08.05.25, 19:00, David Reinfurt, "Here are some tips to give your work a life.”

David Reinfurt is an independent graphic designer in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and received an MFA from Yale University in 1999. On the first business day of 2000, David formed O-R-G inc., a flexible graphic design practice composed of a constantly shifting network of collaborators. Together with graphic designer Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David established Dexter Sinister in 2006 as a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in New York City. Together with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and Angie Keefer, David set up a non-profit institution called The Serving Library in 2011 which maintains a physical collection of art and design works, stages events, and publishes an annual journal. David was 2010 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow in Architecture and Design and 2017 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Centres Georges Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. David has written two books, Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017) and A New Program For Graphic Design (Inventory Press/DAP, 2019) and is Professor of the Practice at Princeton University.

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organised by Sara De Bondt with input from Godart Bakkers, Dirk Deblauwe, Thomas Desmet, Ronny Duquenne, Arthur Haegeman, Julie Héneault, Jurgen Maelfeyt, Ine Meganck, Julie Peeters, Josse Pyl, and the students of the graphic design department

05.02.26, 18:00,

Sébastien Bovie, Jessica Gysel, Ward HeirweghlectureAgendaArtistic activities

Sébastien Bovie

copyshop— is an independent artist book publisher, founded in 2023 by Sébastien Bovie and Tseu Ying Tang. Working in small, mostly hand-made editions, the platform treats publishing as a space for experiment, critical engagement, and dialogue. Its methodology develops through close collaboration with artists and writers, treating the book as a medium in its own right rather than solely a vehicle for content. Positioning publishing as a social and local practice, Copyshop— focuses on supporting disruptive and experimental approaches to bookmaking. By prioritising the social over profit, it aims to challenge the institutional framing of the artist’s book and ask how care and collaboration might reshape an object-based landscape.

Jessica Gysel

Jessica Gysel is a Belgian writer, editor, and cultural organiser based in Brussels. She writes about feminist, queer, and collective art practices developing on the margins of the contemporary art world. Gysel is an editor at GLEAN, where she contributes essays and interviews on artists and cultural practitioners. She is the co-founder of several queer feminist initiatives, including the magazine Girls Like Us, the event platform Girls Heart Brussels, and the ephemeral bar project Mothers & Daughters. She recently became coordinator for Team Publiek at Kaaitheater and co-edited Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos, published by Valiz.

Ward Heirwegh

Ward Heirwegh is a designer and publisher based in Antwerp, Belgium. He graduated from Sint-Lucas Ghent in 2007, after which he established an independent practice as a graphic designer and art director within the cultural sector. Since 2013, he has been a faculty member at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) and has conducted workshops in Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania, and Canada. He is the founder of the now-defunct Sleeperhold Publications and currently pursues small-scale publishing and various artistic projects under the name Verantwoordelijke Uitgever.

26.02.26,

Rietlanden Women’s Office, KASKlezingenlectureAgendaArtistic activities

Graphic designers Elisabeth Rafstedt and Johanna Ehde are Rietlanden Women’s Office (2018, Rietlanden in Amsterdam). They are interested in current and historical methods of collaborative graphic design. Together they make the publication series MsHeresies which is about the ornamental in feminist collaboration. They give lectures and guest teach in book design and typography at various institutions around Europe, and together with Phil Baber of The Last Books they organise the poetry reading series Don’t Pay Your Rent.

26.03.26, 18:00,

Erin HoneycuttlectureAgendaArtistic activities

Erin Honeycutt is a writer and bookmaker based in Berlin, where they run CUTT PRESS, a publishing project dedicated to pamphlets, poetry chapbooks, artist books, and reprints often in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room, a bookshop centering anticolonial and queer perspectives. Their work explores the material life of language and the evolving institution of the book. Erin is the author of Dear Enheduanna (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Night School forthcoming from MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.

With CUTT PRESS, Erin co-edits two imprints: Womanwood, an open-call smut gazette, and Vortext, a mail-order poetry magazine focused on the afterlife of literature. Their publishing practice often engages with alternative modes of circulation, communal authorship, and the poetics of print culture.

Erin has taught across writing and art, including the Radical Publishing seminar at Universität der Künste Berlin and Intro to Video Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. They also curate reading and performance events, including the forthcoming series Real Ekphrasis at ChertLüdde Gallery in collaboration with Susan Finlay.

23.04.26, 18:00,

OK-RMlectureAgendaArtistic activities

OK-RM was founded in 2008 by Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath as a studio exploring the potential of design across disciplines and media. Their work — spanning books, identities, film, exhibitions, and installation — emerges from conceptually rigorous processes attentive to both form and context. Each project functions as a proposition, interrogating beliefs, materials, and cultural realities while fostering collaboration. Their practice is documented in the monograph A Meaningful Order. With commissions from institutions and individuals worldwide — including the Guggenheim, Tate, JW Anderson, Virgil Abloh, and Vivienne Westwood — OK-RM balances sustained research with sensitivity to collaborators’ needs.

In 2015, Knight and McGrath also founded InOtherWords, an experimental publishing imprint. The imprint has produced over 37 publications and continues to explore the book as an object and cultural form. Each publication follows its own conceptual and material logic, emphasising craft, flow, intuition, and collaboration. InOtherWords seeks to expand the spatial and temporal possibilities of printed matter, fostering exchange between artists, cultural practitioners, and audiences through carefully considered contexts and experimental forms.