Edition Patrick Frey

Starting in 1986, Edition Patrick Frey has published more than 300 books until today. Collaborating closely with mainly Swiss but also international artists, the publishing house focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs.

The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but the publishing house has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Karen Kilimnik, Anne-Lise Coste, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 15 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.

Yelena Yemchuk, Malanka, Edition Patrick Frey, 2024 © Yelena Yemchuk

Malanka is Ukrainian American visual artist, Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook. Like all bodies of work by Yemchuk, Malanka is personal, feminine, surrealist, and touched by a spell. The eponymous tradition is a pre-christian, heavily incantatory folklore ritual that takes place on January 14, the Old New Year in the Julian calendar. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine, and its origins are largerly unknown.

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Vera Lehndorff, Holger Trülzsch, The Seen and the Unseen, Edition Patrick Frey, 2023 © Vera Lehndorff, Holger Trülzsch

Lehndorff & Trülzsch developed an oeuvre of remarkably innovative staged photographs of body paintings — a synthesis of painting, photography, and performance — during an intensively creative period from the 1970s to the late 1980s.

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Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region.

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