Ivorypress was founded in London in 1996 by Elena Ochoa Foster as a publishing house specialising in artists' books. The project currently encompasses a wide range of areas and activities within the framework of contemporary art, including its own art gallery and bookshop, art consultancy and art exhibitions curatorship, editorial services, audio-visual productions and education.

In 2008 Ivorypress Art + Books was established. This comprises a bookshop and an art gallery, with a permanent artists’ books exhibition and an ongoing temporary exhibitions programme that have made Ivorypress Space one of the most emblematic art galleries and significant actors in Madrid’s cultural scene.

In addition to its exhibition calendar in Madrid, Ivorypress is also involved in intense curatorial activity surrounding the creation, design and production of international exhibition projects in collaboration with significant institutions and events. Ivorypress is also involved in the education and support of emerging talents, as well as in the promotion of contemporary art in higher education. Every year Ivorypress sponsors and organises a Contemporary Art Professorship—the first academic initiative of its kind—at the University of Oxford, UK, in association with the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and Magdalen College. Ivorypress publishes the C International Photo Magazine.^[1]

Elena Ochoa Foster is the founder and CEO of Ivorypress.^[1]

Artists' books collection

Ivorypress's artist book collection comprises hundreds of works by Spanish and international artists. The collection brings together some of the most significant artists' books from the 19th century to the present day.

An important focus of the Ivorypress collection is to ensure the correct restoration and conservation of these historic works. To this end, it employs a group of experts to ensure all aspects of conservation, from producing shelving adapted for the proper storage of the books, to manufacturing archive boxes, through to the use of durable materials in the production of the books.

Ivorypress hosts a permanent exhibition of a selection of its titles at its space in Madrid and organises temporary exhibitions related to artists' books. It has recently acquired all of the editions published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), which have been exhibited as part of the collection since February 2016. Ivorypress also carries out extensive educational work, organising guided tours of the collection for individuals and groups of students.

Artists' books

Ivorypress's publishing house publishes artists’ books. Far removed from conventional books, they are extremely valuable works of art individually designed and produced by each artist. Conceived to be displayed as works of art, each book is published as a numbered limited edition and is carefully produced using techniques ranging from rediscovered medieval processes to the most advanced modern technologies.

These artists’ books are part of the collections of Museo Chillida-Leku, San Sebastián, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; The Noguchi Museum, New York, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, and foundations such as the Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK; The Estate of Francis Bacon, London, UK; Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal, as well as private collections worldwide such as Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico, and the François Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy.

• Eduardo Chillida. Reflections. Ivorypress, 2002
• Anthony Caro. Open Secret. Ivorypress, 2004
• Anish Kapoor. Wound. Ivorypress, 2005^[1]
• Francis Bacon. Detritus. Ivorypress, 2006
• Richard Long. Walking and Sleeping. Ivorypress, 2007
• Isamu Noguchi. 18 Drawings, 18 Photographs. Ivorypress, 2007
• Cai Guo-Qiang. Danger Book: Suicide Fireworks. Ivorypress, 2008
• Richard Tuttle. NotThePoint. Ivorypress, 2009
• Ai Weiwei. Becoming. Ivorypress, 2009
• Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. ilimit. Ivorypress, 2012
• Maya Lin. Cloudline: Everest at 20,000 feet. Ivorypress, 2013
• Olafur Eliasson. A view becomes a window. Ivorypress, 2013
• Marc Quinn. Thames River Water Atlas. Ivorypress, 2017
• William Kentridge. Tummelplatz. Ivorypress, 2017
• Edmund de Waal. breath. Ivorypress, 2019
• Michal Rovner. Document. Ivorypress, 2020

Exhibitions

2009

• Miroslav Tichý. Mirography. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 15/02/2009 - 15/04/2009
• C Photo. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 24/04/2009 - 16/05/2009
• Ai Weiwei. Ways Beyond Art. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 19/05/2009 - 18/07/2009
• Norman Foster. Drawings 1958-2008. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 01/09/2009 - 19/09/2009

2010

• Michal Rovner. Frequency. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 01/10/2009 - 04/01/2010
• Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen. The European Desktop. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 16/02/2010 - 27/04/2010
• Los Carpinteros. Drama Turquesa. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 04/05/2010 - 30/07/2010
• Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 01/09/2010 - 30/10/2010
• Warhol & Dance: New York in the 50s. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 27/10/2010 - 11/12/2010

2011

• Vanity Fair 100 years: Masters of Photography. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 17/11/2010 - 08/01/2011
• Francis Bacon. Detritus. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 15/12/2010 - 05/02/2011
• John Gerrard. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 07/02/2011 - 02/04/2011
• Anselm Kiefer. Die Argonauten. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 15/02/2011 - 26/03/2011
• Julião Sarmento. Papel. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 01/04/2011 - 28/05/2011
• Gilbert & George. The Urethra Postcard Pictures. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/04/2011 - 14/05/2011
• Luisa Lambri. Interiors. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 26/05/2011 - 09/07/2011
• Imaginary Cities. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 07/06/2011 - 30/07/2011
• Jean Prouvé 1901-1984: Industrial Beauty. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 01/09/2011 - 12/11/2011
• Arroyo/Gordillo/Socías. CA-RO-TA. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 07/09/2011 - 05/11/2011

2012

• Antonio Girbés. Delirious City. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 16/11/2011 - 05/01/2012
• Pedro Cabrita Reis. Los Rojos. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 25/11/2011 - 21/01/2012
• Hannah Collins: The Fragile Feast. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 12/01/2012 - 04/02/2012
• Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. ilimit. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/02/2012 - 25/02/2012
• Edward Burtynsky, David Maisel, Nuno Ramos and Carlo Valsecchi. Subverted. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/02/2012 - 14/04/2012
• Revelations. The History of the Photobook in Latin America. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 05/06/2012 - 14/07/2012
• Zaha Hadid. Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 04/09/2012 - 03/11/2012

2013

• Not Vital. 5 Spaniards & Nothing. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 22/11/2012 - 26/01/2013
• Daniel Lergon. Siderian Tides. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 12/02/2013 - 16/03/2013
• Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Vertical Paintings and Other Works. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 09/04/2013 - 18/05/2013
• Dionisio González. Le Corbusier: The Last Project. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 30/05/2013 - 13/07/2013
• Eliasson Olafur. A view becomes a window. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 9/09/2013 – 28/09/2013
• Ron Arad. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 05/09/2013 - 09/11/2013
• Bohnchang Koo. "Slow Talk". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 21/11/2013 - 25/01/2014

2014

• Los Carpinteros. "Bazar". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 18/02/2014 - 03/05/2014
• Cristina Iglesias & Thomas Struth. "On Reality". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 28/05/2014 - 12/07/2014
• Maya Lin. "Rivers and Mountains". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 16/09/2014 - 01/11/2014
• Jerónimo Elespe. "Lost Grey Machines". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 20/11/2014 - 10/01/2015

2015

• "Books beyond Artists: Words and Images". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain 24/02/2015 - 09/05/2015
• Laia Abril, Alberto Lizaralde, Javier Marquerie Thomas, Óscar Monzón and Jordi Ruiz Cirera. "Under 35". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 26/05/2015 - 18/07/2015
• José Manuel Ballester. "Museos en Blanco". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 08/09/2015 - 07/11/2015
• Daniel Lergon. "Particle Traces". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 24/11/2015 - 23/01/2016

2016

• MoMA Artists' Books. Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 23/02/2016 - 14/05/2016
• Richard Long. "Gravity". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 23/02/2016 - 14/05/2016
• Los Carpinteros. "Watercolours". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 23/02/2016 - 02/04/2016
• Chloe Dewe Mathews. "Shot at Dawn". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 23/05/2016 - 16/07/2016
• Conrad Shawcross. "Inverted Spires and Descendant Folds". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/09/2016 - 12/11/2016
• Cornelia Parker. "Verso". Ivorypress, Madrid, España. 14/09/2016 - 12/11/2016
• "Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 28/11/2016 - 14/01/2017
• Roland Summer. "Under The Surface". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 28/11/2016 - 14/01/2017

