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⋆ 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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Aether - by Milla Aska

published by ttbbooks (The Temporary Bookshelf imprint)

124x175mm
32 pages
4 and 1 color Risograph (cover)
3 and 1 color Risograph (inside)
Risograph printing
Munken Pure 120 gsm (cover) / Munken Pure 100 gsm (inside)
Saddle stich binding
150 copies
Printed in Helsinki by If by Magic

“Aether” starts the series of publications printed in Risograph printing, published by The Temporary Bookshelf.
The artists are selected for their powerful inner world and the collection serves as a visual series, presenting new and/or never shown artworks.

Biography
Milla Aska (b. 1993) works mainly with painting and drawing. She graduated in 2020 with a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and is currently based in Helsinki. Aska’s works are characterised by thin layers of color, vague shapes and bodies in motion, embodying a sense of mystery and emotion.

Available in bookstores and our webshop soon!

Licking the Moonlight

published by ttbbooks (The Temporary Bookshelf imprint)

108x175mm
94 pages
300 copies

This publication includes contributions from 10 writers who joined Taidetila Muijala’s writing residency program in collaboration with The Temporary Bookshelf, during the winter of 2024–2025. 


“Licking the Moonlight”  is an ode to the time spent together and a way to share its fruits. United by their embodied experience of the Finnish winter in nature, the writers capture a sense of interrelatedness and soft skills. This publication invites you to take time to connect and is a reminder that sensitivity is key, our utmost power to be cherished and cultivated.

Authors: Georgia Kareola, Yidan Karel Li, Carlotta Ortinger, Katarína Poliačiková, Maryam Shahidifar, Laura Suurhasko, Mimma Tuomisalo, Catharina Vergeer, Anne Marijn Voorhorst, Sophie Wright.

Drawings: Serhii Varlamov 
Editor: Roos Hermsen
Design: Alex Walker 

Taidetila Muijala is an art space and artist residency located in Reila, Finland. As an artist-run organisation, they focus on artistic freedom, artists’ wellbeing, feminism and ecology. Since 2023, they have been running a year-round artist residency program.

A presentation of the publication was organised at “Arts and Crafts Fair”, Teurastamo, 26.7.2025

Available in bookstores and our webshop soon!


Koekeittiö Browsing Library
The Temporary Bookshelf’s selection of publications accompanies Koekeittiö’s events and exhibitions thematic programme throughout the year. New titles are added to the collection for each event/exhibition organised at the art space. 

Curated by The Temporary Bookshelf and includes bookworks by artists and small presses, international and local works rarely seen in Finland.

About Koekeittiö
The experimental kitchen is a performance space set up by seven artists and a work lab that explores food from the starting point of art. The aim of the project is to build an established platform for multi-artistic and academic interaction focusing on edible material.



























Tokio Art Book Fair (by Tokyo Art Book Fair)

 The Temporary Bookshelf was invited as a Host Exhibitor to participate at the first edition of Tokio Art Book Fair (2025). 
The guests of The Temporary Bookshelf were artist Misa Asanuma and shiwashiwa.

TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR 2025 is a new art book fair organized by TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR. Its first edition will take place at Shiba Park Hotel for three days from May 2 (Fri) to 4 (Sun), 2025. The fair will bring together around 55 groups of artists, publishers, bookstores, and galleries from Japan and overseas who are engaged in unique practices related to the publication of works such as art books and zines.

By adopting a format in which exhibitors invite other exhibitors and making full use of the Shiba Park Hotel’s unique “library hotel” space, we aim to invigorate the independent publishing scenes both within and outside Japan, while encouraging exchanges among participants.
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Books by Mail

 Books by Mail is a bimonthly subscription for Finland-based readers consisting of 6 international publications and zines. The titles which were picked by The Temporary Bookshelf have rarely been seen or distributed in Finland.

Books that reflect on books, books about and by artists and designers, writers, collectives, books that reflect on the medium and present it to an audience in their own vision.

The publishing contributors are key figures of the international scene, they develop the question of what is an artist’s book, an art publication, in many ways and pages. If some of the names are unfamiliar to you, we warmly invite you to take a look at their range of work; we hope that this subscription is just a glimpse of a long search, collection and sharing of art publishing.

June, 2024
I’m the Baby. Gotta love me
Stefanie Leinhos
Published by Foot Books

August, 2024
HOOT 7 — spring 2022
Inventory & Giselle's books
Published by GUFO

October, 2024
 Géographe inscrit*
 Denis Briand
Published by Éditions Incertain Sens


Under the Leaf Art Book Fair #3

07/09/2024 - 08/09/2024

The third edition of Under the Leaf Art Book Fair was organised in collaboration with Drifts Festival and featured more than 60 local and international publishers. 

During the weekend over 700 visitors came to enjoy books and the program at Art School Maa in Suomenlinna.

This year's edition included:

Talks and presentations by MMS Collective, Not Just A Collective, Limestone Books, Rab-Rab Press

Book launches by Paul O’Neill, Association of Photographic Artists & Utu Press

Performances by Iona Roisin, Leomi Sadler, Nygel Panasco

Special participation by Koekeittiö

You can find more details about the program here

Under the Leaf Art Book Fair is co-organised yearly with Sara Blosseville (Fétiche editions).

Featured on Helsingin Sanomat
Tokyo Art Book Fair (TABF)
Guest Curator 23/11/2023 - 26/11/2023

Finland guest curator at the Tokyo Art Book Fair - the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. 

The Temporary Bookshelf was invited to curate 50 titles from Finland, to be presented and sold at the Nordic Art Book Store. 

In addition, a selection of 10 artist books from the Rikhardinkatu Library Artists’ Book collection were presented. The 10 titles have been selected by Emmi Martin, Heini Korhonen and Hikari Nishida. The selection acts as a representation of the collection, from the artist’s book as a unique object to printed multiples. 

TTB’s Special Zine collection was launched during TABF. The project consists of a series of self-published titles from 17 artists and designers based in Helsinki: each of them have been invited to publish a title “carte blanche”.

The Sunken Garden hosted a live music performance with Yoichi Kamimura & Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir: 
sounds from Finland to Iceland and Japan.

Cast aluminium letter bookstands were designed by Helsinki Type Studio.

The curators of the Nordic Art Bookstore were invited to participate to a talk event.

https://tokyoartbookfair.com/2023/en/guest_country/7149/
Students visits
Throughout the year, The Temporary Bookshelf gives regurlarly presentation to students as part of their courses’ curriculum. 

Recent student visits and presentations include the University of the Arts Helsinki, 
Aalto University, Eindhoven Academy, Konstfack University, Art School Maa, LAB University of Applied Science.































Under the Leaf Art Book Fair #2

21/10/2023 - 22/10/2023

The second edition of Under the Leaf Art Book Fair gathered independent publishers & artists, workshops, performances, gigs and cakes. 
Around 500 visitors came at Kunsthalle Kohta to enjoy books and events over the weekend. 

This year’s edition included:
Book Launch of ‘Can We Speak Between?’
by students of the MA Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Performances at Kalasataman Seripaja by Zody Burke, Death by Landscape, Alsa Ojala, Heta Bilaletdin, Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Arni.

Workshop with artist Robin Clifford Ellis ‘Print the Gocco Way’: printing a postcard with a miniature printing device.

Special displays by Océane Bruel & Dylan Ray Arnold K0ira1 & Emma Vilppula, Amorella Collective (Kadri-Ann Kivisild, Lydia Toivanen).

Under the Leaf Art Book Fair is co-organised yearly with Sara Blosseville (Fétiche editions).

https://kohta.fi/event/under-the-leaf-2-art-book-fair