You are invited! To the opening event and the launch of our exhibition space Red Room. We are having the first happening "Haute Culture", a retrospective archive digging among books, magazines, posters, ephemera. And more of @staffansundstrom works. Also @kristoffer_li is spinning vinyl. Very good occasion to raise a glass (maybe two) and find your new favorite book. We want to see you there because this after hours is nothing without souls moving through it.
Today 4-7 pm.
Video by @office.alexismark
Martin Parr and the dictator’s face. Watches with Saddam Hussein printed on their dials. Collected across countries, bazaars, and obsessions by Parr. Then photographed. Turned into a 36-page large-format photobook, presented in a gold foil bag.
Propaganda, power, kitsch condensed into a watch face as a mass communication. A reminder that ideology can live anywhere.
Signed copy from our personal collection, on view at the store.
#martinparr #saddamhussein #propaganda #kitsch #masscommunication
Listening with Books - Exhibition opening and artists talks
Come by on Tuesday, 17:00-19:00, when we showcase a selection of artists’ books from the Library for Listening - exploring sonic and listening practices through the materiality and performativity of books!
At the opening @linnhenrichson will be sharing thoughts and reflections on her comprehensive work with designing the book version of Anthology for Listening, containing more than 50 international contributions - and Marie Thams and Jacob Hagen Birch will talk about the work with This Biopolitical Arena, a book gathering Thams practice over a decade of working with sound, voice and her body.
There will be drinks, god vibes, amazing books :)
The exhibition will run from May 5th to the 19th
Vester Voldgade 106, st. tv, 1552 København
Martin Kippenberger, The Problem Perspective. MOCA 2008
A close reading of Martin Kippenberger at the edge of what it means to be an artist in culture. No subject sacred. Pop culture, art, architecture, music, politics, history, his own life, all moving through the work.
A good exploration on how failure can be embraced as a generative strategy. Yes, because he was not much interested in producing works of “quality”. In fact he strove to create works that had an aura of failure about them.
#martinkippenberger #artistbook #discoball #problem
Listening with Books
Artist talks + exhibition opening
How can sound take form as a book?
Join us for an evening exploring artist books as spaces for listening, voice, and sonic composition, where sound is reconfigured through print, design, and material form.
Featuring conversations with: – Linn Henrichson & Lukas Lund on Anthology for Listening Vol. II @linnhenrichson – Marie Thams & Jacob Hagen Birch on This Biopolitical Arena @mariethams@spine_studio@marrow.press
Alongside the talks, Library for Listening presents a curated selection of artist books exploring sound and listening through publishing.
Place: Simone Book Service,
Vester Voldgade 106, st. tv, 1552 København
Date: 05.05.2026
Time: 17:00–19:00
Co-hosted by Simone Books Services @simonebookservices & Bureau for Listening
Photo of Anthology for Listening Vol. II by @villevarumo
Yves Saint Laurent par Yves Saint Laurent, Herscher, 1986
Also known as the designer’s visual monograph. Sketches, fabric combinations, photographs. All coming together as a portrait of his career. A timeless, rare reference to the YSL world.
#ysl #yvessaintlaurent #saintlaurent
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AA.BB.25 talk at Simone
Friday, April 17 — 17:00–18:30 at Simone, Vester Voldgade 106, 1552 Copenhagen K
Join us for a conversation between Studio Atlant and Lærke Rydal Jørgensen centered around the publication Franz Gertsch: Blow-Up, released in conjunction with the exhibition that opened in summer 2024 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Franz Gertsch (1930–2022) is widely regarded as a Swiss pioneer of photorealism and a master of the modern woodcut.
Studio Atlant is a Copenhagen-based graphic design studio working primarily with typography across a wide range of formats, including books, publications, exhibitions, websites, and visual identities. The studio is led by Stefan Thorsteinsson and Cecilie Nellemann, who both received their MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University in 2013.
Lærke Rydal Jørgensen is Head of Publications at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Since joining the museum in 2014, she has edited numerous books and exhibition catalogues.
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AA.BB.25 bog præsentation på Simone.
Fredag den 17. april, kl 17.00—18.30, Simone, Vester Voldgade 106, 1552 København K
Med afsæt i publikationen Franz Gertsch: Blow-Up, udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen, der åbnede sommeren 2024 på Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, inviterer AA.BB og Simone til en samtale mellem Studio Atlant og Lærke Rydal Jørgensen omkring tilblivelsen af bogen.
Franz Gertsch (1930–2022) betragtes som en schweizisk pioner inden for fotorealisme og som en mester i det moderne træsnit.
Studio Atlant er et København-baseret grafisk designstudio, der primært arbejder med typografi på tværs af formater – fra bøger og publikationer til udstillinger, websites og visuelle identiteter. Studiet ledes af Stefan Thorsteinsson og Cecilie Nellemann, som begge modtog deres MFA i grafisk design fra Yale University i 2013.
Lærke Rydal Jørgensen er Head of Publications på Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Hun har været tilknyttet museet siden 2014, hvor hun har redigeret en lang række bøger og udstillingskataloger.
@studio.atlant@simonebookservices@louisianamuseum@office.alexismark
Sophie Calle, Take Care of Yourself, Actes Sud 2007, Signed
Sophie Calle receives an email telling her it was over.
She doesn't know how to respond.
It is almost as if it wasn't meant for her.
It ends with words, "Take care of yourself." And so she does.
She asks 107 women, from an anthropologist to a clairvoyant, chosen for their profession and skills, to interpret this letter.
To analyze it, comment on it, dance it, sing it.
Dissect it. Exhaust it. Understand it for her.
Answer for her.
It is a way of taking the time to break up.
A way of taking care of herself.
#sophiecalle #artist #takecareofyourself
Reyner Banham, Megastructure Urban Futures of the Recent Past, Harper & Row 1976
Megastructures or call it monumental follies. Both solution and symptom. Vast frameworks designed to tame the chaos of the modern city. Pollution and congestion in the background; manic optimism in the foreground. Banham writes with a mix of admiration and hindsight. A chronicle of when cities were imagined not as places to repair, but as futures to be built whole. Architectural history at its most audacious.
#megastructure #architecturalhistory #urbandesign #urbanfuture #archigram
In a poem about Kertész, Paul Dermée wrote, “His child’s eyes see each thing for the first time.” It’s fitting: his earliest inspiration came from drawings in children’s magazines. In Hungary he had scarcely encountered other photographers. They worked in isolation, yet his influence was immense. As Henri Cartier-Bresson later reflected, “Ah, Kertész. We all owe him a great deal.”
#andrékertész #mastersofphotography
@misc.pippa ’s Personal Ads reads like a cultural critique disguised as style. Or style disguised as a life plan. This limited edition book gathers images from the 70s to the 90s. Some never been seen. Editorial projects that turn everyday life inside out. Clothes as bodily reinvention and culture as raw material. It’s what we always wanted. And possibly what we were warned about.
Published by @artpapereditions with contribution by @bless_service Including an introduction by @jo.basch and Pippa Garner interview by @lucalopintoo
Bruno Munari collects shapes, patterns, coincidences found in nature and lets them speak.
A children’s book.
An adult book on how to look.
#brunomunari #70s #stoneart
