It’s that time of the year again ;) - brace yourself and wear sensitive shoes, our special bookshop for Paris Internationale will be open from Wednesday 16 to Sunday 20 October, on the 5th floor - no elevator but free entrance of course. Here's a whole program for your week !

First, we are very happy to welcome Terraterra’s ceramic artists’ editions on our table: Zoe Williams, Judith Hopf and Daniele Milvio’s artworks have been produced in earthenware workshops in Puglia during hot summers.

Their inner heat will nourish your table too. Wonderful lights and seating / browsing surfaces are provided by artists Mélanie Matranga and Laëtitia Badaut-Haussmann… bref, it’s worth the climb.

And of course it all comes topped with a crispy public program, both on- and off-site. Double check the venues!

Thursday 17 October
3 pm at Paris Internationale
5th floor: 17 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris
Book launch : Cosima Von Bonin, Songs for Gay Dogs
with Clémentine Proby and a reading by Estelle Hoy.

Published to accompany the German artist’s comprehensive exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg, Cosima von Bonin’s new monograph Songs for Gay Dogs is a book spanning her work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references, designed by her long-time friend and collaborator Yvonne Quirmbach. With texts by Bettina Steinbrügge, Estelle Hoy, Clémentine Proby, Clara Drechsler, Dirk von Lowtzow, Mary Messhausen, and proddy produzentin.

Thursday 17 October
7 pm at After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry, 75010 Paris
Book launch and reading: Bruno Zhu, The September Issue

Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Bruno Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. In 2015, Zhu included a prototype edition in his exhibition New Arrivals at FOAM Amsterdam: a wall calendar depicting the artist’s mother in a series of Chinese glamour photoshoots. Almost a decade after its making, 5b is proud to publish the work in a new format, devised in close collaboration with the artist.

Friday 18 October
7 pm at After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry, 75010 Paris
Book launch : Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960 – 1991
Dominique Gonzales-Foerster in conversation with Michelle Cotton

Radical Software: Women, Art, Computing 1960-1991 surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists that worked in an inherently computational way. Published by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’ArtModerne Grand-Duc Jean, Kunsthalle Wien and Verlag der Buchhandlug Walther und Franz König, this extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, and the exhibition’s curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes twenty-seven new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.
image *Charlotte Johannesson, I'm NO ANGEL, 1972–73/2017

Samedi 19 Octobre
16h à Paris Internationale
5th floor: 17 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris
Lancement : Jagna Ciuchta, Je dilaté, images liquides et plantes carnivores
en présence de Jagna Ciuchta, Maud Jacquin, Mathilde Belouali, Emilie Renard et Martha Salimbeni.

Je dilaté, images liquides et plantes carnivores reflète la logique collective, réflexive et évolutive du travail de Ciuchta. Il s’ouvre sur un essai visuel qui, en combinant des contributions d’artistes invité·e·x·s avec des images tirées des archives photographiques de Ciuchta, réitère l’expérience du partage d’auctorialité qui caractérise son travail. Il rassemble ensuite six nouveaux essais qui examinent les moments clés de son travail, son processus, ses méthodologies et son éthique de travail, ainsi que vingt portfolios d’images organisés de manière à refléter la singularité de chacun des projets de l’artiste. Publié par Mousse Publishing & Bétonsalon.