SPEAKERS 2025

After studying political science, Lucile Ourvouai changed course to enrol at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. During her studies, she founded the fanzine l'Ennui and became interested in micro-publishing in all its forms and in collective work. She developed a taste for serigraphy, which shaped her understanding and interpretation of colour. Currently, in addition to being a press illustrator, she is an editor and cultural manager in Marseille, involved in the field of comics and fanzines. She is particularly interested in micro-publishing, rarities and the female perspective in comics. She is behind two fanzines: L'Ennui and Fanatic Female Frustration, the latter of which won the independent publishing category at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2025.

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.

Marika Maijala works across writing, illustration, visual arts and animation. She currently works in the Artists’ House on Harakka Island, Helsinki, and studies painting at Free Art School Helsinki. Her artistic practice draws from play, experiment, trial and error in the spirit of DIY. Marika’s main creative sources are the realm of narration, that she used to love as a child, as well as her relationships with other living and non-living creatures. Her versatile body of work includes picture books, art books, paintings, drawings, texts, animations, videos, installations and illustrations for public spaces.

Raisa Raekallio from Kittilä, Finland, and Misha del Val from Bilbao, Basque Country are a Lapland-based artist couple. Raisa studied fine arts in Finland and Misha in the Basque Country and Australia. They are working in collaboration on paintings, drawings, performance art pieces, ceramics, curatorial projects, and podcasts since 2013.

Myrto Delivoria was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. She is a painter and an illustrator. She has illustrated books, theatre posters, boardgames and her work has been published in Greece, Brazil, Korea and France.  She has been honored for her illustrations with the Greek State Illustration Award, the! EBGE Illustration Award, the IBBY GREECE Illustration Award among others. In 2016 she received an honorable mention on the IBBY Honour List 2016.e Honor IBBY 201

Take Take Take was founded in 2015 by graphic designer Nikola Janíčková and illustrator Jindřich Janíček. TTT is a tiny publishing house. For a few years, it was also an even smaller bookshop. «We publish books of various genres. We stopped looking for a connection between them a long time ago. We both also develop our own artistic careers outside Take Take Take, illustrating and designing for other publishers and clients».

Theda Mimilaki received her Bachelor of Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. Additional interests included graphic design, multimedia and printmaking. Theda has been illustrating children’s books and young adult's literature books covers since 2010 and she has also focused on educational aspects of visual arts in primary schools. Nominated twice for Greek State Illustration Award and twice for IBBY Greece Illustration Award. She has participated in several art festivals and exhibitions. She lives in Volos, a small town near mountain Pelion.

Vanessa López is an editor at La Duplicadora in CDMX together with Emmanuel García. Since 2016 they have been reproducing and redesigning prints found in the private collections of some second-hand old bookshops, and they also publish current works by emerging artists. They are committed to small editions. They like to publish books that take advantage of the qualities of the risograph printing system and pay special attention to the finishes.