Archivorum Chapter #6 in Basel — Floating Pages & I Never Read
Archivorum is back in Basel — and we’re inviting you to float with us once again.
From 17 to 18 June, Floating Pages returns to the Rhine for Archivorum Chapter #6 — a free, hop-on hop-off round trip on the Rhine River presenting four new Archivorum×M publications.
From 14 to 21 June, Archivorum will also take part in I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair, presenting the latest Archivorum×M releases and hosting a series of conversations and radio interviews with participating artists.
Programme
14–21 June
Archivorum×M Book Stand
I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair
Viaduktstrasse 33, First Floor, Basel
16:00-22:00
16-18 June
Floating Pages — Archivorum Chapter #6
7 Stops: Rhywyera Kleinbasel, Münster Kleinbasel, St. Alban Kleinbasel, St. Alban Grossbasel , Münster Grossbasel, Klingental Grossbasel, Cargo Kultur Bar Grossbasel, Rhywyera Kleinbasel
13:00-20:00
16 June
Basel Book Fair Radio Interview — Anthea Hamilton
I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair
Viaduktstrasse 33, First Floor, Basel
17:00–17:30
Basel Book Fair Radio Interview — Jaime Welsh
I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair
Viaduktstrasse 33, First Floor, Basel
19:30–20:00
17 June
Book Signing On Board — Anthea Hamilton, Delphine Gaborit and Lewis Ronald
Floating Pages
Rhywyera Kleinbasel, Basel
16:00–17:00
Book Signing On Board — Francesco Vezzoli
Floating Pages
Rhywyera Kleinbasel, Basel
17:00–18:00
Basel Book Fair Radio Interview — Francesco Vezzoli
I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair
Viaduktstrasse 33, First Floor, Basel
20:00–20:30
18 June
Book Signing On Board — Jonathan Monk
Floating Pages
Rhywyera Kleinbasel, Basel
15:00–16:00
Book Signing On Board — Jaime Welsh
Floating Pages
Rhywyera Kleinbasel, Basel
18:00–19:00
Floating Pages
Conceived in 2021 as a platform for the first Archivorum×M publications, Floating Pages has gradually become Archivorum’s principal public programme: a temporary floating bookstore bringing together new artists’ books alongside an expanding archive of previous titles.
Moving through Basel rather than remaining fixed within the fair itself, the project offers an open and freely accessible space where artists, publishers, readers, collectors, families, and passersby come together without hierarchy.
A floating bookstore and book launch series — a free, hop-on hop-off round trip on the Rhine River presenting four new Archivorum×M publications.
Archivorum×M — New Publications
GABORITHAMILTONRONALD
with American Art Catalogues
The first major collaborative publication by Anthea Hamilton, Delphine Gaborit and Lewis Ronald, GABORITHAMILTONRONALD is an artist book conceived collectively.
Titled by a grouping of the three artists’ surnames, the publication brings together twenty-five photographs produced over several months in early 2026 and organised around Marianne Moore’s poem To A Snail. Through portraits, details, and still lifes, the book explores ideas of density, restraint, structure, and compactness, creating a dialogue between image and text while proposing a distinct visual language shared across the three artists’ practices.
Jonathan Monk. A Place to Which We Can Come, and for a While “Be Free to Think About What We Are Going to Do”
with B-R-U-N-O
Between 4 and 6 March 2026, Hana Herimerdinger documented Jonathan Monk’s Berlin studio using an analogue camera. Edited by Luca Cerizza, the publication celebrates the studio as both an archival space and a site of possibility.
Bringing together works retrieved from storage, ongoing projects, and pieces spanning more than three decades, the book offers an intimate view into Monk’s practice while functioning simultaneously as a catalogue, a visual essay, and an ongoing conversation between past and present.
Francesco Vezzoli. Museums of Tears
with Lenz Press
Conceived as both a publication and an autonomous artwork, Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli’s acclaimed exhibition presented at Museo Correr, Venice, in 2024.
Inspired by historical museum guidebooks and Carlo Scarpa’s vision of the museum as a form of emotional choreography, the publication transforms the exhibition guide into a hybrid object: part scholarly document, part fictional archive, and part personal diary. Rather than documenting the exhibition, it becomes a portable museum of memory, beauty, mourning, and artifice.
Jaime Welsh: 2020–2025
with American Art Catalogues
The artist’s first monograph, Jaime Welsh 2020–2025 brings together works produced over five years.
Navigating architectural interiors marked by restricted access, institutional power, and psychological unease, the publication offers a comprehensive introduction to Welsh’s photographic practice and evolving visual language.
Archivorum at I Never Read
Alongside Floating Pages, Archivorum will participate in the 15th edition of I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair from June 14 to June 21.
Throughout the week, visitors will be able to discover the latest Archivorum×M publications, browse a selection of titles, and attend a programme of conversations and radio interviews with participating artists and publishers.
I Never Read — Basel Art Book Fair
Viaduktstrasse 33, First Floor, Basel
We look forward to welcoming you to Basel, on the river and beyond.