Contemporary art

A curatorial project about concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality.

Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.

Anne Dressen talks about her curatorial practice (and more broadly about the world in which it takes place); Nick Mauss, with whom the curator exchanges regularly, intervenes in her text, by insertions and echoes.

A rereading of the work of the great Franco-Swiss graphic designer, pioneer of minimalism and precursor in terms of typography.

The drawing practice of Kara Walker.

"1 Million Roses for Angela Davis" traces Davis' immense influence and legacy as activist and scholar on contemporary artists today, while simultaneously teasing out the contradictions her presence and agenda posed to the GDR's interpretation and application of Marxism.

A journey of invention and experimentation through more than 200 pieces by international artists, observing the diversity not only of forms and decorations, but also of manufacturing processes of ceramic.

Julian Charrière's filmic journey to some of the most inhospitable areas of our planet.

A series of recent drawings by London-based artist Faye Wei Wei.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

Julia Rommel's eponymous monograph gathers a decade of her painterly obsessions, with texts by the artist and writer Rebecca Bengal.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

A selection of artists and authors records within a multifaceted mosaic some of the most relevant, urgent and dystopian visions of today's changing world.

A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.

Nigel Peake's drawings for Japanese distillery Mitosaya.

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Set alongside guest contributions, this catalogue offers, from the works of the two Dutch artists Nicky Assmann and Jan Robert Leegte, a fresh take on the fundamental concept of nature, in an age when science and technology are capable of replicating its phenomena.

A collection of reflections and literary and artistic contributions inspired by the themes at the heart of American writer Dodie Bellamy's work, and driven by the central question “What are we learning from artists today?”

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.

The first book to cover the entire span of the “anarchitect” Gianni Pettena's career.

An essay on the modes of re-enactments, appropriation or reinterpretations of artists' books.

A series of drawings by Pierre Budet produced daily in Rennes from March 17 to May 11, 2020 during the confinement period imposed on the French population due to the pandemic (covid-19).

The current state and future of painting in the digital age.

A conversation about performance, genre and cinema in the subversive work of Brice Dellsperger.

Artist's book.

The fifth and last issue of the erotic journal.

Carceral Aesthetics: Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner; Where We're At: Bulletins from around the globe; Artist Project: David Velasco introduces Stanley Whitney; Blasted Allegories: Fabrice Stroun on the art of Steven Parrino...

Artist's book.

Reference monograph.

Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.

An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.

From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.

In this book, together with Pierre Chabard, Philippe Vander Maren and Richard Venlet explore and explicit the design process of House D through a set of unpublished work documents such as sketches, scale models, series of annotated plans, collages and pictures.

The archives of the 1990s.

“In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle” finds Mark Leckey stitching together a fantasy travelogue made up of found sounds, spoken word and dismantled tunes like some hallucinogenic mixtape; part audio diary, part YouTube session taking in fairytale folk musics, iMessage notifications and gothic horror...

Catalogue of the last solo exhibition of Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019).

The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.

One year in the art world: Art Basel's official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors, and museum directors.

Aurel Schmidt's drawings.

The book contextualizes the Creativity Exercises—an amateur art course led by neo-avant-garde artists Miklós Erdély and Dóra Maurer in Budapest from 1975 to 1977—within the postwar intellectual networks that connected artists, architects, educators, sociologists and other socially engaged professionals.

Catalogue, with a series of photograms, exhibition views, an interview and a text by Clara Schulmann.

In a period of transition, loss of horizons, rethinking of known schemes and expectations, between trying to catch up with digital acceleration and dealing with a content overload, Cura. translates the vocabulary indicative of this new decade by republishing a thoughtful selection of contributions from its archive.

The reprint of Pati Hill's 1979 book, composed of images and texts by Hill through which she intended to contextualize and explain her working methodology to Jill Kornblee, her New York gallerist.

Exhibition catalogue of the sixth Triennal 50JPG – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, exploring the relationships between eros and cosmos.

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to July 2021: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for almost a year...

This publication critically assesses and illuminates ways in which the arts can confront food-related issues, through the contributions of artists, anthropologists, activists, agronomists, and chefs.

The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Marcel Alocco, Edouard Boyer, Matali Crasset, Jean-Claude da Silva, Frédéric Dumond, Jacques Jouet, Nicolas Richard, Sébastien Roux>, Yoann Thommerel, Éric Watier.

First monograph.

Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice, this anthology provides new insight into the analysis of things in a curatorial context.