dieFirma & Printed Matter / St Marks present: Risograph Holiday Market!

On Saturday, December 10, dieFirma will have a one-day holiday market with Printed Matter / St Marks on Cooper Square in connection with our current exhibition, Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution. We’ll be featuring a wide range of Risograph publications and prints including a collection of limited edition prints made exclusively for this show.

The market will take place on the ground floor of 32 Cooper Square, with Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution on view just one floor below.

About the Exhibition

Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution is a collaboration with artist and curator Panayiotis Terzis. The exhibition features work by more than 250 artists showcasing various book and print objects from across the globe. Also on exhibit will be a collection of limited-edition prints made exclusively for this event, all using the Riso printing process.

Printing the Future conveys the explosive nature of this trend with works that are both open and limited-edition prints, as well as zines, books, and installations. The exhibition, located in the basement space of 32 Cooper Square with over 300 works, creates an immersive experience showcasing the many ways in which the Riso process is used by makers.

About dieFirma

dieFirma is an art space anchored in New York’s Cooper Square. Through exhibitions, publications, and workshops, dieFirma’s mission is to expand the conversation about art and encourage participation in the creative process. Printing the Future inaugurates dieFirma’s Riso Studio – a project space equipped with a 2-color Risograph duplicator, where creatives can collaborate.

About Printed Matter / St Marks

Printed Matter / St Marks is Printed Matter Inc.’s second location, opened in 2018. Located in the heart of the East Village, PMSM’s curated selection of publications and editions reflects Printed Matter’s larger catalog and mission—including independently published books by artists, zines, rare and historical material, along with a selection of artist-made multiples, prints, and posters—while also highlighting books and programming that celebrate the history of avant garde art and countercultural publications in Lower Manhattan past and present.

dieFirma [PR] at the New York Art Book Fair 2022

dieFirma’s Print Room is pleased to participate in Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, which returns in-person after a three-year hiatus and is open from Thursday, October 13th to Sunday October 16th. This year’s fair will feature many of the longstanding exhibitors and programs that have come to define this beloved event, while also offering new ways to discover artists’ books and explore the full breadth of the art publishing community.

Together with bookdummypress, an independent bookstore based in New York, dieFirma [PR] will offer new and established titles and special editions produced with our collaborators.

dieFirma [PR] / bookdummypress will be at booth E40.

Book signing on Saturday, Oct 15th with:
Hiroko Komatsu “Channeled Drawing” at 2pm
Osamu Kanemura “Vanish Point Death” at 2pm
Daniel Temkin “Dither Studies” at 3pm

dieFirma Print Room at East Village Zine Fair

dieFirma Print Room [PR] is pleased to participate in this year’s Printed Matter St. Marks/8-Ball Community’s East Village Zine Fair,
a celebration for independent publishers, zine makers, and East Village DIY culture and history. There will be a full schedule of programming held throughout the day, including workshops and performances at neighborhood community gardens and a rooftop poetry reading at 38 St. Marks Place. The fair is free and open to public.

Together with bookdummypress, an independent bookstore based in New York, dieFirma [PR] will offer new and long standing titles produced with our collaborators. We’re grateful and excited for the chance to connect with our neighbors and beyond.
We hope to see you there.

Printed Matter + Exile Books at NADA Miami

bookdummypress and dieFirma Print Room [PR] at NADA Miami.
Printed Matter and Miami-based EXILE Books have organized a presentation of artists’ book publishers at the 19th edition of NADA Miami. The Fair will take place from Wednesday, December 1 through Saturday, December 4 at Ice Palace Studios.
This exciting collaboration will host 39 artists’ book publishers featuring new books as well as historical and rare materials, accessible and DIY approaches to bookmaking, and many presentations focusing on Latin American artists, publications, and printmakers.

bookdummypress and dieFirma Print Room's offerings includes innovative artists’ publications from Beirut, China, Japan, Korea,
The Philippines, Venezuela and New York City.

We are excited for the chance to reconnect in this way and share the important work of new and long-standing artists’ book publishers.
We hope you will join us in Miami!

“Looper Syndicate” & “Sincerity Department Loyal Division”
by Osamu Kanemura & Hiroko Komatsu

Thursday, October 21, 2021–Saturday, December 18, 2021

Wednesday—Saturday 11:00AM—5:30 PM

dieFirma is pleased to announce the relaunch of their Cooper Square location with site-specific installations by celebrated Japanese photographers Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu for their New York City debut. In his largest installation to date, Kanemura’s Looper Syndicate displays 20,000 color prints applied in a sprawling, immersive wall collage, alongside a video projection. Simultaneously, Komatsu’s Sincerity Department Loyal Division presents an entirely new environment for her award-winning installation. Both exhibitions will display a series of Artists’ Books created specifically for dieFirma.

dieFirma [PR] at the PMVABF 2021

For the first Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, bookdummypress and dieFirma are joining forces to launch an ongoing collaboration, the dieFirma Print Room [PR]. Through publishing, exhibitions, conversations, and other programming, the Print Room will be a physical space in New York, a virtual experience, and a conceptual framework dedicated to the art of the book. In addition to bookdummypress’s offerings—including innovative artists’ publications from Japan, Brazil, and NYC—editions created jointly with dieFirma will be available for purchase. Both maker-led ventures, bookdummypress and dieFirma advance the conversation around publishing as an artistic practice with free online programming by international photographers, poets, performers, and publishers throughout the duration of the Virtual Art Book Fair, from February 25th to 28th. Opening Wednesday, February 24th.

We look forward to welcoming you to the virtual opening of a new, evolving initiative to support innovative and independent publishing and art making.