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WIELS Art Book Fair 2026

Free
03.10.2026 04.10.2026

11:00 - 18:00

The WIELS Art Book Fair is back on October 3 & 4. 

WIELS welcomes a wide selection of independent publishers from all backgrounds for a weekend dedicated to art publishing: artist books, zines, catalogues, limited editions, and much more. 

Free and open to all. Detailed programme below

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PROGRAMME

Saturday 3 October

 

13:00–14:00 · on-site and online
Book presentation (en) | Shelf Documents (Art Library as a Practice)  
Heide Hinrichs with Elizabeth Haines (online), Heide Hinrichs, Jo-ey Tang (online) and Eirini Fountedaki (online, Tavros, Athens), Sam Kim (online, common imprint, Berlin), and Yue Yuan (B09K, Changsha, China)

14:00–15:00
Performance lecture and public presentation (en) | Self Institution

Set Margins with Gary Farrelly, representing the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence

14:00 – 18:00
Workshop | Book Space — Design, Bind & Stamp Your Own Notebook 
Czech Centre Brussels, facilitated by Kristýna Halounová, Kamila Holíková, Michaela Ďurišová and Tereza Paryzková

15:00 – 16:00
Informal book presentation | Fastcash 
eeeditions with Alfredo Aceto

16:00 – 17:00
Book launch & performance lecture (en) | The Weather Has Been Cancelled 
Jap Sam Books with Jasmijn Visser

18:00 – 21:00
DJ set: Ugne & Maria

 

Sunday 4 October

14:00 – 15:00
Book presentation (en) | KB45 Cahier #2: Marcel Broodthaers, Brussels, 1957–1969 
MER. Books with Stefaan Vervoort (postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University)

14:00 – 15:00 
Embodied reading (en) | At the Edge of Connection 
n.k.g publications with Clarinde Wesselink (artist, choreographer, author) and Nina Glockner (artist, publisher)

14:00 – 18:00
Workshop | Book Space — Design, Bind & Stamp Your Own Notebook 
Czech Centre Brussels, facilitated by Kristýna Halounová, Kamila Holíková, Michaela Ďurišová and Tereza Paryzková

15:00 – 16:00
Lecture and conversation (fr) | a, a, a  
Phenicusa Press with Sarah Duby, Pauline Allié, Camille Thiry and Bérenice Béguerie, moderated by Alexia De Visscher

15:00 – 16:00
Panel/workshop (en) | The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise: Collective Learning in Practice  
Garage School, Kunstinstituut Melly
with Kari Robertson, Santiago Pinyol, Wendy van Slagmaat-Bos and Pavlos Theodorou

16:00 – 17:00
Book launch (en) I Sensory Dispatches 
Leaky Press
with Perri MacKenzie

16:00 – 18:00
Board game/performance | Go Initiation  
Les Éditions Extensibles with members of the Hoshi Go Club

With: 

A+ Architecture in Belgium

Accattone

ALIALALO - à lire à la loupe

Antonio menchen

a/p/a press

AXIS AXIS

BOOK SPACE

Brook

CAPTURES EDITIONS

Chez Rosi

Classe moyenne éditions

CLAUS BOOKS

Editions du Caïd

éditions Or Bor

Éditions Paygraphie

ER PUBLISHING

Esse arts + opinions

Friville-éditions

From Me To You Publications

FSB Press featuring Gufo

HOPPER&FUCHS

IBASHOMARTIJN

INFINITIF

Jap SamBooks

KOALATH

Kunstinstituut Melly

Kunstverein Publishing & Grazer Kunstverein

La Lettre volée

Leaky press + PMS4ALL

L'Escaut

Les Éditions Extensibles

Lustre

MER. Books

MONO MAGAZINE

Mukha

n.k.g. publications

Phenicusa Press

POST-SCRIPTUM

primitive press

Sequence Publishers by Mémé Bartels

Set Margins' publications

SPILLLL

Spookstad

Sudest+Gird

Temblores Publicaciones

T&P Publishing

Uitgeverij Duizend & Een | 1001 Publishers

Valiz

Vibrational Semantics

Walkscapes

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.

 ZOLO PRESS

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