Palermo Publishing

Palermo Publishing, founded by Michela Palermo in 2022, is an independent press focused on contemporary art book culture and the "marginal gaze." Our publications emphasize thoughtful design and materiality, offering a rich, multisensory experience that challenges mainstream narratives. We collaborate with artists, curators, institutions, and archives to present works that provide a counterpoint to dominant cultural perspectives.

In addition to our own titles, we proudly feature KIOSK—a curated selection of books, artists, and practices from other Italian independent publishers and artists. KIOSK highlights diverse viewpoints, fostering new, inclusive perspectives.

Palermo Publishing’s mission is to bridge visual art, poetry, and critical thinking, inviting audiences to engage with works from the margins. Through our publications and pop-up events, we aim to spark a deeper, more inclusive cultural dialogue that questions traditional narratives and celebrates the voices and practices often overlooked in mainstream discourse.

Dieter Busse, Songs for Birds and The Lonely, Palermo Publishing, 2024, © Dieter Busse

Songs for Birds and The Lonely is a tribute to Busse’s remarkable ability to capture the delicate interplay between solitude and connection, nature and the human gaze. Through his lens, portraits are transformed into profound visual poetry, reflecting a deep sensitivity to his subjects and the world he depicts around them. This book offers a compelling collection of images that resonate with haunting beauty and a quiet sense of introspection, showcasing Busse's extraordinary talent in contemporary portraiture.

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Lucia Pescador, Album 900, Palermo Publishing, 2024, © Lucia Pescador

Lucia Pescador's ALBUM 900 is a dynamic, unbound collection that reflects the artist's engagement with memory and her evolving creative process. Beginning in 2018, Pescador began organizing fragments of her works—drawings, films, linoleum, and painted surfaces—into a personal album. This intuitive reorganization of her archive offers a new form for her work, blending various iconographic repertoires from nature, geometry, East and West, and the avant-garde.

The pages of ALBUM 900 are filled with fragments, newspaper clippings, comic strips, and photographs from the artist's travels, exhibitions, and daily life, emphasizing the relational and polyphonic nature of her practice. The book’s unbound format, with 700 copies published, allows readers to experience it intuitively, inviting them to explore dynamic double pages or individual plates, creating new narratives and associations. Through this innovative presentation, ALBUM 900 captures the fluidity and openness of Pescador's creative vision.

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Spanning from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Whereupon presents a selection of black-and-white and color images by American photographer Allen Frame. The work captures intimate moments of his artist friends in New York apartments, lofts, and on the streets, offering an in-depth look into their personal lives. Additionally, the book features scenes from the theater rehearsals of Sounds in the Distance, a production co-directed by Frame and David Wojnarowicz in the 1980s. This monograph deepens Frame’s distinctive photographic style, highlighting his collaborations with notable artists such as Cady Noland, Robert Gober, and Nan Goldin.

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