▀▀▀▄▄▄ SPRINT26 | CONTENTS | ART BOOK FAIR + PUBLIC PROGRAM | 27–28–29 NOV
SPRINT MILANO ART BOOK FAIR 2026
+ SURPRIZE AWARD
PUBLISHERS LIST 📚 → HERE
From Friday, Nov. 27, the 14th edition of the entire ABF will be activated in a single location. More than 230 local and international publishers will join us from 35 countries to present zines, books, magazines, and vice versa, bridging self-publishing, independent houses, and artists' projects, with editions involving different languages – photography, graphic design, illustration, typography, criticism, research, poetry – in a polyphonic rhythm between image, sign, and word and everything in between.
Within this contemporary dimension, there are also several voices dealing in rare/second-hand material to fuel a cross-disciplinary approach to collecting for both experts or absolute beginners.
During the opening night will be announced the selected recipient for the award SURPRIZE Supports Publishing Practice, the fifth edition of the prize open to all ABF participants. The recognition contributes to the production of a new editorial project to be printed by 2027, promoting research and independent experimentation.
Starting this year, SPRINT is hosted at Dropcity, a Centre for Architecture and Design occupying a series of street-level tunnels beneath the tracks of Milan Central Station.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
OPENING NIGHT ONLY
SCREENING | FORTUNATE RICERCHE
by Barokthegreat ITA
'Where the lines have been drawn, the series Fortunate Ricerche emerges from the surface. An audiovisual project structured into ten concise episodes. The series begins with the discovery of fragments of ancient glass, varying in color, shape, and craftsmanship. Throughout the chapters, the sound and choreographic composition echoes the images of the fragments, overlaying archaeological photographs and the backdrops of skatepark ramps and slopes, in a relationship of similarities'.
The research also takes the form of an artist's edition produced by SPRINT, printed in Risograph by The Riso Club, which will be launched during the ABF.
BAROKTHEGREAT is a group founded in 2008 by performer and choreographer Sonia Brunelli and musician and composer Leila Gharib, based in Verona. Their practice stages glimpses of interior worlds, creating imaginary scenarios that unfold along the tensions between sound composition and choreography. Architecture and space become living objects and are treated as active elements of the performance.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
EXHIBITION | MORNING ANXIETY
by Guadalupe Rosales US
Following the collaboration in 2018, SPRINT welcomes back artist and archivist Guadalupe Rosales, whose practice gathers collective storytelling to bring forward what the public record and official memory tend to leave out. Departing from their new publishing projects, their contribution traces cultural narratives of marginalization and resilience across bodies, objects, walls, and public space.
The book East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood [2026] is at once an altar to a past era and a map toward the future. Meanwhile, Tumbados: Lowriding Memories and Cruising Futures [2026] functions as a candid, timely celebration of lowrider culture, examining the politics of car cruising through the Latinx and diasporic experience. Accompanying East of the River is the zine Roll Call – designed by Bob Dominguez – featuring paths connected to the ’90s Californian rave scene. Together, these titles contribute to exploring Rosales' key concepts and their dense multimedia archive.
A limited edition of multiples in the form of screen-printed T-shirts is made in collaboration with Paisaboys, project founded by Javi Bandera and Joey Barba celebrating and expanding on Mexican culture while also questioning aspects of it.
Guadalupe Rosales is a multidisciplinary artist who draws on archives to create immersive and sensorial spaces that activate memory and evoke collective experience. They are best known for creating community-generated projects @veteranas_and_rucas and @map_pointz that respond to the under/misrepresentation and historical erasure of Latinx communities. Their work has been shown at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, the Dallas Museum of Art, Haus der Kunst, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture and 61st Biennale d’arte di Venezia.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
EXHIBITION | ANTIPODE IN COLLABORATION
WITH COMPULSIVE ARCHIVE: PUNK ACROSS THE BORDERS Underground and DIY cultures from SWANA and beyondby Antipode Archive TUR
& Compulsive Archive ITA
ANTIPODE is a self-organized and independent zine-book series documenting underground punk, hardcore, and DIY cultures from different regions of the world. Each volume focuses on a specific geography, building a collective documentation through the voices of those directly involved – bands, labels, collectives, fanzines, and artists – without external mediation.
