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Generalized Visual Resistance - Photobooks and Liberation Movements (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1960-1980)
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Atlas Projectos
A critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, reflecting on the importance of visual culture in anti-colonial struggles and the early years of independence, between activism and formal experimentation closely linked to armed struggles.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
Yngve Holen - 6G
2025
no text
Lenz Press
An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.
Bertrand Rigaux - OBAFGKM
2025
French edition
Naima
Artist's book.
Sharon Van Overmeiren - Jacuzzi of Despair
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
Artist's book.
Sereina Steinemann -
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
The Um Slaim School – An Architecture of Connection - 19th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Um Slaim School forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, expanding on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025, and the work of Riyadh-based practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi).
Through the Seasons - Christen Sveaas Art Foundation
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The four seasons as a thematic underpinning to present a rich selection of Norwegian and international contemporary art from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation.
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.
Mikhail Karikis - Voices, Communities, Ecologies
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mid-career retrospective of internationally renowned Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis.
Vika Kirchenbauer - Compassion and Inconvenience
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)—whit its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions—and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025).
Legacy Russell - Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.
Aaron Amar Bhamra - Fugue
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A joint exhibition by the Austrian artist and the Belgian artist and writer.
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.
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.
To a Dead Hare
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
To a Dead Hare collects images from trajectories around photography, created by mentormentor over the past few years for S.M.A.K. Moves, a programme centred around inclusivity, with art as a universal language.
Carolina Caycedo - We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.
Jef Geys - Catalogue Raisonnable
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
The first total survey of Jef Geys' work.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) - Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
Isidore Ducasse - Poésies II
2025
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
The reproduction / reconstruction of Lautréamont's extremely rare text by artists Vincent Labaume and Jean-Luc Moulène, who, with the help of photocopying, photography and digitization, continue a century-old tradition.
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.
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.
Eva Diallo - Bolol
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
currently out of stock
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.
Stephen Barber - Into the Wastelands
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
An urban investigator has been commissioned by a global corporation to determine how cities worldwide are being engulfed and destroyed by the wastelands that are mysteriously appearing in their heart. They are being "wastelanded," generating turmoil and catastrophic technological meltdown in every global megalopolis.
 Chloé<!----> - Light turbulences (vinyl LP)
2025
DUUU
Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.
Omar Kholeif -
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
Léonora Miano - Ladies of the Throne
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
A new narrative by Léonora Miano around Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum (present day Cameroon). 
Reiner Schürmann - Des hégémonies brisées
2025
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.
Robert Millis - Interior Music (vinyl LP)
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Robert Millis' first album with the Discrepant label explores his obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - From here to ear (v.25) (vinyl LP)
2025
Montagne Noire / GMEA
A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.
Andreas Samuelsson - Houses
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of watercolor house studies by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.
Mousse
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Slavs and Tatars, Stephanie Comilang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sohrab Mohebbi, Lauren Cook, Édouard Glissant, Mira Dayal, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Dani Blanga Gubbay, Ruoru Mou, Virginia Ariu, Bagus Pandega, Ceidra Moon Murphy, Oshay Green, Shafei Xia, Christian Rattemeyer, Lamm & Kirch...
Sexual Dissidences - Frau Diamanda\'s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Drawing together together numerous travesti writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this collection amounts to a narrative of survival.
Neural - What is real?
2025
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...
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.
Wim Cuyvers - Res Nullius
2025
bilingual edition (French / Dutch)
Accattone
An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.
ToiletWalter PaperChandoha - Calendar 2026
2025
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The ToiletWalter PaperChandoha Calendar 2026 presents 13 photographs of sweet, polyamorous and sleepy cats by the American photographer Walter Chandoha and the artistic duo and animal lovers of Toiletpaper.
Painting after Painting - Contemporary Painting in Belgium
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
Painting after Painting explores the dynamic and evolving landscape of contemporary painting in Belgium, reflecting on its complex history and diverse practices.
Pressure Cooker recipes - An architectural cookbook
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An architectural cookbook featuring recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic (official catalog of the National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates at La Biennale di Venezia).
Rooted Transience - Affiliated Event – AlMussala Prize
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A collection of reflections on various architectural practices from the Arab world and beyond, on the occasion of the first AlMusalla Prize (2025 edition), an international architectural competition awarded for the design of a musalla in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Madness of the Anthropocene
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This book brings together artists and writers who use image-making and text as means to understand ecological change. By presenting their work here, including ongoing projects and commissioned pieces, the publication conveys knowledge within attentive proximity to the contributor's own definitions of the subject and their governance of observation and analysis of global crises in the age of the Anthropocene.
Elen Braga -
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
MER. Books
The first comprehensive survey of fifteen years of work by Belgian-Brazilian artist Elen Braga.
Clara Obligado - All that grows - Nature and writing
2025
English edition
X Artists' Books
All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.
Marco Zanuso - Yemen 1979
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.
Alessandro Cicoria - New York 117 AD - One Hundred Drawings
2025
no text
Cura. - Cura.books
A series of a hundred of drawings by Alessandro Cicoria, realized in New York in April 2024: using ink on paper, the artist captures an instinctive and fragmentary narrative—found objects, city views, places, and artworks, forming a visual library that bridges the intimacy of a sketchbook and the immediacy of a smartphone screen.
Arab Presences - Modern Art and Decolonisation – Paris 1908-1988
2025
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
An invitation to rediscover the diversity of 20th-century Arab modernism and to take a fresh look at the history of art scenes still little known in Europe, focusing on the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the last century.
Votiva - Open-air contemporary art collection of the City of Parabita
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
The first permanent collection of public art in Parabita's historic center, featuring sixteen contemporary artists.
Herman de Vries - Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand according to the artist's recommendations.
Federico Pepe - Every Thing About Nothing<sup>TM</sup>
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Federico Pepe fills the void in our lives, multiplying the ecstasy of emptiness ad infinitum (a project by Federico Pepe & Le Dictateur Studio curated by Elena Volpato).
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