Central / Eastern Europe

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.

This first monograph invites the reader to explore the fascinating universe of Czech artist Vojtěch Kovařík, who paints surreal worlds populated by figures from classical Greek and Roman mythology.

This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.

The complete version of electro-acoustic composer Ákos Rózmann's epic masterpiece 12 Stations presented for the first time in its entirety as a deluxe 7CD set.

Ákos Rózmann's Mass consists of twelve electroacoustic compositions created between 1989 and 2004 in the composer's studio and at EMS in Stockholm. Like most of Rózmann's compositions, Mass is a long-form work with a duration of around seven hours. 

First monograph.

A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.

A retrospective of 50 years of creation of the visual artist Bistra Lechevalier.

The first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals.

A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.

This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.

The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.

The Stoneware Jug is a collection of poem-comics by Stefan Lorenzutti (words) and John Porcellino (pictures), in which American comix legend Porcellino (King-Cat, Thoreau at Walden) "pours" the adapted poems into his pen-and-ink panels, as if into a handmade vessel. 

A collection of letters (from 1957 to 1995) that the famous brothers Jonas Mekas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to Semeniškiai village, their homeland, all addressed to the most important addressee of their lives—their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.

Publication based on a project initiated by Dora Budor at Progetto (Lecce, Italy) in 2021 that began with detouring a solo exhibition onto a collaborative course to traverse the itineraries of work, leisure, and consumption in southern Italy.

An installation by the artistic duo Tehnica Schweiz (Gergely László and Péter Rákosi) comprising a film and a porcelain sculpture collection: a re-examination of our relation to architectural and material cultural heritage.

The first English translation of Karel Teige's The Marketplace of Art in two volumes includes a critical introduction, inquiries, and extensive commentaries. Originally published in the Czech language in 1936, The Marketplace of Art is the summation of Teige's artistic, political, and theoretical work.

Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.

A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.

First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.

An extension of Vladimir Nikolić's project for the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, this book explores publishing as an incubator for different forms of editorial, artistic and curatorial practices.

A collection of writings by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras written over a seven-year period (new expanded edition).

Two contemporaneous bodies of artworks, which demonstrate the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary in the early 1970s.

Pauline Oliveros and György Ligeti revisited by Ensemble 0.

How to teach art / can we become an artist?

Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.

The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).

In 2015, Ukrainian photographer Sergey Melnichenko lives in China. He works there as a dancer. 247 polaroids taken in China by Sergey Melnitchenko is the story in pictures of thirty months of Chinese life.

Punk Suprematism includes the first English translation of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek.

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

The prospects of revolutionary feminism, from Želimir Žilnik's canonical film.

The first comparative study of artistic culture in Europe under Soviet influence following the Yalta Accords, tracing the complex relationship between art and politics and the tensions between the avant-garde and traditional practices on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

The catalogue of the 2021 Belgrade Biennale, exploring the space of dream as a metaphorical space of freedom, capable of re-reading categories, rules, and the most common certainties.

This monograph dedicated to the sculptor Klara Kristalova is a tribute to her whole work, revealings on the one hand her drawings and on the other hand her sculptures, sometimes in various exhibition places.

Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.

The Polish artist's memorial archive traces a history of homosexuality and queer culture in Eastern Europe and opens up possibilities for the future.

A poetic and scientific meditation on the artist's iconic cinematic installation exploring post-human mythologies, future archaeology, and the invisible structures that enfold us, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.

The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).

Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.

The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.

Seven American artists share their invaluable perspectives on the decisive work of Simon Hantaï.

This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh's extensive research into the history of sugar production in Central Europe, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century.

Socialist realism and the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the geopolitical "climate" of the time.

A kaleidoscopic peek into the traditional circus of Riga.

An artistic research on the political construction of representations of socialist and capitalist modernity during the Cold War, through a history of exhibitions.

An anthology of the artists' zine.

Photographer Mihai Barabancea portrays the underworld of post-Soviet Romania and Moldova: a set of subjects and scenes revealing the crude reality of the streets, zeroing in on moments of ruthless rawness and keen poignancy.