UNLOCK BOOK FAIR
GRONINGEN 2022
UNLOCK BOOK FAIR
GRONINGEN 2022
February 5th
Publishers | Programme
The Unlock Book Fair goes local
The Netherlands is a hotspot for graffiti books and zines. This year the Unlock Book Fair lands in Groningen to welcome an invitation-only list of mostly Dutch publishers and speakers.
The fair is featured as the closing event for the museum exhibition ‘Graffiti in Groningen’, a dive into the early history of local subcultures curated by the Kladmuur Foundation.
Travel limitations are forcing us to scale-down our reach for now, so we decided to work with Kladmuur on a showcase of independent graffiti publishing from The Netherlands. With the addition of a few special guests from France and Germany.
Where and when
➔ NP3 RE:Search:Gallery
➔ Hofstraat 21
➔ 5 February 2022
➔ 11am — 6pm
A museum exhibition about graffiti history
This new Unlock Book Fair is part of the program of the exhibition ‘Graffiti in Groningen’ at the Groninger Museum, a well-known institution in graffiti circles for its pioneering exhibitions of New York subway artists.
Kladmuur is a local graffiti-rooted foundation that studies and archives Groningen’s uniquely rich graffiti history. The foundation is behind ‘Graffiti in Groningen’, a museum exhibition exploring local graffiti going back to the largely ignored punk years of the late 70’s.
The Unlock Book Fair will mark the closing of the exhibition. The fair’s public programme includes a presentation and book-signing of ‘Kladmuur, Early Days of Wall Writing, Groningen 1978–1992’, a volume collecting the historical findings of the Kladmuur Foundation.
A celebration of Dutch graffiti
The public programme of the fair features legends of Dutch graffiti like Hugo Kaagman, Mick La Rock and Pinox’82, the long-lost superstar of the punk graffiti era.
Events include the screening of exclusive video documentation of early local graffiti, and a presentation by the founders of the Dutch Graffiti Library.
The most special highlight of this year’s Unlock Book Fair will be the unveiling of a recently discovered cellar at the Groninger Museum with graffiti from four decades ago, a veritable graffiti time-capsule.
Support
Local fair manager: Hugo Engwerda
