Grafische Cel

13/06/2024

Preview of the new book at designer Ella Dejaegher’s Graphic Design Master jury.

You can see the book we made for Mira Sanders and Cédric Noël tomorrow evening, 14 June, at the opening of the exhibition featuring the work of the Graphic Design masters. Everyone welcome, from 19:30 at Gallery Ben Benaouisse, Baudelokaai 18, 9000 Ghent.

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10/05/2024

New tote bags , designed and screen-printed by master student Kaat Van Kerckhove; especially for the

Hope to see you there during the weekend!

12/02/2024

Glad to be part of
Voltolo
All-around education in contemporary graphic design practices

A proposal by Alex Balgiu
Ravisius Textor
10–25.02.2024

With contributions and interventions by:
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Voltolo is an exhibition offering a view on generous, collaborative, circular, experimental and forward-thinking educational adventures in contemporary graphic design.

Self-organized and collective, the projects presented here operate outside institutions or inside them, by transforming and reinventing them to directly accommodate educational needs.
Whether they operate from physical embodied locations or broadcasting from a dematerialized platform, these projects define contexts and offer tools for learning, emancipating and expanding graphic design as practice.

The pedagogical adventures introduced through these three chapters have in common the reinvention of education by prioritizing content and form, with a focus on experiencing and sharing. They create contexts for learning together, synchronizing theory and practice and broadcasting knowledge beyond the circle of their participants. Schools without schools, they emphasize generosity and the joy of learning over austerity and bureaucracy.

In turn, graphic design is understood as an open practice of research and transmission of information and poetry, materializing itself through a diversity of sensorial embodiments – whether they be made of or combined of image, text, gesture, sound, smell, taste or tactile elements.

There is an intention of reaching out, of carrying on, of sustaining and intriguing: an invitation is made to the audience to take part, to imagine, to expand. To gravitate around an infinite sphere of which the circumference is everywhere and the center nowhere.

Photos: Peter Van de Cotte

20/06/2023

NEW PUBLICATION // Designed by . This publication maps spatial experiences/wanderings through the city of Bucharest. Through photography, text, drawing, film and mixes of different media, the authors explore the mapping of (micro) situations witnessed in the city of Bucharest. The use of image and text forms a common thread across the contributions of the different authors: Alina Cristea draws from her research and practice Bucharest. The City with One Inhabitant. The City-Me, Mira Sanders brings in the act of drawing to represent/explore ways of spatial experiences, and Ileana Marin examines the creative power of wandering in the city of Bucharest through a selection of Romanian literary works.
The publication does not aim to give an exact representation of Bucharest, rather to make side notes of its city-ness and to what extent the authors’ actions reveal (or not) other features of the city, at a given time in this spatial context.

BOOK LAUNCH // Micronarratives and the City. An Annotated Map of Bucharest.
A conversation with Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin, Mira Sanders and Fien Vaneenooghe
Moderated by Liesbeth Decan

23.06.2023
4 - 5 pm
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Paleizenstraat 70 1030 Brussels
Room: A3.01

Publisher 💥 Cel, LUCA School of Arts
Authors 💥 Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin, Mira Sanders
Text editing 💥 Liesbeth Decan, Claudia Jensen
Production 💥 Michaël Bussaer & Inge Ketelers
Graphic Design 💥 Fien Vaneenooghe
Printing 💥 Antilope De Bie
Paper 💥 Munken Print 1.8 Cream FSC, Magno Gloss FSC
Typeface 💥 GT Alpina, Courier, Trade Gothic
Funding 💥 LUCA School of Arts – Research unit Intermedia (Impulsproject) & Research Cluster Photography Expanded; KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture – Campus Sint-Lucas, Brussels/Ghent; ÉTÉ 78
Distribution 💥 Idea Books (soon available)
Dimensions 168 x 240 mm
104 + 64 pages
ISBN 9789492574244
💥 Price 20 euros 💥

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16/05/2023

All 774 drawings from Leen Voet's book 'Felix' (2012) are now on display at M Leuven. .leuven .voet

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Photos exhibition views:

Between 2009 and 2010 Leen Voet realized 774 drawings based on the oeuvre of the painter Felix De Boeck (1898-1995). The complete series, originally drawn with pencil on A4 paper, is reproduced in this book.

