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.es.

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.

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.

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.