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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.
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.
Eva Diallo - Bolol
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
A selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Bolol project conducted by Eva Diallo since 2018 on the trail of overland migration routes from Africa to Europe.
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.
 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.
Azzedine Alaïa - 1980-1990 - Two Decades of Artistic Affinities
2025
English edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the creations of two designer partners and friends.
Azzedine Alaïa - 1980-1990 - Deux décennies de connivences artistiques
2025
French edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the creations of two designer partners and friends.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - From here to ear (v.25) (vinyl LP)
2025
Montagne Noire / GMEA
currently out of stock
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
sold out
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
(last copies available!)
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
sold out
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.
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.
Painting after Painting - Contemporary Painting in Belgium
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
currently out of stock
Painting after Painting explores the dynamic and evolving landscape of contemporary painting in Belgium, reflecting on its complex history and diverse practices.
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).
Peter Downsbrough - Autobiography
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Peter Downsbrough's “autobiography”, conceived and "written" in 2023, his last artist's book ever.
Pati Hill - Rêves impossibles
2025
French edition
Daisy editions
Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).
Pati Hill - Impossible Dreams
2025
English edition
Daisy editions
Pati Hill's cult novel, available for the first time since 1976.
Philippa Snow - Snow Business
2025
English edition
ISOLARII
A collection of Philippa Snow's most celebrated writings, articulating with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture and art.
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji (new edition).
Azzedine Alaïa - Alaïa / Kuramata - Lightness in Creation
2025
English edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Clinamen
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The genealogy of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's aquatic, immersive, multisensory installation, developed in over twenty versions over thirty years.
Konrad Sprenger - Set (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
A stunningly, beautiful, multidimensional mercurial work by mysterious Berlin-based composer, music producer, instrument builder and artist Konrad Sprenger (Jörg Hiller), collaborator of Arnold Dreyblatt, Ellen Fullman, Phillip Sollmann and Oren Ambarchi.
Anthony Pateras - Reise der Schatten (vinyl LP)
2025
Hallow Ground
The soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album, recorded with a slew of guest musicians: 29 pieces based on "weird folk melodies ornamented with electro-acoustics," imbued with a sense of mystical surrealism, otherworldly and haunting.
Does the sun have a translucent shell? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 5)
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
Thirty international artists, writers, and thinkers consider timely themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
Gaston Bideau - 96 moutons
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A selection of 96 drawings of sheep, obviously commissioned, with more or less confident lines.
Alan Courtis - Partitions graphiques
2025
French edition
ARTDERIEN
A portfolio of 15 graphic scores (printed on different types of paper) by musician, artist, composer and sound artist. Alan Courtis
 Formafantasma - Down Under - The Curious Fall of a Child Who Knew Nothing and Became Everything
2025
English edition
Nero
An ecological fable by the design duo Formafantasma, beautifully illustrated by Clément Vuillier and accompanied by a rich selection of scientific texts exploring the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and other organisms.
Adrià Julià - Not Even the Dead will Survive
2025
English edition
DoPe Press
Adrià Julià: Not Even the Dead will Survive follows the meaning and production of currency in the context of photography. Adrià Julià's works—image, sculpture, and film—question the various modes of monetary representation.
Julien Langendorff - Spell Rider
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A series of collages that plunges us into a world of multiple references tinged with eroticism, galaxies and cinematic universes.
Alice Nataf - Les briquets que je n\'aurai jamais - Vol. 2
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Collection of lighters borrowed to light a cigarette between 2023 and 2025; photographed and then drawn.
Rosanna Puyol Boralevi - Les arbres la nuit
2025
French edition
Brook
An artist's book for children, with text by Rosanna Puyol Boralevi (Brook editions) and drawings by Pablo Réol, printed in risography..
Maxime Voidy - Les maisons endormies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Maxime Voidy presents a series of photographs of houses with shutters closed along the Brittany coast. Drawing up an iconographic landscape of a France of second homes, this book poetically highlights the issues of urban planning and the social balance of housing in the region.
Alice Nataf - Les briquets que je n\'aurai jamais - Vol. 1
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
currently out of stock
Drawn inventory of lighters borrowed on the street or from friends for the time to light a cigarette between 2017 and 2022.
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