Dear friends, book and art lovers!

We kindly invite you to the exhibition Los by Fid. Fischer in the VITRINE of ELGARAFI BOM DIA. Please pass by the opening on Thursday, November 25th at 5 pm. Fid. Fischer invites you to an unpleasant reading that starts at 6 pm.  

The vitrine is on display from November 25th until December 29th. 2021 during shop opening hours: every Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2–7 pm.

Dear friends, book and art lovers!

We kindly invite you to the exhibition dispersal units
by Shira Lewis in the VITRINE of:

ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Please pass by the opening on:
Friday, September 10th from 6 pm.

The vitrine is on display from:
September 10th until October 7th, 2021
during shop opening hours:
every Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2–7 pm.

Dear friends, book and art lovers!

We kindly invite you to the exhibition ungeheuer windig by David Reiber Otálora in the VITRINE of ELGARAFI BOM DIA. Please pass by the opening on Friday, August 13th from 5 pm.

At 6 pm Tamara Antonijević will be reading from The Hag Theory.

The vitrine is on display from August 13th until the 8th of September 2021, during shop opening hours: every Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2–7 pm.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Dear friends, book and art lovers!

We kindly invite you to the exhibition Добро обжаловать by Olga Monina in the VITRINE of ELGARAFI BOM DIA. Please pass by the opening on Thursday, July 8th at 4 pm. Olga Monina will share with you music that has accompanied her through the last year.

The vitrine is on display from July 8 until August 5, 2021 during shop opening hours: every Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2–7 pm.

Dear friends, book and art lovers!

We kindly invite you to the exhibition Mehrbödiger Schaukasten by Kevin Kemter in the VITRINE of ELGARAFI BOM DIA. Please pass by the opening on Friday, June 11th at 5 pm. At 6 pm Kevin Kemter will read some rascal stories by „Pigenius Cave“.

The vitrine is on display from June 11 until July 7, 2021 during shop opening hours: every Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2–7 pm.

“[…] Das krasse war ja eigentlich immer: Wenn man dann Zuhause im Bett lag, im Hochbett im Kinderzimmer und gemerkt hat: es ist Mondschein da draussen und die hinterlassenen Zeichen* und selbstgebauten Möbel und so sind genau jetzt, mitten in der Nacht, immer noch da an ihrem Fleck und warten auf Einen! Und dann kam man da ein paar Tage später bei Sonnenlicht wieder hin und alles war noch an seinem Platz. Als wäre nichts. Und wie man dann plötzlich irgendwie Respekt oder Ehrfurcht oder so vor den Zeichen* und Dingen hatte, die es da so ganz allein in der Gruselnacht ausgehalten haben. Für sich im geheimen war man sich plötzlich sicher: Krass! Die sind krasser als man selbst! [lacht] […]”
*Muster, Pseudonym und Bandenname

Please join us for the conversation between Armando Andrade Tudela, Elfi Turpin, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Santiago da Silva for the book launch of

On Working And Then Not Working / Autoeclipse by Armando Andrade Tudela

at ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstr. 158, 10115 Berlin
Friday 6 March, 7 pm

A special edition by Armando Andrade Tudela will be available at the event.

On Working And Then Not Working / Autoeclipse is published on the occasion of two solo shows by the artist Armando Andrade Tudela: On Working And Then Not Working at CRAC Alsace, France (June 14–September 16, 2018) and Autoeclipse at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Spain (February 24–September 15, 2019). An in-between space between the exhibitions, the catalogue features extensive documentation accompanied by collages of the artist’s evolving works as well as new essays by the show’s curators, Elfi Turpin and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

Please arrive early due to limited seating.

Please join us for the book launch and reading of

Beyond Imagination / A Zona de Crepúsculo by Pablo Pijnappel
at ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstr. 158, 10115 Berlin
Friday 28 February, 7 pm

This book was published on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition, Zona de Crepúsculo, at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Brazil, in 2018, curated by Bernardo José de Souza. The following texts are a rendering, in written form, of monologues included in his performance The Zone, 2015-2018. The artwork consists of an after-hours tour in and around a given exhibition space, where a series of found narratives are performed by the artist.

With psychoanalysis and literature as his usual starting points, Pablo Pijnappel’s works are meta-narratives that poetically combine cultural, historical and ancestral identities through the prism of memory. Language always plays a leading role in uniting mental mechanisms and the world, in video installations, texts, or performances that lie at the crossroads between cinema, photography, and fragments of prose.

