Contemporary art

This artist's book is a written rendering of monologues included in The Zone, a performance based on a series of narratives staged within the exhibition space of the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre in 2018.

The performative aspect of the British artist's practice in the form of scores, transcriptions, and photographs (limited box set edition).

Artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston speaks with Nora Sternfeld and Julie Pellegrin about her practice as a crossroads for art, education and cooperative working.

A notebook based on Ursula Biemann's latest film, Acoustic Ocean, an expedition to the depths of the Arctic Ocean in search of interspecies communications.

Will Benedict, Kahlil Joseph, Mahfuz Sultan, Ari Marcopoulos, Lynda Benglis, Camille Blatrix, Jesper Just, Lex Brown, Matt Copson, Fin Simonetti, Autumn Knight, Iman Issa, Nevine Mahmoud, Berenice Olmedo, Igor Simić...

Stemming from a series of works by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, this monographic catalogue offers a range of perspectives on urgent issues around gender, sexuality and labour in the digital age.

This anthology gives voice to seven curators who discuss the conception of shows they organized that marked curatorial history thanks to their structural innovation in terms of exhibition siting.

The catalogue of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by art collective Slavs and Tatars, examines the relationship between graphic arts and satire.

New catalogue.

Catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Second volume of a publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this metafiction follows a detective investigating the conditions of production of a novel within an artistic framework.

This catalogue documents a project for which Steegmann Mangrané intends to reframe the history of abstraction, inviting us to re-evaluate the traditional division between nature and culture. It features a selection of works inspired by the artist's readings, from Roger Caillois to Merleau-Ponty.

Another pictureless, pocket-size book by Beni Bischof in his series. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.

A collection of photographs of former border regions around the globe and down through the course of human history.

The content of this book is the result of a series of solo exhibitions; staged outside of any gallery space, visually undocumented, and taking place without visitors.

Around 1999, artist Becky Beasley began writing to her former tutor, Claire Scanlon, who kept her letters but never replied. Years later, in 2016, the two began to intermittently record their conversations, now as friends.

A conversation about Ergonomic Futures, Tyler Coburn's furniture for humans to come.

Artist's book.

This book tiptoes between aesthetics and ethics; it proposes to rethink trauma in its necessity as well as impossibility to be represented and understood.

An anthology of Claire Fontaine's texts.

Revised and expanded edition of the playful fanzine-manifesto for a rebellious art, presenting 66 more or less subversive artistic movements, to become a rebellious artist in less than a year...

An in-depth history of the landmark situationist international periodical edited by artist Jacqueline de Jong from 1962–67. This lavishly illustrated publication features many previously unseen archival material, historical texts and new commissioned contributions.

This catalogue presents the artist's recent works, tackling issues related to the plasticity of space and the creation of gaze. It brings together exhibition views and photographs, an essay by Florian Gaité and an interview with Marion Guilmot.

Vinyl record unique for each edition, accompanied with a 36 page booklet with 16 drawings by Stéphane Thidet.

The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.

An essay on art exhibition.

New monograph.

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

How can we today situate the artist or, more broadly, the act of creation using artificial intelligence?

This February in Artforum poet Simone White and writer Ciarán Finlayson respond to the recent Pope.L exhibitions that spanned multiple institutions across New York. Plus, Joan Jonas, Ugo Rondinone, and others on the life and art of John Giorno (1936-2019), a special artist's project by Christine Sun Kim, Daniel Marcus on Charlotte Perriand, and exhibition reviews from Paris, Cologne, Milan, Tallinn, and more.

Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.

A legendary Parisian collection of minimalist and conceptual art, and its evocative installation in the home of collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville.

A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece.

A detailed analysis of Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculptures by Erik Verhargen, accompanied by a history of the piece by Thierry Davila.

A political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf region, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century (exhibition catalogue).

First monograph.

Every Force Evolves a Form by Alessandro Bava; Design, Reset: Studio Formafantasma in Conversation with Alessandro Rabottini; Clinical Cosmology: Tishan Hsu by Hera Chan; Oceanic Time-Lag: on Mati Diop's “Atlantics” by Dora Budor...

The first of a two-volume publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this theoretical essay aims to elucidate the pressing questions posed by the emergence of this new artistic medium with a number of key case studies and interviews.

The two volumes of the publication dedicated to the artist's novel (two-books set special offer).

This issue of Flash Art explores a sort of archeology of images, aiming to reflect on issues of appropriation and authenticity in their most contemporaneous sense, whereby any original or preexisting artwork, image, or product can be invested with a multiplicity of meanings.

Presented as a work-in-progress, this text on American artist Rindon Johnson's video practice offers a reflection on the widening creative possibilities in the multimodal digital landscape, while discussing the political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and critics.

A selection of erotic paintings by the American artist, produced between 1969 and 1971: an ecstatic and mystical celebration of the sexual act.

A selection of drawings by the New Zealand outsider artist: her work, recognized belatedly, provides a journey into a grotesque, sometimes somber universe, filled with animals, distorted human bodies, and cartoon characters.

This artist's book is the book-form of a work by Matt Mullican, "The Meaning of Things (who feels the most pain?)" (2014), con sisting of 676 collages and texts on sheets of standard printing paper.

The crucible of creation: portraits of New York artists in the intimate seclusion of their work spaces.

Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.

An investigation into sex work in the dance world; cops but artists; in Lebanon, the revolution without confession; the artistic project Fjord City, 2114; after nature, with Vinciane Despret; Romain Huët and the carnal experience of the riot; Diao Yinan, Chinese banditry in chiaroscuro...

This January in Artforum we invite critics and artists—from Tim Griffin and Amy Taubin to Ilya Lipkin and Kerry James Marshall—to take measure on the newly renovated MoMA. Plus, Hal Foster on the art of Rachel Harrison, Kate Sutton on Hana Miletić, and a special previews section with over 40 exhibitions worldwide; including Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern, Hilma af Klint at Moderna Museet, and more.

Spike's winter issue #62 – “The 2010s” – traces the rise and fall of trends like post-internet art and normcore, and bids farewell to older forms of identity politics that have since been replaced by activism, algorithms, social media, and other forces that transformed the cultural landscape of this decade of disquiet.