VOLUMES Archive: The VOLUMES archive is part of “Living library of becomings”, a group exhibition curated by Miwa Negoro at VBKÖ, which derive from a performative library project dedicated to multiple narratives of intersectional, decolonial and queer feminist spirits. Exhibition duration: March 1 – April 10, 2024
VOLUMES Archive: “S-motion” at Visarte Zürich: installation and display of a selection from the VOLUMES archive section curated by the M.Paradoxa artist collective (Ziqi Jiang, Linda Strähl, Balca Ergener, Esther Schena, Lisa Biedlingmaier)
VOLUMES Award: VOLUMES Book Awards 2023, 18/11/23, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2023, 18-19/11/23, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES Mini Fair at Zurich Art Weekend, Saturday, 10/06/2023, 12-20h, on the ramp of Löwenbräukunst Zürich
VOLUMES Archive: 744km, Stories from the Swiss-Alpine frontline, 25/11-10/12/2022, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT
Talk on 03/12/2022, 5pm, with Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo, Salvatore Vitale, SPRINT and VOLUMES
VOLUMES Award: VOLUMES Book Awards 2022, 26/11/22, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2022, 26-27/11/22, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Archive: Fossils: a critique of political imaginations (fig. books)” by Lourenço Soares, 1-9.10.2022, Material, Raum für Buchkultur, Zurich, CH
VOLUMES Book Club: Reading the Most Beautiful Swiss Books, 26/06/22, Helmhaus, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES Mini Fair, The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, 25/06/22, Helmhaus, Zürich, CH
Invitation: Interview by Susanne Bieri with VOLUMES for the publication Schweizer Künstlerbücher - Livres d’Artistes Suisses - Libri d’Artista Svizzeri, Swiss Artists’ Books, published by Walther und Franz König Verlag
Distinction: VOLUMES is awarded the Jan Tschichold Award 2022, 10/03/22
Invitation: Interstices de la librairie, workshop by Anne-Laure Franchette for the Head-Ecal-édhéa symposium, 29/03/22, Château Mercier, Sierre, CH
VOLUMES Award: VOLUMES Book Awards 2021, 19/12/21, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES, 1 day Christmas Edition, 19/12/21, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich, CH
Invitation: Die Sammlerin, interview of Gloria Wismer for Züritipp, Der Kopf, 16/12/21
VOLUMES Workshop: связь, a collaborative experiment between TETI Group, VOLUMES, Write Like A Girl Russia, organized by Anne-Laure Franchette and Svetlana Lukyanova, October 2021, Smena art center, Kazan, RU
VOLUMES Library: Mobile Soils, curated by TETI Group for Modern Nature III, 04/09/21, la becque, La Tour de Peilz, CH
VOLUMES Performance: Günzburger X Bar am Wasser X VOLUMES X Kunsthalle Zürich, Lange Nacht der Museen, 04/09/21, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 1 day Summer Edition, 28/08/21, Sihlquai 274, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Book Club Talks: Mexa: Archive Section Launch, talk by Adriana Dominguez and Paloma Ayala, moderated by Anne-Laure Franchette, 27/08/21, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Book Club Workshop: How to make publications, with Tamara Maggi, moderated by Patrizia Mazzei, 03/07/21, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Book Club Talks: Publishing as practice, talk with Mabe Bethonico, Tine Melzer, Lucille Haute, Berenice Serra, Petra Koehle & Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin, moderated by Anne-Laure Franchette, 26/06/21, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Book Club: Publishers gathering, talk with Ciao Press, DEAR, Edition Ventile, Macaco Press, Tria publishing, moderated by Gloria Wismer, 19/06/21, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
Invitation: Portal conversations, talk between Hellscrape, Freedom Hi and Anne-Laure Franchette, June 2021, Shedhalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Exhibition: Freedom Hi, zine exhibition coordinated with Zine Coop, May-June 2021, Continuity/Transpassing, Shedhalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Archive launch: inter:archive digital platform, by Giovanna Bragaglia, Camille Regli, Miwa Negoro, 03/06/21, VOLUMES archive, Zürich, CH
