Contemporary art

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

The artist's travel journal.

Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.

A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.

A portrait of a unique artist family.

An exciting exploration of the imaginary world of Belgian artist Panamarenko, who became internationally renown for his groundbreaking creations connecting art with science and technique.

A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

A transversal and analytical reading of Éric Baudart's entire body of work.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century (new edition).

The new “left-wing Catholics”; education under Trump and the American brain drain; theater, porn, and bullfighting with Lorraine de Sagazan; an X-ray journey with the nuclear nomads; soccer, Gen Z, and algorithmic governance in Morocco; Pedro Rhino, cinema at the end of the neocolonial mirage...

Carol Bove by Gordon Hughes, Defining Central Asia by Anel Rakhimzhanova, Inga Lāce and Joan Kee, Margarita Paksa by Daniel R. Quiles, Recursive Resemblance by Patrick R. Crowley, Tschabalala Self, Charline von Heyl...

Ken Kagami creates distorted portraits by combining Bart Simpson with Sesame Street characters Elmo and Cookie Monster.

A book presenting for the first time the reverse sides of artist Dominique De Beir's works, revealing the exploration that went into giving shape to the drawings.

A comprehensive and detailed overview of the institutions and dynamics that shape Basel's cultural landscape.

The first monograph dedicated to the American artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019).

Monograph dedicated to the practice of the South Korean-German artist, painted works that articulate her visions in ever more expansive formats since 2012.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

Gabriele Basilico's photographs dedicated to Aldo Rossi's architecture, brought together for the first time.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

This hardcover book documents Stéphane Blanquet's Kugelberg-Welander installation at the Halle Saint-Pierre through close-up photographs by Zoé Forget, depicting the artist and his illness.

Luc Tuymans, Clémentine Bruno, Cairo Dipika, Elizabeth Englander, Raque Ford, Adam Gordon, Dustin Hodges, Anne Imhof, Nancy Lupo, Sara MacKillop, Kaare Ruud, Mary Stephenson, Gili Tal...

The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.

New monograph.

Publishing a selection of her radiophonic essays here for the first time, I Speak Radio reflects Anne Bromley's collaborative radio practice.

Why do we buy more books than we read?

An original project by the Italian artist that brings art and science into dialogue by exploring "non-optical images" (the visual processes through which the human brain forms mental images using all the senses except direct sight).

A reflection on the practice of designer, graphic artist, and publisher Manuel Raeder.

André Guenoun's photographic works .

The artist's book of poems.

The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.

New monograph.

First comprehensive monograph on American artist Ann Leda Shapiro (b. 1946), including previously censored and rarely seen works, contextualized within feminist art histories.

First monograph.

This book documents 4 years of an ongoing project which the Tokyo-based collaborative artist unit C&K have realized in collaboration with the Otsuka (Tokyo) based commercial gallery, MISAKO & ROSEN.

David Gilbert's first monograph covers more than a decade of the artist practice and gathers 114 photographs and an essay by writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

Artist's book.

A graphic score reinterpreted and revisited fourteen years after its creation by Jason Kahn, back in Seoul.

A performative research-creation project by Emmanuelle Becquemin.

Espace art actuel # 142, focusing on the theme of "prophecies" in contemporary artistic practices.