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Noor\'s Heroes - Saloua Raouda Choucair
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.
Mamlouks - L\'héritage d\'un empire
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.
Mamluks - Legacy of an Empire
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.
Global Conversations - Mexico
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.
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.
Mimosa Echard - Lies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
An overview and historical, critical, and theoretical perspective on the French artist's work.
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.
Jim Shaw - The Ties That Bind (Study Drawings 2013-2023)
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
142 drawings realized over a decade, addressing the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw's practice.
Amelia Cuni - Melopea (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
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).
Kassel Jaeger - Fernweh (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".
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”.
Alexandre Gérard - J. voit double
2025
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).
David Toop - Decay Music n.10 - And I Entered Into Sleep (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.
Martin Szekely - Debut
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les commissaires anonymes
forthcoming
Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.
Jacques Demierre - 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.
Optically Suspicious
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
Edited, designed and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book is the first in the Tehnika series and is based on research into the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 30s.
Zero zine - Ligne Nuit
2025
no text
miscellaneous
Clinamen
forthcoming
Zero zine is a contemporary art zine for children. It offers them a direct experience of art without filters or barriers, encouraging them to explore, feel, think, and imagine. The first issue presents the work of Léa Katharina Meier, Maude Gyger, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Pedro Wirz and Xenia Lucie Laffely.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Robbie Williams
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
forthcoming
A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
Anup Mathew Thomas - Native ball
2025
bilingual edition (English / Malayalam)
Reliable Copy
forthcoming
"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.
Luigi Turra - Decay Music n.9 - Liminale (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.
 Dr Lakra - Coloring Book
2025
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
forthcoming
Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.
2025
English edition
Neural
forthcoming
Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.
Dagmar Herzog - The New Fascist Body
2025
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
An analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.
As the Sun Appears from Beyond - Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An exploration of artistic expression rooted in the diverse traditions of Islamic art and culture.
Béatrice Balcou - Porteurs
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
Hans Maria De Wolf - Decorum, or The Duchamp-Courbet Case - A Short Presentation outlining a Fondamental Confrontation bewteen the 19th and the 20th Century in wich M. Broodthaers Intervenes in the Role of a Negociator a posteriori
2025
English edition
MER. Books
This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.
Abboudy Mallah - The Puppeteer - A Screenplay by Abboudy Mallah
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The screenplay for the Lebanese film written by Abboudy Mallah.
The Land Remembers (box set)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication is a dynamic archive, the legacy of The Land Remembers, the Lebanese National Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Harnessing local knowledge, it responds with urgency to the intentional destruction of nature and societies in Lebanon.
Noemi Pfister - Heart on Sleeve
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph on the Swiss artist.
Rossella Biscotti - The Trial
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.
Salomé Lamas - Gold and Ashes
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.
Mathilde Nourrisson - Journal intime
2025
no text
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.
Sonny Simmons - Better Do It Now before You Die Later - Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin
2025
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The raucous autobiography of the famed New York free jazz pioneer.
Jac Leirner - Tickets to the Core
2025
no text
Lenz Press
Artist's book.
Giovanna Silva - Album Architectures - Maputo
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Album Architectures
Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.
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.
Jacopo Benassi - Pietraia
2025
English edition
Nero
The encounter between sculptor Giulia Cenci and photographer Jacopo Benassi.
Ronan Bouroullec - Inchiostri + Inchiostri Supplement
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of vases by Ronan Bouroullec made in Murano in collaboration with the Maestro glassblower Simone Cenedese.
Josef Albers - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.
Gauthier David - Sibylle et le monde rigolo
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A funny and cruel tale about precariousness and the urgency of living.
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.
Douglas Kirkland - Romance
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The loving images by the eminent American set photographer.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Le Portique - Conférences inédites – Dieu sans confession, la technique et le postmoderne
2025
French edition
Le Portique
Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy
Ornella Volta - Erik Satie en notes et en mots
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.
Typologie - The camping tent
2025
English edition
Typologie
Typologie
forthcoming
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
Typologie - La tente de camping
2025
French edition
Typologie
Typologie
forthcoming
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent.
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