Contemporary art

A talk between three artists around Julia Scher's work.

Michael Scott's ink drawings .

The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.

Matera and Taranto; interviews with Abraham Poincheval and Siri Hustvedt; Nyege Nyege and underground music in Ouganda; Jonathan Capdevielle...

This November in Artforum Bruce Hainley on Pierre Bonnard, Domenick Ammirati on the art of Georgia Sagri, Declan Long on Derek Jarman, and Natasha Stagg on Anicka Yi. Plus, exhibition reviews from Milan, Berlin, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Dubai, and more. 

A series of colorful invented landscapes, by American painter Shara Hughes.

A collection of colorful paintings inspired by science fiction and classical Antiquity. A prequel to the artist's ongoing Megalith series of publications that acts as a PH sample of his broader painting, collage, and print studio practice.

This catalogue for Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, reveals the artworks presented in the exhibition.

Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.

A comprehensive documentation on Ruth Ewan's installation at CAPC, a tangible plastic version of the revolutionary calendar.

Artist's book.

The catalogue of the eponymous exhibition by Caroline Mesquita, published on the occasion of her Fondation Ricard Prize. The French artist works primarily with metal, creating sculptures and staged video with strong narratives.

The catalogue of the Second Yinchuan Biennale articulates itself through the themes of the desert, nomadism, and ecology. Taking the form of an illustrated atlas, the publication documents works by more than 90 participating artists.

First monograph dedicated to the young American painter, whose expressive and colorful universe draws on the everyday life in the margins, from bohemians to non-conformists. The publication also presents the Gray's theatrical works and associates the artist's two practices.

First retrospective monograph overviewing the Danish video artist's body of works for over a decade.

Monograph dedicated to artist Brittany Nelson, who appropriates techniques from 19th century photography to create works of feminist science fiction and queer abstraction.

A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.

A collection of ten facsimiled Moleskine notebooks filled with works by Swiss artist Aldo Schmid.

Reference monograph on the singularly radical work of Michel Parmentier—an important addition to the history of painting in the second half of the 20th century.

This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set of maps and a series of texts.

Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.

The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the reclamation of the water system.

What can it mean to return home? Inspired by author Georges Perec's Espèces d'espaces and artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson's House Project, this catalogue brings together international artists to investigate the various facets of coming home.

Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the project A Collective Memory by Azin Feizabadi—a series of five narrative films—this publication features fictions by guest contributors who were asked to expand on their viewing experience of one of the films in the Collective Memory series.

Monograph dedicated to the films of the Israeli artist Assaf Gruber. Articulated around eight conversations related to the films' production, this publication reflects an important theme in Gruber's work: what effects can art have on individuals far removed from the artistic field.

A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.

Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.

Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).

The second in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Culture is Our Business offers a comparative case study on the archival policies of a commercial agency and a non-profit independent organization through the example of a 1919 image by photographer Willy Römer.

The fourth in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Dear Jadwa draws on a photographic archive from the Wadi Ara Valley in Israel to reflect on how visual archives can shed light on forgotten stories.

This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of borders.

This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.

This catalogue explores how miracle making—making the impossible possible—is reflected in artistic practices today. It includes commissioned essays and poetry by the Miracle Workers Collective and writers close to the collective (catalogue of the exhibition at the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).

This publication is the result of a research project led by artists Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré around the archives of the self-organized agricultural cooperative Somankidi Coura, in Mali. A historical reflection on agricultural, archival, health, and migratory issues through a decolonial perspective.

Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of an iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on what she calls “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator, such as a tool, an instrument, an architecture, a system, etc.—and that the modern man has relentlessly improved with the purpose of anticipating potential dangers.

A compilation of texts, poems and stories whose title is borrowed from the safe words used in BDSM practices.

An interpretative study of a catalogue published on the occasion of the discovery of two sculptures in the canal of Livorno in 1984. Attributed to Modigliani, these sculptures were, in fact, a student hoax.

Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology, art, contemporary dance, architecture, economics, politics...). This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues, published between 2015-2017.

Artist's book.

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours provides an overview of the photographer's career through forty key images.

A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.

A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

This monograph documents a research on an abandonned site of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). For his investigation, artist Henrik Andersson relied on various public archives as well as on the FOI's astonishing art collection.

A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.

Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.

Twenty multidisciplinary texts and artistic proposals to re-examine our relationship to the natural world.

A reverse encoder that keeps only frequencies usually removed by the mp3 encoders, giving the “inaudible” frequencies to listen (software edition on SD card and silkscreen booklet, including a text by Jonathan Sterne).

This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment.