CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/30/2012
Frieze New York to Host City's Biggest Temporary Art Bookstore
An Unprecedented Collaboration Between America's Premiere Distributor of Books on Contemporary Culture and Europe's Leading Specialist Art Bookstore
Featuring more than 1,500 titles from around the world, as well as a large selection of
limited editions, rare and out of print titles.
Open May 3 - 7, 2012
Frieze Art Fair, New York
Randall's Island
Southern Entrance
Koenig Books at Frieze London, 2011.From May 3-7,
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and
Koenig Books, Europe's leading specialist art bookstore, are collaborating to create new York City's largest-ever temporary art bookstore for the inaugural
Frieze New York art fair on
Randall's Island.
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. has been the exclusive North American representative of
Buchhandlung Walther Koenig's publishing division for over 10 years as well as a co-publisher of key titles such as
Gerhard Richter's ATLAS.
Buchhandlung Walther Koenig / Koenig Books was founded in 1969 and has established itself as a leading specialist bookshop for art, art history, architecture, design, applied arts, photography, film and aesthetic theory.
In 2001 the company opened its first store outside of Germany:
Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery, London. That bookshop has become a destination in itself. Following the success of the Serpentine store the company opened a shop on Charing cross as well, and took over management the Whitechapel bookshop after the institution's renovation and extension. New bookstores also opened in Vienna's Museumsquartier and in Milan. In 2012 Koenig Books will open its first stationery shop in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
For almost two decades Koenig Books has operated bookshops in German museums, including Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, and an outpost based in the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. is America's premiere source for books on art and culture. Since its founding in 1990, D.A.P. has represented the world's most important museums and independent imprints in the arts as an exclusive distributor to the book trade, library and academic markets. In addition, D.A.P. maintains an active publishing program in the arts and photography and, under the
Metropolis Books imprint, in the fields of architecture, design, and sustainability.
Since 2003, the company has run New York's best art bookstore,
ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1; operated annual pop-up bookstores at major art and photography fairs including
ARTBOOK @ Art Basel Miami Beach,
ARTBOOK @ The New York Art Book Fair, and this month's
ARTBOOK @ Visual Studies Workshop; and hosted online ecommerce partnerships at ARTBOOK.com with cultural institutions and creative businesses such as the
Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Institute of the 21st Century, ForYourArt, Creative Capital, The Standard Culture Site, ArtTable and
Metropolis Magazine. In addition, ARTBOOK organizes an extensive schedule of book events ranging from signings to panel discussions and performances in New York, Los Angeles and other American cities. In 2010, ARTBOOK opened a Los Angeles office,
ARTBOOK | WEST, a trade showroom and event space at Paper Chase in Hollywood. In 2011, the company expanded into ebook publishing with the launch of
ARTBOOK | DIGITAL.
The bookstore at
Frieze New York will feature a special giveaway tote bag created by
Rirkrit Tiravanija and produced by the
Institute of the 21st Century. The bag is a re-issue of one Tiravanija made for Utopia Station at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, a large, collective, and ongoing exhibition curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
FRIEZE NEW YORK | www.friezenewyork.com
Frieze New York presents the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe, bringing an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in New York.
In addition to being able to see work by over 1,000 of the world's leading artists, visitors can experience Frieze Projects, the fair's program of artists' commissions, and Frieze Talks, a program of debates, panel discussions and keynote lectures.
Frieze New York is housed in a bespoke temporary structure designed by New York-based SO-IL architects. Located in the unique setting of Randall's Island Park, Manhattan, and overlooking the East River, the fair is easily accessible by public transport. Dedicated Frieze ferry and bus services are included in the admission price.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
To discuss partnering with ARTBOOK and for more information about ARTBOOK's Pop-Up Stores, Permanent Partnership Stores, and Online Partnerships please contact Cory Reynolds, creynolds@dapinc.com
Visit our permanent store ARTBOOK@ MoMAPS1
ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
212.627.1999
www.artbook.com
KOENIG BOOKS
Buchhandlung Walther König GmbH & Co.KG
Ehrenstrasse 4
50672 Köln
Tel: 0221 205960
Fax: 0221 2059640
E-Mail: order@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
Büchermarkt
Tel: 0221 2059 634
Fax: 0221 2059 652
E-Mail: buechermarkt@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
Verlag der Buchhandlung
tel: 0221 2059 653
Fax: 0221 2059 660
E-Mail: verlag@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
