HOPPER&FUCHS (2025)

14/01/2025

Opening this Sunday is the epic exhibition ### OCULI
The Portrait and The Landscape curated by Bruno Devos bringing together 30 contemporary photographers and artists at IMAGINAIR Art/space in Brussels. Welcome from 12 — 5 pm on Sunday 19 January at Rue du Prévôt 99, Brussels

featuring

Clémentine Balcaen
Anna Bjerger
Dirk Braeckman
Jean-Marie Bytebier
Alexandre Christiaens
Elise Corten
Stig De Block
Vincent Delbrouck
Eva Faché
Lara Gasparotto
Hanne Lamon
GeoffreyLambert
Lieven Lefere
Renée Lorie & Erien Withouck
Steve Dean Mendes
Patrick Merckaert
Bernadette Messiaen
Gert Motmans
Kumi Oguro
Bruno V. Roels (Gallery FIFTY ONE)
Lize Rubens
Anniek Snoeijs
Sarah Stone
Monique Thomaes
Hanne Van Assche
Wouter Vanhees
Sine Van Menxel
Bram Van Stappen
Oxiea Villamonte
Peter Waterschoot

Poster photo credit |
Poster design | .stone__

Located
curated by director of

03/01/2025

31/12/2024

Thankfully we can post twenty images in one go because that’s exactly how many we need to share with you our 2024 art book roundup.

In order of appearance:

1. - Thank You For Playing With Me – launched at bookshop
2. - Staring Into The Night - launched at with
3. .braeckman - ECHTZEIT - launched at the
4. .motmans - An ocean in between the waves - launched at
5. - THANK YOU BYE - launched at
6. - A table under a tree - launched at
7. Joëlle Tuerlinckx - Musée de la Mémoire ‘PROPRIÉTÉ UNIVERSELLE’ ® - launched at and
Bibliothèque Kandinsky
8. Mark Rietveld - A long loving look - launched at
9. Bernadette Messiaen - Ziltes - launched at
10. - Summer Blue - launched at .gallery and Huisberg
11. and - Hybrids / Hybriden - launched at
12. - Refuge - launched at
13. - ( Sehr Langsam ) - launched at
14. Linda Vinck - Basic Rhythms of Being - launched at
15. and - Take me to your place - launched at .demaalbeek
16. - The Geophysical Centre of Dourbes - launched at the RMI in Dourbes
17. - L’Ombre des Belges - yet to be launched!
18. - the bear and the butterfly - launched at
19. Charlotte Claus - Wandeling door de tijd- launched at

Thank you to graphic designers:

vanleuven

And to our printing collaborator

25/12/2024

Season’s Greetings to the art book community. Every art book starts from one idea, whether is be simple, or complex, our art books always echoes the voice of the artist. We never copy and paste a format, each book is manifested with care in close collaboration. We look forward to the coming year, creating more art books and sharing these droplets of ideas across the globe.

23/12/2024

Paper waste is a huge thing, especially this time of year. Before you throw your paper way, think twice if you can make use of it. Belgian artist Denmark bases his entire practise around paper. In looking for the essence, Denmark developed a unique, artistic approach, that would gradually include print, media, such as books, newspapers, and magazines, and folding, screwing, and sanding them, gluing them together, freezing them, and preserving them in water, gelatine, or paraffin. In doing so, Denmark is targeting not only the media industry, but also the art world, and in that sense, his work echoes the institutional critic prevalent in the 1970s. Denmark’s archival installations can be interpreted not only as unusable, and therefore between ‘unruly’ archives, but also as purified, silent disruptors: contemporary vanitas still lifes, which confront us with the hysterical ‘information fetishism’, that has characterized the past few decades.

‘anarchives’ by Denmark is a 456 pages monograph on his artistic practise around the material paper.

21/12/2024

‘the bear and butterfly’ by Ruth van Haren Noman contains a selection of watercolours that were created across the seasons of one year. Starting in winter; slumbering, slow and hidden like a bear in hibernation, then spring; rooting and developing, unfolding itself like a butterfly. Summer arrives; flourishing and ripening towards the harvest in autumn, where things get processed and perhaps shaped into a book which can nurture us during yet another winter.

Launch and exhibition in January 2025 in Antwerp at - more info to follow next year.