05/04/2023

Meanwhile in Berlin ...

06/12/2022

A new gem: ‘Notes on Bi**os and Bodybuilders’ by
352 p., 148 x 210 mm
Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2021 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2021)
ISBN 9789492574237
€ 25,00
Available through and

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, Stan Van Rompaey attempts to pe*****te the very essence of all things “camp”, the manifestations of camp past and present, and the critical appeal she reads in them. The climax of her research is the Post-Sontagian “Camp” Manifesto. The calls in the manifesto are as sincere as they are contrived, as personal as they are political, soaked in the so-called post-irony that the artist embraces as an inevitable condition of her generation. In her manifesto, she calls for a revolutionising of everyday life, the overturning of conventional categories and language systems associated with heteronormativity, the celebration of excess, the elimination of shame and guilt, for a rebellious hyper-awareness too, prompted by the realisation that no form of aesthetics is innocent, nor is its critique.

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10/11/2022

On November 18th, starting at 8 p.m. we will host an evening dedicated to an audience that celebrates and bespeaks reality with excess and hyperboles. This event will be nothing short of spectacle, albeit with offence and disgrace lurking around the corner! After all, as Graham Harman pointed out: “If we identify this event with ‘aesthetics’ in the broadest sense of the term, it becomes clear why first philosophy is aesthetics, not ethics.”

Act 1: Isolde Vanhee “Notes on Camp Cinema”

Act 2: Stan Van Rompaey in conversation with Saskia Smith

The book is still available for pre-order (it’s cheaper!) LINK IN BIO!
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10/10/2022

Mark your agenda and browse our titles at the Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair next Saturday 15 October.

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05/10/2022

New Publication. ‘The Collective Spark. Igniting thinking in groups, teams and the wider world’. Edited by Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon and Bert Vandenbussche. Designed by
272 pages.
€ 29,90 (available through )

This book shows how to think together with others and to help others to think together with you. The chapters are written from a rich store of knowledge, experience and understanding that illumi-nates the hidden complexities occurring whenever people meet to collaborate, plan, review, innovate, learn, teach, consult or facilitate. From their various professions and work areas, the authors delve beneath the surface of visible interactions to reveal the knowledge and wisdom that exists in intuitive and unconscious processes. The result is a profound and informative book that is engaging, accessible and readable, to inform everyday practice in groups, teams, committees, organizations and communities.

With contributions by: Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon, Bert Vandenbussche, Richard Morgan-Jones, András Gelei, Rosealeen Tamaki, Bob Hinshelwood, Susanne Broeng, Barry Jones, Marina Mojovic, Efrat Ginot, Kristina Karlsson.

22/06/2022

Come and visit our bookshop at the Graphic Design Graduation Show 2022 ‘Everything is simply a Happening’, Jakob van Caenghemstraat 16, 9000 Gent, 20-26/06
Next weekend our books will also be on display at ‘The last picture show’. Graduation Show 2022, Alexianenplein 1, 9000 Gent, 25&26/06 .schoolofarts

06/05/2022

TODAY !!!

Acts of Painting:
Symposium, Book Presentation, Film Screening

Friday May 6, 2022
Kunsthal Gent, Lange Steenstraat 14, 9000 Gent, Belgium

The symposium focusses on the phenomenon of painterly practices that foreground the artistic process. How do contemporary paintings visualize this process? Why do they sometimes even stage their own making? What are the historical and contemporary roots of this reflective practice? And what do we look for, as viewers, when we try to retrace the process in painting?

Program:

14h-17h: Artist talks, presentations and discussion

Kees Goudzwaard
Franziska Reinbothe
Koenraad Jonckheere
Melissa Gordon
Ritsart Gobyn
Tom Van Imschoot

17h-18h: Drinks & Book Presentation
20u: Films on the Painterly process, curated by Isolde Vanhee, Art Cinema OFFoff

Free admission, registration required
Email to [email protected]

22/04/2022

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After a break of two years due to Covid-19, 019] and are proud to announce the long awaited 6th edition of the .

During the weekend of the 7th and the 8th of May, we welcome a number of national and international publishers to showcase their work in Kunsthal Gent. The fair will be opened from 11 o’clock until 18 o’clock on both days. There will be a side program that includes booklaunches, presentations, talks and more.

