Contemporary art

French artist Raphaëlle Paupert-Borne summons the myth of Demeter in an epic film shot in the Mediterranean city of La Ciotat. This edition also features a short documentary on a series of drawings made by the artist in Algeria, and an accompanying book which includes texts by specialists, film captions and sketches.

Notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts.

Limited edition of the notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts, and an original work, numbered and signed, printed on various formats (1920's coal mining register, books pages, card stock).

This publication serves as an extension of Joachim Koester's artworks and research on Jerzy Grotowski's (1933-1999) mythical persona and experimental approach towards theater. More specifically here, Koester retraces Grotowski's trips to Mexico with the help of historians, anthropologists, and former students.

10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Reference monograph (also available in English).

This publication collects black and white photographs taken at apartment viewings in Berlin, London and Zürich in 2015. The images render a landscape of apartments, mostly empty, punctuated by potential buyers or renters projecting their own possible futures onto the spaces.

Photographic companion book to the film La controfigura (“The stand-in”) by Rä di Martino: the tale of a cinema troupe in Marrakech trying to shoot the remake of The Swimmer, the 1968 film with Burt Lancaster, based on a short story of the same name by John Cheever.

This Flipbook by Michalis Pichler is a reformulation of the artist's film Une Seconde d'Éternité (d'après un idée de Charles Baudelaire) by Marcel Broodthaers (8mm film, b/w, 1 sec.).

Monograph featuring series of paintings made by the French-American artist between 2013 and 2016 and based from photographic documents originating mainly from sexploitation films of the 1960s. The volume also includes two essays and exhibitions views.

Outside museums, on the roadsides, a journey through the gardens and backyards of Europe and America to discover the "madmen's art": an illustrated essay on the birth and the future of Art Brut (new expanded edition).

The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.

An analysis of the work of an unheralded artist both profound and captivating written by his friend, artist and curator Stefan Banz.

The history of the emergence and appropriation of the score in extra-musical domains (theater, dance, performance).

A special section on Artists on Politics featuring Zoe Leonard, Dread Scott, and Wolfgang Tillmans, the architecture of Donald Trump, Johanna Fateman on Paul Verhoeven's new film Elle, a Top Ten from DJ collective Discwoman, and Joseph Gringley's portfolio “Soundscaping.” Plus, reviews from Tallinn, Washington DC, Munich, Sharjah, Paris, and more.

Istanbul's artistic scene and Erdogan's Purge, Jan Fabre, Thibaud Croisy & Bruno Le Maire, failure and the creative process, Hillel Kogan, Jean-Luc Verna, interviews with El Conde de Torrefiel, Albert Serra, Hélène Marquié, portfolio by Leonard Suriyajaya & Simon Collet...

This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.

This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.

Expanding its mapping of landmark exhibitions and curatorial history from the 1960s to today, the “Archives” series dedicates its fifth DVD to Sonsbeek, an art manifestation held in 1971 and 1986 in and around Arnhem (Netherlands). Mainly showcasing large installations and sculptures in natural surroundings, these two events are crucial to the history of outdoor exhibitions, shifting the boundaries of traditional sculpture.

A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.

A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.

Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.

Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.

Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.

Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.

Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.

An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.

An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.

The publication sheds light on the 20-year history of the presence of French artists in Germany through the voices of selected representatives of the German art scene (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Bureau des arts plastiques in Berlin).

This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.

An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.

Claire Fontaine, Weed and the Practice of Liberty / Marina Vishmidt, The Paradox of Self-Abolition / Melissa Gordon, Presence and Absence / Anna De Filippi, Narrative Without End / Alex Martinis Roe, An Exercise in the Practice of affidamento / Lucia Aspesi on Marinella Pirelli / Claire Fontaine on Human Strike / Rhea Anastas, Introduction to Double Bind / LGG$B, insert / Jacob Stewart-Halevy on Marie Angeletti / Emmanuelle Chérel on Colonial Collect and Affect, Crawling Doubles / Jack Gross onHannah Black / Maija Timonen sur Jason Bourne / Kari Rittenbach on the 9th Berlin Biennale / Jeanne Graff, Short Story / Limited Edition: Hans-Christian Lotz.

New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.

An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.

The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.

An investigation of the role and function of the rehearsal in artistic production at large.

Box set gathering 2 books / DVDs and one book.

Creating Bob: a food truck with a living, warm and hospitable public purpose, set close to Lille-Europe Train Station and commissioned as part of the “New Patrons” program.

Around the Palais de Tokyo's programme dedicated to urban art, Palais magazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street.

Reconstitution of a comic book appearing at the beginning of the film Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut. With this publication, Spanish artist Francesc Ruiz also questions the status of the comic book at the time the film was made and also within the dystopian universe originally created by Ray Bradbury.

Two-volume catalogue of the Fifth Rennes Biennal (France): twenty-nine international artists were invited to construct an exhibition based on the particular issue of shaping emotions in a world which formulates them in terms of markets.

A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.

Writer Emanuele Trevi and photographer Giovanna Silva recount, each in their own manner, their journey with artist Luigi Ontani in Bali at the time of the preparation of the Ogoh Ogoh carnival procession. With original illustrations by Ontani.

Marocco 1971 offers an intimate, social, and aesthetical portrait of Morocco by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Set during the Summer of 1971, the series also brings back the distinctive spirit of this era.

50 black & white photographs of post-war Italy taken by director Luigi Comencini shortly before his debut behind the camera. With a series of writings establishing connections between his work as a photographer and his cinematographic oeuvre.

Special issue published to celebrate the 22nd edition of L'Étrange festival—dedicated to the strangest and most provocative cinema.

An analysis of the posthumous interpretations of Brancusi's life and work, and of the political use of the Romanian sculptor as a nationalist figure.