Contemporary art

The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.

An acoustic mapping of colonial history.

First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.

An intimate dialogue between the works of the two artists over four decades.

The 2023 Toilet Paper wall calendar.

The everyday life of Stefan Marx in Berlin, in a new 300-page volume of drawings.

CURA. 38 "The Generational Issue" is the magazine's first survey about artists' portraits that aims to investigate some of the most meaningful protagonists of the new generation who, stressing the urgencies of current times, are shaping the landscape of the present and the future in contemporary art.

New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.

A survey of Louise Nevelson's research on collage.

Pilvi Takala's project for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

The three issues of the periodical charting the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira in the run up to her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), gathered in a box set.

The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

This zine gathers several photos, collages and drawings of Barry Mc Gee. He created a unique visual language, composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols.

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

Two rare historical recordings (1983 and 1986) by the godfather of Dark Ambient, originally released as single sides and gathered here for the first time.

Monograph gathering together a selection of works by Miriam Cahn and the texts of authors such as Alberto Salvadori, Luigi Fassi, Carolin Emcke, Dieter Roelstraete, Estelle Hoy and Francesca Recchia.

This richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover Tomoo Gokita's latest body of work, featuring his newest large-scale paintings and a number of never-before-seen works made under lockdown during the pandemic.

A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.

The culinary performances and installations of the Japanese artist based in Paris (book printed in fluorescent pantones).

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she opened a gallery in the East Village.

Afterall issue 52, entitled "New Politics", featuring: contextual essays by Natalia de la Rosa, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Pascal Gielen; Jonas Staal by Sven Lütticken, Jonas Staal by Kim West, Kapwani Kiwanga by Elvan Zabunyan, Aldo Tambellini by Hanna B. Hölling, Aldo Tambellini by Barrington Matthew, Feminist Art and Activism in South Korea by Hyeonjoo Kim...

Lawrence Weiner, Daniel Hesidence, Bassem Saad, Gala Porras-Kim...

Edition at 1:1 scale of Lefevre Jean Claude's notebook insertions—an investigation into the work of art at work.

How to teach art / can we become an artist?

Finding a future desert without deserting the future.

This small volume features drawings created by by the famous Swiss illustrator for Basler Rabattmarke BKG Liga.

Flipbook.

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating?

A project by the Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca about the different gazes and discussions around the coca leaf, with the objective to reconsider it as a multidimensional and historical actor.

An anthological and retro-prospective publication on the work of Mexican artist Eugenia Martínez, introducing re-sensitizations to the local and global feminist movements that are being shaped and transformed every day.

First monograph.

Dedicated to the activities of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT), The Palliative Turn Number 1 proposes a fundamental shift in our attitude towards art and culture, informed by the practices of palliative medicine and care.

A photographic dive into the avant-garde of a New York at the height of its decadence and cultural importance.

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

A history of southern surrealism, between Monaco and Alexandria: a journey that defies established cartographies, far from the nationalistic landmarks of a European-centric history of modernity.

Autobiography by Nathalie Du Pasquier is a collection of materials that often return during her art practice, "materials constantly reused in different ways."

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.

First monograph.

The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).

Cura. #37 intertwines the themes of After Language and Post Society, and explores the way in which the radical change in the economic, political, cultural, linguistic and emotional structures that define our present is called upon to identify alternative and functional models for the advancement of "new."