SPEAKERS 2025

Alexandre Chaize graduate of the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, he is an independent publisher. Since 2013, with Éditions du livre, he has been publishing children’s artist books with a geometric, minimalist, and colorful aesthetic. Whether game books or wordless picture books, each work explores a specific material aspect of the book: printing, handling, etc. In keeping with Bruno Munari’s publishing experiments, Éditions du livre upholds a clear principle: the form of the book is its content.

Casper Clausen, is a danish musician, front man of illustrious band Efterklang and adjacent project Liima unveils his debut solo album “Better Way”. On this first sole venture he exhibits a new sense of ingenuity and musical exploration, unrestricted by formats, genres and collective goals. He presents a kaleidoscopic album journeying new terrain, twisting dense textures and swirls of sound into tales of the two alpha and omegas: Alienation and Love.

Graduated in printmaking, Fátima Moreno (Granada, 1980) currently lives in Lisbon. She works as an illustrator and more recently has been exploring painting along with drawing in her most personal expression. Her artistic practice is naturally integrated into different fields, and she frequently collaborates with fashion, object design or scenography. As an illustrator she has worked for different clients and as an artist her work has been shown in several exhibitions mostly in Portugal.

Germán di Pierro is an illustrator and writer, author of books such as Aparato Reproductor (2010), Pólvora (2017) and Trabajo para alquilar (2025), a compilation of his illustrations together with Microutopías. He is the founder of Casa de Balneario, an illustration and graphic activism project that produces urban interventions and publications of graphic storytelling and illustrated narrative. By means of stickers in public spaces, they disseminate posters and illustrated stories that deal with the issues of work, money and the price of rent.

Hikari Nishida is a curator and artist, who uses the artistic book as the focus of her work.  She has developed different cultural projects that strengthen the independent art book field in Finland. In her project, The Temporary Bookshelf, Hikari Nishida curates art books and magazines that the public would otherwise not find in a traditional bookstore. Nishida describes her project as a platform for artistic publications. She began in 2021 with a physical nonprofit bookshop at Kosminen gallery and continues to curate projects from independent publishers to make them accessible to the Finnish public. She also curates art events and co-directs UNDER THE LEAF BOOK FAIR, the Helsinki art publications fair, now in its fourth edition.

Ifiyenia Kamperi is a Greek illustrator specializing in children’s books and fantastical storytelling. Since 2017, she has collaborated with leading Greek publishers. Her work has received the EBGE Illustration Award (2021) and was featured in the White Raven catalogue (2019). She holds an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art (2023).

Juliana Hyrri is an Estonian-born visual artist, painter, cartoonist and illustrator whose work explores the intersection of language and expression. After studying Fine Arts in Helsinki her works has been included in several finish contemporary art museum’s collections. In 2023, she was honoured with the State Award by The National Council for Multidisciplinary Art, recognizing her impactful contributions to the Finnish contemporary comics and illustration scene.

Athens Art Book Fair is an artist-run initiative aiming to bring together and showcase artist publications produced in Greece as well as to create a link with publishing-based artistic practices (print, online and else) internationally. It was founded in 2019 by Margarita Athanasiou and Michalis Pichler. Margarita Athanasiou is an artist and organizer based in Athens, Greece. Her practice is text-based, utilizes collage techniques and brings together autobiography and history to create multi-layered narratives in the form of publications, video essays, prints, memes and digital images.