Contemporary art

Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.

A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.

A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.

To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.

The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.

Aboard the lifeboat Ocean Viking; Jérôme Ferrari; Quebec poetry; Florentina Holzinger; Corsican cinema; investigation in the Kodak factories...

Richard Serra (1938-2024), textile art, "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan", "Foreigners Everywhere"...

Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...

The first volume published by Amsterdam-based Hartwig Art Foundation, COURTPLAY constitutes the book counterpart to the eponymous event conceived by Mohamed Almusibli and Ivan Cheng, and presented in January 2024 at the former courthouse of Amsterdam, the location of the foundation's forthcoming museum.

The first monograph dedicated to the ceramic works of Anaïs Lelièvre.

Through a close examination of the political and aesthetic strategies that artist Ines Doujak employs in her work, this book explores the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises.

Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.

An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.

Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.

Logorrhea is an artist book focusing on the written word in Jean-Michel Wicker's work. It is a large and lighter-than-air paperback, the author's third void.

A first major monograph on Thierry Fournier's practice, French visual artist, with an extensive documentation of many recent works and a collection of texts and interviews.

With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images.

A monograph presenting selected works from the first ten years of the Danish artist's career, 2013 to 2023.

First monograph.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous solo exhibition of the Greek artist Vasilis Papageorgiou at Salzburger Kunstverein, Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun or invites contemplation on capitalist systems of pleasure and the tourism industry.

A book based on Conrad Shawcross's largest UK exhibition to date and four interdisciplinary conferences, between sculpture, mathematics, quantum physics and philosophy.

A significant contribution to the understanding of the work of artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, by art historian Romi Crawford, who analyzes how Smith recastsfilm history, in a pivotal period of her career.

A compelling narrative by Omar Kholeif through the life and work of one of the pioneering artists of our time.

Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's first artist's book.

The story of a series of over seventy paintings that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football.

An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.

Lou Cantor, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Elizabeth Jaeger, Stanislava Kovalčíkova, Mire Lee, Jack O'Brien, Frida Orupabo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anicka Yi...

Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.

The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation.

An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.

The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.

This first issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design brings together designers and artists whose approach is anchored in their perception and emotions. Featuring GGSV, Formafantasma, Atelier Senzu, Flora Fishbach, Romain Brau, Bunker Palace, Pinaffo & Pluvinage, Atelier blam, Xolo Cuintle, etc.

Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.

The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.

Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.

This book brings together Bernhard Rüdiger's theoretical texts on the questions of language and form in contemporary art, seen from the perspective of the possibility of thinking them within the paradigm of shock or awe.

A new voice+electronics solo CD by Jason Kahn: voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, radio, spring reverb tank.

Ronan Bouroullec's first comprehensive monograph, bringing together his drawings, sculptures and ceramics, and design objects and projects.

Newton is a sound work conceived by Cesare Pietroiusti, an artist interested in micro-events, paradoxical situations, behaviour and minor gestures that make up our daily life. NEWTON is an epic of the fall, experienced, suffered and observed by the artist himself.

A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.

A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.

A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.

Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.

A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.