Contemporary art

The drawing practice of Kara Walker.

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.

An analysis of Mike Kelley's work as a position in materialist philosophy, which appears as the feature that is most at stake in his artistic practice, focusing on the pieces he produced around the issue of memory––his leitmotiv from 1995 onward.

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

A series of “Outrenoirs” produced by Pierre Soulages between 1986 and 2018.

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.

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

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

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...

Reference monograph.

Catalogue of the double exhibition devoted to the Pattern & Decoration movement, with numerous previously unpublished archives.

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.

“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.

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.

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...

52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”

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.

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

A score of performative gestures, drawn from the conceptual art and body art scenes from Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.

This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine Malabou.

Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.

Monographic catalogue: for more than a decade, Israeli installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar subverts the gender roles associated with art and music, with a particular emphasis on rock'n'roll.

A project by Éva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel (drawings and sketches of São Paulo); hand drawings by Éva Le Roi.

Retrospective catalogue spanning Morris's early years, covering the 1960s and 1970s through a selection of works, historical essays, interviews with collaborators, and texts by the artist.

Limited edition, including an exclusive satin scarf, of the book celebrating the collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.

For its 150th issue, BOMB has redesigned its flagship print magazine. This design reaffirms its mandate to deliver the artist's voice, supporting the vital discourse that appears in BOMB with vivid imagery and innovative juxtapositions that encourage dialogue across the arts—from conversations between artists, writers, and performers to exciting literature. BOMB presents exchanges in their formative state: revelatory, fluid, and iconoclastic.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).

A wide-ranging collection of texts on contemporary painting, by one of its most finest observer today.

New monograph.