besides 30 of these residential blocks in Brasilia, Van der Weijde also visited a residential complex in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Costa in 1948, which is considered to be forerunner of the Superquadras. Brasilia was inaugurated 50 years ago, on April 21, 1960. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&

ROMA 136 Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory Susanne Kriemann

ROMA 135 128 p 13 × 19.5 cm 2010

Plans d’evasion Michel Francois

Text fragments and photo sequences reflecting the trajectory that Susanne Kriemann pursued in relation to archaeology, the artefact, the image of the individual at work, and the idea of the desert as a symbol of the modern desire to create an empty slate, a tabula rasa. Material from Agatha Christie s photographic archives is related to photographs by Kriemann of the Syrian desert and archaeological sites in Mesopotamia. This associative working method allows the artist to dig towards the past and to disassociate the idea of modernity from ideological connotations, and analyze the writing of recent history as a formal system of organization. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, Wim Waelput, Axel John Wieder. Design: Jung & Wenig

ROMA 134 Two Connected Houses Mark Manders

360 p 26,5 × 21 cm 2010

Extensive monograph about the work of Michel Francois on the occasion of the eponymous major solo exhibition at S.M.A.K. in Ghent in 2010. With texts by Guillaume Desanges and Jean-Paul Jacquet, and an introduction by Philippe Van Cauteren and Nathalie Ergino. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 133 48 p 21,5 × 28 cm 2010

Conceived as a proposal for The Guggenheim Museum in New York, this book, or magazine, guides you through an imaginary exhibition with works by Manders, spread out over two houses connected with a tunnel from kitchen to kitchen. ‘Two Connected Houses’ will be on show at ‘Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum’, New York, February 12 April 28, 2010 and will also be distributed, as a 48 page insert of Manders’ newspaper ‘Traducing Ruddle’, through newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March. Design: Hans Gremmen &&

Traducing Ruddle Mark Manders

8p 35 × 48 cm 2010

‘Traducing Ruddle’ is the 5th in a series of “fake” newspapers, especially produced to be used in Manders’ sculptures. Together with the 48 page insert ‘Two Connected Houses’, it is distributed through newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March. Sheets from ‘Traducing Ruddle’ form also the central element of a ‘Window with Fake Newspapers’, a sitespecific public work on view in Vancouver through March 28th. Design: Hans Gremmen &&

ROMA 132 Passages Through (the Unfinished Monument) Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, Vesna Madzoski (editors)

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ROMA 131 In Dark Trees Rob Johannesma

Story about a project for the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland, that was canceled two weeks before its realization. It was intended to become an installation of three intersecting Moebius strips ‘circling’ around the gallery, functioning as a platform to exhibit works of other artists. The book includes seventeen series of photographs, each of them o!ering a slightly different imaginary walk through the structure, accompanied by fragments of texts by several individuals who inspired the artists while working on the project: Vladimir Odoevsky, Frederick Kiesler, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, Juhani Pallasmaa, Italo Calvino, and Steven Holl. The book also contains a theoretical reflection on the artistic process and experience of cancelling a project. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 130 Cast (part 2) Raymond Taudin Chabot

112 p + 2 cards 24 × 16.5 cm 2010

Publication based on Johannesma’s exhibition ‘Uitval uit een’ at De Vleeshal Middelburg in 2009. With text by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Roger Willems &&

ROMA 129 32 p 16 × 23 cm 2009

The booklet starts with a sequence of photographs and reproductions leading to an image of a golden pretzel, depicting a sculpture by Taudin Chabot. It reads like a reflection on di!erent representational forms of decorum and their flipside within photography. Unexpectedly the sequence switches to images of clocks, tables, television sets, gambling machines, newspapers and a whole range of devices that are commonly deployed to kill time. Their origin remains opaque but they indicate a parallel reality that is precarious and clandestine. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&

Libero Petra Stavast

200 p 18 × 25 cm 2009

In an abandoned house in Calabria (Italy) Petra Stavast found old pictures and letters. She started to search for the people on these pictures and reconstructed the story behind the images. Design: Hans Gremmen &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 128 Extended Caption (DDDG) Stuart Bailey

ROMA 127 112 p 34.5 × 24.5 cm 2009

Blaka Watra Spiders (Me & You on a Golden Avenue) Saskia Janssen

An exhibition in Culturgest, Porto provided the seventh occasion for Stuart Bailey to show a group of artefacts whose only shared connection was that they had appeared somewhere in the pages of Dot Dot Dot – a magazine which he has edited since its conception in 2000. The publication plays with the idea of inverting the regular hierarchy of this magazine where texts are generally treated as primary and images secondary. It contains a leporello reproduction of the exhibition wall with all the 43 artefacts, followed by subsequent reproductions of 43 previously published Dot Dot Dot articles, systematically presented as captions of these artefacts. With texts by Stuart Bailey and Jan Verwoert. Design: Roger Willems & Sam de Groot

ROMA 126 I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech. Paul Elliman

64 p 21 × 28.5 cm 2009

Report on Janssen’s encounters in the Blaka Watra drug users’ room in Amsterdam during the period 2006 to 2008. With drawings of spiderwebs by Blaka Watra visitors. Jackson: ‘This is the real shit, man! A spiderweb! That s my life.’ Design: Jaan Evart & Indrek Sirkel &&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 125 16 p 17 × 24 cm 2009

‘Phantom Radio Extended Shipping Forecast’. Notes for radio imagery and typography. Collected, compiled and rewritten by Paul Elliman as supplement to Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia (ROMA 100). Design: Roger Willems & Radim Pesko &

Reverse Chronology JCJ Vanderheyden

32 p 21 × 26 cm 2009

Reverse chronology of the Vanderheyden’s œuvre, subjectively compiled by the artist. This booklet is a reproduction of a hand glued sketch made during the process of making The Analogy of the Eye (ROMA 122).

