Correspondences: de Appel 1975–2025 traces the activities of de Appel through letters, telegrams, airmail, postcards, faxes, and emails, sent to and by de Appel. The book features materials by more than a hundred different authors and includes paper-based and digital correspondence by, amongst many others, Laurie Anderson, James Lee Byars, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, General Idea, Mona Hatoum, Patricia Kaersenhout and Carolee Schneemann. Context is provided by written guest contributions by Alice Butler, Alison Burstein, Annet Dekker, Susan Gibb and Brian Fuata and de Appel’s archivist Nell Donkers. An edition by Alison Knowles in the shape of a ribbon forms a special prompt to the reader of the book.

Edited by Martha Jager & Hannah Cheney. Designed by Bardhi Haliti & Zuzana Kostelanská.

Produced on the occasion of Thomas Schütte’s exhibition The Laundry Mohr’s Life at Portikus, Frankfurt, 17 June–3 September, 1989 and de Appel, Amsterdam, 26 August–23 September, 1989.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Memorial edition produced on the 10 year anniversary of the deaths of Wies Smals, Josine van Droffelaar, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Martin Barkhuis and Hendrik Smals in a plane crash.

“This is a facsimile of a small aluminum tag which reads ‘Aanwezig’ (Present) on one side, and ‘Afwezig’ (Absent) on the other. It was found at an airport for private planes in Holland in May of 1983. These tags hung on hooks under the names of pilots who frequented that airport, indicating their presence or absence. I was moved to take one, and have had it on my desk ever since.”

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the performance of Partial Eclipse at de Appel Amsterdam, 25 April–10 May, 1980.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Jean-Marc Bustamante’s exhibition at de Appel, 17 March–22 April, 1990. With a text from Saskia Bos, designed by Irma Boom.

This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by de Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation Works and Words. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. Including artists such as; KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik and Przemysłav Kwiek), Július Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Dóra Maurer, Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinovic, Jozef Robakowski amongst others.

You can find more information on the exhibition here.