Contemporary art

Reference monograph: the most comprehensive introduction to the Korean artist's postcolonial and feminist approach.

Publication including the films Transformation Scenario, 70.001, and Faux Terrain, as well as a visual essay, a glossary and texts by Heike Geißler, Fanni Fetzer, and Franciska Zólyom.

This July/August in Artforum: Ja'Tovia Gary invites five young Black women artists—Eniola Dawodu, Oroma Elewa, Jazmine Hayes, Fatima Jamal, and Sydney Vernon—to share her space in the magazine. Plus, artist's projects from Jamal Cyrus, an interview with Cy Gavin, Paul B. Preciado on revolution, Daniel Marcus on Keith Haring's safe sex, reviews from Paris, Madrid, New Delhi, Hong Kong, and more.

Contributions by Laura Owens, Daehyung Lee, Alvin Li, Catherine Malabou, Daniel Baumann, Ubermorgen, Walter Van Beirendonck, Mark von Schlegel, Cao Fei & Hou Hanru, Dean Kissick, Bianca Heuser, Ingo Niermann, Victoria Campbell, Enis Maci...

Monograph dedicated to the set of 70 pieces by Arnulf Rainer constituting the Fonds Michel Foëx, of which Rainer Michael Mason presents the first study.

This collective book devoted to the work of Sammy Baloji explores how the artist, born in the DRC in 1978, attempts to “restore defeated connections”. How to think about the memory sifted through colonial violence? What effects does the mining of yesterday and today in Katanga and elsewhere have on the project of a common future? How does form make history beyond erasure?

The transcription of a lecture by Fanny Drugeon on three installations by Japanese artist Shimabuku.

Artist's book / catalogue

An observation on evolution of material plasticity, a story about plastic whose native land is Mesoamerica (artists' book).

Artist's book.

A journey through Western artistic culture with thirty-nine ancient and contemporary works from the Fabrizio Moretti collection, from the Gothic period to the experiments of the last ten years, passing through Mannerism and the Baroque.

The collection of essays on art by the philosopher and critic Boris Buden constitutes a history of post-communism studied through that of works of art.

This collection of writings from Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung presents, for the first time in one volume, essays and proposals edited anew.

Of plants and men.

Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.

Choosing Venice as the most suitable place to describe natural and social complexities, this publication sets the outcomes produced by a group of scholars and artists during their residencies in the Venetian lagoon. The contributions, in fact, from crossing the stimuli proposed by Altrove Project (2018-19) and from recognizing art and its narrations as a powerful tool to reach newer and more coherent disciplinary hybridizations.

This large monograph presents a new set of sculptures by the artist, installed in the lagoon facing the museum designed by Jean Nouvel in Doha, Qatar, and the different stages of their production.

Perrotin's large hardcover Yearbook presents the gallery's activities across its six international locations over the course of 2019, bringing together exhibition views, conversations with the artists, photographs of workshops and events, and additional exclusive content.

An ensemble of essays on the multifarious forms of the critique, showing how these forms are determined by their study object, and how it translates into critical stances.

Oracular Transmissions weaves together three of the most recent collaborative projects Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby have completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017).

The first published collection of the work of playwright and artist Asher Hartman and his Gawdafful National Theater company.

The catalogue raisonné of Jean-François Maurige's prints produced with Michael Woolworth from 1991 to 2019.

Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.

Summer issue inclues interviews with Amoako Boafo, Nicolas Party, Brenda Goodman, Odili Donald Odita, Jenny Offill, Craig Taborn, Ricardo Phillips, and Jibz Cameron; poetry by Safia Elhillo and Nathaniel Mackey; prose by Lydia Davis, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Saidiya Hartman; and more.

Artforum asked 20 artists, writers, and collectives to contribute essays and projects reflecting on the pandemic and the worlds it may make and unmake.

The 14th issue of Nakako Hayashi's graphic journal, on the theme of collage.

In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.

An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.

Monographic catalogue examining the forcefield of relations artist Joyce Campbell has activated between photography, philosophy, ecology, material history, science fiction, and the care and reading of sacred and symbolic landscapes, over the course of her near three-decade career.

Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”

This monographic catalogue maps and decodes fifteen years of an artistic practice oriented towards DIY strategies and new technologies, investigating manifold spaces of reflections with a powerful political and theoretical radicality.

How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration?

The Imaginary Republic is an artistic research project focusing on questions of social practice. In particular, it considers the creative and restless imaginaries underpinning our political selves and argues for a deeper engagement with what Elena Loizidou terms “dream-action”: the figurative and poetic staging of world making activity (with Tatiana Fiodorova, Brandon LaBelle & Octavio Camargo, Sala-manca group and Joulia Strauss).

New edition of an artist's book first published in 2009, gathering essays, short stories and images (leporello ). The publication reflects the artist's long-term critical interrogations on archives, historiography and institutions.

Bri Williams by Harry Burke, Virginia Overton by Ian Wooldridge, Pati Hill by Maurin Dietrich, Ann Greene Kelly by Andrew Berardini, On psychotic images and other visual symptoms by Aurélien Le Genissel, Todd Haynes's Dark Waters and new new left cinema, Larry Bell by Marie de Brugerolle, Pierre Guyotat by Estelle Hoy, Gabriel Kuri by Chris Sharp, Suellen Rocca by Hans Ulrich Obrist...

An anthology of both newly commissioned and reprinted essays, as well as interviews and fiction that reflect on performance today.

The graphic translation of the text at the heart of the Fatamorgana project (2016–2019), alongside a variety of related materials, including project notes and contributions. The books also provides online access to photographic, video, and sound materials, along with technical specifications for all of the project's component elements.

Large-sized monograph based on Adrián Villar Rojas' “Brick Farm” series.

Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.

Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).

First monograph by Charlie Engman, the rising star of fashion photography: a vast series of pictures (500 images) of his mother, made over the course of more than a decade. With texts by Rachel Cusk and Miranda July.

A new artist's book that goes far beyond the mere reproduction of photographs and masterfully reflects huber.huber's artistic practices in the special medium of the book.

The theme of this issue, put together back on the pandemic, is an examination of a new sort of figuration in painting that has emerged in recent years.

À La Becque is a semi-digital sonorous publication documenting the meeting of three musicians during their brief stay at La Becque, an artist residency in La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland). Both a digital album and artist book, the publication comprises 12 pages printed on a risograph, and includes a hyperlink to download seven improvisations (keyboards, voice, synthesizers and objects; 38 minutes).

A photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva.

52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”

A series of drawings that retrace a trip to California, where the multiplied and labyrinthine architecture invites the visitor to wander between reality and fiction.

In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.