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Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
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.
Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
2026
French edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
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.
On Water - Fluid Perspectives
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Various artistic and anthropological perspectives on the theme of water and the liquid element.
Digital Interventions - Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Digital Interventions investigates the potential of artistic practices that aim at either creating and safeguarding emancipatory spaces of the digital or challenging and countering the many forms of digital surveillance, exploitation and repression.
The Sirenic - Follow the Water, Follow the Sound – Essays and Studies Across Film and the Arts
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
The mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice through film and other arts.
Transgresoras - Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
A survey of Latinx and Latin American women artists that used mail art, postal networks, messages, and distribution in their work.
Bianka Rolando - Inselbergs
2026
English edition
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.
Maria D. Rapicavoli - Maxiprocesso
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
forthcoming
Maxiprocesso showcases the first-ever presentation of Maria D. Rapicavoli's complete photographic series of the same name: 360 photographs, one for each of the archival folders that collectively document the largest mafia "Maxi Trial" in history, held in Palermo from 1986 to 1987.
Patrick Staff - Full Rotation
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
forthcoming
Full Rotation brings together texts and images to trace the forces that draw bodies beyond themselves (artist's book).
Marcel Broodthaers - Brussels 1957-1969
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
Featuring numerous previously unpublished photographs and archival documents, this richly illustrated book sheds new light on Marcel Broodthaers’ entire body of work through his little-known photographic practice.
Lala Rukh -
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
The first in-depth examination of the life and work of the Pakistani feminist artist, activist and pedagogue Lala Rukh (1948-2017).
Roberto Burle Marx - Modernismo tropical
2026
English edition
Snoeck
forthcoming
The Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) revolutionized landscape architecture in the first half of the twentieth century by applying design principles from painting and music to nature. He also brought social and ecological questions to the forefront. This catalogue gives a broad audience insight into his interdisciplinary artistic cosmos.
Mai-Thu Perret - Grammar & Glamour
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
Ana Vaz - The Camera Is the Body
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Yto Barrada - Comme Saturne
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
An in-depth record of Barrada's latest experiments in the fields of color, dyeing, language, mythmaking and material culture for the French Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Alfredo Aceto -
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This first major monograph on Alfredo Aceto offers a comprehensive overview of his manifold practice, across sculpture, installation, video, photography, and drawing.
Marie-Ange Guilleminot - MA - L\'Espace qui relie
2026
texts in English and French
various
forthcoming
This first monograph, richly illustrated with images and texts, offers a broad overview of the diversity of Marie-Ange Guilleminot's work spanning four decades.
 CREAHM Fribourg -
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An overview of the unique work produced by the studio for artists with disabilities that has been active in Fribourg since the late 1990s.
Jumana Manna - Stone Assemblies
2026
English edition
Nero
forthcoming
Stone Assemblies takes Jumana Manna's major public artwork for Oslo's Government Quarter as its starting point, opening up a collective reflection on the politics of stone, ruination, and dissent.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Silent speeches - Non-compliance in the mode of singing, sounding, or being silent
2026
English edition
Nero
forthcoming
Silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.
Louis De Belle - Svizzera - Il tempo è galantuomo
2026
Italian edition
Humboldt Books
forthcoming
An account of a pilgrimage amid the sacred and the profane through the cemeteries of the Swiss Confederation, to pay tribute to the memory of illustrious figures from the worlds of poetry, literature, religion, painting, fashion, sport, philanthropy, cinema and psychoanalysis.
Ulla von Brandenburg - A Handbook to Performative Gestures with Ulla von Brandenburg
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cneai
forthcoming
An investigation into the repertoire of performative gestures emerging from the work of German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and the practice of her troupe of performers.
Babeth Rambault - Ou-ka-ti Ou-ka-ti !
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
forthcoming
First monograph.
Luca Spano - On the Edge of the Eyelid
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
A collective photography project that explore the borders between artistic research and scientific investigation, with special reference to the study of dark matter and dark energy.
