Catalogues

New Ways of Doing Nothing highlights artistic gestures challenging today's inclination towards productivity and growth (with Robert Breer, Claire Fontaine, Mathias Delplanque, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Karl Holmqvist, Jiří Kovanda, Superflex, Mario García Torres...).

An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions (available in

A look at contemporary visual culture and how it has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries (catalogue).

The European colonial heritage revisited: Meessen invited ten international artists to think the colonial modernity and connect it with the history of avant-garde, political and independence movements (catalogue of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Twelve international artists forge a reflection on the meaning, the potential and the new experimental approaches in sculpture today.

Cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of “One Earth” and the ecological paradigm associated with it.

The catalogue of a cycle of exhibitions that took place over the course of four years, from a reflection on the notion of the “mediation” of artworks (withDavid Lamelas, Benoit Maire, Dominique Petitgand, Giasco Bertoli, Robert Breer, Esther Ferrer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ben Kinmont, Jirí Kovanda, Martha Rosler...).

First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the Japanese artist's fog sculptures: a luxurious box set gathering an annotated catalogue of Nakaya's Fog Works created for public spaces all over the world (as well as her video works and paintings), a video DVD and an interactive DVD-ROM.

A manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than forty international authors, rather than a traditional exhibition catalogue (publication accompanying the exhibiton for the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Art as a combat sport.

This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.

An exploration of the relationship between language and visual arts (works by/essays on Pierre Ardouvin, Art Keller, Julien Audebert, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Éric Duyckaerts, Dora García, Mark Geffriaud, Martin Le Chevallier, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet, Christian Robert-Tissot, Charles Sandison, Yann Sérandour, Lawrence Weiner).

Theoretical and artistic reflections on the history and contemporary relevance of animism.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions”.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions” (hardcover limited edition).

Limited edition catalogue of the exhibition casting an eye over 25 years of multidisciplinary activities by legendary experimental rock band with plastic/visual artists, film-makers, designers and musicians.

A reflection on the tensions and social uses of contemporary forms of representation on the basis of an exercise in critical analysis focussing on the multifaceted artistic practices of two international artists (catalogue of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, April - June, 2009, with texts by the artists and four philosophers).

Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today (from Paul McCarthy to Jessica Warboys, Spartacus Chetwynd or John Bock), this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices.

This publication hopes to present a series of projects bluring the line between artists and designers.

These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of public and private space.

Exhibition catalogue around art and low resolution in new technologies.

An anthology.

Charley 05 features 400 works by 100 artists that are remained isolated, forgotten, proudly secluded or sightly unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work.

Contemporary art in New Zealand: an imaginary exhibition for the Venice Biennale 2007.

A new perspective on Situationist International, with unreleased documents and texts by Beaudrillard, Agamben, Hirschhorn, Sloterdijk, Obrist...

Catalogue of the collective exhibition curated by Aaron Rose, with Rita Ackermann, Gee Vaucher, Becca Mann, Daido Moriyama, Raymond Pettibon, Gusmano Cesaretti, Jockum Nordström, Ryan McGinley, Daniel Higgs.

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).

Catalogue published, as a second volume, after the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, gathering the complete documentation produced for the exhibitions and presenting the installations views.

The crossover between fashion and art (catalogue of St. Gallen museums, with 70 photographers, fashion designers and artists).

Facsimile appropriations, scanned pages, Xeroxes by several artists (Armleder, Gillick, Ruppersberg...) – Grey Flags is a book of texts and ideas published to accompany the homonymous exhibition at the Sculpture Center, NY.

The videos of one of the most important private collections of contemporary art (including Nam June Paik, Annika Larson, Shirin Neshat, Kader Attia, Yoshua Okon...).

Visually expanding on the art world's tendency to see the world through the prism of modern and contemporary art, the book depicts some 200 images of found or researched situations taken “after” an artist's work – occupied realities that are, one might say, signed by the artists.

Numbered edition of a photography and a poster (Jean-Marc Bustamante fecit), which are added to the special box set by M/M (Paris) containing the last three catalogues of the Printemps de septembre festival.

Humour as a strategy in art, from Dada to Fluxus and contemporary conceptual art.

Catalog of one of the most important private collections of contemporary art.

Exhibition catalogue (Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Jim Shaw, Marcel Dzama, Bjarne Melgaard).

Artists' book, covered in the fabric used on London Underground seats, with an electronic chip ringing like a mobile phone when it is opened.

Five artists' books and one general catalogue document the works of Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard, and Gitte Villesen.

Original invitation cards of the independent contemporary art space based in the cultural alternative center Usine in Geneva.

This publication documents new works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Mathilde Rosier, Eva Rothschild or Gary Webb, invited to develop projects on the theme of nuclear war.

This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it.

The 7th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennal catalogue.

Fully illustrated catalogue realized for the 9th edition of the Geneva Biennial, a festival dedicated to artists' film and video.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Air-Air - on the inflatables structures theme - at the Grimaldi Forum de Monaco (Philippe Parreno, Yayoi Kusama, Sylvie Fleury, Lee Bul, Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Bertrand Lavier, Andy Wharol, Kenji Yanobe, Archigram...).