Valiz
Valiz is an independent international publisher on contemporary art, theory, critique, design and urban affairs. Valiz's books offer critical reflection, interdisciplinary inspiration, and often establish a connection between cultural disciplines and socio-political questions. These books are published out of commitment to their content, to artistic and social issues and to the artists, designers and authors.
Trust
By Pascal Gielen
Drawings by Karina Beumer
Trust: Building on Cultural Commons highlights the crucial role played by cultural commons, shared ‘common’ life and its customs, practices, knowledge and values.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-40-9
Softcover, 288 pages, 115 x 190 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: € 19,90
Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design
By Max Bruinsma, Leonie ten Duis
Design by Renate Boere
Gives insight into the work of one of the heroes of (Dutch and international) design.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-33-1
Softcover, 480 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: € 37,50
Worlding Ecologies
Editors: Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Eva Burgering
Graphic design: Wibke Bramesfeld
Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice. Structured alongside three sections, the reader moves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-34-8
Softcover, 240 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: € 27,50
Towards Home
Editors: Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz
Graphic design: OTAMI-ᐅᑕᒥ
To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means, and on what these relationships could look like into the future.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-25-6
Softcover, 352 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: € 27,00
The Architecture of Loneliness
Authors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Lysiane Lamantowicz, Wahbie Long, Marie-José Mondzain
Graphic design: Lotte Lara Schröder
The three essays in this book each explore a side of loneliness, strongly connected to the encounter with the other.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-35-5
Softcover, 240 pages, 165 x 235 mm
Published 2024, Retail price: € 22,50
Smooth City REPRINT
Author: René Boer
Graphic design: Kees de Klein
Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-20-1
Softcover, 320 pages, 110 x 190 mm
Reprint 2024, Retail price: € 22,50
Vertrouwen
Author: Pascal Gielen
Graphic design: Lotte Lara Schröder
DUTCH VERSION ONLY
Reflecteert op het toenemend wantrouwen in medemensen, overheden en bedrijven en pleit voor een politiek van vertrouwen die mensen autonoom hun eigen cultuur laat ontwikkelen en beheren.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-21-8
Softcover, 240 pages, 118 x 190 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 15,00
The City as a System
David Dooghe, Eric Frijters, Catja Edens, Matthijs Ponte, Thijs van Spaandonk, Christopher de Vries, Jet van Zwieten eds.
Design by Catalogtree
An all-encompassing, holistic approach to be able to structure and design cities in a better way for all creatures, a better climate, and all streams of activities in a city.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-14-0
Softcover, 256 pages, 160 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 27,50
UNLICENSED
By: Ben Schwartz
Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion détournement.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-29-4
Softcover, 432 pages, 115 x 180 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 25,00
Let's Become Fungal!
Author: Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Illustrations by: Rommy González
Graphic design: Andrea Spikker
The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-28-7
Softcover, 320 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 27,00
Commons in Design
Editor: Christine Schranz
Graphic design: Virginie Gauthier, Zuzana Kostelanská, Maud Vervenne
Co-edition with: Swiss National Science
What does commoning imply for the design discipline, and the role of designers?
ISBN: 978-94-93246-30-0
Softcover, 352 pages, 165 x 230 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 29,50
Queer Exhibition Histories
Bas Hendrikx (ed.)
Graphic design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Queer Exhibition Histories is composed of case studies, interviews and essays that emphasize different queer exhibitions and their modes of presentation and archiving.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-13-3
Softcover, 288 pages, 170 x 230 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 27,50
Future Book(s)
Editors: Pia Pol, Astrid Vorstermans
Various designers and contributors
Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-27-0
Softcover, 496 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 27,50
Radical Fashion Exercises
Laura Gardner & Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran (eds.)
Graphic design: Line Arngaard
Encourages to challenge the way we look at fashion and fashion systems, and place them in a broader context.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-19-5
Softcover, 304 pages, 150 x 220 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 25,00
Smooth City
Author: René Boer
Graphic design: Kees de Klein
SOLD OUT Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-20-1
Softcover, 320 pages, 110 x 190 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 22,50
Productive Archiving
Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Reveals creative solutions for three key issues around archiving that are usually overlooked, with attention to how they connect with gender, sexuality, race and class.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-16-4
Softcover, 272 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 25,00
Seven Logics of Sculpture
Author: Ernst van Alphen
Encountering Objects Through the Senses.
