Library walk-ins are welcome on Wednesdays from 11:00–18:00 at Casco Art Institute.
To book a visit outside of these hours or inquire about the library collection, please email aline@casco.art. Stay updated on our library activities by subscribing to our newsletter.
Casco Art Institute library comprises a collection of approximately 2,000 books covering a diverse array of topics. This includes the history, theory, criticism, and practice of visual arts, as well as literature on exhibitions, biennales, artist catalogues, and cultural history.
Additionally, our collection encompasses works on various subjects such as (feminist) political theory, economics, ecology, social and spatial design, pedagogy, queer theory, feminist theory, intersectional theory, and collections related to social struggles and anticolonial postcolonial, and decolonial theory.
Furthermore, the library houses a unique assortment of artists’ books, publications, zines, (art) journals, and magazines, along with a curated collection of Whole Earth Catalogues.
Adjacent to our library is our bookshop, which features publications from Casco and our ecosystem, including a collection from lumbung members and artists connected to lumbung kios and Arts Collaboratory network.
Our library continues to expand alongside research interests, through generous donations, and in response to exhibitions and the evolving needs of our ecosystem.
Collection overview
Special collections within the library are connected to various projects and ongoing collaborations and collective research processes, demonstrating the relationality and economics of knowledge production and exchange.
Casco Art Institute exhibition guides and publications (both internal and external ones, featuring contributions or collaborations)
Casco’s Ecosystem Library, including publications from other practitioners, and (instituting) friends
Coming Together Collection
Instituting Friends
The Grand Domestic Revolution Library
We Are The Time Machines Library
Arts Collaboratory Network Library
The Chimurenga Collection
Transition Magazine Collection (facsimiles from the Otolith Group, featured in the Year of the Quiet Sun exhibition)
The Whole Earth Catalogue Collection
The Nina bell F. House Museum Library Collection
Reworldings Collection
The Arts of Coming Together Collection
Search, browse, or visit
Our library resources are open for consultation and use by all. We warmly invite you to visit our space for exploration, study, or simply to hang out in and around the library. We provide both a Reading Station and a Working Station to support these activities. Other forms of engagement with our library occur through special projects, activations, residencies, and publication launches.
Stay updated on our library activities by subscribing to our newsletter.
Library walk-ins are welcome on Wednesdays from 11:00–18:00. To book a visit outside of these hours or inquire about the library collection, please email aline@casco.art.
