Contemporary art

For many years now, Helke Bayrle has documented the activities of the Portikus. The result is a unique collection of artist portraits. Portikus Under Construction presents the last decade, edited backstage material that the viewer of the finished exhibitions never sees.

A Rabelaisian happening by the French artist, some other gigantic works and a text by Pascal Beausse.

A transcription of conceptual artist's blog, a digital diary of a journey in the USA.

Limited edition, with an signed original photograph by the artist.

First publication dedicated to Dutch artist (artist's book).

Catalogue / artist's book: disguised in a post-modern hunter, Pii invites us to think about drift feeding practices and the place of nature in the contemporary world.

Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.

Special offer for the purchase of the 3 conferences on DVD in the series.

New monograph: a walk within a series of recent works by French artist.

Edward Steichen's The Bitter Years exhibition (1961, MoMA New York) offers the starting point for Great expectations. Just like Steichen photographed the aftermaths of the Great Depression, this catalogue gathers contemporary photographs to look at today's Bitter years (catalogue).

A collection of texts devoted to drawing.

Spy Numbers / Pascal Broccolichi / Matt O'dell / François Forme / Louis Kaplan / Ken Gonzales-Day / exhibition guide and a selection of books, music, movies, games and events around Spy Numbers...

Resistance and integration in the era of globalization: special issue on the occasion of the Bienal de La Habana in Cuba.

Futurism special issue.

First monograph on Swiss artist.

Anthology of Yona Friedman's drawings published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages. This last volume focuses on the artist's researches on language, interpretation and improvisation within the urban environment.

A sound piece recorded during two residencies at Cneai, Chatou, in 2007 & 2008—featuring illustrations by the artists and two essays by curators Sylvie Boulanger and Daniel Kurjakovic.

Artist's book / comprehensive monograph gathering the works of Gérard Collin-Thiébaut—commented and illustrated by the artist—from its first scribbles as a child until 2009. The first volume focuses on his works from 1961 to 1969.

In La vie d'artiste, the reading of photo-stories is altered by the addition of a contrasting narration about contemporary art so that each phrase becomes an absurd, humorous slogan.

The third issue of Page Sucker—the 32-page magazine featuring photographs collected over the Internet via a single keyword. This issue's keyword is “lobster”.

The fourth issue of Page Sucker—the 32-page magazine featuring photographs collected over the Internet via a single keyword. This issue's keyword is “fist”.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

Conceived by the artist, an exhaustive monograph on Laurent Grasso's body of work, with texts, interview, documents and 300 color illustrations.

New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces.

Monograph (available in English edition).

New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces (also available in bilingual English / French edition).

First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.

An attempt to renew questions about art and business, in the context of the global rise of the culture and knowledge industries.

A modernized translation of Dante's Inferno.

This catalogue features 187 artistic projects, including 60 previously unseen works (new expanded edition of a 2003 catalogue).

This special issue brings together literary narratives on Europe and outer space, written by thirty authors from the European Union. Each short story is published both in original version and French version.

This artist's book proposes to construct a “mental space” through a narrative—mixing ravers, science-fiction and comic strips—presented through illuminations in the style of old children's books.

This artist's book proposes to construct a “mental space” through a narrative—mixing ravers, science-fiction and comic strips—presented through illuminations in the style of old children's books.

An essay on the the appearance of the image.

This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.

Publication gathering a series of early works from 1962 by French artist Jean-Luc Parant. These 176 hieroglyphs consist of 88 drawings to read, and 88 texts to look at.

A face-to-face between two of the most significant figures in contemporary photography.

This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.

This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.

The magazine dedicated to the exploration of the outer space inaugurates a new formula, extending its focus to the multiple forms of creations and medias. This issue includes a CD.

Reference monograph.

An aesthetic essay on social media and the youth.

Works by Michel Auder, Julien Blaine, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Mathieu Exposito, John Giorno, Bob Lens, Pierre Tilman...; texts by Démosthène Agrafiotis, Philippe Boisnard, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Denis Chevalier, Charles Dreyfus, Anselm Jappe (on Situationnists), Richard Martel (on Dick Higgins et Giordano Bruno), Edgar Morin...

Documenta XII, Darren Almond, Mike Kelley, Il Tempo Del Postino, Trisha Donnelly, Gloria Friedmann, Ugo Rondinone, Joe Scanlan, Yan Pei-Ming, Haim Steinbach, Michael Krebber, Bruce Hainley, Don Brown, Saâdane Afif, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yayoi Kusama, M/M (Paris), Dorothy Iannone...

“Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia”, Xavier Veilhan, Candice Breitz, Karen Kilimnik, Sturtevant, Gerhard Richter, 5e Biennale de Berlin, Wade Guyton / Kelley Walker, Jacques Garcia / John Armleder, Simon Starling, Louise Bourgeois, Christopher Williams, Willem de Rooij / Jeoren de Rijke... (5 texts in English).

First issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.

An Igor Zabel reader.

In the curator's archives.