Printed projects by well-known and emerging artists are available for viewing and reading.
Refreshments are served during your visit, courtesy of The Reading Room.

Anthony Auerbach + Ralph Bauer & Christine Lemke + David Berridge + Peggy Buth + Mariana Castillo Deball + Wayne Daly + Lutz Fezer + Brian Flanagan + Russell Hart + Simon Hempel + Sabine Hillen + Christian Jankowski + Cheryl Jones & Tim Machin + Ella Klaschka + Susanne Kriemann + Doris Lasch & Ursula Ponn + Atalya Laufer & Aki Nagasaka + Ines Lechleitner + Bavo Olbrechts + Dennis McNulty & Peter Maybury + Robert Müller + Manfred Naescher + Linda Quinlan + Juan Requena + Stefanie Seibold + Celine Sheridan + Ed Wakefield + Lee Welch + Nira Zait + more

The Reading Room is a project based in Berlin with the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. Through archival methodology, critical reflection and strategic methods of presentation, The Reading Room focuses on these representations of contemporary practice that both utilise and interrogate the published form as their primary medium.

The Reading Room is based on former institutional "Reading Rooms" (such as the one of the British Museum in London), and functions as such: it is open for public viewing, with those wanting to use it being required to make an appointment and also register beforehand their particular interested in the publications or the project. The Reading Room takes its initial presentation location from the idea of the "Salon", gathering its printed matters under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host. The visitors and readers of the Reading Room ring the bell of a private apartment, climb up the stairs to it, and then are able to sit in a separate study room.


// The Reading Room is open for visits (by appointment) on Saturdays and Sundays 12.00-18.00, beginning June 5th 2010. Special appointment times, outside of these hours, can be facilitated by request.

Location

The Reading Room is currently located in a separate space in the private apartment of the project curators, Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh, near Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg.