GAGARIN in the Library

From 21 July till 30 August all editions of the magazine GAGARIN are on display in de library of de Appel arts centre. On Wednesday 19 August Wilfried Huet, founder and maker of GAGARIN will give a walking lecture in the library. Read more here.

Opening hours of the exhibition are Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

"Talking about art simply is not art. Talk can be art, but then it is not talking about art.” This pronouncement by John Baldessari is the point of departure for the international artist's journal GAGARIN: The Artists in their Own Words.

Since 2000, every two years GAGARIN shares new or unpublished texts by artists with its readers. The texts appear in their original language, which can range from Bulgarian to Cherokee and from Chinese to Latvian or Transvaalian, and are provided with English translations. The journal does not run advertisements or visual material, and concentrates on articles that are non-specialistic or were not conceived for publication, but do relate directly to the work of the artists. In GAGARIN contemporary artists provide information about and interpretations of their work in their own language.

In GAGARIN texts are published by ao. Guy Rombouts, Sophie Calle, Berend Strik, Liam Gillick, Patrick Corillon, Mark Manders, Jota Castro, Jill Magid, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Fiona Tan, Annette Messager, Marie Jos Burki, Nedko Solakov, Maurizio Nannucci, Lawrence Weiner, Jenny Holzer, Grazia Toderi and Roman Signer.

All the biennial volumes of this exceptional journal, complete sets of which are included in the collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, can be seen in the library of de Appel arts centre from 20 July through 30 August, 2015. For the occasion of this presentation the editors of Gagarin have donated all the volumes to de Appel arts centre.

All editions of this magazine are on display in the library of de Appel arts centre together with special material from the GAGARIN archive like the correspondence between Joseph Kosuth and The Dead Mango Studio, and original texts by Patrick van Caeckenbergh and Kati Heck.