Switzerland

 
 
Dieter Hall - A Naked Chair
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Merlin Modulaw - Times Ahead (were once an optimistic place)
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The first comprehensive and personal look behind the scenes at the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann's planning, design and working processes.
David Weiss - David Weiss e il Sogo di Casa Aprile / David Weiss and the Dream of Casa Aprile - Carona 1968-1978
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.
Giasco Bertoli - Locations, New York
2025
English edition
Éditions 7L
forthcoming
Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.
Vincent Barras - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
forthcoming
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
Pier Geering - El Presidente - Confessions d\'un artiste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).
Harald Szeemann - Pretenzione Intenzione - Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.
Caroline Schattling Villeval - No Kids, More Coke!
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
forthcoming
A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
Retour à Monte Carasso
2025
French edition
Avenir radieux
forthcoming
A photographic project by Luc Boegly on architect Luigi Snozzi's exemplary urban development project in the rural municipality of Monte Carasso in Ticino.
René Berger - Esthétique et mass media - Sélection de cours et des actes du colloque « Art, technologie et communication », 1970-1972
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
Noemi Pfister - Heart on Sleeve
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph on the Swiss artist.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
Palazzina - Ring Everywhere
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A look back at the approach and programming of the Basel-based modular independent art space, between living, working and exhibition space.
Sereina Steinemann -
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Jill Mulleady - Fight-or-Flight
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
The first major monograph on Swiss-Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.
Jan Vorisek - Private Fictions
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
The first monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's immersive installations of found objects and sound machines.
Beni Bischof - Meta Cars
2025
no text
Nieves
In Meta Cars, Beni Bischof transforms found images of cars into visual distortions. Through digital manipulation and radical simplification, the original shapes are abstracted—reduced to ghostly and ridiculous silhouettes that feel both familiar and alien.
Wanda Nay - Horror Vacui
2025
no text
Nieves
The Zurich-based artist reinterprets the fear of emptiness from a feminist, psychological and socio-political perspective, through a pictorial reappropriation of the aesthetics of bureaucratic documents.
 PROVENCE - Unconscious
2025
English edition
various
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS deep dives into the cosmological pool that shapes the collective unconscious and takes a look at the relevance of Jung's ideas in relation to contemporary art and fashion.
Gilles Aubry - L\'Makina (vinyl LP)
2025
Corvo Records
Gilles Aubry's composition "L'Makina" is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou.
Timothée Calame - Scatofiction (T. Freakson Calame)
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.
Eva Diallo - Bolol
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
A selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Bolol project conducted by Eva Diallo since 2018 on the trail of overland migration routes from Africa to Europe.
Anouck Genthon - Suite blanche / Angelica (2 CD)
2025
UNRec
currently out of stock
A double CD with Suite blanche, a musique concrète composition by Anouck Genthon (violin, sound recordings) and Lionel Marchetti (synthesizers, electroacoustics, sound recordings), and Angelica, a concert by the duo.
Le Cyclop - The Monumental Folly by Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and their Friends (1969–2024)
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely.
Le Cyclop - La Monumentale Folie de Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle et leurs amis (1969-2024)
2025
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely (also available in English).
Ernesto Schick - Railway Flora
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A decade (1969-1978) of observation, classification and illustration of the abusive vegetation infesting the grounds of the international railway station in Chiasso, Switzerland, by botanist Ernesto Schick (new edition).
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Masterpieces
2025
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Bertrand Denzler - Musique improvisée et questions politiques
2025
French edition
Bruit
Two figures of adventurous and creative music discuss the relationship between improvised music and socio-political practices, through the prism of anarchist thought.
Luca Schenardi - Plant-Based Monster Trucks
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of collaborative drawings by the two Swiss illustrators and artists during a stay in Los Angeles, confronting the city's demons and wonders with unbridled felt-tip pens and colored pencils.
Louisa Gagliardi - Many Moons
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This luxurious monograph reveals the strangeness of the Swiss artist's practice, which blends traditional painting techniques with digital technology, and captures the very special texture of the works reproduced on the glossy surface of paper.
Mahtola Wittmer - Back to Back
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive presentation of Swiss artist Mahtola Wittmer's work.
Vivian Suter - Disco
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Portuguese)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
Lavishly illustrated, this publication on the Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter offers an immersive approach to her acclaimed painting practice, whose relationship with the natural world makes it particularly challenging.
Hans Ulrich Obrist -
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.
Anton Bruhin - True to New – New Year\'s Zines 2007–2025 / Dem Neuen treu – Neujahrshefte 2007–2025
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The very personal New Year's greetings published by the Swiss artist in the form of zines over the last twenty years.
Max Wiederkehr - Konkret on Acid
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Reference monograph.
Andres Lutz - Schwarze Blätter
2025
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
White-on-black drawings by the Swiss artist since the late 1990s.
Tancredi Liliana Salone - Memorie premonitrici
2025
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
The enigmatic oil paintings of Sicilian-born artist Tancredi Liliana Salone, “premonitory memories” of a disturbing future, a dystopia steeped in ancient images.
Natasha Krymskaya - Joints of Eastern Europe
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
A selection of photographs and architectural drawings of "joints" from Eastern Europe gathered and reinterpreted by Natasha Krymskaya, as part of a research project into architectural practices and craft culture.
Miriam Cahn - Könnteichsein + Gepäck/Gefühl (2 books)
2025
no text
Nieves
Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.
Giasco Bertoli - Roses Tatouées
2025
no text
various
The 22nd volume of the artist's journal that the photographer has been publishing for over two decades.
 Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble - Le Beau du Monde - A Modern View on Early Music (CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
Breathtaking a cappella interpretations of the Octonaires de la Vanité du Monde by Paschal de L'Estocart (1582) and pieces from the Geneva Psalter (1562) meet the reworkings of Sylvain Chauveau.
Aline Bovard Rudaz - Femmes – Violences
2025
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A study of new representations and denunciation of gender violence by women in contemporary photography.
Lukas Wassmann - Post Scriptum - A museum forgotten by heart
2025
English edition
Nero
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
Offline
2025
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
Denise Bertschi - Export Quality Poetry (1924–2024)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
 Truwant + Rodet + - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
John Armleder - Autobiography
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
Conversations on Architecture – Swiss Talks – About and Beyond / Conversazioni sull’architettura – Swiss Talks – Intorno e oltre
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.
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