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Walk on Water
2021
English edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.
Marcher sur l\'eau
2021
French edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.
Le Comportement des Choses
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.
Marie Bauthias - Généa/logi(qu)e(s) illusoire(s)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Marie Bauthias' poetic collages.
Thibault Boulvain - L\'art en sida - 1981-1997
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of representations of HIV and AIDS in American and European art, that opens up a vast political, economic and social history of two decades fatally haunted by the catastrophe.
Erlend Peder Kvam - Fiscal Cliff
2021
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Nieves
The fiscal cliff according to Erlend Peder Kvam.
Tal R<!----> - Garbage Man
2021
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Nieves
Tal R's collages from his eclectic collection of images and objects (artist's book).
Iglika Christova - Art & Microbiologie
2021
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.
Frac Île-de-France - La collection
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
The catalogue raisonné of the Frac Île-de-France Collection.
Olaf Holzapfel - Textile
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Pattern Nor Painting
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book / monograph.
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Mark McKnight, Estelle Hoy, Mitch Speed, Cudelice Brazelton IV, He Xiangyu, Gianluca Concialdi, Samuel Hindolo, Phung-Tien Phan, Trulee Hall, Alex Ayed, Tiffany Sia, Erna Rosenstein, Laura Grisi, Duan Jianyu , Miho Dohi , Stella Zhong , Yalda Afsah, book reviews by Taylor Le Melle...
The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artistic and scholarly inquiry into the  work of Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700–after 1753), an outstanding philosopher of the early eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the first African to earn a doctorate in a European university.
Marfa Sounding
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.
Diana Policarpo - Nets of Hyphae
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Monograph based on the research of the London-Lisbon based audiovisual artist around the use of ergot in female history.
Giovanna Silva - Islamabad Today
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic journey through the architecture and history of the capital of Pakistan, built ex nihilo from 1961 to the mid 1970s.
Chiara Fumai - Poems I Will Never Release, 2007-2017
2021
English edition
Nero
First retrospective monograph: an essential resource for any in-depth critical study of Chiara Fumai's work and thought, including a first systematic analysis of her oeuvre.
Ramsès Younan - La Part du sable
2021
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan, a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
2021
English edition
Punch
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.
Refaire le monde
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
A documentation of new values and new worlds and a guide to them.
Louise Siffert - Gut Feelings - Melodies and Aromas (vinyl LP)
2021
DUUU
With the vinyl recording of a musical, the artist proposes a new chapter in her project on fermentation as a living, palpable theory that blends body, feminism, and community.
Richard Tuttle - Stories I-XX
2021
English edition
MER. Books
Discover Richard Tuttle as story teller and writer: first publication of 44 short stories by the artist paired with 22 sculptural works from the "Stories" Series.
Gregory Jacobsen - Plethora
2021
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
Catalogue bringing together four virtuoso artists in excess, overflow and debauchery.
Nouveau Réalisme = Nouvelles approches perceptives du réel
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
A collection of works, documents, testimonies, recollections and analyses that offers an exceptional overview of the history and life of the New Realist group.
Florian Hecker - Statistique Synthétique / Teum (the Silvery Slit) (vinyl LP)
2021
INA-GRM - Portraits GRM
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).
Sarah Thornton - 33 artistes en 3 actes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
French edition of the compelling narrative that goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.
Artforum - April 2021
2021
English edition
Artforum
Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Florian Hecker, Félix Fénéon and anarchism, Jack Pierson...
Spike - Sports
2021
English edition
Spike
Spike's art & sport issue.
Jim Shaw - Paperback Covers
2021
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Jim Shaw's “Paperback Covers” key series.
Edi Hila -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.
Cécile B. Evans - Amos\' World
2021
English edition
various
The catalogue of the Belgian-American artist's architectural and video installation, at the crossroads of different disciplines, conceived by Cécile B. Evans herself.
Olaf Nicolai - ( !? x : ..? X!
2021
Florence Loewy
A poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks.
Roven - Numéro spécial Le monstre du dessin
2021
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
The 16th issue of the annual critical review on contemporary drawing is dedicated to monsters and the monstrous.
François Lemieux - Going to, Making Do, Passing Just the Same
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.
Vincent Meessen - Blues Klair
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
This book furthers the reflection that was given form in the exhibition Blues Klair, a site to test History in terms of the present. A series of essays probes the enduring presence of colonialism as well as of alliances and cultural crossovers across time and space through the filter of the colour blue.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Gloria
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.
Stronger Than Bone - On Feminism(s)
2021
English edition
Archive Books
Stronger than Bone draws upon the embodied strength, intuitive desires, and collective wisdom of feminists and non-binary protagonists to foreground the manifold dimensions of feminist politics and commitments.
Un autre monde///dans notre monde - Évocation contemporaine du réalisme fantastique – Tome 2
2021
French edition
Supernova - Art
A dive into the world of fantastic realism through the works of some twenty contemporary artists.
Mariateresa Sartori - Monde, dis-moi tout
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Bruno
Three three pinhole photographic series by the Venetian artist who explores the possible interactions between artistic and scientific languages.
Performing Human Rights - Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Aesthetic practices and human rights in the global south.
Kim Schoen - BARAGOUIN
2021
English edition
X Artists' Books
A nonsense opera (artist's book).
Everything you ever wanted to know about Jeff Koons. Just kidding. It\'s a book of interviews with nine really great artists
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
Nine interviews with the artists exhibited in the Geneva art space Forde between 2018 and 2020.
FRANK
2021
English edition
Torpedo
A book that documents/closes the Oslo-based queer-feminist plattform FRANK, with a rich contributions list and many illustrations.
Simon Hantaï - Transatlantique
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Seven American artists share their invaluable perspectives on the decisive work of Simon Hantaï.
Raphael Hefti - Salutary Failures
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Lenz Press
First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).
Diego Marcon - Three Works
2021
English edition
Lenz Press
This monograph deals with Diego Marcon's overall practice through the analysis of three works.
Jacopo Benassi - Once more (vinyl LP)
2021
Xing
A total musical and visual performance.
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