27/06/26, 3-5pm, second Telephone Telephone +31 gathering @Manifold Books
Telephone Telephone +31 27/06/’26, 3-5pm with Peter Lemmens and Nell Donkers
language: English to join, please RSVP via info@manifoldbooks.nl tickets available at the door: €0,-/€4,-/€8,- location:MAP
Dear reader,
Please join us for the second iteration of Telephone Telephone +31, a series of five meetings on the future (of) artists’ legacies organised by Manifold Books in collaboration with Darling Green and curator Alicja Melzacka. The programme addresses practical, creative, and ethical questions surrounding artists’ legacies from a range of perspectives, including those of curators, archivists, legal advisors, and artists themselves.
Our guests will be Antwerp-based artist Peter Lemmens and custodian of de Appel Archive Nell Donkers, who will talk about , classification systems, and different forms of distribution of artistic work. Upon reservation, a concise and optional reader with related texts selected by our guests will be shared with subscribers to the event. These provide additional context for our conversation and further reference. A number of printed copies will be also available in the space.
Telephone Telephone is a regular meeting organised by the NYC-based curatorial office Darling Green to discuss the meaning, uses and methodology of the exhibition form. Part seminar, part reading group and part gathering of , Telephone Telephone is a experiment in dialogue and cooperative discovery.
Prior to the event, feel free to visit our current show Carrying morning on their tongues by JJJJJerome Ellis in our main space, and Arefeh Riahi’s sound piece Be My Ghost in our staircase.
Looking forward to seeing you, Manifold Books
Save the date for the third Telephone Telephone +31 session on Sunday, 19/07/’26, from 3 to 5pm: Our guests will be Andrew Walsh-Lister, typographer, writer, and curator based between the UK and the US and a member of the Lily Greenham Advisory Group, and the Amsterdam based artist Philipp Gufler, a member of the Paul Hoecker Research Group. They will talk about how their artistic and curatorial practices enter into a dialogue with other artists’ legacies.
The fourth and fifth Telephone Telephone +31 meetings will take place after the summer break and will be announced asap.
Still on view: Manifold Books #31 Carrying morning on their tongues JJJJJerome Ellis curated by Alicja Melzacka & Maartje Fliervoet 16/05/’26-11/07’26
Manifold Books #30 Be My Ghost Arefeh Riahi 06/03/’26-19/07/’26
opening hours: Fri-Sat, 1-5pm and by appointment
About our current year programme Of Ghosts and Flowers Of Ghosts and Flowersproposes a transition from our 2024 programmeThe Sphinx’s Riddlearound grief and transformation to an exhibition and event series about non-linear time experiences in 2025 and 2026. The urgency for this arose from the content of this programme, and how the system of linear time imposed on us disintegrates in the face of death, grief and profound mental and physical transformative processes. In addition, it feels urgent to formulate alternative forms of dealing with time because our system of linear time is linked to our economic system; the biggest driver of climate change. The embodied sensations we will look into include non-human perspectives as well as human ones. Of Ghosts and Flowers departs from the work of Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014). So far, the programme includes exhibitions and projects by Rosemary Mayer, Steve Kado, Clem Edwards, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, JJJJJerome Ellis and Arefeh Riahi.
Image caption: Telephone Telephone +31, an animated gif designed by Darling Green.
Initiated by Maartje Fliervoet, Manifold Books is a platform that explores connections between art and books. With each exhibition a few titles are added to its book collection (all including artists’ interventions). As of May 11, 2021, Manifold Books has become a foundation. Its board members are: Arnisa Zeqo (chair), Stephanie Noach (secretary) and Paul Domela (treasurer).
