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2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
Catalogue.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.
Ko Murobushi - Fierce Unworking
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
An essay on the figure of the writer-curator, which examines the nature of the relationship between art and literature, the place of literature in contemporary creation in general, and its role in strategies for promoting heritage and legitimizing cultural institutions.
Pieter Henket - Birds of Mexico City
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
A collection of portraits by Pieter Henket that focuses on a new generation of young Mexicans who are redefining contemporary expressions of gender, identity, tradition, and spirituality.
Deberlinization - Refabulating the World, A Theory of Praxis
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.
What is highly unlikely but not impossible?
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
forthcoming
A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of artist Hiwa K.
Clément Bagot -
2026
French edition
La Maréchalerie
forthcoming
An artist's document that sheds light on the relationship between drawing and sculpture in the work of Clément Bagot.
Thierry de Duve - Le télégramme de Duchamp
2026
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.
Samuel Herzog - Scarabeo
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The Swiss artist and writer studies a place at beetle height.
Omar Kholeif - World Child
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
forthcoming
An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.
Kris Lüdi - Smoke
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The artist's photographic view of the folk tradition that celebrates Swiss tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.
Merlin Modulaw - Times Ahead (were once an optimistic place)
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".
Ann Leda Shapiro - On the Verge of Becoming
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
First comprehensive monograph on American artist Ann Leda Shapiro (b. 1946), including previously censored and rarely seen works, contextualized within feminist art histories.
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The first comprehensive and personal look behind the scenes at the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann's planning, design and working processes.
Charl van Ark -
2026
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
forthcoming
The first major monograph dedicated to Dutch artist Charl van Ark.
Dialogical Imaginations - Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 1 : 1955-1966
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 2 : 1967-1982
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).
Going Public - Creating Visibility in the Field of Art
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
forthcoming
The choreographic in cinema.
Zuzanna Bartoszek - 36 Rooms
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.
Francis David - Un Monde Parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.
Rudy Ricciotti - La Cité  de Thélème - Fais ce que voudras !
2026
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.
Rudy Ricciotti - The City of Thelema - Do What You Will!
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.
Emmanuel Alloa - Le contemporain, l\'intempestif et l\'imminent - Petits arrangements avec une époque
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.
ECAL - A Typographic Atlas
2026
English edition
Empire - Books
forthcoming
A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years.
Kwame Akoto - Almighty God Art Works
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
First personnal catalogue of Kwame Akoto.
Maryanne Amacher - Intelligent Life
2026
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).
 Jeff Wall Production - Submission Declined
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.
Walid Sadek - How to speak dead
2026
English edition
Kayfa ta
forthcoming
Gisèle Vienne -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.
2026
French edition
Suture Press
forthcoming
Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Delphine Coindet - MONO ICONO GRAPHIE
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.
 Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.
 C&K (COBRA + Ken Kagami) - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2026
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Zolo Press
forthcoming
This book documents 4 years of an ongoing project which the Tokyo-based collaborative artist unit C&K have realized in collaboration with the Otsuka (Tokyo) based commercial gallery, MISAKO & ROSEN.
Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa - Turning Frozen Yesterdays into Fluid Now… - Or how to Intervene in the Frayed Fabric of a Sequence in Morocco\'s Cultural History
2026
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
forthcoming
Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa revisits a sequence of Morocco's cultural history: the encounter of two anthropologists and the intersecting history of their approaches to popular and traditional art objects.
Emanuele Quinz - Ars Naturans - L\'art à l\'épreuve du vivant
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.
Joar Nango -
2026
bilingual edition (English / Sámi)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.
 Panamarenko - Panamarenko Fundamentals
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
An exciting exploration of the imaginary world of Belgian artist Panamarenko, who became internationally renown for his groundbreaking creations connecting art with science and technique.
And All That Is In Between - Islamic Arts Biennale 2025
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.
In Interludes and Transitions
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
The guide and extension of the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2026), featuring 67 international artists.
D. N. Rodowick - Ce que la philosophie attend des images
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 4 – Network Affect
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
Carl Cheng - Nature Never Loses
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
The definitive publication on Carl Cheng's genre-defying work.
Yves Klein and his artist family - Fred, Marie and Rotraut
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A portrait of a unique artist family.
Exercice(s) d\'architecture - Une architecture nommée désir
2026
French edition
Exercice(s) d'architecture
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Exercice(s) d'architecture
forthcoming
The 12th issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, featuring a dossier on the theme of desire in architecture.
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