Africa

 
 
Liaisons urbaines - Transforming Public Spaces in African Cities
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions
Liaisons urbaines [Urban Connections] chronicles the development and implementation of an eponymous programme for enhancing public spaces in African cities by operations that combine urban planning and development, design, art and heritage.
Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar - Limited edition
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Kouam Tawa - Colliers de perle
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Collection of poems by Cameroonian poet Kouam Tawa.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
El Hadji Sy - Painting, Performance, Politics
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
The first art-historical survey on the multidimensional work of Senegalese artist, curator, and cultural activist El Hadji Sy.
Mandla Reuter - No Such St
2015
English edition (original texts in Italian and German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Cosima von Bonin - CvB Singles Uptown Remix
2015
English edition
Petzel
CvB Singles Uptown Remix presents a survey of work created since 2000—rags, mushrooms, a “soft” fence, an enormous octopus and other curious objects from Cosima's diverse oeuvre.
 Invernomuto - Negus
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
(last copies available!)
Artist's book based on a complex project linking Vernasca, Ethiopia and Jamaica according to two points of view, placing certain critical moments in Italy's colonial history in relation to the symbolism of Rastafarian tradition.
Transcultural Modernisms
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.
New Africa
2014
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
(last copies available!)
New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Issa Samb - Word! Word? Word! - Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Comprehensive monograph.
Guy Reid - Nous
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
Guy Reid's singular lime wood sculptures.
Alessandro Bosetti - Renard (vinyl LP)
2013
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.
Barthélémy Toguo - Toguo / Cissé (book / DVD)
2011
bilingual edition (English / French) / DVD in French version (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A book / DVD documenting a collaborative project by Cameroonian artist Barthelemy Toguo and Senegalese Soly Cissé in Dakar.
Liv Bugge - You Make Me Want To Die In The Country Side - A meditation on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2011
English edition
Torpedo
This artist's book gathers a collection of notes, excerpts, documentation, artworks and interviews that documents Bugge's reading experience of Conrad's Heart of Darkness as well as her own artistic practice.
Tere Recarens - Maa Tere Manalen
2010
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
various
24.00 15.00 €
Artist's book documenting a project developed by Tere Recarens with the inhabitants of Bamako during a series of visits to Mali.
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector - Minutes of a Slow Hour (Deluxe Edition)
2008
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Alessandro Bosetti - African Feedback (+ CD)
2007
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
(last copies available!)
Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.
Camel Zekri - Rekmazladzep (CD)
2006
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
Camel Zekri (electroacoustic guitar), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone and trumpets), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar) reach a rare degree of balance between softness and roughness, between lightning and harmony.
Next Flag - The African Sniper Reader
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Positions in contemporary African art.
Marc Décimo - Le Diable au désert – Ananké Hel ! - suivi de Paul Tisseyre-Ananké : Rires et larmes dans l\'armée !
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.
Peter Friedl - Four or Five Roses
2004
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Some 45 narratives by children presented in the form of a monologue. Edited from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa, Peter Friedl creates a hybrid genre that is both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice.
Roger Ballen - Fact or Fiction
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
36 studies from 1998 to 2002.
Camel Zekri - Le Festival de l\'eau (CD)
1999
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
The meeting, on the Niger River, between contemporary improvised music and African musical traditions.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Gabon 1977 - Un Don Juan chez les gendarmes
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.
Uriel Orlow - Theatrum Botanicum
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.
Otobong Nkanga - Luster and Lucre
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.
Julie Mehretu - A Universal History of Everything and Nothing
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.
Benga - A Signature Genre from Kenya (vinyl LP + magazine)
2017
texts in English and French
Flee
sold out
A vibrant tribute to Kenya's musical signature genre Benga.
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.
The Africans
2016
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
sold out
At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.
Kaleidoscope - Summer 2012 – “A” is for Africa
2012
English edition
miscellaneous
sold out
Kaleidoscope's summer issue is a special edition entirely devoted to art produced in (or related to) the African continent today, from Egypt to South Africa via Ethiopia and Nigeria.
Kendell Geers - Be Contemporary
2009
texts in English and French
miscellaneous
sold out
Editor in chief, Kendell Geers subverts the code of the magazine and appropriates BC as a subversive hacker, saturating the pages of FUCK, sexes and crucifixions.
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector
2008
Captures - Artist's books
sold out
Artist's book (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages).
Kendell Geers - My Tongue in your Cheek
2002
texts in English, German, French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
The first full length survey of the work of Kendell Geers.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
forthcoming
New monograph of the Beninese painter.
2024
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Publication based on an exhibition of work by Nigerian-British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi and South African artist Abrie Fourie both based in Berlin, and curatorial collaboration between Musée de la Musique Georges OUEDRAOGO de Ouagadougou and Der Projektraum SCHARAUN, Berlin. The curatorial emphasis turns the focus to the idea of sound in photography.
Silvia Naef - À la recherche d\'une modernité arabe
2024
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
forthcoming
Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the twentieth century which responds more than ever, twenty-five years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.
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