The bookstore, onsite and online, welcomes the printed endeavours of contemporary artists, thinkers, writers, musicians, poets, and other art workers.

We work with international publishers, mostly independent ones, involved in questions of art, culture, and theory. We propose a “handpicked” selection of new and seminal monographs, artists’ books, catalogues, essays, novels, non fiction books, journals and zines, that you may not find altogether ever again.

After 8 Books continues the work of Section 7 Books, a bookstore that started as a department of castillo/corrales (2007-2015).

After 8 Books is curating Croissant, a bookshop at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

After 8 Books is also publishing books.

APARTAMENTO (ed.)
Apartamento #34

Finally the elephant in the living room.

Featuring: Espace Aygo, Ronan Bouroullec, Rose Wylie, Agosto Machado, Miyako Bellizzi, SAGG Napoli, Jane Dickson, Luca Lo Pinto, Gary Schneider & John Erdman, Celeste, Beca Lipscombe, Edgardo Giménez, Molly Manning Walker, Danny Fox, Bethan Laura Wood, Tove Jansson, and Olivia Laing. Plus: Texts by Phoebe Chen, Wale Ayinla, Janika Oza, Thea McLachlan, Miguel Ángel Hernández (tr. Fionn Petch), Claudia Durastanti, Elena Saavedra Buckley, and Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa); and ‘The Kid with No Dad’, a short story by Alejandro Zambra (tr. Megan McDowell)

Autumn/Winter 2024

Published by Apartamento Publishing, 2024
Periodicals

Price: 18€

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MITCHELL, Dan
How to cope with abundance

The work in this publication aims to offer some questions regarding what this means for the modern psyche, caught as it is in the never-ending massive array of choices. From supermaket shelves to entertainment feeds, images to opinions, lifestyle apps to art in the booths of countless fairs, all these products and service options come with their own tailored campaigns, alerts and notifications. Our hyperactive attention must navigate the multidimensional, interlinked suggestions in the form of a giant, ubiquitous, ever-morphing, collaged blitz of multimedia.

This abundance causes its own form of stress; a dizzying, paralysing, and alienating effect takes hold. This anxiety can soon be relived by suscribing to any of the many compulsive reward mechanisms made available by modern ralism: drugs, sex, impulse buying, gambling, smoking, drinking, doomscrolling etc.

Published by Dirty Books, 2024
Artists’ Books / Periodicals

Price: 20€

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