Rooted in an anti-colonial approach, ANTIPODE brings attention to scenes that remain underrepresented or misrepresented within UK - and US - centred histories of punk: contributors speak in their own words, through their own languages and forms of expression.
For SPRINT26, ANTIPODE in collaboration with Compulsive Archive presents records, cassettes, photographs and videos from contemporary communities across SWANA [Southwest Asia and North Africa] and its diasporas. Extending the book series into space, the exhibition follows the material traces and transnational connections through which these cultures circulate.
ANTIPODE is an independent publishing project and label initiated in Istanbul by Doğa Sultan. It works across zines, visual culture, events and music releases within punk and hardcore networks.
COMPULSIVE ARCHIVE is a Milan-based archival space by Giulia Vallicelli, dedicated to researching, preserving and publicly activating lesser-known histories of punk publishing, with a focus on Italian Riot Grrrl and Queercore fanzines from the 1990s and 2000s.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
EXHIBITION | THE BIKINI ABC
Cold Type, Hot Politics, and Feminist Approaches to Type, by Bikini Books PRT
A journey animated by the dialogue between recent and forthcoming publications from Bikini Books. Fem Pub: Cold Type, Hot Politics 1960–1990 brings together fifty-nine feminist magazines, from Argentina to Zimbabwe and beyond: a small selection from an explosive print culture fuelled as much by analog technologies as by the energy of the streets. Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type celebrates a decade of research, design, and community-building, exploring the intersections of culture, language, business practices, technology, and typography. Finally, ABC of Feminist Publishing – first published in 2024 by Éditions Trouble and forthcoming from Bikini Books in 2027 – is conceived as a friendly glossary of ninety entries, mapping the many political gestures and actions, large and small, that help bring feminist voices into the world.
Bikini Books is a feminist design publisher based in Porto, founded in 2023, that publishes critical, accessible, and finely crafted nonfiction at the intersection of cultural history, journalism, and creative writing. They also host regular workshops and events on design politics.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
EXHIBITION | THE MOST BEAUTIFULL
SWISS BOOKS
in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books will display the seventeen titles awarded on the occasion of the prestigious competition held by the Federal Office of Culture that brings together the best of Swiss publishing. Each year, the award celebrates the work of the most talented book designers and their outstanding achievements in book production and art, highlighting and promoting high-quality works that reflect contemporary trends. A traveling exhibition is organized annually in Switzerland and abroad as a promotional measure to share and consolidate skills related to book design. What is a Swiss book? A product is considered a Swiss book if it meets at least one of the following three criteria: The book was designed by a Swiss designer, the publishing/printing house has its headquarters in Switzerland.
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2025 – awarded 2026 list → HERE
The books will be on view during SPRINT Milano ABF hosted at Dropcity and after will move to Ten Thousand Feet, an independent creative studio and a physical space where intimate events related to design, publishing, photography, and illustration take place.
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
01–15 DEC
Mon–Fri 11 AM–5 PM
Sat. & Public Holidays 2–6 PM
Sun. Closed
📍Ten Thousand Feet
Via Filippino Lippi 10
EXHIBITION | XERRORX
from Copy–Art to Copy–Shop and viceversa
The first electrostatic image dates back to 1903, when the Italian physicist Augusto Righi impressed his hand onto an ebonite plate, likely using India ink as a toner, via ionizing radiation. However, it was only in 1938 – thanks to Chester Carlson and his assistant Otto Kornei in Queens, NY – that the first xerographic photocopy was created, using an electrophotography process involving a sulfur-coated metal plate, a light source, and a handkerchief to make the copy.
