Contemporary art

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.

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.

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.

Slavs and Tatars, Stephanie Comilang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sohrab Mohebbi, Lauren Cook, Édouard Glissant, Mira Dayal, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Dani Blanga Gubbay, Ruoru Mou, Virginia Ariu, Bagus Pandega, Ceidra Moon Murphy, Oshay Green, Shafei Xia, Christian Rattemeyer, Lamm & Kirch...

International curator Cristina Ricupero uses the figure of Frankenstein as a common thread to explore and share her curatorial practice.

A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.

From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.

A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.

A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.

The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.

An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.

A broad survey of the Brazilian artist's work since 2016, dwelling on the recurring motifs and iconographic sources that feed the complex imagery of his painting.

To a Dead Hare collects images from trajectories around photography, created by mentormentor over the past few years for S.M.A.K. Moves, a programme centred around inclusivity, with art as a universal language.

The first total survey of Jef Geys' work.

A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.

The links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages: a very special publication including a softcover book and 19 booklets with artists' imagery in a box. Accompanying the exhibition curated by Maurin Dietrich and Gloria Hasnay at Kunstverein München.

Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angles and Berlin.

Artist Bruno Zhu's project on the perception of migratory phenomena and the creation of identity and nationalist narratives.

Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.

The third issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

How the Right is ruining culture; the return of magic in agriculture; art, war and video by Hito Steyerl; a counter-visit of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport with its nocturnal inhabitants; coming out of the 20th century with Mélanie Plouviez; the solitude of scroll with writer Sheena Patel, after nature with economist Cédric Durand...

An issue under the sign of vital breath and breathability.

Liliane Lijn, Gabriel Orozco, Esther Mahlangu, Mi You's Art in a Multipolar World, Carmen Winant...

First monograph.

This monograph presents Sheree Hovsepian's photographs, ink drawings, photograms, assemblages, and sculptures collected for the first time in a publication.

The genealogy of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's aquatic, immersive, multisensory installation, developed in over twenty versions over thirty years.

Thirty international artists, writers, and thinkers consider timely themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.

Federico Pepe fills the void in our lives, multiplying the ecstasy of emptiness ad infinitum (a project by Federico Pepe & Le Dictateur Studio curated by Elena Volpato).

An artistic journey along the watershed in the Parc Naturel Régional des Monts d'Ardèche, narrated by Charles Berling (featuring Gloria Friedmann, Kôichi Kurita, Olivier Leroi, Henrique Oliveira, Stéphane Thidet, Felice Varini, Gilles Clément...)..