Since 1979, the AAP Archive Artist Publications
has preserved artist publications, printed materials, reproductions, handwritten works, and originals on the expanded topic of "artist publications." These include, among others:

printed artist books and unique pieces, artist stamps, catalogs, secondary literature, posters, flyers, stickers, advertising material, statements, delivery lists, price lists, exhibition lists, concepts, reviews, newspaper articles, magazines, editions, ephemera, slides, records, CDs, DVDs, websites, links, emails, music cassettes, letters, invitations, blog entries, objects, book objects, object books, multiples, folders, artist addresses, zines.
The archive emerged from the three exhibitions on artist books at the Produzentengalerie Adelgundenstraße in Munich and from the "verlag & distribution kretschmer & grossmann" publishing house. It is continually expanded through acquisitions, numerous donations, and a few loans.
The collection currently comprises approximately 100,000 to over 120,000 items, of which approximately 91,000 titles are searchable in an online catalog .
The Künstlerbucharchiv documents artistic activities from the Fluxus and cyber eras, Mail Art, Punk, Concrete and Visual Poetry, Conceptual Art, and everything related to the self-organization of artists, such as producer galleries, studio groups, artist groups and communities, markets, editions, self-publishing houses, workshops, artist initiatives, and much of what artists have undertaken for self-marketing and self-organization since the late 1970s.