Art & economy / art market

Contribution to a critical theory of artwork's economy and poièsis.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

The guide of the video and digital art collection.

A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

At the same time an artist's book and a brief historical investigation, Thomas Huber's The Shop Sign reports the birth of a painting, relates the fate of another one, and questions the art market, the transit of works of art and the links between artists, dealers and collectors, all the while Huber plays with interpictoriality the way others would use intertextuality.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).

An investigation on former director of the IMF and the World Bank Jacques de Groote, sued by the Swiss courts for fraudulent privatization.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.

This poetical and political text gives a both personal and collective account of Greece's crisis.

A compilation of interviews with thirty-one artists related to questions about the value of attention and spectacle..

A range of international artists engaged in investigating the shifting, viral nature of capitalism.

The second volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

Complex relationships inside art, culture, political economy, immaterial production, and the public realm today.

Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things.

“Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times” is an artist's book by Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert which expands upon the themes of this earlier document and re-examines them more specifically in the light of our current times.

An introduction to Minsky's seminal theory on financial instability.

In the context of a pervasive and long-standing financial crisis, Joseph Vogl questions the capitalist system, its secrets, its modus operandi, and the way it perpetuates itself. One of the most noteworthy books on the economic crisis in Europe.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.

Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.

The first volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

The Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection (works by Paul Chan, Sam Durant, Cameron Jamie, Kim Jones, Tom Sachs, Dash Snow, Kelley Walker...).

After Office, the second issue of Stream, addresses the conflicts of the evolution of our work conditions, now greatly modified, with contributions by international thinkers, artists, designers and architects.

"Das Institut" presents a lavishly illustrated review of the productions, exhibitions, and collaborations in which it has been involved over the past three years in the style of a business report.

Various critical approaches under the shape of questioning and the appropriation by artists of the model of the company.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).

Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.

Tristan Trémeau investigates the institutional and market developments in the art word, and calls for the regeneration of art criticism.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

This collective essay examines the crossroads between creation and business through various analyzes and case studies on Marcel Duchamp, Bertrand Lavier and the Brancusi trial.

Artist's magazine.

Reference monograph: an overview of the unclassifiable work of an entrepreneurial artist who, by appropriating the symbolic network of a former electric power company, turned it into his research territory and the very matter of his activity, through twenty texts and interviews and some 700 photographs and illustrations.

Five road stories.

An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.

Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).

A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).

A new series of works engaging with the interaction between politics and glamour.

This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.