Offers engaging new thinking on sculpture in the contemporary cultural domain.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-15-7
Softcover, 240 pages, 165 x 234 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 25,00
Passivity
Alexandra Tryanova, Pascal Gielen
Drawings: Polina Frank
Design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Between Indifference and Pacifism.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-22-5
Softcover, 64 pages, 115 x 167 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 9,50
Passiviteit
Alexandra Tryanova, Pascal Gielen
Drawings: Polina Frank
Design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Tussen onverschilligheid en pacifisme.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-23-2
Softcover, 64 pages, 115 x 167 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 9,50
Sensing Earth
Philipp Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, Georgia Nicolau (eds.)
Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe.
Follows artists, analysts and activists on their cultural quests for an ecologically sustainable future.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-24-9
Softcover, 290 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2023, Retail price: € 22,50
Making Matters
Janneke Wesseling, Florian Cramer eds.
Design: Hackers & Designers
A glossary of keywords and concepts for enhancing collaboration in art and design, offers a global perspective on transdisciplinary practices.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-11-9
Softcover, 336 pages, 110 x 200 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 22,50
Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent
Editor & Design: Ingo Offermanns
Reveals new insights into the complicities of graphic design, and how the discipline can be transformed.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-90-9
Softcover, 288 pages, 155 x 235 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 25,00
Stuck on the Platform
Author: Geert Lovink
Graphic design: Irene Stracuzzi
For everyone who wants to scrutinize their own use of the internet and online platforms. From Zoom fatigue, to the NFT hype, to online cancel culture and more.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-08-9
Softcover, 240 pages, 148 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 25,00
On the Necessity of Gardening
Editor: Laurie Cluitmans
Graphic design: Bart de Baets
An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Insights on the convergence of nature and culture, ecology, climate, and care for the environment, with themes such as Arcadia, Control, Ecofascism, Guerilla Gardening, Queer Ecology.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-00-3
Softcover, 240 pages, 240 x 320 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: € 29,90
CAPS LOCK
Author & Design: Ruben Pater
How capitalism took hold of graphic design, and how to escape from it.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-81-7
Softcover, 552 pages, 117 x 184 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: € 22,50
Art and Solidarity Reader
Editor: Katya García-Antón
Graphic design: Hans Gremmen
Publishing Partner: OCA, Norway
Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships
ISBN: 978-94-93246-02-7
Softcover, 384 pages, 200 x 280 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 29,90
Kwetsbaarheid
Auteurs: Marlies De Munck, Pascal Gielen
Ontwerp en tekeningen: Lotte Schroder
Over raken en geraakt worden.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-09-6
Softcover, 64 pages, 115 x 167 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 7,50
Čatnosat
Editors: Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Katya García-Antón, Beaska Niillas, Liv Brissach
Graphic design: Hans Gremmen in dialogue with Inga-Wiktoria Pave and Fredrik Prost
The Sámi Pavilion: Indigenous Art, Knowledge and Sovereignty.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-12-6
Softcover, 256 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail price: € 25,00
Curating Digital Art
Editor: Annet Dekker
Graphic design: Irene Stracuzzi
From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation
ISBN: 978-94-93246-01-0
Softcover, 352 pages, 148 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: € 26,50
Let the River Flow
Editors: Katya García-Antón, Harald Gaski and Gunvor Guttorm
Graphic design: Hans Gremmen
Co-edition with: OCA Norway
An Indigenous Uprising and its Legacy in Art, Ecology and Politics.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-79-4
Softcover, 296 pages, 165 x 235 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 22,50
Performing Mourning
Author: Guy Cools
Graphic design: Meta Haven
Laments are a formal device, used in many cultures to express and contain the emotions of grief. In a poetic, meandering and personal way Cools explores cultural habits, traditions, rituals, and artists’ performances.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-98-5
Softcover, 224 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: € 22,50
Nabijheid
Authors: Marlies De Munck, Pascal Gielen
Drawings and design: Lotte Schröder
Dutch version.
Inspirerende longread over de invloed van Covid-19 op onderwijs, kunst en digitalisering.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-87-6
Softcover, 64 pages, 115 x 167 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 5,00
Nearness
Authors: Marlies De Munck, Pascal Gielen
Drawings and design: Lotte Schröder
Inspiring longread on the influence of Covid-19 on education and the arts.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-86-2
Softcover, 64 pages, 115 x 167 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 5,00
Trading Between Art & Architecture
Wouter Davidts, Susan Holden, Ashley Paine eds.
