The Arts and Culture Magazine Publishers Forum (ACMPF) is pleased to announce Marion Bouvier as the winner of its open call for a writer to join the network’s research trip to Tallinn and Helsinki in early November 2024. This opportunity is part of the Forum’s initiative to connect and enhance collaboration among contemporary arts and culture magazine publishers across the Baltic and Nordic regions.
Marion Bouvier (b. 1988 in France), who is currently based in Tromsø in Norway, was selected from a competitive pool of applicants. Marion is a festival director, curator, editor and writer, with a dynamic career that reflects a deep engagement with contemporary art, particularly within non-mainstream and queer art contexts. As the co-editor of Hakapik, an online art magazine, and as a regular contributor to the art journal Billedkunst, Marion has established herself as a vital voice on the Nordic art scene.
In 2017, Marion founded the Open Out festival in Tromsø, a contemporary art festival that celebrates and showcases queer and alternative art. Alongside this, she runs Mondo Books, a small but influential publishing house, together with Tanya Busse and Nicolas Siepen. Mondo published Beaivváš mánát / Leve Blant Reptiler by Mary Somby, the first Sámi erotic book written by a woman. Marion also spearheaded the Arctic Art Book Fair in 2020, with its next edition planned for 2025 in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat.
The forthcoming research trip to Tallinn and Helsinki is part of ACMPF’s ongoing efforts to foster stronger relationships among publishers and writers in the Baltic and Nordic regions. The trip aims to deepen the understanding of the cultural contexts, publishing practices, and artistic developments in these areas. Marion Bouvier’s participation will contribute to the network’s goal of better disseminating critical writing and artistic creation, sharing knowledge, and finding collective solutions to the challenges faced by cultural publishers.
The Arts and Culture Magazine Publishers Forum includes members such as A Shade Colder (Estonia), Artnews.lt and Echo Gone Wrong (Lithuania), EDIT (Finland), Kunstkritikk (Norway), Art in Iceland (Iceland), and WunderKombinats (Latvia). The network is dedicated to supporting emerging voices in art criticism and cultural journalism, and promoting the vibrant art and culture scenes in the Baltic and Nordic countries.
The Arts and Culture Magazine Publishers Forum is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.