Chasing The Rainbow: A Conversation with Boekie Woekie

Join us on Sunday, October 5 at 2pm for an in-person event with Boekie Woekie members Jan Voss, Henriëtte van Egten and Curator Maike Aden. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition In The Wake of Blind Navigation. Boekie Woekie - Book by Artists.

Boekie Woekie is an artists'-run bookshop and gallery in Amsterdam that was founded in 1986 by a group of six artists. Soon Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Icelandic) and Jan Voss (German) remained from this group and shaped this enterprise for artists' publications that conventional bookshops find difficult to promote and sell. Alongside their own artistic careers, the three dedicate their work to this collective sculpture in progress as they call it. At its heart is what art is all about: a free, poetic and anarchic spirit and a sense of a keen, sensitive humor. For almost 40 years now, these attitudes in conjunction with a wealth of experience and knowledge have nourished the risky and fascinating undertaking with its generous and welcoming atmosphere of exchange between people of all backgrounds, artists, experts or passers-by. To make that possible, everything is managed in self-responsibility, from the financial side and the bureaucratic administration, to the website and the sales in the shop, online, at fairs, and even in temporary branches abroad.