Bergen Art Book Fair 2026
Åpning på Landmark
20:00
Kus (LV): 18+
As Kuš! turned 18 last summer, we thought it was time to explore some adult content with the release of the comics anthology š! #58 ’18+’. “Comics are not just for kids anymore,” we’ve heard. Giving artists the space to create comics without censorship, we’ve received some rather explicit content. But it’s so much more than that. Being an adult has many more facets, as you’ll be able to explore in this book.
Crisis Editions (US): Half-light: Notes on Violence from the Trans Underworld
Half-light: Notes on Violence from the Trans Underworld” emerges in the wake of rising social and political violence against trans communities. When trans life becomes a form of death-in-waiting, what can we learn from making kin in the underworld? Poisoned wetlands, violent landscapes, and trans ancestors gather in the essays; marked by their ongoing proximity to harm, their perspectives offer queer communities urgent strategies of resistance through opacity, disorientation, and national reckoning. Half-light is an outcome of a two-year-long performance and image-making project through the Centre for Near Life Research.
Falschrum Books (DE): Forms of Migration: Art and Literature from Arab Im/migrant Context
“Forms of Migration vol. 2: Art and Literature from Arab Im/migrant Contexts” collects a diversity of Arab perspectives in Im/migrant art, literature, music, architecture, cinema, and other forms of expression. The presentation introduces the concept of the series based on the first volume, published in 2022, followed by a reading of an excerpt from an essay for the forthcoming volume 2. The essay, entitled “Hasan’s Story: How Migration Really Doesn’t Work,” recounts the story of a Yemeni father of four children trying to escape his war-torn country. At the same time, it is the story of an unlikely friendship that spans continents, languages, and cultural differences.
Bergen kunsthall (NO): The Sámi Architecture Library
Girjegumpi
The Sámi Architecture Library
Joar Nango
The book originates from the Festival Exhibition 2020 and includes texts—both in English and Sámi—by Mathias Danbolt, Candice Hopkins, Tone Huse, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Sofia Singler, Sigbjørn Skåden, and Axel Wieder.
In addition, the publication is richly illustrated with images from the exhibition itself at Bergen Kunsthall, as well as from the preparatory process and from various related projects that Nango has worked on. With deep practical and material knowledge, tradition-rooted craftsmanship, aesthetic conviction, and a touch of humour, the artist and architect Nango succeeds in bringing together the past and present of his Sámi culture in installations and individual works that speak to both their surroundings and the audience in an unpretentious and direct manner.
Criminalization of Zines and Dissent Under Fascism
As fascism continues to run rampant in the US under Trump and ICE is kidnapping people off the streets without any due process, we must turn our attention to how the act of dissent is being labeled domestic terrorism and how zines fit into the equation.
Hello from Taipei Art Book Fair
An introduction to Taipei Art Book Fair, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2026.
