Contemporary art

An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.

Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).

The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.

A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).

Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.

An in-depth exploration of the artistic issues at stake in the work of Ad Minoliti, with the aim of deconstructing the binary categories that history and the history of art have tried to retain as "universal".

Spike #76, around the theme of artists' lives and careers.

This publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela's Amazon regions.

A journey through the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané over 25 years (artist's book).

This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.

Alongside Mousse's surveys, monographs, thematic essays, short profiles, fiction and book reviews, Issue #84 inaugurates four new columns with a reinforced emphasis on textuality and critical thinking: Criticism (by Kerstin Stakemeier), Thinkers (Ana Teixeira PintoAna Teixeira Pinto on Sara Ahmed), Curators (Kabelo Malatsie), and Reprint (selected by Lawrence Abu Hamdan).

Seven tangible prototypes that respond to our current planetary moment, enabling new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world (a scientific and artistic collaboration turned to a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable, and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach).

An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.

New monograph.

New monograph.

This artist's book provides a comprehensive insight into the artistic cosmos of Klodin Erb, one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Switzerland.

Artist's book.

New monograph.

First monograph.

Félicia Atkinson's new artist's book, bringing together photographs, drawings and poems.

Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques

This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.

The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.

New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.

First monograph of the Spanish painter: a collection of paintings and drawings created by Cristina BanBan between 2021 and 2023, accompanied by a text by Grant Klarich Johnson.

What forms does withdrawal—meaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawn—take in artistic and cultural practices? What movement(s) does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors of this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes.

Artist's book.

A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.

A series of historical images of buildings and monuments, retouched by the artist who superimposes the flames that ravaged these monuments long after the time of the original image, overlaying the present and the past.

A writing workshop led by the writer François Bon and the artist photographer Bruno Serralongue at HEAD - Geneva from February 20 to 25, 2022.

In this interview, Marie-France Rafael and the artist Raphaela Vogel probe the perennial question of form, asking: What is the relationship between form and time? In their conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.

Reference monograph.

Three series of works that the Californian artist of Japanese origin has been producing since the 1970s, plus a text, in four booklets.

Paintings and photocollages by the French artist based in Senegal, Vincent Michéa, which are part of a vast kaleidoscopic iconography, African but also European and American, that reorganizes space and time.

A photographic serie about Redeyef, a mining town in the south of Tunisia.

An ecological, urban and architectural anatomy inspired by Tunisia's palms and eucalyptus trees: a conceptual, committed and critical gesture of renovation of Tunis' municipal greenhouse at the Parc du Belvédère, which questions the very same definition of an artwork, the place of the artist and the role of cultural institutions.

Basse saison combines photographs taken by the artist mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native region, La Grande Motte in southern France.

The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.

A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.

The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.

Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.

ASMR's low masses, the Russian punk scene's exile in Belgrade, Harry Gruyaert, insurrection and literature in Turin's prisons, Susanne Kennedy, Nicolás Pereda, a sociological analysis of police violence by Paul Rocher...

The multiple issues of sexual representations in art / the complex relationships between art and the various forms of pornography.

Rosemarie Trockel, Mike Nelson, Lygia Pape, Tom Burr, Simone Forti, Deepfake Generation...

Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.

The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.

On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.

Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.