Contemporary art

The first in a series of four books in children's book format, composed as a series of tragic children's stories that Jérôme Zonder knows so well how to write and draw.

For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

An encounter between dance and visual arts.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

A complete overview of New York underground artist Rammellzee (1960–2010).

What do artists do that is different, where do they speak from, and what impact do they have beyond the exhibition wall?

How art and cultural institutions can resist, critique, and build alternatives to the intersecting crises of racial capitalism, imperialism, neofascism and neoliberal authoritarianism.

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

What are AIs doing to us, and what can we do to them?

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.

This first comprehensive monograph on Mitchell Anderson spans his broad multi-media practice since the early 2010s.

The first volume of a new series of art history publications dedicated to the artistic scenes of former Yugoslavia, this publication offers the first comprehensive overview on the life and work of Ivo Gattin (Split, 1926–Zagreb, 1978).

First reference monograph.

Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

On the specificity and generality, materiality and immateriality, production and reproduction of artistic labour.

An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.

Special issue on performance and sound art.

First monongraph.

Marking fluent's tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization's archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.

This publication brings together artists, theorists, and writers primarily from Africa and its diasporas to explore a constellation of experimental and contemporary approaches to ever-evolving discourses and practices of decolonization.

Outta Love documents Angela Brandys's new series of large-scale textile works, conceived in 2024–25 and made from her own wardrobe—designer clothing torn apart, reduced to their baseline fabric, and reassembled into images drawn from the Renaissance tradition.

A review and extension of Vincent Grange's artistic explorations of queer spaces and cultures.

First monograph.

A new approach to Kounellis's work, focusing on the evolution of his painting practice over nearly seven decades.

Reference monograph.

New monograph.

The Swiss artist and writer studies a place at beetle height.

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of Palestinian artist, activist, and scholar Samia Halaby.

A project that considers the role of the Tirailleurs in liberating France from Nazi Germany, how their efforts contributed to the liberation of Germany itself, and their impact on securing peace in Europe post-1945.

A collaborative research and artistic project about restitution, reparation and transformation taking place in multiple locations over several years.

A comprehensive overview of the legal framework governing artistic practice, intended for creators, authors, and artists.

The anthology black monument explores how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality.

Forest Encounters invites you into the forest and its many meanings. It brings together voices from different disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Artists, foresters, art historians, philosophers, anthropologists, wildlife researchers, landscape architects, and writers all participate in this collective reflection on the diverse meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to the forest.

An art book by Adama Delphine Fawundu that celebrates life through the female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—who have shaped the artist's cultural and personal history.

At the intersection of art, technology, and humanitarian inquiry, this book provides insight into Ghost Agency's desire for agency across artistic reasearch, institutions, and civic life in the digital age.

A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.

We Lost Control Again surveys the questions raised by the work of artist Rikke Luther between 2015 and 2025, exploring the long-range effects of this era of collapse, and the effect on social orders and the stability of the Earth system.

Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.

Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.