Contemporary art

Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

New monograph.

New monograph (available in English edition).

New monograph.

This publication traces two years of a project dedicated to the concept of drift, with theoretical texts, artists' contributions and contributions from educational projects, workshops and exhibitions.

The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

A collection of recent colored pencil drawings by artist Keegan McHargue.

Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, with an essay by Hanne Loreck, an afterword by Eva Schmidt and texts by Victor Burgin.

The first instance of considering Okiishi's work from the last fifteen years as a heterogeneous whole.

The chimerical final work by Maxim Komar-Myshkin, one of the most elusive and tragic figures in Israeli-Russian art.

This book brings together the documentation of seven installations, produced by Corin Hewitt from 2007 up to the 2013, including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation, and discrete photographic works. This visual mass helps understand Hewitt's practice as a continuum of interconnected actions and materializations, instances of generative discovery and contextual play.

The art/research articulation.

Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense (available in English edition).

Through the notion of ecology of art, Des récits ordinaires (On ordinary conversations), a project by Grégory Castéra (curator), Yaël Kreplak (linguist) and Franck Leibovici (poet and artist), attempts to vizualise the various modes of existence of artworks.

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...

Monograph / artist's book, with a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine's approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation, as well as three essays that investigate Valentine's process.

Artist's book designed by Åbäke, based on Danish artist Marie Lund's first institutional solo exhibition.

Ten years of artmaking by Martin Beck, at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.

A rediscovery.

A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.

A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).

Artist's book (each book contains 4 different types of paper handmade by the artist).

Peter Hujar, The Not-Spot by Nick Currie, The Art of (Leadership) George W. Bush by Alison Gingeras, Selfie Poetics by Andrew Durbin, Robert Heinecken, Art After the End of Art: Exhibit B by Jens Hoffmann, The Whole Earth Show Revisited by Chelsea Haines, Otobong Nkanga by Hans Ulrich Obrist, From Performance To Post-Performance by Marie Canet, Marie de Brugerolle and Catherine Wood, Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood by Jennifer Allen, Hannah Weinberger, Than Hussein Clark, James Ferraro, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Jasper Spicero, Mario Schifano, Bunny Rogers, Phillip Zach, Jamian Juliano-Villani...

New monograph / artist's book.

David Maljković publishes, for the first time, some excerpts of his notebooks.

This book documents an installation by Eric Baudelaire revisiting the political and personal saga of the Japanese Red Army as an anabasys—an allegory of a journey that is both a wandering into the unknown and a return back home.

A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).

An Anthology of Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring”, between dance and the visual arts (with Eleanor Antin, Marc Bauer, Karen Kilimnik, Xavier Le Roy, Vaslav Nijinsky, Silke Otto-Knapp, Yvonne Rainer, Lucy Stein...).

Artist's book.

Artist' book published and edited by artist Shirana Shahbazi (1974, Tehran), writer Tirdad Zolghadr (1972, San Francisco) and designer Manuel Krebs (1970, Karachi).

This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

First monograph.

Abstract Specific | Specific Abstract is a project initiated by Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané as a way to continue a fruitful conversation. The first six posters of this ongoing project present contributions by Water Benjamin, Jonathan Bragdon, Dora García, Nils Hoff, Charles Sanders Peirce and Philippe Van Snick.

A series of drawings inspired by H.P.Lovecraft (artist's book).

Monograph / artist's book dedicated to Davide Balula's "Burnt Paintings".

New monograph / artist's book based on a series of paintings realized between 2012 and 2013.

A collection of blue & red ballpoint pen artworks divided in op art-like geometric abstractions and cartoon figures.

Reference monograph.

First monograph on Serbian born London based artist Djordje Ozbolt's painting, including an essay by Irish art critic and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, as well as a conversation with Gregor Muir, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Reference monograph (second edition).

Ambient art (artist's book).

Comprehensive new monograph dedicated to the French artist's drawings and sculptures, with an essay by Marie de Brugerolle.