2017

• Michael Chow. "Sunset at Pacific Vortex". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 22/02/2017 - 13/05/2017
• Marc Quinn. "Thames River Water". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 22/02/2017 - 13/05/2017
• Mariana Cook. "Lifeline". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 30/05/2017 - 15/07/2017
• Brian Eno. "Light". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 30/05/2017 - 15/07/2017
• Yves Berger. "From the orchard to the garden". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/09/2017 - 28/10/2017
• Callum Innes. "In Two". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 14/09/2017 - 11/11/2017
• Vicken Parsons. "On Reflection". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 22/11/2017 - 27/01/2018
• William Kentridge. "Tummelplatz". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 02/11/17 - 27/01/18

2018

• Terry Haggerty. "Still Motion". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 21/02/2018 - 05/05/2018
• "Cahiers d’Art: From Calder to Sugimoto". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 21/12/2018 - 05/05/2018
• Gabriella Gerosa. "The Power of the Portrait". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 24/05/2018 - 21/07/2018
• José Manuel Ballester. "Variaciones a partir de Malevich". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 24/05/2018 - 21/07/2018
• Kasper Akhøj. "Welcome (To The Teknival)". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 12/09/2018 - 03/11/2018
• Felipe Cohen. "Broken Light". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 12/09/2018 - 03/11/2018
• Gavin Turk. "White Van Man". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 15/11/2018 - 19/01/2019
• Guillaume Bruère. "I Have Nothing Left for You". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 15/11/2018 - 19/01/2019

2019

• Edmund de Waal. "breath". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 20/02/2019 - 11/05/2019
• Dionisio González. "Concrete Island". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 29/05/2019 - 27/07/2019
• Bohnchang Koo. "The Allure of Blue". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 29/05/2019 - 27/07/2019
• Dagoberto Rodríguez. "Tus manos están bien". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 17/09/2019 - 26/10/2019
• Fernando Casasempere. "Geology". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 06/11/2019 - 11/01/2020

2020

• Blanca Miró Skoudy. "Dibujos". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 26/02/2020 - 09/05/2020
• Michal Rovner. "Document". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 26/02/2020 - 09/05/2020
• Bob Colacello. "It Just Happened". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 19/11/2020 - 30/09/2021

2022

• Highlights from the Ivorypress Collection. "Looking Forward: Ivorypress at Twenty-Five". Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain. 23/02/2022 - 17/12/2022

Curatorial projects

• Anish Kapoor - Risanamento SPA Milano, Italy, 2006
• C on Cities - 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 10 September - 19 November 2006
• Cai Guo-Qiang. Dreams Along the Stairway- Hearst Corporation, New York, USA, 2007
• Richard Long. Riverlines - Hearst Corporation, New York, USA, 2007
• NY C - Phillips de Pury, New York, USA. 07 - 26 September 2007
• Blood on Paper - Victoria and Albert Museum. London, UK. 15 April - 28 June 2008
• Horizons - Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. 26 March 2009.
• C Action Photo Virus - Langhans Galerie Praha, Prague, Czech Republic. 30 March- 15 May 2011
• Real Venice - 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy and Somerset House, London, UK, 2011
• Los Carpinteros. Silence your Eyes - Exhibition held from 8 April 2012 - 8 July 2012 at the Kunstmuseum Thun (Switzerland) and subsequently from 1 December 2012 until 3 February 2013 in the Kunstverein Hannover (Germany)
• Gateway - 13th International Architecture Exhibition, 'Common Ground'. Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. 29 August - 25 November 2012
• ToledoContemporánea - El Greco 2014 Foundation, Toledo, Spain. 18 February - 14 July 2014
• Miroslav Tichý - The Museum of Romanticism, Madrid, Spain. 2 June - 28 August 2016

