VIVA VIVA

Join us for VIVA VIVA – Rijksakademie Art Book Fair. Find unique printed matter, and support our artist community!

For this second edition, our building will be filled with booths from more than 60 alumni, residents and special guests, showing and selling self-made publications, prints, posters, records, cassettes, and unexpected publication formats. The day includes a full programme of talks, performances and workshops.

The complete programme will be announced soon.

56 hours + Pupapot, ABC [Artists’ Books Cooperative], Alex Farrar, Angga Cipta (Kasih Graphic), Anook Cléonne, Avril Corroon, Bram Faber & Ursula Metzler, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Chathuri Nissansala Jayasiriwardena Degambadage Dona, CPR, Daniëlle van Ark / Dark Editions, Deniz Eroglu, Dianne Hagen, Elwina Situmorang, Erna Gultom, Ester Eva Damen, Framer Framed, Frederique Jonker, Guido van der Werve, Harriet Rose Morley, Hogehilweg_artlab, Ilya Rabinovich, If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Joris Martens, Josje Peters, Learning Palestine, Lies Verdenius, Lili Huston-Herterich, Limestone Books & Jan van Eyck’s Printing and Publishing Lab, LiSA DiAMETR, Marcelino Stuhmer, Marjo Postma, Maurice van Es, Meiliana Yumi, Micha Patiniott, Mita Paramita, Mr.& Mrs. Berkeley, Naré Eloyan, Nazif Lopulissa, No Other Option, Not Yet, Off Course and Friends, Our Rags Magazine, özgür atlagan, Papaya, Reading Vigil for Palestine, Rietlanden Women's Office, Ro Buur, Ryder Books - An imprint of BYOB, Sarojini Lewis & Razia Barsatie, Silvia Gatti, Smári Róbertsson, SOC, Spookstad, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Stichting la Jetée, Ton Martens, Uitgeverij dt duidelijke taal, Varia, vo ezn && hackers & designers, Wouter van Riessen, and more! 

Rooted in the Latin word vivere (‘to live’), viva has long been part of artistic and cultural expressions: a call in the streets, in protests, in celebrations, and in moments of togetherness. In a time of fragmented narratives and institutional fatigue, VIVA VIVA occupies a space between joy, resistance, and insistence, offering a platform to affirm values and practices that we as artists and collectives consider meaningful.   

VIVA VIVA is both a statement of presence and a call for continuity: to recognise, hear, and share the stories that shape our lives and communities. It is a space to engage with peers and the public, amplifying our individual and collective voice.  

VIVA VIVA is an initiative of artist and Rijksakademie alum Reyhan Lál in collaboration with Rijksakademie residents, alumni, team and special guests. ⁣

11.00 –11.10
→ Print Workshop
Welcome

11.10 –11.20
→ Print Workshop
Dianne Hagen / performance

Live reading of 3 poems; ‘What’s Up, and Thus and Time’ in one fluent set underlined and intertwined by a soundscape. What is it… It is suggestive, guiding, non-linear, without facts, opinionating with an open end, with pathetic interpretations and space.

11.30 –14.30
→ Social Practice Workshop
Kasih Graphic / workshop 

11.40 –12.00
→ Reading Room
Marcelino Stuhmer / reading

Marcelino Stuhmer presents OFF-TIMES, a conceptual art newspaper and exhibition in the form of a newspaper. He will read his short fiction piece from OFF-TIMES, ‘Vermeer’s Paradox: Experts Baffled by Impossible Photo Found in Saleman’s Case’. OFF-TIMES operates as both publication and collective exhibition in print. Rooted in the Fluxus tradition, it explores the shifting boundaries between fact, fiction, and logic- reflecting on what it means to create during an “off-time”.

13.00 –13.20
→ Reading Room
Wouter van Riessen / talk 

In ‘Joujou Beaudelaire’ (Roma, 2025), Wouter van Riessen explores the intertwined roles of the devil, death, the poet, and the muse in Charles Baudelaire’s work, using hand-crafted puppets to restage the images that emerged for him while reading the poems. The resulting book brings together 32 photographic tableaux and a dialogue between van Riessen and Dutch writer Cornel Bierens. In this presentation, van Riessen will discuss the relevance of Baudelaire’s poetry, the development of his project, and will show several of the puppets created for it.

13.40 –14.20
→ Reading Room
Decika Chotoe & Ciro Monoarfa / talk and sound performance

For VIVA VIVA, and to celebrate the launch of If I Can’t Dance’s last publication, the ‘Bodies and Technologies Reader’ (2025), Devika Chotoe (the editor of the publication) will host a performance together with Ciro Monoarfa Goudsmit who did a sonic intervention in the Reader. 'Grabb’ will centre Goudsmit’s research into vibrations through the use of specific frequencies and voicework, connecting the body and the stories hidden in the muscles. Goudsmit is inspired by his own sonic and ancestral heritage, using a Javanese scaling system and a West African rhythm, the Son Clave. Taking Resmaa Menakem’s notion of the ‘Soul nerve’ as a springboard, the workshop/performance will be an invitation to experience frequencies within the body, taking the content into reverberation and physical sensation.

14.40 –15.00
→ Reading Room
Reading Vigil for Palestine / talk

15.30 –17.30
→ Social Practice Workshop
Kagul / workshop 

16.00–16.20
→ Reading Room
Winnie Herbstein / book presentation

‘Slamming Doors. On Falling Out and Fighting Back in a Housing Crisis’ (2025) brings together writers, academics and community organisers against the backdrop of an ongoing housing crisis. Acting as a ‘user’s manual’, the book mobilises text and images, archives and conversations to unpack the work of DIY learning, grassroots organising, and how to record, disseminate and learn from collective struggles. In 2024, co-editor and Rijksakademie alum Winnie Herbstein, was a fellow for the research project Contemporary Conflict, organised collaboratively by Framer Framed and the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Slamming Doors is co-published by Framer Framed and University of Edinburgh Arts Collection.

16.40 –17.00
→ Reading Room
Spookstad / talk

In this session, we will talk about the meaning and the potential of radical publishing. What does it mean for publishing to be immanent to social movements and radical activism? How can books not just speak about protest, but allow protest to speak? What form belongs to a book that does not want to be a commodity – an anti-book? Spookstad is a publishing collective guided by these questions and challenges. In this session we will try make sense of them by showcasing the various projects we are currently working on.