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Microbiome
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - XXI Century Science
forthcoming
An update on the issues at stake in the study of the human microbiome (various bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms that compose the human body's ecosystem), shedding new light on the relationship between humankind and nature and the new micro-biopolitics we are now facing.
Swamps and the New Imagination - On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
2026
French edition
Brook
forthcoming
The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.
Brian Dillon - In Pieces - Writings on Art, Etc.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.
Joseph Kosuth - Redefining the Context of Art, 1968 and After - The Second Investigation and Public Media
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
forthcoming
The first monograph on the Hong Kong artist.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Ed Ruscha - A Reader
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
Pour des mondes magiques - Design et tournant ontologique
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
For Magical Worlds - Design and the Ontological Turn
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
Alexandra Midal - Hocus Pocus - Design of the Invisible
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
Alexandra Midal - Hocus Pocus - Le design de l’invisible
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
Ernest Berk - Electronic Music 1955-1984 (2 CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
An audio anthology of the composer and choreographer Ernest Berk (1909–1993), a little-known pioneer of electronic and concrete music, creator of a prolific and visionary body of work, yet died in obscurity.
Ernest Berk - Electronic Music 1955-1984 (2 vinyl LP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
An audio anthology of the composer and choreographer Ernest Berk (1909–1993), a little-known pioneer of electronic and concrete music, creator of a prolific and visionary body of work, yet died in obscurity.
2026
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
This edition by Walter and Jan Verwoert pairs an 7" record featuring 6 pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of the 6 collages used as scores for the recordings.
Térésa Faucon - Gestes contemporains du montage - Entre médium et performance
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.
Walter Hus - Zenne Quartet plays Walter Hus - Vol. 2 (CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
The Zenne Quartet performs the quartets of contemporary Belgian composer Walter Hus.
Claus Gunti - Photographie et IA
2026
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
How does artificial intelligence affect the way we represent reality? Is it still photography? By contextualising contemporary uses of photography generated or analysed with the help of artificial intelligence, this book offers a critical reflection on the aesthetic, political and theoretical stakes of these technologies.
Yto Barrada - Comme Saturne
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
An in-depth record of Barrada's latest experiments in the fields of color, dyeing, language, mythmaking and material culture for the French Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Anastasia Bay - Mæstra Lacrymæ (2 vinyl LP)
2026
Speckled Toshe
forthcoming
Originally developed as the sonic counterpart to an exhibition by visual artist Anastasia Bay, Mæstra Lacrymæ is an opera conceived and directed by Bay and written and composed by multidisciplinary artist Joseph Schiano di Lombo.
 BOW - Vinalmont (3 CD)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
For its second album on the Sub Rosa label, released as a 3-CD box set, the Brussels-based string quintet BOW presents its most extensive document to date—an immersion into the heart of their practice, unfiltered and unhurried.
Louis De Belle - Svizzera - Il tempo è galantuomo
2026
Italian edition
Humboldt Books
forthcoming
An account of a pilgrimage amid the sacred and the profane through the cemeteries of the Swiss Confederation, to pay tribute to the memory of illustrious figures from the worlds of poetry, literature, religion, painting, fashion, sport, philanthropy, cinema and psychoanalysis.
Marie-Ange Guilleminot - MA - L\'Espace qui relie
2026
texts in English and French
various
forthcoming
This first monograph, richly illustrated with images and texts, offers a broad overview of the diversity of Marie-Ange Guilleminot's work spanning four decades.
Adeline Halot -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An immersive journey through the woven metal and linen sculptures created intuitively by the Belgian designer and textile artist.
Aurélien Mole - Coast to Coast
2026
English edition
Empire - Books
forthcoming
Through a series of photographs of 1970s American cars created using expired Polaroids, Aurélien Mole pays a dual tribute to both photography and the history of the automobile.
Mai-Thu Perret - Grammar & Glamour
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
Babeth Rambault - Ou-ka-ti Ou-ka-ti !
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
forthcoming
First monograph.
Luca Spano - On the Edge of the Eyelid
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
A collective photography project that explore the borders between artistic research and scientific investigation, with special reference to the study of dark matter and dark energy.
Ai Weiwei - Life, Revolt, Poetry
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
forthcoming
A collection of works selected by Ai Weiwei that traces the artist's career, in tribute to his father, the poet Ai Qing, and the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.
Hélène Binet - Dixit - Switzerland!
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
forthcoming
A special edition bringing together three issues of the journal of architecture criticism under a single title: "Dixit: Switzerland!". Six prominent figures with links to Switzerland (Hélène Binet + Elli Mosayebi; Tiphaine Abenia + Alia Bengana; Carlotta Darò + Raphaël Kadid) are invited to discuss common and topical issues.
 FanXoa - Chroniques d\'une épingle à nourrice
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A chronicle of the punk wave in France in the late 1970s, as seen and experienced from the inside, weaving together the memories of Miss OD, the muse of the emerging Parisian punk scene, and FanXoa, at the dawn of the formation of Béruriers / Bérurier Noir, like flashes of a remarkable, dangerous, and out-of-control era that undoubtedly still has something to say about our present day.
Ari Marcopoulos - Never Done
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
A massive anthology of photographs made by Ari Marcopoulos between 2009 and 2018, featuring an introduction text by the artist as well as an essay by art critic, curator, and New York figure Bob Nickas..
2026
English edition
Zolo Press
forthcoming
French ceramicist Jacques Monneraud's first monograph, So-Called Reality, covers three years of the artist's practice and focuses on his trompe-l'œil cardboard ceramics.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
KBB
forthcoming
This extensive monographic publication offers a comprehensive examination of Rómulo Macció's painting, situating his work within the development of modern and contemporary Latin American art.
2026
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Editions de l'Observeur
forthcoming
A book at the intersection of vernacular photography, archival material, and contemporary art, in which Marine Armandin transforms a collection of anonymous images into a unique work of art. By assembling photographs found on online resale platforms and creating new combinations, she brings forth unexpected narratives imbued with a very special kind of poetry.
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 – 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.
Ihi - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Megan Tamati-Quennell, Ihi expands on her curatorial framework, exploring Indigenous knowledge systems, ancestral relationships, and the ways in which contemporary artistic practices carry memory, identity and cultural continuity across time and place.
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-
YAZ - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Zeynep Öz, this volume explores the relationship between publication and exhibition-making.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Silent speeches - Non-compliance in the mode of singing, sounding, or being silent
2026
English edition
Nero
forthcoming
Silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.
A Truly Immense Journey - 100 ans de chefs-d\'œuvre de la collection du Centre Pompidou
2026
French edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A dialogue between masterpieces from the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kanal, and other significant Belgian public and private collections.
Soft Photography
2026
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Toiletpaper
2026
no text
Toiletpaper
Damiani - Toiletpaper
forthcoming
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Arts Réseaux Société
2026
French edition
CQFD
forthcoming
A collection of critical reflections on the role of digital tools in artistic practices, and on how networks are redefining our sensibilities, our imaginations, and our ways of living together.
Rossestrata: Trajectory/Translation - Sharjah Biennial 16
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Alia Swastika, this volume expands on Rossestrata, a curatorial framework named after the Rosetta Stone that explores how feminist perspectives and nonlinear readings of bodies and texts can reshape curatorial and educational practices.
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