Conceptual art

 
 
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Thierry de Duve - Le télégramme de Duchamp
2025
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.
Sandy Skoglund - Enchanting Nature
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Retrospective monograph.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
Marco Cassani -
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.
Bertrand Rigaux - OBAFGKM
2025
French edition
Naima
Artist's book.
John Baldessari - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.
Charlotte Posenenske - Installation Views
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
Conceived as a visual résumé, Installation Views provides both a comprehensive overview of Charlotte Posenenske's solo exhibitions and a record of her numerous group shows.
Béatrice Balcou - Porteurs
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
Pedro Lasch - Entre líneas / Between the Lines
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Retrospective monograph.
Jef Geys - Catalogue Raisonnable
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
The first total survey of Jef Geys' work.
Hubert Renard - La vie illustrée d\'Hubert Renard
2025
French edition
mfc-michèle didier
In this artist's book, Hubert Renard's search for himself leads us to meet other characters who have marked out his private life, like so many essential players in his accomplishment.
Peter Downsbrough - Autobiography
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Peter Downsbrough's “autobiography”, conceived and "written" in 2023, his last artist's book ever.
Sabine Delafon - Testament
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Cura.
Sabine Delafon's business cards signed by other artists.
Marilou Thiébault - Une nouvelle vie
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).
Olaf Nicolai - I Am Only the Housekeeper, but I Don’t Know…
2025
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A contemporary hommage of Jože Plečnik's oeuvre.
Rosemarie Castoro -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This monograph on Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) spans the New York-based artist’s entire practice.
Donation Glicksman - Récits californiens – 1960-1970
2025
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
Exploring a pioneering curator's collection of cutting-edge '60s and '70s California art.
Yves Klein - Le Vide et Le Plein
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
The first examination of the practices of two French artists who were key exponents of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, highlighting two opposing and complementary aspects of their poetics.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
Dan Graham - Architecture / Astrologie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Fredrik Værslev -
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
Orshi Drozdik - Adventures in Technos Dystopium - Work, writings, exhibitions 1970–1995
2024
English edition
MER. Books
A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.
Stefano Arienti - Autobiography
2024
no text
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Stefano Arienti's photographic "autobiography" (artist's book).
Ješa Denegri - The Yugoslav Art Space - Ješa Denegri in the First Person
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx - Musée de la Mémoire « Propriété Universelle » ® - Catalogue inventaire d\'un musée par lui-même
2024
bilingual edition (French + introduction & impressum in English)
Captures - Artist's books
This artist's book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, reads like an account of a work under construction in response to a commission in a former coalfield.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx - Musée de la Mémoire « Propriété Universelle » ® - Catalogue inventaire d\'un musée par lui-même
2024
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
This artist's book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, reads like an account of a work under construction in response to a commission in a former coalfield.
Pier Paolo Calzolari - Casa ideale
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Retrospective monograph.
Ryan Gander - Artists at 5
2024
English edition
Mennour
A book bringing together about 160 portraits of artists when they were "about" five years old.
William Anastasi - This Is Not My Signature
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A journey through the artist's work and life.
 Claire Fontaine - A User\'s Manual to Claire Fontaine
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Biting the Hand - Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.
Miquel Mont - ÉL S. A. - Biographie#Dissociée
2024
texts in French, Catalan, Castilian, English
Naima
The culmination of a multidisciplinary project developed over ten years, where Miquel Mont blends real and fictional autobiographical elements to explore the economy of affects.
Yoko Ono - Everything in the Universe is Unfinished
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).
Martine Syms - She Mad
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
Àngels Ribé - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Une Trilogie
2023
French edition
Art Book Magazine
A rethinking of the conceptual approach of Ludovic Chemarin©, artist turned fictional and polycephalous, who continues to redraw the figurative boundaries of the artist and the work, the exhibition and the institution.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud - Guernica / Ukraine
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A complete light on the unpublished work given by Jean-Pierre Raynaud to Ukraine, a modern version of Picasso's Guernica, a universal symbol of the denunciation by art of the horrors of war, whose exact monumental dimensions the French conceptual artist now takes up in order to realize, almost a century later, the counterpart according to his own aesthetic codes.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Michel Parmentier - Transatlantique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Mladen Stilinović - My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) - Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (I) - Unbestimmte Linien
2023
no text
Nieves
The subject of this and the following books in the Spekulationen series is Peter Piller's approach to Stone Age art and its presence in his daily life. This volume presents four hundred and nine photographs found in publications on prehistoric art.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II) - Zahlreiche Übergangsformen
2023
no text
Nieves
The second volume of the artist's book series dedicated to Peter Piller's field of research of prehistoric cave painting features Piller's own drawings.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
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