Aurélien Mole - Coast to Coast
2026
English edition
Empire - Books
forthcoming
Through a series of photographs of 1970s American cars created using expired Polaroids, Aurélien Mole pays a dual tribute to both photography and the history of the automobile.
Arts Réseaux Société
2026
French edition
CQFD
forthcoming
A collection of critical reflections on the role of digital tools in artistic practices, and on how networks are redefining our sensibilities, our imaginations, and our ways of living together.
Térésa Faucon - Gestes contemporains du montage - Entre médium et performance
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.
Dominique Petitgand - La moindre anomalie (documents)
2026
French edition
La Maréchalerie
forthcoming
A collection of sketches and research notes, texts, transcriptions of sound works, and visuals that document Dominique Petitgand's sound work.
Soft Photography
2026
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Peter Hujar - Peter Hujar, 18 décembre 1974
2026
French edition
ER Publishing - Diary
forthcoming
An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.
Lili Dujourie -
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
forthcoming
New monograph.
Adeline Halot -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An immersive journey through the woven metal and linen sculptures created intuitively by the Belgian designer and textile artist.
Calvin Marcus - Skin Paintings
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A monograph centered on a series of recent oil paintings on linen by Calvin Marcus, that depict magnified renderings of the artist's flesh, extending Marcus's investigation of media, process, and the abject in the familiar.
 mountaincutters - Shake the Riverbed
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.
Philippe Van Snick - Dynamic Project II
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
The second volume of the defiinitive reference work on Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick, richly illustrated and featuring in-depth essays, offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's oeuvre, and new insights and discoveries about his work.
Ai Weiwei - Life, Revolt, Poetry
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
forthcoming
A collection of works selected by Ai Weiwei that traces the artist's career, in tribute to his father, the poet Ai Qing, and the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.
A Truly Immense Journey - 100 ans de chefs-d\'œuvre de la collection du Centre Pompidou
2026
French edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A dialogue between masterpieces from the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kanal, and other significant Belgian public and private collections.
Aletheia Casey - A Lost Place
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
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.
Toiletpaper
2026
no text
Toiletpaper
Damiani - Toiletpaper
forthcoming
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Anastasia Bay - Mæstra Lacrymæ (2 vinyl LP)
2026
Speckled Toshe
forthcoming
Originally developed as the sonic counterpart to an exhibition by visual artist Anastasia Bay, Mæstra Lacrymæ is an opera conceived and directed by Bay and written and composed by multidisciplinary artist Joseph Schiano di Lombo.
YAZ - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Zeynep Öz, this volume explores the relationship between publication and exhibition-making.
Ihi - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Megan Tamati-Quennell, Ihi expands on her curatorial framework, exploring Indigenous knowledge systems, ancestral relationships, and the ways in which contemporary artistic practices carry memory, identity and cultural continuity across time and place.
Rossestrata: Trajectory/Translation - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Alia Swastika, this volume expands on Rossestrata, a curatorial framework named after the Rosetta Stone that explores how feminist perspectives and nonlinear readings of bodies and texts can reshape curatorial and educational practices.
Benoît Piéron - A monograph, 2007-2026
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Fly Me to Oulan_Bator
forthcoming
Designed in collaboration with the artist, this monograph provides a comprehensive overview of Benoît Piéron’s work from the late 2000s to the present.
Ryan Gander - For I am a Sign
2026
no text
eeeditions
forthcoming
In For I am a Sign, an artist's book for children, Ryan Gander collaborates with his non-verbal son, Baxter, to explore the intersection between verbal and non-verbal language.
Dictionary of the Illegible
2026
English edition
Source Type
forthcoming
A multidisciplinary perspective on illegibility as a cultural phenomenon (new edition).
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing (new edition).
David Martens - Écrivains commissaires - La littérature au service des musées
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
An essay on the figure of the writer-
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