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Jean-Claude Guillaumon -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
forthcoming
The first retrospective of the work of Jean-Claude Guillaumon (1943-2022), a self-taught artist who defies categorization, associated with the French Fluxus scene, avid practitioner of happenings and other forms of ephemeral art.
Phil Maggi - Upwards, The Crimes I Committed (CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
Phil Maggi's twentieth album is a body of work five years in the making, conceived between 2019 and 2024 across a period that moved through pandemic stillness and intense creative immersion, between ambient-atmospheric, soundscapes and free-jazz with a touch of concrete music.
Aline Motta - Water is a Time Machine
2026
English edition
Torpedo
forthcoming
Artist's book.
 Schatterau - Wir gingen durch leere Stunden (vinyl LP)
2026
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
forthcoming
Schatterau's third album sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language.
Johannes van de Weert - The Adventures of Red Rat and BIGGO – The Present
2026
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).
25 pièces sans vide (3-CD box set)
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
UNRec
forthcoming
A three-CD set offering a glimpse into the work of the improvisation ensemble Le UN, featuring performances by a large ensemble in various acoustic settings, small and medium-sized ensembles, and outdoor performances in public spaces (light intervention brigade).
Agnès Wyler - DUO / DUEL (2-book set)
2026
no text
Nieves
forthcoming
A pair of small-format artist's books, conceived as two visual sequences bound together by tension, attraction, and delay.
Frog
2026
texts in English and French
Frog
forthcoming
Jorge Macchi - Retour (box set)
2026
Spanish edition
KBB
forthcoming
An artist's book conceived by Jorge Macchi as a return—both literal and conceptual—to the city of Buenos Aires as a field of investigation.
Alexandra Midal - Witches of Design - Ann Lee: Design, Trance and Feminism
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
Alexandra Midal - Sorcières du design - Ann Lee : design, transes et féminisme
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
 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.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthétique relationnelle
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).
Nicolas Bourriaud - Radicant - Pour une esthétique de la globalisation
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Miroslav Beinhauer - Pieces for Broken Piano (CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
Miroslav Beinhauer performing Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliot Sharp, Milan Gustar, and Yoon-Ji Lee, on a famous broken piano.
Erin Brannigan - Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement - Pour une généalogie féminine
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
forthcoming
The choreographic in cinema.
Bill Laswell - Mount Analogue (2 vinyl LP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.
Bill Laswell - Mount Analogue (2 CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.
Rudy Ricciotti - La Cité  de Thélème - Fais ce que voudras !
2026
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.
Rudy Ricciotti - The City of Thelema - Do What You Will!
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.
Patrick Staff - Minimum World
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
P. Staff's first collection of poetry.
Marin Karmitz - Et la vie continue… - Dessins de la collection Karmitz
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives.
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.
An Orobic Journey - On Migratory Restlessness, Community, and Multispecies Geographies
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
forthcoming
A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.
K-NOW! - Korean Video Art Today
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
A look at a href="index_theme.php?id=224&menu=4">South Korea's contemporary art scene through the medium of video art.
David Martens - Écrivains commissaires - La littérature au service des musées
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
An essay on the figure of the writer-
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.
Allen Ginsberg - AH!MERICA
2026
English edition
ISOLARII
forthcoming
Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.
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.
Cahiers mésozoaires - Art, Agriculture et Biodiversité
2026
French edition
Cahiers mésozoaires
forthcoming
The relationship between art, agriculture, and biodiversity.
I Am The F****** Subject - Art And Adolescence
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
forthcoming
A collective reflection on the multiple dimensions of adolescence in its relationship with art.lab
Revue & Corrigée
2026
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
forthcoming
Chuck Roth; Mark Cauvin; Keiko Higuchi; Aude Rabillon & Erell Latimier; Pauline Weidmann; Jean-Claude Éloy (1938–2025)...
Roven
2026
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
forthcoming
Victoire Mangez, Erik Dietman, Armineh Neghadari, Françoise Pétrovitch, Laure Pigeon, special feature on artists' connections to children's drawings (Danielle Orhan, Sarah Tritz, Petrit Halilaj, Emmanuel Pernoud, Ramuntcho Matta, Pascal Convert), Hipkiss, Camille Chastang, Vanessa Dziuba, Katerina Christidi, Grégory Cuquel...
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).
Jean Arnaud - Road Trees
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
forthcoming
The artist's travel journal.
Étienne Balibar - Sur la guerre - Trois interprétations
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 and the war in Ukraine.
Lucía C. Pino - You Who Have Beautiful Manners
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monographie.
Claire Colin-Collin - Encore une fois ça
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
This first monograph devoted to Claire Colin-Collin’s painting traces her artistic development since the late 1990s.
 eRikm - Observations (vinyl LP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.
Cécilia Jauniau - Place Dauphine
2026
French edition
various
forthcoming
This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.
 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.
Liz Johnson Artur - PDA
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.
Asier Mendizabal - Recto verso - An Anthology of Works and Writings by Asier Mendizabal
2026
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
forthcoming
A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.
Shirin Sabahi - Zenit
2026
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
forthcoming
Emilija Škarnulytė - Waters Call Me Home
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.
Daniel Spoerri - Les choses de la vie
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
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.
 Moondog - 50 Couplets
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).
Maria Bottero - Forays beyond the Modern - The Architecture of Umberto Riva
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
forthcoming
A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
forthcoming
Issue 40 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo features a constellation of artists and critical thinkers whose practices are shaped by the lived experiences of disability and issues of accessibility.
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