Contemporary art

A public record document containing the list of all artworks that hang in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence, as submitted by the Prime Minister's Office in response to a Right-to-Information application filed by the artist Nihaal Faizal (artists' book).

First Aristide Bianchi's monograph, focusing on a plastic gesture born at the turn of the century: the material opening of a sheet of paper meets previous traces to form the drawing.

"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.

All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.

The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

Focus on the blockchain digital ecosystem: art on the web of value.

Dawoud Bey, "Orphism in Paris", Barbara DeGenevieve, Andy Warhol, Gary Indiana, Roy Ascott, Kai Althoff, Larissa Fassler...

Exploring a pioneering curator's collection of cutting-edge '60s and '70s California art.

Comprehensive monograph: a complete overview of Salvo's work, with never-seen-before documentation and archive.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.

Chris Johanson's ant and abstract paintings.

A panorama of the work of French painter Silvère Jarrosson (lithographs, monotypes, paintings on canvas and on paper).

Irène Schwartz's notebooks enable us to follow the entire creative process that, between 1973 and 1983, led the artist to three actions in the field of body art or, more specifically, eat art.

The 22nd volume of the artist's journal that the photographer has been publishing for over two decades.

Issue 39 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Following on from work carried out by artist Marianne Mispelaëre in schools, this book explores the diversity of languages that permeate our lives, as well as the political and social issues at stake.

Mousse celebrates its 90th issue with a collectible edition, with a special design and format, entirely focused on fiction.

As the most comprehensive monograph on Synnøve Anker Aurdal's work to date, Through the Threads writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this textile pioneering artist.

The first examination of the practices of two French artists who were key exponents of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, highlighting two opposing and complementary aspects of their poetics.

South African, Amsterdam-based artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu's most expansive publication to date.

Monograph/artist's book featuring numerous exhibition views, texts and an interview, and a series of drawings by Fernão Cruz.

First monograph.

The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.

A critical reflection on colonial spaces initiated by the Portuguese artist.

A layered graphic novel, conceived as a video-game trailer, weaving together diverse imaginaries, from Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony to H.G. Wells' short stories, from brutalist architecture to generative artificial intelligence.

A memetic exploration of the "poor images" found on the fringes of the internet's dynamic and ever-expanding reservoir of content.

An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.

Seven exhibitions on paper, curated by different curators, to look back at the over-thirty-years production of one of Europe's foremost contemporary artists.

A series of photographs of Naples, by Jim C. Nedd, blending and reinterpreting elements from diverse iconographic traditions, such as fashion photography, documentary, and tableau vivant.

A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.

An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.

Pisseurses brings together a series of oil pastel drawings and portraits of the artist and her comrades urinating outdoors in a variety of contexts. A brief science-fiction short story carries the whole into a utopian dimension that re-signifies the trivial act of miction.

An extensive survey of Romanian artist Ionuț Cioană's practice, with a selection of texts he wrote over the years.

An artist's book published in celebration of Peles Duo's twenty years of work.

The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.

Transformative Currents: Art & Action in the Pacific Ocean, edited by Cassandra Coblentz, brings together diverse writers, scientists, artists, activists, and thinkers to investigate social and environmental issues throughout the entirety of the Pacific Ocean.

Four epistolary exchanges between Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen about the Palace of Typographic Masonry, a project initiated in 2014 by the Dutch graphic designer as an imaginary architecture devoted entirely to the variety, abundance, digressions and poetry of graphic expression.

The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).

An artist’s book, a work to be read, a journey through the history of painting, drawing on the collection of paintings at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes.

A project conceived by artist Julien Prévieux around current issues in space law.

A new architecture of ruin, using wood and steel from the Baumettes prison in Marseille.

The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.

A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke.