Contemporary art

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In the staccato, nervous, vivid and even resonant language of the flea markets that Oriol Vilanova frequents, Le prix des choses discusses economics as a flow—that is, the exchange of goods for monetary value.

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.

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.

La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).

Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).

An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.

A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.

The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition).

Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.

A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.

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

The seventh volume in the collection published by the Antoine de the Galbert Foundation, dedicated to the French artist Benoit Huot.

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

A card game designed by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel to play, think, and create together, designed to help artists and researchers break through barriers in their research and creative work!

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

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

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.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.

Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years.

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).

This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory.

This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.

Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.

An essay on the figure of the writer-

On the dark side of the street, you come along fascinating creatures. At first sight, they could seem scarying, but the drawings of Lison Ferné show them more soft and gentle. Meet twenty of them in this book in limited edition.

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.

Anna Homler by Rachel Hahn, Gabriele Stötzer by Elisa R. Linn, Cao Fei by Pablo Larios, AI for Modernists by Mario Carpo...

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