Sleepy Press is an experimental publishing project based in Amsterdam, run by Lucia Holásková and Marta Lopes Santos.
For the inaugural issue of Sleepy Press, we have invited contributions on the theme of anger. The 17 contributors to this issue speak to anger in its many different facets: repressed anger, expressed anger, explosive anger, surrendered anger. We invite readers to join us in our journey to reclaim anger, alone and en masse. With contributions by: Aleksandra Komsta, Callaz, Franek Dziduch, Hana Spillerová, Ilona Rijkeboer, Inês Cavaco, Jessica Lentz, Laura Pega and Eperke Remetei-Filep, Leyla Sünnenwold, Lucia Holásková, Lúcia Santos, Maria Ana O’Neill, Maria Inês Conceição, Marta Lopes Santos, Pascal van Hees, Romana Klementis Designed by Chris Fotheringham Drawings by Aleksandra Komsta February, 2025 SOLD OUT
Letters of No gathers a series of visual and textual contributions that reclaim rejection. Printed as a series of letters in different genres and formats, the contributions in this issue take the epistolary form as a way of setting and collapsing boundaries between the self and the other. Rather than something received and felt in shame, these letters make rejection(s) public. By addressing the other, rejection is exposed as inherently relational. With contributions by: Callaz, Gabrielle Lubliner, Ján Ujvári, Julia Nowicka, Lucia Holásková, Luke Worthy, Maria Ilieva, Maria Novo, Marta Lopes Santos, Mireia Bruni, Nicholas Johnson, Nicole Noia, Parel Joy, Sara Gelao Each publication also contains one of four rejection letters. These letters are authored by Isis Fawzy, Leyla Sünnenwold, Susanna Olmi and Şimal G. Imrak. Edited by Lucia Holásková and Marta Lopes Santos Designed by Lena Sebik Riso printed by Marco Rapant with Lena Sebik December, 2025
Hospitality Playbook aims to re-imagine the stereotypes associated with the artist as hospitality worker, serving to interrogate the precarity of work in the arts and cultural industries in the Netherlands. The publication gathers contributions from 20 Amsterdam-based artists and cultural workers working in hospitality, who share stories of, or inspired by, their work experiences, navigating the intersection between labour, personal value, cultural work, and the concept of ‘hospitality’ itself. Contributions by Alina Lupu, Anielek Niemyjski, Breaking Bread (yawen fu, Augustina Cai) & Fern Ling Chettle, Bryan Zhang, Catalina Reyes Navarro, Inka Hilsenbek, iulia aionesi & Zeo Mancini, Klara-Emilia Kajdi, Leah Jasmine Nogueira, Lucia Holásková, Malte Hultgren, Matija Stojanovic, Maya Asad, Nati Rijo, Parel Joy, Rozan Aversteeg Edited by Fern Ling Chettle, Lucia Holásková and Marta Lopes Santos Designed by Özgür Deniz Koldaş June, 2026
Scent is Present is an experimental publication exploring the ephemeral notion of olfaction. Through essays, exercises, and artistic contributions, it challenges the limits of language, inviting readers to engage with scent as a non-linear, sensory, and embodied phenomenon. Contributors including olfactory artists, scent designers, and sound artists share their practices and reflections that foreground smell in political and ecological contexts. The publication stems from a workshop by the same name, carried out in Petrohradská kolektiv in the summer of 2025 by Sleepy Press and Michaela Cagáňová. The workshop accompanied holo-collective’s exhibition ‘AUTOCHORA’ at Jeden Dva Tři Gallery in Prague. Scent is present, more than ever. Workshop Participants: Magdalena Škerenčák, Nela Pietrová, Eva Fajčíková, Františka Blažková, Jasmína Horváthová, Karolína Kučerová Dunja, Varya Starodubova, Ondrej Trhoň, sof, Gabriele Sláma, Kristýna Šuleková, Iman, K, Lucy, Maëlle Magnin-Feysot. Independent Contributors: Romana Klementis, Lila Tesla, Elektra Stampoulou, Maria Ilieva, Lucia Holásková, Michaela Cagáňová In collaboration with holo-collective and Petrohradská Kolektiv Edited by Michaela Cagáňová, Marta Lopes Santos and Lucia Holásková Designed by Markéta Skalková and Kamila Valešová Printed by Štefanovič May, 2026
Olfactory writing workshop conducted as a collaboration between Sleepy Press and holo-collective. In dialogue with holo's exhibition "AUTOCHORA", for which they developed five scents representing five different stages of the life cycle. Workshop participants were invited to write from the individual scents. The workshop took place at Petrohradská Kolektiv in Prague, Czechia, in July 2025.
The invented city-state Ravicka is a place with its own gestural language, poetic architecture and fluid topography. The four Ravickian novels span across genres; each of the books’ narrators reinterpret the city through different forms, reimagining it through language, as they investigate the histories and mysteries of a city where houses move or remain invisible; a city in crisis. This reading group and mini-workshop revolved around the questions: What does it mean to feel architecture rather than to see it? How can language make the invisible visible? What does it take to imagine a city? How do we reconcile with structures that inevitably fall apart? Hosted at Outline in the Spring of 2026.
Around our Table was a community crafting workshop led by iulia aionesi & Zeo Mancini, held as part of the launch of Hospitality Playbook. Focusing on one of the most recognisable symbols of hospitality as its centerpiece - the tablecloth - we gathered around the table to collectively stitch, mend, embroider and sew what has been taken away from us by ‘stress-resilient’ horeca working experiences. The tablecloth is our journal and wishbone. We wanted to reflect on how working in horeca has rebuilt our perception of hospitality and labour, and to imagine alternative future scenarios through shapes, threads, symbols, and poetry. Hosted at de Sering West, 8th June, 6-9pm
Letters of No explores rejection as a recurring and ordinary gesture embedded in everyday life. Drawing on the metaphor of “airing one’s dirty laundry,” the installation presents unsent letters of refusal as a public display of personal boundaries, frustrations, and release. Inspired by Julien Prévieux’s Letters of Demotivation (2000-2007), the artists invited contributors to write letters addressed to people, institutions, or situations they wished to refuse - but to submit them to the project instead of sending them. Collected and exhibited together, these texts reveal rejection not only as a source of vulnerability, but also as a collective and potentially empowering act. Graphic design by Lena Sebik With contributions by Callaz, Gabrielle Lubliner, Ján Ujvári, Julia Nowicka, Isis Fawzy, Leyla Sünnenwold, Lucia Holásková, Luke Worthy, Maria Ilieva, Maria Novo, Marta Lopes Santos, Mireia Bruni, Nicholas Johnson, Nicole Noia, Parel Joy, Sara Gelao, Şimal G. Imrak, Susanna Olmi Featured in I Still Wonder at Strata Modul, Bucharest, Romania, November 2025 - February 2026
The Netherlands San Serriffe, Amsterdam Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam Slovakia Brot Books Deli, Bratislava Czech Republic Page Five, Prague ArtMap, Prague XAO, Prague Portugal Well Read, Lisbon UK Good Press, Glasgow Books Peckham, London
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