Nobody Reads This 2025 – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

06/12/2025 (Saturday)

• Marble Hall
  • 11:00—19:00
  • exhibitor stands

    • Nobody Reads This: Art Book Fair

      • 34 publishers of artist’s books, photobooks, graphic publications, poetry, zines and books on art and artists

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• Workspace
  • 11:00—19:00
  • review
    • Self-published artist's books

      • Over 60 publications submitted in response to an open call – from art books and photobooks to zines and paper objects

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• Activity Room
  • 11:00—19:00
  • family workshops

    • Let's create our own bookmarks

      • Workshops for everyone – regardless of age or experience. Participants will create a unique bookmark for a recently purchased book (or as a St Nicholas Day gift). Colourful papers, illustrations, cut-outs and decorations will be available – everything needed to create your own artistic composition. Led by Dominika Wiśniowska

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• Workspace
  • 12:00
  • talk
    • Magdalena Heliasz
      • Self-published artist's books [Event in Polish]
        • Following the open call for self-published artist's books, we have gathered over 60 highly diverse publications – from artbooks and photobooks to zines and paper objects. Do these dozens of submissions reveal anything about the state of self-publishing in Poland? Which design solutions stand out? And what distinguishes self-published books from those produced within today’s official publishing landscape? Designer and design curator Magdalena Heliasz will discuss the publications on display
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• Bookshop
  • 14:00
  • guided tour
    • Maciej Siuda, Katarzyna Przezwańska

      • A new place for books [Event in Polish]

        • At the centre of the space stands a wooden table with an irregular, landscape-like surface for displaying books, surrounded by ample space for moving freely, resting and reading. A bookshop is a key element of any cultural institution and it could not be otherwise at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art. The Art Book Fair is the perfect moment to inaugurate its programme. Architect Maciej Siuda and visual artist Katarzyna Przezwańska, the designers of the interior, will lead a tour of the new art bookshop

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• Workspace
  • 16:00
  • lecture
    • Jakub Szachnowski

      • From an idea to a publication. How to self-publish a photobook? [Event in Polish]

        • What does the process of creating your own book involve? What tools and solutions are available to self-publishers? How do design decisions – such as paper, format or binding – influence how a publication is experienced? And finally: what pitfalls and challenges await first-time self-publishers, and how can they be avoided? Photographer and RUST Publishing co-founder Jakub Szachnowski will discuss how to publish your first book.

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• Technical corridor
  • 16:00—19:00
  • sound installation
    • Erik Smith
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• Cinema
  • 17:00
  • film
    • How to Make a Book With Steidl
      • directed by Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph, Germany 2010, 88' [in German, with Polish subtitles]
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• Laboratory
  • 19:00
  • sound installation and concert
    • Francesco Cavaliere
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07/12/2025 (Sunday)

• Marble Hall
  • 11:00—19:00
  • exhibitor stands

    • Nobody Reads This: Art Book Fair

      • 34 publishers of artist’s books, photobooks, graphic publications, poetry, zines and books on art and artists

      •  

• Workspace
  • 11:00—19:00
  • review
    • Self-published artist's books
      • Over 60 publications submitted in response to an open call – from art books and photobooks to zines and paper objects
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• Activity Room
  • 11:00—13:00
  • workshop for children aged 7—12

    • Let's create our own mini books! [Event in Polish]

      • The workshop for children is devoted to creating their own mini books – without the use of needles, thread or staples. Participants will learn simple paper-folding techniques (foldbook, leporello, accordion) and how to create their own publication from everyday materials. Each participant will prepare a set of texts and illustrations, and then combine them into a unique book made from paper, tape, or string. The workshop led by Fundacja Południe

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• Workspace
  • 12:00
  • lecture
    • Magdalena Frankowska

      • Book or exhibition? [Event in Polish]

        • During the lecture, we will look at publications accompanying art exhibitions and books that can be regarded as an autonomous medium, opening up space for artistic narrative. Magdalena Frankowska, co-founder of the Fontarte design studio, will discuss various artistic and editorial strategies that allow us to think of a book as a form of exhibition

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• Laboratory
  • 13:00—16:00
  • family workshops with artists-in-residence
    • [Events in English with translation]

      • Kholoud Charaf 

        • Playing with Words

      • Sebastian Davilla 

        • City-constellation

      • Oz Oderbolz 

        • Turnip Lanterns

  • 16:30—17:00 Lantern parade
  • 17:00—18:00 Bonfire
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• Cinema
  • 14:00
  • film
    • How to Make a Book With Steidl
      • directed by Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph, Germany 2010, 88' [in German, subtitles in Polish]
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• Workspace

  • 16:00 

  • talk
    • Alicja Bielawska, Karolina Bielawska, Antonina Gugała, Anna Orłowska, conducted by Anka Wandzel

      • Behind the scenes of making artist's books

        • What determines whether a given idea becomes a book? How is collaboration between the publisher and the artists shaped? And how can the artistic vision be reconciled with the realities of the publishing process, including financial constraints? Artists Alicja Bielawska, Karolina Bielawska, Antonina Gugała and Anna Orłowska, whose books have been published by Bored Wolves, will talk about the behind-the-scenes process of creating books that fall outside classic models of production and distribution. The meeting will be moderated by Anka Wandzel, essayist and author of The Art of Survival