A special poster edition by the author (photo taken by Andrew de Freitas) will be available.
€65, edition of 50

Please arrive early due to limited seating.

Please join us for the book launch of

Things in Slices by Michael Beutler
at ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstr. 158, 10115 Berlin
Friday 14 February, 7 pm

The publication, presenting the artist’s own classification system, is a congenial travel companion into the world of Michael Beutler’s artistic practice. It functions as a field guide and helps to decipher his heterogeneous production via its components, tools and production methods in relation to specific sites and situations. The texts give insight into the background story and construction of each work based on various specifications.

Please arrive early due to limited seating.

Who Cares?
Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Double Launch with Oliver Marchart & AWC’s Circulatory Merch

A new book by Oliver Marchart and items for a cold season and a warm heart from our people’s print workshop at
ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Bookshop & Editions
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
Conflictual Aesthetics
Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Moderated by Joanna Warsza

You are warmly invited to the book presentation of
VOL. XVI by Haris Epaminonda and Santiago da Silva

at ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin
Saturday, November 30
6pm

A special edition by Haris Epaminonda will be available at the event

The publication is a collaborative project bewtween Frac Île-de-France, the Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda, and the Berlin designers Santiago da Silva and Simon Steinberger.

It recounts and translates the experience of the exhibition VOL. XVI, presented in Paris at Le Plateau in 2015, for which the artist had created a global environment. Through a series of parallel actions the whole exhibition was connecting the interior and exterior with the presence of an old Japanese man inhabiting the exhibition spaces, activating many of the elements present, meanwhile two young women dressed in traditional Japanese costumes were simultaneously taking frequent walks in the Buttes-Chaumont Park situated nearby.

This book concentrates the different perspectives of the artist’s work, where the idea of fiction, of displacement – an encounter in time and space – offers a unique spatial and cinematographic experience.

At the same time, the book gathers three critical essays written by Philippe Artières (Historian and Research Director in CNRS, EHESS), Chris Sharp (Independent art critic and curator), and Aurélie Verdier (Art Historian and curator at Musée National d’Art Moderne, MNAM-CCI, Centre Georges Pompidou).

You are warmly invited to the book launch of

In the Moment You Fall Asleep by Yorgos Sapountzis

at
ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin
Saturday, November 9
6 pm
Let’s unfold the poster and lay it down.

Please join us for the book launch of From self-employment to employment by Andreas Sell

at
Elgarafi BOM DIA
Linienstr. 158, 10115 Berlin
Friday, November 8
6 pm

Written between 2015 to 2018, From self-employment to employment, follow Andreas Sell’s path from self-employment to permanent work. This artist book is his second in a five-yearly series and follows his early booklet, titled Lifestyles, published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, in 2015.

You are warmly invited to the launch of

Very Normal People by Anna M. Szaflarski

at
ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin
Saturday, October 26
6 pm

In this collection of stories and illustrations, Anna M. Szaflarski examines the subject of violence, in particular as it is experienced through the female body. Beginning with an autobiographical experience, the story triggers a dissociative state that plunges the book in and out of imaginary worlds and associative narrative threads.

You are warmly invited to the launch of
Mai Abu ElDahab and Benjamin Seror
Oblique Time With Claude Parent

at
ELGARAFI BOM DIA
Linienstraße 158, 10115 Berlin
Friday, September 13
7 pm

On the occasion of the release Oblique Time with Claude Parent, the artist Benjamin Seror and the curator Mai Abu ElDahab will present a visual trajectory of the development of Claude Parent’s drawing practice as formative to his architectural imaginary.

Over six decades, architect Claude Parent (Paris, 1923-2016) developed an experimental body of work (both through construction and drawing) that led him to the conclusion that the most effective way to build a city would be based on the function oblique – designing architecture only using slanted floors. This seemingly simple gesture would dramatically change how we think and use the spaces we inhabit. The book covers two years when Benjamin Seror and Mai Abu ElDahab interviewed Parent about his adventurous professional life: From his collaboration with Paul Virilio, to his Tour de France promoting the oblique, to his controversial engagement with the French state to design nuclear power stations. Most importantly, the publication and presentation, introduce Parent’s passion for risk-taking as the elementary tool needed to bring architecture out of its restrictive conventions.

The publication of the book was made possible with the support of the Cnap and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Art.