PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
AKV Berlin ceased to operate on the 31 of December 2025. If you are interested in viewing or attaining a specific leftover title please get in touch via akvberlin(at)gmail(dot)com or have a look at Cittipunkt Library or Pro qm.
The subgroup AKV SCHULBÜCHER still operates sporadically.
AKV Berlin was an art book collective run by Anna Szaflarski, Kevin Kemter, Max Stocklosa and Vincent Grunwald from 2008 to 2021. The dissolution of the core group took place in April 2021. The publishing house was subsequently run for another 4 years in half-asleep mode by one member until December 2025, the unequivocal end.
AKV Berlin Chronology
In 2006 a publishing house with an official surface was founded. Released publications have included the following themes: Tests concerning the gap between image and text, experimental journalism, visualizations of complex correlations (diagrams), urban semiotics, natural sciences / the order of things, practices of appropriation of space and knowledge, spacial politics, withdrawing from society, ordering and management of pessimism, authorship workarounds, investigative documentations and arguments with archives and biographies.
AKV was and is of the opinion that the role or identity of the author is influential in how text and image are perceived. The publications have been produced by the following: anonymously working authors, author-groups or collective authors and authors who publish under their civil name. The publishing house welcomes experimental author concepts, which will interrogate the potential roles of the originator. Through rearrangements within the author-publisher-structure, undiscovered latitudes and narrations as well as unproven connections between text and image can be generated.
AKV included four representatives who appeared sporadically in public to present recent publications. Programming set out projects beyond publishing and included performative lectures and experimental exhibitions. (We encountered multiple problems involving the exhibition of printed matter.) Presentations were held in private and public contexts and served as a vehicle for debates. AKV was and is independently run and not-for-profit based; all profits feed directly back into current production.
In 2019 AKV Berlin has launched the format AKV Schulbücher which is a series of publications that are published parallel to the regular titles of the former publishing collective. The focus is on discursive texts and educational material that arises primarily from the direct work and production environment of a loose group of friends, colleagues and influences. Visit AKV Schulbücher here.
Berlin 2021.
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AKV BERLIN
akvbooks(at)gmail.com
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Zabriskie, Berlin
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Salon Für Kunstbuch, Vienna
Pro-qm, Berlin
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The Library Project, Dublin
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