Ministry of Small Pleasures

2025

A collection of small pleasures from more than 40 people around the world.
Alphabetically ordered, it resembles the bureaucracy of an institution, yet its content is highly poetical and charged with emotion.
This book poses basic yet crucial questions:
How much do we really need to be happy? What sources of joy can we find in our everyday lives? It contains 306 (immaterial) delights—ephemeral yet nourishing pleasures, brief but powerful moments, experiences, and sensations captured in a few words.

Life is full of seemingly humble pleasures, and the potential to experience them is always within us. Holding a book in your hand is one of them.
The small pleasures were collected from friends by Katarína Poliačiková and Lucia Gavulová.

A fictional but immensely needed institution, the Ministry of Small Pleasures, has a participatory nature and takes on many forms: a book, an exhibition, a pop-up office or a workshop.

(Publication photos by Nora Sáparová)