Contemporary art

Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.

Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.

An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.

The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe (new expanded edition).

Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

All 693 images in a series created by Luc Delahaye over several years using details from photographs cut out of newspapers, marking a turning point in the evolution of this great photographer’s work, which bridges documentary and artistic practices.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

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

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

The most comprehensive publication on Ser Serpas' work to date, Loogie traces the first decade of the artist's multidisciplinary practice anti-chronologically, bringing together 650 illustrations alongside newly commissioned texts.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years.

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).

This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.

First monograph.

An exploration of the relationship between art and science through a cross-disciplinary journey featuring some 100 works of art and scientific artifacts by approximately 30 artists, from the Renaissance to the present day.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.

Erik Verhagen brings together seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic, who offer their perspectives on François Morellet's work, bearing witness to the enduring vitality of his legacy.

Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.

An original publication bringing together Esther Ferrer's performance scores and a previously unpublished long-form conversation on creation, language, freedom and action.

The fourth volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination, on the topics of accessibility in the arts and ableism.

The fourth volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination, on the topics of accessibility in the arts and ableism.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.

New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.

An artist's book conceived by Jorge Macchi as a return—both literal and conceptual—to the city of Buenos Aires as a field of investigation.

A card game designed by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel to play, think, and create together, designed to help artists and researchers break through barriers in their research and creative work!

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory.

An essay on the figure of the writer-

A companion to Kosovar artist Brilant Milazimi's exhibition for the Republic of Kosovo Pavillion at the 2026 Venice Biennale that reflects on waiting, clenching, sovereignty, perseverance, and teeth.

A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.

First monograph.

Camouflage theorized as an expanded ecological and choreographic tactic.

Painter Merike Estna's new artist book, accompanying the Estonian pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

Following the Italian art collective’s gallery on four wheels.

A photographic narrative centered on a series of performative banquets conceived by Luca Trevisani across France, Switzerland, and Croatia in 2025, unfolding through the activation of a group of stoneware sculptures developed from a research process focused on the Toirano Caves.

Unfolding through accumulation and overprinting, this book focuses on the materiality and the drawings at the heart of Tolia Astakhishvili's practice.