This is the page for the Irma Boom Archive. This archive is managed by the Allard Pierson Museum of the University of Amsterdam.
08/10/2024
New Irma Boom multiple, on master typographer Walter Nikkels: 1,000 pages of his invitation cards for EENWERK gallery and Stedelijk Museum: sketches and printed designs. Unmatched in their genre. Printed on transparent IBO paper. Shown is a dummy. Subscription is now possible.
01/08/2024
News seems to be on the way regarding the red mini-book! An even thicker edition? More info coming soon!
04/05/2023
Good thing we were there yesterday evening! Insightful and entertaining lecture by Irma Boom at the Academy of Arts. Her topic was her research in the Vatican library.
24/04/2023
https://www.akademievankunsten.nl/agenda/2450305.aspx
Register here (also viewable online).
12/02/2023
Obviously huge blockbuster, this Vermeer exhibition. In the accompanying publication, you can discover Vermeer's oeuvre in a surprising and enlightening way through the eyes of Irma Boom.
17/01/2023
"Irma Boom: art + books". Until 7 May at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
05/01/2023
Don't miss it: the wonderful exhibition "Irma Boom: art + books". Until 7 May at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Photo: James, Jennifer, Georgina (the yellow book) meet Ad Dekkers.
10/12/2022
The magnificent 2023 diary Irma Boom created for the Vatican Library is now - signed! - available at the Allard Pierson, Amsterdam: [email protected].
22/11/2022
The Allard Pierson Irma Boom exhibition has traveled on to the Vatican Library: "Book! Boom! Here Boom's archival material is combined with works by Futurist designers. This splendid exhibition runs through February 2023. Book here:
https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/en/news/in-evidenza/exhibition-bav-irma-boom.html?fbclid=PAAaapob-KmFMuX29sJGjR9ChM9H6bgigt0nRaCpuqcgJd2GIZc3-XP_NMDyQ
03/09/2022
NEW: Viktor & Rolf are now part of the program.
18/08/2022
For tickets: https://allardpierson.nl/events/symposium-irma-boom-book-manifest/
11/08/2022
In a contest held by the daily NRC, Eva Gonggrijp of the Amsterdam bookstore Boekie Woekie won the 2013 mini-bible by Irma Boom (2nd ed.). Yesterday was the handover.