Other exhibitions

• Miroslav Tichý, Villa Flor (Switzerland), 2013
• Slow Talk, Bohnchang Koo, Villa Flor (Switzerland), 2014
• Helmet, Los Carpinteros, Museo Folkwang Essen (Germany), 2014
• Los Carpinteros, Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, London (UK), 2015
• The Globe, Los Carpinteros, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK), 2015
• The Fossil Suite, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Villa Flor (Switzerland), 2016
• Verdichtung, Daniel Lergon, Villa Flor (Switzerland), 2017
• Document, Michal Rovner, Biblioteca Nacional de España (Spain), 2021
• A view becomes a Window, Olafur Eliasson, Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Spain), 2021
• Looking Forward. Ivorypress at Twenty-Five, Library of the Museum of Modern Art (USA), 2021
• Ivorypress at Kettle’s Yard, Kettle’s Yard (UK), 2021
• Detritus, Francis Bacon, British Library (UK), 2021
• Imago Mundi. Books for times of barbarism and civilisation, CICUS (Spain), 2021
• Ivorypress at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (Spain), 2021
• ilimit, Isidoro Varcárcel Medina, Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), 2022
• Marc Quinn: History Painting+, Marc Quinn, Yale Center for British Art (USA), 2022
• Open Secret, Anthony Caro and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Warburg Institute (UK), 2022
• Looking Forward. Ivorypress at Twenty-Five, Edmund de Waal and William Kentridge, Bodleian Library (UK),2022

Publications

Exhibition Catalogues

• Michal Rovner. Frequency. Ivorypress, 2009. Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster and James Lindon. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Ai Weiwei. Ways Beyond Art. Ivorypress, 2009. Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The European Desktop. Ivorypress, 2010. Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The European Desktop - Exhibition guide. Ivorypress, 2010. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Los Carpinteros. Drama Turquesa. Ivorypress, 2010. Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• John Gerrard. Ivorypress, 2011. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Luisa Lambri. Interiors. Ivorypress, 2011. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Luis Gordillo, Eduardo Arroyo, Jordi Socías. CA-RO-TA. Ivorypress, 2011. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Los Carpinteros. Silence Your Eyes. Ivorypress, 2012. English/Spanish/German edition.
• Pedro Cabrita Reis. a remote whisper. Ivorypress, 2013. English edition
• Bohnchang Koo. Slow Talk. Ivorypress, 2014. English edition
• Cristina Iglesias & Thomas Struth. Constructions of the Imaginations. Ivorypress, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Maya Lin. River and Mountains. Ivorypress, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Jerónimo Elespe. The Antipodal Room. Ivorypress, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Books beyond Artists: Words and Images. Ivorypress, 2015. English edition
• Under 35. Ivorypress, 2015. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Conrad Shawcross. Inverted Spires and Descendant Folds. Ivorypress, 2016. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Mariana Cook. Lifeline. Ivorypress, 2017. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Yves Berger. From the Orchard to the Garden. Ivorypress, 2017. English edition
• Vicken Parsons. On Reflection. Ivorypress, 2017. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Terry Haggerty. Still Motion. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• José Manuel Ballester. Variaciones a partir de Malevich. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Gabriella Gerosa. The Power of the Portrait. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Kasper Akhøj. Welcome (To The Teknival). Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Felipe Cohen. Broken Light. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Gavin Turk. White Van Man. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Guillaume Bruère. I Have Nothing Left for You. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Edmund de Waal. breath. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Dionisio González. Concrete Island. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Bohnchang Koo. The Allure of Blue. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Dagoberto Rodríguez. Tus manos están bien. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Fernando Casasempere. Geology. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Blanca Miró Skoudy. Dibujos. Ivorypress, 2020. English edition
• VV.AA. "Highlights from the Ivorypress collection." Ivorypress, 2022, English edition

