Contemporary art

America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).

In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).

This collection of photographs was made following an assignment commissioned to eight photographers from eight different neighbourhoods in Geneva. Their photographs were initially exhibited on billboards for the “Vis-à-vis” event. The editorial process resulted in a book on its own, in which various gazes “derive” within their own variations of urban space.

This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.

Twenty-nine artists invest a forgotten building site in Roma during 72 consecutive hours without any institutional oversight.

Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).

Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.

A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.

This reference monograph on New York artist Lisa Beck, who develops since more than 30 years an abstract language which is as playful and discreet as it is effective and sharp, presents a significant body of work ranging from the 1980s to the present, and also offers to revisit Beck' recent solo exhibitions (with essays by Samuel Gross and Bob Nickas).

A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.

An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.

New monograph.

New monograph.

New monograph.

An extensive documentation on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's installation for the French Pavilion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972.

A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.

First monograph / artist's book.

The catalogue of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Monograph based on an exhibition project based on a critical rereading of Roland Barthes' writings.

Miriam Sturzenegger's Renovieren is a compilation of texts about space, time, and the relationship between them, as well as with her work.

Summer Winter East West discusses Martin Beck's engagement with display not only as a tool of presentation but also as a form of communication—within and beyond the realm of the exhibition.

An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.

The cinematic essay thought as a hybrid form between fiction and documentary, cinema and contemporary art: a cartography of the contemporary cinematic essay in 47 critical texts written by filmmakers, artists, historians and art theoreticians.

Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.

Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.

The internet is an ever-growing storage space of information that we have come to rely on—but what does this thing called the internet really mean? (contributions by Julian Assange, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hito Steyerl...).

Produced under the auspices of the exhibition “Transmitting Andy Warhol” at Tate Liverpool, this issue includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, a collage of voices that conjure Warhol's aura by Michael Bracewell...

Catalogue.

L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.

Dora Budor, Martine Syms, On the copy (by Bettina Funcke, Michele Robecchi, Ian Cheng, Liam Gillick, Daniel McClean, Kenneth Goldsmith, Darren Bader, Nick Currie, Martin Clark, grupa o.k.), L'imitation by Philippe Pirotte, Walter Benjamin by Jens Hoffmann, Jim Nutt, Leidy Churchman, Albert Serra, The 80s by Kelly Taxter, Yuri Parrison, Rachel Rose & Ben Russell, Michael Snow & Sharon Lockhart, Aldo Tambellini, Nancy Lupo & Hayley Silverman, f.marquespenteado...

This publication supplements the exhibition of the same title at the MAXXI museum in Rome and contains a selection of texts, installation views and a special section focused on Huang Yong Ping's project notes, sketches and models.

Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.

When artistic gestures achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means: the catalogue of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.

Disembodied girls and sadistic imagery: the nightmarish and disturbing universe of The Pit. Perfect, graphically speaking.

The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.

With Rubber Man (2015), Khvay responds to the colonial legacy of land use and its effects on Cambodia's indigenous forests and culture today.

A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.

First monograph.

Drawings as diary.

Reference monograph: an extensive survey of Patrick Bernatchez's drawings, sculptures, sound installations and films.

Artist's book.

An analysis of the implications, challenges and specificities of the artist's magazines, as an artistic practice.

The first issue of Even features New York Times classical music editor Zachary Woolfe on Björk and music in the museum; Elisabeth Lebovici on Joan Jonas, representing the US at the 2015 Venice Biennale, an interview with Luc Tuymans, reviews on São Paulo's galleries and museums today, Reena Spaulings, an avant-garde exhibition space in New Delhi...

Special feature on Ecology, Nicolás Uriburu, interview with Edith Brunette, Kochi-Muziris Biennal, Ariane De Blois on the sculpted body, exhibitions and books reviews…

Anicka Yi, Bunny Rogers, Eric Mack, Chen Tianzhuo, KAWS, Darja Bajagić, Sam Falls, art's obsession with brands, the great German painter Albert Oehlen, an essay by John Corbett, an interview of Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen by Dan Graham, a defense of Art for All...

Comprehensive monograph.

Richard Di Rosa / Femina ou la réappropriation des modèles / Jean-Baptiste Bernadet / Cool – As a State of Mind / Matières à récits 2.0 / Etel Adnan / Lee Bul / Close to me / Julien Beneyton / Jim Fauvet.