On artists adopting architectural means and architects adopting artistic strategies. Contains in-depth studies of both historical and contemporary examples.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-67-1
Softcover, 240 pages, 165 x 234 mm
Published 2019, Retail price: € 25,00
Help Your Self! (ENG)
Author & Design: Mieke Gerritzen
English edition
The Rise of Self-Design.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-63-3
Softcover, 256 pages, 152 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 25,00
Help Je Zelf! (NL)
Author & Design: Mieke Gerritzen
Nederlandse editie
De Opkomst van Self-Design.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-95-4
Softcover, 256 pages, 152 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 25,00
Forces of Art
Editors: Carin Kuoni, Jordi Baltà Portolés, Nora N. Khan & Serubiri Moses
Graphic design: Lu Liang
Perspectives from a Changing World. Reflects on the transforming power of art in communities in the global south.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-89-3
Softcover, 456 pages
Published 2020, Retail price: € 27,50
The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design
Louise Schouwenberg, Michael Kaethler eds.
Design: Irene Stracuzzi
Puts forward a broad scope of what auto-ethnographic design entails: situating the designer at the heart of the research and connecting this position to the culture of design and the broader cultural realm.
ISBN: 978-94-93246-04-1
Softcover, 336 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail price: € 27,90
Lost in Media
Editors: Ismail Einashe, Thomas Roueché
Graphic design: The World as Flatland, Gerlinde Schuller
Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-68-8
Softcover, 168 pages, 150 x 210 mm
Published 2019, Retail price: € 19,90
Plan and Play, Play and Plan
By: Janwillem Schrofer, various contributors
Graphic design: Laura Pappa
For creative makers in a broad sense: artists, photographers, designers, architects, and professionals that work with them: art teachers, curators, art policy makers, coaches.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-40-4
Softcover, 288 pages, 150 x 220 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 22,50
Flourishing Foodscapes
Editors: Saline Verhoeven, Johannes S.C. Wiskerke
Graphic design: Hans Gremmen
Design for City-Region Food Systems.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-38-1
Softcover, 296 pages, 170 x 230 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 25,50
Hard Werken
Authors: Ian Horton & Bettina Furnée
Graphic design: 75B
First major publication on this riotous and highly accomplished Dutch vanguard design group.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-17-6
Softcover, 482 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 29,50
The Aesthetics of Ambiguity
Editors: Pascal Gielen, Nav Haq
Graphic design: Metahaven
Understanding and Addressing Monoculture. An appeal for ambiguity as a productive force to understand ourselves and how we relate to each other.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-76-3
Softcover, 240 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 22,50
The Responsible Object
Editor: Marjanne van Helvert
Graphic design: Ruben Pater
Various contributors
Presents a history of socially committed design strategies within the western tradition.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-19-0
Softcover, 272 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 22,50
Courageous Citizens
Editors: Bas Lafleur, Wietske Maas, Susanne Mors
Graphic design: Elisabeth Klement, Jan Tomson
How Culture Contributes to Social Change.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-51-0
Softcover, 272 pages, 150 x 210 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 19,90
Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland
Editors: Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Graphic design: Sam de Groot
Features essays on Brian O'Doherty's visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work, and literary writing.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-24-4
Softcover, 304 pages, 170 x 230 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 25,00
Wicked Arts Assignments
Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer eds.
Graphic design: Laura Pappa
Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education. Funny, crazy, awe-inspiring, poetical, bold; in its bandwidth a truly provocative collection.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-75-6
Softcover, 304 pages, 150 x 220 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 22,50
Pavilion Propositions
Wouter Davidts, John Macarthur, Susan Holden, Ashley Paine
Nine propositions to reclaim the pavilion as an architectural topic. Frames the pavilion as a significant phenomenon to discuss the place of architecture in culture.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-50-3
Softcover, 96 pages, 165 x 234 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 25,00
Authenticity?
Editors: Barbara Cueto, Bas Hendrikx
Graphic design: Template
Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age
ISBN: 978-94-92095-23-7
Softcover, 160 pages, 170 x 220 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 19,90
Being Public
Editors: Jeroen Boomgaard, Rogier Brom
Graphic design: Template
How Art Creates the Public. Explores the exchange between art, art publics, and the public sphere.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-28-2
Softcover, 200 pages, 170 x 220 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 19,90
Compassion
Editors: Jeroen Boomgaard, Rini Hurkmans, Judith Westerveld
Graphic design: Template
A Paradox in Art and Society. How can art draw attention to ethical issues in society?
