Collecting

10th anniversary box set gathering the complete collection of Sans niveau ni mètre (43 issues), the newspaper dedicated to the exhibitions showcased at Le Cabinet du livre d'artiste, a French-based space dedicated to artist's books since 2007.

This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection (also available in English).

The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.

Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.

This lavish publication presents Nestlé's corporate art collection, located in Vevey and nestled in the landmark building created by Jean Tschumi in the late 1950s.

This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.

A reflection on paper as a creative space (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Réunion's collection).

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

The many representations of the Self and the Other in Africa, the Indian Ocean, Asia and Europe, through a selection of artists' portraits and self-portraits (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Reunion's collection).

Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947—only two years after the liberation of the camp.

The guide of the video and digital art collection.

This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.

This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.

A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.

This study of the origin and creation of the FRACs (Regional Funds of Contemporary Art) between 1981 and 1986 reviews the history and assesses one of the flagship measures of French decentralized cultural policy.

An essential publication that allows to reevaluate the importance and impact of the work of the pioneering English group Art & Language, and the emergence of Conceptual art in the early 1970s.

Artist's book.

The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).

The beginning of Hungarian Conceptual art.

An unconventional autobiography based on the American artist's sales catalogue of personal belongings on eBay.

A questionnaire (interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Beatrix Ruf, etc.).

The illustrated catalog raisonné of works from the collection of the Espace de l'Art Concret (Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers donation) in Mouans-Sartoux.

Commissioned to photograph a contemporary art installation set in a London private house, Marie Angeletti immersed herself in the life of its inhabitants to better capture the complex network that unites the artworks and the collector. The art works of Isa Genzken, Christopher Wool, Franz West or Rosemarie Trockel are mixed with the house social realities and with the world that surrounds them. With her penetrating and witty gaze, Angeletti explores the circulation of art in our contemporary society while infusing it with her own private perspective.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

Crossed interviews with artists and their collectors.

First French translation of the 1983 artist's fiction book by Richard Prince.

A vast photographic archive conceived as an extension of Petra Feriancová's project for the Czech and Slovak Republic Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Artist's book (a series of drawings on paper, on aluminium, as well as some wall drawings, dealing with spoliation of artworks in France under the German occupation).

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

The French and Belgian public collections of drawings.

The Ginette Moulin & Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection.

The Ginette Moulin & Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection (available in English edition).

The French and Belgian public collections of drawings.

Artist's book.

A postmodern portrait of French art schools outside Paris, from the example of Mulhouse, which evolved from industrial arts and fine arts to contemporary art and design.

The art of ceramics (available in English edition).

A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.

This publication is part of a series of books in which writers are invited to create a narrative based on an artwork held at the Frac Aquitaine in France. Sabrina Soyer's text was inspired by Mathieu Mercier's installation Holothurie.

Special offer for the purchase of the three volumes of the Cranford Collection catalogue.

Catalogue.

Photographic portrait of the near surroundings of Ruhrschnellweg, freeway 40 in Bochum, Dükerweg with allotments, car tuning, cemetery, Burger King, noise barrier and fire station.

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

A collection of ten artists' writings (Erik Boulatov, Richard Deacon, Fabrice Hyber, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier Hew Locke, Tania Mouraud, Roman Opalka, Sarkis, Franck Scurti).

A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.

The cultural value of music and its social reciprocal relevance.

Curating a private collection.

Catalogue.

Collection catalogue.

Baudevin's interviews about contemporary music.

More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.