Guy Schraenen
Guy Schraenen is a curator, publisher and advisor and founder of the publishing house Guy Schraenen éditeur and the Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.).The A.S.P.C. is now held by the Research Center for Artists' Publications in Bremen, Germany. Furthermore he is an author of essays and various publications. His activities are mainly focused on artists' publications of the various international avant-garde and independent art movements from the late 1950s until the 1980s.
He also founded the Galerie Kontakt in Antwerp (1965-78), A.S.P.C. (1974, together with Anne Marsily), and the artists' publication collection A Museum within a Museum in the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen (1989).
For many years Schraenen has been responsible for the collections and exhibitions of artists’ publications in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Fundação de Serralves in Porto, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (MGLC) and other institutions.
