Istituto Svizzero is pleased to announce its double participation in the 7th edition of SPRINT – Independent Publishers and Artists Books Salon.

Exhibition “BLADE-BANNER”

Tania Grace Knuckey, Fellow Milano Calling 2019/2020, will participate in SPRINT with the collective “BLADE-BANNER” (together with Alessandro Di Pietro, Viola Leddi, Petra Rocca, Matteo Rubbi, Giovanni Zanda).

SPRINT is a non-profit platform devoted to investigate the multiple ways in which contents, supports and languages emerge in publishing.

Among the invited publishers will be Boabooks (Geneva), Edition Fink (Zürich), Everyedition (Zürich), Jungle Books (St.Gallen), Tria Publishing Platform (Zürich-Beijing). In the three-day program, SPRINT presents an editorial salon, talks, workshops, exhibitions, performances and a fundraising party.

For the full programme please visit sprintmilano.org

Tania Grace Knuckey (Textile Design and Multimedia Arts)
Tania Grace Knuckey (1987, Geneva) graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2009 and the Royal College of Art in London in 2012 with a Master’s degree in Mixed Media Textiles. She has won numerous awards, amongst others the Marianne Straub Travelling Scholarship from the Royal College of Art in 2011, The Future of Beauty Award in 2012 from the International Flavours and Fragrances (IFF), and the first prize for the Best Interior Fabrics from Textprint. Tania was selected by the city of Geneva for a residency at the Maison Des Arts du Grütli from 2016 to 2019 .

Workshop Risograph

On 16 and 17 November, SPRINT-Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon is organising, in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero, a Risograph printing workshop curated by the Swiss designer Eilean Friis-Lund and coordinated by artist and photographer Elena Radice.

For more information
Workshop Risograph