Contemporary art

Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

Artist's book.

This second issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design, blending retro nostalgia with cutting-edge innovation.

Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.

Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.

Conceived as a visual résumé, Installation Views provides both a comprehensive overview of Charlotte Posenenske's solo exhibitions and a record of her numerous group shows.

First monograph on the work of Belgian artist Sigefride Bruna Hautman.

An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.

Artist's book.

The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.

This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.

78 charcoal and pastel drawings by Adel Abdessemed.

The first monograph of American artist Spencer Lewis.

Artist's book.

Brice Guilbert grew up on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, at the foot of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano. The Fournez series is the result of years of repeated work on the very same motif: the eruption of this volcano.

Rubio's tongue-in-cheek comics and artworks bridge high culture with kitsch while exploring constructions of mixed-race identity.

The Decorator's Home delves into Marco A. Castillo's exploration of the development of industrial design in the 1960s and 1970s Cuba, examining its complex and often contradictory ties to the revolutionary ideals of the time.

Retrospective monograph.

The experiments of an "abstract design" made by the duo Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny.

French photographer Estelle Hanania sets the tone for her publishing house Myriorama's program, inaugurated with the singular work discovered in the shopping cart of Mrs. N., an artist on the margins who, at 78, sells her drawings on the sidewalks of Paris's southern suburbs on market days.

Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.

A look back at the approach and programming of the Basel-based modular independent art space, between living, working and exhibition space.

The four seasons as a thematic underpinning to present a rich selection of Norwegian and international contemporary art from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation.

A joint exhibition by the Austrian artist and the Belgian artist and writer.

A mid-career retrospective of internationally renowned Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis.

Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)—whit its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions—and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025).

First monograph.

A project curated by American artist Oscar Tuazon, which explores water as a metaphor, as an element that resists any attempt at shaping, and as an essential medium for artists: a pure mirror.

An overview of Nicolas Deshayes' work over a decade.

The first major monograph on Swiss-Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.

The first monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's immersive installations of found objects and sound machines.

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...

For Summer 2025, Spike is getting freaky with the truest image of our time: Vulgarity.

In Meta Cars, Beni Bischof transforms found images of cars into visual distortions. Through digital manipulation and radical simplification, the original shapes are abstracted—reduced to ghostly and ridiculous silhouettes that feel both familiar and alien.

The Zurich-based artist reinterprets the fear of emptiness from a feminist, psychological and socio-political perspective, through a pictorial reappropriation of the aesthetics of bureaucratic documents.

A series of watercolor house studies by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.

The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.

In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.

PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS deep dives into the cosmological pool that shapes the collective unconscious and takes a look at the relevance of Jung's ideas in relation to contemporary art and fashion.

A reflection on two essential formats in photographic production: the book and the exhibition space (featuring Christian Aschman, Julien Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Pierre Hourquet, Aurélien Mole, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Van Beek).

A hundred recipes, almost 500 pages, 27 dinner-locations from 15 years of supper-clubbing and displacement of artistic practice in urban space.