ROMA 124 Heel Ander Blad Luuk Wilmering

ROMA 123 24 p 30 × 41.5 cm 2009

One Time One Million (Migratory Birds / Romantic Capitalism) Susanne Kriemann

Newspaper collage by Luuk Wilmering, handmade between 2006-2008, compiled with text and image fragments from regular issues of NRC Handelsblad. This newspaper is part of the presentation “Luuk Wilmering / Krant – Journal” at De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg, from 17.01 – 15.03 2009. Design: Luuk Wilmering

ROMA 122 JCJ Vanderheyden / The Analogy of the Eye JCJ Vanderheyden

122 p 22 × 27.5 cm 2009

An original Swedish Hasselblad camera is the point of departure for One Time One Million. Because the camera dates from 1942, this object launched Kriemann straight back into history. Kriemann succeeds in pushing the concrete politics that adhere to this object into the background. That gives her room to say much more than she would have had a chance to say in a specifically political context: she can bring clusters together in new images, make new connections, rearrange things, tinker around, and thus arrive at new insights. Photographs by Susanne Kriemann, Viktor Hasselblad and anonymous sources. Texts by Cecilia Widenheim, Dieter Roelstraete, Aleksander Komarov, Soeren Gunnarsson, Ulrika Flink, Ida Lowgren. Design: NODE

ROMA 121 264 p 21 × 26 cm 2009

Monographic book about the work of Dutch artist JCJ Vanderheyden (1928– 2012), presented with a retrospective exhibition in&Culturgest, Lisbon. Edited and designed by Roger Willems, Mark Manders and Jaap van Triest in close collaboration with the artist. Texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden, Mark Kremer, Dieter Roelstraete and Miguel Wandschneider. Texts in English, with translations in Portuguese and Dutch. Design: Roger Willems & Jaap van Triest Science progresses, art does not – art always starts afresh. JCJVDH &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Untitled (Onkenhout) Arnoud Holleman

6 p leporello 21 × 29.7 cm 2008

Textpiece by Arnoud Holleman about the reason and history of a shiny little sculpture. The sculpture and this publication – with photographs by Simon Wald-Lasowski – are on show at the exhibition “Questioning History” at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Design: Roger Willems &&&&

ROMA 120 (Untitled) Geert Goiris

ROMA 119 8 p leporello 21 × 27 cm 2008

Hypocotyl Raki Mark Manders

Leporello with 7 photographs by Geert Goiris: 1. Suspension, 2. Whiteout #17, 3. Toijska, 4. Milton Keynes, 5. Inertia, 6. Untitled, 7. Palanga. Design: Roger Willems

16 p 35 × 48 cm 2008

Papier-mache newspaper, especially produced to be used in Manders’ sculptures. Design: Hans Gremmen &&

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ROMA 118 Plateau Nickel van Duijvenboden

ROMA 117 48 p + 48 p 14 × 20.5 cm 2008

Siedlung Erik van der Weijde

256 p 16 × 22 cm 2008

Novel written by Van Duijvenboden, published as set of two books; one in English and one in Dutch. Plateau features two scientists stationed on the Arctic drift ice for a year in the Cold War era. “Except for the stars there were no reference points here: no hills, no mainland, no vegetation &ndash nothing that counterbalanced the uniform character of this frozen ocean landscape.” The question how the expedition members should relate to this landscape forms the heart of a discussion which seems to be driving them apart. Design: Roger Willems

240 Houses in 16 settlements, built in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, photographed by Van der Weijde in the spring of 2008. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 116 Wonder Years / Werkplaats Typografie 1998-2008 various

ROMA 115 256 p 23 × 30 cm 2008

(Untitled) Geert Goiris

Book on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. Edited and designed by Alex DeArmond, Jeremy Jansen, Julie Peeters, Scott Ponik, Boy Vereecken and Lisette Smits. With contributions by Stuart Bailey, Uta Eisenreich, Paul Elliman, Raimundas Malasauskas, Karel Martens, Armand Mevis, Radim Pesko, and Willem Oorebeek. &&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 114 China/S75 Petra Stavast

8 p leporello 21 × 27 cm 2008

Leporello with 7 photographs by Geert Goiris: 1. Stranded, 2. Lower Galley, 3. Control Room, 4. Near Hekla #2, 5. New Coast, 6. Whiteout, 7. Platforms. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&

ROMA 113 36 p 16.5 × 23.5 cm 2008

S75 is a project by Petra Stavast named after the Siemens S75, a mobile phone that was launched in 2005. It was Stavast’s first phone which featured an integrated camera, with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 960 pixels. The portraits appearing in this book were photographed by Stavast in Amsterdam and Shanghai between 2006 and 2008, exclusively using the SiemensS75, deliberately exploring its limited technical specifications. Design: Hans Gremmen. ROMA 114b Eva (II) Petra Stavast Poster with a portrait by Petra Stavast (Eva (II), 2008), photographed with the Siemens S75, printed in o!set on newspaper stock.

Neem me mee, zei de hond. Wim Brands

16 p 17 × 24 cm 2008

Collection of poems by Wim Brands, illustrated by Oksana Pasaiko (Two Meteorite Rocks, Cut in Favorite Angles). Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 112 (Untitled) Stephan Keppel

ROMA 111 12 p leporello 16.5 × 21 cm 2008

Serendipity Hans Gremmen (ed.)

