search results for "the contemporary condition"
2026
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
Blending Indian harmonium, analog effects, and electronic pulses, Jaime Fennelly's new solo album under the name Mind Over Mirrors, released 14 years after the magnificent Check Your Swing, evokes the wide open spaces of organic, pastoral landscapes.
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kairos
The second volume of the composer's complete electroacoustic works, in 16 CDs, each designed as a listening program. The box set completes the most ambitious recording project ever devoted to an acousmatic corpus.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
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
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
On the occasion of Seasons, Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at GAMeC, art historian Lisa Parola, investigates how contemporary art can redefine the idea of the monument.
2026
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United Dead Artists
Stéphane Blanquet's new facsimile sketchbook: drawings made on trains, public transport, notes, drawings everywhere.
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Christophe Daviet-Théry
The catalog of a curatorial project devoted to Wolfgang Tillmans' books and magazines: an inventory as an invitation to literally take a different look at Tillmans' work, in print.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first English-language catalogue dedicated to the Guangzhou-based artist.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Daisy editions
A long conversation about the work and life of Portuguese artist Ana Jotta, accompanied by 60 previously unpublished photographs of her homes (in Brazil, Morocco, and Zanzibar) and her years in theater in the late 1970s.
2026
trilingual edition (English / Persian / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.
2026
English edition
Bruno
Emerging from the curatorial project FUORI! (Bologna, 2022-2023), this book brings together a series of interviews with theorists, artists, and performers. It focuses on the political, social, and community-based role of contemporary art.
2026
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.
2026
English edition
HELA Press
Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An inquiry into the potential regeneration of democracy: how artists can work towards a sense of collective relevance required to face the future's dark challenges.
2026
English edition
Artforum
Álvaro Urbano by Javier Montes, Togar by Hung Duong, Kerry James Marshall by James Meyer...
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.
2026
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Red Rubber Road; Fatena Abu Mostafa; Inner Lifts (Sissel Vera Pettersen, Randi Pontoppidan, CTM, Sissi Rada, Meriheini Luoto, Berlinde Deman, Claire M Singer, IKI, Bridget Ferrill); Erell Latimier; Claire Serres & les Sirènes; Xavière Fertin & Louis Frères; Seijiro Murayama; Sophie Agnel; Tom Johnson (1939-2025)...
2026
English edition
e-flux Index
Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.
2026
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
The catalogue of the manifesto exhibition that seeks to lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of 21st-century extra-terrestrial art.
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The editorial extension of a long-term art and performance program in Cologne's public space, on and around its seven bridges over the Rhine.
2026
French edition
Festina Lente
The fourth and final issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.
2026
English edition
Spike
Spike #86 rehabilitates the entire younger generation.
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub
2026
English edition
Naima
A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.
2026
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Bruno
Artist's book printed in risograph in a limited edition of 250 copies.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.
2026
Persistence of Sound
This vinyl record brings together three pieces that play mischievously with the voice as a sound source, narrative source or diverted object: "Huellas Entreveradas" (2018), "La Baballe du Chien Chien à la Mé-Mère" (2001) and "Deux Dents Dehors" (2007).
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Lenz Press
Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).
2026
French edition
Caza d'Oro
An artistic stroll with Vanessa Morisset.
2026
English edition
Floating Opera Press
"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.
2026
Staalplaat
Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2024 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph: a large retrospective of the work of Norwegian painter Leonard Rickhard (1945-2024) spanning more than half a century.
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).
2026
Speckled Toshe
Created for instrumental ensemble, electronics and film, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon is a spacious and quietly enigmatic work by composer and writer Zeynep Toraman, bringing together clarinet, cello, violin, electric guitar and electronic textures with a subtly unfolding visual layer.
2026
English edition
Blue Moon Press
The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the Chilean artist's first institutional survey exhibition in Europe, this monograph is dedicated to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's experimental practice and focuses on her spatial, energetic, and global thinking.
2026
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Timeless
The latest, massive volume in the Solution series of collected all-new and most recent landscape paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A reflection on what becomes of and what is produced by images displayed in public spaces.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.