We hope to see you there!
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19/04/2022

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In een tijd waarin digitale tekstverwerkers onze schrijfcultuur volledig bepalen, is het handschrift ten dode opgeschreven. Voor Willem Styfhals is dit het uitgelezen moment om een cultuurfilosofische analyse van het handschrift te ontwikkelen. 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵 is een postscript van het met de hand geschreven woord, een lijkrede van een dode letter. Aan de hand van het werk van Belgische dichter-schilder Christian Dotremont, maar ook van de Franse denkers Gaston Bachelard en Roland Barthes, reflecteert dit boek over het wezen van het schrijven. Hoe kunnen we, los van enige romantische nostalgie, het verschil tussen het geschreven en getypte woord bepalen? Hoe bepaalt de materialiteit van het schrift de betekenis van onze teksten? In een poging deze kwesties op te helderen combineert het boek filosofische reflectie met typografisch experiment. Voor het ontwerp van dit boek ontwikkelde grafisch ontwerper Eva Moulaert (Dear Reader,) in samenwerking met letterontwerper een lettertype dat gebaseerd is op haar handschrift. 
Veel dank aan ♥ voor de hulp bij het ontwikkelen van het lettertype en aan onze uitgever ♥

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01/04/2022

New Publication. ‘Artuarium’. Edited by Nancy Vansieleghem & Volkmar Mühleis. Designed by
376 pages.
€ 18,00 (available through )

The Artuarium presents keywords to reflect on art education today. Every keyword con- tains a text and / or an image that has been constitutive for the formation of the art school. Some texts unfold critical ideas and questions, some images evoke careful ob-servations, some texts tell stories, others reflect on the reflection.

With contributions by: Giorgio Agamben Aristoteles, Herman Asselberghs, Maïté Baillieul, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Agnes Bube, Leonardo da Vinci, Serge Daney, Marc De Blieck, Fernand Deligny, John Dewey, Ana Dimke, Mattijs Driesen, Marguerite Duras, Jerzy Grotowski, Boris Groys, Kerstin Hallmann, Lisa Jevbratt, Allan Kaprow, Paul Klee, Eva Koethen, Wiebe Koopal, Julie Lesenne, Tyson E. Lewis, Audre Lorde, Pierangelo Maset, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Volkmar Mühleis, Ludwig Münz, Kakuzo Okakura, Jacques Rancière, Adrienne Rich, Andrea Sabisch, Ousmane Sembene, Richard Serra, Michel Serres, Friedrich Schiller, Susan Sontag, Nancy Vansieleghem, Ella Ziegler.

01/04/2022

New Publication. ‘Artuarium’. Edited by Nancy Vansieleghem & Volkmar Mühleis. Designed by
376 pages.
€ 18,00 (available through )

The Artuarium presents keywords to reflect on art education today. Every keyword con- tains a text and / or an image that has been constitutive for the formation of the art school. Some texts unfold critical ideas and questions, some images evoke careful ob-servations, some texts tell stories, others reflect on the reflection.

With contributions by: Giorgio Agamben Aristoteles, Herman Asselberghs, Maïté Baillieul, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Agnes Bube, Leonardo da Vinci, Serge Daney, Marc De Blieck, Fernand Deligny, John Dewey, Ana Dimke, Mattijs Driesen, Marguerite Duras, Jerzy Grotowski, Boris Groys, Kerstin Hallmann, Lisa Jevbratt, Allan Kaprow, Paul Klee, Eva Koethen, Wiebe Koopal, Julie Lesenne, Tyson E. Lewis, Audre Lorde, Pierangelo Maset, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Volkmar Mühleis, Ludwig Münz, Kakuzo Okakura, Jacques Rancière, Adrienne Rich, Andrea Sabisch, Ousmane Sembene, Richard Serra, Michel Serres, Friedrich Schiller, Susan Sontag, Nancy Vansieleghem, Ella Ziegler.

19/11/2021

Nicolas Provost, ‘Savage’. 48 pages.
In the photos, films and video work of Nicolas Provost, the language of film often becomes the subject. In the context of the research project ‘Bioscopic Books’, he was invited to make a so-called ‘bioscopic book’ that balances on the border of the verbal and the visual, stasis and movement, showing and imagining. Nicolas Provost edited his street photography into a suspense story about looking and being looked at on the pages of the book.provost guns .schoolofarts

15/11/2021

29/10/2021

‘School of Equals’. Edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne. Designed by & .priyatna
240 pages.

