Mark Pezinger Books

Mark Pezinger Books publishes artists’ books. Their publishing practice is a collaborative process that begins with a conversation—shaping a raw idea through design, editing, and production techniques, and bringing it to audiences through distribution. They also realise unique, handmade, experimental or even ephemeral publications that challenge and debate what a book can be. Mark Pezinger Books, based in Vienna, began its journey in 2009, and is run by graphic designer Astrid Seme and artist Thomas Geiger.

Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

By Saffi Adler
Design by Astrid Seme

In this play—a perpetual stew—the so-called “accessories” and “props” of artists take center stage. No longer silent or subordinate, these objects speak, question, and disrupt, revealing the often-invisible infrastructures that shape artistic production.

ISBN 978-3-903353-21-3
Softcover, 400 pages, 95 x 140 mm
Published 2025, Retail price: €16,00

Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv

Magdalena Stöger & Leon Hösl: Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029
Design by Astrid Seme

This publication delves into the index of nearly 4,000 archival documents within the Cathrin Pichler Archive, featuring contributions from five artists who engage in dialogue with the archive.

ISBN 978-3-903353-18-3
Softcover with flaps, newspaper print
176 pages, 235 x 315 mm, English/German
Published 2025, Retail price: €18,00

Architekturfotografie II

By Bianca Pedrina
Design by Astrid Seme
Text by Michiel Huijben

Designed as a paperback, Architekturfotografie II brings together photographs from Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Pisa, Andratx, Sofia, Leeds, Glasgow, St. Anton, Colmar, Zagreb, Brno, and Mödling—allowing them to blend into one another without commentary. Texts by Michiel Huijben reflect on the concept of boundaries that shape our relationships, both to our surroundings and to each other.

ISBN 978-3-903353-16-9
Softcover, 96 pages, 120 x 170 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: €16,00

On Slaughter

By Klara Hobza
Design by Astrid Seme

In On Slaugther, artist Klara Hobza uses scientific drawings to accompany Markus, a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep.

ISBN 978-3-903353-14-5
Softcover, 128 pages, 105 x 146 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: €16,00

Baroness Elsa’s em dashes

Text and design by Astrid Seme

This publication zooms into the wide-ranging purpose of the em dash: as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space.

ISBN 978-3-903353-10-7
Softcover, 96 pages, 105 x 146 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: €13,00

Calypso's Cave

By Stefan Karrer
Design by Astrid Seme

Swiss media artist Stefan Karrer approaches Calypso Cave through its photographic reception on social media platforms. In doing so he has tracked down a comedy of errors and humorously shows us how social platforms influence and change our travels and the way we consume landscape and its cultural heritage.

ISBN 978-3-903353-08-4
Softcover, 224 pages, 105 x 146 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: €16,00

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