Athens Art Book Fair 2025

The sixth edition of Athens’ festival of artistic publishing, the Athens Art Book Fair (AABF), takes over the labyrinthine Stoa Tristrato in the heart of the city from October 3–5, inviting audiences to discover more than 150 artists and publishers from Greece and 35 countries worldwide.

Visitors will be able to explore the wide and polyphonic spectrum of independent publishing practices: zines, artist’s books, photo books, independent magazines, art monographs, poetry, research and critical writing, as well as other experimental forms that defy categorization.

The Public Program, featuring exhibitions and events designed to foster both broad awareness and deeper engagement, will present new publications from Greece, decentralized international initiatives, as well as complementary media that intersect with publishing practices, such as sound, performance, poetry, experimental music, and radio art.

The annual Collective Display serves as a complementary exhibition space to the festival’s main showcase, presenting over 100 artist’s publications by emerging Greek artists alongside international publishing initiatives. It also features a curated selection from the growing archive of the Athens Art Book Library.

Special focus is placed on thematic presentations of publishing projects of particular interest, including Esmat Publishes (Egypt), WARAQ (Lebanon), Tehran Zine (Iran), Kona Books (Georgia), Studio Pangolin (Croatia), Oficyna Peryferie (Poland), PrivatePrint (North Macedonia), Ediciones Caradura (Mexico), Lafat Bordieu (Chile), Editorial Tubito (Argentina), among others.

The festival opens on Friday, October 3 with live performances by exhibitors Lorena Marina and Maria No Pressure, while on Saturday, October 4, the AABF’s fourth collaboration with the publishing collective ΜΠΑΤΑΡΙΑ presents a queer poetry slam, celebrating poetry, hybridity, and disobedience.

For those unable to attend in person, Fade Radio will once again host a program of broadcasts focused on independent publishing practices, along with recordings from past editions of the festival (listen here).

Exhibitors include:
1399 (Tehran), 51 Personae (Shanghai), Arurkokk (Ioannina), Asparagus plumosa (Athens), Avtonomi Akadimia (Athens), Big black mountain the darkness never ever comes (Athens), Black Lodge Press (London), Blind Mind Editions (Athens), Blob Shop Collective (Rotterdam), Bronze Age (London), Cairo Art Book Fair (Cairo), Convoy Royal (Avlida), Cube Art Editions (Athens), Danai Simou (Athens), Decadence Comics (Copenhagen), Deniz Beser / Heyt be! Fanzin (Istanbul, Vienna), Desired Landscapes (Athens), DOLCE (Athens), Ediciones Caradura (Tijuana), Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich), Editions jojo (New Delhi), Editorial Tubito (Buenos Aires), Edizione Multicolore (Leipzig), Ejemplar (Valencia), ΕΜΣΤ (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Everyedition (Zurich), FACzine (Barcelona), FLEE (Paris), Folded City (Athens), FRMK [ΦΡΜΚ] (Athens), futura (Athens), gibbi (Brescia), Humboldt Books (Milan), Hyper Hypo (Athens), INKPRESS (Athens), IPC / Independent Paper Consortium (Paris), Jumbo press (Barcelona), JZZP (Hong Kong), K-Gold Temporary Gallery (Lesvos), Kati Akraio (Athens), KATSARIDA PRESS (Athens), KBJ Publishing (Svendborg), KEDA*PRESS (Thessaloniki), Kona Books (Tbilisi), Kudla Werkstatt (Prague), kyklàda.press / Time Based Editions (Athens), Lafat Bordieu (Barcelona / Santiago de Chile), Lalava (Athens), Lesbianas Concentradas (Berlin), Lia Nalbantidou & L.LAB (Thessaloniki), Local Gr0up (Kiev), Lonely Cooks Collected (Athens), MAAT BOOKS (Athens), Margarita Athanasiou (Athens), Marusya Press (MA.P) (Oakland), Michalis Pichler (Berlin), MISC ATHENS (Athens), NERO (Rome), Never Brush My Teeth (Athens), Obedbooks (Paris), Oficyna Peryferie (Warsaw), Opuntia Visual (New York, Mexico City), Paprika Lab (Thessaloniki), Pararoja (Tirana), PERAMO (Athens), Pink House press (Syros), Press Press (Milan), PrivatePrint (Skopje), Profundo Ediciones (Buenos Aires), Risiko Press (Antwerp), Riso and Friends (Rijeka), Rosie’s Disobedient Press (Glasgow), SMUT Press (London), Spyros Rennt (Berlin), Studio Pangolin (Zagreb), sun/sun éditions (Montpellier), Sudest+Gird (Brussels), TEFRA90 (Athens), Tehran Zine (Tehran), These are a Few of our Favorite Things / Orestis Vlahos (Athens), Two Spiky Gorillaz (Thessaloniki), Untitled-1 (Athens), Vabiropula (Athens), Vexer Verlag (Berlin), VOID (Athens), Wendy’s Subway (New York), yusra magazine (Athens), ZINZINATTI (Szczecin), ZOETROPE ATHENS (Athens), ZONE (Rome), WARAQ (Beirut), Andromachi Kokkinou (Athens), Η Κιουρι@ (Athens), ΗΓΗ (Athens), ΜΠΑΤΑΡΙΑ (Athens), Ουαπίτι (Athens), ΤΕΦΛΟΝ (Athens).

Program
For the full schedule of talks, radio shows, and performances, visit athensartbookfair.gr.