Past Events

Tuesday 25 June

Celebrate the launch of Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly — a new book, compiled by editor-in chief Sam Ashby — that brings together the cult periodical’s elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style. 

Wednesday 26 June

Join us to celebrate the launch of Shirley Irons's new book Composition. This two-volume publication brings together an overview of the artist’s paintings to date, alongside multifaceted reflections on art, artmaking, and landscape through a selection of her short essays and stories.

Wednesday 3 July

Petra Blaisse and editors Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen will be in conversation with architect Kersten Geers to celebrate the launch of Art Applied, a kaleidoscopic view of Petra Blaisse and acclaimed studio Inside Outside’s work across interior, landscape, and exhibition design. The conversation will be moderated by CIVA's artistic director Nikolaus Hirsch.

Saturday 20 July

Join Adam Broomberg for a discussion about Anchor in the Landscape, a book that brings together studied, absorbing portraits of olive trees in Palestine, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and destroyed. Issa Amro will be joining the conversation online from Hebron.

Friday 5 July

Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez will be signing copies of Anchor in the Landscape, a book that depicts the olive tree as a symbol of occupation and resistance in Palestine, bearing witness to a landscape that is increasingly destroyed. ⁠

Wednesday 10 July

Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez will be in conversation with Issa Amro to mark the launch of Anchor in the Landscape, a book that brings together studied, absorbing portraits of olive trees in Palestine which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and destroyed.