Specifications:
23,5 x 16 cm
Printed on Munken Pure Rough 120 and 300 gm/2
Paperback
Numbered and signed by the artist
Edition of 400
Printed at Zwartopwit Belgium
44 watercolours
Graphic Design by Sarah Stone and David Boon
Editing by Sarah Stone and Ruth van Haren Noman
Text and poem by Ruth van Haren Noman: NL & EN

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14/12/2024

Marie Peeters in conversation with Koen Leemans | Sunday 15.12, 15h00 at | Jan Van Rijswikcklaan 191

Poster by Elena Bollette -

06/12/2024

will open its doors for a photobook fair organised by this weekend. Catch us there at the entrance !

Dates : December 7 and 8, 2024
Schedule: 13:00 > 19:00
Location: Contretype Cité Fontainas 4A, 1060 Brussels

• on Saturday 7 at 10:00 to begin installation (Opening to the public at 13:00)
motmans + special editions
+ special editions

braeckman

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Bernadette Messiaen

04/12/2024

Art Bookshop at IMAGINAIR Art/space | OPENING Thursday 5 December 4-8pm | Rue du Prévôt 99, 1050 BRUSSELS

02/12/2024

Ziltes by Bernadette Messiaen is a gem for photography and art book lovers, a collector’s object in an edition of 450 copies. Ziltes is an artists’ book inspired by the complex architecture of Japanese artists’ books with over half the pages in the book being empty to create a slowness in wandering through the book. Because of these different aspects, the reader is “forced” to take their time in order to fully feel the experience of the book. Ziltes is a book without noise, where the images have space to whisper within their sequence.

Published by at
Distribution in France with .distribution
Poems by

28/11/2024

27/11/2024

L’Ombre des Belges by Bram Van Stappen is a visual exploration that defies traditional narrative and linear logic, instead embracing fragmented, textured imagery. L’Ombre des Belges confronts themes of materiality, cultural artifacts, identity, etc. Through a series of mostly paired images, L’Ombre des Belges evokes a world where objects, nature, and human presence intertwine but never resolve. The work dismantles conventional hierarchies, presenting axes like surface vs. texture or natural vs. cultural not as fixed, but as fluid and ever-changing.

The series questions the nature of the images themselves; offering no clear topography or typology. Instead, it’s an ongoing negotiation, where surface, texture, and materiality evoke history’s remnants and cultural codes without succumbing to simple visual closure. Each image pulses with presence and absence, creating a sequence where the form is continually unmade and remade. In L’Ombre des Belges, the photos don’t merely document; they challenge the viewer to look beyond what is immediately visible, confronting reality’s fragile, layered, and shifting nature.

15/11/2024

The jury about Musée de la Mémoire ‘PROPRIÉTÉ UNIVERSELLE’ ® : This excellent project is a book about a museum that does not exist or has not existed. It contains a lot of material, but nevertheless radiates a strong consistency and remains calming. Many aspects come together, such as photography, collage, typography, artefacts, notes and archives, and it is at the same time contemporary and timeless. It forms an alternative and clever way to walk through a museum in a free and unconstrained way. Moreover, it is very daring and innovative to let a book function as a kind of tactile museum.

Designers :
Joëlle Tuerlinckx and .vanleuven
Publishers :
and
Production :

14/11/2024

13/11/2024

INVITATION | meet-and-greet Dirk Braeckman | 22 November | 1.30-5pm at FOMU for a talk about his exhibition ECHTZEIT. Tamara Berghmans will introduce the FOMU collection and will contextualize Dirk’s exhibition.
Please mail to [email protected] to confirm your presence.

An invitation of Arctic Paper and HOPPER&FUCHS.
braeckman

12/11/2024

Naturally nice times in Paris. Books, books, food, photos, books, books, food, photos, books, drive home.

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03/11/2024

We are so happy to have had the chance to collaborate with Belgian artist Linda Vinck to help create and publish her monography ‘Basic Rhythms of Being: A life in patterns’. Thank you to Linda, book designer Elena Bollette, publisher Bruno Devos and Paul Vandenbroeck, Ernest Van Buynder, and Dirk Verhaegen for the texts (EN/NL).

Linda Vinck is a visual artist with a long-standing and sustainably developed body of work centered around rhythm and pattern formation. She has a deep affinity with dance and contemporary composers. Additionally, her work is in no small part ‘coloured’ (but not determined) by a year-long stay on the Cape Verde Islands, and she is fascinated by the interplay of predictable and unpredictable micro-forms in nature.

01/11/2024

An ocean in between the waves by Gert Motmans has surfed through the year like a breeze. His numbered and signed photobook -named the same as this series- is almost sold out. Let this be our gentle warning. For personal orders contact Gert Motmans and for bookshops get in touch with H&F. 50 copies have been reserved as special editions. For more info contact .motmans or

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