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Shortlist Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021 announced

The international jury of the Prix de Rome has selected four artists for the shortlist of the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021. The nominees are: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes and Coralie Vogelaar. This was announced by the Mondriaan Fund, which organises and finances the Prix de Rome award.

The Prix de Rome is the oldest Dutch award for visual artists below the age of 40. The purpose of the award is to encourage talented visual artists to develop and increase their visibility. The Mondriaan Fund is responsible for the award. For Prix de Rome 2021 the Mondriaan Fund will collaborate once again with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.The exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will be open to the public from November 13, 2021 until March 2022 and presents new work by the nominated artists: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes en Coralie Vogelaar. The publication will be published by Jap Sam Books.

 June 8, 17:00-18:30hrs

With Friedrich von Borries, Saskia van Stein and Ingo Offermanns.

For reservations: https://spui25.nl/programma/the-world-as-project

Organised in cooperation with: Goethe Institut Amsterdam and Spui25.

Location: online via Zoom, registration via this link.
Time: Monday May 17th, from 20:00 to 21:30 at the latest
Admission free and open to everyone

For more information: International Association of art critics / Internationale vereniging van kunstcritici AICA Nederland 

The Longlist for Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher has been announced. 

One of our titles has been nominated: The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project by artist Maurice Bogaert. Book design by Edwin van Gelder of Mainstudio and printed by robstolk Amsterdam. 

2020 > 2021 What a crazy and turbulent year. Challenging in so many ways. But what a great harvest: so many beautiful artists books, theory books, academic journals, two reprints, and a new imprint, and countless valuable collaboration. 

November 16–November 23, 2020

Jap Sam Books is thrilled to participate in this year's 2020 Virtual Art Book Fair (VABF) organized by Tokyo Art Book Fair (TABF). The fair was originally scheduled for Fall 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. 

www.virtualartbookfair.com

Once a year Frankfurter Buchmesse turns into the world capital of ideas.