Contemporary art

e-flux Index first special thematic issue, concentrating on the relationship between art and theory today, brings together essays by some 100 international contributors considering the relationship of theory to artistic practice, architectural practice, contemporary politics, and arts education.

How the police infiltrated French cinema; a conversation with Rébecca Chaillon; independent publishing breaks the chains of the book industry; undermining imperialism from within, with Louisa Yousfi; Kazakhstan is de-Russifying itself, from language to culture; crypto-divination: artists delve into the inner workings of AI...

The role of light in contemporary art.

Marc Kokopeli by Theo Belci, Art After Neoliberalism by Katy Siegel, Florentina Holzinger by Caroline Lillian Schopp, Duchamp v. Duchamp by David Rimanelli and Helen Molesworth...

The 2025 Ringier annual report (artist's book).

A tour of works by artists Georges Rousse and Vladimir Skoda created in rural public spaces as part of an art biennial in a small village in Saône-et-Loire, in the Burgundy region.

The first monograph on the Paris-based Algerian artist, whose strikingly realistic paintings meticulously explore the movements of the body in intimate spaces.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

Published on the occasion of Eglė Budvytytė's representation of Lithuania for its national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, this book offers an overview of the artist’s interdisciplinary practice.

The publication traces Andreas Valentin's lifelong relationship with Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980).

Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself.

An artistic and documentary exploration of the transformation of the Swiss Cultural Center building in Paris and the renovation process carried out between 2022 and 2026 by the architectural agencies ASBR (Paris) and Truwant + Rodet + (Basel).

Cura. #46 – Soft Power presents artists redefining the geographies of contemporary art. The issue brings together techno-cultural and postcolonial identities, decolonial futures, speculative imaginaries, and narratives rooted in memory, home, and history.

The artist's photographic view of the folk tradition that celebrates Swiss tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.

A true artist's book, the catalogue for the Greek Pavilion by Andrea Angelidakis, an exercise in speculative storytelling which offers a non-linear historical account from 1934 (the year the pavilion was built) to today.

A new monograph on the Italian artist Chiara Camoni, published in conjunction with her exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale.

This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

Lotus L., Michaël Borremans, Jenna Sutela, Florentina Holzinger, Rose Salane, Bella Newman, Ivan Cheng, Sarah Brahim, Ian Waelder, Luzie Meyer, Archive Hans Haacke, Henri McMaster, Whitney Biennial 2026, Tracey Emin, Brook Hsu, Sanya Kantarovsky, 61st Venice Biennale...

A comprehensive guide to the monumental, immersive installation created by Nabil Nahas for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

A work conceived as an installation, as part of the project created by Amina Agueznay for the Moroccan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

Hana Herimerdinger pays tribute to the studio practice of her father, Jonathan Monk, and invites us to take a behind-the-scenes look at his work.

A retrospective of the work of American artist Kiki Smith, who, through an extremely diverse range of media and techniques, focuses on the multiple forms that connect living beings to their environment.

The second monograph on artist Sarah Tritz looks back on the last ten years of her work.

The second issue of the journal dedicated to science-art dialogue focuses on the Belle Morue research-creation project.

Leszek Brogowski sets out in search of the milestone markers.

Retrospective monograph.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

Leïla Grace Voight’s debut novel: the story of two parallel confinements, told in forty-three scenes by twenty-one women and twenty-two men—all visual artists—accompanied by an emerging AI, an anti-COVID superheroine.

A transatlantic dialogue between the complementary collections of the Mia and the MAMC+ that traces, through more than 100 works by some 40 artists, key milestones in American art from 1950 to the present.

A transatlantic dialogue between the complementary collections of the Mia and the MAMC+ that traces, through more than 100 works by some 40 artists, key milestones in American art from 1950 to the present.

A portrait of a unique artist family.

A fresh perspective on the oeuvre of the Belgian abstract painter Luc Peire (1916–1994).

The first major monograph dedicated to Dutch artist Charl van Ark.

A fresh perspective on the oeuvre of the Belgian abstract painter Luc Peire (1916–1994).

First monograph.

First monograph.

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

Edited by Michael Corris, the expanded edition of In the Belly of the Beast: Art & Language New York Project 1972-1978 is a survey of the tumultuous years of the political Conceptualism in the mid-seventies New York.

A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).

Artist's book (zine).

A critical and multifaceted examination of contemporary masculinities, as explored through the works of some thirty artists from different generations.

Eroticism and sexuality in Marina Abramović's work.

The catalog accompanying the provocative performance installation by Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger, presented at the 61st Venice Biennale.

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

First monograph / artist's book.