Where do we go from here?
Feels like we’ve had this conversation before. About the climate crisis and the danger of autocrats.
About women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights, freedom of expression, and an open society.
Where do we go from here?
Indiecon 2025 is about mapping routes into alternative futures, about challenging the narrative of inevitability and fighting helplessness with stories.
It is about carving out spaces for meaningful exchange and building cooperatives around common themes.
You are not alone in this.
What will I see at Indiecon?
Indiecon is a joint effort of independent magazine, book, art print, zine, newsletter, podcast and website publishers from all over the world. The three-day publishing festival is based at Hamburg’s Oberhafen, a former freight yard now creative quarter right in the city centre.
Founded in 2014, Indiecon has since developed into a regular platform for an international scene of publishers – and become an annual destination for visitors from media, arts, book trade and the creative industries. In 2025, more than 140 publishers from 30 countries including Ukraine, China, USA, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, Nigeria and many more will exhibit their work.
Indiecon is powered by an ever-growning community of independent publishers who participate as organizers, exhibitors, speakers or hosts for workshops and roundtables. It is put together by brueder coop, a creative cooperative for design, code and content based in Hamburg and Berlin. We have been deeply involved in digital and printed publications for many years. Feel free to get in touch!
Indiecon was founded in 2014 by Urs Spindler, Malte Spindler, Martin Kaumanns, Philipp Gieseler and Malte Brenneisen.