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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · 7h

🌟 New release!

Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.

This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.

🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Another glorious day at #Recreo Valencia. Saturday 4 Oct, 11-15 and 16-21 hr. Come and chat with Astrid and/or browse through our and our neighbours’ books!

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Friday 3 Oct, 16 hr: Start of #Recreo València, come and browse in our brand-new and other titles!

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 14

Currently at the GLUE Art Book Fair in London!

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

✈️📚 Next stop: Queens! Valiz is packing up our books and heading to MoMA PS1 for the New York Art Book Fair 2025

📍 MoMA PS1, Queens, New York
🎟 Tickets & info: nyabf2025.printedmatterartbookfairs.org

We can’t wait to share our latest and classic titles with the global art book community.

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

Beyond vision: Exhibiting for Multiple Senses brings a lively exchange on multisensory art and curating to GLUE / ICA London

📖 The book is available during the GLUE bookfair at the Valiz booth
🗓 13 September, 14:30–16:00 | ICA London
🎟 Free entry, please book in advance → www.ica.art/book/601001

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

✨ !OUT NOW! ✨
We’re excited to announce Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies, (editor/author Eva Fotiadi).

Available now:https://valiz.nl/en/publications/exhibiting-for-multiple-senses

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

✨ Yesterday we celebrated the launch of Moments of Meaning-Making by Mieke Bal. It was a special evening: warm and personal, yet also engaging with the political and social themes that run through Mieke’s work.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the speakers for their inspiring contributions

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

On Wednesday 10 September, our friends at the Wim Crouwel Instituut and Pakhuis de Zwijger present a new edition of It’s All Graphic:

'Between Archive and Urgency'

📍 20:00 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

More info and tickets: dezwijger.nl/programma/be...

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join us for the launch of Mieke Bal’s newest and most personal book.

📅 Monday, 9 September 2025
🕔 17:00–18:30
📍 SPUI25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam
🎁 The book will be available for purchase at the event.

RSVP here:https://spui25.nl/programma/moments-of-meaning-making/make_reservation

valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

💧 New release: Water Works, Ecosocial Design

Through essays and case studies, Water Works explores how we might reimagine ecosocial relationships between people, organisms, and the systems that sustain (or threaten) them.

valiz.nl/en/publicati...

@henriettewaal.bsky.social

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

📚 Valiz in the wild, show us where our books wander!

Spotted a Valiz book on your trip?

📸 Snap a photo and tag @valizbooks.bsky.social in your post!

🏆 At the end of August, we’ll select the 3 most unique and surprising locations. Winners receive a Valiz publication of their choice (if available).

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

We gaan onderweg!!

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today marks Keti Koti, a day of remembrance, reflection, and resistance.

We aim to contribute to this ongoing dialogue through books that engage with decolonial thinking, collective memory, and cultural accountability. And we stand in solidarity with those who commemorate, question, and resist.

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 25

Turn the page on your Sunday plans!
On Sunday 29 June, Huis van het Boek transforms its garden into a vibrant open-air book market, and Valiz will be there, represented by Jesse Presse.

☀️ Flip, browse, talk, and buy something special.
📍 12:00–17:00 | Prinsessegracht 30, The Hague
🎟 Free entry

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 24

Join us for the launch of Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating by Mark Kremer at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS.

📅 Friday 27 June
🕕 18:00 walk-in → 18:30 conversation with Daniel(le) Vorthuys → 19:30 drinks & encounters
📍 Singel 372, Amsterdam
Entrance is free

valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking back on our weekend at the Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the Warburg Institute, London, where the heating was stuck on high but the atmosphere was full of kind people, thoughtful conversations, and a calm curiosity. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table!

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 21

📚 Sunshine, books, and budding readers!
We are having a wonderful time at I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel. Thank you to everyone who stopped by.
Special shout-out to the tiniest visitor diving into ‘Let’s Become Fungal’ 🍄💚

valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 21

Last day at #ineverread in the Kaserne in Basel Saturday until 6 pm). We have 15 books left (of maaaaany): come and grab your chance and buy one (or more) of these last copies with a bit of discount!
Or visit Eli of Valiz at #Biblioteka at the #Warburginstitute in London.

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hot hot hot, books and people (who read a lot). Come and join us at @ineverread, Kaserne, Basel, Wednesday until 9, Thursday-Friday 3 to 9, Saturday until 6.

valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

📚 Books with a mind of their own
Valiz joins the first-ever Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the iconic Warburg Institute in London!

Biblioteka Art Book Fair
📍 The Warburg Institute, London, UK
📅 20–21 June 2025
🕒 Fri 14:00–19:00 · Sat 11:00–18:00
🎟 Free entry

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

✨ Basel bound! ✨
The art world gathers during Art Basel, and Valiz joins its energetic, artful counterpoint: I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel

📍 Kaserne Basel, Klybeckstrasse 1b
CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
📅 18–21 June 2025
🕒 Wed 18:00–22:00 · Thu & Fri 15:00–21:00 · Sat 12:00–18:00
🎟 Free entry

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 14

🌀 Stacked with ideas, spines colourful and ready to mingle, Valiz is live at Miss Read Berlin!

📍Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
🕒 Fri 14:00–19:00 | Sat & Sun 12:00–19:00
#missreadberlin #artbookfair #valizbooks #publishingaspractice

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valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

Coming Father’s Day, we’re thinking about fathers who mother (and mothers who father).

👀 Mothering Myths unpacks the narratives surrounding motherhood and the structures that sustain them. What happens when we question who gets to mother, how, and under what conditions?

Available at www.valiz.nl

valizbooks.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

📚 Valiz has packed up the book boxes and is heading to Berlin!
Come see us at Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Fair 2025, where publishers, artists, writers and book lovers converge.

🗓️ 14–16 June 2025
📍 HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
🕓 Fri 17:00–21:00 | Sat & Sun 12:00–19:00