2025/november
Contents
Basel
Library Making as Practice / Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers / Library, A Network of Relations, exhibitions and colloquium, distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. The colloquium builds on two exhibitions at distro drawing together a range of tactics and strategies to library making as practice. It brings together artists who work with and through libraries to rethink the power asymmetries in the ways how knowledge circulates and how publics are formed. Repertorium PDF.
Berlin
The third edition of The Social Life of Film takes place from 20–23 November 2025 in Berlin. Hosted in collaboration with Aktionshaus, the congress will centre on alternative structures of support. The Social Life of Film is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.
EastUnBloc presents subversive, experimental and innovative media art works and practices from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe and their contexts. nGbK, Berlin, Sat, 29.11.25 – Sun, 15.2.26.
Bratislava
NEXT Advanced Music Festival, multiple venues in Bratislava, 26–30 Nov 2025.
Leipzig
Robotron. Code and Utopia, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, October 25, 2025 - February 22, 2026. The rapid rise of computers and microelectronics since the 1960s is often described as the “third industrial revolution”. In East Germany, the name Robotron became closely associated with this transformative technology, which reshaped every sector of the economy. Revisiting the history of this state-owned enterprise highlights not only the technical possibilities and societal hopes it carried, but also the political and economic contradictions that ultimately contributed to the collapse of East Germany. Bringing together photographs, films, installations, and graphic works – some created in the GDR – the exhibition explores the transformation of the industrial landscape in East Germany.
Oslo
Kunstbok Oslo - Art Book Fair at Kunstnernes Hus, November 15 - 16, from 12.00-17.00. 90 exhibitors, a two day seminar curated by Nicholas Norton and Timotheus Vermeulen, program for kids and risograph-workshop in Kunstnernes Hus riso-room. We present artist books and independent publishers, and we are an online art bookstore as well as a platform for meetings and conversations.
Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering (Katalogen.org) dokumenterer viktige utgivelser innen kunstnerisk publisering sett fra et norsk perspektiv. Formålet med katalogen er å løfte fram en type utgivelser som sjelden får den oppmerksomheten de fortjener. Katalogen.org ble publisert for første gang høsten 2024 som en pilotversjon. På Kunstbok Oslo lanserer vi Katalogen.org «2.0» - en utvidet versjon, med innlemmelse av 20 nye verk.
