Contemporary art

Painting as a space for political resistance, irony, and philosophical reflection (an overview of the pictorial work of Basque artist Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa).

Outrageous Intimacy delves into the artistic practice of Lea Porsager, documenting her work with a particular focus on her earthworks, texts, and use of readymades.

This monograph retraces Paolo Colombo's career through its recurring concerns: literature and poetry, which he practices himself; Greek culture, from classical to modern; rebetika music; and a sustained dialogue with artists such as Fausto Melotti and Alighiero Boetti.

The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.

First monograph.

A critical examination of the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms.

An artistic exploration of the political and emotional stakes of translation in the context of asylum law, through the lens of rarely heard testimonies: those of interpreters.

A monographic publication featuring multilingual text-film transcripts engaging with the legacy of the German colonial project in Cameroon and Germany, as well as broader questions of border crossings, asylum, and exclusion.

An artist's document that sheds light on the relationship between drawing and sculpture in the work of Clément Bagot.

Invited by Mara Hoberman, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on Joan Mitchell's life, work and enduring impact.

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys' 2026 artist's calendar.

Special edition of the book Disegno Astratto, created by Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny, that includes the multiple "Boat, house, briefs, plane and sea lion".

An immersion in the flow of language, words, and images within David Douard's work.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.

The fourth and final issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

Álvaro Urbano by Javier Montes, Togar by Hung Duong, Kerry James Marshall by James Meyer...

Spike #86 rehabilitates the entire younger generation.

An inquiry into the potential regeneration of democracy: how artists can work towards a sense of collective relevance required to face the future's dark challenges.

An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.

The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.

Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.

The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub

The editorial extension of a long-term art and performance program in Cologne's public space, on and around its seven bridges over the Rhine.

First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).

A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.

An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.

The first English-language catalogue dedicated to the Guangzhou-based artist.

First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.

Reference monograph: a large retrospective of the work of Norwegian painter Leonard Rickhard (1945-2024) spanning more than half a century.

Published on the occasion of the Chilean artist's first institutional survey exhibition in Europe, this monograph is dedicated to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's experimental practice and focuses on her spatial, energetic, and global thinking.

How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

The catalog of a curatorial project devoted to Wolfgang Tillmans' books and magazines: an inventory as an invitation to literally take a different look at Tillmans' work, in print.

Stéphane Blanquet's new facsimile sketchbook: drawings made on trains, public transport, notes, drawings everywhere.

A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.

Emerging from the curatorial project FUORI! (Bologna, 2022-2023), this book brings together a series of interviews with theorists, artists, and performers. It focuses on the political, social, and community-based role of contemporary art.

Artist's book printed in risograph in a limited edition of 250 copies.

Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

The catalogue of the manifesto exhibition that seeks to lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of 21st-century extra-terrestrial art.

An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.

Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.