Refining this technique required the next 20 years before it could be optimized for the market, culminating in the 1959 launch of the Xerox 914 automatic black-and-white model and the 1968 introduction of the first 3M color copier. The spread of xerography, gave the art and self-publishing scenes the opportunity to expand and fuel new connections. This movement navigated a fine line between the allure of a forward-thinking new market and the limitations imposed both by the machines themselves and by copy shops – which often, by any means necessary, kept customers far away from the 'glass plate', with very few exceptions.
Bruno Munari, Seth Siegelaub, Pati Hill, Valentina Berardinone, PostMachina Group, Gianni Castagnoli, Giacomo Spazio, Vittore Baroni, Piermario Ciani, Stefano Tamburini, E.F.Higgins III, Buster Cleveland, and The International Society of Copier Artists [I.S.C.A.] are among the names that inaugurated and/or animated a scene that sequentially linked and intertwined with other practices and languages across photography, video, comics, fax–mail–body–art, computer graphics, and sound – sparking a new way to interpret authorship and the distribution of printed materials.
A special installation in dialogue with Giandomenico Carpentieri [Union Edition, Rome] completes the cosmology of references towards 'a machine with sunglasses' [Rankxerox]. But perhaps it all started in Altamira, as Umberto Eco suggests within the pages of 80's Xerochromes by Gianni Castagnoli [1979].
27 NOV | 6–9 PM
28–29 NOV | 11 AM–8 PM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 84
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 2.00 PM | ITA
EXTREME MUSIC
Polemical pamphlet: Anarcho-Punk
on the ruins of the Communist Revolution (counterculture and music included)
w/ Helena Velena 🔗 Viaindustriae
Presentation of the publication that won SURPRIZE 2025. This pamphlet consists of two texts: Why Italian Music, Today, Sucks faithfully reproduces a performance lecture delivered by Helena Velena during the 9th edition of the Holidays Festival in 2024, while Extreme Music: From the '77 Protest to Sonic Disillusionment expands on its themes, retracing the relationship between extreme music, countercultures, and the Italian socio-political context starting from 1977, up to the progressive dismantling of music's antagonistic power and its ability to act as a space for opposition. Dividing the two texts is a selection of archival materials and documents from the underground scene, alongside books, magazines, and albums cited in the text [sourced from the Viaindustriae archive]. Navigating music, publishing, and the socio-political context, Velena constructs an anti-narrative that highlights the cultural tensions and transformations of those years, the echoes of which still resonate today.
Helena Velena is an Italian singer, record producer, transgender activist, writer, and counterculture theorist. Involved in the punk movement since the late 1970s, she first founded RAF Punk and later Attack Punk Records, through which she released albums by some of the most fundamental bands in the Italian punk and hardcore scene, including the early records of CCCP Fedeli alla linea. Towards the end of the 1980s, her research radicalized around cyberpunk and transgender themes. At a very young age, she participated in the 1977 movement in Bologna and the experience of Radio Alice.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 3.00 PM | ENG
THIS BOOK IS A GATHERING
w/Nina Paim BRA & Sera van de Water NE
🔗 Bikini Books PRT
What if, instead of copies sold or number of citations, we measured books by the bonds they help form? Bikini Books’ latest project, Fem Pub: Cold Type, Hot Politics 1960–1990, brings together fifty-nine feminist periodicals from thirty-nine different countries, introduced by forty-nine authors. Its 336 pages, filled with thousands of images, came together thanks to an extraordinary number of contributors, archivists, historians, designers, friends, institutions, and individuals who believed in the project's worth. In this talk, co-editors Nina Paim and Sera van de Water will shed light on the entire process: how the book was conceived, financed, edited, designed, produced, and now marketed and circulated, but most importantly, how they see editing as a form of gathering..
Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, curator, editor, and publisher at Bikini Books, based in Porto, Portugal. She has co-edited and co-curated several exhibitions, events, and books, including Department of Non-Binaries [Sharjah, 2018], Design Struggles [Valiz, 2021], Etceteras: Feminist Festival of Publishing and Design [Porto, 2023], and Comunoteca [2025, Porto Design Biennale]. A three-time Swiss Design Awards recipient, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London [UAL] in 2024.
Sera van de Water is a Dutch graphic designer whose practice explores the roles, limits, and messy histories of design. She holds a BA in Graphic Design [2024] and an MA in Design in Sociopolitical Context [2025] from Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp. She has assisted with publishing and editing for Bikini Books and worked as an editorial designer on collaborative projects, including Studio Saudari’s The Jungle [2025] and Temptress #6: The Money Issue [2026].
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 4.00 PM | ENG
COMPULSIVE ARCHIVE x ANTIPODE:
Archives Across the Borders
Conversation between Giulia Vallicelli
& Doğa Sultan TUR
The talk brings together the two researchers at the centre of this collaboration, exploring what it means to build an archive from below: outside institutions, outside mainstream publishing, outside the geographies that usually define cultural memory.
Giulia Vallicelli and Doğa Sultan will discuss their respective practices – one rooted in the italian feminist and queer punk scene of the 1990s–2000s, the other in the contemporary underground of South-West Asia, North Africa, and their diasporas – tracing points of contact, difference, and shared methodology.
Questions the conversation will address include: How do you document a scene that actively resists documentation? What does the physical object – the fanzine, the cassette, the poster – carry that digital reproduction cannot? How does geography, language and diaspora shape the archive and what it can hold?
Doğa Sultan (Istanbul, 2002) is an artist working across textile and garment design, street art, graffiti and independent publishing, rooted in punk and hardcore countercultures. She started making zines at twelve, inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement. With Antipode, she documents underground scenes underrepresented in Western cultural discourse, on anti-colonial principles: contributors speak in their own voices and languages.
Compulsive Archive is a Milan-based archival project founded and curated by Giulia Vallicelli (Rome, 1979). It researches and preserves Italian Riot Grrrl and Queercore fanzines from the 1990s and 2000s, treating feminist and queer punk culture as living historical material. Through exhibitions, zine readings and residencies at its Milan studio, it keeps the archive active. Part of the SPRINT ecosystem since its early editions, it shares the festival’s view of independent publishing and DIY culture as political resistance.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 5.00 PM | ENG
CRUISING PAVILION:
Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures
w/Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou FR 🔗 Spector Books DE
What happens to architecture when desire becomes a way of navigating the city? Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures [Spector Books, 2026] examines how cruising has appropriated, transformed, and produced spaces subverting the libidinal cartography and the use of the modern metropolis – from parks, public toilets and streets to bars, clubs, bathhouses and dating apps.
In this conference, editors Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou discuss the book’s history, case studies and the queer spatial practices that challenge the organisation of urban life.
Charles Teyssou is a curator based in Paris & Artistic Director of Stavanger Secession, Norway. He has co-curated projects at Centre Pompidou, Bourse de Commerce and LUMA Arles, as well as Art Basel Paris Conversations. He co-edited Cruising Pavilion [2026].
Pierre-Alexandre Mateos is an independent curator, art critic a& editor based in Paris. He has co-curated projects at Centre Pompidou, Bourse de Commerce and LUMA Arles, as well as Art Basel Paris Conversations. He co-edited Cruising Pavilion [2026].
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 6.00 PM | ENG
MATERIALISING THE INTANGIBLE
w/Guadalupe Rosales US
🔗 Veteranas & Rucas / Map Pointz US
Who decides what deserves to be remembered? This is the radical question that Rosales has long asked through their practice. They answer lies in what official archives leave out: family photographs, photocopied flyers, snapshots taken in a bedroom or a parking lot after the party.
