VOLUMES 2022
26th & 27th November 2022
Zentralwäscherei

The fair is free and open to the public.
All workshops are free and without booking.

Opening hours:
Saturday, 26 November: 1-8pm
Sunday, 27 November: 12-7pm

We are very happy to invite you to our first two-day event since 2020!
You can expect a small program of workshops, exhibitions and interventions alongside a great selection of long-time publishing friends and new positions in the fair section, showcasing and selling their printed matter directly to the visitors.

We’re especially happy to welcome this year a group of publishers and artists from Bangladesh as our special guests.
All the submissions to the VOLUMES Award 2022 will be exhibitied and the winners chosen by a public voting will be revealed.

We very much look forward to bringing together publishers, artists and book lovers at Zentralwäscherei Zürich. There will also be food, drinks and music, and you might find a few original presents!

Address:
Zentralwäschrei Zürich
Neue Hard 12
8005 Zürich

About VOLUMES
VOLUMES is a non-profit organisation and collective created in 2013 in Zürich. It is ran by Anne-Laure Franchette, Patrizia Mazzei and Gloria Wismer. The collective aims to support the various facets of international art publishing and introduce it to a larger audience in Switzerland through series of events and an ongoing research agenda.

Operating in various locations, VOLUMES organises large and small book fair events, which showcase the production of local and international independent publishers as well as self-editing artists who use small means of production. Exploring the creativity gravitating around the practices of art publishing, the collective regularly invites performances, installations, workshops, symposiums or projections within their events. In 2020 they launched their annual Book Award, to further showcase and support recent independent publications. They started alongside the VOLUMES Book Club, a series of talks, gathering people and books in a series of intimate events.

Since 2013, VOLUMES has also built a collection of art books, zines and magazines, thanks to the many donations received annually for their international open call exhibition. Taking this library as a site of investigation, VOLUMES has been researching new forms for organising and understanding the paradigm of the archive and the challenge of categories and inventories. To do so, they invite external voices to interact with what is there but also to look at what is not there and could be added, archiving the collection through curated constellations of publications which get showcased online, through talks and exhibition displays.

The archive is much bigger than what is visible online so please get in touch if you would like to make an appointment to visit it. We also happily accept donations of zines and printed matter at any time of the year. Feel free to mail publications to us.

About the space
Zentralwäscherei, a non-commercial cultural and meeting space in Zurich's Kreis 5, is run by the eponymous association since 2020. They create spaces for encounters, art, culture and gastronomy. Zentralwäscherei is a place for discussions, for the public, for consumption, for dance, to present oneself, to celebrate life, to question and to have fun.