Pina Magazine Issue #2 Launch

Pina Magazine, a new exhibition space in the form of a magazine in‑print, is back in NYC for the launch of Issue #2! Join us for a conversation with Founder and Editor Catalina Imizcoz and writer Elvia Wilk who will discuss cover artists Forensic Architecture and Edgar Calel and the world-building premise of the magazine's flat exhibition space.

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Pina is a printed, portable exhibition space. We function as a commissioning platform, collaborating with artists to create exhibitions existing solely within the pages of a magazine. The magazine’s name derives from pinax – a flat, painted board or tablet – and the root of pinacoteca, meaning a home for images. The commonality with a white cube gallery lies in the encounter, though this one is portable. Each commission spans 60 pages, offering artists the space to construct immersive worlds, which audiences can explore as they would any other exhibition. Each issue pairs its exhibitions-in-print with bespoke short stories, inviting two writers to respond to the exhibition layouts through fiction. Straddling both literary and contemporary arts publishing, Pina offers an intimate and imagination-driven exhibition visit.

The all-women team includes researcher Catalina Imizcoz (Founder and Editor), poet and radio-host Bitsy Knox (Deputy Editor), cultural producer Lucila de Arizmendi (Producer), and brand and editorial strategist Ashleigh Kane (Head of Growth). Designed as a two-covered, soft-back publication by Graphic Thought Facility – in partnership with founders Huw Morgan and Paul Neale – Pina is produced in London.

Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She wrote the novel Oval (2019) and the essay collection Death by Landscape (2022), and a new novel, A Diagnosis, is coming in 2026. She writes essays, criticism, and fiction for publications like Frieze, Bookforum, 4Columns, n+1, Granta, The Paris Review online, BOMB, 4Columns, The White Review, Mousse, The Nation, The Atlantic, WIRED and The New York Review of Books. She's received an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Berggruen Institute Fellowship, and an Artlab Editorial Fellowship, plus some other grants and awards. Currently she's a contributing editor at e-flux Journal, a freelance editor and consultant, and teaches MFA writing at Sarah Lawrence. For literary inquiries, please contact Claudia Ballard at WME.

Head Hi is an organization dedicated to art, architecture and design specializing in publications and cultural programming with an espresso bar located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn by the Navy Yard. We feature a curated selection of publications from around the globe. Working with local and international artists, designers, publishers, community members and organizations in various fields, Head Hi is a space for exploration and interaction that hosts talks, book launches, art shows, music performances and other events.