Raised in 1990s Boyle Heights, they moved to New York after losing loved ones to violence. Far from home, a stack of photos from her youth became a starting point, and two Instagram archives were born, now living communities. @veteranas_and_rucas celebrates the women of Los Angeles, while @map_pointz maps the party crew scene and club culture of the era. Between the collective Latin@/x and the rave world, their practice joins two universes that share the need to invent safe spaces and forms of belonging where none existed.
At SPRINT26 they will build a conversation on how an archive born from personal need became a shared practice, and how the book can be a tool for building collective memory and imagining possible futures, by presenting two new books and a zine: East of the River. A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood [2026] a memoir weaving prose, photographs, and flyers to tell of adolescence in East LA, sisterhood, and coming to terms with her queerness; and Tumbados. Lowriding Memories and Cruising Futures [2026], which looks at lowriders as art and memory, and at cruising as a political act in public space. Roll Call zine completes the picture, bringing their research into the DIY publishing spirit.
Guadalupe Rosales is a multidisciplinary artist who draws on archives to create immersive and sensorial spaces that activate memory and evoke collective experience. They are best known for creating community-generated projects that respond to the under/misrepresentation and historical erasure of Latin@/x communities. Their work has been shown at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, the Dallas Museum of Art, Haus der Kunst, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and 61st Biennale d’arte di Venezia.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SATURDAY 28 NOV | 7.00 PM | ENG
PARAPRAXIS: Publishing as a Practice of Knowledge Production w/Aurélia Niat Toundji & Salwat Idi 🔗 cahiers manufactoriel FR
Parapraxis is a critical theory of publishing developed by Aurélia Niat Toundji and Salwat Idi, founders and directors of cahiers manufactoriel. It treats publishing not as the end of research, but as a mode of exploration in which editing, assembling, and sequencing produce knowledge in circulation. Rooted in African oral and performative traditions, parapraxis understands knowledge as relational and in motion rather than fixed. It embraces non-linear and rhizomatic thinking, where meaning emerges through constellations of texts and images.
manufactoriel + cahiers manufactoriel: founded by Aurélia Niat Toundji [based in Garges-lès-Gonesse, France] and Salwat Idi [based in Moroni, Comoros], manufactoriel is a France-based research bureau dedicated to African and Black visual cultures, contemporary art, and style. It brings together critical, editorial and artistic research. Its publishing house, cahiers manufactoriel, produces artists' books, theoretical works, and experimental publications. An editorial gallery [an exhibition and research space where publishing meets museography] is in development, and its practice is extending toward museography, museology, and design.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SUNDAY 29 NOV | 2.00 PM | ITA
LE NEMESIACHE: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals
w/Sonia D'Alto 🔗 Mousse Publishing
Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals [Mousse Publishing, 2025], edited by Sonia D’Alto, is the first monograph dedicated to Le Nemesiache, a group of feminist, pacifist artists from Naples. Founded by the Neapolitan artist Lina Mangiacapre in 1970, the collective was primarily active across Naples, Rome, and Paris for four decades. This bilingual volume [Ita/Eng] brings together previously unpublished documents, photographs, and posters from the group. The archival material is accompanied by newly commissioned essays exploring the collective's history and its cosmological, creative, and political practices. These texts feature contributions by Chiara Bottici, Federica Bueti, Cairo Clarke, Sonia D’Alto, Arnisa Zeqo, Giulia Damiani, Giusi Palomba, Elvira Vannini, and Giovanna Zapperi. Published by Mousse Publishing, the book was produced in collaboration with the Marea Art Project and supported by the Italian Council.
