Mikosa Foundation was founded in Amsterdam in 2005 by Marco Galmacci, Rocco Pezzella, Claudius Gebele and Henk Kramer. Based on our manifesto, we want to spread artists' works, being a the firment for a box of contemporary art, bringing different styles and visual images together, ranging works from graffiti writers to internet designer and from street artists to video artists. All of those people have got one basic thing in common: their black book. This is usually filled up with first handmade ideas and developments, unfinished artworks, rough sketches, the idea we transferred to our first long-term project, called Mikosa Magazine.

Each Mikosa Magazine consists 10 international artist from all around the world. It is printed black on white on A4 paper, 48 pages in total and only runs on a maximum of 500 pieces. The artists themselves are free to give us the design of their choice and can do whatever they want, respecting the handmade principle of the magazine. But not only the desings themselves, every other part ofthe magazine should be done as much by hand as possible, starting from the cutting and folding of the karton covers, through the usage of stamps to the individual painting of each copy and the final binding of them with a small rope.

Furthermore each issue always comes with a special item that usually goes with the magazine. For Issue#01 we did the Mikosa Poster Collection, so every artist work is also available on an A1 poster. For Issue#02, the Mikosa Card Box was developed, a handmade carton box with A5 off-sett prints. As a part of Issue#03 we produced the Mikosa Fabric, a special silkscreen on an A3 cotton with a design of each participant and more gadgets will follow with each issue.

The magazine and all other items are available online through this site, but there are also many shops all around Europe where you can get the magazine. We want to thank all those shops that support the idea of the magazine and gives the crowd the possibility to enjoy the magazine in real. Holding it in your own hands, shows everyone the real value of each single copy and all the love our foundation puts inside. The magazine is available at the following places:

Henxs - Amsterdam
Moderna Museet - Stockholm
Magma Shop - London
Hanazuki - Amsterdam
Carhartt - Amsterdam
Alice Gallery & Shop - Brussels
Niubcn - Barcelona
Athenaeum - Amsterdam
CityKingz - Gent
Wolf&Pack- Amsterdam
Supalife - Berlin
Inter:zone - Prague
Montana Shop - Barcelona
Big Brobot - Berlin
XfuerU-Shop - Freiburg
290m2 - Amsterdam
Overkillshop - Berlin
Bookie Wookie - Amsterdam

Furthermore we would like to thank the following friends and partners for their help to distribute our magazine:

                                

For further information, you can get in touch with us through the follwing contact details. Every feedback, idea, co-operation or distributional support is appreciated and could be interesting for us. If you are interested in taking part in the magazine as an artist, please send us some info about you, so we can get a quick picture of your works. Please understand that we can not provide everyone with a space in the magazine which is barely a matter of quality, but much more of our limited space during the whole year. Thank you.

Mikosa Foundation      De Wittenstraat 25/1      1052 AK Amsterdam      The Netherlands
Phone/Fax: +31 (0)20 7700231       Email:mi@mikosa.net