Contemporary art

An essay on the figure of the writer-

This issue 0 of the annual magazine dedicated to ceramics and related arts unfolds like a day, from morning until evening. But behind this day lies another, more expansive one: that of a life, from birth to death.

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.

A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023, based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.

Special issue on performance and sound art.

A philosophical perspective on photographic images.

A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced from 2019-2026.

Marking fluent's tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization's archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.

Outta Love documents Angela Brandys's new series of large-scale textile works, conceived in 2024–25 and made from her own wardrobe—designer clothing torn apart, reduced to their baseline fabric, and reassembled into images drawn from the Renaissance tradition.

First monograph.

Reference monograph.

An art book by Adama Delphine Fawundu that celebrates life through the female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—who have shaped the artist's cultural and personal history.

At the intersection of art, technology, and humanitarian inquiry, this book provides insight into Ghost Agency's desire for agency across artistic reasearch, institutions, and civic life in the digital age.

A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.

We Lost Control Again surveys the questions raised by the work of artist Rikke Luther between 2015 and 2025, exploring the long-range effects of this era of collapse, and the effect on social orders and the stability of the Earth system.

Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.

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.

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.

La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).

This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches.

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

The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory.

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).

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.

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

A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.

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.

The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (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.

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

A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.

Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings.

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 fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.

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.

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

The seventh volume in the collection published by the Antoine de the Galbert Foundation, dedicated to the French artist Benoit Huot.

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.