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Upcoming events:

⋆ Helsinki Design Week
participation, 6-7 September
Cable factory

->”Wheat, Wood, Wool”
by Chloé Bertron (launch)
->Books by Mail 2025/2026
opening of the subscription
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THE TEMPORARY BOOKSHELF IS A PLATFORM DISTRIBUTING PUBLISHING PRACTICES THROUGH CURATED BOOKSHOPS AND EVENTS. 

PUBLICATIONS, ART BOOKS, ZINES, INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AND SELF-PUBLISHED. 

THE TEMPORARY BOOKSHELF IS LOCATED IN HELSINKI, FINLAND, IT IS AN ARTIST RUN INITIATIVE FOUNDED IN 2021.


PUBLISHED BY TTBBOOKS2025Licking the Moonlight, in collaboration with Taidetila Muijala
Aether, commissioned work of Milla Aska
Wheat. Wood, Wool, commissioned work of Chloé Bertron


2025/2026 upcoming:Under the Leaf Art Book Fair, organising, at Uniarts Helsinki, 5-6 June 2026
Helsinki Design Week, participation, 6-7 September


EVENTS ORGANISING & PARTICIPATION2025 Teurastamo art and crafts fair, participation
Licking the Moonlight, first book published by ttbbooks
Winter writer residency programme, organised with Muijala taidetila
Tokio Art Book Fair, participation

2024Under the Leaf Art Book Fair #3, organising, with Drifts festival, Art School Maa
Studio HOP HOP HOP, organising, with Kotilo Studio

2023Under the Leaf Art Book Fair #2, Kohta Gallery & Kalasataman Seripaja
Utopias Lahti x The Temporary Bookshelf, official festival bookshop & Art Book Fair
Children’s Saturday: Let’s make a book!, workshop for children, Sarjakuvakeskus

2022Frosty December Book Fair, Duotone Photography Studio
Books With Pictures, pop-up curated bookshop, Enne Studio
Seasonal Book Launches, Kalasataman Seripaja
Under the Leaf Art Book Fair, Monitoimitila O.

2021Seasonal Book Launches, Kosminen
Drifts Festival, pop-up curated bookshop, Museum of Impossible Forms
Art Books Outdoors, Pengerpuisto

BOOK CURATION
2023Tokyo Art Book Fair, Finland Guest Curator - the Nordic Art Bookstore

2022Vantaa Art Museum shop, for Transition points(s) exhibition
HIAP (Helsinki International Art Programme), Taming a wild tongue, Open Studio x Laura Cemin
Nordic Culture Point, for A Fruit is Becoming ill in Sugar, performance night

2021Publics gallery, for The Month Of Books festival

BOOKSHOP(S) 
Kaapelitehtaan Konttori, 03.03.2022–28.02.2023
Kosminen Art Space, 27.03.2021–27.11.2021




CONTACT
Hikari Nishida
hello@thetemporarybookshelf.com

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