Draft:Kulturalis

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Kulturalis is a British publishing company based in London, specialising in art, museum and heritage books produced in collaboration with museums, galleries and cultural institutions around the world. Founded in 2023 by Neil Titman and Charlotte Kramer, the company publishes guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, catalogues raisonnés, photographic books, poetry and children’s books, and since 2024 has formed part of the Universal Art Group.

History

Kulturalis was founded in October 2023 by Neil Titman, who had previously worked in editorial at The Folio Society and at Third Millennium Publishing and Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, together with Charlotte Kramer, owner of the facsimile publisher Müller & Schindler. The company was formally launched on 11 March 2024 at the Savile Club in Mayfair, London, on the eve of the London Book Fair. Kulturalis has published guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, catalogues raisonnés and children’s books with such institutions as the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the Khalili Collections and the World Jewellery Museum in Seoul. Kulturalis is part of the Universal Art Group, which was founded by Charlotte Kramer and Alexander Wilhelm in 2024. The poetry magazine PN Review has described Kulturalis as a "publisher specialising in books on the arts and visual culture". Its titles are produced in association with museums in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Services

As part of its collaboration with museums, Kulturalis provides project management, editorial, design, translation, printing and shipping services. Kulturalis also provides support services for publications such as the creation of interactive digital editions for hosting on a website or distribution as an eBook. The company states that it can also arrange editions in Braille in several languages and accompanying audio versions, and that commissioning institutions receive royalties on trade sales. Translation work for its multilingual editions is carried out with the language services company First Edition Translations.

Publications

Kulturalis titles are distributed in the worldwide book trade by ACC Art Books and in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

Museums and institutions

Museum publications include The Making of the Gulbenkian Museum, a study by the curator Vera Mariz of the founding of the Gulbenkian Foundation, the transfer of the collection from Paris, London and Washington to Lisbon and the museum’s opening in 1969, described as the first of a planned series of four; Eternal Jewels: A Collector’s Journey, marking the twentieth anniversary of the World Jewellery Museum in Seoul and the collection of its founder, Lee Kangwon; EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum by Nathan Mannion; Inside Chetham’s Library, produced with Chetham’s Library in Manchester; and Nordic Stories. Visions in Silk: The Khalili Collection of Japanese Fine Art Textiles, edited by Clare Pollard and Laura van Overbeeke of the Ashmolean Museum, is due in November 2026.

Since 2025 Kulturalis has published the books accompanying the Sainsbury Centre’s annual themed exhibition seasons at the University of East Anglia: Can The Seas Survive Us? (2024), Can We Stop Killing Each Other? (2025), with texts by Joanna Bourke and Michael Steedman, and What is the Meaning of Life? (2026), with contributions from Jago Cooper, Tania Moore, Jessica Barker, Ben Highmore and Ed Krčma. For the Khalili Collections, The Pilgrim’s Companion: The Khalili Anīs al-Hujjāj pairs a study by the curator Qaisra M. Khan with Michael Burns’s first complete English translation of Safi ibn Vali Qazwini’s Persian account of a Hajj undertaken from Mughal India in 1676–77, commissioned by Aurangzeb’s daughter Zeb un-Nisa; the children’s title Qismah & Naseeb by Halla Bint Khalid also draws on the collections.

Cathedrals and church heritage

Divine Light: The Stained Glass of England’s Cathedrals, by the architectural historian Janet Gough with photographs by Andy Marshall, presents fifty windows chosen by the cathedrals themselves and covering every Church of England cathedral. It was reviewed in the Church Times and prompted a 45-day daily feature and public vote by the Association of English Cathedrals to find England’s favourite cathedral window, closing in February 2026. A forty-page guide to St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, edited by Rosalind Stevenson and photographed by John Holmes, was reviewed by the Church of Ireland Gazette.

Art, photography and literature

Running and Returning, the first monograph of Jyll Bradley, accompanied her survey exhibition at The Box, Plymouth and includes an essay by Andrew Renton of Goldsmiths, University of London; Tabish Khan selected it among his art books of the year for FAD Magazine. Grace and Fire surveys four decades of work by the photojournalist Gérard Uféras, accompanying his retrospective at the Villa Tamaris in La Seyne-sur-Mer, while Rebellious Forests, with photographs by Pavel Hroch and text by the anthropologist León García Lam, documents the Purépecha region of Michoacán and the community of Cherán and appeared in Spanish as Bosques Rebeldes. Timeless Mumbai, written by Khilen Shah and illustrated by Matt Rota, is a concertina-bound panorama housed in a slipcase. I Caught Sight of My Face (2024), Joshua Mensch’s translation of Petr Hruška’s Spatřil jsem svou tvář with illustrations by Jakub Špaňhel, retells Magellan’s circumnavigation after Antonio Pigafetta; it was presented at the Czech Center New York and by the Czech consulate in Manchester, and reviewed by Nóra Blascsók in PN Review. Other literary and historical titles include Letters to Sophia: The Afterlives of Hester Thrale by Kate Chisholm and Loren Rothschild, on Hester Thrale’s life after her 1784 marriage to Gabriel Piozzi, reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement; The Age of Johnson; Staithes: Life, Light and Landscape by Adam Chadwick, held by the Yale Center for British Art; Bridges and More by Ian Doolittle; Justice for All; and 70 for 700: Members of Clare Through the Centuries, announced for November 2026 to mark the 700th anniversary of Clare College, Cambridge, written by the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson.

Awards

Kulturalis has published two award-winning titles - Rebellious Forests, which won Silver in the Photo books category of the 15th International Creative Media Awards in 2024; and Timeless Mumbai, which won the Gold Medal in the Book category of the Society of Illustrators Annual Competition in 2025. The Society of Illustrators medal, awarded at the organisation’s 68th Annual Competition in New York, was made to the book’s illustrator, Matt Rota.