Sonia D’Alto is a writer, curator, and lecturer. Her research explores the relationships between memory, myth, and cosmological imagery, with a specific focus on feminist histories, practices within and beyond archives, and performative and audiovisual languages. She has written for e-flux Journal, NERO, Flash Art, and Mousse. She edited a publication on the poetic practice of Tiziana La Melia for Archive Books and teaches Curatorial Studies at KASK in Ghent. She holds a PhD from HFBK Hamburg.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SUNDAY 29 NOV | 3.00–8.00 PM
HANGOVER TAKEOVER
w/Vincent Grange & Sandra Cane, Marco Pezzotta (RM) & Michele Bertolino, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Alfredo Aceto & Milovan Ferronato, Moderated by Lucredia Calabrò Visconti & Barbara Casavecchia 🔗 Istituto Svizzero
Hangover Takeover is a series of talks and screenings dedicated to five books published in 2026, connected to the Istituto’s exhibition programme and artist residencies.
Conceived as a marathon, the series brings together a range of artistic practices, linked by recurring themes such as queer forms of resistance, the ironic manipulation of images, and the rewriting of places and alternative histories. Moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Barbara Casavecchia, Hangover Takeover unfolds through a succession of presentations, accompanied by hot drinks and biscuits to help ease the after-effects of the weekend.
Vincent Grange presents The House of Dorothy, a book stemming from his eponymous 2025 exhibition at Istituto Svizzero in Milan. Marco Pezzotta (RM), former fellow, presents Decay, an anthology tracing the last ten years of RM’s work. Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present silent speeches, a publication surveying the artistic duo’s career, produced on the occasion of their exhibition how we always survived at Istituto Svizzero in Rome in 2025. Alfredo Aceto, former fellow, introduces a new monograph dedicated to his work and Fastcash, an artist’s book for children exploring the narrative possibilities of repetition and pattern. To close the marathon, Giorgia Basch presents Hexenkurse, reflecting on the radical contribution to art history and feminism represented by the practice of Doris Stauffer, whose work is currently featured in the group exhibition Outlaws at Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
3.00-3.45 PM | ENG
Vincent Grange, The House of Dorothy,
Ed. by Mousse 2026
Vincent Grange in conversation with Sandra Cane
Moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti
Conceived as an exit inventory of Vincent Grange’s The House of Dorothy (2025), after its exhibition at Istituto Svizzero in Milan, the publication offers a more intimate reading of the project. The work The House of Dorothy (2025) takes the form of a spatial manifesto. It expresses both the joy, pride, and extravagance of queer cultures, while also reflecting the fear, vulnerability, and threats that continue to weigh upon them.
The artist and Sandra Cane, one of the publication’s contributors, discuss the queer spaces and people that inspired the architecture of the House, in a conversation moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.
– Vincent Grange is a Geneva-based visual artist. Drawing on LGBTQIA+ history, queer identities and speculative storytelling, he creates worlds populated by fictional characters and symbolic artefacts that challenge social norms and power structures. Grange co-founded Collectif Kimera, which runs Espace Dukat, a contemporary art space in Geneva. He also co-founded Souplex Atelier with his colleague and friend Tanguy Troubat, where he works as a set designer and art director.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
3.45-4.30 PM | ITA
RM, Decay, Ed. by DISTANZ 2026
REGISTER → HERE ✎
Marco Pezzotta in conversation with Michele Bertolino
Moderated by Barbara Casavecchia
The work of RM homes on the intersection between sexuality, consumerism, identity, and physicality. In sprawling sculptural and installation projects, RM scrutinizes social and political responses to stigmatized sexually transmitted diseases and infections, up to and including the stigma of death. Decay marks the tenth anniversary of the project. The book’s formal design recalls albums for soccer fans, a medium that unleashed a craze for collecting and trading stickers when it came on the market in the 1960s.
– RM Marco Pezzotta is the third iteration of a project launched in 2015 under the name Real Madrid and continued from 2022 to 2025 as RM. His practice explores the ambiguity of value, loneliness, and the sense of comfort associated with social class and, naturally, decay. He has presented solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Auto Italia, London; CEC Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva; Swiss Institute, NY; and Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. RM received the Swiss Art Award in 2018 and 2023.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
4.30-5.15 PM | ENG
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz,
silent speeches, Ed. by NERO 2026
Screening presented by Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz. The book was realised on the occasion of their exhibition how we always survived at Istituto Svizzero in Rome in 2025, featuring four essays by authors Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, André Lepecki, Noemi Michel, and Irene Revell.