Invitation: Ortsspezifisches Vokabular: Bücher, workshop with Barbara Biederman, A. Frei & Franziska Koch, Anne-Laure Franchette, Lucie Kolb, Jan Steinbach, Izet Sheshivari, Gloria Wismer, 29/04/21, Sitterwerk Kunstbibliothek, St Gallen, CH
Invitation: VOLUMES, talk by Anne-Laure Franchette, December 2020, Impressions Multiples #9, ENSBA, Caen, FR
VOLUMES Award: VOLUMES Book Awards 2020, 29/11/20 VOLUMES archive, Zürich, CH
Invitation: Coming Commons, Anne-Laure Franchette, Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa in conversation for Station of Commons, 27/11/20, HFKB Hamburg, DE
Invitation: How to postpone until tomorrow when tomorrow is uncertain? Anne-Laure Franchette, Ruggero Pietromarchi, Margaux Schwab in conversation for FCDxradio-40, foodculture days, 25/11/20, Vevey, CH
Invitation: VOLUMES workshop by Anne-Laure Franchette, 26/11/20, Master Maps, édhéa, école d’art du Valais, Sierre, CH
VOLUMES Library: Nature-City archive by TETI Group for the exhibition Oops a Daisy!, 24/10/15/11/20, Dietikon Projektraum, Dietikon, CH
VOLUMES Library: Zürich archive, School of Commons, 2019-2020, ZhDK, Zürich, CH
Invitation: What running a book fair taught us about publishing, conversation between Anne-Laure Franchette, Patrizia Mazzei and Gloria Wismer, October 2020, YET magazine issue #12
VOLUMES on tour: Swiss Self Publishing and the question of the archive, Series of talks, Anne-Laure Franchette, Sep 2019, Smena art center, Kazan; Garage Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Boomfest festival St Petersburg, RU
Invitation: How to do an art book fair now. Discussion between Yue Zhou, Sara Kamalvand and Reyhan Làl, Ruedi Steiner, Gloria Wismer, Bia Bittencourt and León Muñoz Santini, 20/09/20, I Never Read, Basel, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2019, 29/11/ - 1/12/19, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2018, 23/11/ - 25/11/18, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
Invitation: The art of publishing art books independently, interview of Anne-Laure Franchette and Patrizia Mazzei, November 2018, Swissinfo, CH
Invitation: VOLUMES and Swiss Self Publishing, talk by Anne-Laure Franchette, 29/10/17, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, IMPRESIONANTE Book Fair, Santiago, CHL
VOLUMES Library: The Zürich Archive, 2018, Keineklasse, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Library: Hinterland, TETI Group, 05/05 - 23/06/17, Corner College, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2017, 24/11/ - 25/11/17, Helmhaus, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Zine: A Snapshot of Independent Publishing in Switzerland, self published risograph zine by Anne-Laure Franchette and Alex Schauwecker, 02/17d, LAABF, USA
VOLUMES Exhibition: La Bibliothèque à déplacer, VESGE & Les Presses Editables, June 2017, BIG Biennale des espaces d’arts indépendants, Geneva, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2016, 25/11/ - 26/11/16, Gessnerallee, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2015, 27/11/ - 28/11/15, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Talk: Self-Publishing as an art practice, with Esther Eppstein, Milenko Lazic, Ingo Giezendanner, Nicola Genovese, Alex Schauwecker, Gabriel Gee, moderated by Anne-Laure Franchette 25/01/2015, Penthouse Gallery, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #8, Anne-Laure Franchette and Patrizia Mazzei, 19/11/15, FRICTION Nordflügel, Gessnerallee, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #5, #6 and #7, Anne-Laure Franchette and Patrizia Mazzei, 2-4-6/11/15, Liceo Artistico, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #4, Anne-Laure Franchette, 15/10/15, ZHdK Fine Arts Bachelor, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #3, Anne-Laure Franchette and Patrizia Mazzei, 30/05/15 KASSETTE. für projekte, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #2, Anne-Laure Franchette, 29/04/15, ZHdK Fine Arts Bachelor, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Workshop: #1, Anne-Laure Franchette and Patrizia Mazzei, 18/04/15, Corner College, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: VOLUMES 2014, 29/11/14, Perla-Mode, Zürich, CH
VOLUMES Fair: Üsin, Zürich Small Press Fair, 14/11/13, Karussell, Zürich CH