Contemporary art

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside.

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.

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

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

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 over a period of fifteen years.

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

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

An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.

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.

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

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

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

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.

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

Invited by Mara Hoberman, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on Joan Mitchell's work.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

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.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).

Archivio n°11 offers an international overview of technology archives, divided into three sections—Stories, Institutions, and Collectors & Collectives.

A sensitive and critical examination of the relationship between photography and ecology.

A long conversation about the work and life of Portuguese artist Ana Jotta, accompanied by 60 previously unpublished photographs of her homes (in Brazil, Morocco, and Zanzibar) and her years in theater in the late 1970s.

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2025 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

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

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

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

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.

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

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.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, this issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what 'technology' is.

The new, adapted and expanded edition of Benjamin Sommerhalder's children's book (the story of the little ghost Knigi, learning how to read).

An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.

a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.

Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.

Yang Yong systematically traces the titular artist's creative practice from 1996 to 2025, organizing his thirty-year journey into six chapters, each covering a five-year period.

The first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of the British-born Nigerian artist and film director Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

This publication aims to provide a critical and profound reading of Alice Neel's humanism, constructing a journey through her artistic and personal life. The book includes texts by academics and artists, enriched by an extensive number of illustrations, archival photographs and documents.

Comprehensive documentation of the Italian artist's latest works, in which he playfully explores the theme of light.

An artist's book composed of fragments of texts from different eras and contexts—literary, science fiction, philosophical, scientific—all centered on the theme of the subterranean.

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

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

This book, the first dedicated to the work of Michaela Sanson-Braun, traces thirty years of practice across Germany, London, and France. Bringing together paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations, it also features sixteen paintings conceived especially for this publication and printed on uncoated paper.