Fair Enough Bookfair 2026

Art Book Fair

23.–24.5.
2026

ETDM,Lai 17,
Tallinn

The third edition of Fair Enough Art Book Fair will take place between May 23–24, 2026 at The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. Fair Enough Art Book Fair was initiated in 2024 to support independent art publishing and distribution in Estonia. This year, we are once again welcoming over 30 publishers from around the world to showcase and sell their work, alongside a free public programme running throughout the weekend. In addition to the art book fair, Fair Enough also operates as a distributor at other book fairs and hosts annual Book Bar events.

Contact

fairenough.bookfair[at]gmail.com
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Organised by Agnes Isabelle Veevo and Linnea Lindgren

Graphic design by Urtina Hoxha and Agnes Isabelle Veevo

Web design and development by Akseli Manner

Thanks to Yvette Bathgate & Jake Shepherd, Kai Lobjakas and the museum team, City of Tallinn, Bar IDA.

Publishers

12:15 (LT)
A Shade Colder / Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (EE)
Azimuts – Research Art Design (FR)
Bleu. (DE)
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (DE)
Colorama (DE)
Craft Studies (EE)
EKA GD MA (EE)
Fair Enough (EE)
Fantasy Football Magazine (FI)
Hurray Mail (EE)
kes kardab minervat? (EE)
Khaos Publishing (FI)
Kroplya (EE)
Lee Ell (EE)
Liisi Grünberg & Ella-Mai Matsina (EE)
Loom Literary Journal (AU)
Mesimagus (EE)
Narvamus (EE)
OPA! Publishing (EE)
Pamphlet Bookseller /
Catalog Publishing (EE/BE/NL)
Pes Press (SK)
Postlife Magazine (FI/HU)
PUBLICS (FI)
Rab-Rab Press (FI)
Rooftop Press (FI)
Roti auk (EE)
SO-RI (BE)
SPRINT Milano (IT)
starter-KIT (EE)
Trickster Magazine (EE)
Utu Press (FI)
Walkscapes (BE)
Werkplaats Typografie (NL)

Saturday 23.5.

PUBLIC PROGRAM
(All events will be in English)

10:00–12:00 & 13:00–15:00

Workshop

HOP Gallery, Hobusepea tänav 2

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place (in Tallinn)

Mark Foss

The workshop, led by Mark Foss, invites you to read, respond to, and create from the text. The workshop will include a reading of Georges Perec's "An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris" (1975), which focuses on mapping everyday often unnoticed details.

The workshop is in two parts 10:00–12:00 (reading and collecting material) and 13:00–15:00 (organising and producing). The text, along with a few more details, will be provided after registration.

Please sign up for the workshop by emailing Mark at markjfoss[at]gmail.com by 20 May. Before the workshop we will meet at the courtyard of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Lai 17.

11:30–12:00

Book Launch

ETDM, Lai 17

Saturday Morning

OPA! Publishing

Saturday Morning – 24 vector drawings of unmade beds, messy chairs and wardrobes and a play of words Like Nylon Tights in the Washing Machine by Lea Wittich.

12:30–13:00

A Reveal

ETDM, Lai 17

Here Be …

Jesters

‘Here Be …’ is a new and naughty editorial platform that will announce itself with a celebratory and hyperpublic reveal in the Fair Enough courtyard. As your host and jester, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans invites you for an informal radio talk about in-jokes and micropublishing, over bites, fruits, and pours.

13:15–14:00

Talk

ETDM, Lai 17

The Story of Soviet Estonian Plastic Bags

Marite Kuus-Hill

In Soviet Estonia, the plastic bag was an item of great value. This was a symbol of consumerism, the modern West, something to aspire to. Plastic bags became coveted fashion accessories and trusty household items. However, when the Union collapsed in the 1990s and a new era flowed in, attitudes to this humble item changed drastically. Now, the plastic bag is one of our most despised pests. What is the role of the plastic bag now? What does the story of the Soviet Estonian Plastic Bag reveal about how we treat the objects that we live with?

