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Contemporary art

 
 
Artforum - February 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Gilles Aillaud, Andy Robert, Marisol, Ellen Gallagher, Giovanni Anselmo, Marjorie Welish...
Doug Aitken - Mirage
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersive book experience: with numerous special printing features, this luxurious accordion-fold volume documents and embodies Aitken's exploration of mirrored surfaces in architecture.
Magali Reus - Dearest
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A collectible publication on Magali Reus' thinking of objecthood (an immersive and highly refined artist's book—three assembled volumes, different types of paper, transparency play on layers—based on three new series by the Dutch artist).
Yoko Ono - Everything in the Universe is Unfinished
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).
Andreas Samuelsson - Vases
2024
no text
Nieves
A series of watercolor images of vases by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Martine Syms - She Mad
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Cosa mentale – Disalienating institutions
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
Hella Gerlach - Gelenkstellen – Loose Joints
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Gelenkstellen – Loose Joints opens a space for mental and physical movement by translating the motif of loose joints, which is central to Hella Gerlach's sculptural practice, into the format of a book.
Cosima zu Knyphausen - Cento
2024
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A selection of paintings by Cosima zu Knyphausen over a period of five years, accompanied by an essay by Rahel Schrohe, and a poem of the artist.
Mousse
2024
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Anna Oppermann, Benoît Piéron, Maria Toumazou, Coumba Samba, Kiyan Williams, Ali Eyal, Samuel R. Delany, Maryanne Amacher, Roe Ethridge, Aleksandra Kasuba...
João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
Benoît Piéron - Slumber Party
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Alexander Tovborg - The Church
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication Alexander Tovborg: The Church. Photographed by Mishael Fapohunda, edited and designed by Åbäke, follows the artist's eponymous exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), in which Tovborg investigated the mysteries and paradoxes of faith, as well as the power of images.
Jesse Wine - Sculpture
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Sculpture is the first monograph dedicated to the work of New York-based British artist Jesse Wine, bringing together a substantial body of work produced between 2016 and 2023.
Lantian Xie - Mass Traffic
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A kino-political theory of the 21st century.
Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art
2024
English edition
Nero
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
Nero
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Jim Dine - Painter\'s Theater 1960–1965
2024
English edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Two previously unpublished interviews with Jim Dine, about his performances in New York City in the early 1960s, an important period in his career that the artist has so far rarely discussed.
Pour des écoles d\'art féministes !
2024
French edition
Tombolo Presses
currently out of stock
A collective manifesto for feminist art schools.
Épopées Célestes / Epopee celesti - Art brut dans la collection Decharme
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
A veritable panorama of Art Brut at an international level, through 180 works selected from Bruno Decharme's collection.
Agnès Violeau - Pratiquer l\'exposition - Une écologie
2024
French edition
Mix
An essay on the new challenges facing exhibition curators.
Michel Paysant - Entretiens
2024
French edition
Naima
Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
Fabienne Radi - People Painting
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Fan book parody, People Painting is an artist's book made up of a collection of found images of famous personalities (from the 1920s to 2020) painting or posing in their studios.
Feet of Clay
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
After Laughter Comes Tears
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Beatrice Gibson - Dreaming Alcestis
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
Rachel Whiteread - The Mark of Trauma
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Two essays by psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis on Rachel Whiteread's singular project and experience in Bergamo, Italia.
Roxane Métayer - Adage Vestige (vinyl LP)
2024
Matière Mémoire
The musician and visual artist's new album, somewhere between folk and experimental music.
Véhicule
2024
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Aziyadé Baudouin-Talec, Mickaël Berdugo, Jocelyn Cottencin & Olivia Grandville, Matali Crasset, Zoée Dahan, Ines Dobelle, Garance Dor, Frédéric Dumond, Diane Giorgis, Vincent Menu, Alain Michard, Aurélie Noury, Nicolas Richard.
Serge Guilbaut - Ping-pong culturel existentiel - France – États-Unis (1944-1947)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A genuine investigation, in the opposite direction to the narrative imposed by art historians, of artistic, cultural and political developments in the Western world after the Second World War, between Paris and New York.
Tools - To Fold
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
Artforum - January 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Thierry de Duve, Made in L.A. by Travis Jeppesen, Judy Chicago, Margaret Raspé, "Seeing in Art and Medicine" by Michael Corris...
Neural - Negociating Values
2024
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Matteo Marangoni; interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, Vivian Caccuri; articles: Accessing the Fiduciary Transactions of the Intellect and Imagination, Folding the Past into the Present; reports: Transmediale 2023, KIKK Festival...
Spike - The Night
2024
English edition
Spike
Winter issue, featuring Mark Leckey, Ellen Cantor, Gertrude Stein, Piotr Uklański, P.Staff, Josephine Pryde, Blackhaine, Diego Marcon, Ingrid Wiener, Olivier Assayas, Jamieson Webster, Steven-Phillips-Horst...
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
Nadia Belerique - Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
 Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
E-flux journal - Wonderflux – A Decade of e-flux Journal
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Wonderflux brings together a group of longtime contributors with graphic artists to collaborate on illustrated essays and develop a new pictorial language around some of the emergent consistencies and overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal.
Pascal Goblot - To Be Broken - À refaire le Grand Verre
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions
Over a period of more than ten years, Pascal Goblot undertook a performance based on Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, the first stage of which involved making as exact a reproduction of The Large Glass as possible. This book is the pictorial account of that reconstitution.
Zorka Wollny - Singing Machine (vinyl LP)
2024
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.
Ants walk two ways
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
Shelter Press - Records
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
Holger Trülzsch - The Seen and the Unseen
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.
Yelena Yemchuk - Malanka
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook: a series dedicated the Malanka Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on Old Year's Day.
Alex Cecchetti - Sentiero
2024
English edition
Nero
The documentation of a mountain path designed by artist Alex Cecchetti in Val Gardena (Bolzano, Italy) and a journey into more-than-human presences and ecologies.
Nicolas Cilins - Stills From Seven Works
2024
texts in English, German, French
Nero
A monograph dedicated to Nicolas Cilins’ films between 2011 and 2020.
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