ISBN: 978-94-92095-29-9
Softcover, 200 pages, 170 x 220 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 19,90
Lost and Living (in) Archives
Editors: Annet Dekker
Graphic design: Metahaven
Collectively Shaping New Memories.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-26-8
Softcover, 320 pages, 170 x 220 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 19,90
Marjan Teeuwen - Destroyed House
Various contributors
Graphic design: Haller Brun
Poignant images of memory and amnesia; chaos and order; destruction and construction; falling and standing; horror vacui in relation to spatiality.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-37-4
Softcover, 160 pages
Published 2017, Retail price: € 29,50
The Long 1980s
Editors: Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandes, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Graphic design: George & Harrison
Constellations of Art, Politics, and Identities: A Collection of Microhistories
ISBN: 978-94-92095-49-7
Softcover, 416 pages, 175 x 245 mm
Published 2018, Retail price: € 27,50
Valuing Architecture
Ashley Paine, Susan Holden, John Macarthur eds.
Explores different perspectives on the value of architecture.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-93-0
Softcover, 228 pages, 165 x 234 mm
Published 2020, Retail price: € 25,00
Mobile Autonomy
Editors: Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen
Graphic design: Metahaven
How artistic autonomy evokes different innovative working modalities.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-10-7
Softcover, 255 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2015, Retail price: € 19,90
Slow Reader
Editors: Ana Paula Pais, Carolyn F. Strauss
Design: Ana Paula Pais
Investigates, reflects on, and (re-)imagines ‘slower’, more holistic approaches of living.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-01-5
Softcover, 256 pages, 160 x 210 mm
Published 2016, Retail price: € 25,00
White Paper
We all have the right to housing and to define our common space. White Paper explores relationship between legislation, property and agency vis-à-vis the right to housing in Egypt, the Netherlands and Spain.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-27-5
Softcover, 88 pages, 160 x 240 mm
Published 2017, Retail price: € 15,00
Interrupting the City
Editors: Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Leven
Graphic design: Meta Haven
Artistic Constitutions of the Public Sphere.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-02-2
Softcover, 328 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2015, Retail price: € 19,90
The Ethics of Art
Guy Cools, Pascal Gielen (eds.)
Various contributors
How the artistic imagination can produce greater care for the environment and the body. Focuses on the contemporary dance and performance scene.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-87-5
Softcover, 352 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2015, Retail price: € 19,90
Moving Together
Author: Rudi Laermans
Graphic design: Metahaven
First comprehensive volume on contemporary dance, informed by dance studies and sociology.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-52-3
Softcover, 432 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2015, Retail price: € 19,90
Spaces for Criticism
Thijs Lijster, Suzana Milevska, Pascal Gielen, Ruth Sonderegger eds.
Graphic design: Metahaven
Investigates new ways and new spaces where art critics may interact with the public, works of art, artists and scholars.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-75-2
Softcover, 272 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2015, Retail price: € 19,90
Aesthetic Justice
Editors: Pascal Gielen, Niels Van Tomme
Graphic design: Metahaven
Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives. Thought-provoking views on how works of art can confront and potentially redirect social and political imaginaries.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-86-8
Softcover, 320 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2014, Retail price: € 19,90
Dread
Editor: Juha van ‘t Zelfde
Graphic design: Metahaven
The Dizziness of Freedom. Explores the creative agency of dread and related concepts of fear and anxiety.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-81-3
Softcover, 232 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2013, Retail price: € 19,90
Willem Sandberg (Eng)
Author: Ank Leeuw Marcar
Design: Rutger de Vries
Provocative ideas on art, artists, typography, the museum, society, the Resistance, Bauhaus, art criticism and architecture.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-73-8
Softcover, 328 pages, 150 x 210 mm
Published 2013, Retail price: € 19,50
Jurriaan Schrofer (1926-1990) (NL)
Author: Frederike Huygen
Design: Jaap van Triest, Karel Martens
Grafisch ontwerper, fotoboekenpionier, art director, docent, kunstbestuurder, omgevingskunstenaar.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-69-1
Softcover, 432 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2013, Retail price: € 39,90
Jurriaan Schrofer (1926-1990) (ENG)
Author: Frederike Huygen
Design: Jaap van Triest, Karel Martens
Graphic Designer, Pioneer of Photo Books, Art Director, Teacher, Art Manager, Environmental Artist.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-70-7
Softcover, 424 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2013, Retail price: € 39,90
The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
Editors: Pascal Gielen, Niels Van Tomme
Graphic design: Metahaven
Global Art, Politics and Post-Fordism. The global art scene as a production site of economic exploitation.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-04-6
Softcover, 288 pages, 135 x 210 mm
Published 2009, Retail price: € 19,90
Walter Nikkels
On typography and its traditions, the representation of art, the meaning of museum architecture and the communicative value of design.
ISBN: 978-90-78088-54-7
Hardcover, 528 pages, 205 x 273 mm
Published 2013, Retail price: € 45,00
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