Leporello with 11 photographs on the occasion of the exhibition Power of Place at Nettenfabriek, Apeldoorn. Design: Roger Willems

104 p 19 × 26 cm 2008

Book made out of test prints found at the silkscreen workshop of Paul Wyber of WyberZeefdruk in Amsterdam. The book shows reproductions but also fragments from original prints by Jan Bons, Armand Mevis, Linda van Deursen, Lex Reitsma, Julia Born, Laurenz Brunner, Gielijn Escher, Annet Gelink, Ryan Gander, Roger Willems, JCJ Vanderheyden, Roland Schimmel, Nancy Spero, Carlos Amorales, Coppens Alberts, Connie Nijman, Anthony Burrill, Scott King, KesselsKramer, Jan Cremer, Gebroeders Silvestri, Stephanie de Vilder, Experimental Jetset, mevrouw Kramer, Mark van Holden, Linda Jensen. Therefore every book is unique. With an adapted chapter from ‘Sindbad in Serendip’ by Richard Boyle. Design: Hans Gremmen

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ROMA 110 Nancy Spero’s Alphabet of Hieroglyphs Nancy Spero

ROMA 109 2 posters 80 × 119 cm each 2008

Set of two silkscreen posters with an inventory of all motifs from Nancy Spero’s zinc and polymer plates since 1975. Edited by Roel Arkesteijn. Design: Roger Willems & Connie Nijman &

Codex Spero / Nancy Spero – Selected Writings and Interviews 1950-2008 Roel Arkesteijn (ed.)

200 p 20 × 28 cm 2008

Book with a selection of statements, correspondence, essays, lecture notes, interviews, personal photographs and other ego documents from Nancy Spero (Cleveland, Ohio, 1926). An overview of all the visual motifs that Spero has used in her work since the mid-1970s completes this volume. Edited by Roel Arkesteijn, in close collaboration with the artist. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 108 Psychoscope Roland Schimmel

ROMA 107 48 p + DVD 21 × 29.7 cm 2008

That’s Painting Bernard Brunon

Book and DVD with a movie by Roland Schimmel. With an essay by Dieter Roelstraete and an introduction by Miguel Wandschneider. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 106 Intimate Relations Marlene Dumas

116 p 15 × 21 cm 2008

With less to look at, there’s more to think about. That was the motto Bernard Brunon gave to his company “That’s Painting Productions” some twenty years ago, when his work as a house painter became his activity as an artist. This development didn’t happen over night. The interviews in this book by Michael Kosch and Pascal Beausse describe the process and explain the motivations behind this trajectory. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 105 140 p 21 × 26 cm 2007

Book with a personal selection of paintings, drawings, early works, and writings. Compiled on the occasion of Dumas’ first solo show in South Africa, 30 years after moving to the Netherlands. Edited by Marlene Dumas, with text contributions by Emma Bedford, Marlene van Niekerk, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall. The first edition from 2007 was dedicated to Dumas’ mother who died that year. The 2022 revised fourth edition is dedicated to her six year older brother Pieter of whom we added a portrait:&Die Baba, 1985 (oil on canvas, 130 × 110 cm). Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&

Multiplicity Frank van der Salm

16 p 24 × 34 cm 2008

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Multiplicity at the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (20.1-13.4.08). Text by Shumon Basar and Frank van der Salm. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 104 Cast (part 4) Raymond Taudin Chabot

ROMA 103 56 p 24 × 34 cm 2007

Beauty Unrealized Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, Vesna Madzoski (editors)

Sequence of newspaper images collected by Raymond Taudin Chabot as source material for his ‘men-in-suit’ slow motion video works. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 102 Two Marc Nagtzaam

56 p 17 × 24 cm 2007

The publication “Beauty Unrealized / spider webs of personal universes seeking a form” is the testimony of a series of collaborative ventures, organized by artistrun space Public Space With a Roof, Amsterdam. With contributions by Thomas Hirschhorn, Robert Garnett, Keren Cytter, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Atsushi Sasaki, Michel de Broin, Benoit Goupy, Falke Pisano, Maurits Fennis, Emiliano Gandolfi, Mark Manders, Francesco Bernardelli, Claudio Baroni & Fabian Marcaccio, Marko Kosnik, Angela Serino, and others. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 101 16 p + 4 p 17 × 23 cm 2007

The early part of Nagtzaam’s collected text samples, released on the occassion of the group exhibition “Drawing Typologies”, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2007. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

Post-production various

11 posters 59.4 × 84 cm each 2007-08

11 posters, curated by Roger Willems, printed in the same print runs as the invitations for artists run space Artis Den Bosch during 2008 and 2009. A limited part of these print runs was saved uncut. Posters by Marc Nagtzaam, Pipa Vilyn, Wouter van Riessen, Batia Suter, Mark Manders, Rob Johannesma, Kees Goudzwaard, Marten Hendriks, Marten Hendriks and Julius van der Vaart, Gwenneth Boelens, Irene Kopelman, Marlene Dumas. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 100 Parallel Encyclopedia Batia Suter

ROMA 99 592 p 21 × 28 cm 2007

Penny on Wood Mark Manders

A voluminous book containing a precise composition of images from other books. With supplement by Paul Elliman: I pass. like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech. Reprinted in 2021. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

16 p + insert 21 × 27 cm 2007

Booklet with poems and photographs. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

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ROMA 98 Full Grown Man Wouter van Riessen

ROMA 97 64 p 19 × 26 cm 2007

Book about the work of&Wouter van Riessen. Text by Lene ter Haar. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

Suggested Taxation Scheme Gabriel Kuri

44 p 24 × 17 cm 2007

Publication based on the installation “Tillaga ad Skattaaaetlun / Suggested Taxation Scheme / Reforma Fiscal”, made for the exhibition “Work Time, Life Time, Material Time”, Reykjavik Arts Festival, 2005. Text by Jessica Morgan. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 96 The Whole World – Without Me = The Whole World Oksana Pasaiko

ROMA 95 cards 14.8 × 10.5 cm each 2004-

Logicas Desviadas. Notes on Representation Vol. 1 Irene Kopelman

Series of double-sided postcard-works by Oksana Pasaiko. The cards are presented in 3 di!erent ways: 1. In vitrines or on pedestals behind glass, front and back of card presented next to each other with a distance of 12 mm; 2. As give away cards; 3. On the wall with front and back of the card presented next to each other with a distance of 12 mm. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 94 Curculio Bassos / Sonantal Lush Mark Manders

16 p 28.5 × 21 cm 2006

Drawings by Kopelman based on historical maps dated from the XVI to XIX centuries. ‘Logicas Desviadas’ is the first volume of the series ‘Notes on Representation’ by Kopelman. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 93 8p+8p 35 × 48 + 17.5 × 24 cm 2006

Papier-mache newspaper with insert, especially produced to be used in sculptures. Design: Hans Gremmen. &&&&

11 tekeningen (free paper) Marc Nagtzaam

2 folded papers 68 × 48 cm each 2006

Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Marc Nagtzaam / Selected Works’, November – December 2006, Homework, Maastricht. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 92 Count Down Roland Schimmel & Roger Willems

ROMA 91 poster 68 × 48 cm 2006

Ghent / Lisbon / Porto Drawings Bart Lodewijks

Double-sided poster with black dots. Design: Roger Willems & Roland Schimmel

96 p 16.5 × 22.5 cm 2006

Book about a series of site specific chalk drawings by Bart Lodewijks in streets and exhibition spaces in Ghent (Belgium), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal). Bart Lodewijks makes large scale, linear chalk drawings in public and private spaces. The drawings, which are often temporary, can be found on building facades, in hospitals and o#ces, but also inside private homes and the surrounding streets. His distinct abstract drawings respond to the social context in which they are made. With text by Frank Maes in English, Portuguese, and Dutch. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 90 Os livros fazem amigos Roger Willems (editor)

ROMA 89 120 p 15 × 21 cm 2006

Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Roma Publications’ in Culturgest, Lisbon, from May 20 until August 27, 2006. Texts by Christoph Keller, Dieter Roelstraete and Miguel Wandschneider.& Design: Roger Willems &&

Dias abertos Marije Langelaar (editor)

64 p 21 × 27 cm 2006

Portuguese double edition of the first two Open Days (Roma Publications 38 and 70). Dutch and Flemisch poems, selected by Marije Langelaar, combined with various works of art. Translated by Fernando Venâncio. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 88 Surplus Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 87 48 p 19 × 26 cm 2006

Ornamento com pontos focais Mark Manders

Artist book with handwritten text fragments by Mark Nagtzaam, collected from various art and fashion magazines, between 1998 and 2006. It is a systematic continuation from Roma publication number 1, (SOME), from 1998. The written text fragments are considered drawings themselves, but are also used by Nagtzaam as an archive to work with and create new works with. The book also includes a few reproductions of his more complex text drawings which were made with this archive. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 86 Sequent Kees Goudzwaard

16 p 23 × 31 cm 2006

Portuguese translation of Manders’ book of poems ‘Ornament met brandpunten’. Translated by Fernando Venâncio. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 85 64 p 21 × 28 cm 2006

Book with new paintings of Kees Goudzwaard (sequel of Roma Publication 50 ‘Frontal Views’) on on the occasion of his solo-exhibition in Culturgest, Lisbon, from May 20 until August 27, 2006. Texts by Delfim Sardo, Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Miguel Wandschneider. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&

Kunstverein Ahlen various

11 booklets 12 × 16.5 cm each 2006 -2009

Series of 11 small-sized publications related to exhibitions in Kunstverein Ahlen, curated by Philippe Van Cauteren. Design: Joana Katte

ROMA 84 W139 – Amsterdam, Report of an Ongoing Journey various

ROMA 83 304 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2006

Short Sad Thoughts Mark Manders

A report of the activities that took place at artists space W139 in Amsterdam, from November 30, 2002 until April 30, 2006. A continuous transformation process that is amply documented in this book. Introduction by Ann Demeester. Design: Roger Willems & Hans Gremmen

72 p 20 × 27.5 cm 2006

Catalogue about Manders’ solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Texts by Penelope Curtis, Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, and Ronald Van de Sompel. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 82 Blind Spot Roland Schimmel

ROMA 81 64 p 20 × 28 cm 2006

Book with works by Roland Schimmel and a text by Eva&Wittocx. Design: Roger Willems

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„Freut Euch“ Michael Dörner

20 p 15 × 21 cm 2006

Booklet about the raining umbrella on Spitalplatz, Göppingen (DE). Text by Werner Meyer. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 80 Untitled (Post-production) JCJ Vanderheyden & Roger Willems

ROMA 79 3 posters 70 × 100 cm each 2006

EucaryoteTarp Mark Manders

Set of three posters by JCJ Vanderheyden. Silkscreen on paper, unsigned and unnumbered in an edition of 200. Design: Roger Willems &&&&

8p 35 × 48 cm 2005

First notional newspaper, especially produced to use for paper-mache in a sculpture that was first shown at Manders’ solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2006). Design: Hans Gremmen &&&&&

ROMA 78 Compost Index Gabriel Kuri

ROMA 77 68 p 28 × 20 cm 2005

Book about the work and thoughts of the Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri, published in co-production with CoNaCultA, with support from kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Franco Noero Gallery, Torino. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, and Maxine Kopsa. Design: Roger Willems

3 Geert Goiris

3 cards 22 x17.6 cm each 2005

Sequence of 3 photographs, taken at Jeu de Paume on September 22, 2005. These cards are part of the exhibition “Croiser des mondes, aspects du document contemporain”, in Jeu de Paume, Paris from October 4 till December 31 2005 &&&

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ROMA 76 Cristof Yvoré Cristof Yvoré

ROMA 75 44 p 17 × 12.5 cm 2005

Reconstructing Time Irene Kopelman

Small catalogue with paintings by Cristof Yvoré. Design: Roger Willems & Frank Demaegd &&&&&&

ROMA 74 Parallel Slideshow Batia Suter

24 p 23.5 × 16.5 cm 2005

Outcome of a year of research and production by Irene Kopelman within the Artis Geological Museum, Amsterdam. It shows a series of handcrafted porcelain ‘replicas’ of a select part of the museum’s Holotype collection, and a series of drawings of microfossils, that attempt to describe what the naked eye cannot see. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 73 DVD 2006

Sequence of around 1000 newspapers images, collected between 1998 and 2006. This work is related to the book ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’ (ROMA 100) which was published a year later, in 2007. Suter decided to keep these images out of her book because of their typical color and newspaper atmosphere. Also the notion of news value and the focus on catastrophic circumstances make this series an autonomous chapter in her collection of found imagery. &

Short Sad Text (based on the borders of 14 countries) Oksana Pasaiko

Hair on soap 7.5 × 5.3 × 2.4 cm 2004-05

Small sculpture, made out of soap and human hair. Edition: 2 (number one of the edition was left behind in a public toilet in Oslo, number two is a work of art). It also exists as a take away postcard. &

ROMA 72 La Roquette Secrète Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar

ROMA 71 8p 23.5 × 32 cm 2006

Broadway Marquise Roland Schimmel & Roger Willems

Brochure with a few staged photographs by Mark Manders and Marije Langelaar in which friends, and the daughter of a friend, were posing. One was secretely made in the kitchen of Roger Willems in Arnhem. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

poster 70 × 100 cm 2005

Silkscreen poster in an edition of 150 copies. Design: Roger Willems & Roland Schimmel &

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ROMA 70 Open Days Marije Langelaar (ed.)

ROMA 69 32 p 21 × 27 cm 2005

Made out of Wood Wouter van Riessen

audio CD 14 × 12.5 cm 2005

The second in the series Open Days publications. It contains Dutch and Flemisch poems combined with various works of art, selected by Marije Langelaar. With contributions by : Daan van Golden, Raoul De Keyser, K. Michel, Menno Wigman, Tonnus Oosterho!, Bas Jan Ader, Johannes Kahrs, Eva Gerlach, Miriam Van hee, Mark Boog, Dirk van Bastelaere, John Currin, Mark Langelaar, Jannah Loontjens, Wouter Godijn, Hester Knibbe, Kees Goudzwaard, Wouter van Riessen, Rogi Wieg, Barry Flanagan, Franky D.C., Gerhard Richter, Peter Verhelst, Miguel Declercq, Franz Gertsch, José Maria Rodriguez Plaza, J.C.J. Vanderheyden, Yun-Fei Ji, Boris Mikhailov. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&

16 songs by Wouter van Riessen: 1. Morning Moon 2. Hear me Calling 3. Pinocchio 4. Little Maggie 5. Full Grown Man 6. You Sing to me 7. Byebye 8. Wouter 9. I Love you 10. Coming Home 11. Snow 12. You Made me Row my Boat Ashore 13. Bring you Home 14. Love Song for a Doll 15. The Stranger 16. Drifting into a Dream. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 68 De Rode Hamerclub Marije Langelaar

ROMA 67 24 p 20 × 28 cm 2005

(Untitled) Geert Goiris

Photographic report of an outdoor installation in a forest by Marije Langelaar. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&

ROMA 66 Face it Joe Villablanca

8 p leporello 21 × 27 cm 2005

Leporello with 7 photographs by Geert Goiris: 1. Seaweed, 2. Kurort, 3. Hotel Siauliai, 4. Eclipse, 5. Albino, 6. Wittgenstein, 7. Near Hekla Design: Roger Willems&

ROMA 65 32 p 19.5 × 26.5 cm 2005

Publication on the occasion of ‘Face it’, a show by Joe Villablanca in Elektrohaus, Hamburg, February 2005. Design: Joana Katte &&&&&&&

Blind Spot Roland Schimmel & David Lopato

DVD 18.5 × 26.5 cm 2005

Three abstract movies (‘Blind Spot I, II, III’) by Roland Schimmel with music by David Lopato. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 64 Vlak Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 63 16 p 16 × 22 cm 2005

Hallway with Sentences Mark Manders

Eight drawings by Marc Nagtzaam: (As Far as I’m Concerned), (13 JAN.1973 / JULY 4, 1973), (Ins and Outs), (Not One, Not Two but Three), (The Sound of Something Happening), (Pantone), (Polaroid), (To the White Sea and Beyond) Design: Roger Willems&&&&

ROMA 62 H1: Momente/Monumente Philippe Van Cauteren, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Roger Willems (ed.)

16 p 20 × 27 cm 2007

Reporduction of the wall piece ‘Hallway with Sentences’, a text work by Mark Manders at The Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago (September 14 – November 2, 2003). First published in 2005 as an insert in a book for The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 61 56 p 19 × 25.5 cm 2004

First issue of the irregukar magazine H, with contributions by Franz Blei, Erick Beltran, Inga Beyer, Marc Wortmann, Daniel Blochwitz, Dew Bondage, Michael Dorner, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Hans Blumenberg, Christian Jamarillo, Jac Leirner, Mario Navarro, Luis Egana Rojas, Tanja Schwarz, Elliott Erwitt, Andre Lemke, Philippe Van Cauteren, Thomas Schonberger, Michael Liebelt and Lawrence Weiner, Christel Fetzer. &&&& Design: Roger Willems&&&&&&&&

From Here to There (and back again) Various

128 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm 2004

Ad hoc publication on occasion of the temporary relocation of W139 in Post CS, former headquarters of the Dutch Postal Services. It briefly shows all exhibitions and activities organized by artits space W139 in Amsterdam, from 30.11.2002 until 21.11.2004. Introduction by W139 director Ann Demeester. Design: Roger Willems & Hans Gremmen

ROMA 60 Billboards Batia Suter

ROMA 59 168 p 21 × 15 cm 2004

Five minutes to Die Iñaki Bonillas

Book with photographs of billboards and other advertising surfaces on which Suter displays a collection of switches, buttons and daily objects. This book is a special hard bound edition of the publication ‘Batia Suter / A meeting outdoors’, produced by KesselsKramer and originally published by NEROC’VGM b.v. Amsterdam. Design: Roger Willems & Batia Suter

ROMA 58 ‘H0’ Van Cauteren, Hackenschmidt, Willems (ed.)