14:15–15:00

Talk

ETDM, Lai 17

Art and Activism

Juliana Irene Smith

Smith will discuss art and activism through the feminist lens of 'the personal + collective = political' and how personal narratives can be acts of solidarity. She will talk about her book Good Feelings Every Day (Utu Press, 2025), recent winner of the Finnish Photo Book of the Year (2025), as well as other favorite art books and zines that are forms of activism.

15:30–16:15

Book Launch

ETDM, Lai 17

sex&place vol.1–4

Adriano Wilfert Jensen & Andrea Zavala Folache

Artists Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen will present their publication project sex and place vol. 1–4, as part of the public program at Fair Enough Art Book Fair. The ‘sex and place’ series is part of Domestic Anarchism, a project devoted to coalition-building beyond biological, chosen, or national conceptions of family. On the occasion of the fair Andrea and Adriano will briefly introduce Domestic Anarchism, invite the audience into a collective reading and open a conversation about the project.

Domestic Anarchism is presented at Kanuti Gildi SAAL between May 28–31.

20:00–03:30

Fair Enough Art Book Fair Afterparty

Bar IDA, Telliskivi tn 60a/5, 10412 Tallinn

Join us for a night full of great music at Tallinn’s best dance spot! The entrance is free before midnight, after that 5 euros at the door. We hope to see you there!

Lineup

22:00–23:15 blue.ester.cult (FI)

23:15–00:30 DJ Laura Merendi (EE)

00:30–01:45 Kadri-Ann DJ (EE)

01:45–03:30 Felix Alexander Lybeck (FI)

Sunday 24.5.

11:30–12:15

Book Launch & Lecture

ETDM, Lai 17

Writing and Curating Public Space: On Publishing and Making Public

Elena Malzew (BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE)

The event introduces the publication Über Brücken Bridging, developed alongside a long-term project in public space in Cologne, Germany. Reflecting on the intersections of curating, publishing, and urban practice, the talk explores how books can extend site-specific work, create new publics, and engage with questions of visibility, memory, and access in the city.

13:00–13:30

Publication Launch

ETDM, Lai 17

Friendship Forever

Brigit Arop, Agnes Isabelle Veevo & 12:15

Friendship Forever is a one of a kind newspaper that brings together a group of Estonian and Lithuanian artists who have been asked to reflect on contemporary friendship. In this issue, you can take a look at friendship as a search for another self, navigate the journey of friendship guided by your star sign, recognize the discomfort of working in friendship, try to untangle the web of rumors, think of friendship as a currency, test your tolerance in the blurry area between friendship and romance, say goodbye to former friends, sail the sea of trust and spirituality with the compass of friendship, and more.

14:00–15:00

Launch

ETDM, Lai 17

Endings and Beginnings

Alina Scharnhorst and Agathe Mathel

The upcoming publication series is interested in conditions of work, rest, and non-productive materials. It emerges both online and on-site, using gatherings to collectively engage with the contributions of various artists, writers and designers. This first issue considers the topic of Endings and Beginnings with contributions by Anna Wittenkamp Rich, Fernanda Saval, and Chloé Gourvennec.

15:30–16:00

Book Launch

ETDM, Lai 17

Catalog: Collected

Lieven Lahaye

Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This book collects the different Catalog signatures, published since 2020. These were originally published as support structures for exhibitions, events and talks. It’s a book that started from one interest (the near invisibility of writer Duncan Smith) and then followed many different tangents until it ended up somewhere… miscellaneous.

With contributions by Phil Baber, Carlo Canún, Kasia Fudakowski, Annie Goodner, Meg Miller, Noah Emanuel Morrison, Joke Robaard, Duncan Smith and Anu Vahtra. With material from the archives of Kathy Acker, Sylvère Lotringer, Terrence Sellers, Semiotext(e), IISG