Contemporary art

Cura. #32 brings together an incredible array of conversations with cutting edge and pioneering artists, together with recurring and brand new sections, that set the rhythm of an upcoming year filled with new and thrilling explorations.

In this book, the 1923 manifesto “Active Art” by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggers a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose.

Nairy Baghramian by Andrew Berardini, Travis Jeppesen, Nobuo Sekine by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Avery Singer, David Ostrowski and Tenzing Barshee, John Gerrard, Ren Ebel, Jill Johnston, Eric Wesley, Tyler Coburn and Elvia Wilk, Alice Bucknell...

The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.

A very special overview of the work of a new media art pioneer: snapshots from all over the world, paintings, collages, graphic and ornamental works, and various artifacts from the artist's collections, which include everything from old magazines to fabric patterns.

Candice Breitz, Meriem Bennani, Marianna Simnett, Elysia Crampton, Too Old to Die Young and essays by Pierre Bal-Blanc and Monique Roelofs, a selection of excerpts from Intervista, Flash Art's side publication on visual culture in the late 90's...

Peter Halley's multimedia installation for the Magazzino del Sale N. 3, a 15th-century warehouse in the Dorsoduro district of Venice.

A collection of all writings, in the form of slogans, which have accompanied Marcello Maloberti in almost thirty years of poetics introducing themes he finds meaningful.

This publication looks back on Laure Ghorayeb's transition from writer to painter.

A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.

Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, A False Weight is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Daisuke Kosugi, an intimate project on the disabled body, supported by a reflection on the architecture of the home.

There is no theory that is not aesthetic (collective publication edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse and Sandro Zanetti).

Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements.

Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.

L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This third issue proposes an immersion into the young years of artist Nicole Eisenman in New York in the 1980s.

The great tumult of space.

A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.

Superimposing different sources—background sounds, recordings of a charivari in the streets of Lyon, bird songs or rhythms and melodies of amateur or professional musicians—Paul Elliman's vinyl record can be experienced as a form of sound loitering, each track composed by the transformation of different audio materials into unique musical collages.

Retrospective monograph.

Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Oscar Oiwa, Brazilian artist of Japanese origin, draws from these three Olympic cities to which he is personally bound, a matter to question the world of today, inviting us to dive into his half-realistic mid-fantasy universe, where sometimes point humor and nostalgia.

The sixth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

An anthology.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

Hans Hartung and the cinema.

An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work.

In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva photographed the streets of Tehran and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. The image-based work is part of a multilayered narrative that encounters the words of architect, researcher and educator Hamed Khosravi.

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

Art in the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires; in the ruins of the Soviet industrial dream in Georgia; the young Martinique artistic scene; Milo Rau and the NTGent theater; La Ribot; Mati Diop; Camille Blatrix; Clément Cogitore; Fanny Taillandier; Baptiste Lanaspeze and Éditions Wildproject...

Stafan Kalmár and Lia Gangitano on Lutz Bacher; Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin; Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper; Institute of Queer Ecology; 40 Fall 2019 exhibitions previews; Simmon Denny; Anthony Byrt; Sam McKinniss; Zarina; Diébédo Francis Kéré...

A card game for young museum visitors imagined by cartoonist Andreas Kündig and the MAMCO.

The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.

A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.

A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.

44 international artists deliver their vision of the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

This publication reflects upon the exhibition of Stefan Brüggemann's nihilist statements read, sung, and screamed by Punk icon Iggy Pop, sculpting aurally the spaces of a seemingly empty gallery covered in densely painted black paneling paintings.

A experimental journey looking back over the work of interlocution between individuals based on artworks with a specific link to certain places.

Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter and Bettina Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. The book collects their photographs along with texts by Bettina Clahsen and Swiss art historian and journalist Joerg Scheller.

The new edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 iconic book.

New monograph (works from 2011 to 2019).

Images of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong by Italian photographer Lele Saveri.

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

A retrospective of the work of one of the first artist-run spaces in Paris, offering an overall reflection on the emerging conditions of independent and collective spaces, and the way they have impacted the institutional and art scene.

This catalog accompanies Zineb Sedira's exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, covering a period from 1998 to the present, and mediums as diverse as video, film, installation and photography.

First monograph.

Sylvie Auvray's first publication, between an artist's book and a monograph.

A "lyrical drama about the woman who invented chicory stockings": the libretto of a troubadour operetta for narrators, children's choirs, accordion, dessert and Vosges spruce.

Pati Hill, Greer Lankton, Lil Picard, Bern Porter, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, Alexandre Estrela, Wade Guyton, Seth Price & Kelley Walker, Merlin James, Carlo Pittore, Anne Turyn, Martin Wong...

Over the past decade, 21 poets have come to La Kunsthalle Mulhouse to immerse themselves in the art and spend time within the space composing original texts reflecting on their experiences and vision of the work surrounding them. These writings are now collected in this volume.

The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar 2020 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a back-to-back of images made in collaboration between the three artists. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first ToiletMartin PaperParr magazine, this calendar presents a selection of the best images conceived by the three artists.