The screening sharing insights into Boudry/Lorenz experimental practice, which brings together noisy silences, whistle-blowing, protest, telepathic transmission, deep listening, non-binary echoes, and other queer objects.
– Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. They produce installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their work has been recently shown at MUAC Mexico City, 35th São Paulo Art Biennial, Crystal Palace/Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre Pompidou Paris, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery London, New Museum New York, Coreana Museum of Art Seoul, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Kunstmuseum Basel, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin and the 58th Biennale d’arte di Venezia [Swiss Pavilion].
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
5.15-6.00 PM | ITA
Alfredo Aceto, Alfredo Aceto,
Ed. by JRP|Editions 2026
Alfredo Aceto, Fastcash, Ed. by eeeditions 2026
Alfredo Aceto in conversation with Milovan Farronato
Moderated by Barbara Casavecchia
Alfredo Aceto is the first monograph on Alfredo Aceto’s work offering a comprehensive overview of his manifold practice, across sculpture, installation, video, photography, and drawing. At the core of his work lies the desire to explore and create connections between reality and the imagination, fiction and autobiography, fantasy and specific obsessions.
In Fastcash, artist books for children, Aceto uses found images of watches, which he manipulates by cutting, pasting, flipping, and shifting them. Sometimes they are transformed into strange objects, while at other times they become repeated patterns, offering oddities to explore.
The author and Milovan Farronato, monograph’s contributor, think about Aceto’s practice and interest in the nature of the object, which explores its attributes in order to expand its narrative possibilities, in a conversation moderated by Barbara Casavecchia.
– Alfredo Aceto is a Swiss, Italian born visual artist based between Paris and Geneva. He studied Fine Arts at ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne), MSA (The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles), and ENSBA (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon). He is currently in residence at WIELS in Brussels.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
6.00-6.45 PM | ITA
Doris Stauffer, Hexenkurse,
Ed. by BilderAtlas 2026
Giorgia Basch in conversation with Barbara Casavecchia
Moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti
A visual journey through an extensive body of previously unpublished photographs, Hexenkurse is a photobook documenting the “Courses for Witches”, the avant-garde, unorthodox feminist courses led by Swiss artist and educator Doris Stauffer, co-founder of the F+F School of Art and Design, in Zurich between 1977 and 1980. Reclaiming the witch as a figure of female knowledge and creative power, Stauffer and her comrades created a space for collective experimentation through performance, video, photography, and writing, blurring the boundaries between art and life. Curated by Giorgia Basch and Jurgen Maelfeyt, the publication is the result of three years of archival research carried out in collaboration with the Doris Stauffer Archive at the Swiss National Library and the Stauffer family.
Giorgia Basch, founder of BilderAtlas, and Barbara Casavecchia revisit this radical experience exploring its contemporary relevance through questions of feminist pedagogy, anti-hierarchical forms of learning, and publishing as a form of knowledge production, in a conversation moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.
– Doris Stauffer was one of the founders of the F+F School of Experimental Design in 1971. Through her artistic practice, teaching, and political activism, Stauffer increasingly embraced feminism from the late 1960s onwards. In 1969, together with other women, she founded the Women’s Liberation Movement (FBB). In 1977, Stauffer held her first Witchcraft Course at F+F. The course, open exclusively to women, addressed feminism and creativity, as well as sexist tendencies in art and society.
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 64
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CELEBRATING _\|/_ BY MIXING SOUNDS, KNOWLEDGE & SWEAT
IN MUTUAL RESPECT MAKING IT GROW
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𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬 PUTACASO CAGLIARI 𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬𖡬
Curated by TOMBOYS DON'T CRY
28 NOV | 11 PM–4 AM
📍 Dropcity
Via Sammartini 40
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