Contemporary art

Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.

A catalogue that features a group of 20 artists from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, the Maghreb and the international scene and explores the profound changes of a period marked by the presence of technology, the post internet era.

The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.

The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.

What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".

A chorus of voices on notions of Black social life, public communion and humanities of the Indian Ocean.

The Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.

Monograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.

Contested Landscapes is dedicated to different rural regions—their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining.

The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.

First monograph: an exploration of the thought of the exhibition in relation to its spaces, contexts, and encounters.

This double issue of the critical graphic design journal examines the origins of the automation and mechanization of translation and writing.

Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.

A revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.

This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.

Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.

First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.

Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.

Futuring Spaces of Possibility explores how contemporary art and architecture address urban, social and ecological challenges and create new possibilities for the future city. It invites urban theorists, curators, artists and architects to use Bruges, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as a testbed for new spatial imaginaries.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

Stefano Arienti's photographic "autobiography" (artist's book).

This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.

Retrospective monograph.

A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.

First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.

76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Garrett Bradley, Maija Peeples-Bright, Tarik Kiswanson, Matthew Barney, Charles Atlas, Tracey Emin...

Anne Houel's first book is dedicated to the monumental sculpture Tobrouk, installed on Ouistreham's Riva-Bella beach for one year in 2023, then moved to the Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Évreux.

Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.

In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.

Artist's book.

Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.

The nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr Magazine from 2019 to 2023 create an experimental publication in bound form that documents the institution's projects over the entire period.

Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.

The artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings of the same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series of works, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject.

An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).

Retrospective monograph.

The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm.

First monograph.

30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.

The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.

A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.

Canadian experimental artist Mark Templeton revisits and revives his sound archives with Andrew Pekler.

This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.

A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.

Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.