C Photo Project

• C Photo 01. Ivorypress, 2006. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 02. Ivorypress, 2006. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 03. Ivorypress, 2007. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 04. Ivorypress, 2007. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 05. Ivorypress, 2008. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 06. Ivorypress, 2008. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 07. Ivorypress, 2009. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 08, Glass Hero. Ivorypress, 2009. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 09, Nine. Ivorypress, 2010. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo 10 Making Movies. Ivorypress, 2010. Two editions: Japanese/Spanish and Chinese/English
• C Photo Genesis. Ivorypress, 2010. Texts by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Real Venice. Ivorypress 2011. Texts by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Claudio Piersanti and William A. Ewing. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Posed/Unposed. Ivorypress 2011. Guest-edited by Tobia Bezzola. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo New Latin Look. Ivorypress, 2012. Guest-edited by Martin Parr. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Slow Motion. Ivorypress, 2012. Guest-edited by Marta Gili. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Observed. Ivorypress, 2013. Guest-edited by Jörg Colberg. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Photographicness. Ivorypress, 2013. Guest-edited by Charlotte Cotton. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo ToledoContemporánea. Ivorypress, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Street. Ivorypress, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• C Photo Don't call me a photographer!. Ivorypress, 2015. Bilingual edition English/Spanish

LiberArs

• Gerhard Richter. Sils. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2009. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. German/English/Spanish edition
• Richard Long. Gravity. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2009. Edited by Richard Long. English/Spanish edition
• Anselm Kiefer. Die Argonauten. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2010. Edited by Anselm Kiefer. German/English/Spanish edition
• Pedro Cabrita Reis. Tree of Light. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2011. Edited by Pedro Cabrita Reis. English/Spanish edition
• Thomas Demand. Model Studies. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2011. Edited by Thomas Demand. English/Spanish edition
• Jannis Kounellis. Senza Titolo. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2012. Edited by Jannis Kounellis. Italian/English/Spanish edition
• Cristina Iglesias. La jalousie. Edited by Cristina Iglesias. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2013. English/Spanish edition
• Santiago Sierra. El trabajo es la Dictadura. Edited by Santiago Sierra. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2013. Spanish edition
• Vik Muniz. The Weimar File. Edited by Vik Muniz. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2013. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Thomas Struth. Walking. Edited by Thomas Struth. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2013. English edition
• Francis Alÿs. Pacing. Edited by Francis Alÿs. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2014. English edition
• José Manuel Ballester. Museos en Blanco. Edited by José Manuel Ballester. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2015. English/Spanish edition
• Sarah Morris. Crease Folds. Edited by Sarah Morris. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2015. English edition
• Callum Innes. Edges. Edited by Callum Innes. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2016. English edition
• Cornelia Parker. Verso. Edited by Cornelia Parker. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2016. English edition
• Jenny Holzer. Belligerent. Edited by Jenny Holzer and Joshua Craze. Ivorypress LiberArs, 2017. English edition
• David Maisel. Mount St. Helens: Afterlife. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Shirin Neshat. Dreamers. Ivorypress, 2018. English edition
• Wangechi Mutu. A Promise to Communicate. Ivorypress, 2019. English edition
• Michal Rovner. Writings. Ivorypress, 2020. English edition
• Edwin Schlossberg. Tidal Gestures | Word: Nerve. 2021. English edition
• Adriana Varejão. Polvo. 2021. English Edition

Architecture

• Buckminster Fuller. Dymaxion Car. Ivorypress Architecture, 2010. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Norman Foster: Drawings 1958-2008. Ivorypress Architecture, 2010. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Moving. Norman Foster on Art. Ivorypress Architecture, 2013. Bilingual edition English/French
• Ron Arad. Another Twist in the Plot. Ivorypress Architecture, 2013. Bilingual edition English/Spanish
• Norman Foster and Oscar Niemeyer in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Ivorypress Architecture, 2013. English edition
• Norman Foster and Mauricio Vicent. Havana. Autos and Architecture. Ivorypress Architecture, 2014. Bilingual edition English/Spanish

Essential

• Paul Goldberger. Por qué importa la arquitectura. Ivorypress Essential, 2012. Spanish edition of Why Architecture Matters
• Juan Cruz Ruiz. A Crazy Job. Leading Publishers in Conversation with Juan Cruz Ruiz. Ivorypress Essential, 2012. English edition (Spanish edition: Un Oficio de Locos. Editores fundamentales en conversación con Juan Cruz Ruiz)

Arts Litterae

• Berenice Abbott. Selected Writings. Ivorypress Arts Litterae, 2020. English edition

Cities

• André Aciman and Jeannette Montgomery Barron. Roman Hours. Ivorypress Cities, 2020. English edition
• Jorge Carrión and Alberto García-Alix. Madrid. Book of Books. Ivorypress Cities, 2021. Spanish and English editions
• Rachel Spence and Giacomo Cosua. Venice Unclocked. Ivorypress Cities, 2020. English edition

Archives

• Bob Colacello. It Just Happened. Photographs by Bob Colacello 1976-1982. Ivorypress Archives, 2020. English edition
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Album. Ivorypress Archives, 2021. English edition

Oxford Lectures

• Thomas Struth. On Picture-Making. Ivorypress, 2011. English edition
• Glenn D. Lowry. Abodes of the Muses: Theorising the Modern Art Museum. Ivorypress, 2011. English edition
• Shirin Neshat. Images and History. Ivorypress, 2012. English edition
• Malcom Rogers. The Art Museum in the 21st century. Ivorypress, 2012. English edition
• Ivo Mesquita. Museums: Experience versus Numbers. Ivorypress, 2013. English edition
• William Kentridge. Thinking on one's feet: A Walking Tour of the Studio. Ivorypress, 2013. English edition
• Michael Govan. Between the Artist and the Museum. Ivorypress, 2014. English edition
• Vik Muniz. Class dismissed... Art, Creativity and Education. Ivorypress, 2014. English edition
• Maya Lin. Between Art and Architecture, Ivorypress, 2015. English edition
• Stephen Greenblatt. Getting Real, Ivorypress, 2015. English edition

Special Editions

• Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire. Ivorypress, 2005
• Horizons. Ivorypress, 2008
• Blood on Paper. Ivorypress, 2008. Co-published by Ivorypress and Victoria and Albert Museum
• Ai Weiwei. Becoming. Ivorypress, 2009. Edited by Brendan McGetrick. English Edition
• Aitor Ortiz. Not Vital by Aitor Ortiz. Ivorypress, 2014. English Edition
• Chloe Dewe Mathews. Shot at Dawn. Ivorypress, 2014.
• Daniel Lergon & Gregory Carlock. Fire Untouched by Smoke. Ivorypress, 2015
• Jean-Pierre Blay, Alain de Botton, Bob Colacello, Norman Foster, Nicholas Foulkes, Carole Kasapi, Rossy de Palma, Pierre Rainero and Deyan Sudjic. Cartier in Motion. Ivorypress, 2017.
• VV.AA.Looking Forward:Ivorypress at Twenty-Five. Ivorypress, 2021
• Norman Foster. "Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture". Co-published by Ivorypress and Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, 2022

Bookshop

Ivorypress's bookshop specialises in photography, contemporary art and architecture.

Education

• Humanitas Visiting Professorships in Contemporary Art at the University of Oxford

Ivorypress is also involved in the education and support of emerging talents as well as in the promotion of contemporary art in higher education. Every year Ivorypress sponsors and organises a Contemporary Art Professorship—the first academic initiative of its kind—at the University of Oxford, UK, in association with the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and Magdalen College. The lectures are published by Ivorypress each year and distributed freely among the students of the University of Oxford.

• Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

In Spain, Ivorypress has an agreement with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and works together with its Humanities department to promote joint cultural projects that contribute to the knowledge and promotion of contemporary art and to improve social communication of the visual arts.

• Student training

Ivorypress takes part in student training through internships. Internships are educational in nature and carried out by university students under the supervision of the Ivorypress team. The aim is for students to apply and reinforce the knowledge they have acquired throughout their academic training, encouraging them to practise skills that will prepare them for professional activities and boost their employment prospects.