172 p 29.7 × 21 cm 2004

This xerox-copy book shows pictures taken from Bonillas’ 30 volume family photoarchive that was given to him by his widowed grandmother. Text by Brenda Lozano. Design: Roger Willems &&

ROMA 57 12 p 25.5 × 17.7 cm 2004

Preview of ‘H’-magazine; a low-budget, free curatorial magazine, based and related to Hamburg, Germany. ‘H’magazine is part of Philippe Van Cauteren’s ‘HAMBURG / O, R, G, U & H’ (see 54). Design: Roger Willems &

30 Feet Oksana Pasaiko

32 p 13.5 × 19.5 cm 2004

30 pictures of feet, printed on 32 pages. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 56 (Untitled) Geert Goiris

ROMA 55 folded poster 63 × 89 cm 2004

Miquel Mont Miquel Mont

6 photographs arranged on a folded poster. Design: Roger Willems &&

ROMA 54 O, R, G, U & H Philippe Van Cauteren (ed.)

80 p 19 × 26.8 cm 2004

A selection of works by Miquel Mont. &&&&&& Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 53 website 2004

A website documenting a number of locally organised projects, curated and organized by Philippe Van Cauteren, diversely sited through the City of Hamburg, Germany. With contributions by (among others): Nicolas Floc’h, Rosana Ricalde, Anno Dijkstra, Francisca Garcia, Anna Maria Neubert, Paulo Climachauska, Heide Hinrichs, Sylvia Schreiber, Alejandro Magallanes & Erick Beltran, Batia Suter, Michael Doerner, Kees Goudzwaard, Nir Alon, Adrianne Gallinari, Patrick Lebret, Paula Parcerisa, Changwon Lee, Martina Rapedius & Thomas Rindfleisch, Mario Navarro, Francisca Garcia, Lina Kim, Inaki Bonillas, Sebastian Zarius, Marije Langelaar, Magda Jussara. Design: Roger Willems

In Other Words Nicolas Floc’h

208 p 18 × 24.5 cm 2005

The complete work of Nicolas Floc’h from&Productive Writing&(1995) until recent videoworks. Edited and designed by Roger Willems and Nicolas Floc’h. Texts: Ann Demeester, Léa Gauthier, Pierre Giquel, Emmanuelle Huynh, Philippe Van Cauteren, Nicolas Floc’h. Design: Roger Willems

ROMA 52 Isolated Rooms Mark Manders

ROMA 51 184 p + 56 p 19.5 × 26 cm 2005

Storage and Display Dieter Roelstraete & Roger Willems (editors)

Catalogue covering Mark Manders’ double solo show&Isolated Rooms&at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (9.13.2003 -1.4.2004). The book, counting 184 pages, is accompanied by a separate exhibition checklist and a 56 pages reference book. Compilation and design: Roger Willems and Mark Manders. With texts by James Cuno and Susanne Ghez, James Rondeau, Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Manders, and Marije Langelaar. Design: Roger Willems&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 50 Frontal Views Kees Goudzwaard

168 p 17 × 23 cm 2004

Document of the group exhibition ‘Storage and Display’ in Programa Art Center, Mexico City, 2003. With: Danai Anesiadou, Hans Bryssinck & Diederik Peeters, Rodrigo Diaz, Jared Domicio, Nicolas Floc’h, Michel Francois, Kees Goudzwaard, Franciska Lambrechts & Honore d’O, Erwan Maheo, Mark Manders, Hermann Maier Neustadt, Damian Ortega, Batia Suter, Sofia Taboas, Pieter Vermeersch and many others. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 49 92 p 21 × 28 cm 2004

Book about the paintings of the Dutch painter Kees Goudzwaard. Text by Dieter Roelstraete. Design: Roger Willems

(Untitled) Geert Goiris

card 17 × 24 cm 2003

Double photograph of the same location at di!erent moments in time. &&

ROMA 48 Looking for a Beautiful Place Bart Lodewijks

ROMA 47 64 p 17 × 24 cm 2003

Photographic Views Iñaki Bonillas, Dieter Roelstraete, Roger Willems

40 p 17 × 24 cm 2003

Documentation of site specific chalk drawings produced by Bart Lodewijks during a two years stay in Scotland. Text by QS Serafijn. Design: Roger Willems

An essay by Roelstraete related to projects with and about photography by Iñaki Bonillas, in collaboration with Roger Willems. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 46 En we verdroomden de dag... Wil Hee!er

ROMA 45 40 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2003

Poetry and illustrations about love and Cuba. &&& Design: Roger Willems

Gedicteerde tekeningen Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar and 22 children

56 p 17 × 23 cm 2003

Children drawings and photographs, made under strict orders. Design: Hans Gremmen&&&&&&&&

ROMA 44 Over Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 43 44 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2002

Splinters zijn stukken van bomen Maud Vande Veire

Book with drawings and installation photos by Marc Nagtzaam. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 42 Kaleidoscope Night Dieter Roelstraete

243 p 12 × 20 cm 2002

First novel by Maud Vande Veire, published as unedited manuscript in limited edition. &

ROMA 41 56 p 16.5 × 24 cm 2002

Philosophical essay by Dieter Roelstraete about the work of Mark Manders, published on the occasion of the exhibition&Kaleidoscope Night&in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Design: Ingo O!ermanns&&&&&& Cover: Roger Willems

Ornament met Brandpunten Mark Manders

DVD 2002

Electronic voice reeds a selection of Manders’ collection of poems&Ornament met brandpunten, translated into English. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &

ROMA 40 Singing Sailors Mark Manders

ROMA 39 120 p 16.8 × 22.5 cm 2003

Several Drawings on Top of Each Other Mark Manders

Dutch – size reduced – edition of the catalogue&Singing Sailors. Texts by Manders and Marije Langelaar. Design: Roger Willems

232 p 19 × 25.5 cm 2002

Book with drawings from Mark Manders. Text by Marije Langelaar. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 38 Open Days Marije Langelaar (ed.)

