Archives and Collections

The Centre for Artists’ Publications comprises approximately 80 different archives, estates, funds, and collections, or more than 1,300 linear meters of written material, written material of an artistic nature, and artists’ publications. The Centre’s archive and collection holdings, which are unique in their scope and diversity, are divided into personal estates, institutional archives, and collections and art archives relating to artists’ publications.

The written material includes in particular correspondence of a private and business nature as well as life documents and business documents. The published, duplicated and publicized works of art are distributed across 17 different genres: from artists’ books to artists’ magazines to artists’ newspapers, from graphic art to graphic works and ephemera to photo editions, from artists’ records to audio CDs and audio cassettes by artists; furthermore, the collection area includes multiples and edition objects and ranges from film and video editions, television art, multimedia editions and radio art to net art. The works are firmly anchored in movements such as Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Pop Art and experimental poetry from Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol, from Hanne Darboven to the Guerilla Girls. In total, there are more than 300,000 published, reproduced and published works of art by over 3,000 artists from all over the world, making the center one of the most important institutions in this field internationally.

A comprehensive glossary on the various genres can be found under What are artists’ publications?

Holdings of the Centre for Artists' Publications

Archive, Fonds, Nachlässe und Sammlungen

  • Archiv publizierter Kunst
  • Sammlung Das Buch (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa)
  • Fonds Marcel Broodthaers (Sammlung Manfred Schmidt)
  • Archive for Small Press & Communication ASPC (Schraenen, Guy / Marsily, Anne)
  • Guy Schraenen Archive
  • Fonds Konkrete Poesie (Crommelin, Lisbeth)
  • Collection Artists’ Writings
  • Sammlung Die Bücher der Künstler (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa)
  • Mail Art Archiv PLG Friesländer Fonds Peter van Beveren / Art Information Centre
  • Fonds Radio Bremen
  • Sammlung Christmas Gift Peter Norton Family
  • Fonds Verlach Friedrichrodaer Hefte (Müller, Peter)
  • Multimedia Archiv
  • Nachlass Joseph W. Huber
  • Fonds Gerhard Rühm
  • Fonds Piet Trantel
  • Fonds Jean Toche
  • Fonds Kunstradio – Radiokunst (Grundmann, Heidi / Zimmermann, Elisabeth / ORF)
  • Radiokunst Archiv
  • Fonds Franz Mon
  • Fonds Miroslav Klivar
  • Fonds Robert Rehfeldt
  • Fonds Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
  • Fonds Udo Seinsoth
  • Fonds Joan Rabascall
  • Fonds Heinz Gappmayr
  • Fonds Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie (Ramm, Klaus / Drews, Jörg)
  • Fonds Heino Otte
  • Fonds Book Works
  • Fonds Lateinamerika (Groh, Klaus)
  • Fonds Schuldt
  • Fonds Lutz Dammbeck
  • Fonds Roma Publications (Willems, Roger / Manders, Mark)
  • Fonds Antoni Muntadas
  • Fonds Geza Perneczky
  • Audio Arts Archive (Furlong, William)
  • Lia and Dan Perjovschi Fonds
  • Fonds Rainer B. Schossig
  • Fonds Éditions Incertain Sens
  • Fonds Radiokunst (Beyer, Regine)
  • Fonds Ludwig Gebhardt
  • Expanded Radio Art Archive (Jerez, Concha / Iges, José)
  • Archiv Reflection Press (Albrecht/d., alias Albrecht, Dietrich)
  • Archive Mobile Radio BSP (Washington, Sarah / Aufermann, Knut)
  • Radia Archive (Community Radio Stations Network)
  • Kees Francke Archive
  • Fonds William Anthony
  • Fonds Maria und Walter Schnepel
  • Softgeometry Archive (Perneczky, Geza)
  • Sammlung Paul Heimbach/ Peter Foedisch
  • Fonds Paul Heimbach
  • Fonds Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann
  • Fonds Anne Deguelle
  • Vorlass Martin Rosz
  • Fonds Verlag Hubert Kretschmer
  • Fonds Dietrich Helms
  • Fonds Zentralverlag (Falkenhagen, Harald)
  • Collection Artists‘ Books for Everything
  • Fonds Erik Steinbrecher
  • Boekie Woekie Archive (Voss, Jan / Egten, Henriette van / Thorkelsdottir, Runa)
  • Fonds Artpool Art Research Center (Galantai, György / Klanizay, Julia)
  • Nachlass Dietrich Fricker
  • Archiv Salon Verlag (Theewen, Gerhard)
  • Fonds Timm Ulrichs
  • Sound Collection Guy Schraenen
  • Fonds Clerico (Clerico, Hannes)
  • Fonds Christine Prinz und Claus Hänsel
  • Fonds Guillermo Deisler
  • Sammlung Südostasien
  • Nachlass Claus Böhmler
  • Archiv Typos Verlag (Mon, Franz)
  • Fonds Gertrud Schleising
  • Fonds Tobias Premper
  • Fonds Michalis Pichler
  • Fonds Brandstifter (Brand, Stefan)
  • Fonds Isolde Loock
  • Fonds Peter Niemann
  • Fonds Peter Trachsel
  • Fonds Willem Boshoff
  • Nachlass Albrecht/d.
  • Fonds Harald Naegeli (Chantelau, Ernst-Adolf)
  • Fonds Peter Piller
  • Archiv Albrecht/d.
  • Collection herman de vries (Brokken Zijp Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art, BFA