Contemporary art

Three pieces by Jason Kahn (voice, acoustic guitar, harmonium) recorded during an artistic residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, on September 13-14, 2023.

A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.

A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.

A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.

An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.

What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.

A series of collaborative drawings by the two Swiss illustrators and artists during a stay in Los Angeles, confronting the city's demons and wonders with unbridled felt-tip pens and colored pencils.

Blending critical discourse with striking visual documentation, this volume is both a tribute to a singular exhibition and a testament to Juan Araujo's enduring exploration of memory, perception, and the shifting nature of visual heritage.

Sabine Delafon's business cards signed by other artists.

First monograph.

A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).

Lovett/Codagnone; Sabrina Tarasoff on Diego Marcon; Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi on JJJJJerome Ellis; Cally Spooner and Hendrik Folkerts; Himali Singh Soin; Wendy Vogel interviews pioneering art historian, curator, and founder of Performa biennial RoseLee Goldberg; Shanzhai Lyric; Amelia Jones on queer feminist literary critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Amanda van Hesteren by Olamiju Fajemisin; Thibault Lac by Skye Arundhati Thomas; Mira Mann by Nicholas Tammens; Claudia Pagès Rabal by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu; Binta Diaw by Camilla Paolino; Christine Sun Kim and Johanna Hedva discuss "mainstreaming," ableism, and the perils of "care"; books by Georgia Sagri...

A scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe.

An invitation from Marie de Brugerolle to four artists of different styles, backgrounds and nationalities—Mads Lindberg, Kirsten Mosher, Martin Vongrej and Anna Wittenberg—to reaffirm the roundness of words and the world.

The catalogue of the Lebanese-American artist's first exhibition in Italy.

This luxurious monograph reveals the strangeness of the Swiss artist's practice, which blends traditional painting techniques with digital technology, and captures the very special texture of the works reproduced on the glossy surface of paper.

In an extraordinary feat of endurance and intellectual curiosity, curator and art historian Charles Moore conducted twenty-four back-to-back interviews over twenty-four hours, weaving a tapestry of voices that define contemporary art today.

New monograph.

First monograph.

The first publication dedicated to the practice of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, a central figure in the Portuguese art scene, both in exploratory music, performance, and visual arts.

The first comprehensive presentation of Swiss artist Mahtola Wittmer's work.

New monograph.

A contemporary hommage of Jože Plečnik's oeuvre.

For its second issue, Flash Art's yearly review Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition "Crisis Formalism."

This inaugural retrospective volume unveils the œuvre of Lebanese artist Jamil Molaeb (b. 1948) and marks a seminal moment in the appreciation of his artistic legacy.

The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.

A reflection on the experience and challenges of an artistic residency in a rural environment, nourished by the thought of re-habitation.

This book brings together over 500 drawings from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, gathered over a period of almost 40 years. Works by 213 artists are presented in the form of an alphabet book, generating chance encounters.

Resynthese FAVN is a ten-CD box set and publication presenting a new realization of Florian Hecker's 2017 thirteen-channel installation of the same name.

Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.

Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.

A dialogue between art and quantum physics.

Some sixty artists from different generations not represented in galleries, selected and presented by 35 critics.

An investigation into how spontaneous play and public interaction in contemporary art can subvert societal norms, based on the work of Oslo-based Iranian artist Shahrzad Malekian.

A rich selection of around 500 drawings from the extensive archive of the collaborative artist collective from Norway.

In the last element of a triptych debuted by Cycles and Script, J.J. Zana stretches his research on form/emptiness and offers a collage of pieces written between 2016 and 2023. 

How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.

Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén offers a portrait of visionary museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) through over 200 printed works—posters, catalogues, film programmes, and invitations. Reflecting his playful, free-spirited take on anarchism, the archive highlights the bold collaborations he fostered with artists and designers throughout his career.

Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén offers a portrait of visionary museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) through over 200 printed works—posters, catalogues, film programmes, and invitations. Reflecting his playful, free-spirited take on anarchism, the archive highlights the bold collaborations he fostered with artists and designers throughout his career.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

The first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist, one of the fathers of light art.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

The great coming out of "homonationalism"; a ghostly stroll through Pristina's Grand Hotel in Kosovo; filmmaker Radu Jude's Bucharest; hunting and politics; land theft in Colombia; an archaeology of sabotage...