search results for "the contemporary condition"
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A monograph centered on a series of recent oil paintings on linen by Calvin Marcus, that depict magnified renderings of the artist's flesh, extending Marcus's investigation of media, process, and the abject in the familiar.
2026
French edition
La Maréchalerie
forthcoming
A collection of sketches and research notes, texts, transcriptions of sound works, and visuals that document Dominique Petitgand's sound work.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
forthcoming
First monograph.
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
The second volume of the defiinitive reference work on Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick, richly illustrated and featuring in-depth essays, offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's oeuvre, and new insights and discoveries about his work.
2026
French edition
Jocaste
Empire - Jocaste
forthcoming
Issue 1 of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, focusing on the theme of vertigo.
2026
French edition
Les Carnets du BAL
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.
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).
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).
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.
2026
French edition
ER Publishing - Diary
forthcoming
An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.
2026
English edition
Maison ONA
forthcoming
Moondog's poetic autobiography.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
forthcoming
Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.
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.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
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
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.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
forthcoming
A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
forthcoming
A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.
2026
English edition
Bruno
forthcoming
This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches.
2026
French edition (texts in English)
Pot-Pourri
forthcoming
This issue 0 of the annual magazine dedicated to ceramics and related arts unfolds like a day, from morning until evening. But behind this day lies another, more expansive one: that of a life, from birth to death.
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).
2026
French edition
Le Crédac
forthcoming
A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.
2026
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Toiletpaper
Damiani - Toiletpaper
forthcoming
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Marking fluent's tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization's archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.
2026
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
forthcoming
Special issue on performance and sound art.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
forthcoming
2026
Faitiche
forthcoming
For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Outta Love documents Angela Brandys's new series of large-scale textile works, conceived in 2024–25 and made from her own wardrobe—designer clothing torn apart, reduced to their baseline fabric, and reassembled into images drawn from the Renaissance tradition.
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens
forthcoming
A philosophical perspective on photographic images.
2026
Tombolo Presses
forthcoming
La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
First reissue of Coil's seminal 1984 EP, originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H.
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
forthcoming
The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition).
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
An art book by Adama Delphine Fawundu that celebrates life through the female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—who have shaped the artist's cultural and personal history.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
At the intersection of art, technology, and humanitarian inquiry, this book provides insight into Ghost Agency's desire for agency across artistic reasearch, institutions, and civic life in the digital age.
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory.
2026
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ION
forthcoming
Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings.