Contemporary art

The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.

Published on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the non-governmental organization ART for The World, this publication presents the prestigious organization's activities during the period 1995 to 2016.

The publication encloses a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of an eponymous permanent work created by Liliana Moro for the seventh edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors) in Trivero, in the Piemonte countryside.

Road Back To Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees's practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist's research.

This first monograph dedicated to Maxime Bondu's work includes an essay by Daniel Kurjakovic and focuses on nine of the artist's essential installations. Numerous sketches, drawings, mock-ups, archival material and exhibition views contribute to throw light on an experimental, speculative oeuvre that explores alternative readings of the world, history and society.

Louise Bourgeois, Adel Abdessemed, Jan Fabre, Judy Chicago, Andres Serrano, Sara Favriau, Camille Henrot, Tino Sehgal, reviews of Angélica Liddell and Nadia Lauro plays, Brussels Kunstenfestival, festival d'Avignon, festival TransAmeriques…

Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.

Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.

This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.

An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

These volumes document Kunsthalle Lissabon's fourth and fifth year of activity, which happened between 2013 and 2014.

A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).

Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.

Catalogue of a project designed for Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris as part of the “Transphere” Exhibition cycle. Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Fiuza Faustino have long explored the issue of the habitat, inventing innovative and often provocative “machinery / habitats”. Here they have come together to create a “magical environment”.

Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.

An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.

Crisis Fashion by Daniel Horn / Mikael Brkic in conversation with DIS / Vêtements Fall-Winter 2016: Panel Discussion / The Modern Naked King by Taque Hirakawa / Women's History Museum / Stefan Kalmár / Bless in conversation with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg and Heinz Peter Knes / The Street by Tobias Kaspar & Tobi Maier / Interview with Kaspar Müller by Peter Fischli / On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe / Post-Hummannerism / Eric Sidner and Ryan Siegan Smith by Eric Bell / Mathieu Malouf by George Egerton-Waburton / Julia Moritz on Crystal Moselle's film The Wolfpack / Limited Editions: Julien Ceccaldi, Antek Walczak and Danny McDonald.

Hélène Frappat, Phia Ménard, Yasmine Hugonnet, the Syrian conflict onstage, urban psychoanalysis, interviews with Laurent de Sutter and Antoine d'Agata, when artists become filmmakers, British musical duo Autechre…

This volume documents a series of site-specific works by four artists looking at existence from an abstractionist point of view.

A photographic attempt to capture the elusive nature of the Californian landscape.

This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.

Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.

This artist's book presents a series of polaroids taken from inside a moving car's trunk portraying a dream-like sunbathed Los Angeles landscape, or indeed, an image that is now firmly imprinted in the collective imagination—asphalt, cars and palm trees silhouetted against expansive skies.

Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.

The second issue features contributions by a range of authors from different fields such as art criticism, investigative journalism, postcapitalist economics, accelerationist philosophy and transhumanist theory. Featuring: Kenny Schachter, Linda Yablonsky, Michael Gross, Paul Mason, Natasha Vita-More, Armen Avanessian, Joseph Walsh, Casey Jane Ellison and Christian Haye.

Bomb's Summer Issue: interviews with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Wadada Leo Smith, Dmitry Krymov, Patricia Treib, Lee Clay Johnson, Jesse Ball & Catherine Lacey, Jason Simon, Vince Staples, “artists on artists” section with Frederick Terna by Stephen Westfall, Brandan “Bmike” Odums by Zachary Lazar, Rebecca Smith by John Newman, David Brody by Elliott Green, portfolio by Steel Stillman, fiction and poetry, exhibitions and books' reviews…

Issue 32 of the first biannual magazine thoroughly devoted to international contemporary artists' writings, including original texts by Julius Von Bismarck, Adrien Tirtiaux, Mayumi Kimura, Camille Henrot & Maria Loboda, Oier Etxeberria, and Mariana Castillo Deball.

This issue explores contemporary archetypes—the microcelebrity, the one-percenter, the refugee, the feminist, the sleeper, the saviour, and the thief—who likewise occupy a position between hyper- and invisibility within the social space.

Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.

Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.

A reader examining the curatorial approaches of New Institutionalism—which emerged in the 1990s to reshape the art institution into a more democratic and egalitarian public sphere.

This book centers around the apple as an art object and as a case study in biodiversity under threat.

Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey's of recent art from the region.

Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).

This catalogue brings together all support materials from Frac Franche-Comté's collective exhibition “Légende*” which focuses on the building of narratives and paratextuality in contemporary art. An “Erratum” brochure to be published at the exhibition's closure will complete this edition.

Sol Carelo, Johannes Cladders' anti-museum, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster by Jean-Max Colard, conversations with James Bridle, Alex Israel, Philipp Timischl, Rodrigo Hernández, and ÅYR, the sensorial motifs of Anicka Yi's work, Kevin Beasley, visual project by Amy Yao, emerging artists Debora Delmar Corp., Juliana Huxtable, Sophie Jung, Nancy Lupo…

Addressing fifteen years—from 1999 to 2014—of André Guedes's artistic practice, this monograph also proves to be the medium of a reflexion on anthological exhibitions.

This catalogue examines the role of the Museion Bolzano in the urban environment of Bolzano city in Italy by looking back at the museum's history and mission from the perspective of artists in all disciplines: architects, filmmakers, performers, musicians, composers, etc. These are joined by a number of major historical works that have inspired the exhibition throughout its conception and helped our understanding of museographic history.

Ieva Misevičiūtė, prosthetics and sculpture, Anne Imhof, native North America, outsider aesthetics, New Scenario, a special section on artists curating exhibitions, Ronald Jones, Gary Indiana, Willa Nasatir, Ragna Bley, Noah Barker, Isiah Medina, the year 1972, relational ontologies, Geoffrey Farmer and Dora García, the emergence of the “Supergroup,” Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, radical domesticity: Morag Keil and Georgie Nettell, an essay on dress-up…

Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).

Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, this volume illustrates the movement of objects, images, people and places between Palestine and Italy.

The graphic tabloïd's brand new issue—for the first time in full color.

Special issue featuring an original collection of 24 short literary works by visual artists and writers—in addition to the usual contents.

The group exhibition “Fugitive Volumes” at Mohammed VI museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat presents three generations of artists trained at the Tetouan Institut National des Beaux-Arts, and in particular those who have flourished since the 1980s in the orbit of the artist-teacher Faouzi Laatiris, creator of the Volume and Installation workshop at the INBA in 1993. Beyond the documentation on the exhibition, this publication offers a critical and comprehensive archive on the “Ecole de Tetouan” and the history of a contemporary art in Morocco.