32 p 21 × 27 cm 2002

This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘ROMA Publications 1998-2002’ in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. It contains Dutch poems combined with various works of art, selected by Marije Langelaar. With contributions by : Michael Borremans, Rene Puthaar, Batia Suter, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Menno Wigman, Ilja Leonard Pfeij!er, Albertina Soepboer, Anneke Brassinga, Arturo Herrera, Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, Ronald Ohlsen, Piet Gerbrandy, Gwy Mandelinck, Dirk Braeckman, Luc Tuymans, Roger Willems, Arjen Duinker, Tsead Bruinja, Wouter van Riessen, Johannes Kahrs, Maria Barnas, Leonard Nolens, Annelies Strba. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 37 White Book Inaki Bonillas, Roger Willems

896 p 17 × 22 cm 2002

Almost empty book with pictures of the same book made by di!erent artists/ photographers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Mexico: Nienke Terpsma, Batia Suter, Studio EKA, Mark Manders, Roger Willems, Geert Goiris, Santiago Merino, Han Koppers. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&

ROMA 36 Thin Newspaper with Drawings Mark Manders

ROMA 35 16 p 47 × 31.5 cm Documenta 11 2002

Singing Sailors Mark Manders

Free paper with drawings, given away to visitors of Documenta 11. Design: Roger Willems

128 p 21.6 × 28.8 cm 2002

Catalogue about the work of Mark Manders. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Loretta Yarlow, Marije Langelaar and Mark Manders. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 34 Poëtisch Panorama Louis Tiessen

ROMA 33 20 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2002

Catherine Claeyé Catherine Claeyé

48 p 14 × 20 cm 2002

Paper with a selection of previously published and unplublished texts and poems by Louis Tiessen, from the late 1940’s up till 2002. Design: Roger Willems

Photo book about a three months during project with hanging cabbages on the bank of the river Schelde, Antwerp, Belgium. Design: Roger Willems

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ROMA 32 Pingo doce Mark Manders

ROMA 31 8p 17.5 × 23 cm 2001

New Anniversaries Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, Roger Willems

Account of a number of consecutive occurrences in a supermarket in Oporto, Portugal, ending in a fight. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&

ROMA 30 Arnhem Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

72 p 23.5 × 32 cm 2001

Photo book about three simultaneous birthdays. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 29 poster 68.5 × 96 cm 2001

Poster with fives made in and for Arnhem in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &

Dictated Drawings Mark Manders and 27 children

32 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2001

Book with a selection from a large number of drawings, dictated by Manders, combined with a few portraits. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 28 Portraits and Cameras Mark Manders, Roger Willems

ROMA 27 56 p 29.7 × 21 cm 2001

9 tekeningen (free paper) Marc Nagtzaam

Portraits of 27 children and their drawings. Photographs taken as the children draw the camera in front of them, without looking at the paper. This publication, laser printed in a small print run, was the result of a workshop at a primary school in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9 in Arnhem. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&

ROMA 26 Angus 15 jaar / 3-11-2001 Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar

2 folded papers 68 × 48 cm each 2001

Folded paper with drawings. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

ROMA 25 32 p 20 × 27 cm 2001

House to house newspaper for Rotterdam, distributed on the day of the 15th birthday of Angus. Edition 100,000. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&&

Newspaper with Fives Mark Manders, Roger Willems

20 p 41.5 × 29 cm 2001

The concept of this newspaper is based on the fascination for the fact that something outside your body, for example five frozen animals on a row, can make your brains think ‘five’. The paper contains only fives and has been spreaded over the city of Arnhem in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9 in Arnhem. Edition 150,000. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders 25b Newspaper with Fives (82%) 20 p 34 × 24 cm 2001

ROMA 24 China Mark Manders

ROMA 23 64 p 15.5 × 22.5 cm 2001

Waiting for the Laundry Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar

Sequel to Coloured Room with Black and White Scene (ROMA 3). A number of titles are now translated into three dimensional works. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

Never realized book with a photoseries made whithin one hour while waiting for the laundry, somewhere in Tokyo.

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ROMA 22 Laptop on the Pavement Mark Manders, Roger Willems, Marije Langelaar

ROMA 21 64 p 13.5 × 19.5 cm 2002

Book with various related photographs, made and collected in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Some of the photographs show book pages. It was made on the occasion of a poetry festival in Watou, Belgium. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&&&&&

Mutanten zonder hart Marije Langelaar

12 p 17 × 26 cm 2000

Cover, made from an envelope, containing a songtext from a karaoke video installation by Langelaar called ‘Mutants without Hearts’. Laser print in small edition. Design: Roger Willems &&&&

ROMA 20 ROMA 20 A-Z various

ROMA 19 posters 29.7 x 42 2000

Work and Non-work Marc Nagtzaam, Roger Willems

Undocumented series of laser print A3 posters with photos, pasted on specific spots in the city of Arnhem.

ROMA 18 Meer avonturen Maartje Teunissen

8p 21 × 29.7 cm 2000

Series of drawings by Nagtzaam combined with photographs by Willems. Photocopied in a small print run. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&

ROMA 17 paper 10,5 × 3 cm 2005

A small piece of paper in an unlimited edition with the text ‘meer avonturen!’ (More Adventures!), handed out by children to grownups during a positive demonstration by children in Holland, organized by Marije Langelaar. &&

Night Drawings from Selfportrait as a Building Mark Manders

22 p 29 × 43 cm 2000

Newspaper with a collection of drawings by Mark Manders. The titels of the twenty drawings are put on the frontpage like headlines. Printed in New York on the occasion of Manders’ first gallery exhibition in the US at GreenNaftali. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 16 Tokyo Newspaper Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar

ROMA 15 16 p 27.3 × 40 cm 2000

Niet niet betreden Mariës Hendriks

Newspaper with photographs of minor occurences in public areas in Tokyo, combined with Japanese translations of poems by Langelaar.

ROMA 14 Hann. Münden Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

24 p 15 × 21 cm 2000

Small book with 8 drawings. Design: Roger Willems &&&&&&&

ROMA 13 poster 50 × 78 cm 1999

One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

Hann. Münden Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

poster 50 × 78 cm 1999

One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 12 Hann. Münden Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

ROMA 11 poster 50 × 78 cm 1999

Hann. Münden Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 10 Interactief gelukkig Marije Langelaar

poster 50 × 78 cm 1999

One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 9 64 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm 2000

Fragmented poems that sometimes suggest to be the starting lines of novels, still to be writen. Design: Roger Willems &&&&

Ornament met brandpunten Mark Manders

48 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm 2000

Collection of poems by Mark Manders, in Dutch only. The abstract cover fits with the title and the precize but detached descriptions, which evoke a probing mental perception of the fictional character Mark Manders. Reprinted in 2017 on the occasion of Kunstenfestival Watou. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

ROMA 8 Ll Jaap Kroneman, Batia Suter

ROMA 7 32 p 32 × 46 cm 1999

Het lezen Marije Langelaar

Combinations of photographs of ex-girlfriends collected by Jaap Kroneman and crops of images of public men collected by Batia Suter. Design: Roger Willems &

ROMA 6 32544 Assoziative Wortkörper Mark Manders, Roger Willems

4p 13.7 × 21 cm 2000

Folded paper, printed in book print, containing a short text about ‘reading’. It functions as a limited preface for ‘Interactief gelukkig’ (Roma Publication 10). Edition 70. Design: Roger Willems&

ROMA 5 32,544 p 21 × 30 cm 1999

A 108-volume book (32,544 pages) containing all existing German words grouped in associative units of five words per page. The three words ‘Seelenwanderung’, ‘Geben’, and ‘Plastiktüte’ from this book have been framed alongside three corresponding photographs. In this way, the words and photographs are guided in their variable meanings. This work is actually endless, since it can continually be expanded with the addition of an infinite number of photographs to each word in the book. Edition: 2 sets of 108 books Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

Newspaper with Fives Mark Manders, Roger Willems

20 p 47 × 31.5 cm 1999

The concept of this free local paper is based on the fascination with the fact that objects outside your body – a row of five calculators, for example – can make your brain think ‘five’. The newspaper is filled entirely with fives and was distributed in the German town of Hann. Münden as a supplement to a regional daily. The paper reveals a surprising image of the small, picturesque town. The greater part of the photographs show fives found in Hann. Münden, but others were staged, such as the gra#ti and the tra#c signs arranged in groups of five at night. Edition 100,000. (See ROMA 4) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&&&&&

ROMA 4 Hann. Münden Promotion Poster Mark Manders, Roger Willems

ROMA 3 50 × 78 cm 1999

Coloured Room with Black and White Scene Mark Manders

This poster with fives, the first one in a series of five, was made in the context of the exhibition 3 Räume 3 Flüsse, a public art project in Germany, curated by Jan Hoet and Philippe Van Cauteren. Manders and Willems stayed in the provincial town Hann. Münden for 5 days where they conceived a number of publications and intervetions in which the number 5 played a central role. (See ROMA 5, 6, 11-14) Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders

88 p 15.5 × 22.5 cm 1999

First Roma publication made with Mark Manders. The book contains a number of possible titles that Manders invented for works or installations that do not yet exist. One of those titles has been developed into a series of twelve color photographs showing a complex installation: a colored room with a black-and-white scene. A sequel coming out of this conceptual book was China (ROMA 24). Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&&&&&&&&&&

ROMA 2 Elka Oudenampsen Elka Oudenampsen

ROMA 1 40 p 15.5 × 22 cm 1999

Small book with collages by Oudenampsen, made as models for larger paintings. Printed in diamond screen o!set and stapled in a thin glossy cover. Edited in collaboration with Mark Manders. Design: Roger Willems & Mark Manders &&&&&

(SOME) Marc Nagtzaam

40 p 17 × 23.5 cm 1998

First Roma publication with handwritten text fragments and a series of drawings by Nagtzaam. Published in an edition of 200 copies as an autonomous contribution to an exhibition with nominees for the Prix de Rome, an art prize in the Netherlands. Design: Roger Willems & Marc Nagtzaam

Roma Publications With special thanks from Roger to Mark Manders, Marc Nagtzaam, Batia Suter, Leo Willems, Johan Willems, Hans Gremmen, Petra Stavast, Karel & Lous Martens, Marlene Dumas, Experimental Jetset, Ari Marcopoulos, Dana Lixenberg, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Julie Peeters, Linda van Deursen, Louis Lüthi, Will Holder, Sam de Groot, Jan Kempenaers, Bart Lodewijks, Phillip Van Cauteren, Dieter Roelstraete, Miguel Wandschneider, Lorenzo Benedetti, Pieter Verbeke, Ayumi Higuchi, Yuri Sato, Dongyoung Lee, Erik van der Weijde, Jordi de Vetten, the people at Idea Books, John Simons, Joop Vluggen, Johan Holterman, and all the other artists, writers, designers, editors, curators, printers, binders, distributors, publishers, and institutions we have had the pleasure of working with over the years.