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Independent art publisher

Make roomfor art.

KULTURA turns European art into books made to be picked up, lived with, and passed on.

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01 KULTURA

Art is for everybody.

Art should leave the screen and land in your hands. KULTURA publishes hardcover editions of European photography, painting, illustration, and writing — curated with intention, printed with care, made to last longer than any feed.

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The book as object

We treat each edition as something worth holding: carefully edited, designed, printed, and made to last beyond the scroll.

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Edited and published

We shape the publication around the work, bring it into the KULTURA catalog, and promote it as a finished cultural object.

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A European route

We work to push our books into bookstores, museums, and cultural spaces across Europe, helping art find readers in the real world.

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For artists

Got something to show?

Share the work you want to see in print. We read every submission ourselves.

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How it works

How we work

Here is what happens between an artist hitting submit and an edition landing on a shelf.

  1. Open call

    For each edition we run an open call. Anyone based in Europe can submit, across the disciplines named in the brief. The brief, the dates, and the participation fee all live on the edition page.

  2. Submission

    You send us up to three files — JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, or PDF, fifty megabytes each — plus a short statement about the work. There is no portfolio review, no application essay, no committee. Just the work and a few facts.

  3. Review and selection

    We read every submission ourselves. Strong work is shortlisted, then revisited against the shape of the edition we are building. We try to reply within a week either way.

  4. Selected artists

    Artists who make the cut receive a participation offer and a payment link. After payment, you upload a final artwork file, a bio, a profile photo, and a short statement about what the work means to you. That is what gets typeset into the book.

  5. Print and edition

    We design the book around the work — sequence, layout, paper, binding. Once printed, the edition becomes part of the KULTURA catalog and each contributing artist receives copies.