The publication School of Equals collects a series of reflective texts, instructions, notes, testimonies and slam poetry reflecting the mechanisms at art schools that give rise to exclusion and inequality. A great deal of attention goes to the decolonising and intersectional feminisms that are questioning the status quo of arts education at the institutional level. The publication exposes in that sense situations of discord in relation to the art academy -which is often considered a neutral place- and wants to intervene in essentialist approaches of identity and difference.

Through a variety of personal and peripheral writing practices, the interdisciplinary writing was approached as a critical strategy intervening in the homogenisation and objectification of debates on these issues. Authors that didn’t follow official or formal arts education, or texts that can not simply be placed into recognisable critical frameworks, were thus considered as significant.

The publication can be viewed as an attempt to place critical and emancipatory approaches in arts education higher on the agenda.

12/10/2021

Mark your agenda and browse our titles at the Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair on Saturday 16 October.

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24/09/2021

You can find us at the entrance of the campus during the Graduation Show this weekend. Hope to see you there!
Campus Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunsten, Alexianenplein 2, Gent
25-29 september, 11:00-18:00
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14/07/2021

We have already made 7 books in 2021; thanks to the great efforts of: Michaël Bussaer, Emmely Comhaire, Stijn Van Dorpe, Tine Guns, Clementine Hoens, Tom Van Imschoot, Marie De keersmaecker, Sarah Késenne, Inge Ketelers, Volkmar Mühleis, Sophie Nys, Septian Priyatna, Nicolas Provost, Isolde Vanhee.

Enjoy the summer!
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24/06/2021

Fresh delivery of a new gem. ‘School of Equals’. Edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne. Designed by & .priyatna
240 pages.

23/06/2021

Another view. ‘Goodbye to Morrissey. An Essay on Art and Morals.’ Author: Volkmar Mühleis.

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21/06/2021

Pile of books from the Grafische Cel.

07/06/2021

14/06/2021 at 20:00 Langesteenstraat 14, 9000 Gent

Bioscopic Books
An evening with books, films and talks

In the photos, films, objects and video works of Tine Guns, Sophie Nys and Nicolas Provost, the language of film often becomes the subject. In the context of the research project Bioscopic Books, they were invited to make a so-called ‘bioscopic book’ that balances on the border of the verbal and the visual, stasis and movement, showing and imagining. In her photobook, Tine Guns calibrates and visualizes the bond with her brothers taking the stars as her guide. Sophie Nys, on her part, made a contemporary as well as historically accurate ‘reprint’ of the black pages from Laurence Sterne’s 1759 book ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’. Finally, Nicolas Provost edited his street photography into a suspense story about looking and being looked at on the pages of the book.

Sophie Nys, ‘Alas’. Gent: Grafische Cel, 2021.
Guest: Prof. Dr. Peter de Voogd

Tine Guns, ‘Watching the Black between the Stars’. Gent: Grafische Cel, 2021.
Screening: Tine Guns, ‘Memory Blossoms’, BE, 2011, 11', colour, sound, digital.

Nicolas Provost, ‘Savage’. Gent: Grafische Cel, 2021.
Screening: Nicolas Provost, ‘Plot Point’, BE, 2007, 15', colour, sound, digital.

A collaboration between LUCA School of Arts, Kunsthal Gent & Art Cinema OFFoff

Reservations: offoff.be

05/06/2021

Last two weekends to visit the exhibition ‘Bioscopic Books’
We realized and published the exhibition catalog. Graphic design: .priyatna . 144 pages.
Images exhibition:

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26/05/2021

New Publication. 192 pages. Author: Volkmar Mühleis. Graphic design
ISBN 9789492574152
€ 15,00 (available through )

22/04/2021

A lot of new books, realized on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Bioscopic Books’

— Tine Guns, ‘Watching the Black between the Stars’. 96 pages; € 25

— ‘Bioscopic Books’, exhibition catalog. (Ed. Tine Guns, Inge Ketelers, Isolde Vanhee). Graphic design: Septian Priyatna. 144 pages; € 2

— Sophie Nys, ‘Alas’. 208 pages; € 18

Join us this Saturday between 20:00 and 23:00 for the opening of Bioscopic Books 📚