Viaindustriae Publishing

Viaindustriae is a publishing house, visual art research centre, archive and exhibition space based in Foligno, PG, Italy. Established as a non-profit association in 2005, Viaindustriae promotes projects and artistic research raging from museographic displays, site-specific installations, public actions, artist residencies and publications of various formats among other innovative strategies. In the last ten years, publishing has become one the most established activity of the association. Viaindustriae publishes artist’s books, experimental research books, territorial studies, exhibition catalogues, monographic catalogues – among other forms of publishing. Viaindustriae uses the publishing practice as a tool for production, education and artistic experimentation. The books have different formats that do not follow the standards of a canonical publishing practice but rather the needs and specificities of every project. Viaindustriae considers the act of publishing as an act of translation that requires a transformation of the work of art into a new form, where the work itself develops new possibilities and meanings; for this reason, each book becomes an independent platform and not just an occasion for the transfer of contents.

TAYSIR BATNIJI, You Will Find Nothing Alive Like Its Own Image, Viaindustriae, 2026, © TAYSIR BATNIJI

You Will Find Nothing Alive Like Its Own Image, Cover

The work of the Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji (born in Gaza in 1966, currently based in Paris) is indissolubly tied to the collective history of his homeland and his people, although refracted through the lens of his individual experience.
Through photography and video, drawing and painting, sculpture and installation, he gives life to works imbued with a sense of impermanence and fragility, which explore the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the material and the im-material, presence and absence. Poetic reflection and a bitter irony are the means through which Batniji deals with the trauma of displacement and the representation of disappearance.
With an original text by Karim Kattan.

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Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi, Bolletti/no, Viaindustriae, 2025, © Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no is a hands-on journal of experimental didactics published between 2020 and 2023 (12 issues plus a special edition). Each issue offers practical exercises in observation, experimentation, collecting, and storytelling, encouraging readers to create a personal “domestic art” archive. The journal evolved from single issues to a subscription and is now available as a complete box set with all editions and posters.

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Edited by Matteo Binci, Pietro Consolandi, Giacomo Pigliapoco, Bianca Schröder, Hill of Desires. Practices of Rural Imagination, Viaindustriae, 2025, © Edited by Matteo Binci, Pietro Consolandi, Giacomo Pigliapoco, Bianca Schröder

Hill of Desires is a collective publishing device that engages with contemporary art as a situated practice rooted in European peripheral and inland territories. It is a radical exercise in imag ination that embraces rurality as a space of counter-narration, one capable of generating political ecologies, affective infrastructures and non-institutional forms of knowledge, offering a critical contribution to the redefinition of cultural geographies and curatorial paradigms beyond the logic of the event. The project is split into five sections: a visual atlas featuring key works created in Italy from 1960 to the present; three specially commissioned artist-designed dust jackets; nine essays written for the publication; a collective bibliography and photographic documentation of the multi-year Traffic Festival.

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