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With a few days left of 2021 we look back at all the amazing books we released this year.

We are grateful to announce that our December Bookshop has been extented until January 20th 2022!

Just in, the new publication of artist Koen Taselaar. On 15|12 the book will be launched at Page Not Found in The Hague and on 18|12 the book will be launched at gallery Block C in Groningen. Come by!

Impression photo's December Bookshop: The Book as Art and Vision by Jap Sam Book at SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK), talk with curator and researcher Denisa Tomkova and studio visit visual artist Julie Sass.

In honor of Christie van der Haak's exhibition and our new publication Celebrating Patterns. Christie van der Haak Omroep West payed Stedelijk Museum Kampen a visit and talked with Christie herself about how she creates her patterns and the influence they have on the viewer.

For the latest edition of OASE, Machteld Klees wrote a review about our publication Sjanghaipark. Foundation Oase is an open network for everyone that is interested in natural gardens and parks in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Their vision consists of combining nature, gardens, culture and art at different locations and at contrasting scales. This really suits our publication Sjanghaipark so we are very happy with their review.

On Tuesday November 30th Alexis Blake received the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021 from demissionary Minister van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science. Blake received this award for her performance Rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash. The award comes with a 40.000 euro cash prize and a work period at an artist at residency of choice.

Jap Sam Books is honoured to announce our collaboration with SIxtyEight Art Institute and Really Simple Syndicate press. Together with Denisa Tomkova, curator and research fellow from SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK) we curated a bookshop and an exhibition.