Contemporary art

A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

The emergence of a geological consciousness in contemporary art.

Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...

For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book.

Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

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

The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.

Monograph / artist's book, including contributions by a variety of writers as well as materials.

Artist's book.

The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).

An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.

An extensive and sophisticated exploration of a recurring theme in global comics—black box—which the artist has gathered and reorganized into a large-scale, collective, transtemporal and transgeographic narrative.

A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.

Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).

Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.

The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.

The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.

A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).

Zero zine is a contemporary art zine for children. It offers them a direct experience of art without filters or barriers, encouraging them to explore, feel, think, and imagine. The first issue presents the work of Léa Katharina Meier, Maude Gyger, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Pedro Wirz and Xenia Lucie Laffely.

For over 20 years, the author kept in a drawer the little pieces of paper on which he noted things to do. "Mesmots" carry the archives of his life.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).

A major retrospective monograph, published on the 20th anniversary of Arman's death, presenting the artist's visual works from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well as his lesser-known yet radical performances, with a text by Bernard Blistène and numerous illustrations from archives and documents.

Retrospective monograph.

A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.

"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.

A reader documenting the exhibition and symposium on eight schools, educational organisations and independent, self-organised educational programmes which see themselves as alternatives to traditional art academies and currently occupy central positions in the field of contemporary art.

Published on the occasion of Nina Könnemann's eponymous exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist's work.

Comprehensive monograph on Silke Otto-Knapp's late work.

Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects. Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.

A new compilation of Amelie von Wulffen's intriguing, very truth hard drawings and comics, dealing with dreams and inner experiences, depicting generational conflicts, sexuality, death, and strong emotions with unfiltered harshness.

Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.

A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.

Art and poetry in action as performative power.

This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.