Ivorypress currently has agreements with the following institutions:

• Escuela Superior de Diseño, Madrid
• Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
• Universidad Complutense, Madrid
• Universidad Autónoma, Madrid
• Universidad Politécnica, Madrid
• Instituto Europeo de Diseño, Madrid
• International Photography grants

Ivorypress has promoted and financed twenty international C Action grants through the C Photo project.

• 2006

1. C Photo 01: Eustaquio Neves and Mitra Tabrizian
2. C Photo 02: Julia Fullerton-Batten and Rongrong & Inri

• 2007

1. C Photo 03: Antonio Girbés and ANIU
2. C Photo 04: Julia Peirone and Loan Nguyen

• 2008

1. C Photo 05: Giacomo Costa and Sun Hongbin
2. C Photo 06: Marie Taillefer and Kyungwoo Chun

• 2009

1. C Photo 07: Lovisa Ringborg and Flore-Aël Surun
2. C Photo 08: Victor Albrow and Lia Sáile

• 2010

1. C Photo 09: Jordi Gual and Veru Iché
2. C Photo 10: Alfonso Zubiaga and Alexander Gronsky

• Guided Tours

Ivorypress organises guided tours for small groups of students, collectors and institutions, to both the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, often in the company of the artist.

Audiovisual projects

• How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr. Foster?, 2010

The documentary, directed by Norberto Lopez Amado and Carlos Carcas, tells the story of one of the world's most renowned architects and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through architecture and design. It describes Norman Foster's upbringing and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of buildings such as Beijing Airport, the Reichstag in Berlin, the Hearst building in New York and the highest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in France, among others.

Written and narrated by Deyan Sudjic, director of the London Design Museum, the film won the nomination for best Spanish film at the Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy in 2011, the Audience Award TCM for best European documentary at the International Festival of San Sebastian in 2010 and was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Special section, as well as other awards in countries such as France, Belgium and China.

• Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth, 2010

The documentary is devised as a homage to the American inventor and it includes fragments of footage and news broadcasts of the time, significant episodes of Fuller’s life and samples of his own thoughts and opinions accompanied by the comments of current leading figures in the arts and sciences (such as Calvin Tomkins, Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, and the architect Norman Foster) who vindicate the work and reputation of a marginalised genius who was never fully understood nor appreciated.

The film also shows many of his creations, such as his luminous and exquisite ‘lightful houses’, the ecological and aerodynamic Dymaxion—Dynamic Maximum Tension—cars and his magnificent geodesic domes, a perfect combination of art and technology built upon the structural principle of ‘tensegrity’—tensional integrity—a term coined by Fuller himself.

• Conga Irreversible. Los Carpinteros, 2012

Conga Irreversible documents the eponymous performance by the artistic duo Los Carpinteros, which they performed in 2012 during the eleventh Havana Biennial. Also present in the video, alongside over a hundred active participants, are the thousands of people who strolled by the central Paseo del Prado, a space through which the first comparsas marched, beginning what was to become a popular celebration in Cuba.

The work reverses the direction of the choreography and music, while suppressing the emergence of the bright colours characteristic of a traditional comparsa, whose festive and collective nature becomes a tool for cultural communication.

• Polaris. Los Carpinteros, 2014

Polaris, by Los Carpinteros, describes the journey of a musician who hikes up the Pyrenees, drums in tow. Also recorded in a real scenario, it is essentially a sound piece that explores large areas of silence, where the notion of pilgrimage takes on a central role as an abstract and personal ritual.

• TurnOnArt TV, 2013-2015

'TurnOnArt' TV, an online channel by Ivorypress, produces a series of videos documenting fairs, events related to the art world, and interviews with artists, curators and gallery owners.

Its programmes feature interviews with artists such as Not Vital, Olafur Eliasson and John Isaacs, promoters of the publishing world like Louise O'Hare The London Bookshop Map and have also documented fairs such as ParisPhoto, Frieze New York and Pinta London.

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