ABOUT

"12:15" is the Reading Room in Vilnius,
where you can read and buy books and magazines

OPEN from 12:00-19:00 Thursday to Sunday

we are at Šiltadaržio street 3-18, when you are downstairs please ring 18, we will open the doors, and then climb to the top floor...

(if smth call us +370 664 65 442)

The 12:15 Reading Room is an art project located in a house built for monks in the Old Town of Vilnius and the first studio of Marija's grandfather and artist Petras Repšys. The space has always been a place for creation and meetings of artists. Half of the space is the studio of the "12:15" publishing platform, where we work with authors and creators on books. The other half is the 12:15 Reading Room bookshop. 

We created this space in response to the lack - non existence of bookshops representing art, artists' books and alternative thinking in our region (from Finland to Poland). As a young publisher, we understand how important that your books - your ideas and work are presented and accessible. We want to provide a stage for "small creators" that take risks and realise their thoughts on paper by creating books. At the same time, we want to place them together on the same shelves with bigger publishers who are already part of the accepted art system. Here we represent bookmakers who are searching for their way to exist in a strongly controlled and shaped art world by "a few" individuals.  

In the reading part of the space, you can find books from the "12:15" research trips to Estonia and Sweden, as well as rare publications, such as the first projects by artists, graphic designers and archives collected from books gifted by artists and graphic designers, including out-of-print books.

 

The "12:15 Reading Room" event programme is curated based on the books we have in the space. We invite the publishers, artists and graphic designers of the books we represent to participate in the programme. During the reading sessions, we read from books that can be found in the "12:15 Reading Room" and which have been selected by our readers to be read aloud together.

IN OUR SPACE YOU CAN FIND

(self-published) artists' books by 

Brigham Baker, Robert Gober, Wolfgang Tillmans, Murat Cem Mengüç,  Paweł Olszczyński, Pierre Satoshi Benoit, Karolina Bielawska, Khaled Sabsabi, Sophie Artz, Yorgos Sapountzis, Rick Myers, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Nora Kapfer & Tonio Kröner, Jan-Pieter 't Hart, Tanja Widmann, Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, Benoît Maire, Jonathan Monk, Penny Goring, Lisa Holzer, So-Yeon Kim, Sandra Mujinga, Samuel Brzeski, Siwar Krai(y)tem, Tanaz Modabber, Annabelle Binnerts, Mariana Castillo Deball, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Olga Lewicka, Miglė Lukoševičiūtė, Apian (Aladin Borioli), Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Laura Cemin, Mahmoud Khaled, David Horvitz, Maija Hirvanen, Olli Aarni & Maarit Bau Mustonen, Adrian Bridget, Niccolò Parodi, Ieva Maslinskaitė, Hrefna Hörn, Benjamin McMillan, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Katja Mater, Ignacy Radtke, Elisabeth Molin, Pablo Schlumberger, Dovilė Šimonytė and others...


books and publications by
Primary Information, Book Works, Bored Wolves, Stolon Press, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Cthulhu Books, Westphalie Verlag,  If I Can't Dance, AXIS AXIS, Arcadia Missa, Walkscapes, ;paranoia, Archipelago Books, Unformed Informed, Mousse Publishing, ISOLARII, Publication Studio ..., Studio The Future, Rab-Rab Press, Paint It Black, SO-RI, Varamo Press, Hildegard Press, The Last Books, A) GLIMPSE) OF) press, Sternberg Press, TEXST, How to become, Rab-Rab Press, OUTLINE, Cutt Press, Divided Publishing, Multipöly, Native Books, OPA! Publishing, Sternberg Press, Ryder Books, Multinational Enterprises, Bog Bodies Press, Dabartis, Catalog, Vibrational Semantics, Native Books, Unbidden Tongues, Becoming Press, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Spector Books, death of workers whilst building... 


magazines/journals:
Blue Moon Magazine, Movement Research Performance Journal, Heavy Traffic, Al Hayya, DNA, Mousse, The White Review, Pleasure Garden, Experiencing the Radical, The Erotic Review, Mother Tongue, Real Review, How to Sleep Faster, The Wire, The Serving Library Annual, Talker, Girls Like Us, Sur Magazine, Senet, Revue Faire, A Magazine, MsHeresies, Playground Magazine, hinterlands, Ixiptla, Fantasy Football Magazine, Common Future, Spike, AAV, brossura | manual of pirate languages, Spectacles, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!, Rot, Mnemotope, SPHAIROS, Viscose Magazine, SOLOMIYA, Sacred Plants, Sofa, Weird Walk, Revue Occasion, CODE, Move...ment, Unbidden Tongues, Profane, It's Freezing in LA!, EXTRA EXTRA Magazine...

and "12:15" is also a publishing platform

"12:15" is not about checking the time constantly or counting the pages of the books. It is an artists' books publishing platform for the artists like watchmakers who believe that time doesn't exist - but clocks do. 

Aiming to create a space for artists to experiment with their ideas while creating unique art books, share their works with others, respond to the time we are in, initiate a dialogue and cultural input within a society. 

Founded in 2022 by the Lithuanian artist Marija Repšytė. 

You can find more information about upcoming projects,
the process of creating the book projects - by following 12:15  and  12:15 Reading Room



to get in touch:
[email protected]