Contemporary art

Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.

Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.

The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.

This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.

First monograph.

Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.

First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.

By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.

Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.

The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.

This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.

An archaeology of the imagination / a new aesthetic of ruin (a sophisticated artist's edition in a box, inspired by the over-exploitation of Carrara marble quarries).

The second issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...

The cross-generational literary journal Luvah continues its comeback with an eclectic mix of fashion-related offerings.

The best of 2024: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

Spike is turning twenty with a special double issue.

The 22 exhibitions programmed by Philippe Piguet at La chapelle de la Visitation art center in Thonon-les-Bains since 2018, in 400 pages.

This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.

All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.

The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.

A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.

Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.

Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.

Elisa Caldana's The Falcon of Karachi investigates stories of the laggar falcon, a species endemic to Pakistan, India, and Myanmar that is slowly disappearing in the wild.

Jagna Ciuchta's first monograph reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of the artist's work.

An overview of the vast production of the Romanian artist Radu Comșa.

73 images by Swedish photographer Louise Enhörning, including new works as well as some significant past pieces never before exhibited, emphasizing the concept of "lost time."

A monograph developing an iconographic apparatus that casts a light on the relationships between Italy and Louis Fratino's oeuvre, with newly commissioned essays and contributions by scholars of art and queer theory (new edition).

First monograph.

A literary bridge between two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Michele Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008.

The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.

The latest chapter of Eritrea-born artist Dawit L. Petros's long-term investigation of the impact of Italian colonialism and its subsequent imprint on the visual cultures, populations and built environments of Africa, Europe and North America.

First monograph.

Retrospective monograph.

A collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of walks through NYC.

Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.

A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration.

A retrospective of Alfredo Volpi, a key figure of Brazilian modernism, covering the central themes of his work from the 1940s to the 1970s, his most prolific period.