In The Wake of Blind Navigation. Boekie Woekie – Books by Artists

Boekie Woekie is an artists’-run bookshop and gallery in Amsterdam that was founded in 1986 by a group of six artists. The exhibition focuses on the Boekie Woekie’s activities and the many threads it weaves around the world since its beginning. Without losing sight of its unclassifiable nature, it aims to illustrate the challenges and potentials of its two main principles: firstly, its uncompromising independence which is based on complete self-financing, and secondly, its commitment to self-published and small press titles by artists, regardless of their fame. These factors make the bookshop gallery unique, probably worldwide. They open up breathing holes within the late capitalist art world for life to return to art and vice versa, as Jan Voss, one of three Boekie Woekiers puts it.

In The Wake of Blind Navigation. Boekie Woekie – Books by Artists includes works by all six founding artists: Henriëtte van Egten, Pétur Magnússon, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Kees Visser, Jan Voss, and Saskia de Vriendt, as well as photographs by Philippe McIntyre.